Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 16

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732

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(III) Benjamin Putnam, son of Nathaniel Put- nam (2), was born in Salem Village, Massachu- setts, December 24, 1664, died at Salem, 1750. He also became a prominent citizen of Danvers, then Salem Village; he was lieutenant and captain from 1706 to 1711; tithing-man 1695-6; constable and col- lector of taxes 1700; constantly tithing-mail, sur- veyor of highways; grand and petit jury. He was selectman from 1707 to 1713. He was elected deacon December 30, 1709. He also signed the certificate of character of Rebecca Nurse. His will was dated October 28, 1706, and proved April 25, 1715.

He married, August 25, 1684, Elizabeth Putnam, probably daughter of Thomas Putnam. She died December 21, 1705, and he married (second) Sarah Holton, July 1, 1706. The children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Putnam were: Josiah, baptized at the First Church of Salem, October 2, 1687, died young ; Nathaniel, born August 25, 1686; Tarrant, April 12, 1688; Elizabeth, January 8, 1690, married Robert Hutchinson; Benjamin, January 8, 1692-3; Stephen, October 27, 1694; Daniel, November 12, 1696; Israel, August 22, 1699; Cornelia, September 3, I702.

(IV) Nathaniel Putnam, son of Benjamin Put- nam (3), was born at Danvers, August 25, 1686, and died there October 21, 1754. He was a yeoman, residing at Danvers and perhaps also at North Reading. He was deacon of the first church, elected November 15, 1731. He married, June 4, 1709, Han- nah Roberts. Their children were: Nathaniel, Jr., born 1710, baptized October I, that year, died March 4, 17II; Jacob, March 9, 1711, of whom later; Na- thaniel, Jr., April 4, 1714; Sarah, June 1, 1716, was alive unmarried, 1763; Archelaus, May 29, 1718, set- tled in Wilton, New Hampshire, on the site of the present county farm ; Ephraim, February 10, 1719-20, came with Jacob to Wilton, New Hampshire, and settled at the intersection of the roads at the North cemetery; removed to Lyndeborough, New Hamp- shire; Hannah, May II, 1721-2, died Amherst, New Hampshire, 1802; Nathaniel, May 20, 1724; Me- hitable, February 26, 1726-7, married Reuben Harri- man ; Keziah, married Marble.

(V) Jacob Putnam, son of Nathaniel Putnam (4), was born in Danvers, March 9, 1711, and died at Wilton, February 10, 1781. The history of Wilton gives him credit of being the first permanent settler in Wilton. One authority states that Jacob came in 1738. John Badger was there with his family in 1739, but he died February, 1740. Jacob and Ephraim Putnam and their families were settled in Wilton in 1739. Badger, the Putnams and a fourth settler, John Dale, located in the southern part of Wilton which was then known as Salem, Canada. The original grant by Massachusetts was made void by the change of boundary line and the town became a New Hampshire grant later. Jacob Putnam's lot became No. 15, of the fifth range, and the cellar of his first house is now or was lately to be discerned opposite the barn on what is now Michael Mc- Carthy's place, while his second house is that now or lately occupied by Mr. McCarthy. It was originally two stories high in front and one in the rear. He was a farmer and conducted a saw mill. In his old age he made cans. He married (first) Hannah Har- riman. He married (second), July, 1735, Susanna Stiles. She died January 27, 1776. A third wife Patience was named in his will. His children were by wife Susannah: Sarah, born at Danvers, June 28, 1736, married Jonathan Cram; Nathaniel, born at Danvers, April 24, 1738; and the following born at Wilton; Philip, March 4, 1740; Stephen, Septem- ber 24, 1741; Philip, March 1, 1742, died at Wilton, October 10, 1810; Joseph, February 27, 1744 died at

Wilton; Mehitable, December 25, 1745, married Dan -. iel Holt; Jacob, of whom later; Archelaus, October 6, 1749, died October 22, 1816; Caleb, March IO, 1751, soldier in the revolution; Elizabeth, April 15, 1753, November 26, 1778; Jacob Hadley ; Peter, Jan- uary 8, 1756, died July 3, 1776; served in the Ticon- deroga campaign.

( VI) Jacob Putnam, Jr., son of Jacob Putnam (5), was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, Novem- ber 15, 1747, and died there June 2, 1821. He set- tled in the southwest part of the town on lot No. 16, fourth range, now or lately owned by Jacob Put- nam, his descendant. He was a farmer and also made spinning wheels and plows. He was for many many years deacon of the Congregational or parish church. He married, 1770, Abigail Burnap, who died June 10, 1812. He married (second), 1813, Mrs. Mary Spofford, of Temple, New Hampshire. The children of Jacob, Jr., and Abigail Putnam were: Jacob, Jr., born November 4, 1771; Abigail, April 29, 1773, died February 20, 1827, unmarried ; John, November 24, 1774; Caleb, October 7, 1776, died November, 1777; Caleb, of whom later; Ruth, January 20, 1781, died August 7, 1801; Edah, Feb- ruary 21, 1783, married, November 19, 1816, Stephen Cooper.

(VII) Caleb Putnam, son of Jacob Putnam (6), was born March 24, 1779, at Wilton, New Hamp- shire, and died there September 8, 1867. He was a farmer on the old homestead. He held the rank of captain in the state militia in a cavalry company, Twenty-second Regiment. He was the leader of the singing in the church for many years. He mar- ried, February 4, 1801, Lydia Spalding, who died November 17, ISII, aged thirty-seven years. He married (second) Jane Longley, of Shirley, who died January 21, 1854, aged sixty-five years. He married (third) Mrs. Sarah Shattuck Putnam, of Lyndeboro, New Hampshire. The child of Captain Caleb and Lydia Putnam was Caleb, died young ; Children of Captain Caleb and Jane Longley were : Lydia, born September 3, 1813, married, April 30, 1844, Samuel Goldsmith; Jane, December 25, 1814, married, May 8, 1856, Orin Blood ; Caleb, September 15, 1816, died at Wilton, January 23, 1845, unmar- ried; Roxanna, July 16, 1818, married, June 6, 1849, Augustus F. Peacock, resided at Wilton; Samuel, of whom later ; Jacob, August 16, 1822, had the home- stead ; Ruth Ann, June 19, 1824, died October 28, 1838; Asa Longley, July 9, 1826, resides in Leo- minster ; Andrew Jackson, July 25, 1828, resides at East Wilton; Artemas, January 1, 1831, married Orenda Kidder, resides at Phillipston, New Hamp- shire ; Sarah Marie, October 13, 1834, married, April II, 1861, Calvin D. Blanchard, and settled at Harvard, Massachusetts.

( VIII ) Samuel Putnam, son of Caleb Putnam (7), was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, May 18, 1820. He died in Leominster, Massachusetts, Au- gust 18, 1898, aged seventy-eight years. He was educated in the common schools of his native town. When a young man he removed to Leominster and learned the trade of carpenter under David Allen, a contractor and builder. He worked as a journey- man for some years for Mr. Allen, then went into business on his own account. During an important period of its development Mr. Putnam built many of the buildings and residences of Leominster. He. formed a partnership in December, 1850, with Louis Phelps, and bought the tannery and currying busi- ness on the Burrage place at North Leominster. The business proved profitable and was continued many years to the great advantage of the partners. He was in this business for a period of thirty-three years, when he lost heavily in an attempted corner

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of buffalo skins and robes, managed by a partner in Chicago, causing his assignment. He had a hand- some residence at Leominster and even that was sold for the benefit of creditors, but his wife con- tracted to buy it and in the course of a number of ycars succeeded by turning it into a summer board- ing place in saving the home. At the same time she won for herself a reputation for business ca- pacity and pluck such as few women ever enjoy. Mrs. Putnam still resides in the homestead near the business district, 70 Main street. The tannery business was resumed by Mr. Putnam's partner and the former bookkeeper of the firm, under the name of Phelps and Harrison. Mr. Putnam was elected president of the Leominster National Bank, a posi- tion he held for a number of years ( 1876-1884). He was an active member of the Unitarian Church. He was a Democrat in politics, but never sought public preferment of any kind. He was known as a lib- eral employer, charitable and kindly in his disposi- tion. For a whole generation Samuel Putnam was one of the foremost business men of the town and deservedly trusted and honored by his townsmen. He was well known throughout the county.

Ile married (first), November 27, 1845, Jane Augusta Pierce, daughter of Rufus Pierce. She died without issue, January 12, 1880. He married (second), December 23, 1880, Melora F. Goodrich, daughter of Joseph Goodrich, of Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts. They adopted a daughter who married, June 10, 1879, George E. Pratt. Mr. Putnam had no children of his own.

The father of Melora F. (Goodrich) Putnam was Joseph Goodrich, who married in Shirley, De- cember 8, 1825, Lucy Hazen Longley, born October 10, 1802, daughter of Asa and Saralı ( Hazen) Longley. He was constable and tax collector in 1824; he died May 30, 1881; his wife October II, 1879. Melora Frances was born October 3, 1834, married as above stated Samuel Putnam.

Phineas Goodrich, father of Joseph, was born March 9, 1759, married, March 16, 1786, Betsey Kilburn, born in Rowley, June, 1762, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Nelson) Kilburn, and lineal descendant of Thomas and Frances Kilburn. who settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, among the early settlers. Phineas was constable 1789 and 1793. tax collector, on school committee and lieutenant in the militia. They lived on the homestead; she died February 14, 1839, and he December 28, 1845. aged eighty-six years. Their son Joseph was born May 1, 1796.

Joshua Goodrich, father of Phineas, was born in Lunenburg, Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1708; married, June 25, 1739, Lydia Stearns, born in Watertown, October 7, 1719, daughter of John and Abigail (Fiske) Stearns, and great-granddaugh- ter of Isaac and Mary Stearns, who came from Eng- land in 1630 and settled in Watertown. Joshua Goodrich was an ensign in the militia, constable 1742, on the school committee several years, select- man 1744. He died October 29, 1782, aged seventy- five years; his wife died March 7, 1805, aged eighty- six years. They lived in Lunenburg, Massachu- setts.

Philip Goodrich, father of Joshua Goodrich, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, November 23, 1669. Ile married in Newbury, April 16, 1700, Me- hitable Woodman, who was born there September 20, 1677, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Stev- ens) Woodman, and granddaughter of Edward Woodman, who came from Southampton, England, in June, 1635, and settled in Newbury. Philip Good- rich was the original proprietor of lot No. 70 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, where his descendant,

Artemas Goodrich, now lives. He came to Lunen- burg in 1719, nine years before its incorporation. He died January 16, 1729, aged sixty years; his widow Mehitable died February 24, 1755, aged seventy- eight years.

Jeremiah Goodrich, father of Philip Goodrich, married in Newbury, Massachusetts, November 15, 1660, Mary Adams, daughter of Robert and Elenore Adams, of Newbury.

William Goodrich, father of Jeremiah Goodrich, was the immigrant. With his wife Margaret he came from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk county, Eng- land, in 1634, and settled in Watertown, Massachu- setts, where their children were born, and where he died April 3, 1647. His widow Margaret married John Hull, of Newbury, whither she removed with the children born of her first marriage and where she died February 3, 1682. The second child of Jeremiah and Margaret was Jeremiah, Jr., born March 6, 1638. (See sketch of the Goodrich family of Fitchburg for further data.)

HORATIO BAILEY. James Bailey (I), the immigrant ancestor of Horatio Bailey, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1612. He settled in New England at Rowley about 1640. His brother Richard, who came over at the age of fifteen in the ship "Bevis" in May, 1635, settled first at Lynn, later near James, in Rowley. He became a large landowner, and was overseer of the poor and selectman. His house was on what is now Pleasant street, and the land is now or was lately owned by Mrs. Charles H. Todd.

He was buried August 10, 1677, and his will was proved September 25, following. His wife was Lydia Emery. She died at Rowley, April 29, 1704. Their children were: John, born February 2, 1642-3; Lydia, born November, 1644; Jonathan, born September, 1646, died March, 1665; Damaris, born January 17, 1648-9; James, born January 15, 1650-1 ; Thomas, born August 1, 1653; Samuel, born Au- gust 10, 1655, died November, 1657; Samuel, born February 8, 1658-9.

(II) John Bailey, son of James Bailey (1), was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, February 2, 1642-3. He settled in Rowley and married there Mary Mig- hill, June 16, 1668. She was the daughter of Deacon Thomas Mighill, one of the leading citizens there. John Bailey was a soldier under General Phipps and perished on the return of the expedition to Canada. His wife administered his estate. She died in 1693. The children of John and Mary Bailey were: Jonathan, born August 31, 1670; Ann, born February 24, 1673, died December 17, 1690; Nathaniel, born 1675; Thomas, born October 7. 1677; James, born 1680; Mary, born February I, 1683, died 1722; Elizabeth, born November 15, 1688, died January 26, 1680; married Daniel Tenney, Jan- uary 2, 1722; Lydia, born January 12, 1691.

(III) Nathaniel Bailey, son of John Bailey (2), was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, March, 1675. He settled there. He married, January 2, 1700, Sarah Clark. He died July 21, 1722. The children of Nathaniel and Sarah Bailey were: Joseph, of whom later; Nathaniel, born October 27, 1703; Josialı, born November 3. 1705: David, born Novem- ber II, 1707; Samuel, born November 25, 1709; Mercy, born November 18, 1719.

(IV) Joseph Bailey, son of Nathaniel Bailey (3), was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, October 17, 1701. He settled at Rowley and like many others of this family learned the trade of potter. He mar- ried Sarah Jewett, June, 1725. Their children were: Elizabeth, born December 27, 1725; Nathaniel, born March 17, 1727; David, born June 27, 1729; Amos,

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born September 12, 1731; Joseph, born about 1733, of whom later.

(V) Joseph Bailey, believed to be son of Joseph Bailey (4), certainly nephew if not son if the family records are correct, settled at Pelham, New Hamp- shire. He married Deborah - Their children : Joseph, born in Pelham, New Hampshire, 1766; Ann, born August 6, 1768; Thomas Hardy, born September 3, 1771, sailed with John Paul Jones in "Bon Homme Richard," in the revolutionary war. The two latter are recorded on the town books, the former is a family record. Charlotte, married - Fox; Elizabeth, married Stephen Knight, February 3, 1788; Samuel, resided at Newburyport.

(VI) Joseph Bailey, son of Joseph Bailey (5), born at Pelham, New Hampshire, or Weare, 1766. When a small boy he lived in the family of Dr. Muzzy. He was a soldier in the revolution for three months near the close of the war, as a drummer boy, being too small to enlist. He had his right shoulder crushed by a falling building at a fire in Newbury- port when he was a boy. Owing to this injury his courtship of Ann Bailey, his second cousin, was in vain. He married Mary Woodbury (published May 5, 1787), and they settled about a mile north of Pigeon Cove, opposite the pasture of the Babson farın in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In the mean- time his cousin married Elijah Parker, April 19, 1794, who died and she married (second), April 19, 1799, Aaron Wealthy. After the death of his first wife Joseph Bailey married, September 17, 1821, Ann (Bailey) (Parker) Wealthy, of Newburyport, who for a second time had become a widow. His mother was living in 1800 in Pelham, and he walked from his home to Pelham with his son Joseph in that year to pay her a visit. He died at Rockport, Massachusetts, September, 1853, aged eighty-seven years.

The children of Joseph and Mary Bailey, born in Gloucester, were: Joseph, born March 17, 1790, died October 10, 1853; William, born 1791 or 1792, died February 18, 1877; Polly, died about 1850; Samuel, drowned July 6, 1825; Andrew Woodbury, born December 6, 1798, died June 7, 1876.

(VII) Joseph Bailey, son of Joseph Bailey (6), father of Horatio Bailey, late of Lancaster, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 17, 1790, and died October 10, 1853, a month after his father. He resided in Gloucester for a few years, then bought a place 'a mile north of his grandfather's house in Pigeon Cove, Gloucester, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was twice taken prisoner, first from a small trading vessel off Capes of Virginia by an English fleet going down the coast, afterwards on the privateer "Harpy" taken from a prize ship they had taken and which he was helping to sail. He was held on a prison ship at the Bermuda Islands, also at Halifax, Nova Scotia, finally at Dartmoor in England, where he remained until the end of the war, when he was sent home and had to walk to Gloucester from New York.

He was twice married. He married, December 20, 1816, Esther Lane, of Lane's Cove, Gloucester. Their children were: Mary, born March 1, 1819; Esther, born September 16, 1820; Joseph, born July 13, 1823; Abigail L., born October 30, 1825; Horatio, of whom later; Julia, born October 2, 1834.

(VIII) Horatio Bailey, fifth child of Joseph Bailey, Jr. (7), was born in Gloucester, Massachu- setts, November 2, 1828. He was well educated and began life as a school teacher. He removed to Lancaster in 1865 and for some time was station agent at the South Lancaster station of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad. Later he was

assigned to the Lancaster station. He manufactured boots and shoes for a number of years. During his last years he carried on his farm and raised garden truck for the market.

He and his wife joined the Lancaster Evangelical church in 1865 and he was an active and earnest member of the church and Sunday school. Ile was a teacher in the Sunday school for many years and was clerk of the church until within two years of his death, when failing health obliged him to re- sign. He was a member of the parish and church committees and was on the building committee for the parsonage, in which he took great interest. For many years he sang in the choir and was always much interested in music. He was a Republican in politics and served the town for a time on the school committee. He was a man of strong personality and of decided convictions. He was one of the most esteemed and influential citizens of the town.

Mr. Bailey married, October 30, 1856, Sophronia M. Fuller, only daughter of the late John Fuller, of Lancaster. (See sketch of the Fuller family.) Mr. Bailey died in Laneester, August 7, 1905. Mrs. Bailey was also a school teacher before her mar- riage. Their children are: Henrietta E., born Au- gust 2, 1861, resides in Brookline, Massachusetts ; John E. Fuller, born October 15, 1862, resides with his mother on the homestead and carries on the farm; George T., born April 23, 1864, the postmaster of Lancaster Centre; Mary Belle S., born Novem- ber 2, 1871, a teacher in the Lancaster public schools, residing at the homestead with her mother.

ANDREW LOWELL FULLER. Edward Ful- ler (1), was the immigrant ancestor of the Fuller family of Clinton, Massachusetts, and of the late Andrew Lowell Fuller, of Clinton. He came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620 with his famous brother, Dr. Samuel Fuller. He was one of the signers of the famous Compact. Both he and his wife died early in 1821, during the second winter, leaving a son Samuel in Plymouth and a son Matthew in England.

(II) Captain Matthew Fuller, son of Edward Fuller (1), and nephew of the famous Dr. Samuel Fuller, may have come to Plymouth with the wife and child of Dr. Fuller, as they came afterward. He was a planter at Plymouth and captain of the company there. Later he removed to Scituate, where he was received in the church November 7, 1636, by letter from Plymouth church. He was a proprietor of Scituate and was called sergeant on the records. He was admitted a freeman there Sep- tember 7, 1642. He is presumed to have studied medicine with his distinguished uncle, and in 1652 he also became a physician and in 1673 was surgeon of the forces of the colony. He was captain in 1675 in King Philip's war.

He married, April 8, 1635, Jane Lothrop, daugh- ter of John Lothrop. He married (second) Frances His will was dated July 25, and proved October 30, 1678; bequeathed to wife Frances; to grandchild Shubael Jones, son of Ralph Jones; to son John; to Thomas, Jabez, Timothy, Matthias and Samuel Fuller, sons of his deceased son, Samuel Fuller; to daughter Mary, wife of Ralph Jones; to daughter Elizabeth, wife of Moses Rowley; to daughter-in-law Ann, wife of son Samuel; to Be- thias, wife of son John; to grandchildren Sarah Rowley, Jedediah Jones and all the rest; to Robert Marshall, the Scotchman. Children of Captain Fuller were: Mary, married, April 17, 1650, Ralph Jones ; Elizabeth, married, 1652, Moses Rowley; Samuel, of whom later ; John, married Bethiah - ; Ann. married her cousin, Samuel Fuller.

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(III) Samuel Fuller, son of Captain Matthew Fuller (2), was born in Plymouth, probably about 1636. He resided at Barnstable until 1675, when he removed to Rehoboth where his posthumous son, Samuel, was born. He married (second), at Re- hoboth, Mary Ide, daughter of Nicholas Ide, De- cember 12, 1673. She was born December 10, 1649. But in Matthew's will the wife of Samuel is called Anne, indicating some error in names. He died August, 1676, during King Philip's war, perhaps a result of service in the war. He was buried August 15. All his children by the first wife were born at Barnstable. They were: Thomas, Jabez, Timothy, Matthias, died unmarried; Abigail, Ann, Samuel, born at Rehoboth, November 23, 1676 (posthumous), of whom later.

(IV) Samuel Fuller, son of Samuel Fuller (3), and grandson of Captain Matthew Fuller, in whose will he is mentioned, was born after his father's death, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, November 23, 1676. He died there December 19, 1724. He mar- ried there Dorothy Willmarth, December 16, 1700. Their children were: Samuel, born October 23, 1702; Ebenezer, October 26, 1704, of whom later ; Dorothea, July 12, 1706; Ruth, November 14, 1708; Timothy, March 8, 1710-II; Mary, March 9, 1712-13; Moses (twin), October 27, 1715; Aaron (twin), October 27, 1715; Noah, August 4, 1721.

(V) Ebenezer Fuller, second child of Samuel Fuller (4), was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, October 26, 1704. He settled there and married, June 1, 1731, Rachel Robinson. He seems to have married (second) Judith - Children of Eben- ezer and Rachel Fuller were: Abiah, born July 10, 1733; Judith, July 2, 1734; Jemima, February 27, 1736-37; Noah, February 26, 1738-39; Ebenezer, April 23, 1741, of whom later; Levi, March 1, 1745-46.

(VI) Ebenezer, Jr., son of Ebenezer Fuller (5), was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, April 23, 1741. He served seven years in the revolutionary army, the only Ebenezer Fuller in the service from Massachusetts, except his son who at a very youth- ful age enlisted as stated below. Ebenezer Fuller was in Captain Jabez Ellis's company of Minute Men, April 19, 1775, credited to the adjacent town of Attleboro; in Captain Caleb Richardson's com- pany, Colonel Timothy Walker's regiment later in 1775; Captain Jacob Ide's company, Colonel Dag- gett's regiment in 1776; Captain Stephen Richard- son's company, Colonel George William's regiment in 1777; Captain Moses William's company Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment in 1778, and in the same regiment under Captain Joseph Williams in 1780; Captain Samuel Robinson's company, Colonel Isaac Dean's regiment in 1780; and probably in Cap- tain Thomas Newcomb's company, Lieutenant Colonel Cogswell's regiment in 1781.

He married (first), January 17, 1765, Mary Mon- roe, who died May 30, 1772. He married (second), July 22, 1773, Abigail Peck, also at Rehoboth. Chil- dren of Ebenezer and Mary, all born at Rehoboth, were: Betsey, born April 28, 1766; Ebenezer, Jan- mary 13, 1768, of whom later; Thomas, February 25, 1771. Children of Ebenezer and Abigail were : Mary, June 22, 1774; Jemima, March 31, 1776; Charles, March 31, 1778; Rachel, May 7, 1780; Abigail, July 25, 1782, died August 28, 1782; Shu- bael, November 12, 1783; Nancy, May 9, 1786; Lucy, August 22, 1793.

(VII) Ebenezer Warren Fuller, son of Ebenezer Fuller (6), was born in Massachusetts, February II, 1769. He was a soldier in the revolution at the age of thirteen in Captain Joseph Willmarth's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, with his

father, who fought through the whole war, as stated above. They were the only men of the name in the Massachusetts service. There is a stone to his memory in the graveyard at Lancaster with age corresponding to that of his birth recorded at Reho- both. He seems to have gone to Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, after he came of age. Late in life he set- tled in Lancaster, where he is buried. At Newton, Massachusetts, September 6, 1791, he married Bet- sey Wheeler, of Halifax, Massachusetts. Their sons were: Ephraim, born January 9, 1793; Alden, born September 26, 1796; Ebenezer, born March 10, 1803; Warren, born July 30, 1807; William; Jere- miah, born July 16, 1810. The only son of his sec- ond marriage with Lydia Goddard was John, of whom later.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 16

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 732

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732