Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. III, Part 72

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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.ardson, resided in Ware, this state. Among their children was Alfred H., of whom later.


Alfred H. Richardson was born in Ware, Hamp- shire county, Massachusetts, August 27, 1844. After concluding his attendance at the public schools he engaged in farming, but was suddenly called away from that peaceful occupation, as, at the breaking out of the civil war, he found it impossible to re- frain from participating in the defense of the Union. Enlisting as a private in Company A, Forty-sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, he re- mained with that organization until the expiration of his term of service. when he re-enlisted in Com- pany B, Sixty-first Massachusetts Regiment. He was attached to the engineer corps under General Warren and participated in many of the important operations of the Ninth Army Corps, including the memorable siege and capture of Petersburg, which practically decided the fate of the southern Con- federacy, and he was honorably mustered out with his regiment at the close .of the war. Upon his return from the army he did not resume agricultural pursuits, but was compelled to seek a less arduous occupation, and he finally entered the employ of the Gilbert Company in Hardwick, with whom he now holds a position of responsibility and trust. Mr. Richardson is prominently identified with the Re- publican party, being at the present time a member of the town committee; has frequently attended as a delegate county, district and state conventions ; and has served at different times as selectman, as- sessor and overseer of the poor. He is one of the. leading members of the Congregational Church, hav- 'ing been for more than thirty-five years a teacher in the Sunday school, of which he is now acting as superintendent, and as a member of the parish com- mittee.


In 1870 Mr. Robinson was joined in marriage with Miss Lucretia Marsh, daughter of Luther and Lydia Marsh. of Holden. The children of this union were three in number: Fanny, wife of Charles A. Ward, of Gilbertville; Myron E., mar- ried Sarah Bragdon, of Gilbertville; and Florence E., died March 1I, 1905.


FRANCIS THEODORE FALES. When in 1903 the gentleman whose name forms the caption for these memoirs passed away. West Brookfield lost a citizen whose efficient public service and private worth were generally recognized, and one whose sunny disposition, cheery smile, clean-minded ness and kind-heartedness had won for him a place in the hearts of all who knew him.


He was the youngest of the sons of John Mann Fales, (whose biography follows) and was born Oc- tober 16, 1840. He received a liberal education and his subsequent business life was spent in his father's manufacturing establishment. He lived latterly in retirement at West Brookfield, in which place he was called to the duties of numerous offices of trust to which he was ever faithful.


He married Esther A. Griffin, born June 30. 1845, at Pleasant Valley, Connecticut. Of their children John M., born November 15, 1870, died December 24, 1903: Lillian Trask, born February 21, 1878, married a Mr. Shaw, an employe at the armory, Springfield, Massachusetts; Stanley Leroy. born June 7. 1883. resides with his mother at West Brookfield.


Francis Theodore Fales was lincally descended from James Fales, the immigrant ancestor of the Fales family of West Brookfield, who came from Chester, England, to New England, and was one of the pioneers in the select town of Dedham.


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He signed the famous Covenant there and was ad- mitted a townsman in 1653. Ile was a distinguished soldier in King Philip's war in 1675 and 1676. He died at Dedham, July 10, 1708. He married, 1654, Anna Brock, of Dedham, and they had three sons and four daughters, all born in Dedham: James, born July 4. 1656, married Deborah (or Dorothy Fisher) and settled in Walpole, where many of his descendants have lived; John, born October 5, 1658, see forward; Ebenezer, born February 1, 1661-2, inherited his father's place in Dedham, now East street; Mary, born August 30, 1664; Peter, not given in Dedham records; Hannah, born January 16, 1672, married Thomas Bacon; she died at Wrentham, April, 1711; Martha, born October 28, 1675; Rachel, born June 19, 1680.


(II) John Fales, son of James Fales (I), was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, October. 5, 1658. He settled in Wrentham, Massachusetts, formerly a part of Dedham. He married, about 1682-3. Abi- gail Hawes. Their children were : John, born August 22, 1685, died young; John, see forward ; Joseph, born September 8, 1691; Daniel, born De- cember 4, 1699.


(III) John Fales, son of John Fales (2), was born in Wrentham, April 17, 1689. He married Unity Hawes. Their children were : Hannalı, Martha, Rachel, Ebenezer, John, see forward; Jo- seph, Mary. The preceding were probably born at Wrentham.


(IV) John Fales, son of John Fales (3), was born in Wrentham, probably about 1740. A John Fales, of Mansfield, was in Captain Silas Cobb's company, Colonel Danforth Keyes' regiment, in 1777 in the revolution. The records of this family are wanting. The family records give him a son Daniel, see forward.


(V) Captain Daniel Fales, son of John Fales (4), was born in Wrentham, about 1770. He re- moved to Newton, thence to Shrewsbury, where he settled. At the time of his marriage, however, he was living in Needham, which adjoined Ded- ham and Newton. He married Sarah Pratt, June IO, 1798. The record states that both were of Needham. At Shrewsbury they settled on a farm previously owned by Joseph Hastings. His first child was born in Sherborn; the second at Need- ham; the others at Shrewsbury. They were : Leander, born December 15, 1798, was captain, set- tled in Shrewsbury; Mary Ann, born December 21, 1800, settled in Holliston, married John Parker. Jr., of Templeton. September 4, 1823; Almira Lucretia, born January 4. 1803, married Calvin Lincoln, of Holliston, January, 1822; John Mann, see forward ; Charles, born June 2, 1807; Martha Southgate, born March 5, 1809, never married, lived in Shrewsbury ; Sarah Eliza, born May 17, 1811, married Flagg, and lived in Westboro; Daniel Henry, born June 30, 1813, removed to Brookfield.


(VI) John Mann Fales, fourth child of Captain Daniel Fales (5), was born in Shrewsbury, August 25, 1805. He attended school in Shrewsbury and afterward went to Dedham, where he learned the trade of shoemaker. About 1831 he went to Brook- field, Massachusetts, and opened a custom boot and shoe store. As business increased he devoted his energies to the manufacture of shoes. He was the pioneer shoe manufacturer of West Brookfield. He was successful in business. At the time of his death he had one hundred and seventy-five hands employed in his shoe factory, a large force for that day when the work was still done largely by crude machines and hand work, and a large part of the lasting and difficult work was done by individual shoemakers in their own shops. Before the war his iii-17


business was largely in the south. llis adherence to his principles, regardless of its effect on his busi- ness, strangely enough saved him at the time the civil war broke out from serious losses such as most northern manufacturers suffered from losses in the south. He lost his southern trade and fortunately for him had no accounts to lose in 1860. The fol- lowing letter explains his position in the matter. It was addressed to S. Kirtland, one of his cus- tomers in Montgomery, Alabama, who proposed to boycott his goods if he was a Republican. The letter follows :


"Yours of the third instant received, asking my views in relation to the Republican party and say- ing if I endorse their principles, you should not trade with me. In reply I would say that I scll boots, not principles. I shall vote the coming fall, if I am alive and well, for the nomince of the Re- publican party for president, and if you see fit to give me your orders, I shall be pleased to fill them, but not under any considerations will I sell my principles to sell boots." Mr. Fales had many gov- ernment contracts during the war. After the war his business was largely in the west. He was an active member of the Orthodox Congregational Church of West Brookfield. He was a staunch Republican, as the letter quoted serves to indicate. He served two terms in the general court, first in 1847 and again in 1864. He died October 27, 1867. At the time of his death one who knew him wrote: "Mr. Fales was a man of indomitable courage, firm will, strict integrity and judicious benevolence."


He married, May 12, 1831, Mary S. Trask, of Leicester. She died in 1887. Their children: Ann Eliza, married Dr. J. Blodgett, who practiced in West Newton; George Henry, see forward; John, died at the age of twelve years; Leander, died at the age of seventeen years; Francis Theodore, the story of whose personal career introduces these memoirs: Mary, died in infancy.


(VII) George Henry Fales, second child of John Mann Fales (6), was born at West Brookfield, Massachusetts, March 7, 1834. He was edticated at the public schools of West Brookfield and at the Worcester Academy. He went to work in his father's shoe factory and learned the business thor- oughly. He became superintendent of the factory, a position that he filled until his father's death in October, 1867. Then he entered into partnership with George A. Parrett under the firm name of John M. Fales, Son & Co., and continued the busi- ness established by his father. In 1885 John G. Shackley was admitted to the firm, but the name remained the same. The firm did a large business and stood well in the business world. In 1892 the firm was dissolved and Mr. Fales retired. Mr. Fales was a staunch Republican. He served as town treasurer for many years, being first elected to that position in May, 1887. He was also a trustee of the Merriam Public Library and has held other positions of trust and honor. He died January 5, 1903.


He married, February 4. I864, Laurinda Tomblen. daughter of Lucius Tomblen, of West Brookfield. Their children are : Mary I., mar- ried Samuel Wass, of Philadelphia, now residents of West Brookfield, with two children: Ilione Fales and George Fales Wass: Charlotte Tomblen ; Georgie Belle and Marguerite Fales.


MRS. RUTH SARAH WEST (nee Delvy), of Petersham, is a daughter of Peter Delvy, of War- wick, and subsequently of Gill, Massachusetts, and Ruth (Carter) Delvy, the latter a daughter of John Carter, of Petersham. On the paternal side she is


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of Dutch ancestry, and through her mother is a descendant in the seventh generation of the Rev. Thomas Carter, the immigrant, who was the first of that name to settle in New England. The Carters of Petersham are an old and highly estimable family, and information relative to its origin in England will be found in a sketch of John Albion Carter, which appears elsewhere in this work.


Rev. Thomas Carter, who was born at or near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1610, and studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, was a passenger in the ship "Planter," which arrived at Boston from London in May, 1635. He was one of the incor- porators of Dedham (1636), but shortly afterward removed to Watertown and in 1642 accepted an urgent call to become the first pastor of the church at Charlestown Village, the name of which was subsequently changed to Woburn. This pastorate he retained for a period of nearly forty-two years or until his death, which occurred September 5, I684 (O. S.). He married Mary Dalton, who was probably a daughter of Philemon Dalton, and his children were: Samuel, Judith, Theophilus, Mary, Abigail, Deborah, Timothy and Thomas. The mother of these children died March 28, 1687. From Rev. Thomas the line of descent to Mrs. West is through Timothy (2), Benjamin (3), Timothy (4), John (5), and Ruth (6).


Timothy Carter, third son of Rev. Thomas. was married May 3, 1680, to Anna, daughter of David Fiske, of Cambridge Farms (now Lexington). Her death occurred January 27, 1713. Timothy and Anna Carter were the parents of thirteen children, namely : David, Timothy, Ann, Timothy (2d), Theo- philus, Thomas, Abigail. Sarah. Elizabeth, Benja- min, Mary, Martha and Benjamin (2d), who was born November IS, 1704, died July 8, 1727.


John Carter, of Petersham, son of Timothy, married Ruth A. Goodnow, and their children were: John Larned, Johanan, Timothy, Silas, Hosea, Benjamin, Ruth, Ruby and Polina. His daughter Ruth, born August 17, 1802, married Peter Delvy, born in Warwick, Massachusetts, July 28, 1795, and belonged to an early settled family in that town. She became the mother of four children, namely : Susan Carter, born July 20. 1832, married O. Coolidge, of Petersham; Ruth Sarah, June 25, 1833, see forward; Louisa M., born June 14, 1834, mar- ried Otis Hale, of Dana, and subsequently of Gill; and Jobn C. Carter, born March 17, 1836, married Sophia Munn, of Gill, this state. Mrs. Ruth Delvy died March 23, 1836, and Peter married for his sec- ond wife her sister Ruby. The children of this union are: A child, who died in infancy; Polina E., born June 2, 1839, married her cousin, George Delvy, of Warwick, now wife of Clarence S. Munn, of Gill; Mary A., born 1840, married Amos Whit- aker, died in March 1894; Ruby J., born 1844, died at the age of eighteen years.


Ruth Sarah Delvy was born in Warwick, June 25, 1833. She was reared and educated in her native town. She married for her first husband Charles R. Simonds, who died May 18, 1859. The only child of this union is George R. Simonds, who is now a well-known florist of Barre, and an ex- member of the Massachusetts legislature. Mrs. Simonds married for her second husband Lorenzo West, of Petersham. He was a boot bottomer by trade and prior to the introduction of machinery in the manufacture of foot-wear conducted a profit- able business in "bottoming" boots and shoes by hand. He afterward became the village sexton and undertaker. Politically Mr. West acted with the Republican party. He was a member of the Unitarian Church, as was Mrs. West.


LUCIUS DOUBLEDAY, of Dana, Massachu- setts, one of the successful farmers of Worcester county, was born February 13. 1828, in Dana, on the old homestead. He is the son of Elisha and Sophia ( Blackmar) Doubleday. The mother was the daughter of Solomon Blackmar and wife. Elisha and Sophia ( Blackmar) Doubleday were the par- ents of the following children, regardless of the order in which they were born, however :


Julia, married - Chamberlain ; Lucy, married Charles; Duthera, died young and never mar- ried; Ranseller, single, died in Canada; Lucius, see forward; Merrick, married Chamberlain. Elisha Doubleday was the son of Joseph Double- day, who married Lucy Towne and they were the parents of: Joseph, Elisha, Nathan, Jason. Cyrus, Jemimah, Lizzie, Amandy, Lucy. Joseph Double- day, the grandfather of Lucius Doubleday, was a pioneer, coming to Dana when it was little else than a wilderness.


Lucius Doubleday, the subject, was educated in the common schools under great difficulties, but obtained a fair common education and is today a prosperous farmer who takes advantage of every improved method. His estate now contains about eleven hundred acres. Besides farming he deals extensively in wood and timber, which makes him an independent man. Mr. Doubleday is a Republi- can and in his early days took much interest in local politics. On two occasions he was elected as the town assessor and has been one of the select- men twice. He is an attendant of the Universalist Church. He was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Ellen, daughter of John Gleason, of Dana, Massa- chusetts, by which marriage were born the follow- ing children: William L., born June 3, 1855, see forward; Nellie A., April 18, 1866, died January 26, ISS9: John A., April 3, 1868, married May Free and now resides at Prescott, Massachusetts ; Francis A., April 9. 1875, married Hattie Hem- mingway and now lives at Dana.


William Lucius Doubleday, born June 3, 1855, at Dana, attended the common schools of Dana, and when he had finished his studies commenced to work on the farm with his father, who carried on a timber and lumber business. William Lucius has always been thus engaged and still follows it for a livelihood, being one of the prosperous farmers and lumber dealers of Dana. He is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republi- can party, but owing to the great amount of per- sonal business he has always had to attend to, he has never sought or accepted office at the hands of his fellow townsmen. He is a member and regular attendant of the Universalist Church at Dana. Mr. Doubleday married Mary, daughter of Truman and Catharine (Corbett) Thayer, of Dana, Massachusetts. By this marriage were born these children : Fred. born in 1878, now living at Pres- cott ; Bertha, born 1882: Goldie, born 1889. The last two are still in school.


GEORGE MANDERVILLE GERY. Thomas Gerry (1), the immigrant ancestor of George Man- derville Gery (who has adopted the simplified form of spelling the family name), of Athol, Massachu- setts, was born in England or Ireland in 1638. Tradition says that he was of Irish stock, but he was apparantly a Puritan to all intents and purposes. It is related that he was the boatswain of a British man-o-war which stopped in Boston harbor. He fell in with a Scotchman named Hay, who became an early settler of what is now Reading, Massachu- setts, in the section set off as Stoneham. He looked over the land at Stoneham and returning to his


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ship got his discharge on condition that if called into service at any time he would go. le owned land in Reading in 1668 or 1669, when he removed to the adjacent town of Charlestown, Massachu- setts, in what was called Charlestown End, where in 1678 the inhabitants were Thomas Gerry. John Gould, Sr., John Gould, Jr., William Rogers, Thomas Cutler and Mathew Smith. They are known as the "Fathers of the Town" of Stonehamn. Gerry spelled his name Gery, while for some gen- erations the spelling varied, some descendants using Gery, others Gerry, Geary, Garey, Gary, Geri, etc. Some writers have claimed that Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, and vice-president, was descended from Thomas, but this is an error. Elbridge was born at Marblehead, July 17, 1744, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Gerry, who came from England and whose English pedigree is known.


Thomas Gerry made a clearing at Stoneham and built a eabin just beyond the northern slope of Farm Hill, on or near the present High street, and he had his home there at the time of King Philip's war in 1675 and 1676. In 1668 he was complained of for cutting an aere of grass in the meadow of Charlestown. He was at the same time a cunning and courageous man. It is said in the history of Stoneham that on a certain occasion having risen early in the morning, his attention was attracted by suspicions movements of an Indian lying concealed behind a log, and having reason to believe that he was lying in wait for him and not caring unneces- sarily to expose himself, he extended through the partly opened door his eoat and hat in such a man- ner as to draw the arrow of the unwary savage and the next instant the ball had whizzed from his un- erring musket with fatal effect. Fearing the ven -- geance of the tribe, should they discover the dead body, he buried it in his own cellar. On another occasion, as the story goes, he had been away one winter day to cut wood, and on returning just after dark stopped at the house of a neighbor, Thomas Cutler, and was urged to stay there over night be- cause of the danger from wolves. But Gerry, thinking of his family and of their anxiety if he should stay, declined the invitation, shouldered his axe, and started on. After going a short distance he was attacked by a pack of wolves. He backed against a tree swinging his ax to the right and left and eleared a space. The wolves finally gave up the fight, and next morning he found four dead wolves about the tree. A bounty of four pounds cach was paid for the wolves at that time. Traces of hlood showed that a fifth was very badly wounded, but had erawled away. He was a soldier in the ill- fated Phipps expedition against Canada in 1690 and died on his way back. His name has been borne by numerous descendants, many of whom have been among the chief men of the town in which he was one of the first settlers. Thomas Gerry and John Gould were troopers in Captain Hutchin- son's company and fought in King Philip's war. Gerry was third on the list of subscribers to the new meeting house in 1688. He left a widow Sarah and at least one son, Thomas, see forward.


(II) Thomas Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (I), was born about 1675. He settled in Charlestown, where he bought and sold mueh real estate between 1705 and 1725. He bought his first house lot of the town in 1705. June 26, 1710. the seleetmen of Charlestown "have ordered and empowered Henry Green and Thomas Gary (Gerry) both inhabitants of Charlestown to demand and receive of every person that shall lay any cord on either part of said bank (of the river) that belongeth to Charles- town, excepting the inhabitants of Charlestown, six


pence per cord." A protective tariff against for- cigners. In 1725 Thomas Gerry, Jr., was on the tax list of Stoneham. He married, April 10, 1701, Hannah Streeter, of Reading. Among their ehil- dren were : Captain Benjamin, of Stoneham ; Thomas, Jr., see forward.


(Il1) Thomas Gerry, Jr., son of Thomas Gerry (2), was born in Stoneham or Charlestown about 1702. Thomas Gerry, Jr., and Captain Benjamin Gerry were taxed in Stoneham immediately after the incorporation of the town. Ile married Abi- gail Vinton, who was born in Reading, December 28, 1704, the eldest child of John Vinton, leading citizen and largest property owner of Stoneham at that time. Late in life he appears to have removed to Lancaster, Massachusetts, to live with his son, Thomas Gerry, Jr., who located there. His will is dated at Lancaster, January 17, 1776, and he died 1788, his will being filed at Worcester, April I, 1788. He left a widow Rebecca. He married ( sec- ond) at Lancaster, December 5, 1770, Rebeeea How. To her he left his property. The children named in the will were: Thomas, see forward; Phebe, Su- saunalı, Keziah, Cate, Jonathan. (The Richardson Memorial gives a son David, born November 27, 1728.) The deceased was of Sterling, formerly Lancaster.


(IV) Thomas Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (3), was born in Stoneham about 1732. He settled in Sterling, Massachusetts. He is said to have built the first house in the town of Royalston, but he did not stay there long. He married (first) at Lan- easter, where he was then living. Jane Wilder, April 22, 1756. She died about 1764 and he married (second), also at Lancaster, Priscilla Jewett, of Lancaster, October 24, 1765. Children of Thomas and Priseilla (Jewett) Gerry, baptized in the Chock- sett (Sterling) Church, were as follows: Thomas, baptized May 3, 1767, died at Sterling, 1814; Phebe, baptized June 5, 1768; David Jewett, baptized May 27, 1770; John, baptized August 9, 1772; Josepli, born October 9, 1774.


(V) David Jewett Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (4), was born at Sterling, February 23, 1770, and died in Sudbury, Massachusetts, October 27, 1849. He removed to Sudbury in 1817 and lived there most of the remainder of his life. He kept the old Pratt Tavern there for some five years, then engaged in roof building and bridge building. At one time also he was proprietor of a hotel at Fitz- william, New Hampshire, and Leominster, Massa- chusetts. With his son Charles he built the first bridge over the Nashua river at Dunstable, Massa- chusetts, now Nashua, New Hampshire. He mar- ried Lucy Thompson, of Sterling. Their children were: Thomas, see forward: Eliza, Charles, born at Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, February 3, 1802, settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, worked with his father at bridge building, was master builder of the Acton Powder Works.


(VI) Thomas Gerry, son of David Jewett Gerry (5), married Nancy Withey, of Mason, New Hamp- shire, by whom he had ten children. He resided at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in which city both he and his wife died. Children: Mary Ann, George, Lucy, James, Nancy, Francis, Charles, Henry Augustus, Gilbert a Amanda. Henry Augustus was born in Fitchburg, married Lydia W. Dike, of Hubbardston, by whom he had seven children, three of whom are now (1906) living: Foster J., married and has two children: Henry P. and Bessie L. Gerry; Ida L., married Elmer B. Upham and they have two daugh- ters: Florence, wife of Earnest Mason Bryant; and Stella, widow of James W. Warner; Everett A., unmarried.


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(V]]) George Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (6), was born about 1815. He settled first in North- bridge, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Mill- bury, thence to North Oxford, where he resided three years. He then went to Athol, Massachusetts, where he was employed for a time as overseer of a miill. In 1853 he established the machine . shop which has been carried on by him and his son, George M. Gerry, since then. He was a Methodist in religion and one of the founders of the Athol Methodist Church, the first meeting of the society being held in his house. He was a class leader for more than thirty years. He died at Athol July 26, 1876. He married Sophia Smith, daughter of Anson Smith, of Athol. Their only child: George Manderville, see forward.




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