Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. III, Part 27

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 772

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"long exercised by sickness" twenty pounds and di- vided his land among his brothers.

(111). John Paine, son of Stephen Paine, Jr. (2), was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, April 3. 1658, died at Providence, Rhode Island, Septem- ber 26, 1718. He resided at Swansea in 1683; re- moved to Providence, Rhode Island, about the time of his brother Benjamin's death in 1698. In 1686 he was a highway surveyor of Swansea. He mar- ried Elizabeth Belcher, of Rehoboth; married (sec- ond) Martha - and she married ( second), April 17, 1719. Abel Potter, in Rhode Island. Accord- ing to the genealogy by Hon. Nathaniel Paine, of Worcester, John Paine had fifteen children, viz .: Elizabeth, born July 12. 1682, at Rehoboth ; John, Jr., born at Swansea, February 16, 1683, died July 19, 1723; Stephen, born June 5, 1686, married, Oc- tober 13, 1715. Sarah Vallett, in Rhode Island ; Josiah, born March 17, 1687; Joseph, born May 3. 1693; Rebecca, born May 1, 1694; Solomon, born June 21, 1696, married, March 13, 1718, Abigail Owen, Rhode Island: Benjamin, baptized 1699, see forward; Nathaniel, baptized 1701; Gideon, bap- tized 1703; Urania, born and baptized 1706. Chil- dren of John and Martha: William, born at Provi- denee. November 18, 1711, baptized at Swansea ; Abijah. born at Providence, October 18, 1713; Ezekiel, born at Providence, August 26, 1715: Sam- uel or Lemuel, born July 22, 1716, at Providence. The last-named nine were baptized at Swansea, ap- parently after the family removed to Rhode Island.

(IV) Benjamin Paine, son of John Paine (3). was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and baptized in 1699 in Swansea, Massachusetts. He settled in Smithfield, formerly part of Providence, Rhode Island, where his twenty-eight children were born. He married (first) Elizabeth : (second), De- cember 24, 1731, at Smithfield, by Valentine Whit- man, Anna Arnold. He married (third), by Thomas Sayles, November 2, 1734, Annie Mowry, at Smith- field. He married ( fourth), by John Smith, April 30, 1751, at Smithfield. Jemima Eston. Children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Paine: Priscilla, born June 5, 1722, married. August 21. 1740, Samuel Aldrich ; Dorcas, born July 29, 1724; Nathan, born June 18, 1726: Benjamin, born March 27. 1727; Jehu or John, born September 2, 1729: Arnold, born February 12, 1733. Children of Benjamin and Anna: Amie. born August 31, 1735, died young ; Amy, born March 7, 1736-37; Elizabeth, born April 27, 1738; Mary, born July 27, 1739; Sarah, born March 14. 1740: John, born December 21, 1742, died August 27, 1746; Abigail, born May 20, 1744: Mar- garet, born May 17, 1746; Joseph, born August 17, 1747, married, December 20, 1781, Ruth Wilbur, daughter of Daniel Wilbur; Benoni, born April 25, 1749, married, April 10, 1774, Martha Wilbur, daugh- ter of Daniel Wilbur. Children of Benjamin and Jemima: Jonathan, born February 8, 1753: Abi, born September 12, 1754: Jemima, born December 8. 1756; Obed, born December 31, 1758, married, November 7, 1784, Lenina Smith, daughter of Rufus Smith; Bela, born January 26, 1761-2, see forward ; Laadan or Ladon, born June 21, 1765, married, No- vember 15. 1787, Elizabeth Westcott, daughter of Nathan Westcott: Abel, born June 20, 1767; Alden (twin), born June 20, 1767; Benak, Cyrus, married, May I, 1794, Elizabeth Mowry, daughter of Philip Mowry: Leruah (Serviah), born March 17, 1770; child, died young, not named.

(V) Bela Paine, son of Benjamin Paine (4), was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, January 26, 1761-2. He married there, November 7, 1784, Ruth Latham, daughter of Joseph Latham, by Uriah Al- verson. Their children born in Smithfield, were:

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Ephraun. born December 8, 1785, see forward ; Sarah, born January 13. 1788; Sterling, born April 15. 1790, imarried, July 28, 1808, Sarah Eston; Michael, born March 13, 1792.

(\'1) Ephraim Paine, son of Bela Paine (5), was born at Smithfield Rhode Island, December 8, 1785. He was a farmer and became the largest land owner of the town of Smithfield, where he lived. He was able to give or bequeath to each of his eight children a farm. He married Cynthia Mowry, born in 1784, at Glocester, Rhode Island, died April 26, 1861, at Smithfield. Children of Ephraim and Cynthia Paine: Nelson, see forward ; William M. (twin), Waity (twin), Mercy, Ephraim, Jr .. Ruth, Marvin M., Mary Ann M.

(V']]) Nelson Paine, son of Ephraim Paine (6), was born at Smithfield, Rhode Island, about 1810, and died at Northbridge, Massachusetts, in 1889. He came when a young man from Smithfield to Northbridge, and in. 1840 bought land of Charles White, a relative. He married, February 15, 1839, Annie White, daughter of Alden White; she was d cousin of Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, wife of the great preacher. Mr. Paine's will is dated September 11, 1874. filed September 17, 1889, shortly after his death. He was of a musical temperament. He left his violin to his grandson in his will. Children of Nelson and Annie Paine: Mary L., born January 23, 1841, died August 17, 1874, left one daughter, Mary M. Aldrich ; Alden White, born January 17, 1850, see forward.

(VIII) Alden White Paine, son of Nelson Paine (7), was born at Northbridge, Massachusetts, January 17, 1850, died there November 17, 1888. He followed in his father's footsteps on the farm at Northbridge, then learned the trade of black- smith in the Whitin Machine Works and rose to the head of his department in the works. He was a man of high character and unusual skill and ability in his trade. He was a Republican in politics and a Congregationalist in religion. He married, October 22, 1872, Sarah Anna Clarke, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, daughter of William G. and Lois (Stone) Clarke. She was born January 7, 1850, and educated in the public and high schools of her native town, and at the State Normal school at Framingham, where she graduated in 1869. She

taught school in the towns of Hubbardston, Sutton and Northbridge, Massachusetts. They resided at Plummer's corner in the village of Whitinsville, town of Northbridge. Their children : Nelson Clark, born at Northbridge, April 1, 1874, died De- cember 13, 1889; Lois Lilian, born July 2, 1876, graduate of the Whitinsville high school and had passed her entrance examinations for the State Normal school, Worcester, when November 19, 1895, she was killed in a runaway accident ; Charles Eugene, born September 13, 1878, educated at Whitinsville high school, Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, and Bates College; Her- bert Eugene Wing, born November 7, 1883, gradu- ate of Whitinsville high school and Easthampton Academy, studied physical culture under McFadden, pitcher for the Worcester baseball club.

ORAN ALLAN KELLEY. Robert Kelley (I), the progenitor of Oran Allan Kelley, in Worcester county, was probably a descendant of the Kelley family of Boston, which was among the earliest in that town. Edward Kelley came to Boston on the "Hopewell" in April 1635, and settled in Boston. He had a son Edward, born November 4, 1664. He was, very likely, a relative of David Kelley. also of Boston. Elizabeth was the name of the wives of both. There was a Robert Kelley (Calley) in

Charlestown about the same time, who left descend- ants, and who for several generations used this spell- ing, which was common in the Worcester county family, also down to recent times.

David Kelley settled first on Hog Island in Bos- ton Harbor, but bought a place in town, May 13, 1656. He died in 1662. His widow married Robert Smith, seaman, of Boston. The children of David Kelley were: David, born December 18, 1647; William, born 1653, died young; Samuel, born Oc- tober 9, 1657, died young; Samnel, born November 30, 1661. Five children were living in 1662.

Henry Kelley and wife Eliza had three chil- dren, in Boston: Henry, born May 13, 1709; Eliza- beth, born March 18, 1711-12; Robert born April 26, 1714.

Robert Kelley, of Boston, trader (probably this Robert), bought land east of Lake Quinsigamond in and near Worcester, November 2, 1734, of Wig- glesworth Sweetzer, and sold it, August 25, 1738, to James Moore, of Grafton, for five hundred pounds. It was Richard Moore, Jr., who sold to Robert Moore, of Charlton, the three-hundred-acre home- stead in Charlton, where he lived and died.

(I) Robert Kelley, of Charlton, was the great- grandfather of Oran A. Kelley, of Worcester. He bought the farm, November 27, 1764, but seems to have lived in Charlton before purchasing this place. He had relatives there, as Richard Kelley was wit- ness of some of his papers. David Kelley, of Upton, the adjoining town. There were Kelleys in Hop- kinton, early; Hopkinton adjoins Upton.

Although it is difficult and perhaps impossible to trace the line from Robert Kelley to the emi- grant, there is no great doubt that the family is of English descent, that the Charlton settler was descended from the Boston family, and that other members of the family settled in Middlesex county from 1730 to 1760, when the movement of popula- tion from the old colonial towns was going on actively.

Robert Kelley was a leading citizen of Charl- ton. When the revolution broke out he was lieu- tenant of the militia company of which Benjamin Richardson was captain. They were drafted from General Jonathan Warner's brigade to serve in the seige of Boston. In 1776 he was lieutenant of the same company, in Colonel Nicholas Dike's regiment. The records show that he marched with his regi- ment, September 26, 1777, to reinforce the Conti- mental army under General Gates, in the northern department. He served during the greater part of the war.

He married Ruth Wheelock (intentions declared September 22), 1759. He married (second) Lydia Marrs, of Western (Warren), Massachusetts, (in- tentions dated September 5,). 1771. The children of Robert and Ruth (Wheelock) Kelley were : Abigail, born 1757; Chapin, born 1759, married Sally Thompson, 1793 (intentions dated September 12) ; Rachel, born about 1761; Joel, born 1764; he became a prominent man and dealt extensively in real estate, as the records show. The children of Robert Kelley and Lydia, his wife, were: Ruth, married Asa Newell, October 24, 1790; Mary, born 1772, married Thomas Town. April 27, 1794; Lydia, born 1774, married Isaac Patrick, of Western; Robert, born 1776, married Lucretia -, at Barre; Henry, born in 1778; William, born in 1780. Abner Kelley, born 1783. mentioned below, (was a baby at the time of his father's death. Edward Wheelock, relative of their mother, was appointed guardian of Joel, Chapin and Abigail Kelley. The father's will was dated May 30, 1783. and proved July I, 1783. Richard Kelley, possibly Richard's father,

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was a witness of the will and, to judge from the handwriting, was a very aged man. The guardian for the younger children was appointed at the same time. The records of the family were obtained from the probate records, the town records not giving birth, though it seems probable that the chil- dren were all born in Charlton-certainly all but one or two of the older ones).

(II) Abner Kelley, son of Robert Kelley (I), was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, in 1783. His father died when he was an infant in arms, and he was reared by relatives. He settled in Western, Massachusetts, an adjoining town, now called War- ren. In 1805 hie and other heirs of Robert Kelley made a quitclaim deed of land of his father, in Sturbridge. Abner Kelley was a carpenter by trade. The first name of his wife was Eliza. Their chil- dren were: Eliza, born at Warren, 1806, died 1832 ; Lydia Ann, born September 18, 1809, married Charles Parkes, of Stowe, Massachusetts ; children : Abijah, Caroline Elizabeth, Adelaide Augusta, Clara Josephine, Mary Louise, Nellie Frances ; Oran Allan, born at Warren, September 1, 1812; Abner, Jr., born 1814, married Susan M. Whittemore, of Leicester, May 31, 1839; she was the daughter of Amasa and Senta, born March 13, 1818, in Leices- ter; he had a farm on the road fromn Brookfield to Warren.

(III) Oran Allan Kelley, son of Abner Kelley (2), was born in Warren, Massachusetts. He mar- ried in 1833, Maria Bacon, who was born in Charl- ton in 1815, and adopted when young by her uncle. Her father's name was Lafling. They settled first in West Winchester, New Hampshire. They moved to Worcester in 1846.

Mr. Kelley built a house on the corner of Arch and Hanover streets. He opened a grocery store and was known as a prosperous merchant. He was a carpenter by trade, and in addition to carrying on his store was a prominent contractor and builder in the early days of the city, at a time when its growth was rapid. He became interested in real estate and built and owned many houses. He was a shrewd judge of the value of real estate and dealt extensively in it.

Mr. Kelley was a Republican. He served the city in the common council, and in other positions of honor and trust. He was an earnest temper- ance advocate. He was highly esteemed as a citi- zen, and was a leader in the church as well as in public affairs. He was a member of the Metho- dist Church and active in the building of the Laurel Street church. He died in Worcester, July 2, 1881. His wife died September 16, 1892.

The children of Oran Allan and Maria (Bacon) Kelley were: Eliza Maria, born 1837, married Amos M. Eaton; their daughter Cora married Charles H. Heywood, envelope manufacturer, Milwaukee, and has seven children; Louisa, born 1839, died 1840; Oran Allan, Jr., born September 2, 1842; Emma Louisa, born 1844, married Samuel D. Houghton, real estate dealer of Worcester, and has a son, Ernest R. Houghton, and a daughter Grace M. Houghton.

(IV) Oran Allan Kelley, son of Oran A. Kelley (3), was born in West Winchester, New Hampshire, September 2, 1842. He is perhaps tlie best known horse dealer in Worcester, and one of the best known in New England. The stock dealers of the west, as well as the horse dealers and farmers of New England, have all traded with Mr. Kelley. He came to Worcester with his parents when only three years of age, and he has grown up with the city. He was educated in the Worcester schools. At the age of eighteen he became a clerk in his

father's grocery store on Arch street, Worcester. A few years later he started the stock farm, which his father formerly owned, and with which his name has since been associated. His farm, which at first comprised forty acres, has been increased to about four hundred acres. It is located on Lincoln street and is all in the city of Worcester, near the Worcester almshouse. It is one of the best dairy farmns in the state. He produces more inilk than any other dairy owner in the city. The entire product is taken by the Worcester Insane Asylums, and he lias furnished them with milk for thirty-two years. His stock are prize winners at the fairs and the dairy farm is a model in every way. He lives on the farm and still gives it his personal supervision.

In 1886 he opened a sales stable on Summer street, and established a large business. He bought stock in Vermont and the west by the carload, and his judgment in buying has made this line of busi- ness very successful. As a dealer in horse flesh, Mr. Kelley stands at the head in Worcester. In 1899 he bought the property on Foster street, where his stables are now located.

He has built up, also, a very large trade in car- riages, harnesses, blankets and sleighs. He is a good advertiser, and is shrewd enough to tell noth- ing but the truth in his advertisements. His suc- cess is due to upright dealing with men that re- tains them as his customers year after year, and brings to hiim new customers all the time. His thorough knowledge of liis business and his mag- netic personality have contributed largely to his business success, of course. He is tactful and clever in his dealings with men in social as well as in busi- ness life. Another and important field of Mr. Kelley's activities has been in real estate in Wor- cester. He has some four hundred acres within the city limits and from time to time has put building lots on the market, notably a section of May street, one of the most attractive residential streets in in the city. He loves good horses and always owns some fast ones. He has bred some that have been famous. Don Pedro trotted in 2:16; he was sold in Australia. For years Mr. Kelley has contributed to the interest of the frequenters of the Worcester Boulevard, where the winter racing takes place when the sleighing permits. He knows and always has an artistic rig.

Mr. Kelley is a Republican and has always taken an interest in public affairs. He served the city in the common council and as an overseer of the poor. He is a prominent Free Mason, having taken all the degrees to and including the thirty-second in the Scottish Rite.

Mr. Kelley married, January 19, 1864, Mary S. . Bond, of Boylston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Thomas and Harriet (Slocum) Bond, of Boylston, and was born there, March 2, 1842. Her mother was a native of Shrewsbury. Thomas Bond was a prosperous farmer. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-three, and his wife to the age of eighty-one. They reared a family of two sons and four daughters. The children of Oran Allan and Mary S. (Bond) Kelley were: Oran A., 3rd, born in Worcester, May 8, 1866; married Frances Hewett, daughter of George Hewett; he is associated with his father in business, keeping books and sharing the management of the stable business. They have one son, Oran Allan, Jr. Herbert B., born September 24, 1867; married Anna Leverett; was formerly a clothing merchant in Wor- cester; is now associated with his father in busi- ness. Florence G., born in Worcester, June II, 1870; resides with her parents.

BOND FAMILY. Jonas Bond was one of the

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English ancestors of Mrs. Oran Allan Kelley, of Worcester, and her sister, Mrs. A. W. Andrews. He lived at Bury St. Edmunds after the birth of his second child about 1590. The other children were baptized there. He may have removed from Haw- ley or Woolport, where according to his will he owned real estate. He was buried August 5, 1601. He married Rose Wood. Their children were : Oliver, the eldest; John, called the elder ; John, called the younger, two sons of the same name being living at the same time ( similar instances have been noted elsewhere in this work); he was baptized December 26, 1591, married, June 28, 1612, Lydia Tixtott, had eight children; Bartholomew, men- tioned in will; William, baptized December 28, 1695, Thomas, born in Bury St. Edmunds, baptized Sep- tember 8, 1697, heir to house in Woolport ; maltster ; Elizabeth, baptized March 12, 1699, married ( sec- ond). February 8, 1625, Deacon Ephraim Child, of Watertown, Massachusetts; Margaret, baptized De- cember 10, 1600.

Thomas Bond, son of Jonas Bond (I), was baptized at St. James Church, Bury St. Edmunds, England, September 8, 1797. He received from his father's estate the house at Woolport. He was a maltster by trade. He lived at Bury St. Edmunds. His children were: Thomas, baptized September 22, 1622; John, baptized February 5, 1624; William, baptized September 3, 1625% Henry, baptized April 5, 1628: Elizabeth, baptized March 12, 1630; Francis, baptized May 31, 1632, not mentioned in father's will; Mary, baptized January 31, 1636; Jonas, bap- tized August 5, 1638, grocer at Bury St. Edmunds.

(I) William Bond, son of Thomas Bond, was the emigrant ancestor. He was baptized September 3. 1625. He came to Watertown probably with his father's sister's family, as he was there in 1631, ap- parently, when only six years old. Elizabeth, wife of Deacon Ephraim Child, was his aunt, sister of his father. He became one of the leading citizens of the colony and province. He was selectman, town clerk, captain of the militia company of Watertown, justice of the peace, on the council of safety in 1689. He was long a deputy of the general court and speaker in 1691-92-93-95. He was the first speaker of the general court under the new charter unit- ing Plymouth and Massachusetts. He was ad- mitted a freeman in 1682 and joined the church in full communion March 27, 1687. He was on the committee to rebuild the town of Lancaster which was destroyed during the Indian wars. The other members of this committee were Captain Thomas Prentice and Deacon John Stone. He died Decem- ber 14, 1695. An agreement dividing the estate signed by the heirs was filed January 23, 1696.

He married, February 7, 1649-50, Sarah Bisco, daughter of Nathaniel Bisco, "the rich tanner." (See sketch of Bisco Family in this work.) She died February, 1692-93. He married (second), 1695, Elizabeth Nevinson, widow of John Nevinson. The children of William and Sarah ( Bisco) were: Will- iam, born December I, 1650, died 1724; lieutenant and deacon; admitted freeman March 22, 1689; John, born December, 1652; freeman April 18, 1690; * sergeant of the home-guard; Thomas, born Decem- ber 23, 1654, died December 17, 1704; Elizabeth, born November 30, 1656, died December 23, 1729; married Captain Nathaniel Barsham; Nathaniel, born January 19, 1658-9; Nathaniel, born Jannary 9, 1659-60; admitted freeman April 18. 1690; lieti- tenant; died April 1, 1700; Sarah, born July 27, 1661, married, January 29, 1689-90, Dr. Palgrave Wellington; Jonas, born July 13, 1664; lieutenant- colonel; justice of the peace; died April 21, 1727 ; iii-7

Mary, married, June 22, 1693, Richard Coolidge ; died 1699.

(11) Thomas Bond, son of William Bond (1), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, December 23. 1654. He married, September 30, 1680, Saralı Woolson, born 1661, daughter of Thomas Woolson, of Newton. Thomas Woolson married, November 20, 1660, Sarah Hyde, and settled in Newton, Massa- chusetts, later in Weston where he kept a tavern from 1686 to 1708. He died about 1713. His widow died at Sudbury, September 11, 1721. Administra- tion was granted his widow Sarah and son Thomas January 22, 1704-5. Their children were: Thomas, born April 29, 1683, died May 17, 1737; Sarah, December 2, 1685, married, February 12, 1781-2, Jane Treadway ; William, February 1, 1687-8; Mary, Weston, baptized December 7, 1790, married, De- cember 29, 1719, Isaac Bigelow ; John, July 14, 1695; Isaac, June 22, 1698, cordwainer, settled in Sherboru, Sudbury and Natick, Massachusetts.

(Il]) Thomas Bond, son of Thomas Bond (2), was born in Weston, Massachusetts, April 29, 1683, married August 25, 1706, Lydia Spring, born Au- gust 12, 1686, daughter of Henry and Lydia (Cut- ting) Spring. Henry Spring was born March I, 1662, son of Henry, who married, January 7, 1657-8, Mehritable Bartlett. Henry Spring was the son of John and Elinor Spring, of Watertown, and all of the families of his surname are to be counted among lis descendants. Henry was born in 1628, admitted a freeman May 30, 1660.

Thomas Bond died May 17, 1737. His widow married (second) Deacon Jolin Warren, of Weston, Massachusetts. The children of Thomas and Ly- dia (Spring) Bond were: Thomas, born May 3, 1708, probably the Thomas who settled in Newton; Jonathan, November 7, 1710, at Westboro, died January II, 1789; Henry, September 6, 1712; Amos, August 24, 1714, died September 29, 1762; Thaddeus, January 15, 1716-7, married in Marlboro, March 24, 1740-I, Mary Rice; married (second), April II, 1745, Prudence Warren, of Weston; Lydia, May 21, 1718, married, March 21, 1744-5, Samuel Fiske; Phinehas, January 8, 1724-5; Abigail, November 28, 1727.

(IV) Jonathan. Bond, son of Thomas Bond (3), was born November 7, 1710. He resided at Waltham, Mendon and Westboro. Ile married, April 13, 1732, Mary Harrington, and died at West- boro, January II, 1789. He was admitted to the church in Westboro in full communion February 22, 1752. His wife was admitted from the Mendon, he from the Waltham Church. He was lieutenant in the French and Indian wars, in 1755, in Captain Benjamin Wood's company ; in 1756 in Captain Ben- jamin Flagg's company.

Their children were: Mary, born in Watertown, December 2, 1732, married Aaron Warner, of Up- ton, and settled in Westboro; Jonathan, born in Waltham, April 22, 1736; Thomas, born January 30, 1739; Eunice, born in Waltham, February 18, 1742, married - Newton, of Westboro; Joseph, born in Mendon, July 6, 1744, married Ilepsibah Pratt, settled in Westboro, thence removed to Bondstown, now Hampden, Ohio, where he died; Lydia, born in Mendon, January 12, 1747, married Moses Wheeler; Elizabeth, born at Westboro, March 28, 1752, died 1756; Lucy, born June 22, 1755.

(V) Lieutenant Thomas Bond, son of Deacon Jonathan Bond (4), was born in Westboro, Massa- chusetts, January 30, 1739. He was the first of the name to settle in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. His house was on the site of that now or was lately occupied by Deacon L. S. Thurston, built by Amos

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Bond. Thomas Bond, of Westboro, was first lieutenant in Captain Edmund Brigham's company of minute men in Major-General Ward's regiment which went to Lexington on the alarm April 19, 1775. He was first lieutenant in Captain Moses Wheelock's company, General Ward's regiment, 1775. He was commissioned lieutenant in the Mas- sachusetts militia April 5, 1776, and marched to re- inforce the northern army under General Gates, but their orders were countermanded when they reached Hadley, Massachusetts.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. III, Part 27

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 772

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 772