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the Farmers' and Mechanics' Club twenty years. Ile was secretary in 1882-83.
He married, March 1, 1866, Fanny Charlotte Red- head, born in North Woodstock, Connecticut, Sep- tember 22, 1840, daughter of Robert and Caroline Jane (Abbott) Redhead. Her father was a farmer at North Woodstock. The children of Isaac Chenery and Fanny Charlotte Richardson are: I. Annie Eva, born at Holden, November 16, 1870, married George Sherman Richards, of Winchendon, Massa- chusetts, and they have children-Gladys Hale, born at Winchendon, January 27, 1894; Harold Gordon, born at Winchendon, June 30, 1897; Mildred Arline, born at Worcester, June 20, 1900; Ralph Chenery, born at Worcester, December 15, 1902. 2. Mary Alice, born June 1, 1876, in Holden, Massachusetts. 3. Frederick C., born August 9, 1881, resides at home.
ERNEST KEYES PROCTOR. Robert Proctor, the immigrant ancestor of Ernest Keyes Proctor, of Lunenburg, was born in England. He settled in this country first at Salem, where he was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. He removed to Concord, Massachusetts, where he married, December 31, 1645, Jane Hildreth. About 1651 he removed to Chelms- ford, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was one of twenty-five original grantees of the town of Chelmsford. He died there April 26, 1697. His will was dated March 10, 1695-96, proved July 13, 1697. The children of Robert and Jane (Hildreth ) Proctor, born at Concord were: Sarah, born Octo- ber 12, 1646; Gershom, May 13, 1648; Mary, April IO, 1650; Peter, 165. Children born at Chelmsford were: Elizabeth, December 16, 1656; James, Janu- ary 8, 1658; Lydia, February 19, 1660, died April 13, 1661 ; Samuel, John, Israel, April 29 1668; Thomas, April 30, 1671, was lost at sea, judging from father's will; Dorothy, married - Barrett.
(11) Peter Proctor, son of Robert Proctor (I), was born in 1651 at Concord, Massachusetts. He
removed when an infant with the family to the new town of Chelmsford, which adjoins old Concord. He lived there all his life a farmer, and died there July 31, 1730. He married at Billerica, Massachu- setts, January 30, 1668, Mary Patterson, who died October 12, 1724, at Chelmsford. Children of Peter and Mary Proctor were: Robert, born at Chelms- ford, January 3, 1689, see forward; Rebecca, April 29, 1692; Peter, August 14, 1694; Mary, March 10, 1697; Eston, July 9, 1700; Joseph, November 8, 1703; Ezekiel, November 9, 1709.
(III) Robert Proctor, son of Peter Proctor (2), was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, January 3, 1689. He settled in the adjacent town of Littleton, Massachusetts, and died there November 2, 1755. His wife died at Warwick, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Mary Haywood (or Howard). Their children were: Robert, born April 8, 1719; Elizabeth, No- vember 30, 1721, died October 15, 1723; Nathaniel, born November 5, 1723, see forward; Zachariah, De- cember 25, 1725, died December 25, 1728; Mary, March 5, 1727; Elizabeth, August 20, 1729; Joseph, June 20, 1732; Peter, March 26, 1735.
(IV) Nathaniel Proctor, son of Robert Proctor (3), was born at Littleton, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 5, 1723. He married Mary Warren, of Little- ton. He died October 30, 1806. His wife was born October 7, 1733, and died November 5, 1813, aged eighty years, and twenty-nine days, according to the family records. Children of Nathaniel and Mary Proctor were: Nathaniel, born July 5, 1762, see for- ward; Polly (Mary), born March 21, 1766, married Josiah Walton, of Temple, New Hampshire, March
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5, 1799, died June 24, 1835; Elizabeth, born April 18, 1768, married Stephen Tenney, November 25, 1791, died January 3, 1844; Lucy, born August IS, 1771, married Stephen Houghton, of Lunenburg, April 23, 1809, died March 1, 1858; Eunice, born February 16, 1773, married Stephen Brown, of Mason, New Hampshire, October 16, 1793, died August 9. 1868.
(V) Nathaniel Proctor, Jr., son of Nathaniel Proctor (4), was born at Littleton, .Massachusetts, July 5, 1762. He received a common school educa- tion there and learned the trade of cooper. He fol- lowed this trade through life, having his own shop and doing a considerable business. He was a lover of sport and was said to be the most successful hunter in all the country round about. It is told of him that, single-handed, he killed one of the largest bears ever seen in that vicinity, and the skin was made into a rug and used in the Proctor household for many years. He had a farm besides his cooper's shop to keep him busy, and in later life lived on this farm in Littleton. He was a soldier in the revolution and after the war was a captain of militia. Ile was for many years a justice of the peace and the local "Squire" of Littleton. He was liberal in his religious beliefs, and one of the early Unitarians in this vicinity. He died December 18, 1819. He married, December 19, 1786, at Littleton, Mercy Russell, and their children, all born at Littleton, were: Sarah, born November 26, 1787, died May 8, 1839; Jacob, August 19, 1789, died May 28, 1888; Edmund, November 14, 1792, sve forward; Mary, October 29, 1795, died June, 1883; John Russell, July 27, 1799, died November 19. 1850; Martha, September 25, 1801, died February 18, 1891; Francis Kidder, July 18, 1803, died October 14, 1875: Joel. March 1, 1805, died November 19, 1895; Abigail Ann, July 9, 1809, died May 3, 1854.
( VI) Edmund Proctor, son of Nathaniel Proctor, Jr., (5), was born at Littleton, Massa- chusetts, November 14, 1791 (or 1792 according to another family record). He was educated in the district schools of Littleton. He began at the age of seventeen his apprenticeship at the cooper's trade. Ile followed his trade in the winter season and carried on his farm at Littleton in the summer. He sold his farm in Littleton, about 1818, and removed to Lunenburg, where he bought and lived on the old Priest farm for thirteen years. He sold it to Calvin Morse and bought the old Sam- uel Houghton farm in the south part of Lunenburg of Josiah Pierce, who was then its owner, and con- tinued on that farm until he removed to Westminster a short time before he died. The date of his death was December 27, 1882. He was a member of the Lunenburg Congregational Church and for many years served on the parish committee. In politics he was first a Whig and then a Republican. He was active in the party organization and often was elected delegate to the nominating conventions of his party. Ile was on the Lunenburg school committee and also road commissioner in that town.
He married, August 10, 1815, Elizabeth Good- rich, born in Lunenburg. April 1, 1798, died Decem- ber 7, 1872, daughter of Phineas and Betsey (Kil- burn) Goodrich, of Lunenburg. Children of Ed- mund and Elizabeth Proctor were: I. Jacob, born at Littleton, February 20, 1816, died June 7, 1887; mar- ried Nancy Bowers, of Acworth, New Hampshire, who died February 16, 1892, and they had-Edmund, Anna. 2. Elizabeth Goodrich, born at Littleton, June I. 1817, died at Newton Highlands, February 18, 1890; married Joseph Blood, of Boston, and they have-Elizabeth Augusta, Lucretia, Louisa, Martha. 3. Edmund Augustus, born at Lunenburg, March 16,
1819, died November 11, 1890; married Mercy Ilowes, of Barre, Massachusetts, and their children were-Augusta, born in Lunenburg; Alba, born in Ashby ; Alson, Amma, Amboy, Angie. 4. Asenath married (first), April 22, 1841, William Rea Hadley, married (first), April 22, 1841, William Rea Hadley, of Lunenburg, and they had-Mary Frances, born June 14, 1842; William Grandville, born July 28, 1844. died January 16, 1845; Edmund Proctor, born March 16, 1846, married Sarah Jane Gray; Amanda Matilda, born May 1, 1848, married Charles Emerson Smith, of Holden; Frederick Rea, born October II, 1850, married Estella Simonds, of Lunenburg; Will- jam Grandville, born February 9, 1853; Asenath Goodrich ( Proctor) Hadley married (second), March 18, 1859, George Henry Melntire and their children were: Henry Melntire, born March 3, 1860; Walter McIntire, born September 23, 1802. 5. Amanda Maloria, born at Lunenburg, March 20, 1821, died April 16, 1823. 6. Mary, born at Lunen- burg, March 14, 1822, died at West Groton, New York, January 25, 1872; married William O. Bald- win, of Mt. Vernon, New York, and they had- William. Frederick. 7. Joseph, born at Lunenburg, .April 10, 1824, died March 16, 1825. 8. Francis Adams, born at Lunenburg, September 28, 1826, died October 20, 1828. 9. Adelia Louisa, born at Lunenburg, April 20, 1828, married George Howard, of Ashby, and they have-Elizabeth Howard, Katie Howard. 10. Francis Adams, born September 28, 1829, see forward.
(VII) Francis Adams Proctor, son of Edmund Proctor (6), was born in Lunenburg, September 28, 1820. He received his early education in the com- mon schools of that town and in the academy. While attending to his studies he helped his father in the affairs of the farm, and when he came of age took charge of it and conducted it for twenty-five years. Upon the death of his father, in 1882, the farm came to him and he carried it on until 1896, when he sold it to his son, Ernest K. Proctor. In 1894 Mr. Proctor built his present home opposite the homestead, and since then he has not been engaged in active business. In addition to his farming he followed the common practice of the Massachusetts farmers and had also a trade. He manufactured shoes in the fifties for a firm in Reading, Massachu- setts, receiving from them the steck cut ready for use and returning the finished product. Sometimes the farmer-manufacturer worked alone, sometimes having hands working for him. Mr. Proctor is a inember of the Congregational Church at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and a member of the parish commit- tee. In politics he is a Republican. He has been road commissioner and for a number of years served on the school committee. He was a charter member of Lunenburg Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry, No. 109, and is also a member of the Farm- ers' and Cattle Association.
He married Emeline Keyes, born in Westford, Massachusetts, June 29, 1831, died at Lunenburg, September 25. 1902, daughter of Imla and Hannah ( Fletcher) Keyes. Her father was a farmer and a soldier in the war of 1812. The children of Francis Adams and Emeline Proctor were: 1. Francis low- ard, bern at Lunenburg, October 26, 1859, died at Lowell, November 3, 1890; married Mary Abbie Barrel, November 25, 1881. 2. Arthur Monroe, born at Lunenburg, December 9, 1861, married Florence M. Young, of Whitinsville, and they have-Arthur Ernest, born May 26, 1887; Francis Edward, born January 28, 1892, died March 1901; Carl Herbert, born March 14. 1896. 3. Emma Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 23, 1863, married, December 23, 1886, George Elijah Bemis, now dead. 4. Nellie Goodrich, born
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June 18, 1865, married, November 19, 1891, John Wilbur Mossman, of Fitchburg, and they have- Chester Wilbur, born February 5, 1893. 5. Ernest Keyes, born April 8, 1873, see forward.
(VIII) Ernest Keyes Proctor, son of Francis Adams Proctor (7), was born in Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts, April 8, 1873. He attended the public and high schools of his native town and took a year's course at Mt. Hermon Academy, Northfield, Massa- chusetts. For six years after his schooling he worked at home for his father. In 1896 he bought the place and has conducted it since then very suc- cessfully. He does an extensive produce business for which the city of Fitchburg provides a good market. lle has a dairy with some twenty-four cows and owns a milk route in the city of Fitchburg in con- nection with his dairy. He is a member of the Lunenburg Congregational Church and has been its collector for two years. In politics he is a repub- lican. Ile was formerly an officer of the Lunenburg Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is at present treasurer of the Milk Dealers' Association.
He married, September 2, 1896, Lizzie Kimball Francis, daughter of Alpheus Kimball and Sarah Rebecca (Stoughton) Francis. (See sketch of the Francis family of Lunenburg and Fitchburg.) Al- pheus K. Francis, her father, is a contractor and builder of Lunenburg. The only child of Ernest Keyes and Lizzie Kimball Proctor is: Edithi Keyes, born at Lunenburg, March II, 1901.
LORENZO DEAN, one of the most progressive of the younger generation of farmers in Boylston, is a son of James Lorenzo Dean, of Shrewsbury, and a grandson of James Dean, a native of Oak- ham, this county. His grandfather, who was born April 10, 1808, was reared upon a farm in Oak- ham, but early in life turned his attention to the produce trade and also to the fish business. Ile resided in Worcester for a time, but while still a young man located in Shrewsbury, where he en- gaged in manufacturing boots and shoes by hand. He evinced considerable interest in politics, and with the majority of the Whig element joined the Republican party at its formation. October 21, 1832, he married Keziah Stearns Hyde, of West- minster, Massachusetts, and was the father of seven chil Iren, namely : James Lorenzo, Theodore Lyman, Penjamin Angier, Henry Edson, Charles Augustus, Rosetta Adelia, Jefferson Archibald. Theodore Ly- man and Charles Augustus Dean served in the civil war.
James Lorenzo Dean was born in Worcester, March 22, 1835. He was prepared for a collegiate course in Shrewsbury and studied two years at Amherst College, at the expiration of which time he engaged in educational pursuits, teaching schools in Boylston, Shrewsbury, and other towns. He finally settled permanently in Shrewsbury and thence- forward devoted his energies to tilling the soil. Fle served with marked ability upon the school committee and was also a member of the board of assessors. In politics he acted with the Pro- hibitionists and never neglected an opportunity to emphasize his opposition to the liquor traffic. Keenly alive to the great possibilities open to the farmer, and appreciating fully his usefulness and importance to the prosperity of the state and Union, he availed himself of every advantage within his reach for the improvement of agricultural methods, and he found in the Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was an active member, an organization capable of advancing as well as protecting the general interests of the farming population. He attended the Congregational Church. James Lorenzo Dean married, April 23,
1863, Francelia Walker, daughter of Lowell and Harriet (Bartlett) Walker, of Milford, Massachu- setts. The children of this union are: James Lowell, Charles Everett. Harriet Eva and Lorenzo, the prin- cipal subject of this sketch. James Lowell mar- ried Charlotte Newton, now deceased, who bore him! two children, both of whom died in infancy. Charles Everett married Mary L. Harlow, and son-Everett. Harriet Eva is the wife of Frederick O. Newton.
Lorenzo Dean was born in Shrewsbury, July 5, 1876. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of eighteen years engaged in the poultry business, in which he acquired success. In 1899 he purchased his present farm in Boylston, which occupies a sightly location in the southerly part of the town, and he has ever since carried on gen- eral farming with prosperous results. Politically he acts with the Republican party. His religious affiliations are with the Congregational Church.
Ile married, June 5, 1901, Edna Lydia Seaver, daughter of Henry A. and Jennie ( Eccles) Seaver. She was born in Worcester, December 24, 1882, and educated in Lynn, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Dean have one son-James Henry, born July 27, 1901.
JAMES HILDRETH. Sergeant Richard Hil- dreth (1), the immigrant ancestor of James Hildreth, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was born in the north of England in 1615. He died 1688, aged seventy- three years. He settled first in Cambridge and was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. He removed to Woburn, Massachusetts. He was of the grantees of the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and by 1663 he had no less than eight grants of land from the general court, amounting altogether to one hun- dred and five acres. Ths history of Westford says : "The Hildreth homestead was about midway be- tween the centre and south villages of Chelmsford, This family also spread into Westford. A tract of land containing some five hundred acres on the cast side of the town came into their possession. It is not easy to give the exact boundaries. It in- cluded the houses with land attached of Augustus Bunce, George Porter Wright. the Drew Brothers ( Thomas and George), Isaac G. Minot and Julian llildretli. Providence Meadow was its northwest limit and the house of Edward Symmes stands not far from the east border. The Hildreths also took up two or three farms south and east of Tadmuck hill or that spur of it known as Prospect hill. Four or five houses there were at one time known as 'Hildreth Row.' Richard Hildreth had a special grant of one hundred and fifty acres of land from the general court in 1663 on account of having lost the use of his right hand, presumably in the service. He was accused in 1670 by Rev. John Fiske, of Chelmsford, of having used 'reproachful speech concerning the church,' and was disciplined by the church. Previously he had been charged by Deacon Esdras Reade in 1656 and 1661 with the use of similar 'seditious language' and was ordered to appear before the church authorities, but he re- fused to obey the order. His will was dated February 9. 1686, and proved some time after his death in 1688. Hle left land at Chelmsford to his son Ephraim, who was then living in Stow, including the homestead there, seven acres north of the Great pond, eighteen acres south and seventeen acres
east of it."
Ile married (first) Sarah ,who died 1644, and he married (second) Elizabeth who died at Malden. August 3. 1693. aged sixty-eight years. Children of Richard and Sarah Hildreth were: Jo-
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seph, married Abigail Wilson, December 12, 1683 ; James, born 1631, married, June I, 1659, Margaret Ward; Ephraim, see forward. Children of Richard and Elizabeth Hildreth were: Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 21, 1646; Sarah, born August 8, 1648. The preceding were born at Woburn where dates were given, the following at Chelmsford: Joseph, born April 16, 1658, married Abigail Wilson, December 12, 1683; Persis, born February 8, 1660; Thomas, born February 1, 1662; Isaac, born July, 1663, re- sided in Woburn; Abigail, married Moses Parker. (II) Ephraim Hildreth, son of Richard Hildreth (I), was born in Cambridge or Woburn. He set- tled in Stow, near Concord. He was there in 1695 when his nephew and namesake, Ephraim Hildreth, son of his brother, James Hildreth, chose him as guardian. He inherited the homestead at Chelms- ford of his father in 1688, hut seems to have re-, mained for some time if not all the remainder of his life in Stow. He was a carpenter by trade. He bought thirteen hundred acres of land in Dracut next land of Jonathan Belcher on the Merrimac. Judging from an agreement made October 4, 1680, with John Hayward, of Boston, Ephraim Hildreth moved from Concord to Stow about 1680 and con- tracted to buy lot No. 5. Ephraim Hildreth was a grantee of Concord, New Hampshire. He married Anna Moore, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Their children were: Joseph, born 1688; Abigail, 1691; James, 1692, died young; Ebenezer, 1696, settled in Westford; James, 1698, see forward; Anna, 1703; Thomas, 1707; Jacob, 1709: David, 1711; Josialı. (III) James Hildreth, son of Ephraim Hildreth (2), was born in Stow, Massachusetts, 1698. He settled in Westford on the place lately owned by Boynton Reed. He was a farmer. He married Dorothy - and their children, all born at West- ford, were: Rebecca, Zechariah, born 1728, see for- ward; Amos, 1730: Dorothy, about 1732; Dorothy, 1736, married Pelatiah Fletcher ; Lucy, 1742; Samuel, 1744. died 1748.
(IV) Lieutenant Zechariah Hildreth, son of James Hildreth (3), was born at Westford, Massa- chusetts, 1728. He helped build the meeting house in 1764. He was an officer in the revolution, second lieutenant in Captain Zachariah Wright's eighth company (second Westford), sixth Middlesex regi- ment of Massachusetts militia, chosen in council April 24, 1776, and reported commissioned the same day. Lieutenant Hildreth married, 1753. Elizabeth Prescott, daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth Prescott, of a famous old Concord family. They settled at Westford where their children were born, viz. : Zechariah, horn 1754, was a corporal in Captain Isaac Wood's company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment in 1778: Elizabeth, 1755; Hannah, 1758; Timothy, 1760: James, 1762: Lucy, 1764: Jonas, 1766, see forward; Ruth, 1768; Edy, 1771; Jesse, 1773; Hita, 1775.
(V) Jonas Hildreth, son of Zechariah Hildreth (4), was born at Westford, Massachusetts, 1766, died February, 1808, being frozen to death. He started in life as a farmer and owned a large farm, but, owing to unfortunate circumstances in helping others, he signed notes which finally deprived him of his property. In 1800 he lived in Lunenburg, where he owned a farm in the western part of the town. He married, 1791. Deliverance Johnson, of Westford, and their children were: Nancy, born December 21, 1794: Betsey, February 28, 1796; Samuel. March I, 1797: Jonas Prescott, November 21. 1708: James, January 8, 1800: Orin, December 21, 1802; George, September 24, 1803: Susanna A., May 22. 1805: Ilarriet, January 14, 1807; George, September 9, 1808.
(VI) George Hildreth, son of Jonas Hildreth (5), was born at Westford, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 9, 1808. He received his education in the common schools of that town and one term at Westford Academy. He went to Dorchester, at the age of sixteen, to work in the bakeshop of his elder brother, Samuel Hildreth. After a year there, he went to work in the chandlery of one Pierce and remained until he came of age, when he removed to Quincy, Massachusetts, and set up in business as a chandler, manufacturing soap and candles, then both important articles of household use. About 1834 he removed to Shirley, Massachusetts, where he and his brother James owned a farm of about a hundred acres. He bought out his brother and began what proved to be his chief life-work, farming. In 1841 he sold this farm and bought the old Misser farm of thirty-seven acres in Lunenburg, Massachu- setts, and he lived there and conducted the place until his death, April 10, 1856. He did considerable lumbering in his day. He was a inember of the Congregational Church. He belonged to the old Liberty party in its palmy days, but later became a Republican. He was much interested in the Free Soil party during its brief existence and was a dele- gate to many of the nominating conventions of that organization. He belonged for a time to the Ameri- can (Know-Nothing) party.
He married, May 22, 1820, Lucy Torrey Wins- low, born September 26, 1808, died February II, 1898, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Gross) Wins- low, of Hanover, Massachusetts. Her father was a carpenter, a descendant of Kenelm Winslow, of the Plymouth family of Winslows. Children of George and Lucy Torrey Hildreth were: I. George Prescott, born April 5, 1831, married Elvira Kim- ball Holden, of Fitchburg. 2. William Augustus, born December 10, 1832, married Helen Smith, of Lunenburg, and they have seven children, all born at Antrim, New Hampshire, except the eldest who was born in Lunenburg-William Augustus, Jr., Rosanna, Elvira, Inez, Ina, George, Helen. 3. Charles Henry, born May 20, 1834, married Mary M. Bald- win, of Lunenburg, and they have four children, all born in Lunenburg-Martha Jane, William Henry, Ida, Harriet. 4. Lucy Ann Frances, born Novem- ber 4, 1835, married (first) Oscar F. Harris, of Lun- enburg, and had one child-Lizzie Emily Harris; married (second) Marcellus Perrin, of Lunenburg, and had one son-Edmund Wellington Perrin. 5. Sophia Ann, born June 1I, 1837, married William H. Wheeler, of Fitchburg, captain in the civil war. 6. James, see forward. 7. Mary Brown, born Jan- uary 30, 1841, dicd November 6, 1849. 8. Martha Jane, born October 24, 1843, died November 6. 1849. 9. Rachel Maria, born May 15, 1849, died November 12, 1849. 10. Willard Porter, born Feb- ruary 13, 1852, married Ida S. Streeter. of West- borough, and they have eight children: Anna, Douglas, Harold, Donald, Charles Richmond, James, Robert, William.
(VII) James Hildreth, son of George Hildreth (6), was born in Shirley, Massachusetts, May 29. 1839. He was educated in the common schools of Lunenburg. His father dying in 1856, the care of the farm fell tipon his shoulders, though he was but seventeen years old. When he came of age he bought out the interests of the other heirs with the exception of his mother, who always made her home with him and for whom he ever cared in the most tender manner. He taught school in 1860 and 1861 in addition to running the farm, but has devoted his energies chiefly and almost exclusively to his farm. He has a large apple orchard and his dairy is notable. He is a man of strong constitution and
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