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(VI) George Eliab Mackintire, son of Eliab Parker Mackintire (5), was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 2, 1833. He married, De- cember 3. 1854, Arabella W. Barker, born Novem- ber 15. 1833. He resided at Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, where his children were born. At present his home is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a banker with office at 15 State street, Boston. His children are: George Winthrop, born at Charles- town, December 15, 1855, married, October 29, 1884, Mary Louise Miles, now resides in Worcester : Margarett Lawrie. born at Charlestown, March 13, 1857. married, February 4, 1886, John G. Taylor : Arabella Barker. born November 26, 1858.
George W. Mackintire, treasurer of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, resides at 131 Lincoln street. Although branches of his family settled in Worcester county, his immediate ancestors were from Burlington. Massachusetts, where the name was spelled in various ways, Mr. Mackintire's grandfather having the present form of the spell- ing fixed by the legislature. His parents are George E. and Arabella W. (Barker) Mackintire. His pa- ternal grandmother was Mary Tufts, of Boston. The Tufts family is one of the old and respected families of the commonwealth. Mr. Mackintire's father, George E. Mackintire, resides in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, and is a Boston man, having held for many years responsible positions in connection with the banking house of Estabrook & Co.
George W. Mackintire was born in Boston, De- cember 15. 1855. The family lived at Newton, Massachusetts, during his youth, and his education was received in the schools there. After leaving the Newton high school, he entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1875, but ill health prevented his completing the course and graduating. In 1874 he went to India and for eleven years was connected with a banking and shipping house with branches in Calcutta, Madras and Batavia, in all of which cities he resided at different times. Upon his final return to America, he entered the Worcester National Bank as assistant cashier, from which bank he was called to his present position. He is a mem- ber of the Commonwealth Club, of the Tatnuck Country Club and of Central church. He is a Re- publican, but has never been attracted to any pub- lic office. He is on the board of investment and one of the trustees of the Five Cents Savings Bank.
He married, October 29, 1884. Mary L. Miles, daughter of Charles M. and Mary E. (Holden) Miles, of Rutland. She was born in Worcester, August 20, 1858. The names of both her parents are of families well known and highly respected in Worcester county. They have one child, Persis L., born in Worcester, June 18, 1886.
MILES FAMILY. The father of Mrs. George W. Mackintire, of Worcester, was Charles M. Miles, of Rutland, Massachusetts. He is descended in
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direct line from John Miles or Myles, one of the first settlers of Concord, Massachusetts.
(1) John Miles was born in England or Wales. He came to Boston and in 1638-39 was made a free- man of that town. He settled at Concord, Massa- chusetts, where his daughter Mary was born De- cember 11, 1639.
(II) John Miles, son of John Miles (1), date and place of birth unknown, married Sarah - who died May 18, 1678. Married (second) Susan- nah Rediat,, February 10, 1679. He died August 26, 1693. His children were: John, born March 20, 1680; Samuel, born December 14, 1681; Sarah, born March 25. 1686. These children were born at Concord and there were probably others.
(11) John Miles, son of John (2) and Susan- nah (Rediat) Miles, was born at Concord, May 20, 1680. He married Mary Prescott, at Concord, April 16. 1702. Their children were: John, born Decem- ber 24, 1702; Jonathan, born February 13, 1705-06. Mary, born October 18, 1709; Elizabeth, born No- vember 16, 1714; James, born August I, 1719; Ben- jamin, born November 26, 1724.
(IV) Captain Benjamin Miles, son of John (3) and Mary Miles, was born at Concord, November 26, 1724, and died at Rutland, January 8, 1776. He married Mary Hubbard, of Concord, from one of the first families, daughter of Ebenezer Hubbard, May 16, 1751. Together with some of his wife's relatives and other Concord people he settled in Rutland, Massachusetts, on Joyner's Hill, buying a farm of one of the Hubbards. He was a leading figure in the early history of the town. holding many town offices, and was captain of the militia during the Indian wars. Their children as recorded at Rutland were: Mary, born May 29, 1752; Ben- jamin, born March II, 1754; Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 20. 1756; Ebenezer, born May 20, 1758; Sarah, born August 10, 1760; Barzilla, born May 24, 1763; John, born August 14. 1765, died June 29, 1766; John, born July 8, 1767: Hannah, baptized March 25, 1770. (V) Ebenezer Miles, son of Benjamin (4) and Mary Miles, was born May 20, 1758, at Rutland. He married Molly Hudson, of Oakham, November 10, 1785. They lived at Rutland and these children were born there: . Hephza Hudson, born May 24, 1786, died September 27, 1825, unmarried; Willard M., born February 20, 1788: Joseph, born November 21, 1790; Sally Hosmer, born April 10, 1793; Eben- ezer Hubbard, born December 29, 1795, lived in Rut- land and died there April 8, 1827; Charles, baptized April 22. 1798, died July 21, 1798; Polly, born July 29. 1799. died March 10, 1809; Adelaide, baptized July 27, 1803; Adin H., born and died February 10, 1809.
(VI) Willard M. Miles, son of Ebenezer (5) and Molly Miles, was born at Rutland, February 20, 1788. He married Alice Browning. November 28, 1816. Their children, all born at Rutland, were: Mary Elizabeth, baptized September 3. 1819; Charles Moore, baptized November 5, 1820; James Brown- ing, born November 3, 1822; Edward Willard, bap- tized November 12, 1826; Alice Juliet, baptized De- cember 2. 1830; Daniel Augustus, baptized Septem- ber 27, 1835.
(VII) Charles Moore Miles, son of Willard (6) and Alice Miles, was born at Rutland, Massachu- setts. November 5, 1820, married Mary Elizabeth Holden, June 12, 1855. Their daughter, Mary L. Miles, married George W. Mackintire. ( See sketch. ) HOLDEN FAMILY. Richard Holden came from England to America at the age of twenty-five years, sailing in the ship "Francis" from Ipswich. April 30, 1634. He settled in Watertown and was
an early proprietor. He resided afterwards at Woburn, Cambridge and Groton. He married Mar- tha, daughter of Stephen Fosdick. She died Decem- ber 6, 1681. Richard Holden died March 1, 1696, at Groton.
Stephen Holden, son of Richard and Martha Fosdick Holden, settled in Groton. He married Hannah. daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, who was ensign in the militia, deacon in the church, and one of the first representatives of the town of Groton under the charter of William and Mary, 1693. Stephen Holden died November IS, 1715.
Benjamin Holden, son of Stephen and Hannah Lawrence Holden, married Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Mason Ockinton. Their chil- dren were: Benjamin, born March 10, 1729; John, born December 31, 1731, died February 19, 1732; Mindwell, born February 16, 1733, married Samuel Farrington, September 12, 1751; Sarah, born July 13, 1735. Benjamin Holden, Sr., at the time of his marriage, May 8, 1728, lived in Needham, and afterwards moved to Dedham. He died and his widow married Samuel Bullard, June 5, 1746. Mrs. Bullard, mother of Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Holden, died in Princeton from the effect of a fall, aged eighty years.
Benjamin Holden, Jr., married Katherine Rich- ards. daughter of Dr. Richards and his wife, Mary Belcher. They moved from Dedham to Princeton. He served in King George's war. Was sergeant and lieutenant in the French and Indian war. Was member of Provincial congress. Commissioned as lieutenant-colonel in Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's regiment. Commission signed by General Joseph Warren, May 19, 1775. He commanded his regi- ment at the battle of Bunker Hill. Afterwards was lieutenant-colonel of Twenty-seventh Foot com- manded by Colonel Israel Hutchinson. Commis- sion signed by General Hancock, January 1, 1776. tie commanded the detachment furnished from Ft. Lee by General Washington's orders, November 14, 1776, to re-inforce Fort Washington. He was wounded and taken prisoner at that battle and held from November, 1776, to May, 1778. He was a member of the Church of England. Children were : Benjamin, Joseph, Joel, Katherine and Lucy. He died at Princeton, Massachusetts, November 24, 1820. Katherine Richards Holden died July 28, 1817.
Joel Holden, Sr., son of Lieutenant-Colonel and Katherine Richards Holden, was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, November 30, 1772. He married Fidelia Mirick, born in Princeton, Massachusetts, May 25, 1770. Their children were: Eliza, Joel, Jr., and Lucy Richardson, who died aged four years, Lucy Richardson (2). Joel, Sr., died March 17, 1856, aged eighty-three years. Fidelia Mirick, his wife, died January 26, 1859, aged eighty-eight years.
Joel Holden, Jr., son of Joel Holden, Sr., and his wife. Fidelia Mirick Holden, was born in Rutland, Massachusetts. August 21, 1804. He married Persis Louisa Estabrook, born in Rutland, Massachusetts, May 4. 1810. Their children, all born in Rutland, were : Eleanor Dana, born September 15. 1830; Mary Elizabeth, born November 6, 1832; Harriet Augusta, born January 24, 1835; Susan Maria, born March 26, 1838: George Warren, born September 14. 1840. Joel Holden, Jr., and family left Rutland, Massachusetts, May 4. 1841, and arrived in Salem, Montgomery county, Ohio, May 20, 1841. Moved to Dayton, Ohio. August 10, 1843. Persis L. E. Holden died May 30, 1845. Joel Holden, Jr., died August 26, 1900.
Mary Elizabeth Holden married Charles M.
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Miles, June 12, 1855. Their daughter, Mary L., born August 20, 1858, married George W. Mackin- tire, October 29, 1884.
GEORGE A. FLAGG. Thomas Flagg, immi- grant ancestor of George A. Flagg, of Holliston, Massachusetts, and in fact of all the Flagg families that have been traced in this country, was baptized at Whinburgh, county Norfolk, England, in 1615, the son of Bartholomew and Alicia Flagg or Fleg, as the name was then more commonly spelled. The an- cestry of Thomas Flagg in England has been traced back to William Flegg, who died in 1426, and men- tion is made of various Fleggs and De Fleggs ill the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the head of this family was Lord of the Manor of Flegg Hall, Winterton, Hundred of East Flegg, county Norfolk. (See North's History of Augusta, Maine).
Thomas Flagg came to this country with Richard Carver in 1637, embarking at Scratby, Norfolk, and was settled at Watertown as early as 1641. He had a homestall of six acres, also twenty acres originally granted July 25, 1636, to John Rose. Flagg was prominent in town affairs. He was selectman from 1671 to 1676, in 1678, 1681 and from 1685 to 1687. He was lieutenant of the military company. His petition dated April 4, 1659, shows that he lost his left eye by a gunshot wound. His wife Mary was born in England about 1619. Flagg died February 6, 1697-98. His will was dated March 5, 1697, and proved February 16, 1697-98. He bequeathed to his wife Mary; sons Michael, Thomas, Eleazer, Allen and Benjamin; daughters Mary and Elizabeth Bige- low and Rebecca Cooke; grandchildren John Flagg and the heirs of deceased son Gershom. The
widow's will was proved April 21, 1703. The chil- dren of Thomas and Mary Flagg: I. Gershom, born at Watertown, April 16, 1641, tanner at Woburn in 1668, lieutenant in King William's war and killed by Indians on the shore of Wheelwright's pond, July 6, 1690. Married, 1668, Hannah Leppingwell. 2. John, born June 14, 1643, resided at Watertown; married, 1670, Mary Gale. 3. Bartholomew, born at Watertown, February 23, 1644-45, served in Cap- tain Samuel Moseley's company in King Philip's war, 1675. 4. Thomas, born April 28, 1646, resided at Watertown and died 1719; married, 1667-68, Re- becca Dix. 5. William, born 1648, killed at Lancas- ter, August 22, 1675, while on guard duty in King Philip's war. 6. Michael, born March 23, 1650-51, one of the first proprietors of Worcester in 1674 at the first attempted settlement, soldier in King Philip's war; married Mary Bigelow and ( second ) Mary (Lawrence) Earle. 7. Eleazer, born May 14, 1653, see forward. S. Elizabeth, born March 22, 1654-55, died August 9, 1729; married, 1676, Joshua Bigelow. 9. Mary, born January 14, 1656-57, died September 7, 1770; married, 1674, Samuel Bigelow. IO. Rebecca, born September 5, 1660, died 1721; married, 1679, Deacon Stephen Cook. II. Benja- min, born June 25, 1662, resided in Worcester, com- ing at the third settlement ; married, 1689, Experience Child. 12. Allen, born May 16, 1665, died November, 1711 ; married, 1684-85, Sarah Ball.
(II) Eleazer Flagg, son of Thomas Flagg (I), was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, May 14, 1653. He settled in Concord and followed his trade of tanner there. Like his three brothers he served in King Philip's war. He was in Captain Samuel Ap- pleton's company in the Narragansett Expedition, 1675. He was admitted a freeman March 20, 1690. He was often elected a town officer. He died at Concord, May I, 1722. He married at Concord, Oc- tober 10, 1676, Deborah Wright, whose first hus- band, John Barnes, was killed by the Indians at
Sudbury, March 31, 1676. She was perhaps the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Wright, of Con- cord. Their children: Deborah, born at Concord, October 9, 1677; Abigail, born March 9, 1679-80, died August II, 1680; Eleazer, born 1687, see for- ward; Priscilla, married, 1705, Joseph Wheat, of Concord; Joseph, married, 1713, Mary Tompkins, of Salem.
(III) Eleazer Flagg, son of Eleazer Flagg (2), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, 1687. He also resided in Concord and served that town as con- stable, highway surveyor and in other positions. He was one of the original forty proprietors of the town of Grafton, then Hassanamisco, and shared in the various divisions to proprietors from 1728 to 1744, but there is no evidence that he ever lived there. He had one hundred and fifty acres of land there or more, conveyed by deeds of gift to his sons; to Eleazer fifty acres, November 17, 1731; to Robert thirty-four acres, January 26, 1737-38; to Nathaniel forty-three and a half acres, February 7, 1744. Eleazer received a share of Templeton, Narragansett, No. 6, on account of his father's service in King Philip's war. He died at Concord, March 28, 1745, in his fifty-ninth year.
He married, January 26, 1708-09, Deborah Tomp- kins, daughter of John, Jr., and Rebecca (Knight) Tompkins. She was born at Salem, January 8, 1688-89, died at Grafton, December 16, 1753. Their children : Eleazer, born at Concord, October 23, 1709, see forward; Nathan, bought land at Grafton of Jonathan Rolf, April 15, 1754; Robert, born Au- gust 25, 1713, removed to Grafton, 1735, on George Hill; Nathaniel, born May 21, 1716, soldier in the Crown Point Expedition in 1755; Deborah, born February 13, 1718-19, died before 1751; married, October 19, 1749, Jacob Whittemore; James, born May 3, 1723, removed to Upton about 1750, thence to Wilmington, Vermont, 1783; married Anna Morse, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jonathan, born February 3, 1725-26, died at Bolton, September 26, 1747; Abigail, born January 25, 1728-29, mar- ried Jonathan Rolf, of Westborough; Elizabeth, born January 25, 1728-29, married Nelson.
(IV) Eleazer Flagg, son of Eleazer Flagg (3), was born at Concord, Massachusetts, October 23, 1709. He was apparently the first to conform to the spelling Flagg, his ancestors using Flegg, Flagg, Fleg and even Flec, promiscuously. He spent his early days in Concord, but as early as 1731 be- came a land owner in Grafton, where his father was a proprietor in 1728. His farm was on the east slope of Chestnut Hill. An interesting relic of the settlement is a wooden bowl which he carved out of a tree trunk in 1732, inherited last by Charles A. Flagg, of the Congressional Library, Washing- ton, and given by him to the Worcester Society of Antiquity. The farm house erected there in 1745 was torn down in 1845 to make way for a new one. The site was north of the brick house built later by Peter Hunt. Eleazer Flagg was appointed deputy sheriff by Benjamin Flagg, sheriff of the county, his cousin, July 29, 1746, and he held the office several years. He kept a public house a few years. He died at Grafton, August S, 1771. He was feeble and helpless for several years before his death, but was cared for by his daughter Submit, who devoted all her time to him for several years.
He married, at Concord, September 28, 1731, Huldah Chandler, daughter of Samuel and Dorcas (Buss) Chandler. She was born at Concord, July 5, 1709. He was received in full communion in the Grafton church, January 27, 1765. Their children : Huldah, born December 14, 1732, died at West Sutton, January 24, 1825; married, 1762, Stephen
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Waters; Eleazer, born November 12, 1734, died at Grafton, February 10, 1767; married, 1703, Sarah Chandler; Simon, born May 25, 1736, died at Graf- ton, May 26, 1730; John, born Angust 2, 1737; Mary, born March 19. 1740, died April 6, 1824; married, 1763, Benjamin Goddard; Samuel, born December 5, 1741, see forward; Submit, born September 5, 1744, died at Berlin, Vermont, March 14, 1839; mar- ried, 1773, Daniel Hayden.
(V) Samuel Flagg, son of Eleazer Flagg (4). was born in Grafton, December 5, 1741. He re- mained on the homestead and helped his father, succeeding to the farm when his father died in 1771. It was located in the Merriam district of Grafton, and lie was one of the best and most pros- perous farmers of the town in his day. He manu- factured malt in large quantities also, and was widely known as Maltster Flagg. He was of a retiring disposition without political ambition. He was a member of the board of selectmen of Grafton in 1782, 1801 and 1805. In religion he was a Baptist, but his wife was a member of the Congregational church, where their children were baptized. George WV. Drury, who in youth was a hired man in Flagg's family, one said: "He was the best man all in all, that I ever knew." Flagg died in Grafton, October 17, 1822.
He married, at Grafton, December 28, 1769, Lydia Rockwood, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth (Adams) Rockwood. She was born in Upton, Sep- tember 12, 1751, died at Grafton, October 1, 1824. Their children, all born in Grafton, were: Huldah, born September 15, 1770, died at Grafton, October 21, 1778; Samuel, born August 9, 1772, died at Grafton, November 7. 1778; Sally born September 24, 1774, died at Grafton, March 28, 1763: married (first), 1791, John Barnett; (second), 1823, Amos Ellis : Abel, born April 16. 1777, died at Grafton, October 15, 1778; Jeremiah, born December 26, 1779, died at Grafton, August 27, 1843; married (first), 1799, Lydia Drury; (second), 1801, Sarah ( Brigham ) Kingsbury; Chandler, born January I, 1782, died at Marblehead, Massachusetts, September 10, 1859; married, 1815, Lucretia B. Lewis; Benja- min, born April 25, 1784, see forward; Joseph, born December 2, 1786, died at Grafton, December 5, 1841 ; married, 1821, Olivia R. Milliken.
(VI) Dr. Benjamin Flagg, son of Samuel Flagg (5), was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, April 25. 1784. He studied medicine under Dr. John Green in Worcester (see sketch) and began to practice medicine in Grafton. He removed in 1807 to Athens, Maine, then a new and sparsely settled town. He was prominent in public life and was elected to various town offices in Athens. He was a physician of high repute and skill. He died at Athens, January 1, 1816. He married (first), 1806, Lydia Harrington, daughter of Noah and Lois (Kingsley) Harrington. She was born at Shrews- bury, December 25, 1784. They separated and she married (second), 1811, Zadock Sibley, of Millbury, and died at Millbury, October 27, 1832. He mar- ried (second), 1815, Lydia Leighton, daughter of Jonathan and Mary ( Rogers) Leighton. She was born about 1789 in Harmony, Maine. She married (second) Levi Emery, of Skowhegan, where she died December 6, 1861. The only child of Dr. Ben- jamin and Lydia Flagg: Benjamin, born at Wor- cester, March 9. 1807, see forward. The only child of Dr. Benjamin and Lydia (Leighton) Flagg : Sarah Benjamin, born at Athens, Maine, March 2, 1816, died at Skowhegan, Maine, December 19, 1896; married, 1839, Ephraim Bigelow.
(VII) Benjamin Flagg, son of Dr. Benjamin Flagg (6), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
March 9, 1807. He was educated in the public schools there, and the academy at Hadley, Massa- chusetts. In early life he associated with A'sa H. Waters under the firm name of Flagg & Waters, for some years manufactured military arms for the United States government at the armory which gave the name to Armory Village in Millbury. This armory filled with its Yankee mechanies fur- nished many inventions in the art of iron and steel working. Benjamin Flagg invented here the milling machine. This invention (extended later to wood working) ranks with the great inventions in the mechanical world. Thomas J. Harrington having joined the partnership, the firm name became A. H. Waters & Co. This firm for some twenty-five years, until the close of the civil war, had continuously large contracts to furnish arms to the government. Upon the dissolution of this firm in 1867 he and Thomas J. Harrington, associating with themselves George H. Flagg, son of Benjamin, took the cotton mill property of the old firm and continued the business of cotton manufacturing, their miils being known as the Millbury Cotton Mills.
He married (intentions dated March 17, 1838) Harriet Whiting, daughter of Asa and Clarissa ( Hill) Whiting. She was born in 1818, in Hollis- ton, Massachusetts. Their children, born at Mill- bury, were; Francis Whiting, born December 27, I841, died at Holliston, January 6, 1881; married Caroline C. Foster; George Augustus, born May 2, 1845, see forward; Henry Thomas, born December 5, 1848, died at Millbury, August 30, 1864.
(VIII) Colonel George Augustus Flagg, son of Benjamin Flagg (7), was born in Millbury, Massa- chusetts, May 2, 1845. He attended the public schools there and fitted for college at Phillips' Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1866 with the degree of A. B. and in 1868 from the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL. B. In 1869 he received the degree of A. M. from Harvard Uni- versity. He began to practice his profession in Mill- bury, where his father lived. He was a Republican and became prominent in public life. In 1877 he represented the district, of which Millbury was a part, in the general court. In 1883 he was seere- tary of the Republican state committee during the campaign resulting in the defeat of General Butler for re-election as governor. Upon the nomination of Blaine in 1884 Flagg resigned, becoming a mug- wump. He became associated with his father in cotton manufacturing in Millbury, their mills being known as the Millbury Cotton Mills. After he sold his interests in Millbury he made his home in Hol- liston. He served as assistant adjutant general with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Robin- son, 1884-85-86. In 1879 he became auditor of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company of Michigan, its principal office being in Boston, and in 1893 was elected secretary and treasurer, his present position. He occupies an important sphere in the financial and business world. He is a member of the Union Club of Boston.
He married Fanny Walker Jewett, daughter of Charles Augustus and Susan Willard ( Flint) Jew- ett. His wife was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb- ruary 6, 1848. Their children: George Benjamin, born March 20, 1870, see forward. Charles Jewett, born in Boston, May 25, 1874, graduate of Boston Latin School, A. B. Harvard, 1898, LL. B. Harvard, 1901, lawyer, practicing in Boston, residing in Hol- liston; he married Ethel Parker. Henry Whiting, born in Boston, July 3. 1877, graduate of Harvard College, 1900, employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Co., Boston; resides at Holliston, unmarried.
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(IX) George Benjamin Flagg, son of George Augustus Flagg (8), was born in Washington, D. C., March 20, 1870. He attended the public schools and Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was graduated in 1889. He is in the em- ploy of the Calumet & Hecla Smelting Works at Buffalo. New York. He married at Detroit, Michi- gan, November 15, 1899, Madeline Taylor Smith, daughter of Frederick Butler and Viola Edna (Taylor) Smith. His wife was born at Clarkston, Michigan, May 28, 1876. They have one child- Jewett Taylor Flagg, born at Buffalo, December 31, 1900.
HERRICK FAMILY. The Herrick family in England is descended from a Danish chief known as Eric, the Forester. As the line has been traced in England it begins with Eric or Eyryk, of Great Stretton and of Houghton, Leicester county, and continues through Henry (II), son of Eyryk (I), John (III). son of Henry (II) ; Robert (IV), who married Joanna and had William, see for- ward: John, Robert and Adeline.
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