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(III) Noalı Barker, the youngest child of Barzillai (2), and Anna Barker, was born in Row- ley, August 23, 1689. He was admitted to the church in Rowley, January 15, 1709. He learned the trade of weaver. On . April 29, 1712, his mother Anna deeded to him all her real estate in consideration of support during her life. Very soon after, he moved to Ipswich and married there in May or June, 1715, Martha Figgett (or Fickett) born August 23, 1696. daughter of Peter and Mary (Bondfield) Fickett, of Marblehead. In 1719 they moved to Stratham. New Hampshire, and settled near the centre of the town on land purchased from Jona- than Wiggin in 1718, in which year he was also granted the privilege of building a pew in the new meeting house. He died there January 3, 1749. His widow died December 10, 1772. He was a pros- perous farmer and a leader in the affairs of church and town. In 1743 he was one of a committee of three who reported adversely upon the petition of residents in the north part of Brentwood to be made a separate parish. In 1731 he was chosen one of the two tythingmen for that year. He was elected constable in 1737. but was allowed to procure a substitute. In 1739 he was one of those protesting to the crown against a union of the province with Massachusetts. In 1743. influenced by the preach- ing of Whitefield, he began with a few others the agitation which resulted in establishing a new church in Stratham. He continued his interest in this society until his death, and left it fioo by his will. He was selectman of Stratham in 1735. 1736, 1738, 1742, 1743, 1744, and 1745. He was one of the original proprietors of the township of Bow under a royal patent. and later acquired the rights of certain others. At the time of his death he owned lands in the towns of Stratham. Enping, Bow and Exeter and a fulling mill on Little River, in the last named town.
The children of Noah and Martha were: I. Ebenezer, born in Ipswich, May 4, 1716. married
Mary, daughter of Simcon Rundlett, removed to Caruville, Maine. 2. Susannah, born in Ipswich, December 25, 1718. 3. John, born in Stratham, May 14, 1720, married and settled in Epping, New Hampshire. 4. Ezra, born July 20, 1722, married second, Abigail Mordough. Was a member from Stratham of the third provincial congress, which met at Exeter April 21, 1775. Later removed to Sanbornton, died March 29, 1802. 5. Elizabeth, born November 10, 1724. 6. Josiah, mentioned be- low. 7. Benjamin, born November 3, 1729, mar- ried Deborah Pottle, died Angust 14, 1801. Was major in the first regiment of the provincial militia under Col. William Whipple: member of the provincial congress which met in Exeter, December 21, 1775, and January 5, 1776, resolved itself into a house of representatives. Although he protested against. this change, he was on a committee of the house later in January to commission a privateer. He was a member again in 1776 and 1777, and a member of the committee of safety in both those years. In June 28, 1781, he was made first major of a regiment to be commanded by Col. Daniel Reynolds. 8. Nathaniel, born February IS, 1732, died young. 9. Ephraim, born April 30, 1734, mar- ried Mrs. Mary Manning. of Ipswich, February, 1760. Removed to Amherst, New Hampshire. His wie died February 19, 1771. He died in 1800. 10. Nathan, born February 7, 1741, married Anna Wig- gin, who was born January 21, 1742, and died No- vember 8, 1809. He died February II, 1820.
(IV) Josiah Barker, the sixth child of Noah Barker (3), was born in Stratham, March 30, 1727. When a hoy he went to Ipswich to learn the trade of clothier. He married there in March, 1746, Mary Heard, born March. 1725, a daughter of Dan- iel (a deacon of the first church) and Mary (Baker) Heard, of Ipswich. He moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, early in 1848, purchasing land there, and for more than forty years carried on his trade and operated the fulling mill which was given to him by his father's will, jointly with his brother Benjamin, who was also a clothier. His account books still preserved contain the autographs of nearly all the men prominent at the time in that vicinity. annexed to memoranda of settlements of their accounts. He died in 1808. Influenced by the preaching of Whitefield, he joined in the move- ment for a second parish in the town of Exeter, and was active in the long struggle which resulted in 1755 in a grant from the provincial assembly establishing the new parish. He signed in 1776 the complaint against Maj. Daniel Tilton for re- fusing to sell goods, and was on the committee to enforce the non-importation agreement appointed December 28, 1774. He served in the revolution in 1777, in Capt. Weare's company of Col. Scammell's regiment (the third New Hampshire). The chil- dren of Josiah and Mary were: 1. Mary, married first, - Weeks, second Kimball. 2. Lydia. married Gilman Leavitt, of Brentwood, New Hamp- shire. 3. Tamosin, born August, 1753, married Jona- than Norris, of Waterford, New Hampshire. 4. Daniel, born April 22, 1754, married Anna Hill. He was one of the men from Exeter who went to Cambridge on the first call, April 20, 1775, and re- maining there when others returned, he was one of several Exeter men who joined Capt. Isaac Sherman's company in Baldwin's ( Mass. ) regiment, September 26. 1775. He was a member of Capt. Daniel Gordon's company in Col. Thomas Task's regiment, being one of the two authorized in Sep- tember. 1776. to reinforce the army in New York. After the close of the war he removed to Limerick, Maine, and in March, 1805, became one of the first
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settlers of the township which is now Exeter, Maine. 5. Josiah, who went into the army in 1777, and died in the service when about twenty years of age. 6. John, died young. 7. Nathaniel, who went to Limerick, Maine, and later settled upon land owned by his father in Cornish, Maine (then in Massachusetts), and died there in 1844. 8. Noah, mentioned below. 9. Ezra, who also went to Limerick, and later to Cornish, Maine.
(V) Noah Barker, son of Josialı (4) and Mary Heard, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Sep- tember 8, 1763. He was a farmer, and had the farm of his father. He married first, October 7. 1789. Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Col- cord) Philbrook ( Philbrick) of Rye, New Hamp- shire. She was born June 19. 1763, and died at Exeter, May 17, 1800. He married second, October 21, 1800, Deborah Gilman, who was born June 29, 1773. He died May 10, 1858, in his ninety-fifth year, his wife Deborah surviving him. The chil- dren of Noah and Mary were: 1. Josiah, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, born May 28, 1792, married Lydia Scammon; served in the war of 1812; died November 4, 1863. 3. Noah, born March 22, 1794, died in Exeter in June. was never married. 4. Lydia, born May 21, 1796, married Swain Ander- son. 5. John, born July 3, 1798, died in Lisbon, Maine, had no children.
The children of Noah and Deborahi were: I. Mary Gilman, born September 17, 1801. Married John Scammon of Stratham. 2. Deborah, born Au- gust 1, 1803, died April 15, 1804. 3. Deborah, born January 28, 1805, died February 3. 1805. 4. Deborah, born February 4, 1806, drowned August 9, 1807. 5. Gilman, born March 1, 1808, married first January 10, 1839, Emeline Smith of Brentwood. Second Lucy Ann Russell. 6. Susan Gilman, born April 27, ISIO, married Nathaniel Shute of Exeter, New Hampshire. 7. Deborah, born July 16, 1812, mar- ried Lawrence Boardman of Stratham. died Sep- tember 3. 1860. 8. William, born November 5. 1815, married Ann Kendrick of Elgin, Illinois. Died in 1893.
(VI) Josiah Barker, son of Noah (5) and Mary Barker, was born in the house built by his grand- father Josiah in 1770, on the old Brentwood road, on July 25, 1790. He died in Exeter on April 18, 1874, in his eighty-fourth year. He followed his father on the homestead, and was a farmer during his active years. He married in March, 1820, Bet- sey, daughter of Zebulon and Mary (Gilman) Dur- rell, of Acton, Maine. She died March 9, 1838. Their children were: 1. Josiah Gilman, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born September 20, 1822, died September 14, 1825. 3. John, born January 17, 1824. died January 18, 1825. 4. Mary Philbrook, April 2, 1825, married John Yurann. 5. Noah, born January 17, 1827, married June 6, 1885. Emma V. Durrell, of Kennebunk, Maine. 6. Lydia Ander- son, born June 16, 1829, married ---- Barlow. Bar- low was a member of a Rhode Island regiment. 7. Julia Ann, born December 14, 1830, married James Wilkinson, of Exeter. He was a member of the IIth New Hampshire regiment, civil war. He died at South New Market (now Newfields), New Hampshire. 8. Elizabeth, born Mary 28, 1832, died January 9. 1833. 9. Harriet Newell, born March 30. 1833, imarried Moses H. Stickney, of Exeter. He was a member of the with New Hamp- shire Volunteers, and was killed in the mine ex- plosion in the assault before Petersburg, Virginia, July 30, 1864. 10. John James Durrell, born Jan- uary 7. 1835: was a member of the 11th New Hampshire Volunteers. and died of fever at Vicks- burg, Mississippi. during the siege, June 29, 1863.
(VII) Josiah G. Barker, son of Josiah Barker (6), was born at Exeter, New Hampshire. August 24, 1821, and died at Worcester, Massachusetts, May 9, 1902, aged eighty years, eight months, fifteen days. He was educated in the public schools of Exeter, and spent his early life there. In 1856 he removed to Worcester. He was a carriage builder, having served an apprenticeship of seven years at his trade, which he followed in Exeter. He started in business on his own account in Worcester. He was an expert and conscientious craftsman, having the reputation of not being able to turn out a bad job. The best trade of the city fell to his lot. His place of business was for most of the time on Union street, where the building of tlie Baker Box Company is now. At that time this section, which is now crowded with manufac- turing plants, was largely marsh land. He was associated for many years with Henry C. Fish. of Worcester, and was in active business until about 1892, when he retired on account of ill health.
He was a total abstainer, and advocated temper- ance when the drinking habits. of the people were different and the teetotaler a rarity. He joined the fire engine company in Exeter, known in that vicin- ity as the "Stiff Dickey" company, all the mem- bers of which were total abstainers, and the nick- name was intended as a slur. When he came to Worcester he left the fire department, declining to join any Worcester company. Mr. Barker en- listed in the Twenty-second unattached artillery company, afterward Company F, of the Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, in the civil war, and was mustered out after eleven months service by reason of the close of the war. Dur- ing the service his health was undermined, and he never entirely recovered from the injury to his constitution. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1842. During the anti-slavery agitation, having strong convictions on this subject, and deeming the attitude of his church too favorable toward slavery, he withdrew with many others and joined the Wesleyan branch of the Methodist denomination - about five years before coming to Worcester. In Worcester he was first a member of Laurel Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He was later a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Worcester, when the Congregation wor-
shipped in the old building on Park street, and was a member of the official board when the present church building on Main street was erected. He maintained his membership and interest until his death. In politics Mr. Barker was always an ardent Republican, and he preached and practiced loyalty to that party. He never lost but one opportunity to vote for president after he came of age. That was due to a change of resi- dence when he came to Worcester. He was a man of strong opinions and high principles, of business ability and integrity, thoroughly respected by his townsmen and beloved hy his friends.
He married first, December 4. 1842, Betsey Kent, born December 24, 1817, daughter of Moses and Polly (Rowland or Roland) Kent. She came of good old New England stock, though she was born over the line. at Hatley, Canada. Province of Que- bec, whither her parents moved from Vermont. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Quebec Expedition under Benedict Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Barker cele- brated their Golden Wedding, December 4. 1892. in the presence of a large party of friends and relatives. She was a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, having affiliated with that denom- ination in 1838. She died, after a long illness, August
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5, 1895, at Gay Head, Massachusetts, where she had spent several summers. She was seventy-seven years of age. Josiah G. Barker married second, January 12, 1899. at North Brookfield, Massachu- setts, Mrs. Elizabeth Caroline Gilbert Southworth, widow of Albert E. Southworth. The children of Josiah and Betsey were: I. Charles Roland, born at Exeter, New Hampshire, March 13, 1845, mar- ried first, Mary Dixon Clark, who died April 12, 1801, in Washington, D. C .; second, October 29, 1895, Mabel L. Drake, daughter of Jeremiah W. and Ellen L. (Prouty) Drake, born April 11, 1862. He died December 4, 1897, at Washington, D. C. HIe served in the civil war in the 60th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. He was a member of Morning Star Lodge of Freemasons, of Worcester County Commandery of Knights Templar, and of Worcester Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite, being for a time the secretary of the last named body. For several years prior to and at the time of his death he was employed in the War Department. having charge of the files in the Record and Pen- sion Division under Col. (now Gen.) Ainsworth. Before going to Washington he was in the retail grocery business in Worcester. 2. Forrest Edson, mentioned below.
(IX) Forrest Edson Barker, son of Josiah G. Barker (S), was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, September 29, 1853. When three years old he came to Worcester with his parents, and was educated there in the public schools. He graduated from the Worcester Classical High School in IS70, and en- tered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Con- necticut. where he was graduated in 1874, valedic- torian of his class, though unable to appear on the platform commencement day on account of illness. He began the study of law in the office of W. W. Rice & F. T. Blackmer. in Worcester, and attended the Boston University Law School, taking the two- year course in one. He was admitted to the bar in Worcester county in the spring of 1876. He re- mained in the office with Rice & Blackmer until he opened an office at the corner of Main and Front streets. A few years later he moved to an office building on Pearl street and later to the Walker building.
Mr. Barker is a Republican in politics. He served six years on the Worcester school board and two years (1883 and 1884) as representative to the general court from Worcester. He served on va- rious campaign committees of the Republican party. and was for a time chairman of the congressional district committee. He was appointed in 1885 a member of the original Gas Commission of the Commonwealth for one year by Governor George D. Robinson, in 1886 reappointed for three years, and has held the office ever since by successive re- appointments. He has been chairman of the board since the first year of Governor Greenhalge's ad- ministration, in 1894. The present title of the com- mission is the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners. He went abroad in the summer of 1892 in his official capacity to study the problems of public lighting in foreign countries. In 1896 he was in Europe again on a similar errand, and again in 1900 and 1905. His last trip was made for special inquiries ordered by the general court of the commonweath. The work of his board has been in new fields. He has become an expert in his line of duty, and his commission is a model for other states and countries.
Mr. Barker is one of the most prominent and best known Freemasons in the state. He was for two years the first officer of Montacute Lodge, and held a like position for a similar period in Eureka
Chapter, Hiram Council R. and S. M., and Worces- ter L. of P. of the Scottish Rite, and for a much longer period in Goddard Council P. of J. He served for several years in subordinate positions in all of these bodies. He is a member of Boston Commandery Knights Templar, and of Massachu- setts Consistory. He is a life member of the Gen- eral Grand Council of the United States and of all the state grand bodies except the Grand Command- ery. He was grand king of the Grand Royal Archi Chapter in 1894 and for three years prior was the representative of that body in Worcester, with im- mediate supervision over nearly all the bodies of that grade in Worcester and Franklin counties. He has been senior steward of the Grand Lodge, grand deacon and district deputy grand master with super- vision of the lodges in Worcester and vicinity, and served one year as senior grand warden. He was for three successive years (1903-4-5 grand master of the Grand Council of the State. He is a mem- ber of Central Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is a member of the Middlesex Club, the Republican Club of Massachusetts, the University Club of Boston, and the Wesleyan University Alumni Club of New Eng- land, and has been president of the last named. He is a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. He was made a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity soon after entering college, and of the Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year.
He married, August 11, 18SI, Flora I. Hovey, who was born at Worcester April 1, 1853, the daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Janes) Hovey, of Worcester. She was graduated from the Worces- ter Classical High School in 1870. After studying at the Worcester Training School for Teachers for a year, she was a student at the Gannett Institute in Boston. She taught at the Thomas Street School, Worcester. Children of Forrest E. and Flora I. (Hovey) Barker : I. Luliona May, born October 20, 1884; attended the public and high schools, graduating in 1902 in the first honor list; graduate of Smith College, class of 1906; now teacher of physics in the high school, Newton, Mas- sachusetts. 2. Stanley Gilman, born November 26, 1887. at Worcester; educated in public and high schools of his native town; graduating from the high school in 1905, one of the two male com- mencement speakers of his class; student at Wesleyan University, class of 1909.
DENNIS WHEELER. Obadiah Wheeler (I), the progenitor in this country of Dennis Wheeler, of Leominster, Massachusetts, was the founder of a large and distinguished family. He was born in England in 1608. He settled in Concord, Massa- chusetts, in 1638. and was made a freeman there June 2. 1641. He died in Concord, October 29, 1671. He married (first) Susannah - and the first six of his children were borne by her in Con- cord. He had a second wife whose name is not preserved, who was the mother of the last two children. He was a farmer. His children were: Joshua, born in England, married Elizabeth - John, January 29. 1640, died young; Ruth, April 23, 1642: a son, November 25, 1643, died Novem- ber 29, 1643; Samuel. February 22, 1644-5. married Mary Perry: John, born 1647: Susannah, March 16, 1649, married Shepley; Obadiah, 1651 or 1652, married Elizabeth White: Josiah, died April 21. 1676, killed by Indians at Sudbury, Massachu- setts.
(II) Obadiah Wheeler, son of Obadiah Wheeler (1). was born 1651 or 1652. He married Elizabeth White, daughter of William and Judith (Vassall) White. William White was the son of Resolved
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White, who came in the "Mayflower," the brother of Peregrine White, first child born in the colony, and son of William and Anna White, both of whom came in the "Mayflower." Judith Vassall was the daughter of William and Ann Vassall, born 1619. William Vassall was an officer of the Massachu- setts Bay Company and a gentleman of distinction. The children of Obadiah Wheeler, all born in Con- cord, were: Obadiah, born September 21, 1673, married Hannah Fletcher; Josiah, born October 22, 1675, died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, December 8, 1738; married (first) Martha - who was born 1679; he died May 21, 1748, and she married (second) Captain Peter Joslyn, of Lancaster ; Uriah, born April 13, 1678, died December 9, 1750; mar- ried, December 28, 1704, Abigail Rice, of Sudbury ; who died June 10, 1754; he settled in Sudbury; his descendants are Elisha 2, Caleb 3, Caleb 4. Ashael 5, George W. 6; Samuel, born January 23, 1680-81, married Joanna Walcott, settled in Carlisle, Massa- chusetts ; Jonathan, born July 28, 1683, died about 1747, married Mary settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts; Elizabeth, born February 7, 1685-86; Joseph, born March 7, 1690-91; Benjamin, born September 29, 1693, died 1759, at New Mariboro, married Hannalı -, who was born 1698, had five children: Joshua, born April 9, 1696, died April II, 1778, married about 1720, Annah - -, who died October 26, 1761, had four children.
(III) Jonathan Wheeler, son
of Obadiah Wheeler, son of Obadiah Wheeler (2), was born July 28, 1683, died about 1747, married Mary -. He settled on a farm in Lancaster. His children were: Mary, born about 1709, died July 20, 1795, married Jonathan Moor, had no children ; Hannah, baptized May 24, 1713: Obadiah, baptized May 26, 1717, died 1805, married Hannah Gaskill, and had eight children; Jonathan, born July 3. 1720, died August 10, 1791; married, May 9. 1751, Thankful Baker, daughter of Abraham and Mehitable Baker, of Swansea, Massachusetts.
(IV) Jonathan Wheeler, son of Jonathan Wheeler (3), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 3, 1720. He married Thankful Baker, daugh- ter of Abraham and Mehitable Baker, of Swansea, born April 19, 1727. He died August 10, 1791. Their children were: I. Jonathan, born April 6, 1752, married, 1775. Mary Buffum, of Smithfield, Rhode Island. 3. Stephen, born March 13, 1756, died Feb- ruary 4, 1827; married (first) Miriam Barker (sec- ond) Amity (Aldrich) Brown. 4. Peregrine, born July 4, 1759, died 1824: married Sarah Carter, of Berlin, Massachusetts, who died 1803; he was prob- ably named for Peregrine White, his father's great- uncle. 2. Mary, born August 5, 1754, died January I, 1807; married Thomas Watson. 5. Dinah, born June 10, 1761, died February 8, 1839; married, May 7, 1789, William Aldrich, of Bolton. 6. Levi, born April 29, 1768, died February 27. 1835; married, April 12, 1792, Mary Carter ; married (second), July 2, 1814, Olive Colburn, who died November 25, 1875; the youngest daughter of Levi and Olive Wheeler, Olive Colburn Wheeler, born in Berlin, April 4, 1829, married September 25, 1848, Elijah Carter Shattuck, of Berlin, who was born August 27, 1820, in Marlboro. 7. Thankful, married, Jan- uary 12, 1784, Jonathan Baker, her cousin, and had eight children.
(V) Jonathan Wheeler, son of Jonathan Wheeler (4). was born April 6, 1752. He married, 1775, Mary Buffum, of Smithfield, Rhode Island. (For full list of his children see the history of Berlin, Massachusetts). One of his sons was Daniel, of whom later.
(VI) Daniel Wheeler, son of Jonathan Wheeler
(5), was born in Berlin, Massachusetts, November I, 1776, died January 17, 1853. He was raised on the farm and learned the carpenter's trade. He married Abigail Fry, daughter of John Fry, of Bolton, Massa- chusetts. She died May 24, 1875, at the age of ninety-two years, four months and eigliteen days. He died January 17, 1853, at the age of seventy-six. They lived on Wheeler Hill in Berlin on the old home- stead of Jonathan Wheeler, Their children were: John, born June 17, 1803; Elizabeth, June 9, 1806, died young; Mary, February 22, 1809; Sabra, No- vember 8, 1811, married William W. Wheeler; Mer- riam, died 1828; Daniel, June 1, 1814; Jonathan Fry, born November 8, 1815; Melissa, June 20, 1819, married Jonathan Wheeler, son of Levi Wheeler, married (second) John D. Merrill, cap- tain in the militia; Alpheus, April 8, 1822; Abby, September 9, 1826, married Joseph Merrill, married (second) James B. Hartley.
(VII) John Wheeler, son of Daniel Wheeler (6), was born in Berlin, Massachusetts, on the old homestead on Wheeler Hill. He married Betsey Jones, of Leominster, Massachusetts, October 12, 1828. She died February 7, 1872; he died June 13, 1856. He settled on Wheeler Hill on part of the old homestead and there built himself a house which is or was recently occupied by Thomas C. Berry. In addition to running the Wheeler farm he was a contractor later in life until compelled by ad- vancing age to retire. Ilis children were: Delita A., born July 12, 1828, married Abraham G. Bige- low, of Princeton, Massachusetts, November 27, 1850; Amasa Gilbert, October 6, 1830, died 1839; Luke Marshall, June 10, 1833. married Harriet F. Fitch, of Sterling, resided in Fitchburg, Massachu- setts; Carrie E., September 29, 1835, married Elliot Ball. September 20, 1855, resided in Boston; Abby F., June 7, 1838, married Andrew Fitch, of Sterling, died March 21, 1893; Oriana E., December 17, 1844, married Wyman C. Fickett, a high school teacher, graduate of Tufts College, superintendent of schools at Spencer, Massachusetts; Amanda M., February 2, 1847, married George A. Ellis, resides in Leon- inster, Massachusetts; Mary L., January 29, 1840, died February 25. 1844: Dennis E., February 28, 1851, married Mary Dilly Carter, daughter of Oliver Carter, April 22, 1875, resides in Leominster, Massa- chusetts; Albert B., May 5, 1843, died February 28, 1844.
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