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He married, September 10, 1896, Blanche Al- bertson, of Rockford, Illinois, daughter of Abra- ham R. and Frances ( Clayton ) Albertson, of that city. She was educated at May Wright Sewell's School for Girls at Indianapolis, Indiana. They have one child: Frances Clayton, horn May 1, 1898. (1X) Luther Connah Brown, younger son of Abel Swan Brown (8), was born in Brooklyn, New York. February 4. 1873. He was educated in the Brooklyn and New York schools and by private tutors. He has been associated with his brother for the past six years in the Boston Store as a director of the Denholm & McKay Company and assistant manager of the Boston Store. July I, 1906, he bought his brother's interest in this company and became vice-president and general manager. Mr. Brown is personally popular. He has not only the business capacity essential to fill successfully the responsible position that he holds, but he is pro- gressive and energetic. He is a member of the Worcester Club, the Hermitage Country Club, the Tatnuck Country Club. and other organizations. He married Virginia Bätjer, of New York city. She was educated in a private school in New York. SWAN FAMILY. Dudley Wade Swan was among the early settlers in Leicester. Massachusetts. He is the progenitor of a distinguished Worcester county family. Among his descendants were Abel Swan Brown, mentioned above. The children of Dudley Wade and Beulah Swan. all born in Lei- cester, were: Jabez, born October 21, 1736: Ruth, May 15. 1739: Eunice, July 3, 1741; Seth, March 3I, 1744: Abigail, February 21. 1746: Reuben. see forward: Nathan, August 20, 1750; Phebe, January 12. 1753: Dudley, March 4, 1756, died January 8, 1827.
Reuben Swan, son of Dudley Wade Swan, men- tioned above, was born in Leicester, January 1, 1748, died May 3, 1825, aged seventy-seven years. He mar- ried Rachel Putnam (intentions dated November 27). 1767. He was a soldier in the revolution. Children of Reuben and Rachel Swan were: Ruth. born July 4, 1769: Sally, January 25, 1771 ; Reuben, August 16. 1772; Catherine, June 16. 1774; Samuel, see forward.
Samuel Swan, youngest child of Reuben Swan,
of Leicester, was born in that town, May 6, 1778. He settled in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Clara Hale, October 29, 1812; she died January 14. 1860. He died in Worcester, 1863, aged eighty- five years. He was a lawyer and leader in town affairs, having a large probate court and other prac- tice. Their children: Catherine, born August 16, 1813, married Rev. Abel Brown, mentioned above ; Clara, born February 28, 1815, died March 1, 1821 ; Samuel, born March 10, 1817, died in Kentucky; Reuben, born July 8, 1819, married Clementine Knight, of Newburyport, February 17, 1848; resided in Worcester: Clara, born October 30, 1821, married Abijah Clark; James, born January 31, 1825, mar- ried Lucy A. S. Merriam, of Boston; resided in Passaic, New Jersey : George, born January 8, 1826, married Mary Goodspeed, April 2. 1857: resided in Worcester, graduate of Amherst College; admitted to the bar in 1848.
Catherine Swan, eldest daughter of Samuel Swan, married Rev. Abel Brown, mentioned above.
LYMAN FAMILY. Richard Lyman, progenitor of Irving Swan Brown and Luther C. Brown, of Worcester, came from Parish Ongar, Norton Maudeville, Essex county, England, where he sold his real estate in 1629 and prepared to come to America. He settled in 1631 in Roxbury in New England with his children Phillis, Richard, Sarah and John. He came in the same ship from Bristol with John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, the minister at Roxbury, arriving November 11. 1631. He was for a time at Charlestown but attended the Roxbury church. He was admitted a freeman June 11, 1635. He removed to Connecticut, October 15. 1635, and was among the first settlers at Hartford. His will dated April 22, 1640, is the first in Trumbull's Col- lection. He died August, 1640. His name is on the memorial stone column at the rear of the Cen- tral Church of Hartford. Children of Richard and Saralı Lyman were: Phillis, born in England, mar- ried William Hills; Richard, married Hepzibah -: Sarah; John, see forward; Robert.
(II) John Lyman, son of Richard Lyman (1), was born at High Ongar, Essex county, England, and came to New England with his father. He married Dorcas Plumb, daughter of John, of Bran- ford, Connecticut. In 1654 he went to Northampton, Massachusetts, to settle and he lived there the re- mainder of his days. He died August 20, 1690, aged sixty-seven years. Lieutenant John Lyman was in command of the Northampton soldiers in the Turners Falls fight above Deerfield, May 18, 1676. Children of John and Dorcas were: Eliza- beth, born November 6, 1655: Sarah, November II, 1658: Lieutenant John, August 1, 1660: Moses, February 20, 1663: Dorothy, June 9. 1665; Mary, January 2. 1668; Experience, January 8, 1670, died young : Joseph, February 17, 1671; Benjamin, Au- gust 16. 1674; Caleb, September 2, 1678.
(II1) John Lyman, third child of John Lyman (2). was born in Northampton, August 1, 1660. He lived at the South Farms and had a public house near Smith's Ferry. He married, April 19, 1687. Mindwell Pomeroy, born February 24, 1666. daugh- ter of Mary ( Woodford) Sheldon, of Northampton, and widow of John Pomeroy, whom she married April 30, 1684. John Lyman died November 8, 1740, aged eighty years. His wife died April 8, 1735, aged sixty-nine years. He lived in North- ampton. Their children: Mindwell. born August 30, 1688: Dorcas, 1600: Ham, April 2, 1602: John, October 12, 1693: Esther, February 15, 1698; Gideon,
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March 19, 1700, see forward; Elizabeth, December 8, 1702; Phineas, May, 1706; Elisa, May, 1710; Gad, May, 1713.
(IV) Lieutenant Gideon Lyman, son of John Lyman (3), was born March 19, 1700, lived in Northampton, was prominent in town affairs and held many public offices. He married (first) Esther Strong, December 25, 1723, and ( second) Catherine Phelps, widow of Nathaniel Phelps, of Springfield, Vermont, daughter of John King, of Northfield, who died March 15, 1791, in his ninetieth year. Their children were: Phineas, see forward; Gideon, born 1730; Martha, born 1734; Elijah, Au- gust 8, 1736.
(V) Phineas Lyman, eldest child of Gideon Lyman (4), was born in Northampton, about 1725. He married Joanna Eastman, April 5, 1750. She died February 5, 1759. He married (second) Eliza- beth Hawley, widow of Elisha Hawley. Ile resided in Northampton. Their children: Phineas, born January 22, 1750; Timothy, see forward; Elisha, born September 23, 1756.
(VI) Timothy Lyman, second child of Timothy Lyman (5), was born in Northampton, August 15, 1753. He married, June 1, 1780, Elizabeth Pomeroy. She married (second ) Ebenezer Clark, of Lunen- burg, Vermont. Timothy died June 12, 1792; he was a graduate of Yale. Their children : Joanna, see forward; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1784; Phineas, baptized February 2, 1786; Naomi, born March 17, 1787, married Asa Clark; Elihu, born July 17, 1789, went to Vermont and thence to Wisconsin.
(VII) Joanna Lyman, eldest child of Timothy Lyman (6), was born at Northampton, May 4, 1782. She married Abel Brown, of Springfield. (See sketch of Brown family.)
JOHN B. MOSS, a prominent citizen of Wor- cester, Massachusetts, who holds the responsible position of superintendent of the South and Central Works of the American Steel and Wire Company in that city, is a representative of the third genera- tion in this country of an old and honored family of England.
(1) James Moss, great-grandfather of John B. Moss, was born in Braintree, England, the son of John Moss, who was born in Braintree and spent his life there. James Moss later removed to Chelmsford. He was a miller by trade, and emi- grated to the United States in 1836 with his wife and children. He resided in New York city but a short time, removing to Rose, Wayne county, New York. He married Saralı Galoway and had chil- dren : Josialı, who taught school for a time in New York city; Mahala, Sarah Ann, Caroline, Louisa, Theresa, John, see forward; and William. (11) John Moss, second son and seventh child of James (1) and Sarah (Galoway ) Moss, was born in Braintrec, England, in 1819. He came to America with his parents and removed with them to Wayne county, New York, then left them for what he thought might be better conditions out west. He settled in Illinois, where he found employment for time in assisting to build a canal. He returned to Sterling, New York, where he turned his atten- tion to acquiring a knowledge of the milling trade, an occupation which he followed during the re- maining active years of his life. His death oc- curred in October, 1881. He married, December 9, 1841, Emily Ingersoll, daughter of John Ingersoll, of Welsh descent, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. Thomas H. Green. John Ingersoll joined the revolutionary army when but sixteen years of age, as an aide to an officer whose name has not been preserved. At the expiration of three months he enlisted as a soldier and was in Newburgh, New York with Washington and La Feyette, and as- sisted in building Washington's headquarters in that town. He frequently related the incident of La Fayette's giving wooden shoes to the soldiers. The ariny suffered greatly from exposure during the winter, and its path was marked with crimson stains from the bleeding bare feet of some of the soldiers. John Ingersoll died in 1839, at the age of seventy-five years. Emily ( Ingersoll) Moss is one of the few remaining true daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, and is at present (1906) living with her son, James H., in South Lancaster, Massa- chusetts, aged ninety years. The children of John and Emily (Ingersoll) Moss were: John Wesley, see forward; James H., Mary A., Lemon Barnes, Edward F., Ruth E., and Carrie E. John Wesley, James H. and Ruth E. are still living.
(III) John Wesley Moss, eldest child of John (2) and Emily (Ingersoll) Moss, was born in Sterling, New York, February 14, 1843. He set- tled in Slaterville, New York, from whence he re- moved to Mecklenburg in the same state, where all his children with the exception of the eldest were born. He married Roxie R. Hill, born July 6, 1844, daughter of Benjamin and Samantha Hill, and had children: John B., see forward; Hattie E., deceased; Edward C., William L., Charles H., and Emma S.
(IV) John B. Moss, eldest child of John Wes- ley (3) and Roxie R. (Hill) Moss, was born in Slaterville, New York, July 19, 1867. His educa- tion was acquired in the public schools of Mecklen- burg, New York, and he was then apprenticed to the trade of machinist at Ithaca, New York. He worked in that city for three years, then went to Peru, Indiana, and from thence to Providence, Rhode Island, where he became foreman of the planing department for the Brown & Sharp Manu- facturing Company, a position he held for five years. He then held a similar position for about one and a half years with H. C. Pease & Company, of Wor- cester, Massachusetts. He accepted a position as foreman of the machine shop of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company South Works, Wor- cester, Massachusetts, in September, 1892, and was foreman and assistant master mechanic for eight years, when he was advanced to the position of fore- man of the Blooming inill. About eighteen months later he was again advanced, this time to the posi- tion of superintendent of the rolling mills of the Washburn & Moen division of the American Steel and Wire Company, the present owners of the largest industry in Worcester. One year later he was advanced to be assistant superintendent of the South and Central Works, and then to his pres- ent responsible position as superintendent of the South and Central Works of the American Steel & Wire Company, August, 1904. Mr. Moss is one of a number of young men who have risen in this industry to important positions by their ability, thorough mastery of detail, and strict attention to the matter in hand. He is devoted, heart and soul, to liis business interests, and is enterprising and progressive in all that he undertakes. He gives his earnest support to the Republican party and served in 1893-4 on the Republican city committee. He is an active member of the Worcester County Me-
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chanics' Association. Is a member of the Methodist Church.
He married, August 2, 1887, at Waterburgh, New York, Bertha Van Dine, daughter of William H. and Lucy (Newman ) Van Dine. John B. and Bertha (Van Dine) Moss resides at No. I View street, Worcester, Massachusetts, and have one child: Earle Chester, born December 16, 1892.
(I) Gerret Cornellissen Van Duyn, the immi- grant ancestor of the American family of Van Duyn or Van Dine, to which Mrs. John B. Moss, of Wor- cester belongs, came to America in 1649 from Nieuwerperk in Zeeland and probably settled first in New Amsterdam (New York). He was a cah- penter or wheelwright by trade. He removed from New Amsterdam to Brooklyn, where, April 9, 1058, we find him paying a fine for obstinately refusing to pay his quota of Dominic Polhemius' salary. After living in America for twenty years he de- cided to return to Holland and was given permission August 10, 1670, by the director-general. He re- turned on the ship "Fort of Albany," of which Jac- qnes Cousseaui was master. Next year. May 15, 1671, a pass was given his wife Jacomyndy and three children and she went back to llolland on the ship "Duke of York," of which Johannes Luych was the master. The coming of the English was perhaps the reason for the return of the Dutch to Holland. The Van Duyns kept house at Zqolle, a city on the Zwarte or Black Water and the Willemsvaart in Overyssel, but were not prosperous, so they decided after nine years to return to America. In 1679 in the ship "Charles" with such notables as Peter Sluyter, Jasper Dankers, De Labidists, whose journal of the voyage, etc., has been printed, they returned to New York. They settled on Long Is- land between New Utrecht and Flatbush, buying a farm August 23, 1680, of Jacques Cortelyou, his brother-in-law. Cortelyou bought the place of Van- Werckhoven, who had it under patent and Indian deed. Cortelyou's land comprised originally the main part of the present town of New Utrecht. The farm is now owned by the heirs or successors of George Martense.
Van Duyn took the oath of allegiance to the Eng- lish government in 1687, and was a magistrate in 1687-88 and justice of the peace in 1689-90. He pur- chased, January 12, 1686, of Lowrentz Jansen, son of Jan Lowrentz, the farm at New Utrecht, and February 24, 1690-91, land of Anthons Du Ceen. These two parcels of land he deeded to his son Cornelius April 16, 1705. He also deeded the Cor- telyou farm to his son Denyse June 6, 1698. His will, dated June 30, 1705, was proved June 14, 1706, and it included lands bought of Peter Cortelyou in Dutchess county, New York. These were equally divided between his children. He joined the Dutch Church at New Utrecht during Dominie Van Zuren's pastorate by certificate from the church at Zwolle and he was later deacon of this church.
He married Jacomina or Jacomynchy Swartz, daughter of Jacob Swartz, of New Amsterdam, about 1660. Their children : Cornelius, see forward. Denys, married, 1691, Maria Huyken, and settled at Raritan, New Jersey, but returned to Long Island and died at Flatbush, 1729: he had the Martense farm and his son Gerret after him; he had sons William and Denys who settled in Raritan, also Jacobus and David. Abraham, born about 1670, married Geertie Martense, of Wallabout: resided at Mespat Kills, but removed 1706 to Cecil county, Maryland. Aeltis or Aske. Gerret. Dirck. iv-25
(II) Cornelius Van Duyn, son of Gerret Cor- nellissen Van Duyn (I), was born in Brooklyn, New York, July 10, 1064. He had the Jansen and Du Ceen farms in New Utrecht and lived there. In 1687 he took the oath of allegiance as a native. He bought, April 30, 1094, the farm of William Huyckens, his father-in-law, for 262 pounds. The farm was in Gowanus. He bought another farm there December 30, 1699, of Cornelius Vanderbeeck. He probably resided on the Huycken farm, after- wards owned by Richard Berry. With seventeen others, in 1700, he bought the Harlington tract in Somerset county, New Jersey, amounting to 9,000 acres. llis will was dated March 3, 1754, and proved October 26, 1754. He was a trustee of Gowanus ( Brooklyn ) for some years.
He married, January 4, 1691, Matilda Huykens, daughter of William Huykens. She died March 1, 1709, aged forty years, He married (second) Chris- tiana Gerbrands, June 14, 1714. She died December 12, 1754. He died September 27, 1754. Children of Cornelius and Matilda Van Duyn were: Gerrit, born September 6, 1691, was a farmer at New Utrecht, where he died before the revolution; had children, Cornelius, John, Aletta, who married Anthony Holst, and Matilda, who married William Bower; Machiltie, Christina, Stynthe or Seyte, Will- iam, see forward; Annetje, baptized November 15, 1094 ;. Jackomyntie, baptized January 14, 1700; Cor- nelius, baptized November 14, 1704, died young ; Cornelia, born February 12, 1709 (twin) ; Cornelius (twin), born February 12, 1709.
(II) William Van Duyn, son of Cornelius Van Duyn (2), was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 26, 1693. He was a wheelwright by trade. In 1719 he removed to Newton, Long Island, hav- ing bought property at Hempstead Swamp, which he greatly enlarged by subsequent purchases. He was a justice of the peace and a highly respected citizen. He held various offices in the Dutch Church there. He died February 20, 1769, aged seventy-six years. Ile married Adriana Ditmars, daughter of Dow Ditmars, whom he survived. Their children were Catherine, born 1721, married Jacob Remsen ; Cornelius, born 1724, married Ann Van- derveer ; Matilda, born 1726, married Abraham Remsen; Dow, see forward.
(IV) Captain Dow Van Duyn, son of William Van Duyn (3), was born in Newton, Long Island, in 1730. He received the northern half of his father's farm, lately the estate of David S. Mills. He was an energetic business man, remarkable for his sense of humor and kindly nature. When the revolution broke out he at first inclined to the Whig side, but finally espoused that of the King and served as captain of militia under the British command. At the conclusion of peace he retired to Nova Scotia, where he died. His estates were confiscated by the new government. Of his chil- dren four sons returned to New York to live. He had several daughters. His sons were: Aert, set- tled in Nova Scotia; Cornelius, died in New York city ; Dow, Henry and William.
(V) Dow Van Duyn or Van Dine, as the name has been spelled in this branch of the family for several generations, other members of the family having used the spelling Van Dyne, was the son of Captain Dow Van Duyn (4). He was born in New- ton, Long Island, near Hempstead, in 1770, and died in 1847. He settled in New Jersey. Among his children were: Edward Earle, see forward; Jacob, born about 1800, Polly and Jane.
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(VI) Edward Earle Van Dine, son of Dow Van Dine (5), was born in New Jersey, in 1796. He was a soldier at an early age in the New Jersey Light Infantry and served in the war of 1812. He was one of Lafayette's escort from Newark to Tren- ton, New Jersey, on the occasion of his visit to America. He was late in life a pensioner for sery- ice in the war of 1812, drawing $8 a month during his last years. Three of his sons served in the civil war. He married Phebe Edwards, born in 1798, daughter of David Edwards, born in 1762. Their children were: Mary, Matilda, Elizabeth, Jane, Edward, was in the Twenty-sixth Pennsyl- vania Regiment, the first to open fire at the battle of Gettysburg; he was taken a prisoner; Charles, was in the Twenty-first New York Cavalry under General Sheridan in the same company with his brother; Joseph, William H., see forward; Theodocia.
(VII) William H. Van Dine, son of Edward Earle Van Dine (6), was born in Newark, New Jersey, January 7, 1835. He was a soldier in the .civil war in the Twenty-first New York Cavalry under General Sheridan. He settled in Jackson- ville, New York. He married Lucy A. O. Newman, born in Enfield, New York, June 24, 1845, and died August, 1901, in Worcester, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Jared and Abbie (Hart) Newman. Jared Newman was born October 24, 1779, married Abbie Hart, March 12, 1844, and died April 26, 1848. Abbie Hart was the daughter of Philip and Anna Hart, born Alarch 11, 1807, died May 30, 1861. The only child of William H. and Lucy A. O. Van Dine was Bertha, mentioned above and below. (VIII) Bertha Van Dine, daughter of William H. Van Dine (7), was born April 10, 1865, mar- ried John B. Moss.
PLYMPTON FAMILY. Sergeant John Plymp- ton (I), the immigrant ancestor of the Plympton family of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. numbers among his descendants Colonel Noah Allen Plymp- ton of Boston, and Albert H. Plympton of Shrews- bury. He was born in England about 1620. While his English ancestry cannot be determined it is known that he belongs to an ancient English family. The Plumpton family of Yorkshire is believed by the family historian to be a branch of this family. The Plumptons of the vill of Plumpton, parish of Spofforth. Yorkshire, date back to 1086, when Eldred de Plumpton was a mesne tenant there. John Plimpton came to America in his youth as an ap- prentice or servant of Dr. George Alcocke, who gave him his time on payment of five pounds in his will dated January 22, 1641. He must have been about twenty-one at the time. Perhaps Plimpton owed Dr. Alcocke for his passage, etc. There were two other immigrants of this name among the early settlers- Elizabeth Plimpton, married John Rutter, of Sudbury, and Thomas Plimpton, who was apprenticed to Peter Noyes of Sudbury. It is reasonable to suppose that Thomas was a brother and Elizabeth sister of John Plimpton. The names of the children of the two Plymptons are almost the same.
John Plympton was admitted to the church at Dedham, Massachusetts, where he had been living for some time, January 20, 1642-3. lle was a pro- prietor of Dedham, and was admitted a freeman there May 10, 1643. Ile removed to Medfield, ad- joining Dedham, in 1652. He was elected a member of the Artillery Company of Boston 1643. He was
a contributor to the fund to support Harvard Col- lege. He was highway surveyor 1661, and constable 1667, was on important committees for Dedham and Medfield, and a man of mark. His house at Med- field was on the main road from Boston to Men- don. Among his near neighbors were John Bull- ard, John Metcalf and Ralph Wheelock. He was sergeant in the Medfield company. In 1673 he re- moved to Pocomtuck, Deerfield, Massachusetts. During King Philip's war he and the other settlers left Deerfield. He removed to Hatfield, but in 1677 was the first to return to his home in Deerfield. He was captured by the Indians, with three men and a boy, September 19, 1677, and taken to Can- ada. They suffered great hardships, and narrowly escaped death by torture. Plympton finally suc- cumbed to harships of his captivity. The inventory of his estate was filed at Suffield September 24, 1678 by his widow Jane. He married, at Dedham, March 13, 1644, Jane Damon (or Dammin), who came over with her mother and stepfather, John Eaton, and their children, in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann." She was born in 1626 in England, and was admitted to the Dedham Church, December 4, 1640. (See Damon family). Children of Ser- geant John and Jane Plympton: I. Hannah, born March 1, 1645. 2. John, March 21, 1646; died April 26, 1647. 3. Marrah, April 9, 1648. 4. John, August 5, 1649. 5. Peter, baptized March 7, 1652. 6. Joseph, baptized October 7, 1653.
(II) John Plympton, son of Sergeant John Plympton (I), born August 5, 1649, baptized June 16, 1650; died January 13, 1704-5. Administration was granted on the estate to his son John, April 5, 1740, but the estate was not settled for thirty- five years. His grandson John Plympton finally administered. John Plympton served in Captain Samuel Moseley's famous company of Indian fight- ers. Moseley was an old privateer, and fighting came easy for him. They fought an engagement with the Indians in 1675, near Swansea, Massachu- setts ; acted as the escort for a commission of Con- necticut and Massachusetts men to confer with the Narragansett Indians; returned by way of Rehoboth and Mattapoisett to Taunton ; and put to flight with only sixty men some three hundred Indians. It is said that when Captain Moseley went into the fight he removed his periwig, a kind of scalp with which his adversaries were unfamiliar, and their super- stitious fears got the best of them. The company marched through Mendon, Brookfield, Lancaster and up the river to Panacook (Concord, New Hampshire), returning later to Hadley and Deer- field, where they defeated some seven hundred sav- ages. They were in the Swamp Fight, where about a thousand English fought and defeated 3.500 In- dians. Moseley lost nine killed and ten wounded in that fight. Every well man had to act as carrier at one end of a stretcher in removing the wounded. The fight took place in mid-winter, and the hard- ships of Plympton's campaign in King Philips's war is hardly conceivable under present conditions. John Plympton succeeded his father on the origi- nal homestead in Medfield. He was the proprietor of a grist mill on Charles river. He married first, January 25, 1678-9, Elizabeth, daughter of John Fisher. She died May 13, 1694. He married (sec- ond), February 28, 1696-7, Sarah Turner, who died about 1740. Children of John and Elizabeth: I. John, born May 17, 1680; died 1730; settled in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. 2. Henry, mentioned be- low. Children of John and Sarah Plympton : 3
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