Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 74

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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He married, May 24, 1871, Mary Luvanne A. Trowbridge, born July 28, 1848, daughter of Joseph A. and Mary E. A. (Clark) Trowbridge, of West- boro, Massachusetts. Their

children : Mary Luvanne, born April 14. 1873. Walter Trowbridge, born September 25, 1876. Edith Clark, born Febru- ary 5, 1870. The eldest daughter, Mary Luvanne, married, November 20. 1895, Eben Francis Thomp- son, an able and reputable lawyer. They have two children : Harold Rumford, born June 19. 1897 ; Mary Frothingham, born May 4, 1902. The son Walter Trowbridge, is associated with his father in business.

BEANE FAMILY. John Bcan (1), the im- migrant ancestor of George W. Beane, of North- bridge, Massachusetts, was born in Scotland. While on the passage over his wife died. He married (second) a daughter of one of the passengers who came on the same ship. He settled before 1660 in Exeter, New Hampshire. He took the oath of allegiance there November 30, 1677. His children, born at Exeter, were: John, born August 15, 1661, died May 18, 1666; Daniel, March 23, 1662-3; Sam- uel, March 23. 1665-66; John, October 13, 1668; Margaret. October 27. 1670; James. December 17, 1672, resided at Kingston, New Hampshire; Jeremy, April 20, 1675; Elizabeth, September 24, 1678.

(II) John Bean, Jr., son of John Bean (1), was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. April 30, 1675. He settled in that part of Exeter that be- came Brentwood, then Poplin, now Fremont. Among his children were: Joshua, born 1713, resided in Brentwood until 1780, then settled in Gilmanton ; David. signed petition there in 1743: Jeremiah, signed same petition 1743: Joseph, sec forward.

(III) Joseph Bean, presumed to be son of John Bean (2), resided in Brentwood. Among his chil- dren were: Joseph. born 1742, settled in Salisbury, New Hampshire: Curtis, see forward.

(1V) Curtis Bean, presumed to be son of Joseph

Bean (3). and undoubtedly descended, as were all the Beans of Poplin, New Hampshire, from John Bean (I), was born in Brentwood or Poplin, New Hampshire, 1731. He married there Apphia or Applia Merrill. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war in 1755-56. He served in the revo- lution in the Poplin company under Captain Nathan Sanborn, in the regiment of Colonel Thomas Trask of Durham, in 1776, Trask was an old officer of the French war. His regiment was raised to re-in- force the American army in New York. He was later in 1778 corporal in Captain Nathan Brown's company, Colonel Jacob Gates's regiment. About 1780 he removed to Brownfield, Maine, and settled there in what is now the Gibson farm near the Fryeburg line. He was vigorous, industrious, and endured many hardships common to the early set- tlers of that period. He died at Brownfield, at the home of his son Dudley. February 8, 1833, at the advanced age of one hundred and two years.

Children of Curtis and Applia Bean were: Jo- seph, born in Poplin, 1760, married Sarah Evans, daughter of David Evans, of Fryeburg. October 14, 1788; married (second) and had ten children ; Cap- tain Thomas, born January 3, 1767, at Poplin, see forward : Dudley, born November 19, 1772, at Pop- lin, married, December 10, 1801, Polly Gibson, born August 22, 1785, had thirteen children: James, born at Braintree. July 25. 1775, married Lois Walker, daughter of John Walker, of Fryeburg, and had four children : Nathaniel, born January 9, 1779, married Betsey Harmon ; married (second) Sally and had ten children; Nathan, married Phebe Dutch. removed to Conway, New York; Hannah, married Stephen Lane, settled in Buxton, Maine: Polly, married George Rounds, of Brownfield; Sally, mar- ried Moses Kilgore, settled in Bartlett, New York,

(V) Captain Thomas Bean, son of Curtis Bean (4), was born at Raymond, New Hampshire, Jan- uary 3. 1767. He married, July 25, 1774, Elizabeth Osgood, of Fryeburg, Maine. He was a captain in the local military company. He followed farming all his life at Porterfield and Brownfield, Maine. The children: Jane, born at Porterfield, July 24, 1792. married Rufus Goodnow; Susanna, born at Porterfield, July 26, 1793; Thomas, born at Porter- field, December 30, 1794; James Osgood, born April 8, 1796, at Porterfield, married, April II. 1795, Eliza- beth -; he died December 24, 1864; she died May 8, 1874, aged seventy-nine years; Samuel, born at Porterfield, February 23, 1798, married Sally Thomas, October 8, 1794, and had two children; Henry, born June 8, 1801, married Martha Marston, born September 8, 1818, and had Augustus, born June 8, 1836; Elizabeth, born at Brownfield, January 7, 1804; Almira A., born at Brownfield, July 23, 1807, mar- ried - Dresser ; Hazen Osgood, born at Brown- field, March 7, 1809. see forward; Julia M., born at Brownfield, February 17, ISII, married . Stew-

art, a brick maker ; Albion, born at Brownfield, May 9, 1813. died in some foreign country unknown; Rufus C., born at Brownfield, September 24, 1816. (VI) Hazen Osgood Bean, son of Captain Thomas Bean (5). was born in Brownfield, Maine, March 7, 1809. He was educated there in the public schools. He became a railroad contractor at the time the principal railroads of the country were building. He had contracts for construction in Vermont. Ohio. Virginia and Maine. He built one section of the Providence & Worcester Railroad and part of another. He established himself at Ayer Junction, Massachusetts, in the manufacture of hoes, plows and various agricultural implements, under the name of the Ayer Junction Agricultural Works. He sold this business after a few years, in 1856. to Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, and returned to his home

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in Northbridge, where he had lived for a number of years after his marriage. He bought more land and settled down to farming for the remainder of his active years. This farm is now owned and conducted by liis son George. In politics Mr. Bean was a staunch Democrat and was active in town affairs. He served on the prudential committee to hire school teachers for his district. He was as- sessor and for a number of years selectman.

He married, March, 1833, Mary Ann McBride, of Fryeville, town of Bolton, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Obadiah and Amity (Aldrich) McBride. She was descended from George Aldrich, of Mendon, Massachusetts, an account of whom appears else- where in this work, and also his son Jacob Aldrich (II). Seth Aldrich (III), son of Jacob Aldrich (2), was born July 6, 1679, died October 15, 1837; married September 3, 1700, Deborah Heywood, born November 9, 1682, daughter of Samuel and Mehit- able Heywood, of Mendon ; married (second) Mary His children: Seth, born September 19, 1701, married Sarah Comstock; Deborah, April 25, 1703, died November 26, 1703; Abel, January 16, 1704, married Elizabeth Aldrich; William, Novem- ber 5, 1706, taken by Indians; Sarah, February 12, 1707-08, married Isaac Richardson; Jacob, July 22, 1710, married Joanna Bartlett; Samuel, June 4, 1712, died young ; Noah, August 13, 1713, died November 22. 1713; Susannah, June 15, 1715, married John Willey ; Dinah, April 28, 1717, married Edward Aldrich : Jonathan, born January 2, 1718, see for- ward; Abigail, about 1720, married Simon Keith ; Deborah, February 26, 1722, married Thomas Jef- ferson ; Samuel, about 1725, married Huldah Hill; Elizabeth, about 1728, married Noah Curtis.

(IV) Jonathan Aldrich, son of Setli Aldrich (3), was born at Mendon. Massachusetts, January 2, 1718, married Mary Wilson. Their children: Pene- lope, born November 26, 1748; Catherine, August 24, 1750; Isabel, October 29, 1752, married Daniel Seagrave; Lot, October 30, 1754; David, July 21, 1757; Jonathan, September 21, 1759, see forward; Eliza, March 30, 1762; Molly, April 30, 1765; Bath- sheba, July 29, 1769, married, December 27, 1781, John Marsh, of Killingly, Connecticut.

(V) Jolın Aldrich, son of Jonathan Aldrich (4), was born in Mendon, September 21, 1759. He re- sided in Northbridge, where his children were born: John, Joshua, Amity, mentioned above, married Obadiah McBride ; Elizabeth.

(VI) Amity Aldrich, daughter of John Aldrich (5), was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, mar- ried Obadiah McBride. Their children: Mary Ann. born November 26, 1814, married Hazen Osgood Bean. as stated above; Benjamin Wing, November 28. 1815: Elizabethi Brown, January 23, 1818: Phebe. Maria, February 5, 1820; Sarah Edda, October 14, 1822; John Aldrich, March 10. 1826; Lucy Eliza- beth, July 12, 1828: David Aldrich, October 1, 1831 ; Louisa Kimball, June 23, 1834.

Children of Hazen Osgood and Mary Ann (Mc- Bride) Bean were: George Washington, born 1834, died aged sixteen years; Hazen, 1836, died aged two years; Charles, May, 1838, killed at the Dean & Whiting Elevator Works, Worcester; married Harriet Augusta Congdon. left a daughter, Flora Adelaide Bean; Frances, October 14, 1842, see for- ward; Sarah Elizabeth, November 3, 1844, married John A. Roby, died at Hopeville, Massachusetts, where he had resided some years; Hazen Obadiah, March, 1847, died of disease caused by over-exer- tion as a volunteer fireman in the great Boston fire, aged twenty-five years ; Lucius W., April. 1819. died aged two years; Adelaide Maria, October 25, 1852; George W., see forward; Wilford A., see forward.

(VII) Frances Jane Beane (as the name is spelled by the present generation), daughter of Hazen Osgood Bean (6), was born in Northbridge ;! October 14, 1842. She was educated in the public schools, and in the Framingham Normal school, where she graduated in 1862. She taught in the public schools up to the time of her marriage, teach- ing in the Adams Square and South Worcester schools in the city of Worcester, in the schools of Grafton, and Northbridge, Massachusetts. She mar- ried Jerome Martin Carr, of Northbridge. In early. life lie was employed in manufacturing straw goods. Later he was a hotel and livery stable proprietor at Rockdale, Farnumsville and Upton. He was in Wichita, Kansas, from 1875 to 1881, proprietor of a tobacco store. Ile died July 31, 1888. His widow resides at No. 9 Berkshire street, Worcester. Their children: George Hazen Carr, born November 19, 1869, graduate of the Upton high school, married Eva Powell, of California; resides in Chicago, traveling salesman for the Worthington Meter Com- pany ; Jerome Francis Carr, born in Kansas, Decem- ber 3, 1879, graduate of the Upton high school and Becker's Business College, in charge of Nicholls Coal Company yard office, Worcester; resides at 9 Berkshire street.

(VII) George W. Beane, son of Hazen Osgood Bean (6), was born at Northbridge, Massachusetts; November 3. 1855. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town. He worked with his father on the farm and succeeded to it. He has an excellent dairy in connection with a milk route in Whitinsville. The river flows through this interesting old homestead, part of which has been in the hands of his ancestors for many generations. Mr. Beane is a member of the Whitinsville Lodge, Odd Fellows, of which he has been the noble grand. In politics lie is a Democrat. He married. 1896, Cora Lovisa Scott, born 1858, daughter of George N. and Lydia J. (Lawrence) Scott, granddaughter of Manly Scott, and descendant of the immigrant, Richard Scott, one of the first settlers of Rhode Island. Her great-grandfather, Joseph Lawrence, was a revolutionary soldier. They have no children.

(VII) Wilford Arthur Beane, son of Hazen Os- good Bean (6), was born March, 1858. He was edu- cated in the Northbridge public schools and gradu- ated from the Whitinsville high school, 1874. He had resided always on the old homestead, and has acted as conveyancer and performed the various duties of a country justice of the peace. In 1905 he was appointed clerk of the district court of southern Worcester, a position he now holds. He is unmarried.

EDWIN HOYLE. Edmund Hoyle, father of Edwin Hoyle, the Millbury manufacturer, was a native and resident of Shaw, England. He married Margaret Greathead and their children were: Eliza- beth, married Joseph Brierly and had: James Ed- win, Anna and Moses Brierley; Anna. Mary Ann, George, Jane, married James Scott; Margaret, Ed- win, see forward.

Edwin Hoyle, son of Edmund Hoyle, was born in Shaw, England, May 17, 1844. He came to America in 1852, when a lad of eight, and went to live with relatives at Millbury, Massachusetts. He began life with a common school education, working when very young in the cotton mills. He became a manufacturer himself in a few years and was a pioneer in the art of waste scouring in the United States. He huilt his mill in Millbury in 1873 and for many years it has been devoted to carding and spinning wool. At present, the entire product goes to the Worcester Woolen Company. The looms

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for finishing and the facilities for dyeing have been leased to the Uxbridge Worsted Company. The business of Mr. Hoyle has been conducted in late years by the firm of E. Hoyle. The mill is located on Mill street, near West Main, and Mr. Hoyle's residence is opposite. In politics Mr. Hoyle is a Republican, and is actively interested in public af- fairs and especially in the welfare of the town of Millbury. He is well known and highly esteemed not only by the business men of his line but by all his townsmen.

He married, at Millbury, Emma M. Buckley, of that town, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Quarm- by) Buckley. Children of Edwin and Emma M. Hoyle are: Charles E., born 1866; Percival, 1874; Edith B., 1876, married Charles F. Day and they have three children-Rosamond, Percy, Edith M. Day; Frank, 1879.

ASAHEL FERDINAND ALDRICH. George Aldrich (1), the immigrant ancestor of Asahel Ferdinand Aldrich, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was born in Derbyshire, England. He sailed from Eng- land, November 6, 1631, and settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman De- cember 7, 1636, and in the same year he and liis wife Katherine joined the Dorchester church. His wife deposed June 18, 1670, that she was about sixty years old. Ile settled in Mendon in 1663, having lived some years in the meantime in Brain- trec. He sold his land there to Richard Thayer, of Braintree, June 9, 1663. Ile was a tailor by trade. His will was dated at Mendon, November 2, 1682, and proved April 26, 1683. He bequeathed to wife. to children Joseph. John. Jacob. Mary, Sarah Bartlett, Mercy Randall and Martha Dunbar. He died March 1, 1682-83.

He married, September 3, 1629, Catharine Seald, Their children: Abel, Joseph, born June 4, 1635, married Patience Osborne; Mary, baptized 1637 ; Miriam, buried January 27, 1640; Experience, born February 2, 1642, at Braintree; John, born April 2. 1644; Sarah, born January 6, 1646. married Bartlett ; Peter, born April 14, 1648; Mercy. born June 17, 1650, married Randall ; Miriam, born March 16. 1652; Jacob, born February 28, 1653. of whom later; Martha, born July 10, 1656.

(II) Jacob Aldrich, son of George Aldrich (1), was born February 28. 1652, and died October 22. 1605. He settled at Mendon and married, Novem- ber 3. 1675. Huldah Thayer. Their twelve children, most of whom were born at Mendon, were: Jacob, Abel. Seth, of whom later; Huldah, Rachel, Sarah, David. Peter. John. Moses, Mercy. Rachel.

(III) Seth Aldrich, son of Jacob Aldrich (2), was born about 1680 and died at Mendon, Massa- chusetts, 1737. He settled in Uxbridge. He married (first) Deborah Hayward and (second) Mary The estate was settled in 1737 by an agree- ment signed by twelve of his children, viz: Abel, William, Seth. Tr .. Jacob, of whom later : Sarah, married Isaac Richardson ; Susanna, married John Wiley ; Edward. Jonathan. Abigail. Deborah, Samuel, Elizabeth. The last named five were minors in 1737. (IV) Jacob Aldrich, son of Seth Aldrich (3). was born about 1710 and died 1776-77. His will was made October II, 1775, and allowed April o. 1777 The witnesses were two Ounkers, well known in Uxbridge history. Samuel Fowler and David Farnum. He left the homestead to his sons Nehc- miah and Asahel. He always lived in Uxbridge, where all the children were born. He married Jo- annah Bartlett. Twelve children were living at the time of his death. viz: William. Daniel, settled in Douglas; Seth, married Mary Aldrich; Aaron,

Jacob, Jr., Nehemiah. Asahel, of whom later; Mary Bennett, Abigail, married Jenne ; Joanna, married Twitchell ; Ruth, married Martin; Rachel, married

(V) Asahel Aldrich, son of Jacob Aldrich (4), was born about 1735. He and Nehemiah Aldrich, his brother, had the homestead in Uxbridge, on the death of their father in 1776. He married Susan- nah Asahel's will was dated November 2, 1778, and filed December 7, 1778, showing that he died shortly after his father. The witnesses were his brothers Seth and Asa Aldrich. Children of Asahel and Susannah Aldrich were: Jesse, of whom later; Asahel, Jr., Uranah. All were minors when their father died.

(VI) Jesse Aldrich, son of Asahel Aldrich (5), was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, about 1760 and died in 1846. He was a soldier in the revo- lution, corporal in the company of Lieutenant John Trask and regiment of Colonel David Leonard, in 1777, marching to Ticonderoga. His real estate at Uxbridge was bounded by lands of Enoch Alden, Thomas B. Shove, Adolphus Jepherson and Benja- min Buffum. He married (second). 1841, Watee M. - , who survived him. His children: Lydia, married Obediah Dennis, of Pomfret; Martin. set- tled in Webster; Duty, lived in Illinois; Ruth, mar- ried Royal Cummings, of Douglas, had children : Cliloris C., Charles L., and Ruth E. Cummings ; Asahel, of whom later.

(VII) Asahel Aldrich. son of Jesse Aldrich (6), was born about 1796 and died 1844. He married Scheherazade Cummings, of Douglas, Massachu- setts. She survived him and was administratrix of his estate. She assigned her dower in 1863, when the children were all of age. The children: Solo- mon C., born May 25, 1835; Alzada Ellen, born January 31, 1837; John W., born December 10. 1838, married Flora S. Cox, March 17. 1872; now resides in Normal, Illinois, president of the national bank there : has children-Grace D., born April 28, 1873, attended Chicago University; Flora Blanch, born November 20, 1877, graduate of the State Univer- sity of Illinois; Jolin C., born January 10, 1882; Asahel F., of whom later; Edmund H.

(VIII) Asahel Ferdinand Aldrich, son of Asahel Aldrich (7), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, December 7, 1832. He was educated in the public schools and brought up on the farm. He took up the profession of civil engineering and surveying and followed it in addition to the care of his farm during his active years. In his younger days he taught school in Douglass and Uxbridge. He has been especially active in town affairs. He has . served longer on the school committee than any other man in the history of the town and has an unfailing interest in school matters. Much of his time and thought have been devoted to the public schools of his native town. He has also been as- sessor and selectman of the town. Few men have as strong influence in public affairs among their townsmen as Mr. Aldrich and none have shown a greater regard and desire to serve the public in- terests. In politics he is a Republican. Several years ago a half-witted employee attempted to poison Mr. Aldrich and while his life was saved. his health was not fully restored afterward. He finally gave up farming and business and is at present living with his sister A. Ellen, South Main street, Uxbridge. Mr. Aldrich never married.

ARTHUR HENRY PARKER. Thomas Parker (1), who came from England in the "Susan and Ellen" in 1635. was the emigrant ancestor of Arthur Henry Parker, president and treasurer of the Parker

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Wire Goods Company of Worcester. The ship sailed March II, 1635. He gave his age as thirty. and thus his birth must have occurred in 1605.

He settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1638. He was admitted a freeman May 17, 1637. Ile removed to Lynn village, after- wards called Reading, was appointed selectman in 1661 and served the town in that capacity for six years, and was also appointed a commissioner for trying and defending small causes. He was active in the building of the church in the new settlement and was elected deacon thereof. He died August 12. 1683; his will is dated August 3, and was proved December 18, 1683. He was buried in the old grave- yard on the east side of the Reading Common, and in time the grave was neglected and the location lost. In 1834 the gravestones of Thomas Parker and others were discovered in building a new town hall, and since then have been cared for in the cemetery, in a lot set apart for the purpose.

Children of Thomas and Amy Parker were: I. Thomas, born in Lynn, 1636. married Deborah , had fourteen children. died July 17, 1699. 2. Hananiah, born 1638, married, September 30, 1663, Elizabeth Browne, of Reading. 3. John, born in Reading, 1640, married, November 13. 1667, Hannah Kendall, and had thirteen children; he was a ser- geant. 4. Joseph, born 1642, died 1644. 5. Joseph, born 1645, died 1646. 6. Mary, born December 12, 1647, married Samuel Dodge, of Beverly, son of Richard Dodge, had eleven children, and died 1705. 7. Martha. born March 14. 1649. 8. Nathaniel, born May 16, 1651, married, September 24, 1677, Bethia Polly, daughter of John Polly. 9. Sarah, born Sep- tember 30, 1653, died October 26, 1656. 10. Jona- than, born May 18, 1656, served in the Indian wars, died June 10, 1680. 11. Sarah, born May 23. 1658. Three other children died in early life. (Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts gives names of several other children not given in the Parker Genealogy). (II) Nathaniel Parker, son of Thomas Parker (1), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, May 16, 1651. He married, September 24, 1677, Bethia Polly, daughter of John Polly, of Roxbury, whose wife Bethia was the daughter of Deacon William Cow- drey. She was baptized in 1659, and died August 23. 1748, at the age of ninety years. Mr. Parker settled in the West Parish of Lynn, now the centre of the town of Reading, Massachusetts, and built the first house in the present town of Reading. He was admitted a freeman in 1691. He served as ensign, also as selectman in 1718-24-25-32, and was otherwise variously honored by his fellow citizens. He donated land for a burial ground and he was the first person buried in the graveyard at West Parish, now Reading.

Children of Nathaniel and Bethia ( Polly) Parker were : I. Bethia, born July 23, 1678, died young. 2. Nathaniel, born December 4, 1679. 3. Stephen, born June 14. 1684. died young. 4. Bethia. born September 6, 1685. married, 1707, Ebenezer Emer- son. 5. Susanna, born December 29, 1687, married, 1707. Joseph Underwood. 6. Ebenezer, born De- cemher 28. 1689; married 1714. Mercy Damon. 7. Stephen, horn April 21. 1602, married, 1713. Eliza- beth Batchelder. 8. Caleb, born February 22, 1694, died May 26. 1742. 9. Timothy, born February 24, 1696, married. September 18. 1718, Mary Scar- borough. 10. Obadiah, born January 13, 1698. 11. Abigail. born September 25. 1699. 12. Amy. born 1701. died young. 13. Amy, born November 8, 1702. 14. Phineas. horn September 27, 1704.

(III) Timothy Parker, Sr .. son of Nathaniel Parker (2), was born in Reading. Massachusetts, February 24. 1606. He lived in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1720 he purchased three acres

of land with house and barn at the corner of Boyls- ton and Centre streets, and in 1727 he sold the same to Samuel Gridley. On Parker's Hill, adjoin- ing this lot, a company of Captain Trowbridge's Connecticut men camped in 1775 during the siege of Boston. The children of Timothy and Mary Parker, born in Roxbury, now Jamaica Plain, were : Solomon. Bethia, married (first) Caleb Steadman, and (second) John Williams. Deborah, married Thomas Cheney. Mary, married Samuel Gore. Jonathan, born 1728. Nathaniel, born 1732 .- Timothy, born 1734. Katherine, born May, 1735, married, July 3, 1771, Joseph Curtis. Jonathan, the fifth child, distinguished himself during the revolution by smuggling out of Boston during the siege of that city two cannon. He buried them under a load of manure, and they were used by the Americans at the battle of Bunker Hill. Two others were smuggled by a companion through the British lines at the same time. Two of these four cannon are preserved on Bunker Hill, according to the history of Holden, Massachusetts. Jonathan Parker was also one of the tea party which threw overboard forty-two chests of tea in Boston harbor.

(IV) Captain Timothy Parker, Jr., son of Timothy Parker, Sr. (3), was born in 1734. He came to Holden, Massachusetts, in 1792, when about fifty-eight years old. In early manhood he raised a company and went out in the French and Indian war, first as lieutenant and later as captain, and was at Kingston. Canada, when it fell into the hands of the American forces. He fought through the revolution at the head of his company, from Sturbridge, and was an active patriot before the outbreak of hostilities. He was successful in busi- ness and became well-to-do. He lived first at Jamaica Plain, then at Sturbridge, and in 1792 re- moved to Holden, where he resided until his death, November 28, 1809. He was elected September 28, 1774, by the town of Sturbridge as delegate to the Provincial congress to be held at Concord, Massa- chusetts. A biographer writes of him that he had an exemplary moral and Christian character. He was of unusual size, possessing prominent and striking features. He married (first) Hannah Cur- tis, and (second). March 12. 1767, Margaret White, of Brookline, and they had eleven children.

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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 74

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