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(IV) Ebenezer Gove, father or uncle of Eben- ezer, was born in Hampton, February 15, 1703; married Elizabeth Stuart.
(III) Ebenezer Gove, father of Ebenezer, was born in Hampton, June 23, 1671 ; married, December 20, 1692, Judith Sanborn, daughter of John San- born. (See new Sanborn Genealogy). Ebenezer lived at Hampton.
(II) Edward Gove, father of Ebenezer, was born in 1639. He settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, became very prominent citizen. (See histories of Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts; Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, and Salisbury, Massachu- setts). He headed a movement to overthrow Gov- ernor Cranfield of New Hampshire. The effort failed and he and ten others, including his son John, were tried for treason. He was sentenced to death and his estate seized; the others were con- victed but pardoned. He spent three years in prison in the Tower of London, but was finally pardoned and his estates restored. He is the ancestor of all the New Hampshire and Maine families of which any record can be found and it is fair to conclude that he must be the progenitor of the Edgecomb branch. Moreover he had a son Ebenezer, and there seems good reason to believe that he was grand- father of Captain Ebenezer.
(I) John Gove (Gobe or Goffe), father of Ed- ward, was born in England in 1604: settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and admitted freeman May 22, 1638. He was admitted to the church May 3, 1647. He was a dealer and worker in brass. His will was dated January 22, 1647. His widow Sarah, born 1601, married (second) John Mansfield. The descendants of John are found in Watertown, Cam- bridge and vicinity.
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(VI) Eveline (Hiil) Gove, mother of Mrs. John C. Berry, was the fourth of nine children of Mark Langdon and Mary (McCobb) Hill, of Georgetown, Maine, now Phippsburg. Her parents were married at New Castle, February 14, 1797, and Eveline was born August 13, 1804, and baptized August 26 fol- lowing; died May 24, 1878. She was an active member of the Winter Street Church, Bath, Maine.
(V) Mark Langdon Hill was born June 30, 1772, the son of Jeremiah and Mrs. Mary (Storer by first marriage) Hill (nee Mary Langdon, sister of Gov. John Hill of New Hampshire). On the death of Hill. Mary married a third time. Widower Mc- Cobb, whose daughter by his earlier marriage, mar- ried her son Mark Langdon Hill (as above, V). He was a prominent business man at Phippsburg on the ! Kennebec river, was judge of the court of probate for Lincoln county, a trustee of Bowdoin College, member of both branches of the general court, and representative in the seventieth congress of the United States.
(IV) Jeremiah Hill, son of Ebenezer Hill, of Biddeford, Maine, was born about 1725. He was chosen selectman in 1757 and later made town treas- urer, an office he filled for many years. He was ap- pointed justice of the peace by Governor Bernard, December 20, 1761, and held this commission during life, renewed by various governors until the revolu- tion and then by the council. He also represented the town of Biddeford in the general court, and was a member of the provincial congress during the revolution.
(III) Ebenezer Hill, father of Jeremiah Hill, was the son of Roger Hill. He lived at Biddeford, Maine. He was born February 14, 1679. He and his wife were taken captive hy the Indians and taken to Canada where they remained in captivity for three years. They were redeemed and taken to Portsmouth and thence to Biddeford.
(II) Roger Hill, father of Ebenezer Hill, son of Peter Hill, came to America with his father from their home in the west of England and settled in Saco (now Beddeford), Maine. Roger IIill was selectman from 1718 for many years and was town treasurer in 1734. He was prudential man in 1660 and held office several years.
(I) Peter Hill was the immigrant ancestor, who settled in Saco (now Biddeford), with his family in 1653
Mrs. John Cutting Berry was educated in the schools of Bath, Maine, and in Abbott Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. She joined the Winter Street Congregational Church at Bath, at the age of fifteen years, and during all her life since then, both in Japan and in Worcester, has been active in Christian and humanitarian work. She is a member of Plymouth Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, a member of the Board of Managers of the Temporary Home and Day Nursery, and a member of the Worcester Woman's Club.
GILCHREST FAMILY. The family of Gil- christ is Scotch. The word means son or servant of Christ. The family is given by Hanna as be- longing to the border clan of East March. From a very ancient date the name has heen found in Berwichshire and Roxburhshire, Scotland. Donald Gilchrist, of Rothesay, was a member of the Scotch parliament in 1649 and still earlier in 1587 John Gilchrist, of Renfrew, was in parliament. Patrick Gilchrist was one of those banished early in the seventeenth century for his religious beliefs, and with many others was drowned, a prisoner, in a shipwreck off Orkney. Shortly afterward when the Scotch emigration to Ulster Province in the north
of Ireland took place some of the family located there, but the name has never been very common in Ireland.
During the Scotch-Irish emigration to America at least five of the name came to this country. A branch of the family is located in Albama, another in Pennsylvania. where many Scotch people went. Besides William Gilchrist, of Lunenburg, mentioned further below, there were two other settlers in New England. Robert and William Gilchrist set- tled in Chester, New Hampshire, and have many descendants in that state. They were brothers and their families are given in the Chester history. They were about the same age of William of Lunenburg, and there is reason to think they were his cousins. William Gilchrist, of Chester, married Elizabeth Miller, widow of Robert Miller, and sister of Thomas Glen. William died August 5, 1795, with- in a year of the death of his namesake at Lunen- burg, leaving three daughters: Molly, married Jo- seph Linn and died 1822; Sarah, married Joseph Carr and Robert Graham; Elizabeth, born 1748, died August 15, 1834 : married Mark Carr and Abner Silver. Robert and William, of Chester, came from Ayrshire, Scotland, removing to Londonderry, Ire- land, thence to Andover, Massachusetts, finally to Chester. The Lunenburg family came from the same region, also staying in Ireland for a time. The name is spelled Gilchrest, Gileriss, Gilcross, etc., the Lunenburg branch having followed the first named way.
(I) William Gilchrist, of Lunenburg, was born in 17II, in Glasgow, Scotland, and when a boy re- moved to Londonderry, Ireland, and lived in the family of Robert Smith, with whom he came in 1736 to America. William Gilchrist settled in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, and is the progenitor of the Lunenburg family. He married, June 21, 1743, Elizabeth White, born in Londonderry, Ireland, came over with her parents when she was only four years old. (See history of Dublin, Chester, Han- cock, New Hampshire, for foregoing statements.)
William Gilchrist settled in the eastern part of the town. His wife was admitted to full communion in the parish church November 17, 1751. He was constable in 1762 and selectman the same year. The whole family was noted for their almost gigantic size and great bodily strength, qualities that have been inherited in great measure by later genera- tions. In the second generation, the sons of James Gilchrist were large and powerful men and the next generation much larger than the average men. He died at Lunenburg, June II, 1796, aged eighty- five years. His wife died May 25, 1804, aged seventy-nine years.
Their children were: I. Elizabeth, married, No- vember 3. 1767, her cousin, James Grimes, of Swan- zey, New Hampshire; they removed to Canada, where she died. 2. John, baptized June 28, 1741, went to sea and never heard from. 3. Hannah. 4. William, Jr., enlisted in the army during the revo- lution, was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, but recovered and afterwards died unmarried in the army. 5. Richard, born November 17, 1751, was at the battle of Bunker Hill and in the army through the revolution: after the war he settled at Dublin, New Hampshire; married three times, (second) Mrs. Eleanor (White) Gregg. He died at Dublin, June 19. 1833. Their children-Betsey, born February 6, 1778. died January 30, 1843; Joshua, born May I. 1782, died May 20, 1842; married Mary Corey, of Milton, New York; Sally, born April 5, 1785. died Septemher 6, 1833; married John Goddell, of Bos- ton ; William ; Hannah, married - Morse; Polly, born April 15, 1787, married John Warren; John,
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married Stanley; Gilman. 6. Anna, baptized May 13, 1753. 7. Charles, baptized August 24, 1755, enlisted during the revolution at the battle of Bunker Hill, died unmarried in the army. 8. Saralı, bap- tized March 12, 1758, married, July 14, 1785, Jonas Warren, of Townsend, Massachusetts, and went to western New York, where both died. 9. Samuel, baptized March 30, 1760, went Dublin, New Hampshire ; married Allen. 10. Robert, bap- tized August 1, 1762, went to Walpole, New lamp- shire, and died there; married Cooper. II. James, baptized October 21, 1764, see forward. 12. Molly, baptized February 15, 1767, died unmarried at Fitchburg; his daughter, Sally Randall, born October 20, 1791, married Joseph Faulkner Hovey. (II) James Gilchrist, son of William Gilchrist (I), was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and baptized, an infant, October 21, 1764. He was brought up on his father's farm and took charge of the place even before his father died. He lived in the northeast part of Lunenburg and was a well- to-do farmer. He was prominent in public affairs, member of the school committee in 1800-02-05-07-18. He died November 2, 1838, aged seventy-four years. He married, May. 1787. Ruth Reddington, born April 30, 1764. She was admitted to the First Church, December 7, 1788, and dismissed at her own request, January 5, 1818, and was afterward a Uni- versalist. She was a bright, intelligent woman when more than eighty years of age. She died January 4. 1848, aged eighty-three years, eight months, five days. Their children: I. William, born at Lunen- burg, March 6. 1788, married Eunice Flagg, born January 12, 1806, was on school committee 1840, died April 14, 1858: children-i. Mary, born Septem- ber 1, 1827; ii. Charles, born December 19, 1828, died August 8, 1862; married at Nashua, September 27, 1854, Julia Ann Lawton, of Shirley, born Sep- tember 21, 1835. died July 13, 1860: their children were : Mary Ella, born August 10, 1855, died April 17, 1871, and William Augustus, born November 22, 1858; iii. Amanda; iv. Andrew J., born October 23, 1834. died November 8, 1853; v. John Flagg, born November 27, 1840, married at Barre, June 20, 1867, Chloe Lizzie Broad, born in Rutland, June 5. 1848, died June 22. 1874; and their children: Charles William, born April 22, 1869, and John Philip, born February 15. 1871; vi. Phebe Lovisa, born June 30, 1843. married, January 14, 1875, Augustus Taylor. 2. James, Jr., see forward. 3. John, baptized June 26, 1796. 4. Nancy, baptized October 8, 1797, died unmarried September 29, 1818. 5. Sukey (twin), baptized July 6, 1800, married John Smiley, of Hills- boro, New Hampshire. 6. Fanny (twin), baptized July 6, 1800, married Joel Smiley and had one daughter. 7. Charles Stearns, born September, 1801, was a large, powerful man weighing three hundred and fifty pounds ; he married, October 29, 1824, Isa- bel Craig, of Townsend : he died July 17, 1859; their nine children-i. son, died May 28, 1826; ii. Alex- ander Franklin, born July 26, 1827, married, Septem- ber 25. 1860, Serena Adams, born October 2, 1833, and their children were-Walter Franklin, born May 12, 1861 : George Stearns, born April 21, 1865: son, born November 1, 1866; iii. William, married Hen- rietta E. Rice; iv. Fanny, born 1830, married, Oc- tober 20. 1856, Charles A. Petts, of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: v. Hannah W., born about 1830, mar- ried Asa T. Lawton: vi. Martin V., married (first) Martha J. Morse, of Mason, New Hampshire, and (second) Martha Dix; vii. Mary Elizabeth, mar- ried Charles H. Warren, of Grafton, Massachusetts ; viii. Margaret Allen, married Lewis Saunders, of West Townsend; ix. Elbridge H., married. Decem- ber 15, 1874, Lily S. Scott, of Townsend.
(III) James Gilchrest, Jr., son of James Gil- christ (2), was born at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, February 11, 1793. He received the meagre public school education commonly given the farmer's boy of his day and worked his time on the home farm. At the age of twenty-one he went to Lexington, where he was employed on a farm. He returned to Lunenburg, but settled soon afterward in Town- send, where all his children were born. His farm of one hundred and seventy acres was near the county line and he owned much wood land. He sold this farm and bought a smaller one, sold again, and returned to Lunenburg, where he purchased still another farin. He sold again and went west for a short time. In 1856 he bought another farm in Lunenburg, where he resided until his death, April 17. 1876. He learned the cooper's trade and during the winter made barrels on his Lunenburg place. He made some shrewd investments in wood lots. He was a Methodist in religion and a Demo- crat in politics. He enlisted in the war of 1812, served three months at Fort Independence in Bos- ton Harbor and late in life drew a pension under the name of Joe Gilchrest-that being the name on the records of his service. He was generally called "Uncle Jimmy," and was widely known for his great physical strength and high character.
He married, February 2, 1819, Sally Sanderson, born July 2, 1795. Their children were: I. James, born October 19, 1819. died October 20, 1819. 2. Sarah Hovey, born March 12, 1821, married George Page, of Lunenburg, and their children are: Maria, George, Nancy, Elizabeth. 3. Nancy Emeline, born December 2, 1823, died December 2, 1834. 4. James, Jr .. born February 15, 1825, married, May 15, 1855, Ann Judkins, of Meredith. New Hampshire, and have one child-Katy. 5. Richard, born October 13. 1827. married. July 3, 1848, Adaline E. Spaulding, of Townsend, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza Spaulding, and they had eleven children-Richard Warren, born April 13. 1849: George Albert, born December 19, 1850, killed at Ayer, November 28, 1874, on the Fitchburg railroad; married Clara Bailey: Benjamin Gary, born October 10, 1852; Alida Elizabeth, born August 3, 1854: Clara Ada- line, born June 17. 1856; Mary Emma, born April 5. 1858: Judge Martin, born January 28. 1860; Bertha Antoinette. born May 10, 1862: Spaulding, born October 9, 1864, died August 10. 1865: Charles Sherman, born October 19, 1866; Alden Prescott, born March 29. 1871. 6. George Sanderson, see forward. 7. Warren Emerson, born October 13, 1827, was member of band of First Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteers, in civil war ; , married Amanda Cummings and they had-Ella, born 1857; Flora J .; Isabella : Harriet Almy, born January 16, 1869. 8. Laura Jane, born May 2, 1833, died May 4, 1850. 9. John Alfred, born August 27, 1837, enlisted in Company F, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, was severely wounded by rifle ball in lower jaw at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 8, 1862, and discharged on ac- count of wound; married, March 23, 1859, Mary Elizabeth Glover, of Middlesex, Vermont, and their children were-Henry. born January 1, 1860; An- nie Rosella, born April 28. 1861; Esther, born April II, 1864, died August 1. 1864.
(IV) George Sanderson Gilchrest, son of James Gilchrest, Jr., (3), was born at Townsend, Massa- chusetts, April 12, 1829. He was educated in the . common schools. At the age of eighteen he began to learn the mason's trade of Deacon William Mar- shall, of Fitchburg, remaining with him four years. He then worked for Edmund Smith, of Leominster, for a short time, then was at Waltham, and at Fitch-
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burg again, where he was employed by William Weatherly. He left Mr. Weatherly to enlist, Au- gust 6, 1861. Ile was mustered into Company B, ( Captain Simonds) Fifteenth Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteers. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Ball's Bluff and marched to Richmond, where he suffered the inconceivable horrors of Libby prison, contracting disease from which he never recovered. He was transferred to the prison at Salisbury, North Carolina, where he remained until he was paroled, June, 1862, having been in prison seven months and nine days. He was discharged November 27, 1862, and went to Fitchburg, where he resumed work at his trade of mason for a year. In 1864 he sold his property on Chestnut street, Fitchburg, and bought a homestead in Lunenburg. After that he divided his time between his trade and his farm. He died January 31, 1887. He was a Republican in politics and a Methodist in religion. He was a member of E. V. Sumner Post, No. 19, Grand Army, Fitchburg.
He married, November 27, 1851, Lydia Elvira Hurd, of Messina, New York, born April 13, 1830, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Sampson) Hurd. Her father was a farmer. The children of George Sanderson and Lydia E. Gilchrest were: I. Elvira Jennette, born December 6, 1853, at Fitchburg, died August 15, 1874; married Charles Bowers Longley, April 26, 1870, and had-George H., born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, February 24, 1872, died June 8, 1872; Harriet Musette, born October 20, 1873. 2. George Albert Lincoln, born at Fitchburg, December 16, 1863, married Mary Tuttle, of West Acton, Massa- chusetts, and had two children, one living, Ralph. 3. James Silvester, born October 27, 1869, married Addie L. Morland and had one child-George Irving, born November 13, 1891.
EDGAR ASA BATES (9), prominently identi- fied with the shoe manufacturing industry of Web- ster, is a lineal descendant in the ninth generation of Clement Bates (I), one of the early settlers in Hingham, Massachusetts. It has been claimed by some genealogists that Clement was of Hereford- shire, but this is undoubtedly an error as more authentic records show conclusively that he was a native of Lydd in the county of Kent. The earliest known ancestor of the Bates family in England is Thomas Bates, who died at Lydd in 1485. From the records of that town we learn that John, son of Thomas, died at Lydd in 1522; Andrew, son of John, died there in 1533; John, son of Andrew, died there in 1580; and John's son James, who died in Lydd, was the father of the above mentioned Cle- ment. Among the early arrivals in Boston (1635) were Clement, James and Edward Bates, said to have been brothers. Clement and James were both of Lydd and no doubt were of the same parentage, but the most reliable information extant shows that Edward, who came from old Boston in Lincoln- shire, was not their brother. James settled in Dor- chester, while Edward located in Weymouth, and as this genealogical record relates only to the de- scendants of Clement, it is deemed unnecessary to give the others further mention.
(I) Clement Bates, aged forty years, and his wife, Ann, same age, arrived at Boston in the spring or early summer of 1635, probably in the "Eliza- beth," William Stagg, master, bringing with them five children : James, aged fourteen years : Clement, twelve; Rachel, eight; Joseph, five; and Benjamin, aged two years. According to the records of Hing- ham Clement Bates was in 1635 allotted land on Broad Cove meadows and a house lot on the south side of the town, now South street. In 1637 he
was granted two more acres. He died in Hingham, September 17, 1671.
(II) Joseph Bates, son of Clement Bates (1), was born in England about the year 1630, and is mentioned in the records of Hingham as a brick- layer. He occupied the paternal homestead and be- came prominent in local public affairs, serving as constable 1675-78 inclusive, and was a selectman for the years 1671-77-84-92. In 1673 he was ap- pointed sexton of the parish and continued in that capacity until the erection of the new meeting- house. He was married in Hingham, January 9, 1657 or 58, to Esther, daughter of William Hilliard, and his children were: Joseph, born September 28, 1660; Esther, born August 29, 1663, married in Bos- ton, September 16, 1691, Richard Cobb; Caleb, born March 30, 1666; Hannah, born October 31, 1668; Joshua, born August 14, 1671; Bathsheba, born January 26, 1673 or 74; Clement, born September 22, 1676, drowned June 29, 1706; Eleanor, born August 29, 1679, died September 8 following; and Abigail, born October 16, 1680, married, June 12, 1704, John Chubbuck. All were born in Hingham. Joseph Bates died April 30, 1706, and his widow died June 3, 1709. In his will, dated April 24, 1706, he mentions and provides for his wife, Esther, and his four sons and four living daughters, naming the former but not the latter.
(III) Joshua Bates, who was a lifelong resi- dent of Hingham, married, January 15, 1695, Rachel Tower, born in Hingham, March 16, 1674 Of 75, daughter of Ibrook and Margaret (Hardin) Tower. Their children, all natives of Hingham, were: Rachel, born July 14, 1696, married Andrew Beal, December 14, 1715; Joshua, born June 15, 1698; Bathsheba, born February 9, 1699 or 1700, married Joseph Clark; Elizabeth, born November 23, 1703, married Ebenezer Woodward, October 8, 1724; Solo- mon, born April 13, 1706; Isaac, born March 3, 1707 or 8, and Jacob, born August 20, 1710.
(IV) Jacob Bates resided for many years in the second precinct of Hingham, where all of his chil- dren were born, and he served as constable in 1745. Late in life he removed to Attleboro, Massachusetts, and thence to Dudley, same state, where he died July 10, 1795. On November 19, 1730, he married Mary Clark, daughter of John and Rebecca (Lin- coln) Clark, born January 12, 1709, died January 27, 1798. Jacob and Mary (Clark) Bates had a family of ten children, namely : Mary, born July 19, 1732; Simeon, born March 21, 1737 or 38; Obadiah, born May 7, 1841; James, born April 19, 1743; Lydia, born July 10, 1744; Elijah, born December 2, 1746; John, born December 4, 1748; Jacob, born April 15, 1751; Israel, born April 15, 1753; and Elizabeth, who was baptized May 3, 1761.
(V) John Bates, the next in line, married Chloe Fuller, April 26, 1770, daughter of Noah Fuller, Jr., and Mercy Cushman, born 1746, died July 11, 1825. John Bates resided in Dudley and his death occurred in that town, December 12, 1834, in his eighty-seventh year. He was known as esquire or captain.
(VI) Captain Alanson Bates was probably born in Dudley. January 30, 1772, and died there August 22, 1842. His wife was before marriage Comfort Robinson.
(VII) Nelson Bates, son of Captain Alanson and Comfort (Robinson) Bates, was born in Dudley, July 12, 1801. He was a prosperous farmer and a life-long resident of Dudley, and his death occurred February 2, 1889. He married Lucia Jacobs, who bore him eight children, namely: Ira, Lucinda, Nel- son. Jane. Sophia, Abbie, Abel and Andrew.
(III) Andrew Jackson Bates was born June 23,
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1839, in that part of Webster which was set off from the town of Dudley in 1832. He attended the dis- trict schools until seventeen years old, and assisted his father in conducting the homestead farm until attaining his majority. The advent of the present era of commercial propagation and industrial prog- ress found him a vigorous young man, ready to enter the procession with a firm determination to not only keep up with its onward march but to work his way forward to the front rank. Accord- ingly, about the year 1860, he went to New York city, where he entered the rubber business in the capacity of a subordinate. Two years later he es- tablished himself in the shoe business and allied trades in the metropolis and, possessing the natural ability necessary for a successful mercantile career, he eventually realized his cherished aspirations, be- coming in due time one of the foremost footwear dealers in this country. At the present time he is one of the leading shoe merchants in New York, transacting an extensive business and having rep- resentatives in nearly every city of prominence in the United States. In 1887 he engaged in the manu- facture of shoes, establishing a factory in Webster, and he also operates several other plants. For many years he has resided in Brooklyn. He mar- ried. September 30, 1862, Miss Harriet Bartlett. born in Webster, March 16, 1841, daughter of Asa and Matilda Sophia (Kingsbury) Bartlett. The children of this union are Sarah Lucia, born 1864, married Charles H. Craver, of Binghamton, New York, and has two children: Emma Sophia, born 1865, married Maxwell Carrington, of Orange, New Jersey, and now resides in Webster, Massachusetts, having one child; Edgar Asa, born February 7, 1869. Andrew Jackson, Jr., born April 21, 1872, died May 6, 1872. Zella Harriet, born December 15, 1877, died March 2, 1893. May Ethel, born October 2, 1879. Mrs. Harriet Bates died in Brook- lyn, June 16, 1887. Andrew J. Bates married (second) Emma Gentha Van Nostrand, of Brook- Iyn, New York.
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