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Mr. Boepple is fond of good society and good fellowship. He belongs to the Frohsinns. He has taken the Masonic degrees in the Scottish Rite. He belongs to Montacute Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He is a member of Freedom Lodge, Knights of Pythias; of Court Damascus, Order of Foresters; of the Workingmen's Benefit Society; of the D. O. Harugariu Society ; of the Worcester County Man- nier; of Worcester Lodge No. 243, Elks. He is an honorary member of the Worcester Light Infantry. He has never interested himself to any extent in politics. He married, November 28, 1889, Mary Kanz, of Worcester.
COPELAND FAMILY. Lawrence Copeland (I), the immigrant ancestor of Charles Augustus Copeland, of Blackstone, Massachusetts, was born in Scotland, 1599. The family tradition as to the Scotch origin of the immigrant seems reliable. The Scotch family of Copeland has been located in Dumfriesshire since before the year 1400. He came to this country about the time that Cromwell sent over his Scottish prisoners of war, many of whom became settlers and prosperous citizens in a few years. He settled in Braintree, where he mar- ried soon afterward, Lydia Townsend, December 12, 1651. She died January .1688. He died December 30, 1699, at Braintree, aged one hundred years, according to other testi- mony, besides Marshall's Diary and the town re- cords. One statement of a contemporary makes him even older; but if he were born in 1599 he was over fifty years old when he married and seventy- five when his youngest child was born; which rather tends to support a family tradition that he brought his first wife with him, in which case she must have died soon afterward. Copeland's name sel- dom appears on the records. He was a quiet sort of a citizen, evidently a farmer. The children of Lawrence and Lydia Copeland: Thomas, born May 10, 1652, died young; Thomas, born August 12, 1654, or February 8, 1655, soldier in King Philip's war; William, born November 15, 1656; John, born February 10, 1659; Lydia, born May 31, 1661; Ephraim, born January 17, 1665, died of small pox in the Phipps' expedition to Canada in 1690 before sailing ; Hannah. born February 25, 1668; Richard, born July II, 1672; Abigail, born 1674, married, November 23, 1715.
(Il) William Copeland, sou of Lawrence Cope- land (I), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, November 15, 1656, died in 1716, at Braintree. He married, April 13, 1694, Mary ( Bass) Webb, widow of Christopher Webb, Jr., and daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass. Ruth Alden was the daughter of Hon. John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, the "Mayflower" immigrants, made celebrated by Long- fellow's poem. "The Courtship of Miles Standish." All the Copeland descendants named below are, therefore, eligible to the Mayflower Society. Mary Bass was also descended from Samuel Bass, of Boston and Braintree, deacon, freeman May 10, 1634, and deputy to the general court in 1643; Deacon Bass died December 30, 1694, aged ninety- four years, father, grandfather and great-grand- father of one hundred and sixty-two persons.
William Copeland settled in Braintree. Fle is on record in 1601 as dissenting with Samuel Thompson, Jr., from the vote of the town to pay the minister his full salary of eighty pounds, half in money, half in
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farm products at the meeting of March 2, 1690-91. He was elected fence viewer in 1696. He signed the agreement to contribute to pay the expenses of de- fending the title of the proprietors of Braintree to their land January 10, 1697-98. Children of William and Mary ( Bass) Copeland: William, born March 7, 1695; Ephraim, February 1, 1697; Ebenezer, Feb- ruary 16, 1698; Jonathan, Angust 31, 1701; David, April 15, 1704; Joseph, May 18, 1706; Benjamin, October 5, 1708; Moses, May 28, 1710; Mary, May 28, 1713.
(111) William Copeland, son of William Cope- land (2), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, March 7, 1695. He settled in Braintree, where he was elected a hogreeve in 1724, tithingman in 1730- 31, highway surveyor in 1734-35 and constable in 1737. He married Mary Thayer, June 15, 1718, who was born February, 1689, daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Micall) Thayer. Her father was born August 31, 1665. His father was Richard Thayer, the immigrant. (See Thayer Family.) Children of William and Mary (Thayer) Copeland : Rebecca, born March 16, 1718; Lydia, October 25, 1720; Will- iam, August 19, 1722, died June 29, 1727; James, March 19, 1724; Mary, May 31, 1726; Anna, August 4, 1728; William, December 6, 1730, see forward.
(IV) William Copeland, son of William Cope- land (3), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, December 6, 1730. He married, about 1752, Sarah Smith. He removed to Connecticut. Their chil- dren: Jonathan, born about 1753, soldier in a Con- necticut regiment in the revolution; Phineas, born 1755, see forward; daughter, married Benjamin Ferrit.
(V) Phineas, son of William Copeland (4), was born in Thompson, Connecticut, May 14, 1754, died there 1813, aged fifty-eight years. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Jo- seph Abbott's company, Ninth Connecticut regiment of militia, and served in New York under Lieu- tenant-Colonel Mead in 1776. Mrs. P. A. Ryemit, of North Grosvenordale, Connecticut, a descendant, has in her possession a cane or stick which he, Phineas Copeland, is said to have cut and polished, with which he killed a wild cat and which he car- ried during his war service. He settled in Thomp- son, Connecticut. He married there, about 1781, Rachel Prince, born in 1757, died 1812, daughter of Joseph and Maria (Berry) Prince. Both are buried in a private cemetery near the old homestead at Thompson. Their children: 1. Joseph, born January 15, 1783, see forward. 2. Abiel, settled in New York state. 3. Abner. 4. Rachel. 5. Asa, married Cyrena Green and they had-Jared; Warren, father of Asa Byron Copeland, born in New York; married Lily Fisher, of New York state; he is superintendent of schools at Greeley, Colorado; Warren's widow mar- ried (second) Rev. Samuel Wasne, of Loraine, New York; Rachel; Anson F., Methodist minister, had four children-Wilbur, Blaine, Mark, Rena. 6. Sally. 7. Alvion, father of Harriet, Sally, Harvey, Mark, Nellie, and Mary M. Thompson. 8. Thank- ful, married - Savory; their daughter, Charlotte Savory, married Charles Irons, parents of Etta L. (Irons) Humes. 9. Anna, twin of the preceding. IO. Hannah, born 1804.
(V)) Joseph Copeland, son of Phineas Cope- land (5), was born January 15, 1783. He married, September 30, 1807, Lucy Cook, at Thompson. Con- necticut. She is buried at Pascoag, Rhode Island. Children of Joseph and Lucy Copeland: 1. Augus- tus Bundy, born October 1, 1805, married Rhoda Cruff and had two children-Mary and Lucy Ann (twins) ; he married ( second) Sarah Larned Will- iams, and they had three children-Charles A.,
George H., Leonora A., all buried at Newport, Rhode Island. 2. Lyman Prince, see forward. 3. Maria B., born June 6, 1809, married Benjamin B. Slade and they had a son named Joseph; she died May 30, 1830; the son died August 13, 1830; he married (second) her sister, Lucy A. Copeland. 5. Lucy Ann, born May 26, 1814, married Benjamin B. Slade and they had two daughters-Lucy M., died January 13, 1841, Georgiana A., married Edward F. King, October IS, 1864, and they have had six chil- dren, of whom two died in infancy. 4. George H., born November 5, 1811, married (first) Sarah Fuller, who had no children; married (second) Sally Copeland, daughter of Alvin Copeland and she had four sons-George H., died young; Frederick A., of Providence; William, died young; Lewis A., resides in Providence, Rhode Island; married (third) Fanny Crook, and had-Fred, Lewis; he died January 28, 1892. 5. Lucy Ann, born May 26, 1814, married Hazael H. Cooper, had a daughter and twin sons who died in infancy; Lucy A., died January 28, 1897, and was buried at Pascoag. 6. Mahala Potter, born September 10, 1815, died April 2, 1880; married Stephen A. Aldrich, had one son died in infancy. 7. Joseph, born November 3, 1818, drowned at the age of six. S. Alfred (twin), born May 14, 1821. 9. Alfred (twin), born May 14, 1821, died young.
(VII) Lyman Prince Copeland, son of Joseph Copeland (6), was born at Essex Junction, Ver- mont, August 25, 1807, died May 26, 1883, -aged seventy-six years. He removed with the family to Thompson, Connecticut, at an early age. Later they went to Slatersville, Rhode Island, where he operated the grist mill and saw inill. He also lived in Woonsocket and Pascoag, Rhode Island. In Pascoag he was a successful manufacturer, and at one time he operated the Hecla Mills in Uxbridge in partnership with Mr. Seagrave under the name of Copeland & Seagrave. He was a highly re- spected citizen of Uxbridge, was selectman for a long period, representative to the general court or assembly. He was an active member of the Congregational Church. In politics he was a Re- publican. He died at Millville, May 26, 1883.
He married Phebe Thompson, born in 1807, died September 7, 1886. Their children: Albert P., see forward; Mariah B., born May 3, 1831 ; Harriet A., September 13, 1834; Joseph P., Novem- ber 24, 1836; Phebe P., April 21, 1839; Henry L., April 2, 1843; Danford, July 26, 1843; Charles A., December 19, 1846, see forward; Lucy A., January 13, 1843; Ella Slade, May 4, 1852.
(VIII) Charles Augustus Copeland, son of Lyman Prince Copeland (7), was born in Pascoag, Rhode Island. He attended the public schools until he was sixteen years old. Then he went to work in his father's mill and learned the various de- partments of the work. He then went to Provi- dence and had a position as loom fixer in the Wainscott Mill in that city, and remained there for several years. He returned to Glendale and was bookkeeper in the mill office for three years. In 1886 he started as a hardware merchant in Black- stone, Massachusetts, and has built up a prosperous business. He is a prominent Republican and has the unique distinction of being the first man of that party elected to the office of overseer of the poor in the past twenty-six years. Blackstone is overwhelm- ingly Democratic as a rule. Mr. Copeland has fre- quently served his party at state, county and con- gressional conventions. In fact, for many years his name has not been missed in the lists of delegates elected each year. He is a Congregationalist in religion.
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He married, December 25, 1864, Ruth Marion Davis, daughter of Barnabas Davis, of one of the old New England families. Their only child was Annis B., who married, May, 1893, Mary L. Bull- ard, and they have Marian, born May, 1896.
(VIII) Albert B. Copeland, son of Lyman Prince Copeland (7), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, May 7, 1829, and educated in the public schools of Uxbridge and at the Macomber Academy. At an early age he went to work with his father in the mill, learning the business from top to bottom in a practical way, and taking charge of it in 1847. When the mill at Pascoag was sold to Frank Car- penter, Mr. Copeland went to Amesbury, Massa- chusetts, to take charge of a large woolen mill there. After a few years he accepted the position of super- intendent at Glendale mills for Mr. Carpenter. He also had charge of mills in Mohegan, Plainville. For a short time he operated the Happy Hollow Mill at Uxbridge. In ISSo he retired from busi- ness after forty years of active life as a manufact- urer. He is a Republican in politics and a Con- gregationalist in religion.
He married, July 4, 1848, Sarah Salisbury. He married (second) Harriet Jearald. Children of Albert B. and Sarah (Salisbury) Copeland : Eugenia, Leonora, Julius, Danforth. Children of Albert B. and Harriet : Albert H., born May 24, 1867; Maria, born April 22, 1873, married George A. Farnum and had: George A., Helen, Mildred Farnum.
CHASE FAMILY. The Chase family of America, descended from Aquila Chase and his brother, Thomas Chase, trace their ancestry to a remote period of English history. The family has taken a distinguished part in the history of England and America. The coat of arms of the family is : Gules four crosses patence argent on a canton azure a lion passant, or.
(I) Thomas Chase, the first progenitor to whom the line has been traced, lived in Chesham, England, was born about 1400.
(II) John Chase, son of Thomas Chase (I), also resided at Chesham.
(III) Mathew Chase, son of John Chase (2), was of Chesham. He married Elizabeth Bould, daughter of Richard Bould. Their children: Rich- ard, married Mary Roberts and has many descend- ants ; Francis, John, Mathew, Thomas, see forward; Ralph, William, Bridget.
(IV) Thomas Chase, son of Mathew Chase (3), was of Hundrich, parish of Chesham, England. His children : John, baptized November 30, 1540; Richard, baptized August 3, 1542; Agnes, baptized January 9, 1551; Wiliam Christian.
(V) Richard Chase, son of Thomas Chase (4), baptized August 3, 1542, married, April 16, 1564. Their children, born at Chesham, England : Robert, baptized September 2, 1565; Henry, baptized Au- gust 10, 1567; Lydia, baptized October 4, 1573; Ezekiel, baptized April 23, 1576; Dorcas, baptized March 2, 1578; Aquila, baptized July 18, 1585, see forward; Abigail, baptized January 12, 1588; Mordecai, baptized July 31, 1591.
(VI) Aquila Chase, son of Richard Chase (5), was baptized in Chesham, England, August 14, 1580. His children: Thomas, emigrated to New England, settled first in Hampton, later in New- bury, Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Philbrick; Aquila, born 1618, see forward. The brothers were seafaring men employed probably by their uncle, Thomas Chase, who in 1626 was a part owner of the ship "John and Frances."
(VII) Aquila Chase, son of Aquila Chase
(6), was born in Chesham, England, in 1618. He was a mariner and is first found in this country at Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1640. He settled later at Newbury, where in 1646 he was granted four acres of land for a homestall and six acres of marsh on condition that he go to sea and do service in the town with a boat for four years. He was evidently not a very formal Puritan, for he, his wife and David Wheeler were fined for "gath- ering pease on the Sabbath," admonished and the fines remitted. He married Anna Wheeler, of Hampton, daughter of John Wheeler, who came from Salisbury, England. Mr. Chase died at New- bury, December 27, 1670, aged fifty-two years. He was a ship master and made many voyages. His will was dated September 19, 1670, two months be- fore his death. His widow married, June 14, 1672, Daniel Mussiloway; she died April 21, 1687. Chil- dren of Aquila and Anna Chase: Sarah, married, May 15, 1666, Charles Annis, who was born in 1638 in Ireland; Anna, born July 6, 1647, married, April 28, 1671, Thomas Barber; Priscilla, born March 14, 1649, married, February 10 1671, Abel Merrill; Mary, born February 3, 1651, married, March 9, 1670, Jonathan Stevens; Aquila, born September 26, 1652; Thomas, born July 25, 1654, married, No- vember 22, 1677, Rebecca Follansbee; John, born November 2, 1655, married, May 23, 1677, Elizabeth Bingley ; Elizabeth, born September 13, 1657; Ruth, born March 18, 1660, died May 30, 1676; Daniel, born December 9, 1661, married, May 25, 1683, Martha Kimball; Moses born December 24, 1663, see forward.
(VIII) Moses Chase, son of Aquila Chase (7), was born in Newbury, December 24, 1663, died Sep- tember 6, 1743. He married, November 10, 1684, Ann Follansbee, daughter of Thomas Follansbee. He married (second), 1713, Sarah Jacobs, of Ips- wich. He settled in West Newbury, on the main road a hundred rods above Bridge street. on the farm owned in recent times by Samuel Carr, his great-great-grandson. The children: Moses (twin), September 20, 1685; Daniel (twin), September 20, 1685, see forward; Moses, January 20, 1688; Sam- uel, May 13, 1690; Elizabeth, September 25, 1693; Stephen, August 29, 1696; Hannah, September 13, 1699; Joseph, September 9, 1703; Benoni.
(IX) Daniel Chase, son of Moses Chase (8), was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, September 20, 1685, died at Sutton, Massachusetts, May 28, 1769, aged eighty-four years. He married, January 2, 1707, Sarah Marsh, daughter of George Marsh. They resided until 1725 at Newbury, then went to Littleton, settling finally in Sutton. His wife died there December, 1771, aged eighty-eight years. The town records show that he owned a corn mill in Sutton, March 26, 1733. According to Deacon Leland, Daniel Chase built the first corn mill at Pleasant Falls, whence his name "Miller" Chase. He and his wife were admitted to the Sutton church by letter from the Littleton church in 1736. In 1751 he and his wife were among the separatists from the Sutton church. The Chase mill was. tended afterward by Nathaniel Hall and his son, Willis Hall, next by Solomon Whipple, then by Captain Marsh Chase. It is at present the site of the mills of the Sutton Manufacturing Company at Pleasant Falls. Children of Daniel and Sarah Chase: Sam- uel, horn September 28, 1707, married Mary Dudley, settled at Cornish, New Hampshire; Daniel, Jr., September 18, 1709, see forward; Joshua, Novem- ber 9, 1711 ; Ann, November 13, 1713, married, May 25, 1736, David Lilly; Sarah, April 22, 1716; Nehe- miah, June 27, 1718, died unmarried; Judith, Sep- tember 7, 1720, married, September 15, 1737, Thomas
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Hall; Caleb, November 29. 1722, died October 2, 1808; Moody, September 3, 1723, married, Jan- ary 17, 1749, Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Jonathan Hale; Moses, March, 1726, married Hannah Brown, daughter of Jonas Brown, Sr., removed to New Hampshire.
(X) Daniel Chase, Jr., son of Daniel Chase (9), was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, September 19, 1709, died 1799. He married (first) Hannah Tuttle, of Littleton; (second) Martha Fletcher, of Grafton, January, 24, 1782. Their children, all born at Sutton, where they settled, were: Hannah, born October 15, 1733, died December 11, 1733: Paul, March 13, 1735, see forward; Hannah, January II, 1737, married. July 3, 1759, Eliakim Garfield, of Leicester ; Lucy, January 30, 1739, married, Novem- ber 15, 1764, Benjamin Garfield, of Leicester ; Anne (twin), May 1, 1741; Judith (twin), May 1, 1741; Anne, November 1, 1745.
(XI) Paul Chase, son of Daniel Chase (10), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, March 13, 1735. died there in 1789. He married April 17. 1759, Lucy Richardson. Their children, all born at Sut- ton
were : Joshua, born November 26, 1760; Thaddeus, February 10, 1763, see forward; Lucy, May 18, 1766, married Daniel Greenwood, Jr.
(XII) Thaddeus Chase, son of Paul Chase (II), was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, February 10, 1763, died at Millbury, November 26, 1834, aged seventy-two years. He married, October 4, 1787, Persis Marble, of the Sutton family of Marble. Their children: Polly ( Mary), born at Sutton, January 25, 1791, married Moses Batchelder ; Charles, September 17, 1793, see forward.
(XIII) Charles Chase, son of Thaddeus Chase (12), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts. Septem- ber 17, 1793. He lived in Sutton and Millbury, the adjoining town all his life, and died at Millbury, March 9, 1829. He was a captain in the state militia and a prominent citizen in his day. He mar- ried (intentions dated March 26, 1814). Their chil- dren: Charles Slater, born at Millbury, April 23. 1815; Mary Jane, August 8, 1817, died February 24, 1829: Horatio, born about 1820, see forward ; Betsey Slater Monah (twin, born at Millbury, March 14, 1822; Persis Sarah Martha (twin), born March 14, 1822.
(XIV) Horatio C. Chase, son of Charles Chase (13), was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, about 1820. He was educated there in the public schools, and chose a mercantile career. lle was a travelling salesman for many years for dealers in silks and satins of the finest grades. He settled in North Uxbridge and established a general store there, dur- ing the civil war, in 1862. He prospered in busi- ness and continued actively in his daily work to the time of his death. He died at North Uxbridge, June 7. 1892. He was a Democrat in politics and a leader in town affairs and in his party. In Octo- ber, 1885, he was appointed postmaster of that vil- lage, and after his death his daughter was made postmistress. He attended the Baptist Church.
He married Mary Marie Brown. Their chil- dren: MI. Maria, see forward. Sanford H., educated in the public and high schools and Uxbridge school ; he has a secret process for roller covers manufact- ured at Holyoke, Massachusetts, and in use in all the mills of Blackstone valley ; married Elizabeth E. Humes and they have children-Edith Maud, Alice Blanche, Charles Sanford, Ethel Adelia. Bessie Irene, Pearl Maria. Angie A., educated in the pub- lic schools and Uxbridge Academy ; married George W. Knight, and they have four children-Dora E., William 11., Gladys B., Emillie Gertrude. George
A., attended the public schools and Uxbridge school, was clerk and mail messenger, is now as- sistant postmaster.
(XV) M. Maria Chase, daughter of Horatio C. Chase (14), was born at Grafton, Massachusetts. She attended the public schools and graduated from Uxbridge Academy. She studied music at Worces- ter of E. Thayer and B. D. Allen, and has been a church organist for thirty years, twelve years in the Uxbridge church and eighteen years at North Uxbridge. She has pupils on the organ and piano. She taught schools for two years at Uxbridge and Sutton. Her father died in June 5, 1892, and she was appointed postmistress to succeed him in July, 1892, by President Cleveland, and has been re-ap- pointed from time to time. She has given the ut- most satisfaction to the patrons of the postoffice at North Uxbridge.
FORREST E. BARKER. Thomas Barker and his brother James, the immigrant ancestor of For- rest E. Barker of Worcester, were among those twenty Puritan heads of families who came from England under the leadership of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, and who were described by him as "Godly men and most of them of good estate." They ar- rived in Salem in December, 1638. In April of the following year, having joined with them some forty others, they bought out the former proprietors of lands adjacent to Newbury and Ipswich, and es- tablished a township which they called Rowley, after the parish which had been the charge of the Rev. Rogers in Yorkshire, England. This town- ship included in its limits, besides the present town of Rowley, the towns of Georgetown and Bradford. The act of incorporation was dated September 4, 1640, and the settlers labored in common for about five years. Thomas was made a freeman May 13, 1640, and James on October 7 of the same year. Thomas died without children in November, 1650, and his widow Mary, who came from England with him, became July 16, 4651, the third wife of the Rev. Rogers. He died January 23, 1660, in his seventieth year, leaving Mary as his widow.
(I) James Barker was a native of the parish of Stragewell, in Suffolk county, England, and brought with him to Salem his wife Grace. He shared in the first and later divisions of lands in Rowley, and his home was on Weathersfield street. on land granted to him in 1643. His wife Grace died in February, 1665-6. He married, May 22, 1666, Mary, widow of John Wyatte, one of the early set- tlers of Ipswich, and a freeman there in 1635. His will was dated September 3, 1678, and he was buried on the 7th of the same month. He was a tailor by trade, but seems to have been also a success- ful farmer, and was active in town affairs. He was for several years a judge of delinquents under the law which fined those who refused to attend when summoned to town meetings, served frequently as juryman and in November, 1677, was one of the first tythingmen selected by the town under the act of that year authorizing the appointment of such officers. His children were: 1. Barzillai, men- tioned below. 2. James, born 1641. married. May IO, 1667. Mary, daughter of William Stickney. They moved to Suffield, Connecticut (then a part of Mas- sachusetts, and later settled in Springfield, Massa- chusetts. 3. Eunice, born June 2, 1642, died May, 1645. 4. Nathaniel, born October 15, 1644, married Mary died in Rowley, November 10, 1722. 5. Eunice. born February 1I, 1645-6, married John Watson. 6. Grace, born April 1, 1650, married No- vember 3. 1680, James Cannady, died February 19,
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1723-4. 7. Tamar, born December 13, 1652, died the same month. 8. Stephen, born September 10, 1653, died December, 1653.
(II) Barzillai Barker, son of James Barker (1), was born at Rowley, in 1640. He married in Row- ley. December 5, 1666, Anna Jewett, daughter of Maximilian and Ann Jewett. She was born in Row- ley, February 26, 1644. Maximilian was one of the original twenty who came with the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, bringing his wife with him. He was one of the first deacons of the church in Rowley, and for twenty years represented the town in the gen- eral court. Barzillai was a farmer and an active churchman. His orthodoxy was illustrated when he became one of the thirty-three who formally protested against the settling of Jeremiah Shepard as preacher in 1674, because he had not been regu- larly ordained. He died intestate November 16, 1694, and his real estate was divided April 15, 1697. Anna his widow died May 12, 1727. Their children were: I. Jonathan, born November 5, 1667, died in Rowley, May, 1689. 2. Ebenezer, born December 16. 1669,. died April 10, 1711, probably never married. 3. Hannah, born January 5, 1671-2, married June 30. 1693, Joseph Johnson, Jr., of Haverhill. 4. Lydia, born May 13, 1674, died De- cember, 1675. 5. Ezra, born January 1, 1675-6, died November 6, 1697, never married. 6. Esther, born May 31, 1679. 7. Ruth, born November 1, 1681. 8. Enoch, born October 21, 1684, married Bridget Cate, October 20, 1709; he moved to Portsmouth, and about 1715 settled in Greenland. New Hamp- shire. 9. Bethiah, born March 8, 1686, died Sep- tember. 1688. 10. Noah, mentioned below.
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