Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 83

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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(IV) John Alden, son of Henry Alden (3), born in Dedham, probably about 1705. He settled in that part of Dedham that became Needham, where many of his descendants have lived. He was a farmer. He died in 1782, and his son Silas was executor of his will, dated June 26, 1782. He mar- ried, November 26, 1728, Thankful Parker. Their children, all born in Needham, were: I. Joanna, born March 9, 1730, baptized at Needham, Febru- ary 24, 1731. died young. 2. John, Jr., born Oc- tober 9, 1731 ; married September 26, 1754, Mary Adams. 3. Alice (named for Alice Bradford), born July 12, 1733, baptized July 15. 4. Henry, born November 27. 1734, baptized December I. 5. Silas, mentioned below. 6. Moses, born November 13, baptized November 19, 1738; died March 9, 1858. 7. Bethia. baptized March 21. 1741. 9. Thomas, baptized January 13, 1745. 10. Thankful. 11. Mary, baptized November 6, 1748.

(V) Deacon Silas Alden, son of John Alden (4), born at Needham, October, 1736, baptized Oc- tober 31. 1736, was a soldier in the revolution. en- sign in Capt. Robert Smith's company, Col. William Heath's regiment, on the Lexington Alarm. April 19. 1775. He was also at the fortification of Dor- chester Heights on 1776. He ws second lieutenant in Capt. Robert Smith's company (fourth). Col. William McIntosh's regiment (first Suffolk) in 1776. Also in Capt. Thomas Mayer's company, Col. Eleazer Weld's regiment in 1776: also in Capt. Ebenezer Battle's company, Col. McIntosh's regiment. in 1778. He resided in Needham, where he had a farm, the homestead of his father. He married Margaret Capron. He died 1826, aged ninety years. Chil- dren of Deacon John ad Margaret Alden: I. Moses (he and the six following were all baptized together November 2, 1775), born about 1760: Elizabeth ; Paul: Silas; Amasa : Lydia : Rebecca ; Simeon, men- tioned below : Samuel, baptized October 29, 1780; George. baptized November 10. 1782.

(VI) Simeon Alden, son of Silas Alden (5). born about Januarv I. 1779, baptized at Needham, January 3. 1779. He settled in Needham and Fram- ingham. He married Elizabeth Cook, and among their children was Samuel, mentioned below.

(VII) Samnel Alden, son of Simeon Alden (6), born in Needham, Massachusetts, began life as a farmer in and about Needham and followed this

occupation through life. While he did not pos- sess much property he stood well in the esteem of his neighbors, an honest and hard-working citi- zen. He died January 28, 1865. He married Lovina, born at Framingham July 18, 1793, daughter of David and Martha (Hemenway) Amsden. She died October 16, 1855. They had two children, who were baptized July 21, 1822, together: 1. Harriet, born October 27, 1815: died September 16, 1833. 2. EI- liot, born April 28, 1817.

(VIII) Elliot Alden, only son of Samuel Alden (7), was born at Needham, Massachusetts, April 29. 1817. He received his early education there, and at an early age had to begin to work for his living. He removed to Milford when a young man. He had learned the shoemaker's trade, and later became a manufacturer in partnership with Richard Har- rington. under the firm name of Alden & Harring- ton. The business was located in the factory on Central street, now occupied by the firm of F. W. Mann & Company, manufacturers of green bone cut- ters. Here Alden & Harrington continued in busi- ness for many years. Mr. Harrington retired in 1897. After running the business alone for a year, Mr. Alden also retired in 1889. He spent the re- mainder of his life in Milford. He died there Decem- ber 4, 1904, aged eighty-seven years. Most of his Alden ancestors lived to extreme ages. Mr. Alden was gifted with unusual business ability. He was honest and straightforward in his dealings, both with his customers and his employees. That he was pros- perous in business was due largely to his foresight and economy, his constant attention to details in his factory and to the market in which he bought and sold. He was a liberal employer, withal, and esteemed by his own employees as a friend. He was a Republican in politics and a Universalist in religion. He was at the time of his death the oldest member of Tisquantum Lodge, No. 46, I. O. O. F., in which he was initiated September 30, 1844, the night the lodge itself was instituted. He was a lead- ing member of Quinshepang Encampment. No. 20, same order. He married, at Mendon, Massachu- setts. October 4, 1840 Susan Eliza Perry, born May 5. 1820, daughter of Josiah and Anna (Corbett) Perry, of Milford. The only child of Elliot and Susan (Perry) Alden, Harriet Eliza Perry, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, September 2, 1841. She married January 5, 1864. Walter Raleigh Bar- ber. He was born in Mendon, October 20, 1838, and died at Milford. July 14, 1873. Mrs. Barber survives him. They have had no children.

GARFIELD FAMILY. The family of which Charles H., Joseph Bradley. Burtie J., Myron Smith and William Sylvester Garfield are representatives, can be traced in Massachusetts for at least several generations. '

Joseph Bradley Garfield was born in Brandon, Vermont, and there received his education. He then learned the carpenter's trade and for a long time was employed in one of the chair shops of East Templeton. whither he had removed. His first wife was Elizabeth Smith, of Rutland, Massachu- setts. His second wife was Mary J. Stratton.

Henry James Garfield, son of Joseph Bradley and Elizabeth (Smith) Garfield. was born in 1839, in the southern part of New Hampshire, and was educated in the schools of East Templeton, Massa- chusetts. He then moved to New York city. where he worked at his trade of chair manufacturing, and where he remained until the breaking out of the civil war. when he took up his abode in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was there employed in the United States armory until the close of the war.

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He then moved to Westboro and later to Holden, in which place he passed the remainder of his life. He was a carpenter by trade and held the offices of assessor and overseer of the poor. In politics he was a Republican and in religion an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Garfield married Martha Luvanne, of Massa- chusetts, and their children were: Mary, Charles H., Joseph Bradley, see forward; Burtie J., Myron Smith and William Sylvester (twins), see forward. The death of Mr. Garfield occurred March 18, 1881, in Holden.

Joseph Bradley Garfield, son of Henry James and Martha Luvanne (Hagar) Garfield, was born December 8, 1871, in Westboro, and when two years old removed to Holden with his parents. He re- ceived his education in the schools of Holden and East Templeton. In 1886 he moved to Boylston, where he has since been engaged in farming. He holds the office of road commissioner, belongs to the Grange and is identified with the Republican party. He attends the Congregational church. Mr. Garfield married, April 9, 1893, Gertrude L. Shaw, born October 25, 1875, in Boylston, daughter of Elmer and Mary (Stockwell) Shaw, and they have been the parents of three sons: Oscar B., born De- cember 22, 1895, died July 31, 1896; Elmer H., born July 1, 1899; and Ralph I., born February 25, 1904. Myron Smith and William Sylvester Garfield, twin sons of Henry James and Martha Luvanne (Hagar) Garfield, were born June 22, 1878, in Hol- den, and were educated in the schools of Boylston. In early life they turned their attention to agri- culture and are now the owners of the farm which they cultivate in partnership. Myron S. Garfield has filled the office of master of Boylston Grange, No. III. Both brothers are Republicans and attend the Congregational Church. Myron Smith Garfield married, May 16, 1903, Jesse Edna Earle, born Oc- tober 15. 1874, daughter of Jessie Wheeler and Cath- arine Earle (Kemmeris) Babcock, of Bolton stock. Mr. Babcock has been variously engaged as book- keeper, undertaker and farmer, and was a promi- nent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Marlboro, Massachusetts.

THE BRECK FAMILY. Edward Breck (1), who came to New England in 1635, was the direct ancestor of Katherine Israel Breck (mother of May Breck Montgomery Smith). He was born in Lan- cashire, England, within fifty miles of Liverpool, in 1595, and married probably in 1617. He emigrated with the Puritans to Massachusetts, accompanied by his wife, son Robert and one daughter. They arrived at Boston, probably on the ship "James" from Bristol, England, Captain Taylor, master, Au- gust 7, 1636. Rev. Richard Mather was in the same company of emigrants. They settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Breck joined the church there in 1636. He prospered apparently and built one of the first grist mills in the colony. He owned land at Lancaster, Massachusetts. He lived in what is now Adams street, near where Hon. John Howe has since lived. He was a town officer in 1642-45- 46. His wife died about 1645. He married in 1647, Isabel Rigby, widow of John Rigby. She was born in England about 1610 and married Mr. Rigby there. Edward Breck died November 2, 1662. His widow married again November 14, 1663. All the descend- ants of Edward Breck in the male line are from the second wife, Isabel. The children of Edward Breck were: I. A daughter, born in England probably in 1618, died in England probably in 1628. Robert, born in England about 1620, came to Dorchester with his parents, died there about 1660. A daughter,

born in England about 1622, came to Dorchester with her parents, where she married - Blake, about 1640, and died about 1645, leaving children, Elinor, born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, probably 1636, married, September 12, 1656, Benjamin Crane, of Medfield, Massachusetts, removed to Wethers- field, Connecticut, soon after married, had · eight children. Mary, born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, baptized August 6, 1648, married Samuel Paul, of Dorchester, January 9, 1667; he was constable there in 1072, town clerk in 1689 and died November 3, 1690; she married (second) John Tolman, June 15, 1692, and died August 25, 1720; John Tolman died. January 1, 1725, married in his eighty-third year; she had seven children by her first husband. John, born 1651, died February, 1791. Elizabeth, born 1652. Susanna, born 1654, married John Harris, of Dorchester, March 20, 1675.

(II) Captain Jolin Breck, son of Edward Breck (1), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1651. He married Susanna -, who was born 1648. He was a tanner and lived in that part of Dorchester known as Squantum. He was active in many lines of busi- ness. He was captain of the town company in the militia. He was selectman of the town and well known throughout the colonies as Captain Breck. He died February 17, 1691, at the age of forty. His wife died February 8, 1711. Their children were: Jemima, born April 17, 1677, married Benjamin Blackman, of Dorchester. Edward, born April 7, 1674, lived at Dorchester, was an ensign in the militia, died September Elizabeth, born September 20, 1676, married Nathaniel Butts, Sep- tember 16, 1698. Susanna, born November 9, 1678, baptized November 17, 1678, the first day of meeting in the new meeting house built in that year, mar- ried John Tolman, February, 1696-7 (See sketch of E. F. Tolman elsewhere in this work.) John, born December 22, 1680, resided in Boston, died Feb- ruary 16, 1713. Robert, born December 7, 1682, clergyman at Marlborough, Massachusetts, died Jan- uary 6, 1731. Nathaniel, born December 1, 1684, accidentally drowned October 20, 1736. Hannah, born December 22, 1686, died December 23, 1686. Hannah, born February 17, 1688, married Rev. Eben- czer Devotion, October 4, 1710; he was born at Brookline about 1685, graduated at Harvard Col- lege, 1701, ordained minister at Suffield, Connecti- cut, June 28, 1710; (son Rev. Ebenezer Devotion who graduated at Yale College in 1732 and was or- dained at Scotland, Connecticut, October 22, 1733. He married Martha Lathrop, and had a son and five daughters, among theni Martha, who married Governor Samuel Huntington, Hannalı, who married Rev. Mr. Huntington, Lucy, whose youngest daugh- ter, Sara Jane Clark, is known to the literary world and the public as Grace Greenwood, the author.) Samuel, born September 14, 1690, died about 1714.

(III) John Breck, son of Captain John Breck (2), was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, De- cember 22, 1680. He married Ann Patteshall, daugh- ter of Richard and Martha Patteshall, October 21, 1703. He resided in Boston near the old North Church. He died February 16, 1713. He was a cooper by trade, a merchant and in various lines of trade. His widow married (second) William Thomas, October 21, 1717. She was his second wife. They had two children: William Thomas, born August 30, 1718, and Ann Thomas, born Oc- tober 2, 1721. The children of John Breck were: John, born August 31, 1705, died 1761; Robert, born July 17, 1707, died March, 1765; Samuel, born at Dorchester, baptized March 6, 1709; Margaret, Ed- ward, born May 9, 1711, no descendants found.

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(IV) John Breck, son of Jolin Breck (3), was born at Boston, Massachusetts, August 31, 1705. He married Mary Thomas, January 18, 1727. She was the daughter of William Thomas, his step-father by his first wife. He was a merchant in Boston and had an extensive business, especially in connection with the Newfoundland fisheries. He had a ware- house at Clark's wharf at the north end from 1734 to 1747, when his privileges were further extended. He was a partner with his brother Robert in 1758. His mansion was on Ship street. He died in 1761, leaving an estate valued at over two thousand, seven hundred and sixty-seven pounds. His widow died in 1765, aged fifty-six. Their children were: Ann, born at Boston, October 23, 1728; Margaret, born in Boston, August 18, 1730; John, born at Boston, October 2, 1733, died at the age of twenty-two; Na- thaniel, born at Boston, January 29, 1735; Elizabeth, born May I, 1737; William, born at Boston, May 11, 1745; Samuel, born at Boston, April 11, 1717, died May 7, 1809; a daughter, born August 18, 1748, died young.

(V) Samuel Breck, son of John Breck (4), was born in Boston, April II, 1747. He married, No- vember 1, 1770, Hannah Andrews, who was born November 11, 1747. She was the daughter of Ben- jamin Andrews, of Boston. Mr. Breck built a man- sion in 1780 at the corner of Winter and Tremont streets in Boston, which was standing later than 1.855.

In the course of his business as a merchant he was agent to the army and flect of King Louis XVI of France for seven years, 1783 to 1790. He repre- s'ented Boston in the general court when the city had only seven representatives. He assisted mate- rially with his money and influence in gaining inde- pendence for the colonies. He was a gentleman of the old school and loved to enteretain royally in his magnificent home. His generous manner of living made him a victim of what he believed to be unjust discrimination on the part of the assessors of taxes and to excessive taxes. Finally he left Boston in disgust. In 1792, when he moved to Philadelphia, the city of Boston had a population of 18,030, with no street lamps, no sidewalks, no night-watch and of course none of the modern frills of municipal improvements, such as water, high schools, sewers, and yet he was mulcted for twelve hundred dollars a year "because, as he thought, he made a show of great wealth by his generous hospitality to strangers." He was one of the most opulent mer- chiants of Boston when he left there and settled in Philadelphia, which was then the capital of the United States and the centre of fashion, intelligence and commerce. lle entered the social life of Phila- delphia with zest and was received with cordial svelcome. He was made a director of the United States Bank. He died in Philadelphia, May 7, 1809. His wife died 1831. Their children were : Samuel, born July 17, 1771, died August 31, 1862. Hannalı, born December 7, 1772, married, 1809, Hon. James Lloyd, who was born in Boston, 1760, was senator of Massachusetts 1808 and 1822, resided in Philadelphia in the latter part of his life, was an able speaker, member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, was LL. D., died New York city, April 5, 1831; she died at Bristol, Pennsylvania, at the home of her brother, George Breck, July 4. 1846, had no children. John, born in Boston, baptized December 18, 1774, died young. Lucy, baptized March 9, 1777, died of yellow fever at the age of twenty-one years. Nancy, baptized August 2, 1778, died young. Nancy, baptized October 17, 1779. Charles, baptized September 21, 1782, literary man,

wrote plays, never married. George, born November, 1785, died July 18, 1869.

(VI) George Breck, son of Samuel Breck (5), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, November, 1785. He married, 1807, Catherine D. Israel, who was born in the Island of Jamaica. His residence in Philadelphia was within the present city limits. He was a man of wealth and fine literary tastes, himself a writer of plays. He resided later at Bustleton and Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. He died July 18, 1869, at the age of eighty-four. His chil- dren were: Mary, born November 10, 1808, married Lawrence Lardner, resided in Pennsylvania; Samuel, born November 10, 1810; Anna L., born February 26, 1812, married William H. Aspinwall, of New York city; William, born May 29, 1813, died April 26, 1870; Elizabeth, born at Bustleton, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1815, educated at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Burlington, New Jersey, married Samuel Payne Reed, who was born 1815, physician and cotton planter at Beaufort, South Carolina; Charles, born August 19, 1816, clergyman, D. D., died March 30, 1876; George, born November 23, 1819; Catherine, born September 8, 1821; Henry, born July 5, 1823, died young ; Jane Moore, born January 6, 1825, mar- ried Jolin Lloyd Aspinwall, of the firm of H. & A. Aspinwall; Joseph, born July 30, 1826, died young ; John Malcolm, born April 9, 1828, resided at Port- land, Oregon; Lucy, born at Bustleton, Pennsyl- vania.

(VII) George Breck, son of George Breck (6), was born November 23, 1819, at Bustleton, Penn- sylvania. He married, June 28, 1844, Emily Mc- Ewen Hale, of Philadelphia. She was born May 3, 1821. He died at his home in Bristol, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1856. She died in New York city, February 6, 1872. Their children were: Katherine Israel, born at Herrick, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1845, mar- ried, at Bristol, June 4, 1868, Henry Montgomery, who was born 1843; he died at Bristol, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1881 ; Mary Hale, born at Herrick, Pennsyl- vania, May 26, 1848, married George Lardner Breck ; George William, born October 12, 1851, at Herrick, Pennsylvania, died March 28, 1883, at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

(VIII) Katherine Israel Breck, daughter of George Breck (7), was born at Herrick, Pennsyl- vania, March 19, 1845. She married, at Bristol, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1868, Henry Montgomery. He was born in 1843 and died at Bristol, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1881. (See Montgomery Family elsewhere in this work.)

ARCHER FAMILY. For more than five hun- dred years the family of Archer has been of some note in England. Like the origin of most patronymics of the earlier period of Anglo-Norman history that of Archer appears to be involved in some obscurity, and it is doubtful whether the armorial bearings of the family were derived from the name and that again from the occupation or profession, or were assumed either in fanciful reference to the name or in allusion to the tenure by which John Archer, champion to Thomas, Earl of Warwick, held his estates of that noble, namely: annual payment of twelve broad arrows. The Archer family of Um- berslade has been the principal family of this name in England. The line of descent down to the time that the American ancestor of Archer family left England, is given below.

Fulbert Archer came to England with William the Conqueror. His name is on the Roll of Battle Abbey.

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Robertus Archer, son of Fulbert, was of Tam- worth, England, Warwick county; married Selida, daughter and heir of Roger de Hulehall; had chil- dren, Richard, John and William.

William Archer, son of Robert, married Margeria, daughter and heir of John Saway de Oxton Saway, Leicestershire; their children were: Thomas, John, William, Henry.

John Archer, son of William, married Margery, daughter of William Barneville, and they had Will- iam, Ela and John.

John Archer, son of John, was of Tamworth; married Margery, daughter of William Tracy de Tuddington, and they had : Thomas, John.

John Archer, son of John, married Isabell, daugh- ter of Radi de Erasat, and they had William and Thomas.

Thomas Archer, son of John, was of Umberg of Tanworth or Tamworth; married Margaretta, daughter and heir of Walter Clebury, of Clebury. He died in the forty-sixth year of Edward III.

Thomas, son of Thomas, married Agnes, daugh- ter of John Hanbury, of Hanbury, Staffordshire, and they had: Henry, Richard. He died in the fourth years of Henry VI, aged eighty-four years.

Richard Archer, son of Thomas, married Alice, daughter of William Hugford, widow of Thomas Lucy. He died in the eleventh year of Edward IV, eighty-five.

John Archer, son of Richard, married Christiana, daughter and heir of Rodi Balklow, widow of Henry Sewell.

John Archer, son of John, was of Tanworth; married Alice, daughter of Baldwin Montfort.

Johannes Archer, son of John, was of Tanworth, married Mary, danghter of Humphrey Stafford.

Richard Archer, son of Johannes, married Ma- tilda, daughter and heir of Edward Delamore.

Humfrey Archer de Tanworth, son of Richard, married Anna Townsend, daughter of Robert Townshend.

Andreas Archer, son of Humfrey, was of Tan- worth; he died there April 6, 1629; married Mary, daughter of Simon Raleigh de Farnborow. She died August 10, 1614. Their children: Simon, Thomas, Richard.

Richard Archer, son of Andreas, married Maria Bull, daughter of Roland Bull. Richard died 1646-7 at Nethope in Oxford.

Simon Archer, son of Richard, married Anne, daughter of John Ferres de Tanworth.

The connection with the American ancestor has not been established. He probably belonged to a branch of the family outlined above, founded by John Archer, rector of Carhayes, instituted there about 1644. The rector had a son Nicholas who inherited from his uncle, Richard Archer, of St. Kew, all his property, but, dying without issue, bequeathed his estate to the eldest son of his brother Edward, who married, 1683, Judith Swete. The son of Edward Archer married Sarah, co-heir of John Addis, of Whiteford. John, the American emigrant, came from Cornwall and must have belonged to this fam- ily, perhaps a grandson of Edward Archer, men- tioned above.

(1) John Archer, the immigrant ancestor of the Archer family of Milford, was the progenitor also of the Yarmouth, Nova Scotia families. He came to America during the French and Indian wars, 1757 1762, having been impressed in the British navy. He left the navy, perhaps deserted, as many of the British seamen who had been forced into the navy and army did. He settled at Cherryfield, Maine. He was well educated and found employment in his new home as teacher and land surveyor. He took

up a lot afterward occupied by his son John, situ- ated on the Beddington road. He had a family of twenty-three children, most of whom were sons and nearly all of whom grew to maturity. The youngest of the family, David Cobb Archer, who lived near Cherryfield, was well known to travelers in his day going from Columbia Falls to Jonesboro. John Archer was a soldier in the revolution in the Ameri- can army. He was a private in the artillery com- pany, Colonel John Allen's regiment, in 1778-79. His captain was Thomas Robbins. The record also gives his rank as sergeant major. He was in Cap- tain Jeremiah O'Brien's company of rangers, Colonel Allen's regiment, serving at Machias, Maine, late in 1779.

John Archer married Elizabeth Gates Tupper, niece of General Gates, of the American army at Saratoga, etc., and granddaughter of Governor May- hew. She was daughter of Peleg (born 1731) and Deborah (Fish) Tupper, born in Sandwich, Massa- chusetts. Children of Sergeant John and Elizabeth Archer were: William Gates, married a Miss Mull- hall, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and had two chil- dren : Henry and Elizabeth; Henry, Robert, John, Thomas, Thomas, Joseph Tupper, of whom later; George, Allan, Mary, Eliakim, David Cobb.

((11) Joseph Tupper Archer, son of John Archer (1), was born at Cherryfield, Maine, in 1782. He gained his education in the public schools and at home under his father's instruction. He learned the trade of mason and stone cutter. He went to Yarmouth and Liverpool, Nova Scotia, when a young man, and soon engaged in contracting for mason work in that vicinity. He worked on many public buildings, and in later life did much cemetery work, at which he was especially skillful. In 1854 he re- moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he bought a farm. He died there October II, 1863, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. In religion he was an active and consistent Baptist. In politics he was a Republican.

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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 83

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