Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 21

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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ful voyager, as he amassed a considerable fortune. Tradition makes it probable that in his voyages the King's revenue was not always considered, nor did he hesitate to run up alongside and board by force a French or Spanish craft as the opportunity presented. His vessels were stanch and swift, though not showing as fine outlines as some more modern ones might." Ile owned a wharf at Ames- bury, near Ames wharf, at the mouth of the Powow river.


Children of Captain Gideon and Mary Lowell were: Mary, born March 1, 1692-93, married, July 9, 1715. Zechariah Philbrook; Lieutenant John, born in South Carolina, February 1, 1696-97; Captain Samuel G., born probably 1698, was also a sea captain of Amesbury; Gideon, born probably 1700; Stephen, born February 19, 1703, died October 27, 1776: Corporal Moses, born probably 1705, see for- ward: Hannah, born April II, 1707; Joseph, born probably 1709, of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Newport, Rhode Island; Abner, born November 29, 1711, baptized December 10, 17II, settled in Fal- mouth, Maine; fought in Indian wars; Jonathan, born March 24, 1714.


(XIV) Moses Lowell, son of Gideon Lowell (13), was born probably in 1705 at Amesbury, mar- ried there, August 6, 1730, Frances Colby, born in Amesbury, November 17, 1710, daughter of Thomas Colby (III), Thomas (II), Anthony Colby, the im- migrant. Moses Lowell was a yeoman at Amesbury. He sold land there in 1767 to Joseph Hoyt. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, corporal in the expedition to Crown Point and at Fort William Henry in 1756. Children of Moses and Frances Lowell were: Thomas, born at Amesbury, February 15, 1732-33: Moses, Jr., see forward ; Affia, born April 21, 1741; Daniel, born February 20, 1744, died in Standish, Maine, March 14, 1828; re- sided in Epping, Brentwood, and New Salisbury, New Hampshire; was a shoemaker; soldier at Crown Point and in Canada expedition of 1763; Captain Sylvanus, born May 2, 1746; Willoughby, born 1749. died at Lamberton, New York, June 17, 1823, aged seventy-four years; resided also at Hartford, Connecticut ; soldier in the revolution, blacksmith by trade.


(XV) Moses Lowell, Jr., son of Moses Lowell (14), was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 2, 1736, died in Grove, New York. He mar- ried, in Amesbury, perhaps 1760, Miriam Knowlton. About 1778 he and his brother Daniel settled in Standish and Hiram, Maine. He was a shipwright bv trade. He sold land in 1759 and 1762 in Ames- bury and probably removed about that time to Maine. About 1800 he with his sons Gideon and David removed on horseback with their wives to New York state. They stopped first at Syracuse, then went to the present site of Rochester, but thinking the place unhealthful they went further south and settled in the town of grove, Allegany, New York. He was a soldier in the revolution and was in the battle of Bunker Hill with his eldest son, who was killed, according to family tradition, in that battle, the records indicate that he was not killed, however.


Children of Moses and Miriam Lowell were: Thomas, born in Denmark, Maine, about 1753, revo- lutionary soldier from beginning to end of war, was a pensioner: Jonathan Knowlton, born 1756, died 1852: was a revolutionary soldier and at the battle of Bunker Hill; Daniel. see forward ; James, married Mary Sanborn, of Hiram, Maine, and set- tled there; David. born May 14, 1780, died at Dal- ton, New York, March 21, 1861; Miriam, born in


Maine, married Daniel Sanborn, 1793; Betsey, mar- ried - Rowe; Jane; Ezra ; Lucy.


(XVI) Daniel Lowell, son of Moses Lowell (15), was born in Maine, June 12, 1765, died De- cember 28, 1849. They settled in the wilderness where East Denmark, Maine, now is, cleared a farm and resided there until he died. He was married at Bridgton, Maine, by Rev. N. Church, April 10, 1792, Lucy Foster, who died August 23, 1857. Chil- dren of Daniel and Lucy Lowell were: Daniel, born September, 1793, died same month; Mary, born November 24, 1794. died February 29, 1884; Gideon, born September 14, 1796, died October 13, 1825, unmarried ; Asahel F., born August 25, 1798, see forward ; Joanna F., born October 26, 1800, died January 6, 1868; married James B. Perkins; Ed- mund P., born August 27, 1804, died June 12, 1881 ; married. September 26, 1833, Elizabeth J. Ingalls; Margery W., born August 21, ISOS, died February 4, 1801 : married William Stone. of Bridgton, Maine, and had one child, William Henry Stone; Francis F., born October 24, ISII, died August 2, 1811; Sarah S., born February 25, 1816, died November 9. 1889; married Augustus Wilkins; Daniel, born November 9, 1818, died June 15, 1891; resided at East Denmark, Maine.


(XVII) Asahel F. Lowell, son of Daniel Lowell (16), was born August 25, 1798, died November 19, 1869. He resided all his life at East Denmark, Maine, where he was a farmer. He married Mehitable Dodge and their children, all born at East Denmark, were: Harriet E., born August 7, 1825, died June 30, 1836; Edmund P., born June 13. 1828, died March 30, 1853, unmarried; Ezra P., born July 27, 1832, see forward; Sarah M., born February 27. 1836, died February 26, 1896; married, August 4, 1862, George A. Small, of West Bridg- ton, Maine, died February 26, 1896, he was a car- riage merchant in Portland, Maine; Deborah, born April 26, 1838, married, October 10, 1857, Samuel Warren.


(XVIII) Ezra P. Lowell, son of Asahel F. Lowell (17), was born in Bridgton, Maine. July 27, 1832. He married, November 17, 1852, Almira P. Goodell, born May I. 1827, died June 19, 1881. He left his home in Worcester, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 9, 1865, for a western trip and has not been heard from since the spring of 1866 when he wrote from Salt Lake City, Utah. The children of Ezra P. and Almira P. Lowell were: Charles Calvin, see forward; Clarence Byron, born November 3, 1859. died June 30, 1860.


(XIX) Charles Calvin Lowell, son of Ezra P. Lowell (18), was born in Worcester, August 9, 1856. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town. He went to work as clerk in the store of John C. White, dealer in paints, oils, and painters' supplies, then at 8 Front street. He entered the employ of Mr. White in 1875 and has remained in that business ever since. When Mr. White died in 1889, Mr. Lowell bought the business of his estate and has continued it since. The store was removed from Front street to Pearl street, February 1, 1882, in the building lately sold to the Slater estate, on the site of which a new building is being erected. In 1903 Mr. Lowell moved into the old postoffice, on the opposite side of Pearl street from his old location securing much larger and more attractive quarters. He deals in painters' supplies and artists' materials, also a full line of china for decoration. Mr. Lowell has one of the largest stores in his line in the county and enjoys a large and constantly growing business. He is a member of the Old South Church (Congrega-


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ยท tional). In politics he is a Republican. His home is at 318 Highland street, Worcester. He mar- ried ( first ), April 7, 1881, Fannie Jane Moore, daughter of James D. and Sarah J. Moore, of Worcester. She died February 26, 1888, aged thirty years. He married ( second), May 20, 1889, Cora W. Pierce Shepard, daughter of Charles 1. and Lucy A. (Pierce) Shepard, of West Boylston, Massachusetts. Children of Charles Calvin and Fannie J. ( Moore) Lowell were: Florence Almira, born at Worcester, November 15, 1883, graduate of Classical high school, Worcester, 1902, attended Bradford Academy, resides at home with parents. James Everett, born at Worcester, May 23, 1887, educated at Worcester high school and Lowell Tex- tile Institute, student in class of 1908.


GEORGE FRANKLIN BROWN. Abraham Browne (1), the immigrant ancestor of George Franklin Brown, of Winchendon, Massachusetts, was descended from the Brown family of Swan Hall, Hawkedon, county Suffolk, England. The descent is traced in a special article in this work to John Browne, of the borough of Stamford, Lin- coln county, England, who was the alderman (chief magistrate ) of Stamford in 1376-77.


Abraham Browne was a very early settler at Watertown, Massachusetts, perhaps one of the very first. He was admitted freeman March 6, 1031-32. He was a land surveyor and received from the town important appointments to survey and lay out land grants more than given to any other person. No man in the town was more respected and honored than Mr. Browne and his relative, Richard Browne. Abraham was selectman from 1636 to 1643 inclusive. In 1634 he and Robert Seeley were to survey all the lots that are granted and were also appointed con- servators of timber trees-none to be cut without their assent.


In 1635 he was one of the seven freeman ap- pointed to divide every man "his propriety" of meadow and upland, that is ploughable, the rest to lie common. In the same year he was appointed to lay out all highways, and to see that they are repaired, also to survey the lots granted by the se- lectmen. In 1638 it was ordered that all lots, both of freemen and foreigners, shall be measured and bounded by Abraham Browne, who shall give a note of each survey to be enrolled in the town books. In the same year he and Thomas Bartlett were ap- pointed to measure and lay out the remote meadows according to their best judgment. He was also ap- pointed with four others to lay out the farms as they are ordered, and they are authorized to include any rock or swamp in any survey, not counting it in the number of acres. That rule was surely reas- onable, even if it did make ten acre lots contain twenty acres or more sometimes.


In 1639 the highway from Dorchester fields to the flats, as Abraham Browne laid it out, was confirmed forever. Also the highway leading from Robert Jennison's to the river, betwixt the lands of Jolin Barnard and Jeremiah Norcross together with about half an acre of land on the river for the landing of goods, was ordered to remain forever, as laid out by Abraham Browne, April 30, 1639. He was al- lowed four pence an acre for surveying remote meadows and plains. October 7, 1641, the general court appointed him one of the committee for lay- ing out the thousand acres of land granted to the artillery company at its first organization. (The same company is now known as the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.)


His will was proved October I, 1650, the year of his death. He seems to have left a non-cupative


will and there was much delay and some litigation over the settlement of the estate, He had two home- stalls, the second of which he occupied at an early date. It was bounded on the east by Harvard street, north by Main street, south by Pleasant street, and the original lot with several additions made the home lot sixty acres. It is stated by Bond that the house now or lately on this lot was the oldest in town except the Nathaniel Bright house.


His widow Lydia married, November 27, 1659, Andrew Hodges, of Ipswich, and after his death, December, 1665, she returned to Watertown, where she died September 27, 1686. The earliest record of a birthi in Watertown was that of his daughter Lydia. Children of Abraham and Lydia Browne were: Sarah, born in England, married, December 16, 1643, George Parkhurst, Jr .; Mary, probably born in England, married, April 10, 1650, John Lewis; Lydia, born in Watertown, March 22, 1632-33, married Lieutenant William Lakin, Jr., of Groton; Jonathan, see forward; Hannah, died March 15, 1638-39, aged fourteen days; Abraham, born March 6, 1639-40, died 1667; married Mary Dix, February 5, 1662-63.


(11) Jonathan Browne, son of Abraham Browne (I), was born October 15, 1635, in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay colony. He and his father both wrote their names with the final E, but all his sons dropped it. He married, February II, 1661-62, Mary Shattuck, daughter of the immigrant, William Shat- tuck. She was born at Watertown, August 25, 1645, died October 23, 1732, aged eighty-seven years. Her grave is in the Waltham burying ground. His will is dated February 19, 1690-91, and was proved April 7, 1691. Children of Jonathan and Mary Browne were: Mary, born October 5, 1662, mar- ried (first), March 22, 1682-83, John Warren; (sec- ond) Samuel Harrington; Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 19, 1664, married, March 25, 1687, Daniel Ben- jamin; Jonathan, born October 25, 1666, died young ; Patience, born March 6, 1668-69, married, March 5, 1686-87, James Bigelow ; Abraham, see forward; Samuel, born October 21, 1674; Lydia, born March 31, 1677, married January 18, 1698-99, Benjamin Wellington; Ebenezer, born September 10, 1679; Benjamin, born February 27, 1681-82, died March 1I, 1753; William, born September 3, 1684, died October 28, 1756.


( III) Captain Abraham Brown, son of Jonathan Browne (2), was born in Watertown, August 26, 1671, died November 27, 1729. He had his grand- father's homestead in Watertown and he became a very prominent citizen there. He was town treas- urer of Watertown, 1095-90-97-98-99-1700; assessor in 1705-06-08; selectman in 1712-16; town clerk in 1712 and was a licensed inn holder in 1709-12. Upon the final settlement of his grandfather's 'estate, January, 1694, his father being dead, all the real estate including the homestead mentioned above was assigned to him and he paid the other heirs. llis will dated July 20, 1728, was proved December 8, 1729. It is interesting to know that Captain Brown was guardian of Ephraim Williams, the father of the founder of Williams College. He was captain of the Watertown company.


He married Mary Hyde, born June 21, 1672, daughter of Job and Elizabeth ( Fuller) Hyde. She died November 29, 1723, and was buried in the Waltham graveyard. He died November 27, 1729, and was buried at her side. Their children were : Mary, married, January 31, 1709-10, George Cut- ting; Jonathan, see forward; Patience, baptized June 27, 1097, married, March 25, 1714, Elisha Smith, of Weston; Lydia, born December 30, 1697, married, October 2, 1716, Joseph Hastings; Hannah, born


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October 5, 1699, married, May 24, 1720, Ebenezer Bigelow ; Abraham, born October 17, 1701, died June 29, 1703; Samuel, born July 21, 1703, died in Stockbridge, February 17, 1784; John, born April 19, 1705, died 1784; Grace, born Angust 17, 1707, married, October 26, 1737, David Child.


(IV) Jonathan Brown, son of Captain Abraham Brown (3), was born in Watertown, 1694, died July 25, 1758, aged sixty-five years. He settled in Watertown and was selectman there in 1739-40-41. The following epitaph is on his grave stone: "He was a lover of steady, good men. He remained steady in the Christian duties through his life, and we trust he died the death.". He married Elizabeth Simonds, born November, 1698, daughter of Joseph and Mary Simonds, of Lexington, granddaughter of William Simonds, of Woburn, who married Judith ( Phippin) Heywood, widow of James. Their chil- dren were: Elizabeth, born February 8, 1719-20, mar- ried, June 2, 1743, Captain William Coolidge; Mary, born January 20, 1720-21, married June 2, 1743, Jonathan Woodward, Jr .; Jonathan, born August 24, 1724, captain of company at Lake George, 1758, prominent town officer and in revolutionary affairs ; Abraham, see forward; Lydia, born August 15, 1729, married, May 3, 1753, Elias Mason; Abigan. born December 7, 1731, married, April II, 1754, Joseph Jackson, Jr .; Lucy, born June 8, 1734, married Colonel William Bond; Abijah, born November 27, 1736, a colonel, died in Lincoln, May 25, 1818.


(V) Abraham Brown, son of Jonathan Brown (4), was born in Watertown, November 23, 1726, and died at a very advanced age. He was a farmer and was a settler at Grafton, whither he went be- fore 1764 when he was dismissed from the Water- town church to the Grafton church. In 1775 he re- moved to Alstead, New Hampshire, where he was among the early settlers. He married, April 25, 1753, Mary Livermore, born September 5, 1731, daughter of Oliver and Ruth ( Bowman) Livermore, of Watertown. Their children were: Abraham, born in Watertown, March 8, 1754, died July 14, 1837; Nathaniel, see forward; Mary, born October 22, 1757, married Silas Mack, of Marlow, New Hampshire; Ruth, born September 16, 1759, married Benjamin Baxter; Anna, born September 19, 1761, married Francis Brown; Sarah, born June 29. 1763, married Amos Beckwith; Elizabeth, born July 27, 1765, died September 17, 1767; Samuel, born June 30, 1767, married Abigail Pike, of Cornish, New Hampshire, and settled in Danville, Vermont ; Oliver, born September 21, 1769, resided in Surrey, New Hampshire; Elizabeth, born January 24, 1773. died January 26, 1786.


(VI) Deacon Nathaniel Brown, son of Abraham Brown (5), was born in Watertown, October 7, 1755. He settled in Alstead, New Hampshire, whither he went with his father in 1775. He was a farmer. He married Polly Gee, of Marlow. New Hampshire, and she was living, a widow, in Alstead in 1783. Children of Deacon Nathaniel and Polly Brown were: Martha, married Nathan Howard, of Charlestown, New Hampshire; Nathaniel, born Jan- uary 23, 1782, a farmer of Alstead, married, December 20, 1804, C. Huntley, of Marlow, who died April 23, 1844; married (second), June 19, 1844, Eleanor Gee, born September 11, 1814, had four children; Polly, born 1783, married Samuel Atherton, of Alstead, settled in Dalton, New Hampshire; Daniel Frank- lin, born February 8, 1785, see forward; Isaac, born April 22, 1788, settled in Lunenburg, Vermont, mar- ried, October 7, 1811, Nancy Howe, who died May 24, 1822; married (second), October 12, 1824, Lti- cretia Wood; Freedom, born May 30, 1793, married,


October 20, 1816, Betsey Denison, and settled in. Castleton, Vermont.


(VII) Daniel Franklin Brown, son of Deacon Nathaniel Brown (6), was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, February 8, 1785. He was a farmer, and settled in Alstead. He married, November, ISog, Betsey Barney, of Alstead, born October 15, 1784. Their children were: Lucy P., born August 31, 1812, married Gilford Williams, of Alstead, and they had two children-Emily and Abbie Williams; Calista, born November 22, 1815, married llarvey E. Taylor, of Alstead, and they had five children- Adelbert, Etta, Washington Irving, Addie, and Effie Melissa Taylor; Daniel Franklin, Jr., see forward. (VIII) Daniel Franklin Brown, Jr., son of Daniel Franklin Brown (7), was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, October 22, 1821. He worked on the paternal farm when a boy, attending each winter for a short term the public school. He learned the trade of shoemaker, and after following his trade as a journeyman for a time began to do contract work at his own shop in Alstead for the Lampson factory of Lempster, New Hampshire. In 1856 he used half of his shop as a carriage factory, and after a year or two discontinued the manufacture of boots and shoes. He carried on the manufacture of carriages with profit and success until 1892, when he retired from active business. He owned a large farm at Alstead, and also much woodland, and he cut and sold large quantities of lumber. He built and sold a number of houses in his native town. On his farm he maintained a fine selection of stock and raised some fine horses. He resided in his native town of Alstead, till death, June 4, 1906, though he sold his farm in 1904 and gave up his other busi- ness interests. He attended the Congregational church and was a Jacksonian Democrat in politics. He married Sarah Pease, of Nashua, New Hamp- shire, daughter of William and ( Hamblet) Pease. Her father was a farmer. Children of Daniel Franklin and Sarah Brown were: George Franklin, see forward; Ella Jane; Fred Grayson, married Minnie Pratt, of Alstead, and they had two children :- - and Ethel May.


(IX) George Franklin Brown, son of Daniel Franklin Brown (8), was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, June 18, 1848. He received his early education there, attending school until he was sev- enteen, and assisting his father in the carriage factory, where he learned the trade. At the age of eighteen he went to Winchendon to work for Charles. Harrington, manufacturer of toy carts, carriages, wheel barrows, etc., where he did the ornamental and fancy painting. After about a year he went to work for E. Murdock & Company under Charles Bruce, painting tubs and pails for six month. He was then employed by Orlando Mason making fruit boxes in his factory : then for nearly a year by I. Weston, setting up the machine sections of his churns, and then worked for Charles Loud making wooden faucets. He had at this time a serious illness last- ing six months; after he recovered he worked for his father-in-law, Ozra Hancock, for a year, making pail ears.


He started in business on his own acount in 1868, manufacturing a variety of wooden ware, buying and selling tubs and pails also. He sold out in 1873 and resumed his trade, carriage making, which he still follows. He owns the shop he now occupies and has a flourishing business making and repairing car- riages and wagons. His brother and his son Willie- are associated with him in the business. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics and a Unitarian in re- ligion, being a member of the Church of the Unity at Winchendon.


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He married, January 6, 1869, Flora Jane Han- cock, born May 27, 1850, daughter of Ozra and Sarah (Brooks) Hancock. The children of George Franklin and Flora Jane Brown were: I. Willie Hancock, born April 11, 1873, employed by his father in the carriage factory; married (first) Grace Ellen Moore and had one child, Hazel May ; mar- ried (second) Nellie Jane Harrington, born in Bos- ton, June 7, 1875, and they have one child-Evangel- ine Madella, born October 16, 1905. 2. Henry Cor- nelius, born March 24, 1877, in the restaurant busi- ness in Buffalo; married Nettie Stanard and have one child-Edith Margaret. 3. Maud Estelle, born April 7, 1879, married William Henry Babbitt, a hoopmaker with E. Murdock & Co., and they had two children-Mary Estelle, born March 17, 1902, died March 17, 1902; Leon Hermon, born Septem- ber II, 1903.


Ozra Hancock, father of Flora Jane (Hancock) Brown, born January 10, 1812, at Templeton, was the son of Rufus and Sally ( Bacon) Brown. Rufus Hancock was born in Winchendon, August 21, 1780, died in Templeton, April 1, 1821, aged forty years, son of Hezekiah and Martha Hancock, who were the parents of the following children: James, Jonas, Patty, Livina, Chloe, Patty, Alvira, Rufus, Hezekiah, John, Artemus, Hepzibah, Olive Richard- son. Hezekiah Hancock, born 1748, died March 24, 1828, aged eighty years; his wife Martha died December 15, 1820, aged sixty-six years. Rufus Hancock, son of Hezekiah and Martha Hancock, married, September 19, 1802, Sally Bacon, born August 28, 1783, died in Templeton, July 20, 1826, daughter of Samuel Bacon, born in Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, died October 19, 1838, aged eighty-seven years. The first wife of Samuel Bacon, Ruth, by whom the children were born, died October 24, 1833, aged seventy-nine years ; his second wife, Pa- tience, died October 23, 1838, aged seventy-five years, five days after the death of her husband. Rufus and Sally (Bacon) Hancock had children : Benjamin Franklin, born in Templeton, November 25, 1803: William Martin, born in Harrisburg, March 16, 1806; Artemus, born in Templeton, August 15, . 1809; Ozra, born in Templeton, January 13, 1812, died March 27. 1891. Ozra Hancock married (first), October 29, 1836, Nancy A. Grout, born in Lyon, New Hampshire, died in Winchendon, December 1, 1845, had one child, Charles W., born in Royalston, September 15, 1837, died September 19, 1838. He married (second), November 26, 1846, Sarah Ann Brooks, born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, April 12, 1824, died October 31, 1898, and they had two children: John N., born October 8, 1818, re- sides in the west; Flora Jane, born May 27, 1850, wife of George F. Brown, as mentioned above.


MOSES DANIELS RICHARDSON. John Richardson (I), the immigrant ancestor of Moses Daniels Richardson, late of North Leominster, Massachusetts, was of a distinct family from the three immigrant brothers who were so important among the settlers of Woburn. John and George Richardson, presumed to be brothers, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, among the earliest set- tlers. John's first grant of land there was one acre for a house lot in 1636 in the Beaver brook plowlands in what Waltham. George 110W Richardson is said by the author of the Richard- son Memorial to have settled in what is now Water- bury, Connecticut, about 1643, when he left Water- town. John also left Watertown about this time and in 1642 is found with the pioneers of Rev. Mr. Wheelwright, seeking religious freedom from the intolerant Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. The min-


ister took part of these settlers in 1643 to Wells, Maine, and among the settlers there is found John Richardson. The records of the Maine towns are meagre. There is proof enough, however, that John and Hannah were the parents of John of Medfield, of whom later.




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