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(VII) John Baker White, son of Samuel White (6), was born in Burrillville, Rhode Island, Janu- ary 16. 1820. At the age of six he began to attend school in a small country school-house about three miles from his home. He attended this school for only a short time, leaving it for one nearer by. In those days school kept for only eight weeks during the winter. Prior to December. 1837, he taught for a while in the Buck Hill district school. In December, 1837, he left for the Academy at Bolton, Massachusetts. His brother George carried him as far as Northbridge, from whence he set out on foot for the Bolton Academy. He spent one term of eleven weeks there, leaving in the spring of 1838. The cost of this term, board and tuition, was $35.
In the spring of 1838 he returned to Burrillville where. under the direction of Daniel M. Salisbury. he began to learn the carpenter's trade. Beginning work the first week in April, he continued eight months. He spent the winter at home. Resuming the labors at the bench again the last week in March, he worked another eight months. His wages for the whole sixteen months were $65 and his board, besides a set of bench planes costing $6.50. Ele spent the next winter with his brother Bezaleel at Westford, Connecticut. The following spring he returned to Burrillville and worked for William Albee for a short time. He remained with Mr. Albee for about four months, going from Bur- rillville to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in the fall, to work for Jervis Cook. He had been here only two months when he was stricken with typhoid fever. He went to the home of his brother-in-law, Remington Southwick, at Millville, Massachusetts. His sickness lasted about five weeks, but he stayed here for the rest of the winter working and study- ing. In the spring of 1841 he entered the employ of Nathan Harris, who was doing work for the Blackstone Company at Blackstone, Massachusetts. During this time he worked one season on the wood- work on the east end of the stone mill which was torn down in 1905. He continued in the employ of the Blackstone Company until the fall of 1845. The next year was spent in jobbing, during which time he worked for Reuben Thayer, Sr., and for Washington Hunt. From 1845 until the spring of 1865 he carried on a profitable carpentering and building business at Millville. Massachusetts, em- ploying several men.
August 26, 1846, he married Maranda Harkness, daughter of James and Judith (Thayer) Harkness, who was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, July 26,. 1824. The Harkness family lived on the west side of the Blackstone river, northwest of the village, on .a road that branches off at the tomb from the road be- tween Ironstone and Forestdale, and that passes by the house of Byron Andrews. The family is of Scotch- Irish origin, coming to this country early in the eighteenth century, when the north of Ireland was almost abandoned by the Scotch Presbyterians for new homes in America. Job Harkness, one mem- ber of this family, was a prominent cotton manu- facturer at Anthony Village, Rhode Island. Thomas Harkness, of Providence, was interested in the man- ttfacture of cotton goods at Manville, Rhode Island. and later for many years was president of the Manufacturers' National Bank of Providence. On the farm adjoining the one on which Maranda Hark- ness was born, lived her father's brother, South- wiek Harkness. Here Professor Albert Harkness, Professor Emeritus of Greek at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. was born. Professor Harkness is the author and editor of several text- books on Latin and Greek. On June 27, 1840,. Maranda Harkness became a member of the Free- will Baptist Church at Waterford ( Blackstone). She was well educated and taught school a short time before her marriage. Maranda Harkness died at North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, October 31, 1867.
In 1865 John B. White purchased from Newel Tyler his farm in North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, which is now owned by his son, Willis H. White. The house had been built by Luther Spring for his son Samuel, and had served many years as a tavern on the stage road from Boston to Hartford. Mr. White lived in this house until his death in 1899. Besides carrying on his farm. Mr. White owned and operated a sawmill in North Uxbridge, and also carried on his carpentering and building trade. Among the many buildings built by him in Ux- bridge and vicinity was the school-house at North
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Uxbridge, and the Methodist church in Douglass, which has since been destroyed by fire.
On February 18, 1869, John B. White (7), was married to Julia Aurelia Roper of Princeton, Mas- sachusetts. John B. White was a man of exemplary character, loved and honored by his fellow towns- men. In public life, he was active, proving himself, in every respect, a useful, able, and faithful citizen. In his younger days he served in the militia, ris- ing to the command of his company in 1842. Later he served the town of Blackstone one year as select- man. Until the formation of the Republican party, Mr. White was identified with the Whigs. In 1859 he was elected representative to the general court from the twenty-first district. Worcester county, by the Republican party. He also took an active part in the revision of the public statutes in a special session of the legislature held for that pur- pose, and lasting four months. In his later years he was active in the Temperance movement, and was a Prohibitionist in his politics. In his religion, he was a Freewill Baptist, uniting with the church of that denomination at Waterford ( Blackstone). June 26, 1842. John B. White died at North Uxbridge, ness (S), mentioned below. Children of John B. and Maranda (Harkness) White: I. Ella Arminda, born April 15, 1853, at Millville; married John Dexter Sherman, son of Albert and Lucy (Marble) Sherman, October 31, 1888. 2. John Burtis, born at Millville, August 8. 1856; married Josephine West Smith, daughter of Gideon Armstrong and Ann (Miller) Smith, November 7, 1880. 3. Willis Hark- ness (8), mentioned below. Children of John B. and Julia Aurelia (Roper) White, all born at North Uxbridge: 4. Harry Clifford, born February 25, 1870. 5. Charles Samuel, born October 2, 1874. 6. Grace Marion, horn October 15, 1879.
(VIII) Willis Harkness White, son of John B. White (7), was born in Millville, Massachusetts, December 22. 1862. When he was two years old his parents moved to North Uxbridge. He was educated in the public schools, beginning at the old school house at the rivulet where Salome (Brackett) Wheeler was his first teacher. Later he attended the school at Rogerson Village for a short time. Although he was regular in attendance when going to school, yet he lost several terms. During the winter of his fourteenth and fifteenth years he worked with his father in his sawmill, located south of the North Uxbridge cotton mills. He finished his education at the high school at Uxbridge at the age of sixteen, having taken about two years of the course. Leaving home September 28, 1879, he went to work for Henry Farmuim in his hardware and furniture store. He remained here until the following spring. He left Uxbridge March 24, 1880, and entered the Schofield Business College in Providence.' Within a few days he re- ceived an offer from the Hamilton Web Company. Hamilton. Rhode Island, which he accepted, and entered their employ as bookkeeper April S. 1880.
February 21, 1883. he married Emily Sisson of North Kingston in the Friends' Meeting House at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. In the spring of 1883 he removed to Providence, Rhode Island, and for one year was solicitor for the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia. In 1884 he removed to Albion, where he was employed for one year in the office of the Albion Company. As his health was not very good while in Albion, in ISS5 he decided to go to Hillsgrove. Rhode Island, where he was clerk in the general store of Benjamin C. Sweet. In 1887 he became bookkeeper for the Hope Webbing Company. When the company was in- corporated in 1880, he was elected secretary and treasurer. Later, in 1800, when the company was
expanded and reorganized, Hezekiah Conant was chosen president, Charles Sisson, treasurer, and Willis H. White secretary and assistant treasurer, which position Mr. White holds at the present time. The Hope Webbing Company is a prosperous con- cern, with large factories at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and employing upwards of one thousand persons.
In politics Mr. White has been actively identified with the Prohibition party, and has been an earnest worker against the evils of intemperance. He has always taken an interest in religious and benevolent affairs, and has co-operated with every reform movement, both social and political. On January 24, 1883, he united with the Society of Friends, and has since taken an active part in the various in- terests of the Society. Mr. White takes great in- terest in colonial history and genealogy. Besides being a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, he founded in 1905, the Sexagenarian So- ciety of Uxbridge. This society was organized, as expressed in the constitution, for the "Purpose of recording the lives and deeds of the sons and daugh- ters of Uxbridge." Although the society has been organized but a short time, the records already col- lected are of great value and interest. Mr. White has not only recognized that the "Short and simple annals of the poor" are as important as the lives of the few truly great men and women, but in the Sexagenarian Society he has also solved the problem of preserving such records. Mr. White and his fam- ily are residents of Providence in the winter, but their summers are spent in North Uxbridge.
Children of Willis Harkness and Emily (Sisson) White: I. Mary Ilarkness, born in Providence, Rhode Island, February II, 1884; graduated from Friends' School, Providence. 1902; member of the class of 1908, Brown University. 2. Charles Howard, born in Hillsgrove, Warwick. Rhode Island, Au- gust 30, 1885 ; graduated from Moses Brown School, 1905; member of the class of 1901, Massachusetts Agricultural College. 3. Louisa, born at Hillsgrove, Warwick, Rhode Island, April 1, 1894. 4. Edward Asa, born at Providence, Rhode Island, December 6, 1896.
WILLIAMS FAMILY. John Williams, said to be the immigrant ancestor of the Williams family of Northbridge, and of Jacob Abbott Williams, was born about 1700, and settled in Uxbridge. Massa- chusetts, where he died 1 1760. His property was divided by a deed of partition among his heirs soon afterward. He married Dorcas Curtis, formerly of Roxbury, later of Dedham. (See sketch of her ancestry in sketch of Gustavus B. Williams sketch, also in Curtis family of Worcester.) Children: I. Experience, born July 31, 1730. 2. Sarah, born Sep- tember 5, 1732, married Richard Humes. 3. John, horn November 25, 1734. 4. Stephen, born March IO, 1736; mentioned below. The widow Dorcas married second Nicholas Humes, before the estate of Williams was settled.
(II) Stephen Williams, son of John Williams (1), was born March 10, 1736, at Uxbridge, and died there in 1807. As a boy he lived with Rev. Mr. Webb, the first minister of Uxbridge, and re- sided with his probably until he was of age. He worked for Samuel Taft later. He bought of the town one hundred acres of the ministerial land, and it is said that he paid for it by making and selling hoops to be shipped to the West Indies; and the greater part of this tract has remained in the hands of his descendants to the present time. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Thaddeus Read's company of the Third Worcester County Regiment, in 1780. He was one of the
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incorporators of the old Hartford Turnpike. Ile married Lydia Hicks, daughter of John Hicks, of Sutton, Massachusetts, born in 1736. He married second, Sarah - , who survived him. Children : I. Chester .born September 26, 1767, lived in Ux- bridge, and died there in 1843. 2. John, born 1769, settled in Goshen, Hampshire county, Massachu- setts, where he was living September 21, 1807, when he deeded to his brother Stephen "all the claim to the real estate of my honored father, Stephen Will- iams of Uxbridge," also his rights in the personal estate; Chester was a witness to the deed; John married Deborah. 3. Stephen, see forward.
(III) Stephen Williams, son of Stephen Will- iams (2), was born at Uxbridge, September 8, 1779. and died there April 6, 1851. He settled on the homestead of his father, and lived there all his days. His will was filed in May and recorded June 20, IS51, his sons George and John being the executors. He married Nancy Baylies, born April 20, 1782, died August 6, 1843, daughter of Deacon Nicholas Baylies (for Baylies family see sketch of G. B. Williams), and their children were: I. George, born January 21, 1804. 2. Nelson, born January 31, 1806. 3. Sarah, born September 21, 1803; died May 28, 1891, unmarried. 4. Betsey. born Novem- ber 8, 1810; married Valentine M. Aldrich. 5. Nancy, born October 27, 1812; died February 25, 1897, unmarried. 6. Eleanor, born February 18,
1815: died December 12, 1841, unmarried. 7. Stephen, see forward. S. John, born December 23, 1819: died March 16, 1891. 9. Abigail, born January 7, 1823; died December 13, 1849. 10. Nicholas B., born September 22, 1825.
(IV) Stephen Williams, son of Stephen Will- iams (3), was born in Uxbridge, September 11, 1817, and died there August 15, 1903. He married Sarah D. Aldrich, daughter of Jacob and Mehitable (Daniels) Aldrich. (See sketch of Aldrich fam- ily.) She was a sister of Valentine M. Aldrich. Their children: 1. Jacob Abbott, see forward. 2. Mary J., married - Hapgood. 3. John. 4. Abi- gail. married -. and had three children.
(V) Jacob Abbott Williams, son of Stephen Williams (4), was born at Uxbridge, September 7, 1852. He attended the public schools of his na- tive town, and graduated in 1868 from the Uxbridge high school. He then went to Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, where he was graduated. He had to leave school for two years on account of a difficulty with his eyes. Then he took the civil engineering course at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1870. He is a Congregationalist in religion, and a Re- publican in politics. He served the town of Ux- bridge on the school committee and as assessor of taxes. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is especially interested in horticulture and agriculture, and is an active mem- ber of Millbury Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, of which Mrs. Wliliams is also a member. He mar- ried November 21, 1871. Jennie Fowler, who was born at Northbridge. Massachusetts, September 20, 1852, daughter of Isaac Fowler, mentioned below. She was educated in the public schools, and at the Friends' School at Providence, Rhode Island. She then taught school for three years, two of which she had a school in Upton. The children of Jacob A. and Jennie E. (Fowler) Williams are: I. Isaac Fowler, born August, 1872; married Ella Searls ; was educated in the public and high schools and in the Rhode Island Schools of Design, attended the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in second year class, 1892; lias degree of C. E .; is at present fore- man in the shops of the O. S. Walker Machine Com- pany at Worcester, Massachusetts. 2. Mabel Jennie
Williams. December 6, 1874; married July 3, 1906, James W. Sears, a graduate of the high school, and the Bridgewater normal school; has taught school at Brockton and Chelsea five years in each place very successfully.
(I) Philip Fowler, immigrant ancestor of Mrs. Jacob Abbott Williams, of Northbridge, Massachu- setts, was born about 1590, in Marlborough. Wilt- shire, England. He came to America in the ship "Mary and John," Robert Sayers, master, sailing March 24, 1633-4, and arriving in the May follow- ing. He had a grant of land for a homestall at Ipswich. Massachusetts, in 1634, and this land is still ocupied by a lineal descendant, or was lately. He was admitted a freeman September 3, 1643. He had numerous grants of land as a proprietor of Ipswich; served on juries and grand juries; was town surveyor of fences and held other offices. He married first Mary Winslow, sister of Samuel Winslow, one of the original grantees of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and a man of prominence. He mar- ried second, February 27, 1659, Mary Norton, widow. of George Norton. The children, all by the first wife, were: 1. Margaret, baptized May 25, 1615; married July 28. 1633, Christopher Osgood. 2. Mary, married William Chandler and resided at New- bury. 3. Samuel, born 1618, mentioned below. 4. Esther, married Jathnell Bird, and second, Robert Collins. 5. Joseph, born 1629; married Martha Kimball. 6. Thomas, born 1636; married Hannah Jordan.
(II) Samuel, born in England 1618, and came to Ipswich with his parents; died at Salisbury, Janu- ary 1710-II. He was a shipwright, among the carliest at Portsmouth. He bought land at Salis- bury, Massachusetts, October 12, 1668. He married (second) Margaret Morgan, widow of Robert Mor- gan of Beverly, after 1673. Samuel Fowler was not a Puritan ; perhaps he was the first to hecome a Quaker. He was before the court in 1675 for "traveling on Sunday." His children : William,
married Elizabeth - , resided at Portsmouth. 2. Mary, married Richard Goodwin, November 14, 1677: he was of Amesbury. 3. Sarah. 4. Samuel, mentioned below.
(III) Samuel Fowler, son of Samuel Fowler (2), was married December 5. 1684, to Hannah Worthen, daughter of Ezekiel Worthen. He died in Salisbury. December 24. 1737. His will was made December 29, 1727, and proved January 2, 1737-8. The children, born at Salisbury, were: 1. Samuel, born October 23, 1685: married, December 31, 1707, Jemima Clough. 2. Hannah, born April 30, 1687 ; married December 22, 1714, Judah Hackett. 3. Susanna, born March 10, 1688-9; married 1711, Join Jones of Amesbury. 4. Jacob. born December 10, 1690: probably married May 3, 1716, Mary Jones. 5. Mary, born July IS, 1692. 6. Sarah, born March 5. 1693-4. 7. Ann, born June 30, 1696. 8. Ezekiel, mentioned below. 9. Robert. born January II, 1600-1700. 10. Abraham, born October 26, 1701. II. Thomas, born October 19. 1703: married. January 21. 1730, Ruth Hackett. 12. Lydia, born April 17, 1705. 13. Judith, born June 29, 1712.
(IV) Ezekiel Fowler, son of Samuel Fowler (3), was born January 26, 1607-8. He removed to Salem, and then probably to Rhode Island. He was a Quaker. Among his children was Samuel, mentioned below.
(V) Samuel Fowler, son of Ezekiel Fowler (4), was born about 1730. He resided at Swansea. Mas- sachusetts, Warren, Rhode Island, and Uxbridge, Massachusetts. They were all Quakers, and the fol- lowing dates of birth are from the Friends' records at Smithfield, Rhode Island. The children : 1. Sarah, born at Swansea, December 20, 1753. 2. Ezekiel.
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born at Warren, February 23, 1754. Mary ( Mercy ) born October 23, 1756. 4. Isaac, October 3, 1758. 5. Olive, born June 23, 1760. 6. Barnard, born at Warren, April 3, 1762. 7. John, born at Uxbridge, April 2, 1764. 8. Martha, born March IO, 1766. 9. Elizabeth, born February 2. 1768. 10. Hannah, born May 7, 1771, never married. II. Peace, born at Northbridge, May 12, 1772, married Watson. 12. Phebe, born at Northbridge, Sep- tember 16, 1775, married - Baker.
(VI) John Fowler, son of Samuel Fowler (5), was born in Uxbridge, April 2, 1764. He held - many town offices, including that of justice of the peace; he held many courts in the house in which he lived and died, the records of which still remain; and settled many estates. He married Hulda Dan- iels, daughter of Darius Daniels, of Mendon, and had a son Isaac, mentioned below.
(VII) Isaac Fowler, son of John Fowler (6), was born in Northbridge about 1804 and died at Northbridge, June 6, 1888. He married first Har- riet Daniels, and by her had four children: I. Alsey P., married David Southwick. 2. Lucia E., married Arlow Ballow. 3. John, died young. 4. Austin, died. They were divorced. Married second in 1848 Sally Burlingame of Smithfield, Rhode Island, and had one child, Jennie E. Fowler.
(VIII) Jennie E. Fowler. born at Northbridge, September 20, 1852, daughter of Isaac Fowler ; married Jacob Abbott Williams, mentioned above.
LAWRENCE FAMILY. The branch of the Lawrence family to which Henry H. Lawrence be- longs is distinct from the family descended from John Lawrence of Watertown, so far as genealogists can determine. Mr. Lawrence comes of a Plymouth county family. Robert Lawrence was a proprietor of the town of Marshfield near Plymouth in 1644. His descendants have not been traced. It is likely that the immigrant ancestor of Mr. Lawrence was William Lawrence, of Duxbury, who was on the list of men able to bear arms in 1643. He married a daughter of Francis Sprague, who sold him land at Duxbury, April 1. 1644. He did not remain in Dux- bury apparently, and trace of his descendants seems lost.
(I) Joshua Lawrence, born about 1680, was prob- ably grandson of William Lawrence of Duxbury, mentioned above, although there is no proof that he was not an immigrant. He resided in Rochester, Massachusetts, an ancient Plymouth county town, and was doubtless a farmer of quiet tastes, judging from the lack of mention in the records. He must have settled there about the time of his marriage; his children were all born there, but none of the family appears among the first settlers of the town. He married Elizabeth - Their children were : I. Sarah, born July 2, 1704. 2. Joanna, born October 14, 1706; married January 13, 1731-2. 3. Ebenezer, born October 10, 1708. 4. Experience, born May 18, I7II; died unmarried at Hardwick, Massachusetts, December 3, 1796. 5. Elizabeth, born January 3, 1713-4; married John Haskell, of Rochester, March 4, 1753. 6. Joshua, mentioned below. 7. Benjamin (twin), born December 2, 1721. S. Deliverance (twin), born December 2, 1721.
(II) Joshua Lawrence, son of Joshua Lawrence (I), was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, April 7, 1719. He was a farmer in Rochester. April I, 1751, he bought a farm
in Hardwick of Elisha Hedges, of Worcester, on the Barre road, near Taylor's Mills, and removed with his family His children and descendants have been numerous in Ilardwick. He died June 4, 1777, leaving a will proved in Worcester probate court. He married July 13, 1743, Jane Haskell, who died at Hardwick,
November 15, 1795, aged seventy-seven year. The children of Joshua and Jane Lawrence were : Joshua, Jr., born July 24, 1744, died December 16, 1835; Joanna, born October 18, 1746, married Antipas Howe; Elizabeth, 1748, married Nathaniel Rice, of Rutland, November 24, 1768; Anna, born 1751, mar- ried Experience Luce, November 30, 1769; Deliver- ance, born March 25, 1753, married Barnabas Cush- man; Bethia, baptized May 13, 1758; Moses, men- tioned below.
(III) Moses Lawrence, son of Joshua Lawrence (2), was born in Hardwick, November 16, 1760. He settled on the Lawrence homestead in Hard- wick, and was a farmer. He was the father of twenty children, seventeen by his first wife and three by his second. He married (first), February 15, 1781, Abigail Johnson, Barre. She killed by falling on the handle of a fire shovel which pierced her body, July 16, 1811, aged fifty-one years. He married ( second) Sophia Hastings (pub- lished September 16) 1814. She died in 1848. He died October 12, 1830. According to the records the children of Moses and Abigail Lawrence were: I. William, born April 8, 1782; married March 25, 1804, Betsey Bridges. 2. Elnathan, born October 21, 1783. 3. Lucinda, born June 6, 1786; married Joshua Lawrence, cousin. 4. Ira, born May 9, 1787. 5. Harlow, born September 18, 1788. 6. Infant, born 1791, died December 2, 1791. 7. Reuel, born March 12, 1792. 8. Moses (twin), born May 1, 1793. 9. Infant (twin), born May I, 1793, died August 17, following. 10. Aaron, born December 22, 1794, died May 2, 1819. II. Sally, born May 30, 1797. 12. Abigail, born October 28, 1799. 13. Hiram, born February 20, 1801. 14. Anna, born February 20, ISOI, married Noah W. White November 5, 1826. 15. Abiathar, born August 14, 1804; married Harriet Hapgood. The children of Moses and Sophia on record are : 16. Mary, born April 17, 1816. 17. Henry H., mentioned below.
(IV) Henry H. Lawrence, youngest son of Moses Lawrence (3), was born in Hardwick, Mass- achusetts, October 5, 1817. lle was educated there in the common schools, and learned the trade of carpenter. He pursued his studies in school and out until he qualified himself to teach school. He taught school for a number of years in Troy, New York. His success in his profession was recognized by appointment as teacher in the Cincinnati Reform School, known as the House of Refuge, a position requiring peculiar ability. He returned to Massa- chusetts and settled in 1857 in his present home at Gardner. He was appointed town agent for the sale of alcoholic liquors for certain medicinal and manufacturing uses at the time that prohibitory law prevailed in the state. This position heh eld . until the office was abolished. He carried on his farm in Gardner until he retired from active busi- ness. For the past few years he has lived a retired life. He is a prominent member of the Gardner Congregational Church; and for many years has held the office of deacon. In politics he is a Prohibition- ist. He married, July 25, 1845, Sarah Stone, daugh- ter of Francis W. Stone, of West Brookfield, Mass- achusetts. She was born November 10, 1821, and died April 144, 1901. Their children were : Emma S., mentioned below ; Clara F., born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 18, 1856, died April 25, 1863; Anna M., born in Gardner, August 25, 1861, died there July 4, 1873.
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