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(VIII) Ephraim Fuller, son of Ebenezer W. Fuller (7), was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 9, 1793. He came to Lancaster with his father. He learned the trade of clothier and es- tablished a flourishing industry at Carter's Mill in Lancaster for cloth dressing and wool carding. In 1839 the mill was burned. He then purchased of George Howard his water power on South Meadow brook in what is now Clinton, Massachusetts, to- gether with considerable land adjoining. Here he erected a fulling mill and carried on a thriving business for many years. His son, Andrew L. Fuller, became associated with him, and as the times favored machinery for the manufacture of every variety of woolen knitting-yarns, satinets and fancy cassimeres were introduced. For a time the firm employed about thirty hands and 60,000 yards of cloth were made annually, the mill being run night and day some of the time. Mr. Fuller retired in 1850 and his son, Andrew L. Fuller, became the sole owner.
In the winter of 1816 Mr. Fuller built a dam on Goodridge brook, where it crosses the highway in Clinton, and built a shop with a trip-hammer and forge in the basement. The building was used by Luther Gaylord, manufacturer of agricultural tools ; W. F. Conant, maker of water-wheels, and Isaac Taylor, manufacturer of sash and blinds.
Mr. Fuller and his five eldest children joined the Congregational church at Lancaster, now the Unitarian church, May 1, 1830. He died at Lan- caster, January 5, 1876. In his will, dated Septem- ber 18, 1871, he mentions his son, William A. Fuller, of Chicago; his daughter Susan H., wife of Albert Smith, of Clinton; his daughter, Nancy G., wife of Eben S. Fuller, of Clinton; his grand- children, John E., Jessie G., William A. and Susie G. Fuller, of Clinton: his grandchildren, children of his son Andrew L., deceased, Emma Susan, Albert S., Andrew C. He left a considerable for- tunc.
He married, March 7, 1819, at Lancaster, Susan Hayward, of Acton. She died at Lancaster, May I, 1833. He married (second), December 31, 1833, Judith Goss. Children of Ephraim and Susan Fuller were: Susan Hayward, born September 7, 1819, baptized August 1, 1830, married Albert Smith, of Clinton; Francis Faulkner, born January 8, 1822, died July 20, 1827; Andrew Lowell, of whom later: Francis Faulkner, born 1827, died young ; Abigail, born 1829, died July 20, 1829; Francis Faulkner (third). born February 5, 1830, died May 24, 1832: Ephraim Hayward, born April 25. 1833. baptized May 3, 1833, died September 16, 1833; George Walton, born December 4, 1834, bap- tized June 7. 1835: Ephraim Hayward, born about 1837; William Alden, baptized July 2, 1837, died 1837; Nancy Goss, baptized June 7, 1840, married
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Eben S. Fuller, son of John and grandson of Ebe- nezer Fuller, her grandfather also; Franklin War- ren, born 1842, died February 4, 1845.
(IX) Andrew Lowell Fuller, son of Ephraim Fuller (8), was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, June 6, 1824. He was educated in the district schools of Lancaster and then went into his father's cotton mill and learned the business. His father took him into partnership, and at his fathers retirement in 1850 he became the owner of the plant. In partner- ship with Everett W. Bigelow, of West Boylston, Mr. Fuller carried on an extensive business in manufacturing woolen goods at Clinton. After his death his partner continued the business until 1870. The mill was located in Clinton, formerly Lancaster, upon South Meadow brook. Andrew L. Fuller was a man of great business capacity and energy. When he began to manage the business it had reached an unremunerative condition. At that time the manu- facture of woolen cloth and yarn became unprofit- able, and he gradually introduced machinery for the manufacture of other lines. When the hoop-skirt was coming into fashion he filled his mill with tape-looms and braiders for covering hoop-skirt wire and soon developed a very profitable business. In 1865 he more than doubled the capacity of his main building, adding two hundred braiders to the two hundred and fifty he had already and in- creased the number of his tape-looms to forty. Nearly one hundred hands were employed.
In politics Mr. Fuller was a Republican. He represented his district in the general court in 1854, being the second citizen of Clinton to enjoy that distinction. The first was Horatio N. Bige- low, founder of the carpet mills. Mr. Fuller was a Free Mason. He and his family attended the Unitarian church. Notwithstanding his large busi- ness interests Mr. Fuller enlisted as a private in Company C. Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry, at the breaking out of the civil war. His health gave out and he was sent home after a few months. His experience probably was one cause of his deatlı in the prime of manhood, in the midst of a promis- ing and prosperous business career. He died at Clinton, September 10, 1867. His widow survives him and resides in the attractive homestead at Clinton.
He married, May 10, 1845, Olive Howard, daugh- ter of George and Sarah (Manley) Howard, and their children were: Emma Susan, born at Clinton, April 25, 1848, resides at home with her mother, Francis, born April 8, 1850. accidently drowned at age of four years; Albert S., born April 25, 1752, married Ella Burritt and they have three children- May, Bessie, Howard; Andrew Clifford, born Au- gust 25. 1853, married Katherine Seger.
(VIII) John Fuller, only son of Ebenezer (7) and Lydia (Goddard) Fuller, was born in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, December 28, 1806. After the usual allowance of schooling he learned the trade of clothier of his elder half-brother, Ephraim Ful- ler, mentioned above. Later he engaged in the finishing of combs. The later years of his active life were devoted to farming. He was a deacon of the Unitarian church of Lancaster, the original church of the Puritan fathers. He died in 1890 at the advanced age of eighty-four years.
He married, in 1828, Sophronia Orange Wads- worth Adams, of Lancaster, the only child of Sam- uel and Mercy (Sherwin) Adams, of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. She was born March 31, 1806, and died in 1890 at the age of eighty-four years. Her father was a pioneer settler in Grafton, Vermont, but removed to Lancaster in 1816 and died there at an advanced age. Children of John and So-
phronia O. W. Fuller were: Sophronia, married Horatio Bailey, of Lancaster ; Eben S., of whom later ; Sidney T., a prominent engineer on various railroads in the United States and Mexico; Edwin M., major in the Federal army in the civil war, now a physician in Chicago.
(IX) Eben S. Fuller, son of John Fuller (8), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, March 31, 1833. He attended the public and high schools of his native town. He was then employed for a time in a comb factory and in the piano-forte business. In 1859 he bought of C. C. Stone the door, sash, and blind business in Clinton. As trade improved he added a saw mill and wood-working machinery. He sold the business in 1890 to his son, and has since then devoted his time to his real estate in- terests in Clinton. He has built many dwelling houses, having at one time more than seventy tenements. He conducts farms in Lancaster and Sterling. He is director of the First National Bank of Clinton, trustee of the Clinton Savings Bank, member of the Worcester East Agricultural So- ciety. He is a Republican and interested in public affairs. He has been overseer of the poor and selectman of Clinton. He is deacon of the Uni- tarian church.
He married, November 7. 1861, Nancy Goss Fuller, daughter of Ephraim Fuller (VIII), men- tioned above. She died August 4, 1871. He mar- ried (second), March 4, 1891, Cora Adelaide Chil- son Butterfield. Children of Eben S. and Nancy Goss Fuller were: Jessie Genevra. born October 15. 1862. married Rev. James C. Duncan, a Uni- tarian minister of Clinton, and they have two chil- dren-Robert F. and James Duncan. William An- drew. born September 24, 1866, succeeded his father in the lumber business ; married Bessie E. Farwell, of Clinton, and they have two children-John F. and Beatrice Louisa. Susie Gertrude, born October 8, 1868, married Joseph J. Albright, of Buffalo, New York, and has a son, John. John E., for many years real estate broker, died in Duluth, Minne- sota, June 28, 1892.
UPTON FAMILY. The Upton family ancestry in England is traced back to the time of William, the Conqueror, and the ancient manuscript of the De Uppeton family of Cornwall is still in exis- tence, though party illegible, at the ancient seat of the family in Westmoreland. The English branch of the Upton family traces an unbroken line of descent from John Uppeton de Uppeton. of Upton, Cornwall. But the family has spread widely through Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as England.
(I) John Upton, immigrant ancestor of Fred John Upton, of Winchendon, Massachusetts, is said to have been a Scotchman by birth according to the family traditions. and the same authority gives the name of his wife as Eleanor Stuart, also a native of Scotland. Upton settled first in Lynn, though he may have been earlier in the service of Edward Winslow, in 1640, at Salisbury, Massachu- setts. Ile bought land December 26, 1658, of Henry Bullock, of Salem, and the deed calls him John Upton, of Hammersmith, which was the name of the Lynn Iron Works. He also bought land at Salem of Daniel Rumboll, of Salem, blacksmith, April 6. 1661, four score acres of land. Again November 27. 1671, he bought land of James Hogg, of Salem. forty acres. He had some one hundred and sixty acres all told in the southwest corner of Salem village. His farm joined that of Joseph Pope. Thomas and George Gardner, and was near the south line of the present town of Danvers,
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half a mile from Lynnfield. Giles Corey, who was inhumanly pressed to death in 1692 for refusing to plead guilty to a charge of witchcraft, lived two miles away and was counted as a neighbor. The original farm is in part now or was lately owned by direct descendants from the time of the first settler. Upton was safely out of Danvers before the Witcheraft delusion. He bought land Novem- ber 10, 1664, in Reading. He swapped a cow for a lot of land there, forty acres, April 1, 1667. Be- tween 1671 and 1678 he removed to Reading, leav- ing his Danvers estate to his sons. He was active, enterprising and energetic. He began with nothing and acquired a handsome estate. He was admitted a freeman April 18, 1691, and died July 11, 1699. His will was dated November 16, 1692, and it was proved July 31, 1699. The seal on his will was a fleur de lis and he attempted, unsuccessfully, as it proved eventually, to entail his estate, indicating that he was not democratic in his ideas.
The children were: John, born 1654, see for- war: Eleanor, born 1656, died April 20, 1663; Will- iam, born 1658, died April, 1663; James, born Sep- tember. 1660, died unmarried; Mary, born 1661, died April 15, 1663: William, born June 10, 1663, married Mary Maber; Samuel, born October, 1664, married Abigail Frost; Ann, married Samuel Fraile, of Salem, now Danvers, April 4, 1684; Isabel, born January 3. 1666-67. died December 6, 1689, unmar- ried: Ezekiel, born September, 1668, married (first) Rebecca Preston and (second ) Ruth (Marsh) Hardy; Joseph, born April 9. 1670, married Abi- gail -: Frances, born July 1, 1671, died Decem- ber 9. 1694, unmarried; Mary, probably died un- married.
(II) John Upton, son of John Upton (I), was born at Danvers, then Salem village, in 1654. He married, December 14, 1680, Sarah Thompson, daughter of George Thompson, and died October 12, 1719. He settled in the northeast part of North Reading, . north of the Ipswich river, on a farm given him by his father. He died in the summer of 1727, upwards of seventy years of age. His will, dated August 29, 1720, proved November 6, 1727, recorded in the Middlesex probate record (18-447) gives to his son John, to James Stimpson, Mary Mclntyre. Ezekiel, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jonathan. The children: Sarah, born October 26, 1681, mar- ried, November 30, 1706, Jamies Stimpson, of Read- ing, removed to Tolland, Connecticut ; John, born March II, 1683, married Tabitha -; Mary, born May 25, 1685, married Daniel McIntire, of Reading, October 15, 1706; Joseph, born September 8. 1687, married Abigail Gray: Ezekiel, born No- vember 9, 1689, married Isabel Upton; Jonathan, born March 4, 1692, married Elizabeth Wilkins : Elizabeth, born May 14, 1694, died May 29, 1694; Frances, born May 17, 1695, died May 23, 1695; Elizabeth, born July 19, 1696, died probably 1769. unmarried ; Hepsibah, born May 22, 1700, married Robert Hayward, of Reading, November I. 1733. (I11) Ezekiel Upton, son of John Upton (2), was born at North Reading, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 9, 1689. He married (first), October 6, 1714, and (second) Isabel Upton, born January 21, 1695. daughter of his uncle, Ezekiel Upton. Ezekiel Upton lived until 1753 in Reading, North Parish, not far from the Andover line. He died between the years 1752 and 1762. His children were: Ezek- iel, born about 1720: Enos, February 7, 1723, see forward.
(IV) Enos Upton, son of Ezekiel Upton (3), was born at North Reading, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 7. 1723. He married Rose (Hayward) Mc- Intire, and they lived in North Reading until about
1760. They removed to Mount Vernon, New Hamp- shire, about 1770, and settled in the northwest part of the town. Both Enos and bis son Enos, Jr., appear on the tax rolls dated February 18, 1774. He was a soldier in the revolution at the siege of Boston in Captain Taylor Mack's company, and was at Winter Hill, December 8, 1775. He and thirty-one others protested against the settlement of Jeremiah Barnard or any other man as minister until a district parish were granted. They lived in the western part of Amherst and the petition was dated December 23, 1779. Enos lived at Mount Vernon until about 1792, and spent the last years of his life in the old house on the farm of his son, Deacon Ezekiel Upton. The children: Naomi, born 1753: Ezekiel, born 1755, see forward; Enos, born 1757, married Sarah (Smith) Tapley; Aaron, born 1760, died in the service during the revolution.
(V) Ezekiel Upton, son of Enos Upton (4), was born about 1752 in North Reading, Massachu- setts. He married ( first) Hannah Washer, of Am- herst, New Hampshire, and ( second) Mehitable Codman, widow, who survived him. He went with his father to live in Amherst about 1762. His father sold him thirty acres of land bounded partly by land of Solomon Kittridge in the northwest part of Amherst, now Mont Vernon. November 2, 1777. He sold thirty-five acres of land in Amherst to Nathan Cleaves. His wife Hannah was admitted to full communion in the church at Amherst, No- vember 7. 1779. He was deacon of the church in 1800 and for several years afterward. Later he joined the Baptist church at Milford, New Hamp- shire. He died in 1835, aged eighty years. As his father lived with him in his old age. so in his own last years he lived with his son Ezekiel at Lynde- boro, New Hampshire, adjoining Mont Vernon. In 1833 they sold the farm at Mont Vernon and re- moved to Lyndeboro. His will was dated April 8, 1834, and proved December 1, 1835. He bequeathed to wife Mehitable, to Hannah Mills, Ezekiel and Nehemiah Upton, his sons, leaving his pew in church to Ezekiel. His children, by his first wife, were : Ezekiel, died young; Hannah, born Decem- ber 2, 1773, married Ebenezer Mills: Ezekiel, born December 10, 1775, married Abigail Dodge, (second) Mehitable Marble; Naomi, died at the age of four- teen years: Nehemiah, born 1758, see forward : Levina, died aged fifty-one years, unmarried ; Anna, died young : Naomi, died 1848, unmarried.
(VI) Nehemiah Upton, son of Ezekiel Upton (3). was born at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, 1780. He married ( first) Mehitable Broad, born February 19, 1784, daughter of Seth Broad, and died March 7, 1833. He married (second), Sep- tember, 1833. Mary (Gleason) Brown, widow, daughter of Phinehas Gleason. Nehemiah Upton went from Mont Vernon to Dublin, New Hamp- shire, in 1806, and settled on lot I, range 4, in the very infancy of that town. He was a carpenter and builder by trade, and also a farmer. Of his numerous family none remained in Dublin in 1872. Nehemiah left Dublin in 1869 to live with one of his children in Stoddard, where he died over ninety vears of age. Children of Nehemiah and Mehitable Upton were: Nancy, born January, 1803, died Feb- ruary. 1803: Alson, born March 31, 1805, married, 1830, Lucy Morse and (second), 1837. Sarah Scott ; Seth, born September 15, 1807, died May 28. 1830; Amorette, born June, 1810. married. September 20, 1830, Luther Wilson: Mehitable born March 9. 1813. married, 1836. George Rodney Wilson ; Nehemiah, born March 27. 1815, married Fanny Maria Wilson: George Washington. born Septem- ber 20, 1817, married Margaret McMahon: Samuel
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Davidson, born March 17, 1821, married Lydia W. Ball; Nancy E., born January 9, 1824, died April 8, 1838; Edward E., born November 30, 1826, mar- ried, 1853, Mrs. Sarah (Scott) Upton. Children of Nehemiah and Mary Upton were: John Adel- bert, born June, 1834, see forward; Charles, born January, 1837, married Ann Fairbanks.
(VID) John Adelbert Upton, son of Nehemiah Ezekiel Upton (6), was born at Dublin, New Hamp- shire, June, 1834. He married Emily Jane Farns- worth, of Dublin, July 3, 1855. He was a manu- facturer of chairs at South Keene, New Hamp- shire. Children of John Adelbert and Emily Jane Upton: Charles Adelbert, born September 30, 1857; Fred John, see forward.
(VIII) Fred John Upton, son of John Adelbert Upton (7), was born at Dublin, New Hampshire, July 12, 1862. He began his education in the schools of that town, but from the age of eight to that of thirteen went to school in South Keene, New Hampshire. He then went to Marlboro, New Hampshire, and learned the blacksmith's trade under John P. Clemons. He returned to Dublin and started in business as a blacksmith. Two years later he removed to East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he had his blacksmith business for the next eleven years and built himself a house and shop. He went to Winchendon, Massachusetts, October 3, 1892, selling his business to E. A. Coburn. Hc built a shop near the river and was in business for the next eleven years there, then sold to E. Cassavant, the present proprietor. Mr. Upton started a shop on High street on his father's land and was there for a year, when he went into partnership with D. J. Wyman under the firm name of Upton & Wyman, blacksmiths, with shops at the corner of Front and River streets. After a few months Mr. Upton bought out his partner, and at the end of the year sold the business to good advantage. In the winter of 1905 Mr. Upton re- turned to his first shop in Winchendon, and is at present employed there by Mr. Cassavant. Mr. Upton has invested largely in Winchendon real estate. He resides on High street. He attends the Church of the Unity (Unitarian). In politics he is a Republican.
He married (first), May, 1880, Frances Clara King, born September 6, 1859, at Marlboro, Ver- mont, daughter of Hollis and Jane Elizabeth (Derby) King. He married (second) Grace M. Houghton, July 12, 1902. She was born May 23. 1868, daughter of Marcus M. and Harriet (Day) Houghton, of Winchendon, Massachusetts. Mr. Upton has no children.
JOHN B. FARNSWORTH. Matthias Farns- worth (1) was the emigrant ancestor of John B. Farnsworth, of Leominster, Massachusetts. He set- tled in Lynn, Massachusetts, soon after 1650. He was born in England in 1612, probably in or near Farnworth, Lancashire, England. He married probably as his second wife Mary Farr, daughter of George Farr, later of Lynn, Massachusetts. Farnsworth was a weaver by trade. He was ad- mitted a freeman of Lynn May 16, 1670, died Janu- ary 21. 1688-9; she died 1717. The three eldest children were probably by the first wife. The chil- dren are: I. Elizabeth, born 1647, probably in Eng- land but possibly in Lynn, Massachusetts, married, January 16, 1667. James Robertson (or Robinson), born 1632, died December 8, 1720. She died Decem- ber 22, 1729, aged eighty-two years. 2. Matthias, born 1640. married. 1681. Sarah Nutting, daughter of John Nutting. . 3. John, born about 1651-2, mar- ried, December 8, 1686, Hannah Aldis, of Ded-
ham, Massachusetts, born July 4, 1666. He died October 17, 1729. 4. Benjamin, born 1667, married, 1695, Mary Prescott, born February 3, 1674, daugh- ter of Jones and Mary ( Loker) Prescott. He died August 15, 1733-5. 5. Joseph, born November 16, 1657, at Lynn, Massachusetts, died October 31, 1674, unmarried. 6. Mary, born October 11, 1660, at Lynn, married, April 11, 1676, Samuel Thatcher, of Watertown, Massachusetts, born October 20, 1648, died October 21, 1726; she died August 17, 1725. 7. Sarah, born about 1663-4. probably at Groton, married Simon Stone, of Watertown, Massachusetts. S. Samuel, born October, 1669, mar- ried, December 12, 1706, Mary Whitcomb, widow of Simon Willard; Samuel died 1726-7. 9. Abigail, born January 17. 1671, married John Hartshorn, her cousin. 10. Jonathan, born June 1, 1675, mar- ried, 1698, Ruth Shattuck, born June 24, 1668, died June 16, 1748. 11. Joseph (2d), born 1677, died February 20, 1687.
(11) Matthias Farnsworth, son of Matthias Farnsworth (1), was born 1649, probably in Eng- land. He married Sarah Nutting, daughter of John and Sarah Nutting. She was born May 29, 1663. John Nutting, father of Mrs. Farnsworth, was one of the original proprietors of Groton, Massachu- setts. Matthias Farnsworth died in 1693. The inventory of his estate was filed November S, 1693, but the widow did not get her appointment as ad- ministratrix until just before her second marriage, five years later, December 6, 1698. She married, December 16, 1698, John Stone, who was one of the sureties on her bond. Matthias Farnsworth, Jr. (2) seems to have been a man of some ability. He held several town offices at Groton, of which he was one of the proprietors. He served under Major Willard in King Philip's war. His children were: I. Joseph, born January 17, 1682, died Feb- ruary 2, 1682. 2. Ebenezer, born 1684, married, April 17. 1707, Elizabeth Whitney, daughter of Joshua and Abigail (Tarball) Whitney, of Water- town; she was born about 1686; they owned the covenant September 19, 1708, and united with the church April 6. 1718; he died March 30, 1724. 3. Josiah, born February 24, 1687, of whom later. 4. Sarah, born 1688, married Jonathan Shedd; he mar- ried (first), April 13, 1722, Sarah Barrows. 5. Matthias, born August 6, 1690, was taken prisoner by the Indians when fourteen years old, carried to Canada and long supposed to be dead, but he was baptized in the Catholic church at Montreal, mar- ried and had a large family. The name was mis- spelled variously Farnet, Farnef, Pharnef and Pharnenf, all having descendants, some of whom have come to this country with other French Canadian emigrants. 6. Rebecca was drowned in a well at Watertown, Massachusetts, May 19, 1692, probably sent from Groton to her Aunt Thatcher's for safety during Indian raids at that time.
(III) Josiah Farnsworth, son of Matthias Farns- worth (2), was born February 24, 1687. He mar- ried, March, 1719-20, Mary Pierce, daughter of Ephraim Pierce, of Groton. She was born August 9, 1696. He died September, 1744. He was a farmer at Groton, Massachusetts. Their children were: I. Josiah, born January 4, 1721, married, July 27, 1743, Hannah Buttrick probably settled in New York state, was of Captain Samuel Howe's company for the relief of Fort William Henry, 1757. 2. Mary, born June 5, 1722, married, February 5, 1739. Will- iam Nichols, of Hartford, Connecticut. He was baptized January, 1710, died September 3. 1767. She died October 13, 1771. 3. Oliver, born Au- gust 30. 1723, died when about ten years old. 4. Ebenezer, born March 22, 1726, married, 1762, Sarah
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Walker, probably daughter of Seth and Eleanor (Chandler) Walker. She died 1807, aged eighty- two years; he died November 6, 1794. He settled in Charlestown, New Hampshire, about 1850, and was taken prisoner by the Indians with the John- son family, Miriam Willard and Peter Labaree, Au- gust 30, 1751, and carried to Canada. After the war he was sent to England and later returned home whereupon he joined the army again and helped in the campaigns against Isle aux Noix, St. Johns and Montreal. Later he fought in the revo- lution. 5. James, born December 2, 1727, married Susanna and Sarah settled at Charlestown, New Hampshire; fought in the Rangers in 1748 in Captain Hobb's company, in 1750 in Captain Phineas Stevens' company, was commissioned lieutenant, captain and general in the revolutionary war. 6. Jemima, born August 29, 1729, married, Septem- ber 24, 1764, Seth Walker, Jr. (his second wife) ; he was born April 16, 1717, at Groton, Massachu- setts. He nrarried (first), January 14, 1742, Abigail Holden, died January 31, 1762. 7. Thomas, born April 1, 1731, of whom later. S. Joseph, born No- vember 27, 1732, called "judge." 9. Oliver, born January 16, 1735, married Hannah settled at Springfield, Vermont. 10. Mary, born February 2, 1738, probably died young.
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