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In January, 1871, Mr. Morse was united in mar- riage to Emilia G. Christian, daughter of Thomas S. Christian, of Detroit, Michigan, and they are the parents of two children: Anna G., born October 9. 1871, a member of the faculty of Adelphi Col -. lege, Broolyn, New York; and Willard Ives, born September 17, 1884, secretary of the Royal Comb Company, Leominster, Massachusetts.
DYER DAVIS. William Davis (1), ancestor of Dyer Davis, of Dudley, was in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, 1642. A tradition held extensively in the family is that he came from Wales about 1635. He was born in 1617 and married (first) Eliza- beth -. She was buried May 4, 1658. He mar- ried (second), October 21, 1658, Alice Thorpe. She was buried February 24, 1667. He married (third) Jane He was admitted to full communion April 20, 1673. Elizabeth, his wife, was a member of the church October 7, 1649, when their three eldest children were baptized. He died December 9, 1683. widow Jane died May 12, 1714, at Watertown, at the residence of Josiah Goddard, who married hier daughter Rachel. He had three children by his first wife, four by the second and three by the third. Six other children are believed to have been the children of Jane. The children were born at Roxbury and baptized in the church there. They were: John, born October 1, 1643; Samuel, born February 21, 1645; Joseph, born October 12, 1647; William and Elizabeth (twins), baptized June 14, 1663, buried December 18, 1678; Mathew, baptized January 24, 1664, settled at Woodstock, Connecticut ; Jonathan, born February 2, 1665, settled at Wood- stock; Mary, born March 28, 1669; Jane, born De- cember 24. 1670; Rachel, born August 26, 1672, married, January 28, 1696, Josiah Goddard, of Watertown, and had nine children; Benjamin, bap- tized January 7, 1674; Ichabod, baptized April I, 1676: Ebenezer, baptized April 9, 1678; William, baptized January 3, 1680; Sarah, baptized July 20, 1681 ; Isaac, baptized April 18. 1683.
(II) Joseph Davis, son of William Davis (1), was born October 12, 1647, at Roxbury, Massachu- setts. He married Sarah Chamberlain, who owned the covenant February 8, 1673. Their children, born at Roxbury, were: Joseph, baptized February 22, 1673; Sarah, baptized February 22, 1673; Mary, baptized December 12, 1675: Hannah, baptized March 21, 1680; Benjamin, baptized February 22, 1684; Mehitable, baptized February 22, 1684; Abi- gail. baptized April 15, 1688.
(III) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph (2), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, probably 1671. He mar- ried (first) Sarah -: he married (second), De- cember 8, 1715, Elizabeth Lane. Of his seven chil-
dren the first six were by his wife Sarah. He was a cordwainer at Roxbury: in 1710 he bought of his father a house and fifteen acres of land, partly in Roxbury, partly in Brookline, the house being in Brookline. He sold this place in 1717 to Joseph Scott. He died soon after, intestate. Jacob Cham- berlain was the administrator. Most of his chil- dren, if not all of them, settled in Woodstock, Con- necticut. His children were: Joseph, born at Rox- bury, July 26, 1697; John, born October 30, 1699, at Roxbury, resided at Woodstock, married, June 8, 1721, Martha Griggs; Sarah, born at Roxbury, May, 1702, married, January 21, 1722, Joshua Healy ; Samuel, born June 27, 1704. married, August I, 1728, Hannah Bacon, settled at Woodstock; Joshua, born November 20, 1706, resided at Woodstock, married, December 15, 1731, Sarah Pierpont ; Ben- jamin, born March 4, 1710, at Brookline, resided at Woodstock; Ebenezer, born November 11, 1717, at Brookline.
(IV) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph Davis (3), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 26, 1697, married, January 31, 1723, at Roxbury, Sarah Cur- tiss. She died March 5, 1727. He married ( sec- ond) Ruth Griggs, probably daughter of James Griggs. He lived and died on the homestead bought in 1743 near the southeast corner of Oxford town- ship, known for many years in the vicinity as Ban- nock City. All his children were born at Wood- stock, the first three by Sarah, the others by Ruth. The children were: Sarah, born November 23, 1723; Joseph, born March 7, 1725, married Sarah, daugh- ter of Deacon Samuel Davis, of Oxford; Rachel, born February 11, 1727; James, born October 8, 1734: Ruth, born October 6, 1735: Jemima, born November 25, 1736, married, March 28, 1780, Jo- seph, son of Benjamin Davis, of Oxford; Abigail, baptized February 11, 1739, married John Learned, of Oxford: William, baptized October 19, 1740; William, baptized March 6, 1743, married Sibyl Davis, daughter of Benjamin Davis, of Oxford.
(V) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph Davis (4), was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, March 7, 1725; he married. July 6, 1758, Sarah Davis, daughter of Samuel and Mary Davis. She was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, December 31, 1734. Joseph Davis was a farmer ; owned a tract of land in what is now the centre of Webster South village, and also the site of the Stevens linen works, with the water power in Dudley. Here he had a saw mill, which he oper- ated. He later bought land and settled about a mile westerly from the river, and his homestead is now in possession of Hon. Ebenezer Davis (1830) his grandson. He engaged somewhat in business operations and went often to Boston markets with farm produce, which he exchanged for groceries, in which he dealt to a considerable extent. He was known as a man of character and integrity.
(VI) Joshua Davis, son of Joseph Davis (5). was born July 25, 1774: married, March 13, 1793, Susannah Dodge, of Dudlev. Massachusetts. He settled at Dudley, where he died April 19, 1829. He was an enterprising farmer. Their children, all born at Dudley, were : Chester, born April 29, 1799; Dyer, born January 19. 1801 : Rhoda born January 2. 1803; Ziha, born December 3, 1805: Joshua, horn March 15, 1807: Susanna, born September 9, 1810: Adaline, born February 3, 1812, died June 18, 1814: Frederick, horn January 22, 1816; Prince, born February 24, 1823,
(VII) Dyer Davis, son of Joshua Davis (6), was born at Dudley, Massachusetts, January 19, 1801 ; married, January 1, 1828. Betsey Haven. He died December 19, 1843, at Dudley. He was a farmer and lived on the homestead at Dudley. He
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was prosperous. He served the town as selectman twice. He was an active worker in the Congrega- tional Church. His wife Betsey was born at Wood- stock, September 3, 1803. After his death she mar- ried (second) John Fortune, of Pennsylvania, No- vember 22, 1847. The children of Dyer Davis were: Lucy Ann, born August 5, 1831, died July 17, 1844; Dyer, born June 6, 1839.
(VIII) Dyer Davis, son of Dyer Davis (7), was born at Dudley, June 6, 1839. He was educated in the common schools and at Nichols Academy in Dudley. In early life he purchased an interest in and conducted with H. W. Williams the latter's general store at Dudley. Later he bought a farm where he has since resided. In the civil war he was the first man to enlist when a company was formed in Dudley. The company was disbanded after drilling three weeks. Mr. Davis has been con- stable of Dudley for fourteen years. He is an active supporter of the Congregational Church.
He married, February 28, 1863, at Dudley, Sarah Munroe, daughter of Sylvester Munroe. She was born June 30, 1842, died December 13, 1896. Their children were: Fred, born June 11, 1864, died De- cember 16, 1866; Jennie H., born October 21. 1865; Ella F., born April 6, 1867; Bessie A., born Septem- ยท ber 3, 1868; Fred D., born August 1, 1870; Mary Edna, born June 7, 1872; Nina Belle, born March 4, 1880.
(IX) Jennie Davis, daughter of Dyer Davis (8), born October 21, 1865, married David Nicholls, of New Boston, Connecticut, and has a son Ralph and a daughter who died in childhood.
(IX) Mary Edna Davis, daughter of Dyer Davis (8), was born at Dudley, June 7, 1870, married Robert Searles, of Webster, Massachusetts. One child, Gwendoline Searles survives, and one died in infancy. Mr. Searles is a newspaper man, at present correspondent in Webster for the Worcester Telegram.
REV. SAMUEL MAY. Among the co-workers and intimate associates of the "Old Guard" of Anti- Slavery workers, including Garrison, Phillips and Whittier, was he whose name heads this memoir. He was a veteran philanthropist and reformer, whose home was at Leicester, Worcester county, where was born that spirit of freedom and anti-slavery public opinion that spread throughout the entire country.
Rev. Samuel May was born in Boston. April II, 1810, the eldest child of Samuel and Mary (God- dard) May. and the third of his name in direct line and was sixth in generation from John May, who came from Sussex, England, with two sons. John and Samuel. in 1640, and settled at Roxbury, Massa- chusetts. The line of descent is as follows:
(1) John May, eighth immigrant, born 1590, died 1670.
(II) John May, son of John (1), born 1631, died 1671, married Sarah (Brewer) Bryce.
(III) John May, son of John (2), born 1663, died 1730; married Prudence Bridge.
(IV) Ebenezer May, son of John (3), born 1692, died 1752: married Abigail Gore. He lived and died at Roxbury, Massachusetts.
(V) Samuel May, son of Ebenezer (4). born 1723. died 1794: married (first) Catherine Mears : (second) Abigail Williams. He was a builder and lumber merchant; a member of the Old South Church, Boston, in revolutionary war days, and. was a man of much skill and great energy.
(VI) Samuel May, son of Samuel (5). born 1776. died 1870: married Mary Goddard. who died in 1882. He was for many years a hardware mer- chant in Boston and interested in various manufac-
turing enterprises elsewhere. He served as over- seer of the poor and was an officer in the Provident. Institution for Savings. He was also one of the proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum. Seven chil- dren were born to Mr. May and wife, six of whom grew to maturity. They were: Samuel, born April II, ISI0; John Joseph, born 1813; Edward Augustus, born 1817, died 1838; Frederick Warren Goddard, born 1821; Mary Goddard. born 1824; Louisa God- dard, born 1827, died 1828; Abigail Williams, born 1829.
(VII) Rev. Samuel May, son of Samuel (6), born April 11, 1810, married Sarah Russell, No- vember 11, 1835. The children of Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Russell) May were: Adeline, born Sep- tember 4, 1836; Edward, born January 20, 1838; Jo- seph Russell, born October 30, 1844; Elizabeth God- dard, born April 21, 1850.
Samuel May fitted himself for college at the school of Deacon Samuel Greele in Boston, and at the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard Col- lege in 1825. aged fifteen years. He received his academic degree in 1829, and was elected class secre- tary, which position he held throughout his event- ful life. The class book, containing the records in- scribed in his clear and beautiful copper-plate hand- writing. has been delivered to Harvard University. Among his classmates were noted national char- acters, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, Rev. S. F. Smith, author of "America," Chief Justice Bigelow and James Freeman Clark, D. D. The class numbered fifty-nine, all but two of whom died before Samuel May.
Upon leaving Harvard Mr. May studied theology one year with his cousin, Rev. Samuel J. May, at Brooklyn, Connecticut. He continued his studies at the Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachu- setts, from which he was graduated in August, 1833. In September, 1833, Mr. May preached in Leicester to a new Unitarian society, the Second Congregational. which had been incorporated early that year. Services were held at first in the old town hall, but on August 12, 1834, a church was dedicated. Mr. May was permanently engaged to preach in June of that year and on the following August 13. he was ordained and installed. Perhaps no better description of the activities of his life can be here recorded than to insert an extract from the Worces- ter Evening Gazette, just preceding his eighty-fifth birthday celebration.
"In 1833 he had begun to feel the nation's re- sponsibility for slavery ; and he early identified him- self with the small and despised body known as abolitionists-men and women from every sect and party. and of pronounced views in religion, politics and social philanthropy, many of them thoughtful and devoted heroes who 'recognized in slavery the one great curse, disgrace of and menace to Amer- ican institutions, and spared no labor nor sacrifice in denouncing and opposing iniquitous legislation and party bargains which tended to reinforce and ex- tend the cvil.' Party feeling was intensely hitter, and there was prevalent a very general opinion that a minister should have no decided opinions, or if he had. should refrain from expressing his views. On questions of justice and human rights, Mr. Mav did not refrain from opening his lips."
In England, in 1843. he was instrumental in call- ing the attention of British Unitarians to the Amer- ican anti-slavery movement and enlisting the strong and valuable co-operation of Dr. John B. Estlin and Rev. George Armstrong, of Bristol, England. In 1846 he devoted himself to the great anti-slavery society movement. In 1847 he became agent for the
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Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and with the exception of about six months, when health hindered him, he held the position, doing yeoman's service as a platform speaker and organizer until 1868, when his mission was accomplished. He was presi- dent of the Worcester County South Division Anti- Slavery Society several years. After the close of the rebellion he, with many friends, embarked in the activities of the Freedman's Aid Society, whose beneficent work, enlarged, continues in the Hamp- ton School, Virginia ; the Tuskegee School, Alabama, and the Atlanta University, Georgia.
Mr. May was fifty-one years old when the civil war broke out and was exempt by age and profes- sion from taking up arms, but with renewed zeal he wielded his pen and raised his voice in the national service. He never lost interest in the church work at Leicester to his last days on earth. Neither did age preclude his activities as a citizen interested in the welfare of Leicester. From records it may be found that he served as a member of the school board for twenty-one years, and was a trustee of the Lecester Academy at the time of his death. For thirty-four years he was a trustee and the purchasing agent of the Leicester public library. In 1875 he was elected as a member of the house of representatives for Massachusetts, serving as chairman of the committee on federal relations ; also on the labor and woman's suffrage committees. He was a strong temperance advocate and in politics a Republican, though independent on temperance and prohibition questions. Among the various so- cieties to which he belonged may be named the American Unitarian Association, the Bostonian So- ciety, the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and vice president of the Woman's Suffrage Society from its inception. In June, 1898, he became the senior alumnus of the Harvard Divinity School.
Miss Sarah Russell, daughter of Nathaniel P. Russell, and the Rev. Samuel May were united in marriage by Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., November II, 1835. Mrs. May was born January 5, 1813, and died June 13, 1895, after having been the loyal, loving companion on the journey of life, with Mr. May for almost sixty years. She left four children to revere her memory: Adeline, Edward, a staff officer in the United States navy; Joseph Russell, of Boston ; and Elizabeth Goddard.
The comely old mansion in which Mr. and Mrs. May lived three score years is charmingly situated on Leicester Hill, commanding a broad, picturesque view. There have been many notable visitors at this homestead, where good cheer and dignified hospitality were ever provided. Mr. May's eighty-fifth birthday anniversary was especially touching, and made more so by the church and Sabbath school with which he had so many years been connected. The senti- ment was expressed on that occasion by the school children, who brought a gift of Easter lilies. His fellow townsmen on this occasion testified their respect and admiration for him by presenting him with an album containing letters of congratulation and tribute from scores of his old friends and co- workers on both sides of the Atlantic. It is douht- ful if he leaves any heirloom to his children, which he prized more than this beautiful sheaf of love and reference. After a long, eventful and truly noble life of eighty-nine years, Mr. May was called to his reward, November 24, 1899.
AARON FULLER JONES. Lewis Jones (1) was the immigrant ancestor of Aaron Fuller Jones, of Douglass, Massachusetts. He was born about 1620 in England, and died at Watertown, Massa- chusetts, April 11, 1684. Lewis Jones settled first
in Roxbury and was a member of the church there in 1640. He removed to Watertown, Massachusetts, about 1651, and owned land in the vicinity of Fresh Pond. His will was dated Jannary 7, 1678-79 and proved June 14, 1684. He married Anna -, who survived him. Their children were: Josiah, born 1643, of whom later; Phebe, born January 28, 1645, died at Roxbury, 1650; Lydia, married Jonathan Whitney ; Shubael, born July 1, 1651, (non compos.) (II) Josiah Jones, son of Lewis Jones ( 1), was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1643. He settled in Watertown and was admitted a freeman April 18, 1690. He was in that part of the town known as the Farms, later as Weston. He was a charter member and one of the first deacons of the Newton Church, elected January 4, 1709-10. About 1690 Watertown, Waltham and Weston were made in three precincts and the three companies of soldiers were commanded respectively by Captain Bond, Cap- tain Garfield and Lieutenant Jones. Later Jones had the rank of captain. He purchased of John and Sarah Stone, of Watertown, a farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres on the north side of the Sud- bury highway, about two miles from Sudbury. He was selectman of Watertown in 1685-87-90-1702 to 1709. He was a prominent man in his day. He died October 9, 1714. By deed dated April 21, 1684, Jones sold to John Bright for sixty pounds a quarter share in the mills on Stony River, thirty acres of land bought of Nathaniel Treadway, February 19, 1678-79, land bought of John Chadwick, etc. He married, October 2. 1667, Lydia Treadway, who died September 18, 1743, aged ninety-four years. Their children, born at Watertown, were: Lydia, born Angust 25, 1668, married, January 2, 1687-88; Na- thaniel Coolidge, Jr .; Josiah, Jr., born October 20, 1670, died December 21, 1734; Mary, born December 10, 1672, married. July 5, 1693, John Brewer, of Sudbury; Nathaniel, born December 31, 1674, of whom later; Samuel, born July 9, 1677, died Janu- ary 17, 1717-18: James, born September 4, 1679; Sarah, born February 6, 1681, married, March 20, 1704. John Warren : Anna, born June 28, 1684, mar- ried Deacon Joseph Mixer; John, born March 19, 1686-87: Isaac, baptized May 25, 1690, removed to Bolton, Connecticut, and had seventeen children who lived to maturity.
(III) Nathaniel Jones, son of Josiah Jones (2), was born in Weston, Massachusetts, December 31, 1674. He removed to Worcester at the time of its first permanent settlement in 1719, and had forty acres in the first division. He settled on the road from Worcester to Leicester about a mile beyond New Worcester and kept a tavern there. He be- came a very prominent citizen. He was captain of the military company, selectman 1722-23, deputy to the general court 1727. He left Worcester about 1730. He owned land at Sutton, Massachusetts, and deeded ninety-eight acres to his son Nathaniel. He was in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, in 1731. While at Falmouth in 1732 he sold land at Sutton to Philip Chase. He was in Falmouth, De- cember 31, 1737, when he deeded land in Oxford, Massachusetts. He died November, 1745. Six of his children were born in Weston, and five in Wor- cester, by his first wife. He married (second) Flagg and had three more children.
The youngest was born in Falmouth.
The children of Nathaniel and Mary Jones were: r. Phinehas, born February 28, 1704-05, died No- vember 3, 1743, at Portland, Maine. 2. Nathaniel. born April 5. 1707. settled in Leicester : married four times; his son Daniel was killed in 1758, a soldier at the attack on Ticonderoga. 3. Stephen, born August 17, 1709, married, July 31, 1735, Lydia
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Jones, and settled at Falmouth; was in Colonel Noble's company and both Colonel Noble and Cap- tain Jones were killed. 4. Noah, born November 26, 1711, of whom later. 5. Jonas, born April 22, 1715. married, September 6, 1763, Abigail Hart- well, and settled in Shrewsbury ; had nine children. 6. Ichabod, baptized at Weston, May 26, 1717, mar- ried - Coffin; settled in Boston and was a ship- master. 7. Isaac, born at Worcester, October 14. 1722. 8. Sarah, born about 1721. 9. Mary, born in Worcester, August 10. 1719. IO. Eunice (twin ). HI. Lucy (twin ). 12. Moses. 13. Lydia. 14. Jabez, born at Falmouth, had the homestead; died at age of eighty-five years : married thrice.
(IV) Noah Jones, son of Nathaniel Jones (3), was born at Weston, Massachusetts. November 26, 1711. He settled on the homestead in Worcester. He died in Worcester, and his will was dated May II. 1781, and was filed August 4, 1781. It mentions his sons : Phinehas, Asa, Timothy. William; daugh- ters Mrs. James Moore, Lydia Moore, Mary Har- rington. Abigail Stone. He married Rebecca Hay- ward, daughter of Daniel Hayward. or Heywood. The minor children of Noah and Rebecca had guardians appointed at the time of the death of their grandfather, Daniel Heywood. The children of Noah and Rebecca Jones were: 1. Mary, born Janu- ary 19, 1745-46, married Josiah Harrington, Jr. 2. Phinehas, born January 10, 1747-48, married Kath- arine Gates. 3. Rebecca, born January 7. 1749-50, married James Moore .. 4. Lydia, born January 5, 1752, married, August 16, 1770, Captain John Peirce. 5. Samuel, born March 9, 1754. 6. Abigail, born February 24. 1756, married. November 5, 1777, Daniel Stone, of Charlton. 7. Noah, Jr., born Sep- tember 12. 1758, married Deborah Holbrook; served in revolution in Captain Jesse Stone's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment ; also in Captain Thomas Fish's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment. S. William, born November 8. 1760, of whom later. 9. Timothy, born July 22, 1762, mar- ried, January 7, 1790, at Sutton, Hannah Hutchin- son. 10. Asa, born April 12, 1765.
(V) William Jones, son of Noah Jones (4). was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, November 8, 1760. Ile married Dolly and resided in Worcester. Their children, born in Worcester. were : William, Jr., baptized February 19, 1790, of whom later ; Betsey, baptized October 30, 1785.
William Jones, Jr., son of William Jones (5), was born in Worcester, February, 1790, and bap- tized February 19. He went from Worcester to Temple, New Hampshire, when a young man, mar- ried there and then settled in Temple, Maine. He married Polly Drury, daughter probably of Will- iam and Elizabeth Drury, of Temple, New Hamp- shire, about 1810. Their children, all born at Tem- ple, Maine, were: Sarah C., born February 1, 1813; William D., March 7, 1815; Mary A., December II, 1816; John, October 1, 1818; Lucy D., August 27, 1820; Eliza. June 14. 1822; Seth N., July 18, 1824; Seneah, March 30, 1826; Ezra, June 18, 1827; Seneah. April 27, 1830; Aaron Fuller, September II, 1832, of whom later ; Noah H .. August, 1836.
(VII) Aaron Fuller Jones, son of William Jones (6), was born in Temple, Maine, September II. 1832. He received a common school education, leaving school at the age of fourteen to earn his own living in the cotton mill. He worked first for the Howe cotton mill and later in the Lovett cotton mill at Douglass, Massachusetts, where the family were then living. He then learned to bottom shoes and after a time went into business for himself in a small way. Then he formed a partnership with William Abbott and continued for four years. He
was then in partnership for a short time with Ezra Jones as proprietors of a general store in Douglass, but he sold out and took a position in the office of the Douglass Axe Company as bookkeeper. The close confinement of this work was not congenial, and at the end of six months he resigned. Sub- sequently he was in various lines of work and occu- pied with the duties of his public office, but at pres- ent is on the retired list. Virtually all his life has been spent in Douglass, whither he came when a young boy. No man is better known by his towns- men, none more attractive or popular, and his per- sonality has made for him many friends. He has been elected to many positions of trust and respon- sibility in Douglass. During the civil war he was on the board of selectmen and was active in re- cruiting for the service. He has been overseer of the poor, tax collector and held most of the other offices of the town at various times. He is a well known Free Mason, a member of Douglass Lodge. He is an active member and deacon of the Congre- gational Church. He is generally known among his acquaintances as Fuller Jones. .
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