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Corliss engine and became a skilled stationary en- gineer. He left there in order to enter the employ of P. Blaisdell & Company, No. 62 Jackson street, and had charge of the pattern making and ship- ping. He was with this firm ten years, leaving it to establish himself in business in a shop at J. C. French's, Hermon street, as a manufacturer of architectural and ornamental iron work, copper work, sheet metal for cornices, etc. His business increased rapidly, and he removed to Lagrange street, where under the firm name of C. W. Walls & Company his operations were further extended. The firm was dissolved in 1901, M. P. Roach re- tiring, and since that time Mr. Walls has con- ducted business under his own name at No. 41 Lagrange street. He has shown himself able to succeed in spite or reverses and to recover and begin anew. He has made a specialty of fire escapes, and has attended to a large percentage of the first escape business throughout Massachusetts, and filled many large contracts in other New England states. His work consists of many branches, such as iron fronts for buildings, iron road bridges, finials, light and heavy forgings, vaults for banks, galvanized iron and copper work, pattern and model making in wood or metal, etc. His work is in evidence in the following structures: The copper work on St. Anne's Church, Worcester ; the Barnaby Block, Hope Club, and Mrs. Bullock's residence, Provi- dence; the architectural iron work for the Worces- ter Five Cents Savings Bank, the Day Building, the English High School Building, the Salisbury Laboratory at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the High School at Dorchester; the South Bos- ton High School; the Pope Building in Boston; the Wendell House, the American House, and the Berk- shire Savings Bank, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Clark University, Worcester. He also made all the iron work, both ornamental and structural, of the Worcester Society of Antiquity building. He is a Republican in politics but has never sought political honors. He is a member of the following organizations ; Worcester County Mechanics' Asso- ciation ; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks; Worcester Con- tinentals ; Commercial Travelers' Association of Worcester; and the Hancock Club. He is a man alive to the conditions of the times; ready to take up any invention or improvement, give it a fair trial, and if worthy of it, incorporate it in his busi- ness. He is quick to see an opportunity, seize it and use it to the best advantage for himself, yet always bearing in mind that others have equal rights. He is systematic, exact and just in private as well as business life and these characteristics have made for him many friends.
He married (first). October 4, 1872, at Yar- mouth. Nova Scotia. Emma Dunn, of Lockport, Nova Scotia, who died about a year after her mar- riage. lle married (second). December 16, 1878, Cynthia Morine, daughter of Ladowick Smith and Rebecca (Freeman) Morine, both natives of Nova Scotia, and had children: Emma Dunn, born May 5, 1885; Jasper Cornelius, September 13, 1894; and Alice Winthrop, November 5, 1896.
BELLOWS FAMILY. John Bellows (1) was the emigrant ancestor of the Bellows family of Worcester. He came from England probably in 1635, and settled in Concord. He is recorded as one of the passengers on the "Hopewell." The first record of his name at Concord is in 1645. about the time he reached his majority. He married, May 9, 1655, Mary, daughter of John Wood, who died in Marlboro, July 10, 1678, aged sixty-eight
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years. Mary Wood, his wife, died in Marlboro August 17, 1690, aged eighty years. Bellows re- moved from Concord to Marlboro, leaving Marl- boro for a time on account of the attack in King Philip's war. He was a carpenter as well as farmer. Their children were: I. Mary, born at Concord, April 26. 1657. 2. Samuel, born at Con- cord, January 22, 1657-8, died at Mariboro, Sep- tember 29, 1680. 3. Abigail, born in Concord, May 6. 1661, married at Cambridge to Isaac Lawrence. 4. Isaac, born at Marlboro, September 13, 1663, married Elizabeth - 5. Jolın, born in Marlboro, March 13, 1666, married Hannah -- , and (sec- ond) Sarah Johnson. 6. Thomas, born at Marlboro, November 7, 1668, probably died young. 7. Eleazer, born at Marlboro, April 13, 1671, married Esther Barrett. 8. Daniel, born at Marlboro, March 15, 1672-3. died at Concord, July 20, 1676. 9. Nathaniel, born at Concord, April 3, 1676. 10. Benjamin, born at Concord, January 18, 1676-7. See Walpole His- tory.
(II) Isaac Bellows, son of John Bellows (I), was born September 13, 1663, died about 1746, mar- ried Elizabeth -. Their children were: I. Eliza- beth, born March 17, 1696, married May 23, 1715, Samuel Barton, of Farmington. 2. Isaac, born Au- gust 19. 1697, died August 7, 1744, married Thank- ful Wetherbee, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Wetherbee. She was born May 10, 1703, died June 6. 1750. 3. Samuel, born November 20. 1699. 4. James, born December 21, 1701. 5. Bathsheba, born February 18, 1704. 6. Gideon, born August 12, 1706.
(III) Isaac Bellows, son of Isaac (2) and Eliza- beth Bellows, was born August 19, 1744; married Thankful, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Wether- bee. She was born May 10, 1703. died June 6, 1750. Their children were: I. Thankful. born August 5, 1725. 2. Isaac, born January 18, 1726-7. 3. Jotham, born March 13, 1729. 4. Abner, born May 5, 1731. 5. Deborah, born March 25, 1736. 7. Ezekiel, born May 24, 1738. 8-9. Thomas and Silas, born Octo- ber 4. 1740. 10. Joseph, born May 14, 1743.
(1V) Ezekiel Bellows, son of Isaac Bellows, Jr. (3), was born May 24, 1738, died January 23, 1807. He removed from Westboro, where the family lo- cated after leaving Marlboro, and settled at Paxton. Massachusetts. He married Mercy. daughter of Deacon David Davis. Their children were: I. Patty, born November 13, 1765. died October 24, 1794: married Nathan Snow, of Paxton, and had one child, Alfred. 2. John, born June 6, 1767, died July 27, 1854. 3. Jonas, born April 25, 1771. died September, 1848. 4. Deborah, born October 21, 1773. married Aaron Cogswell, and resided at Spencer, and had two daughters, Candace and Phebe. 5. Hannah, born October 19, 1775. died July 14, 1806, married Josiah Rice, lived in Brookfield and had two children, John and Phebe. 6. Mercy, born April 20. 1777, died March 21, 1855, mar- ried Barnabas Davis of West Boylston. Massachu- setts. November 28. 1800, and had three children. 7. Elizabeth, born October 29, 1779. died April II, 1808. 8. Isaac. born May 25, 1783, died young. 9. Ezekiel. born May 3. 1785. died November 15. 1815, married Zelah Partridge, and lived at Oakham, had no children. 10. Eunice, born March 30, 1787, died April I. 1788.
(V) Jonas Bellows, son of Ezekiel Bellows (4). was born at Paxton. April 25, 1771. He married Sally Bridges, daughter of Edmund Bridges of Spen- cer. who died at Brookfield, July 4. 1861. aged ninety-one years. He died at Brookfield. Septem- her 18, 1848. aged seventy-seven years. Their chil- dren were: I. Patty, born at Paxton, May 2,
1795. married George Upham, of Brookfield, and had two sons. 2. Jonas, born November 16, 1796. 3. Edmund, born May 14, 1798, died at Oakham, March 29, 1833. 4. Horace, born December 2, 1801, married Elizabeth French of Oakham, December 27, 1825. 5. Sally, born at West Brookfield, April 19, 1804. married Elmer Earle of Paxton, died in Worcester, 1881. 6. Hannah D., born at Stur- bridge, August 30, 1808, married Freeman French, of Ware, who died at Worcester, May 22, 1860, aged forty-eight years. He died in Worcester April 5, 1842. 8. Martin, born April 5, 1813.
( VII) Jonas Bellows, son of Jonas Bellows (6), was born at Paxton, November 16, 1796. He mar- ried Phebe Simmons, of Oakham, March 29, 1820, who was born in New Braintree, June 20, 1799, and died at Oakham, June 13, 1821. He married (sec- ond), April 8, 1823, Eliza. widow of Joshua Brim- hall, of Oakham, who died at Brookfield, Septem- ber 15, 1838. She was the daughter of Abiel Holt. He married (third). April 3, 1840, Calista A. Morey, of Brookfield, who was born in New York, June 17, 1809, died in Brookfield .. November 22, 1873. The children were: I. John D., born in Oakham, June 6. 1821, married five times. 2. Phebe S., born in West Boylston, January 12, 1824, married, April 2, 1841. Harvey Walker of Brookfield. 3. Joshua B., born April 19, 1826, married August 27, 1847, Sarah A. Draper of Brookfield. 4. Eliza H., born West Brookfield. February 25, 1829, married July I. 1847, Guilford Young of Brookfield. 5. Samuel H. V., born at Medfield, April II, 1832. married June 4. 1854. Geraldine Tilford, born in New York state, died at Brookfield, July 24, 1880. 6. Jonas M., born in North Brookfield, September 29, 1833. married November II, 1856, Nancy D. James of Brookfield; married (second) December 6, 1861, Selina Farnum of Westford, Connecticut. 7. Abi- gail H., born at Brookfield. March 6, 1842, married August 31. 1864. Charles F. Mullet of Brookfield, and died February 28. 1904. 8. Simeon M., born November 25, 1846. died September 15, 1848. 10. Simeon M., born July 9, 1849.
(VIII) Simeon Morey Bellows, son of Jonas (7) and Calista (Morey) Bellows, born at Brook- field, July 9. 1849. married Adelaide L. Blood, daugh- ter of Enoch (James) Blood of North Brookfield, September 2. 1869. Enoch Blood was born in 1807. at Norwich. Vermont. He married Eunice Holman, of Bolton, born 18og. She died at North Brookfield. May. 1876. He died January 25. 1882. Adelaide Blood was born in Norwich. Vermont, July 22, 1846. Mr. Bellows has lived in Brookfield, where he was born and where so many of his ancestors lived. and in Worcester, where so many boys who are born in Worcester county towns find their homes later in life, except for one year in North Brook- field, which he spent in teaming. He attended school till he was eleven years old, when he began to serve his apprenticeship as a shoemaker. He fol- lowed this trade, which in his boyhood was the leading industry of this section until 188t. He was taught shoemaking in the old shoe shop of Kim- ball & Robinson. The manufacture of boots and shoes in Massachusetts has grown up during the life of the generation now living. It has been very profitable at times. Few manufacturers have wholly escaped disaster and in late years such changes have been made that one after another of the shoe- shops of Worcester and the towns about her have been closed and abandoned or let for other purposes. Boots and shoes were made by the New England farmers in their own little shops in the fifties and sixties. The small factories with steam power fol- lowed, and the farmer had to choose between the
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soil and the shop. . In the past few years many shoe- makers have taken up other trades and professions, for the business has been shifting its location to the West and to the large centres like Haverhill, Lynn and Brockton. Mr. Bellows left shoemaking in 1881. At present he is on the Worcester police force, an officer who is well known for his long and faithful public service. He is a Republican in politics. He was taught the Congregational faith but in his mature years is liberal in religious belief and practice. He has been a member of Montacute Lodge, F. and A. M., for seventeen years, and is a member of Quinsigamond Tribe, Red Men. He has no children.
CHARLES MORTIMER WOOD. Thomas Wood (I), of Rowley, who was the emigrant an- cestor of many of the Worcester county Wood fam- ilies, was the progenitor of Charles Mortimer Wood of Upton. Massachusetts. Thomas Wood came to New England probably soon after 1650. He mar- ried Ann Todd (or Hunt) April 7, 1654. They made their home in Rowley. He appears to have been a quiet, industrious man. He died in Rowley, September, 1687, and was buried there September 12. His widow lived until December 29, 1714. All their children were born in Rowley. Among the old family papers of Charles Mortimer Wood is a record written possibly by Ebenezer Wood, grand- son of Thomas Wood, and an ancestor of Charles M. Wood, giving the information that Thomas and Ann Wood came from Yorkshire, England to Rowley. The children of Thomas and Ann Wood were: I. Mary, born January 15, 1655. 2. John, born September 2, 1656, married Isabel Hazen. 3. Thomas, born August 10, 1658, married Mary Hunt. 4. Ann (or Mary Ann), born August 8, 1660. 5. Ruth, born May 21, 1662. 6. Josiah. 7. Elizabeth (twin of preceding), born September 5, 1664. 8. Samuel, born December 26, 1666. 9. Solomon, horn May 17, 1669. IO. Ebenezer. II. James, born June 22, 1674, died October 18, 1694.
(II) Captain Ebenezer Wood, son of Thomas Wood (I), was born in Rowley. December 29, 1671. He married Rachel Nichols, April 5. 1695. They settled in Mendon. They were dismissed from the Rowley Church to the Mendon Church July 14. 1717. He died at Mendon, 1736. He drew land in Mendon May 18, 1720, December 27, 1729, and at various other times. The children of Captain Ebenczer and Rachel (Nichols) Wood were: I. James, born April 28, 1696. 2. Ebenezer, born De- cember 6, 1698. 3. Jonathan, born November 2, 1701, settled in Upton. 4. David, born May 30. 1704, settled in Upton. 5. Samuel, born May 21, 1706, settled in Upton. 6. Jane, born March 2, 1708-9. 7. Moses, born April 3, 1712. 8. Eliphalet, born August 15, 1714.
(III) Lieutenant Jonathan Wood, son of Cap- tain Ebenezer Wood (2), was born in Rowley, November 2, 1701 (1702 in private records) ; he removed to Upton, where his younger children were born. He came from Mendon, where his father settled with the family about 1717, when he was a youth of sixteen. He married first Margaret -, and second (intentions dated January 2), 1749-50, Dorothy Croshy, of Shrewsbury. He bought a num- ber of lots of land in Mendon in 1723, probably at the time of his marriage. From year to year the Mendon records show that he added to his holdings of real estate. The children of Lieutenant Jona- than and Margaret Wood were : 1. Ezra (and probahlv others) in Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1724-5-6. 2. Daniel. born March 28, 1735. 3. Jona- 1- than, married Sarah resided in Upton.
Lois, born April 27, 1740. 5. Simeon, born Novem- ber 14, 1747. 6. Unice, born November 19, 1742.
(IV) Captain Ezra Wood, son of Lieutenant Jonathan Wood (3), was born in Mendon, about 1725. The town records of Upton in the record of his death state that he died August 29, 1815, in his 90th year. He then had nine children, 70 grandchildren, 142 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren, a total of 228 in his fam- ily. He married Anna Chapin, of Uxbridge, Octo- ber 24, 1747. His will was dated August 7, 1811, and filed September 21, 1815, and mentions his chil- dren and some of his grandchildren. He was a soldier in the revolution, captain of the Upton company, in the Worcester regiment. The children of Captain Ezra and Anna (Chapin) Wood, all born in Upton, were: I. Deborah, born March 31, 1749, married Kidder. 2. Margaret, born March 16, 1751, married Fletcher. 3. Anna, born March 12, 1753. 4. Lydia, born August 1, 1756, married Haywood. 5. Ezra. 6. Abigail, born August 29, 1761, married Taft. 7. Bethia, born May 19, 1764. 8. Grace, born May 19, 1766, married Nelson. 9. Chapin, born July 22, 1769. 10. Jonathan (men- tioned in will).
(V) Ezra Wood, son of Captain Ezra Wood (4), was born in Upton, Massachusetts, March 12, 1759. He married Sarah Taft, May 31, 1781. He died May 10, 1837, aged 79 years. He became a prominent man in Upton, where he always lived. He was called Esquire in the town records. He was justice of the peace for many years, and repre- sentative to the general court. The children of Ezra, Jr. and Sarah (Taft) Wood were: I. Ezra,
born October 25, 1781, married Judith Chapin. April, 1804, and settled in Upton. 2. Experience, born March 16, 1783. 3. Sarah, born August 7, 1784. 1. Elisha, born April 24. 1786. 5. Jonathan, born October 8, 1787. 6. Anna, born August 31, 1789. 7. Chapin, born April 2, 1792. 8. Lucy, born No- vember II, 1794. 9. Silva, born April 29, 1796. 10. Phila, born July 5, 1798. 11. Elisha, born Novem- ber 7. 1800. 12. Hannah, born July, 1803. 13. Simeon. born January 5, 1805.
(VI) Jonathan Wood, son of Ezra Wood (5), was born in Upton, October 8, 1787 (town record). He married Sarah Chapin, July 2, 1809. She was born October 24, 1788 (town record), and was the daughter of David and Martha Chapin, of Upton. She died May 26, 1885, aged 96 years, six months and two days. The children of Jonathan and Sarah (Chapin) Wood were: I. Mary Ann. born Septem- ber 17, 1810. 2. Henry C., born June 3, 1812, died November 4, 1814. 3. Elisha Chapin, born April 9. 1815 (town record). 4. Daniel, born May 8, 1818, died November 18, 1820. 5. Charles D., born April 15. 1822, died January 18, 1837. Jonathan Wood was a farmer, like his father and grandfather before him, in the town of Upton. He was also for a quarter of a century the proprietor of the famous old Wood's Inn. situated half way on the stage road between Worcester and Providence. He was an old time Whig, and served the town as selectman and in various other positions of honor and trust. He was also captain of the Horse Guards in Upton.
(VII) Elisha Chapin Wood, son of Jonathan Wood (6), was born in Upton, April 9, 1815. He was educated in the Upton public schools, in Frye's school at Bolton, and in Thurber's school at Mil- ford. He worked for a time manufacturing shoes in a Milford shop, but always lived in his native town. He conducted the farm and a livery stable in Upton. He retired about 1885, and his son Charles M. Wood has since then conducted the
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farm. He was a zealous worker for temperance, and always worked against the license vote in Upton. He was a leader in the temperance forces of the community. He married June 15, 1835, Cynthia Clementina, daughter of Elisha and Bethia Car- penter, of Upton, and was born there September 19, 1815. Mrs. Wood survived her husband, and is still living (1905) and has enjoyed her faculties and good health all her life. Mr. and Mrs. Wood passed sixty years of wedded life together, and celebrated their fiftieth and sixtieth wedding anni- versaries appropriately in the very room in which they were married. To celebrate their sixtieth year of married life they participated in a wedding trip to Montreal and Quebec. Mrs. Wood, at the age of ninety-five, is a fine type of the New England woman who has not grown old, although she has lived a generation longer than those who are con- tent with three score and ten years. Everybody in Upton is a friend of Mrs. Wood. The children of Elisha Chapin and Cynthia C. (Carpenter) Wood were: I. Charles Mortimer, born July 20, 1836. 2. Mary Nickerson, born March 5. 1838, died Sep- tember 25, 1838. 3. Sarah Bethiah, born February 5, 1856, died August 31, 1856.
(VIII) Charles Mortimer Wood, son of Elisha Chapin Wood (7), was born in Upton, Massachu- setts, July 20. 1836. He was born and brought up in the homestead on the south shore of Pratt Pond, where he has always lived. He attended the district schools of Upton, and studied two years in Thetford Academy, Vermont. He helped his father with the farm, and in winters has worked for William Knowlton & Sons, manufacturers of straw goods. Most of the farmers and their families in the vicinity of the "straw shop" have been accus- tomed always to work in the shop during the win- ter, and many of them have acquired a competence through the combination of farming and the op- portunity to increase their income during the season when work stops on the farm. Since the death of his father and for some twenty years before, Mr. Wood has conducted the farm. It is known as South Farm. and contains some two hundred acres of land. Mr. Wood usually keeps about twenty cows, selling cream and feeding the skim milk to hogs. The farm is finely located near the village of Upton. The house is No. 57 North Main street. Mr. Wood is a stanch Republican, but does not care for public office. He served the town as overseer .of the poor in 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903. He is a prominent Free Mason, belonging to Montgomery Lodge of Milford; to Milford Council, of which he was formerly conductor; to Milford Chapter and to Milford Commandery, Knights Templar; to Columbia Chapter. Order of Eastern Star; to the Massachusetts Consistory. He has taken all the degrees in the Scottish Rite, as well as the York Rite. He is a member of Upton Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and has been gate keeper, assistant steward, steward, overseer, secretary and master. He has been gatekeeper in the State Grange and sentinel to the grand chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. Mr. Wood attends the Upton Uni- tarian Church.
He married first, November 25, 1855, Hattie J. Prouty, who was born December 3. 1837, and died April 5. 1868. He married. June 11, 1883, Elsie Shove, daughter of Thomas M. and Sarah (Black- mar) Shove, of Uxbridge. The Blackmar family is of a Connecticut origin. She was born in Smith- field, Rhode Island, May 1, 1841. The only child of Charles Mortimer and Elsie (Shove) Wood was Leroy Elisha Shove, born November 14, 1884, grad- uate of the Upton high school, and attended the
Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst ; he is assisting his father in conducting the farm; he lives at home, unmarried.
GEORGE D. BATES. Clement Bates, the im- migrant ancestor of George D. Bates, of Athol, Massachusetts, was born in Hingham, county Kent, England, in 1595. He embarked for America on April 6, 1635, on the ship "Elizabeth," William Stagg, master, with his wife and five children. IIe settled in Hingham about the time of the arrival of Rev. Peter Hobart, and was granted five acres for his house lot, September, 1635, on what is now South street. The old house was recently standing. He died at Hingham, September 17, 1671 ; his wife died October 1, 1669, aged seventy-four years. The chil- dren of Clement and Ann Bates, all born in Hing- ham: 1. James, born 1621. 2. Clement, born 1623, died November, 1639. 3. Rachel, born 1627; died June, 1647. 4. Joseph, born 1630, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin. 6. Samuel, born March 24, 1639, in Hingham.
(II) Joseph Bates, son of Clement Bates (1), was born in England about 1630. He married at Hingham, January 9, 1657-8, Esther, daughter of William Hilliard. She died June 3, 1709. Joseph died April 30, 1706, aged seventy-six years. His will was dated April 24, 1706. It mentions and pro- vides for his wife Esther, four sons and four daugh- ters. He was a brick mason by trade; he was con- stable of Hingham 1675 to 1678; selectman 1671, 1677, 1684 and 1692. He was sexton of the parish in1 1673, and served until the new meeting house was built. He inherited the paternal homestead on the south side. The children of Joseph and Esther Bates : 1. Joseph, born September 28, 1660. 2. - Esther, born August 29, 1663; married Richard Cobb. 3, Caleb, born March 30, 1666. 4. Hannah, born Octo- ber 31, 1668. 5. Joshua, born August 14, 1671, men- tioned below. 6. Bathsheba, born January 26, 1673-4. 7. Clement, born September 22, 1676, drowned June 29, 1706. 8. Eleanor, born August 29, 1679, died young. 9. Abigail, born October, 1680; married John Chubbuck.
(III) Joshua Bates, son of Joseph Bates (2), was born at Hingham, August 14, 1671; married January 15, 1695-6. Rachel, daughter of Ibrook and Margaret Towe. She was born in Hingham, March 16, 1674-5. Their children: I. Rachel, born July 14, 1696; married, December 14, 1715, Andrew Beal. 2. Joshua, born June 15, 1698. 3. Bathsheba, born Feb- ruary 9, 1699-1700 ; married Joseph Clark. 4. Eliza- beth, born November 23, 1703; married October 8, 1724, Ebenezer Woodward. 5. Solomon, born April 13, 1706, mentioned below. 6. Isaac, born March 3, 1707-8. 7. Jacob, born August 20, 1710.
(IV) Solomon Bates, son of Joshua Bates (3), was born in Hingham, April 13, 1706; married Deborah Whiting, and probably removed with his children to Chesterfield, Massachusetts. His home in Hingham was in the second precinct towards Scituate. The children: 1. Benjamin, born August 9, 1733; married December 8, 1757, Huldah Cud- worth. 2. Abner, born May 29, 1735. 3. Deborah, born October 28, 1737; married, May 15, 1757, John Elwell, Jr., of Scituate. 4. Nehemiah, mentioned below. 5. Solomon, born about August 15, 1742. 6. James, born May 19, 1743. 7. Desire (baptized as Lucy), born about June 27, 1747.
( V) Nehemiah Bates, son of Solomon Bates (4), was born at Hingham, June 19, 1740. He removed to Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and located on what was later known as the Hudson Bates farm. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Cap- tain Christopher Banister's company, Colonel Ezra
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May's regiment, in 1777; also in Captain Ebenezer Strong's company, Colonel Sear's regiment, in 1781, when he marched to Albany. The children : I. Joab (or Jacob), born in Hingham, baptized in the second precinct June 5, 1763, settled in Vermont. 2. Nehemiah, baptized May 27, 1764, settled in Cum- mington, Massachusetts. 3. Nathaniel, baptized June 15, 1766; died 1785. 4. Ephraim, born June 26, 1768, at Plainfield, Massachusetts. 5. Asa, born July, 1770, mentioned below. 6. Eliab, removed to New York. 7. Levi, removed to Cummington. 8. Gershom, settled in Goshen. 9. Solomon, had the homestead at Chesterfield, Massachusetts; died at the age of ninety-five years. 10. Ruth, died young. II. Mehitable, married Jonathan Luce, of Chesterfield.
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