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In politics he is a Republican. He has served the town of Uxbridge as selectman three years. On one occasion he was endorsed by the Democrats and given a unanimous vote, a compliment such as few men receive in town politics. He was a member of the board of health several years and has served on various town committees. When the town was about to dedicate the Soldiers' Monument, the citi- zens' committee, by a unanimous vote chose him chief marshal of the day, an honor that he highly ap- preciated. Ile was instrumential in securing the ex- tension of the tracks of the Uxbridge & Blackstone Railroad through Hecla Village and that part of the town. He is a member of King Solomon's Temple Lodge of Free Masons, Uxbridge, of the Uxbridge Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the Home Market Club of Boston and of the Nipmuck Canoe Club. He is a vestryman of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Millville, and was a regular attendant at the services while living there. Like his father, he has been a generous supporter of the parish.
He married, December 6, 1883, Ada Virginia Scott, daughter of Orlando Scott, of Millville. Their only child is Emily, born January 8, 1889, at Ux- bridge, Massachusetts, now a student in Wheaton Seminary.
NUTTER FAMILY. Hateevil Nutter (1), the immigrant ancestor of James Judson Nutter, of Mendon, Massachusetts, and of John O. Nutter, of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, was one of the founders of Dover, New Hampshire. He was born in England in 1603 and came to Dover Neck, now New Hamp- shire, with Captain Wiggin, in 1635. He was the colleague of Elder William Wentworth in the Dover Church and occasionally, we are told, he filled the pulpit and preached. The cellar hole where his house stood in Dover is still to be seen there, and two pear trees that he planted were lately and may now be alive. In 1637 his homestall was bounded by land of Samuel Haynes and William Story. He owned also lot No. 20 on the west side of Back river. He held many offices and served on many important committees of the town and church. No man in the colony seems to have been more active, more prominent and influential. His will was dated December 28, 1674, and proved June 29, 1675. It mentions his "present wife Ann" and the children.
He had land between Lamprell and Oyster rivers, granted in 1642 and laid out in 1662 to his son Anthony. He had another grant, February 2, 1658-59, next to that of William Sheffield for a farm. In 1669 he gave his Welchman's Cove prop- erty to his son Anthony, to go afterwards to An- thony's son John. He also gave land to his son-in- law, John Winget (Wingate), February 13, 1670. Elder Nutter was rich and respectable, we are told. He was distinguished for a strong dislike for Quakers. His children: Anthony, see forward; Mary, married John Winget, before 1670; Elizabeth, married Thomas Leighton; Abigail, married Ser- geant John Roberts, son of Thomas Roberts. And probably other children, died young.
(II) Anthony Nutter, son of Hateevil Nutter, was born about 1636. He resided at Dover Neck and afterwards at Welchman's Cove, on the Bloody Point side, and his house was used during Indian troubles for a garrison. He was a prominent soldier. In 1667 he was a corporal, in 1683 lieutenant. He was admitted freeman May 22, 1662. He was select- man of his town and representative in the legislature of New Hampshire. He was with Wiggin in Cran- fields when they visited Mason, when the latter got his wig burned, his teeth knocked out and met with other similar accidents. He died February 19, 1686.
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He married Sarah Langstaff, daughter of Henry Langstaff. Their children: John, resided at New- ington, New Hampshire, see forward; Hateevil, re- sided at Newington, died in 1745, had Hateevil, Anthony, Joshua, John, Eleanor, Sarah, Abigail, Daniel, Olive, Elizabeth; Henry, resided at New- ington, married, July 26, 1703, Mary Shackford ; died 1739; Sarah, married Captain Nathaniel Hill, son of Valentine.
(III) John Nutter, son of Anthony Nutter (2), was born December 27, 1663, at Dover, New Hamp- shire. He resided on the Bloody Point side-New- ington, New Hamisphire. His children: John, Matthias, James, see forward; Hateevil.
(IV) James Nutter, son of John Nutter (3), was born about 1710. There is a family tradition that James Nutter was for many years in a British prison. The tradition may refer to an earlier an- cestor or he may have been taken prisoner during the revolution. His son Jacob was born probably at or near Newington, New Hampshire, which is near Berwick, Maine.
(V) Jacob Nutter, son of James Nutter (4), was born about 1750-60. He married Johnson. He seems to have been a member of the Baptist church and to have died in 1813. His children : Rebecca, Elmira, Jane, James, Oliver, see forward; Jacob. Jacob Nutter was a soldier in the revolu- tion. He was in Captain Robert Follett's artillery company, at Kittery Point, in 1775, and in the com- pany of Captain Titus Salter, in 1776.
(VI) Oliver Nutter, son of Jacob Nutter (5), was born in Kittery or Berwick, Maine, June 29, 1812. He married Ann Brackett. He was a farmer. Their children, all born in Alfred, Maine, were: Mary. Joseph, James Judson, born October 6. 1843, see forward: Oliver G., see forward: John.
(VII) James Judson Nutter, son of Oliver Nutter (6), was born at Alfred, Maine, October 6, 1843. He received his education in Alfred in the public schools and at Alfred Academy. He then taught school for two terms in his native town and one term in Pemaquid Falls, Lincoln county. He then came to Milford, Massachusetts, where he was for two years with the box manufactory. In 1877 he accepted the position of superintendent of the Milford Gas Company and under his manage- ment the gas company developed from small begin- nings to its present prosperous condition. In 1903 his son, who had worked under him for fourteen years, succeeded him as superintendent. He is a mem- ber of the Mendon Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is a Unitarian in religion. He is a Democrat in politics and has taken an active part in town affairs, serving on the board of assessors several years and on the school committee three years. Mr. Nutter married Laura J. Day, who was born June 26, 1843, daughter of Robert and Edna Day. Their children: I. Ellsworth J., born October 15,, 1867. Mendon, see forward. 2. Evelyn, born at Alfred, Maine, December 12, 1869, graduate of the Men- don High School; married William Chappel and they have one child, Lester W. 3. Jennie L. born at Alfred, Maine, July 16, 1871, married Percy T. Kinsley and they have two children-i. Edward Kinsley; ii. Edith Kinsley. 4. Newton J., born at Alfred, August 18, 1872, graduate of the Mendon High School; married Grace Andrew. 5. Grace G., born at Alfred, May 11, 1875, graduate of the Men- don High School; married Eugene Blake. 6. Nettie E., born at Alfred, September 6, 1876, graduate of the Mendon High School; married Frank Edmands and has one child, Edna F. Edmands.
(VII) Oliver G. Nutter, son of Oliver Nutter (6), was born in Alfred, Maine, about 1845.
He married Abbie M. Garey, daughter of Timothy Garey, who was a lumber dealer in the town of Al- fred, Maine, and a very successful man of affairs. He was a leading Republican of that section and served two years in the Maine legislature; he was also prominent in military affairs. Mr. Nutter was a farmer in Alfred. The children of Oliver G. and and Abbie M. Nutter were: John O., born at Al- fred, November 4, 1872, see forward; Mary, Harriet, Timothy Garey, graduate of the Alfred high school, married Louise Roper, of Colchester, Connecticut ( see Roper Family in this work) ; he is electrician in charge of the electric plant of the Whitin Machine Works at Whitinsville, Massachusetts; Fred, Alice, Lizzie, Ralph.
(VIII) John O. Nutter, son of Oliver G. Nutter (7), was born at Alfred, Maine, November 4, 1872. Ile was educated in the public and high schools of his native town, graduating in 1889. He began his business career as a clerk in a grocery store ; after two years he took a position in a wholesale grocery at Portland, Maine. A year later he entered the employ of a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, grocery house. He left there to locate at Hopedale, Massa- chusetts, and in 1897 entered the Whitin Machine Works at Whitinsville, Massachusetts, and has re- mained with that concern since. He is at present head of the shipping department. He is a member of the Granite Lodge, St. Elmo Chapter, of Free Masons. In politics he is a Republican. He married, December 29, 1899, Edith Marion Pollock, in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles E. and Corderia (Roper) Pollock. (See sketch of Roper and Pollock Families in this work.) She was born in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, November 10, 1875, and was educated in the public and high schools of that town and at Miss Kimball's School for Girls, Worcester.
(VIII) Ellsworth J. Nutter, son of James Jud- son Nutter (7), was born at Mendon, Massachu- setts, October 15, 1867. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the Mendon high school in 1885, Milford high school 1886, and then took the course at Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1887 he went to work for the Milford Gas Company, of which his father was the superintendent. He is at present the super- intendent, having succeeded his father in that posi- tion in 1903. He is a member of the Free Masons and of the Quidnunc Association of Milford. He married Lila L. Noyes, daughter of Cyrus and Al- mira (Lothrop) Noyes. Children of Ellsworth J. and Lila L. Nutter are: Ida L., born March 28, 1893; Frank, born March 8, 1895; James Curtis, born March, 1900.
WALLIS FAMILY. Nathaniel Wallis (1), the immigrant ancestor of the Wallis family of Douglas, Massachusetts, was born in 1632 in Cornwall, Eng- land. The name Wallace is Scotch and there is a tradition that this family originally came from Scotland, but there is no doubt of the fact that the American progenitor came from England. He was an early settler at Scarborough, Maine. He was a constable in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine. He was among those who swore allegiance to Massa- chusetts in 1658, but in July, 1660, he had three children baptized by Rev. Robert Jordan, who ad- hered to the Church of England in that her lowest hour of distress, and Wallis was censured for al- lowing the baptism by the general court of Massa- chusetts as shown by the colonial records, Volume IV. Savage thinks the son John was one of those baptized according to the rubric. The family was driven from Falmouth in 1681 when Falmouth was
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destroyed by the Indian wars, and he finally set- tled at Beverly, Massachusetts. He was there before 1701. In 1692 he gave his age as fifty-eight, but the authority for 1632 as the year of his birth seems better than this statement.
Nathaniel Wallis married Margaret , who was born in 1630 and died May 14, 1711. He died at Beverly, October 18, 1709. Their children were: Nathaniel, Jr., settled at Beverly, married Anna and had a large family; John, mentioned below; Bartholomew; Caleb, settled at Beverly; married Sarah - and had a large family; Joshua, set- tled at Beverly; married Abiah, and had one child, Mary, September, 1694; Mary. John Wallis, be- lieved to be Nathaniel Wallis's brother, was in Scarborough in 1658; settled in Gloucester and was prominent there; he died at Gloucester, September 23, 1690, leaving wife Mary and sons Josiah, Joseph, James and Benjamin. Benjamin and James, sons of Jolin Wallis, also lived in Beverly.
(II) John Wallis, son of Nathaniel Wallis (1), was born about 1653 and died before 1720. He re- sided in York county, Maine, He married Bridget Shepard, daughter of John Shepard. Their chil- dren were: Sarah, born 1675; John, mentioned be- low; Margaret, born about 1679; Bartholomew, born about 1682; Elizabeth, born about 1685; Nathaniel, born about 1688, settled in Sherborn; Benjamin, born about 1690; Mary, born 1693.
(III) John Wallis, son of John Wallis (2), was born May 13, 1679. He lived in Billerica, Massachusetts, from 1710 to 1718, when he removed to Sherborn, Massachusetts, in that part that was set off as Holliston in 1724. Several years later he removed to Douglas where his son Benjamin became a permanent settler. He died there Deceniber 26, 1763.
He married in Sudbury, Massachusetts, July 19, 1717, Mary Twitchell, daughter of John and Mary Twitchell, of Sherborn, The line of ancestry here given was established by Hon. Ezra S. Stearns by finding the deed dated 1720 in which John Wallis, of Sherborn, sells "to my brother Benjamin Twit- chel, Jr. (brother of his wife) land in York county, Maine, being my right in land of my grandfather, John Shepard, and land belonging to my father, John Wallis, deceased, son of Nathaniel Wallis." Nathaniel Wallis, his brother, also lived in Sher- born for a short time, having three children born there. The children of John and Mary (Twitchell) Wallis were: John, Jr., born December 20, 1717, at Sherborn; Mary; Nathaniel, born at Sherborn, October 12, 1721; Benjamin, born December 15, 1723, mentioned below; Sarah: Rachel, born at Holliston, formerly Sherborn, Massachusetts, April 10, 1734, married Jabez Lewis.
(IV) Benjamin Wallis, son of John Wallis (3), was born at Sherhorn, Massachusetts, December 15, 1723, and died at Douglas, formerly New Sherborn, Massachusetts, December 25, 1814, over ninety years old. Douglas was called New Sherborn because it was settled mainly by Sherborn families. Benja- min Wallis went there early and his father also removed to the new town. Benjamin Douglas mar- ried Lydia Dudley, of Sutton, Massachusetts. She was born in 1728 and died December 23, 1820. (See Dudley family sketch.) The children of Benjamin and Lydia Wallis were: Lydia, born September 10, 1748, died 1820; married Josiah Humes; Benja- min, Jr., born March 4, 1751, died January 11, 1821 ; married Sarah Thayer: David, born October 16, 1753, died May 20, 1827 ; married Bial Albee ; Merey, born February 12, 1756, died October 24, 1824; mar- ried Captain Benjamin Dudley; Martha, married Daniel Hunt; Samuel, born June 12, 1758, died
January 2, 1848; married Hannah Dudley ; James, horn August 28, 1761, died August 24, 1845; mar- ried Chloe Humes; Jonathan, born February 26, 1765, died February 28, 1865; Aaron, born Septem- ber 12, 1768, died August 9, 1845; married Prudence Aldrich ; Peter, born January 22, 1770, died Sep- tember 17, 1775.
(V) Benjamin Wallis, Jr., son of Benjamin Wallis. (4), was born in Douglas, Massachusetts, March 4, 1751. He settled in Douglas and married there Feb- ruary 17, 1777, Sarah Thayer, descendant of the pioneer Thayer of Mendon, of the line of Ferdi- nando Thayer. (See Thayer family of Mendon elsewhere in this work.) Mr. Wallis died February 25, 1838. The children of Benjamin and Sarah Wallis- were: Lydia, born February 23, 1778, died July 28, 1865; married E. Mackentire; Peter, born Decem- ber 22, 1779, died October 29, 1846; married (first) Hannah Hunt and (second) Luey Woodbury; Ben- jamin, Jr., born May 28, 1782, died May 28, 1864; married Annie Thayer; Sarah, born July 10, 1785, died March 1, 1819; married Samuel Dudley; Jo- seph, born September 24, 1788, mentioned below ; Moses, born March 17, 1793, died November 14, 1842; Rufus, born February 24, 1797, died October 22, 1853; married Molly Paine.
(VI) Joseph Wallis, third son of Benjamin Wallis (5), was born in Douglas, Massachusetts, September 24, 1788, and died there October 14, 1857. He always lived in Douglas. He married Prudence Wallis, April 23, 1811, She was born July 6, 1792, the daughter of Aaron and Prudence (Aldrich) Wallis, born July 7, 1769, and died August 28, 1845. The grandfather of Prudence Wallis was Benjamin Wallis (II), mentioned above. The chil- dren of Joseph and Prudence Wallis were: Dexter, .. born January 8, 1812, died September 16, 1852; Mason, born June 24, 1814, died September 18, 1852; Harriet, born August 29, 1816, died April 9, 1878 ;. married Elbridge G. Wallis; Joseph Thayer, born: July 23, 1819, mentioned below; Prudence, born July 29, 1824, died September II, 1854; Lydia, born August II, 1827, died July 14, 1857 ; married Charles. White; George, born January 1, 1830, died 1830; Ira, born April 5, 1832, married Mary E. Young; Andrew J., born May 2, 1835, married (first) Hattie M. Learned; (second) Mary M. Blair.
(VII) Joseph Thayer Wallis, son of Joseph. Wallis (6), was born in Douglas, Massachusetts, July 23, 1819. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and during his youth. helped his father on the homestead. He left home at the age of twenty-six, learned the trade of car- penter and worked at that trade as journeyman and. builder until 1852, when he bought what is now known as the Wallis mills. He carried on an ex- tensive business, dealing in wood and lumber, also manufacturing boxes. His saw mill and box fac- tory were destroyed by fire in 1880 and he then withdrew from active business, rather than rebuild at his age. He was a man of influence and high character, a solid and substanital citizen. He mar- ried, January 2, 1856, Harriet M. Thompson, daugh- ter of Lyman Thompson, who was a carpenter by trade. Their children were: Orissa Annie, born November 18, 1856, in Douglas, married, January 14, 1899, Henry D. Wallis, of Douglas; Willie Ros- coe, horn September 8, 1860, mentioned below.
(VIII) Willie Roscoe Wallis, son of Joseph. Thayer Wallis (7), was born in East Douglas; Massachusetts, September S. 1860. He attended the public schools there until he was eighteen years. old, when he went to work in his father's mill. In 1880, when the mill burned, he went to work on the Wallis homestead while the new mill was being
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built. He tien entered a partnership with his brother-in-law, Henry D. Wallis, to continue the business established by his father. He bought out his partner in 1883 and continued the business alone. He added to the saw mill a grist mill and built up an extensive grain and feed business, which he carried on profitably until 1898, when he sold the grain business and devoted all his time to the lumber business and wood-working mill, resuming at that time the manufacture of boxes. He also added paints, oils and painters' supplies, cement, lime and other masons' supplies to his stock in trade. The business has grown in all departments. Mr. Wallis has a large plant for his line of trade. He has some fifteen hands constantly employed. Mr. Wallis is widely known among business men as upright and scrupulously honorable in his dealings.
Mr. Wallis is an attendant of the Douglas Methodist Episcopal Church and one of the board of trustees. In politics he is independent. He has been selectman of the town three years. He is the acting agent in the will of Moses Wallis in 1841, elected by the town to have charge of the Wallis Devise left in the will. The fund was to accumu- late for sixty years and then become available for building a town hall. The Devise now amounts to about $30.000. Moses Wallis was brother of the grandfather of Willie R. Wallis. The will is printed in full in the town history of Douglas. Mr. Wallis is a member of no fraternal or secret orders. Mr. Wallis married, July 5, 1906, Catherine M. Benson, daughter of Major Benson, of Douglas, Massa- chusetts.
GREENWOOD FAMILY. Thomas Greenwood (I), the immigrant ancestor of Moses P. Green- wood, of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, was born in 1643, probably in England, although there were several pioneers of the surname Greenwood in the colonies at that time. It is an ancient English family. He was a weaver by trade. The first record of him is at Cambridge village, later called Newton in 1662, when he was twenty-four years old. He was elected constable at the first meeting of the town of Newton, and it is said was also the first town clerk. This meeting was held August 27. 1679. He was selectman in 1686-90. He died September 16, 1693, aged fifty years. His first land in New- ton was a seven acre lot bought of Nathaniel Ham- mond in 1673. He married Hannah Ward, eldest daughter of John Ward, July 8, 1670. He married (second) Abigail Children of Thomas and Hannah Greenwood: Thomas, born January 22, 1671, died young ; Thomas, July 15, 1673: John, see forward; James, December 19, 1687; William, October 14. 1689.
(II) John Greenwood, son of Thomas Green- wood (1), was born in Newton, Massachusetts, about 1676. He married Hannah Trowbridge, daughter of Deacon James Trowbridge. She died June 21, 1728, aged fifty-six years. He married (second), 1729, Alice Lyon, of Roxbury. He was a leading man. selectman of Newton eighteen years, deputy to the general court three years. As justice of the peace he solemnized nearly all the marriages there for many years. He died August 29, 1737. He bequeathed to his wife Alice in will dated 1737. The children of John and Hannah Greenwood: Thomas, born January 28, 1696, see forward; Eliza- beth, September 20, 1697; Hannah, March 4, 1699; Ruth, October 12, 1701 ; Daniel, November 27, 1704; Susannah, December 7. 1707: Josiah, June 21, 1709, ancestor of Hubbardston family.
(III) Deacon Thomas Greenwood, son of John Greenwood (2), was born in Newton, Massachu ?-
setts, January 28, 1696. He was captain of the militia company, deacon of the church, justice of the peace, selectman for four years, representative to the general court thirteen years, town clerk twenty-three years, the leading man of the town. His homestead was eighty-six acres in the west parish of Newton. He died August 31, 1774, aged seventy-eight years. His widow Lydia died 1777, aged eighty-five years. Their children were: Jo- seph, born January 9, 1723, see forward; John, March 7, 1725; Thomas, May 9, 1727, married Esther Hammond, in 1750, and removed to Holden; Hannah, May 21, 1729; Abijah, April 6, 1731, died 1745.
(IV) Joseph Greenwood, son of Deacon Thomas Greenwood (3), was born in Newton, Massachu- setts, January 9, 1723. He settled in Holden when a young man. He was a soldier in the French war, sergeant in Captain John Bigelow's company, Col- onel John Chandler, Jr., and fought in 1758 at Fort William Henry. He was selectman in 1753 and town clerk of Holden in 1757. He married. August 13, 1747, at Watertown, Sarah Stone. All their chil- dren were born in Holden, viz .: Abijah, September 24, 1748, see forward: Sarah, November 10, 1750, married James Winch, October 10, 1769; Moses, July 1, 1752; Aaron, April 20, 1756; Levi, April 27, 1758; Asa, January 12, 1762; Betty, March 28, 1766.
(V) Abijah Greenwood, son of Joseph Green- wood (4), was born at Holden, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 24, 1748. He removed with his brothers. Levi and Moses from Holden to Hubbardston, Massachusetts, about 1770. Levi was then a boy of twelve. Abijah enlisted from Hubbardston in the revolutionary army and served at the battle- of Bunker Hill. He was corporal in Captain Will- iam Marean's company, Colonel Doolittle's regi- ment, in 1775. Abijah bought the old homestead, which is part of the original lot No. 33, for eighty pounds, of Benjamin Child, of Shrewsbury, Massa- chusetts. August 15, 1771. It bordered on land of Oliver Davis and on the Ware river, Hubbardston. He married, July 14, 1774. Rhoda Pond, who died July 16, 1782. He married (second) Elizabeth Marean, October 3, 1783. She died February 15, 1814, aged sixty-five years. He died January 9, 1814, aged sixty-five years. Children of Abijah and Rhoda Greenwood, all born at Hubbardston, were: Ethan, born January 8, 1775, died October 2, 1777; Ethan, January 26, 1780; Otis, December 4. 1781, see forward. Children of Abijah and Elizabeth, Greenwood : Rhoda, June 20, 1785; Silas, Novem- ber 19, 1786; Mary, March 24, 1789; Hannah, May 29, 1791.
(VI) Otis Greenwood, son of Abijah Green- wood (5), was born in Hubbardston, Massachu- setts, December 4. 1781, died there October 6, 1814. He was a farmer. His father, December 7, 1806, deeded him an undivided half interest in the home- stead in Great Farm Lot, No. 33, where he then lived, together with the "small dwelling house and the forty foot barn thereon that I built for him, but not the other buildings." Later he conducted the entire farm, but he died the same year as his father. He married, November 27, 1806, Sophia Rice, horn in Hubbardston, January 23, 1785, daugh- ter of Edmund and Abigail (Muzzey) Rice, descen- dant of Edmund Rice, the pioneer settler in Sud- bury and Marlborough. She died May 7. 1816, leaving three orphan children of tender age, viz: Edmund Rice, born December 1, 1807, see forward; Horace, December 3, 1809, married Almira Hart- well, August, 1831; he died October 21, 1863; chil- dren-George F., Thomas E., William Solon, Levi.
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Augustine. Edson Alonzo. Elmira E., Emeline A .; Augusta, December 11, 1811, married, April 18, 1835, Lyman Learned; she died August 14, 1865, aged sixty-three years.
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