Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 87

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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resided in Millbury. The children of Elias Edwards and Hepsibath Forbes were: 4. William H., born April 13, 1854, died August 24, 1879; he was the confidential clerk of Hon. John D. Washburn, United States minister to Switzerland, and at the age of twenty-four years became a partner in the insurance business of Mr. Washburn. 5. Susie G., born January 23, 1868, died January 24, 1868.


(VII) Francis White Forbes, son of Ephraim Trowbridge Forbes (6), was born at Westboro, Massachusetts, May 1, 1852, on the old homestead. He received a public school education, including a four-year course in the Westboro high school and a course of study in a Worcester business college. In 1869 he began his long mercantile career as clerk in the dry good store of W. R. Gould, of Westboro. In 1872 he was taken into partnership, and in 1873 he bought out the interests of his former employer and senior partner and formed the new firm of Forbes & Fay, dealing in dry goods as before. This partnership closed by limitation in 1876 and after that Mr. Forbes was in business alone for thirty years. He then engaged in the manufacture of leather goods, being connected for some time with the Hunt Manufacturing Company, a more ex- tended account of which appears in this work in the sketch of Jonathan A. Hunt, of Westboro. After leaving that company he entered the real estate bus- iness in Boston, where he has been quite successful. He retains his residence in his native town.


Mr. Forbes is the fifth of his family in the di- rect paternal line to hold the office of deacon of the Westboro church. Beginning with the first settler, Jonathan Forbush or Forbes, his son and grandson of the same name, three Jonathan Forbes in suc- cession, were deacons of the church; then followed Ephraim Trowbridge Forbes, father of the present deacon. Francis White Forbes was elected deacon in 1880 and has served continuously to the present time. He has in his possession a volume of the church records kept by the first pastor, Rev. Eben- ezer Parkınan, beginning in 1724. Deacon Forbes has been treasurer of the Westboro Insane Hos- pital, a state institution, since it was first established. He has been treasurer of the sinking fund of the town and has been a commissioner of the fund as well as the treasurer since 1878. In politics he is a Republican.


He married (first) in Westboro, November 14, 1877, Jane A. Nason, of Westboro, daughter of Captain Noah Nason, who was born in Kennebunk, Maine, October 6, 1812, and Hannah (Kilham) Nason, who was born also in Kennebunk, July 3, 1825. The first wife died September 5, 1881. He married (second) in Chicago, Illinois, January 7, 1886, Fannie Elizabeth Hooker, born in Chicago, November 4, 1860, daughter of Henry M. and Eliza (Beailey) Hooker, of that city. The only child of Deacon Francis White and Jane A. Forbes was : Helen Cady, born in Westboro, August 1, 1881. The children of Deacon Francis White and Fannie E. Forbes are: Henry Hooker, born November 19, 1886; Florence Eliza, born March 18, 1895; Mary Louise, born December 15, 1900.


(VII) Walter E. Forbes, son of Edwards E. Forbes (6), was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, November, 25, 1838. He was for many years of the firm of W. E. Forbes & Company of Worcester, proprietors of the Lincoln House, but hias of late years become more widely known to the summer dwellers in the mountains and sea shore of New England as one of the most popular of landlords and hotel proprietors. For a number of years he has been the manager of the Tatnuck Country Club. He married, January 1, 1867, Sarah M. Briggs, born


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in Millbury, August 21, 1844. They have one son : William E., born March 14, 1883.


(VII) Wilbur E. Forbes, son of Daniel W. Forbes (6), was born at Westboro, Massachusetts, September 26, 1849. He succeeded his father in business and is at present a merchant in Westboro. He is a Republican in politics and a Congregation- alist in religion. He married, December 26, 1876, Abbie C. Newton. They have no children.


(VII) Forrest W. Forbes, son of Daniel W. Forbes (6), was born in Westboro, November II, 1859. He is a member of the firm of D. W. Forbes & Company, established by his father and said to be the oldest sleigh manufacturing concern in the United States. He was director of the White Cy- cle Company, is trustee of the Curtis Fund and suc- ceeded his father as treasurer of the Westboro State Insane Hospital. Ile married, April 14, 1883, Etta M. Lovelace, born June 1, 1862. Their children are: Forrest LeBest, born February 24, 1884; Corrine, born August 30, 1887, died October 8, 1887.


ROCKWELL FAMILY. The Rockwell family of England to which the emigrant ancestor of the American family belonged is an ancient and dis- tinguished one. Some branches of the Rockwell family have this coat of arms: Az. upon a chief sable ; three boars' heads couped, or, langued, gules. The crest : Upon a wreath of the colors of the shield a boar's head as in the arms. Motto: "Tout pour Mon Dieu et Mon Roi." (All for God and King. )


(1) William Rockwell, the immigrant ancestor of the American Rockwells, and of Edward Munson Rockwell's branch of the family, was probably descended from Sir Ralph de Rocheville, the founder of the family, who crossed the channel with the Norman Knights when Empress Maude went to England to lay claim to that kingdom. He joined the forces of Henry II and received a grant of land in the county of York, which is known to the pres- ent day as Rockwell Hall and is situated near Bor- ough Bridge. York, England.


William Rockwell doubtless came with the origi- mal church colony that settled Dorchester in New England. He was on the jury there as early as November Q. 1630. He was deacon of the church formed by Rev. Mr. Marham and his friends in the New Hospital at Plymouth, England, and who came over to Dorchester in 1630. He was one of the first board of selectmen of Dorchester. He also served on the first committee to lay out lands for his fellow-colonists at Dorchester. His own grant was near Savin Hill June 27, 1636. He was ad- mitted a freeman May 18, 1631, one of twenty-four who took the oath on that day. He had a half acre next Mr. Stoughton's, near the fish house, granted December 17, 1635. He had eight acres granted July 5. 1636, on Indian Hill. He removed to Connecticut in the spring of 1637 with Mr. Mar- ham and half of the Dorchester Church. He died Mav 15, 1640, at Windsor, Connecticut.


He married, April 14, 1624. at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester. England, Susan Capen, prob- ably daughter of Bernard Capen. She was born April II, 1602, and died November 13, 1666. She married ( second) Matthew Grant, the ancestor of General U. S. Grant, May 20, 1645, and died Novem- ber. 1666. The children of William and Susan Rock- well were: Joan. born in England. April 25, 1625. inarried Jeffry Baker, of Windsor; John, born July IS, 1627, in England; Mary, died young; Samuel, of whom later; Ruth, born August, 1653, at Dor- chester, married Christopher Huntington, October


7, 1652, one of the first settlers in Norwich ; Joseph, born 1635, died unmarried ; Sarah, born at Windsor, July 21, 1638, married Walter Gaylord.


(II) Samuel Rockwell, son of William Rock- well (1), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, March 28, 1631. He was among the first settlers in East Windsor, Connecticut, where he was ad- mitted to the church April 6, 1662. He was one of the contributors to the fund for the relief of the poor of other colonies. He died in 17II. He mar- ried, April 7, 1660, Mary Norton, daughter of Thomas and Grace (Wells) Norton. Their chil- dren were: Mary, born January 18, 1661-2, married Josiah Loomis, October 23, 1683; Abigail, born Au- gust 23, 1664, died unmarried May 3, 1665; Samuel, born October 19, 1667; Joseph, of whom later; John, born May 31, 1673-4; Abigail, born April II, 1676, married, November 9, 1704, John Smith; died Oc- tober 12, 1741; Josiah, born March 10, 1678.


(III) Joseph Rockwell, son of Samuel Rock- well (2), was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, May 22, 1670, and died there June 26, 1733. He settled in Windsor and was a farmer. He mar- ried Elizabeth Drake, who was born November 4, 1645, the daughter of Job and Elizabeth Alvord. The children of Joseph and Elizabeth Rockwell, all born in Windsor, were: Joseph, of whom later; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1698, unmarried. Ben- jamin, born October 26, 1700; James, born June 3, 1704; Joh, born April 13, 1709; Elizabeth, born July 24, 1713, married Jonathan Huntington.


(IV) Joseph Rockwell, son of Joseph Rockwell (3), was born at Windsor, Connecticut, November 23, 1695. He was a farmer at Windsor. He mar- ried, March 25, 1693-4, Hannah Huntington, daugh- ter of John and Abigail (Lathrop) Huntington, grandchild of Christopher and Ruth (Rockwell) Huntington and great-granddaughter of Deacon Will- iam Rockwell (I). Hannah died January 18. 1761, aged sixty-seven years, of small pox. Joseph died October 16, 1746, in his fifty-first year. The chil- dren of Joseph and Hannah Rockwell were: Jo- seph, of whom later; Hannah, born December 25, 1717, married Joseph Bidwell; Jerusha, born June 5. 1720 (twin), and a twin son, died same day; Jonathan, born May 2, 1723, removed about 1763 with four sons and two daughters to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; their children were: Jonathan, born 1747, Asahel, born 1749, Joseph, born 1751, ances- tors of two-thirds of the Nova Scotia Rockwells ; Benjamin, born 1753, Sarah. Hannah, Samuel, born March 9, 1725-6; Samuel, born January 19, 1728.


(V) Captain Joseph Rockwell, son of Joseph Rockwell (4), was born at Windsor, Connecticut, March 15, 1715-6, died July 6, 1776, aged sixty-one years. He was the second settler in Colebrook, Connecticut, in 1766. He was the captain of the first militia company there October 4, 1774, com- missioned by Governor Jonathan Trumbull. He married Anna Dodd. Their children were: Anna, married Nathan Bass; John, born September 7, 1743, was a lieutenant in the revolution; settled in Southwick, Massachusetts: Elijah, of whom later; Mary, married William Goodwin; . Jerusha, Eliza- beth, Gurdon, Joseph, Elihu, resides at Winchester, Connecticut, and baptized there February 17, 1765. One of the foregoing children died October 24, 1757.


(VI) Elijah Rockwell, son of Captain Joseph Rockwell (5), was born in Windsor, Connecticut, November 14, 1744. He removed to Colebrook with his father and was the first and for many years the only justice of the peace in the town. Among other duties that came to him as a magistrate was the marriage of one hundred and twenty-seven couples.


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He was a member of the first church gathered by President Jonathan Edwards in 1795. He was town clerk from 1779 and for thirty-nine years. He was thirty-five years town treasurer and for six- teen years the only civil magistrate in the town. He was a representative in the general assembly in 1796 and for several years afterward. He was ser- geant in Sergeant Aaron Greenwald's company, which went to New York in 1776. When he was eighty years old he became interested in the tem- perance movement and gave up the use of cider as an example to others. He married, January 19, 1775, Lucy Wright. Their children were: Elijah, of whom later; Lucy. Theron, Betsey, married Wakefield; Ann, married - Hurlburt.


(VII) Elijah Rockwell, Jr., eldest son of Elijah Rockwell (6), was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, 1776. He lived in Colebrook, Connecticut. He mar- ried Sophia Ensign, who was a lineal descendant of Governor William Bradford through his grand- daughter, Alice Bradford. The Rockwells thus have a number of "Mayflower" ancestors. The chil- dren of Elijah and Sophia Rockwell were: Horace Ensign, born 1809. died 1831; Henry Ensign, of whom later: Sophia, born 1813; Lucy Anne, born 1816; Alpha, born 1817. died 1831.


(VIII) Henry Ensign Rockwell, son of Elijah Rockwell (7), was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, March 24, 1811, and attended Yale University for two years. He was educated in the common schools and through his own study. For a number of years he was a teacher in the Winsted (Connecticut) Academy. He afterwards was one of the editors of the Boston Telegraph for several years. He then moved to Millbury, Massachusetts, where he was a teacher in the high school and represented the district in the general court. He was the author of the Rockwell Genealogy, a work involving years of study and labor. He was intensely interested in the history of his family and country and became an authority in local history. He was appointed an official stenographer of the United States senate, a position he held for several years. For ten years prior to his death he was one of the secretaries of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C. He died in Washington, D. C., February, 1881.


He married Emmerette Munson, who was born in Winsted. Their children were: Horace T., born 1838; Henry Lee, born 1841; Perry Devotie; Edward Munson, of whom later; Lucy E., Charles Bristed, born 1848. He married (second) Sarah J. Hatha- way, in 1854. Their children: Sarah Alice, died in infancy; Julia Lee, born 1858; Julius Ensign, born 1860.


(IX) Edward Munson Rockwell, son of Henry Ensign Rockwell (8), was born in Winsted, Connec- ticut, March 27, 1845. He was educated in the schools of that town and in Millbury, Massachu- setts. He began his business career as bookkeeper for N. A. Lombard & Company of Worcester and subsequently at the Cleveland Machine Works in that city. At the death of Mr. Cleveland he be- came manager. In 1872 he associated himself with James Phillips, of Fitchburg, and they began the manufacture of worsted suitings under the firm name of Rockwell and Phillips. The firm was dis- solved in 1876 and Mr. Rockwell bought a mill site in Leominster, where he began the manufacture of woolen yarn. In 1887 he added the manufacture of cassimeres, and his business has prospered and grown rapidly since then. At the present time (1905) his mill has fifteen sets of machinery and is one of the largest independent mills in this line in the country, manufacturing woolen yarns exclus- ively.


Mr. Rockwell served in the civil war for some eight months in 1864 and 1865. During five months he was in the engineering department at Fortress Monroe. He is a member of Charles H. Stevens Post, Grand Army, No. 53. In politics he is a Republican. He is a director of the Home Market Club of Boston. He was for several years a mem- ber of the Republican town committee of Leom- inster. He is chairman of the school committee. Mr. Rockwell is a leader among the business mnen of the town and is president of the Leominster board of trade. He is a member of the Orthodox Church, the Masonic Lodge, the Order of United Workmen and of the Royal Arcanum.


He married, October 29, 1867, Martha J. Smith, daughter of Charles Smith, of Worcester. Their children are: Edward Henry, a professor in Tufts College, married Lena Warfield, and they have four children : James C., died young; Grace Emmerette, died young; Alice, married W. E. Holman; Alfred Crocker ; Ruth Martha.


DR. JOHN CUTTING BERRY. The Berry family is of ancient English origin. The best authority gives the derivation of the name as from the word "Bury" or "Borough" (a place of safety, of defense), and the spelling of the name in Eng- land, in fact. is more common Bury than Berry. The Manorial residence in many parts of England is the "Bury" from which the names Berry, Ber- ' riman, Burroughs and Barrows are derived. The name Adam de la Bury is cited as an instance of the name in the earliest history of surnames in England. The fact that one English family used the barberry as an emblem on its coat of arms does not explain the origin of the name, though it is quite probable that in this instance, the name sug- gested the barberry as a symbol. There have been families of title bearing this surname in England, Scotland and Ireland for many centuries. The name is very common in Devonshire, England. Some of the family seats were at Teddington, county Bed- ford; Molland, county Devon; Berry Narborn, East Leigh, Lobb, etc., in Devonshire; also in Ox- fordshire, Lancashire, Bedford and Norfolk.


(I) William Berry, the immigrant ancestor of John Cutting Berry, of Worcester, is presumed to have descended from the Norfolk family, mainly because he came to New England in the service of Captain William Mason, whose native place was in Norfolk county. It may, however, with equal rea- son be assumed that William Berry was from the south of England, for Captain Mason was for many years the governor of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, whence came the names of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, which he founded and owned. It was in Mason's Portsmouth home that the Duke of Buckingham, the royal favorite and Mason's patron, was assassinated in the summer of 1628 by John Felton. The death of his patron, however, did not end Mason's favor with King Charles, who had already granted more than one New England Patent to him and his friend, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and would have put them in command of all New England, to the detriment of the Massachusetts Puritans, had not Mason died in December. 1635, just as the measures of the court and the English prelates were about to take effect. Mason was a native of King's Lynn in Norfolk, born December 11, 1586. He entered Oxford in June, 1602, but never graduated. He became a merchant and ship master before 1610. He had lucrative offices at Newfoundland and in Hamp- shire. He had grants of land between the Naum- keag river and the Merrimac under the name of


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Mariana, March 9, 1622; a second patent from the council of New England was granted August 10, 1622, to Mason and Gorges, covering all the land lying on the seacoast and for sixty miles inland, between the Merrimac river and the Kennebec, and this was called the Province of Maine. Seven years later, November 7, 1629, Mason was granted all that part of the province of Maine lying between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua; this he called New Hampshire. Ten days later a much larger tract, called Laconia, and supposed to extend to Lake Champlain, was granted to Mason and Gorges. By 1632 Mason had become a member of the council for New England, which made all these grants and many more to other persons, and he was expend- ing much money in taking possession of his lands in New Hampshire. As early as 1623 David Thom- son, a Scot, took possession of a grant made to him in 1622. He was not long after the Pilgrims at Plymouth. William and Edward Hilton settled on a grant at Dover in 1623. There were settlers in various places in New Hampshire on the coast when Captain Mason's first colonists came over in 1631. The names of the forty-eight men who, with "twen- ty-two women and eight Danes," were sent to take charge of his property and make settlement, have been preserved. There were mechanics for building the Manor House in which Mason was to rule New England. Large and small houses were built, and Portsmouth soon became a flourishing colony. Ma- son was nominated by King Charles as vice-admiral of New England and was preparing to go out to his colony when he died. Under the original name of Strawberry Bank this settlement, planned and exe- cuted by Mason and his agents among those four dozen pioneers, included all that is now Portsmouth, Rye, New Castle, Newington, and Greenland. In all of these towns later we find descendants of William Berry. The Church of England was estab- lished and a pastor in charge, Rev. Richard Gib- son, as early as 1640, when all the rest of New England seemed destined to be exclusively Puritan in religion. William Berry seems to have been one of the chief men of the colony. When the Glebe Lands were deeded the seals were placed opposite the names of Berry and John Billing, though there were twenty of the early settlers whose names appear on the document, including the governor, Francis Williams, and his assistant, Ambrose Gibbins. This deed, dated 1640, represented a parsonage for the parish and fifty acres of glebe land, twelve of which adjoined the house lot. Some of the land was on Strawberry Bank creek and can doubtless be lo- cated by survey today. The parsonage and glebe lands were deeded to the two churth wardens, Thomas Walford and Henry Sherburne, and their successors. The document calls the twenty signers the "principal inhabitants" of Portsmouth. Although Captain Mason expended large sums of money upon Strawberry Bank or Portsmouth, when he died the men in his employ were left with wages unpaid and the future uncertain. The property was then divided among Mason's creditors and the settlement at Portsmouth was soon in much the same condition as the other settlements of New England.


William Berry received a grant of land on the neck of land on the south side of Little river at Sandy Beach at a town meeting at Strawberry Bank, January, 1648-49. Sandy Beach was the early name for what is now Rye, New Hampshire, but Berry lived only a few years afterward. He died before June, 1654, and his widow Jane mar- ried Nathaniel Drake. William Berry had two sons, perhaps other children, viz .: Joseph, who was


living in the adjacent town of Kittery, Maine, in 1683; and John, see forward.


(11) John Berry, son of William Berry (1), was born about 1630, probably in England. He was the first settler in the town of Rye, then called Sandy Beach, on his father's grant of land there. He married Susannah - and their children were: I. John, Jr., born January 14, 1659. 2. Elizabeth, married John Locke. 3. William, settled at New Castle; married Judah and they had-Na- thaniel, born February 13, 1689; Stephen, born Jan- uary 18, 1691; William, born November 18, 1093; Jeremiah, born March 8, 1695; Frederick, born Jan- uary 15, 1699; Abigail, born March 15, 1700; Jane, born January 26, 1702. 4. James. 5. George, see forward. (The history of Rye is authority for the parentage of all but George, who hailed also from Rye and must be included among the children of John Berry, the head of the only family of this name in the town. (See Parson's History of Rye, New Hampshire, and Dow's History of Ilampton, New Hampshire).


(111) George Berry, son of John Berry (2), was born in 1674, at Rye, New Hampshire. Ile lived at Rye, finally settling at Kittery. He married at Hampton, New Hampshire, January I, 1702, De- liverance Haley, daughter of Andrew Haley. (See history of Paris, Maine, for some of his descend- ants. Also Hampton for marriage, etc.) The chil- dren of George and Deliverance Berry were : George, see forward; Deborah, married, October 22, 1730, William Walker, of Kittery, Maine; Elizabeth, mar- ried, October 22, 1730, Tobias Fernald; Mary ( ?), married, October 3, 1741, Samuel Lunt, Jr .; Josiah, married, 1740, (published December 20) Mary Hidden.


(IV) Major George Berry, son of George Berry, (3), was born at Rye, New Hampshire, or Kittery, Maine, 1706. He removed from Kittery, where he was brought up, to Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, in 1732. He became the proprietor in Fal- mouth of Berry's shipyard and was evidently a ship- wright by trade. He was major of the regiment of that vicinity in the Indian fights that were frequent during his younger days, and during the French and Indian war in the fifties.


He married, January II, 1726-27, Elizabeth Frink, daughter of George and Rebecca (Skilling) Frink (See Old Eliot genealogies). The children of George and Elizabeth Berry were baptized at Kit- tery, though some of them were born at Falmouth, viz .: I. George, born May 12, 1728, died young. 2. Joseph, born March 30, 1729, died young probably. 3. Elizabeth, born December 6, 1730. 4. George, born April 8, 1732, married Sarah Stickney and they had children-Deacon William, Levi, George (See his- tory of Paris, page 510). 5. Lieutenant Thomas B., see forward. 6. Joseph, born September 26, 1740. 7. Burdick, married Sally - and had cight children.


(V) Lieutenant Thomas B. Berry, son of George Berry (4), was born at Falmouth, Maine, in 1745. He was an officer in the revolution and late in life drew a pension of twenty dollars a month from the government. He was elected adjutant of Colonel Jacob French's regiment of Bristol and Cumber- land counties, and he took part in the siege of Bos- ton. He was stationed on Walnut Hill. Later in the year 1776 he was lieutenant in Captain Richard Mayberry's company of Colonel Ebenezer Francis's regiment. He resided at Brunswick and Portland, Maine, and at Rockland, where he died January 27, 1828, at the age of eighty-three years. He mar- ried at Brunswick, Maine, August 15, 1773, Abigail


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Coombs, and their children, all born at Portland, Maine, were: I. Samuel, born May 4, 1774. See forward. 2. Lydia, born August 14, 1776. 3. Joshua, born March 4, 1779, married Fannie Coombs, lived and died in Portland. 4. Thomas, Jr., born May 26, 1781, married Burgess, lived and died in Brunswick, Maine. 5. George, born August 14, 1783, named for his grandfather Berry, lived and died at Topsham, Maine, leaving a large family. 6. Abi- gail, born April 26, 1785, married Josiah Haskell, settled in Rockland, Maine, died November 1, 1853. 7. Jeremialı, born September 8, 1787, removed from Falmouth to Thomaston, Maine, in 1812; married Frances A. Gregory, April 27, 1815; settled at Rock- land; was a mason, inn keeper, and successful busi- ness man; died March II, 1857, at the age of sev- enty, leaving four sons and one daughter. He was a soldier of the war of 1812. 8. Josepli, born Sep- tember 20, 1789, married (first) Abigail Coombs, March 12, 1815; (second), Jane Ann Creamer, De- cember, 1845; resided at Thomaston, a mason by trade; died May 29, 1845, aged sixty-six. 9. Betsey, born 1791. 10. Benjamin, born May 11, 1796, married at Brunswick, Dolly Murray, December 21, 1820; died at Rockland, Maine, June 27, 1856.




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