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(VII). Elisha Drury, son of Moses Drury (6), was born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, July 28, 1783, and died February 25, 1841, at Winchendon, Massachusetts. He was buried at Fitzwilliam. He married. April 20, 1819, Levina Saunders, who was horn August 23. 1789, the dangh- ter of David and Molly ( Livingston) Saunders, and widow of Jesse Livingston. Their children were: Elisha, Jr., of whom later; Lovina E., born Troy, New Hampshire, November 2, 1828, died at Fitchhurg, Massachusetts, August 6. 1882.
(VIII) Elisha Drury, son of Elisha Drury (7), was born at Troy, New Hampshire, December 10. 1821. He was a farmer and wood worker. He re- sided in Winchendon, Massachusetts; Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire; and Readsboro, Vermont. He returned to Fitzwilliam and died there January 20, 1860. He married, February 15, 1843, Lucinda Stoddard, of Winchendon, Massachusetts. The children of Elisha, Jr., and Lucinda Drury were : Edwin E., born April 18, 1845, married (first) Ida E. Root, 1871; (second) Emma L. Dyer, 1898; they have one son living at South Royalston, Massachu- setts, a farmer; Leander M., born October 12, 1850, proprietor of the Langdon Hotel, Front street, Worcester ; he married Nellie Day, of South Royals- ton, Massachusetts, 1879, and they have a daughter, Myrtice ; Frederick L., of whom later.
(IX) Frederick L. Drury, son of Elisha Drury, Jr., (8), was born in Readsboro, Vermont, April 14, 1856. His mother removed to South Royalston, Massachusetts, when he was very young, and he was educated in the public schools there. He be- gan his business career in Boston as clerk in a fancy goods store in 1876. He removed to Fitchburg. Massachusetts, in 1878, and entered the employ of Walter P. Guy, now a prominent Worcester and Springfield merchant, in the store that he himself
bought in 1890 and has since conducted. For a number of years Mr. Drury was the proprietor of the Drury House, a hotel at 144 Main street, Fitchburg.
In his experience of nearly thirty years in mer- cantile business in Fitchburg, Mr. Drury has main- tained a reputation for square dealing and for good judgment in business. He is ex-president of the Fitchburg Merchants' Association, which comprises the local board of trade. In politics he is a Repub- lican and active in the organization of his party. He is ex-president of the Retail Grocers' Associa- tion of Fitchburg and vice-president of the Massa- chusetts Retail Grocers' Association in 1905-06. He is a member of Aurora Lodge of Free Masons and Lady Emma Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star ; of Mt. Rollstone Lodge of Odd Fellows and of King David Encampment and the Daughters of Rebekah. He is a member of the Rollstone Con- gregational Church, and has been a member of the finance committee for the past fifteen years.
He marricd, September 25, 1878, Flora E. Sher- win, daughter of Addison and Amanda ( Partridge ) Sherwin, of South Royalston. Their children are : Leon Arthur, born at Fitchburg, October 23, 1880, graduate of Fitchburg high school, 1898, and Brown University, 1902, is associated with his father in the grocery store; married. October 12, 1904, Daza P. Mowry, of Providence, Rhode Island; Ralplı Sherwin, born January 10, 1890, student in the Fitch- burg high school, class of 1907.
FRANKLIN AUGUSTUS BAGLEY. Orlando Bagley (I), the immigrant ancestor of Franklin Au- gustus Bagley, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born probably in England about 1630. The only other early settler of this or similar surname was John Bagley or Biglow, of Watertown, most of whose descendants spell the name Bigelow. (See
Bigelow family.) Orlando Bagley's name was spelled Baggley, Baglee and Bagly often. He set- tled first in Boston, where he was living from 1658 to 1663, when he removed to that part of Salisbury now Amesbury, Massachusetts.
He married Sarah Colby, March 6, 1653-4, in Salisbury, and she died in Boston, May 8, 1663. He probably died soon afterward. Their children were: Orlando, born February 18, 1658, of whom later ; John, born August 31, 1659; Sarah, born January 14, 1660 died September 30, 1661; Mary, born Jan- uary 5, 1661 ; Sarah, born March 2, 1663, married John Mack, April 5, 1681, settled in Salisbury.
(II) Orlando Bagley, eldest child of Orlando Bagley (1), was born in Boston, February 18, 1658. He was a yeoman and settled in Amesbury, Massa- chusetts. He married (first) Sarah Sargent, of Amesbury, December 22, 1681. She died at Ames- bury, October 3, 1701. He married (second) Saralı Annis, of Newbury (published May 25), 1703-4. He was admitted a freeman 1690, was constable 1692, died 1728. His wife died 1729.
The children of Orlado and Sarah Bagley were: Orlando, born in Amesbury, December 14, 1682, (lieutenant) ; Sarah, born February 27, 1683, mar- ried (first) Henry Lancaster, July 15, 1703; married (second), April 11, 1713, Elisha Weed; John, born January 21, 1685: Jacob, of whom later; Judith. born November 13, 1691, married John Carter, of Kings- ton. New Hampshire, April 25. 1711; Joseph, born January 26, 1704-5; Benjamin, born November 10,
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1707: Anne, born August 14, 1708, married Abel Merrill: Hannah, born March 29, 1712, married Thomas Morrill.
( 111) Jacob Bagley, son of Orlando Bagley (2), was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, December 13. 1687. He was a prosperous farmer and black- smith at Amesbury. He married (first) Hannah Stanwood, January 21, 1712-3; (second) Kezia (Colby), widow of David Currier, June 2, 1748. She died November 3, 1754, aged fifty-nine years. He married (third) Hannah Currier, widow of Timothy Currier, March 13, 1755. His will was dated December 21, 1767, and proved February 23, 1773. The children of Jacob and Hannah Bagley were: William, of whom later; Elizabeth, born January 18, 1715-6, married Samuel Adams, June 27, 1734; resided at Salisbury in 1767; Jerusha. born January 1, 1717-8, died April 13, 1718; Jerusha, born November 29, 1719, died before 1767; Jacob, Jr., born November, 1721, dicd February 4, 1724; Han- nah, born June 6, 1723, married Richard Currier, February 19, 1750; Jacob, Jr., born June 30, 1724; Samuel, born December 21, 1728, died February 4, 1729.
(IV) William Bagley, eldest child of Jacob Bagley (3), was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, October 9, 1713. He was a mariner; he had his home in Amesbury, and died a young man. at Amesbury, November 19, 1746. He married, Au- gust 18, 1740, Susan Webster, of Salisbury. She married after his death David Currier, March 13, 1749. The children of William and Hannah Bagley were: Eunice, born April 27, 1740; William, of whom later ; Jerusha, born September 9, 1743, living in 1758; Anne, born December 2, 1745, died Janu- ary 23, 1748.
(V) William Bagley, Jr., son of William Bagley (4), was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 26, 1741. He became a yeoman at Amesbury. He married (first) Mary - -, before 1766. She died February 19, 1782, aged thirty-six years. He married (second ) Hannah -, before 1785. The children of William and Mary Bagley were: Jacob, born 1766; David, of whom later; Molly, born January 9, 1771; Anne, born April 16, 1773; Betty, born 1776, died October 17, 1776, aged six months. The children of William and Hannah Bagley were : William, Jr., born 1783, died November 24, 1791, aged eight years; Amos, born 1795, died August 14, 1796.
(VI) David Bagley, son of William Bagley (5), was born in Amesbury, October 23. 1768. He was a ship cooper by trade and resided at Amesbury. Among his children was John, of whom later.
(VI) John Bagley, son of David Bagley (6), was born in 1786 at Peabody, Massachusetts, where his father settled. Like his ancestors he was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in re- ligion. He died at Peabody in 1860. He was a farmer in Corinth, Vermont. He married Elizabeth Bickford, and they had fourteen children. Those who grew to maturity were: John, Francis, Almon F., of whom later; Sarah. married Samuel Swett; Harriet B., born January 26, 1828, married J. Warren Stiles. who was born in Wilton. New Hampshire, and died 1903; she resides (1906) at 13 Gardner street, Peabody; Elizabeth. died unmar- ried ; Dolly, died unmarried ; Lydia, Mary.
(VIII) Almon F. Bagley, son of John Bagley (7), was born at Corinth, Vermont. and died at Wenham, Massachusetts, in 1871. He settled at
Danville, New Hampshire, and at Hamilton, Massa- chusetts. He married Louisa Nason. Their chil- dren were: Franklin Augustus, of whom later ; George A., resides at North Beverly, and has four children : Almon F., Amelia Ross, Laura Ethel, Grace Viola ; Charles W., resides at Wenham. Mas- sachusetts, and has children : Emeline, married Will- iam Flint, and they have one child, Edith, married Fred Ellis, whose children are :. James Rolland, Dorothy and Corinne.
(IX) Franklin Augustus Bagley, son of Almon F. Bagley (8), was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, July 3, 1844. He attended school there and at Pea- body, whither his parents removed when he was twelve years old. His father was a market gardener and he helped him in his business. He lived at Hamilton one year and at Wenham eight years. He worked at various places in Lynn and Salem. He began business as a milk dealer in Wenham. He also dealt in provisions. He finally removed to Lynn and started in the grocery business on Main street, Water hill, Federal square. He bought and sold stores several times and was in business at Franklin street, Pearl street, and twice on Union street. In 1894 he sold out and removed to Fitch- burg, Massachusetts, and entered the real estate bus- iness. Lately he has added fire insurance to his business. He has been very successful.
In politics he is a Democrat. He is a justice of the peace. He belongs to West Lynn Lodge of Odd Fellows and has been treasurer of Fraternity Encampment. He is a member of A. C. Moody Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of Sagamore and Nanepashemet Tribes of Red Men of Lynn, and has held the various chairs. He attends the Methodist Church.
He married, January, 1865, Macia H. Kent, a daughter of Joseph G. and Nancy ( Kimball) Kent, of Newbury, Massachusetts. She was born June 10, 1847. Their children are: Florine, born April 13, 1866, married William Taylor; Henrietta, born July 29, 1868.
STEPHEN V. WARE. Robert Ware (1). the immigrant ancestor of Stephen V. Ware, of Fitch- burg, Massachusetts, came from his English home to the colony in Massachusetts Bay some time be- fore the autumn of 1642, the earliest date on the records being November 25, 1642, at Dedham, when he bought land there of Thomas Eames. This lot was his homestead and it was on the Great or Dedham Istand His house was probably at or near the causeway. Various other grants of land to him were made February 6, 1642. and later. He joined the church at the time of the baptism of his eldest child. October 2 or II, 1646. He was admitted a freeman May 26, 1647: was a member of the artillery company as early as 1644. He lived and died in Dedham, although three of his sons-John, Nathaniel and Robert-removed to Wollomonopoag, set off in 1661 and incorporated in 1673 as Wrent- ham. Massachusetts.
He married (first) in Dedham, March 24, 1644-5. Margaret Hunting. daughter of John Hunting, first ruling elder of the Dedham Church, and his wife, Esther Seaborn. She died in Dedham, August 26, 1670. He married ( second ). May 3, 1676, Hannah Jones. born March 28. 1636, died April 20, 1721, daughter of Thomas Jones, of Dorchester. Her gravestone is to be seen in the old Dorchester bury- ing ground. Her will dated January 21, 1720-1,
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mentions a large number of relatives and friends. Rohert Ware died at Dedham, April 19. 1699. His will. dated February 25. 1698, proved May II, 1699, contains much information of family and local his- torical interest.
The children of Robert and Margaret Ware were: John, born October 6. 1646, died April 7, 1718, at Wrentham; Nathaniel, born October 7, 1648, died July 10, 1724, at Wrentham; Margaret, born February 14, 1650-1, died July 22, 1664; Robert, Jr., of whom later; Esther, born September 28, 1655. died September 3, 1734; married, May 13, 1673, Rev. Samuel Mann, first minister of Ded- ham, Massachusetts, and they had eleven children ; Samuel, born September 30, 1657, died March, 1730-1 ; Ephraim, born November 5. 1659, died March 26, 1753, at Needham; Elizabeth, born No- vember 19, 1661; Joseph, born September 8, 1663, died September 22, same year ; Ebenezer, born Oeto- her 28, 1667, died 1765, aged ninety-seven, at Need- ham.
(II) Robert Ware, son of Robert Ware (1), was born August 1 or 6, 1653, at Dedham, Massa- chusetts, and settled in the adjoining town of Wrentham, where he died September 16, 1724, in his seventy-second year. He served in the Ded- ham company in King Philip's war, 1675, and also in the Wrentham company, 1680. He was a deputy to the general court in 1703, on the committee on Meeting House 1669, agreed to settle in Wrentham in 1671, was one of the executors of his brother- in-law, Rev. Samuel Mann. His will was dated August 8, 1724.
He married (first) in Dedham. June 4. 1677, Sarah Metcalf, daughter of Michael Metcalf, Jr. and Mary Fairbanks, his wife, and born in Dedham, December 7, 1648. She died in Wrentham, April 13. 17IS. Robert Ware married (second), Febru- ary 26, 1719-20, Elizabeth Holbrook, of Mendon, who died in Wrentham, July 28, 1723. All his chil- dren except the eldest were born in Wrentham. The children of Robert and Sarah Ware were: Ebenezer, born March 15. 1677-8, in Dedham, died April 26, 1750, in Wrentham; Robert, Jr., born December 6. 1680, died January 9. 1731-2, at Wrentham: Michael, born June 11. 1683, died Sep- tember 21, 1725, at Wrentham; Margaret, born June 6. 1685, married. December 4, 1704, in Roxbury, Major John Foster, of Attleboro; Jonathan, born Fehruary 28, 1686-7, died April 20, 1740, at Wrentham ; Sarah, born March 4. 1689-90, died Au- gust 5. 1729; married, June 6. 1722, Francis Nichol- son : Esther, horn May 7. 1603, died September 14. 1745 ; married, December 17, 1718, Hezekiah Hawes ; Elizabeth, born September 30, 1697, died before Au- gust 28, 1724.
(III) Michael Ware, son of Robert Ware (2), was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, June II. 1683, and died September 21, 1725. He married, December 4. 1707, Jane Wight, daughter of Jona- than and Elizabeth (Hawes) Wight, granddaughter of Henry and Jane (Goodnow) Wight and great- granddaughter of Thomas Wight, the immigrant. She was born September 6, 1688, and she married ( second), December 2, 1734, Daniel Hawes, and died April 26. 1754. in her sixty-sixth year. The children of Michael and Jane Ware were: Jean, horn December 16. 1710. married .. July 30, 1729. John Fairhanks: Margaret, born October 21. 1712, married, January 29, 1734, Eleazer Metcalf: Hepzi- hah. horn November 22, 1714, married, December
29, 1730, Leonard Fisher; Esther, born December 3, 1716, married, February 8, 1737-8, Ezra Blake; Michael, of whom later ; Phebe, born February 25. 1720-I, married Elisha Pond; Jabez, born February 28, 1722, died June 28, 1805; Mehitable, born March 8. 1722-3.
(IV) Michael Ware, Jr., son of Michael Ware (3). was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, De- cember 5, 1725. died in Buckland. Massachusetts, about 1814. He was a soldier in the French war in Captain Blake's company in 1756. He and his son Abiel were also in the revolution under Cap- tain Samuel Fisher in 1781 in the Fourth Suffolk Regiment.
He married (first), February 5. 1754, Ariel Met- calf, daughter of Michael and Ariel (Colburn) Met- ealf, in Wrentham. She died December 25, 1757. He married (second) Lucy Grant. The children of Michael and Ariel Ware were: Jane, born No- vemiber 7. 1754: Abiel, born December 25, 1757. The children of Michael and Lucy Ware were: Molly, born October 15, 1759, in Wrentham; Abiel. perhaps the same as the second child, horn before 1765. served in revolution in 1781; Michael, born at Wrentham, 1765. died aged eighty-four years in 1849: Reuben, died in San Francisco; George, died at Buekland; James, died in 1816; Abijah, Lucy, Phehe.
(V) Abiel Ware, son of Michael Ware (4), was born in Wrentham before 1765 and was prob- ably the son born by the first marriage. December 25. 1757. He died in the summer of 1832 at Buek- land, Massachusetts, but lived most of his life at Dighton, Massachusetts. He married (first) at Cum- berland, Rhode Island, Esther Haskell. He mar- ried (second) Submit Phillips, daughter of Richard and Ruth Pitts Phillips; she was born in Dighton and died there July. 1835.
The child by the first marriage was Abner, but was changed May 26, 1796, to Lewis Ware "by the request and order of now Esther Hawkins." The Ware Genealogy gives Abiel a brother Ariel, born about 1775, the husband of Submit Phillips. If the genealogy is correct Lewis was the only son of Abiel and Esther and she married (second) W. Hawkins. It seems fully as likely that Abiel and his first wife parted. Abiel was in the revolution in 1781.
The children of Abiel (or Ariel) and Submit Ware were: Richard, born at Buckland, May 31, 1797, died August 22, 1840: married Roxanna Mon- son and Huldah Watson: Leander, horn about 1800, died about 1884, lived most of his life at Buckland; Esther, born October 15, 1802, died May 25, 1895; married (first) Homer Johnson and (second) Josiah Booth; Amanda, born Novemher 4. 1804, married, February 2, 1826. Zopher Woodward; Hul- dah, born at Buekland, November 14, 1807. died July 18, 1888; married Job Woodward: Sophronia, horn January 1, 1809, married George Viber ; Anne, horn November 25, 1811, died 1891 ; married (first) Willard Ware and (second) Jesse Edson ; Frank- lin, born February 10, 1813. died June 8, 1899; married twice.
(VI) Lewis Ware, son of Abiel Ware (5), was born January 25. 1770, and died in Newfane Hill. Vermont. in 1832. He was a physician and resided at Cumberland. Rhode Island, Westminster and Winchendon, Massachusetts, and Richmond. New Hampshire. He is buried at Newfane Hill, Ver- mont.
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He married, October 9, 1803, at Newton. Massa- chitsetts. Matilda Morse, who was born in Stur- bridge, Massachusetts, December 14, 1783, and died at Gardner, Massachusetts, October 10, 1853. The children of Dr. Lewis and Matilda Ware were : Abner Haskell, born April 14, 1805, at Cumberland, Rhode Island, died young; Rufus. born January 30, 1808, died young : Lucy P., born 1810, died at West- minster, Massachusetts; married (first) William Jones, of Wardsboro, Vermont, divorced ; she mar- ried (second) Dennis Gates, of Westminster ; (third) Leonard Mossman, of Ashburnham ; Stephen V., borti August 28, 1812, at Winchendon, died December 22, 1893: Lewis, born at Cumberland, Rhode Island. November 22, 1816, died at Fitch- burg, March 22, 1873: Samuel Morse, born at Win- chendon, May 13, 1818, died at Eureka, Kansas, March 20, 1895.
(VII) Stephen V. Ware, son of Dr. Lewis Ware (6), was born at Winchendon, Massachusetts, Au- gust 28, 1812. He died after an illness of two weeks at his home. 23 East street, Fitchburg, De- cember 22, 1893. He received a common school education. During his early years of business he was a traveling salesman and he covered the New England and Middle States for a number of years.
At the time of the gold fever in 1851 he went to California and resided there and in Nevada for fifteen years, occupied in mining and the grocery business. He also made considerable money in cat- tle dealing. He came back to Massachusetts in 1866 and resided in Ashburnham and Gardner until 1884. when he removed to Fitchburg. He had acquired a competence and did not care for active business. He had a grocery store near his residence in Fitch- burg, however, and carried it on up to the time of his death.
He was remarkably vigorous for a man of his years and at the age of eighty made the trip to the home of his only surviving brother, in Kan- sas, Samuel Ware, formerly also of Fitchburg. He was a Methodist in religion, a Republican in politics, and belonged to the order of Odd Fellows. He was an upright and respectable citizen, greatly beloved by his friends and family. He was a quiet, unassuming, domestic man, successful in his busi- ness and gifted with exceptional ability in many ways.
He married Charlotte A. Marshall, daughter of Abel and Roselma (Naramore) Marshall, and sister of Alfred A. Marshall, of Fitchburg. She was born in 1840 in Fitchburg. She survives her husband and resides in the homestead in Fitchburg. The chil- dren of Stephen V. and Charlotte A. Ware were: Mabel Marshall, born at Ashburnham, May 9. 1868, married, March 9, 1892, Frank C. Blood, who was born at West Groton in 1867: Henry Augustus, born at Fitchburg, February 14, 1870-1; George Franklin, born at Gardner, February 21, 1874: Annie Eloise, born January 10, 1877; Oscar Elliott, born October 5. 1879, married Sophia Dohla, and they have one child, Robert.
HENRY FAYETTE COGGSHALL. John Coggshall or Coggeshall (I) was the immigrant an- cestor of Henry Fayette Coggshall, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The name Coggshall appeared in England soon after the Norman Conquest and has included many distinguished men. John Coggshall came from Essex county, England, and arrived in Boston, in New England, September 16. 1632. He
is believed to have come from the Coggeshall family of Coggeshall .. He was admitted a freeman in November, 1632. He settled first in Roxbury, and lie and his wife Mary joined the church there. He soon removed to Boston and was dismissed from the Roxbury Church to the First Church of Bos- ton together with his wife Mary and servant Anne Shelley, April 20, 1635-6. He became prominent in the town and church, and was a prosperous mer- chant. He served the town of Boston in the general court for nine years. He was a deacon of the First Church. He sympathized with Mr. Wheelright and Anne Hutchinson when the schism came, and with twenty-three others was exiled. He went to Rhode Island, where Roger Williams welcomed them hospitably, and became one of the proprietors and original settlers at Portsmouth in Rhode Island, but with others went to Aquidnet, now Newport, and was one of the founders of that town. At the union of the four towns of Newport. Portsmouth, Provi- dence and Warwick, he was elected the first presi- dent of the Provincial Plantation.
John Coggshall was born about 1591 and died at Newport, Rhode Island, November 27, 1647, aged fifty-six. He was buried on his own land in New- port, where his descendants have erected a monu- ment and enclosed the family burying ground with a neat and substantial stone wall. His business was a silk merchant. His farm was situated on Cogge- shall avenue, near Victoria avenue. Newport. The children of John and Mary Coggeshall were: John, born in England, 1618, died in Newport, Rhode Island, October 1, 1708; Joshua, see forward; Ann, born in England about 1625, died in Newport, March 6. 1687: Hannanell (daughter), born in Boston, bap- tized May 3, 1635: Wayte, baptized at Boston, Sep- tember II, 1636; Bedaiah, baptized in Boston, July 20, 1636 or 1637.
(II) Joshua Coggeshall, second child of John Coggeshall (1), was born in England in 1623 and died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, May 1, 1688. He came from England with his parents and went with them to Rhode Island. After his father's death he removed to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and bought a farm on the west side of the island, where he resided until his death. A large part of his original farm is still held by his descendants, never having passed out of the family. He married (first) Joan West, of Newport. December 22. 1652. She died April 24, 1676, aged forty-one years. He mar- ried (second), June 21, 1677. Rebecca Russell, a Quaker, born in London. His children were all born at Portsmouth. The children of Joshua and Joan (West) Coggeshall were: Mary, born Febru- ary. 1655; Joshua, see forward; John, born 1659, died May 1, 1727: Josias, November, 1662: Daniel, April. 1665; Humility, January, 1670; Caleb, De- cember, 1772; Isaac.
(III) . Joshtia Coggeshall, second child of Joshua Coggeshall (2), was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, May, 1656, and died at Newport, Rhode Island. 1723. He married, May 13, 1671, Sarah -. She died March 20, 1697. He married ( second) Sarah -, August 26, 1697. He had a farm at Newport, now Middletown. Rhode Island. near Portsmouth. He had seventeen children. eight hy the first and nine hy the second wife, all born in Newport. The children of Joshua and his first wife were: Joshua, horn May 13. 168r. died Au- gust 2, 1727: Thomas, May 20, 1686. died young; Elizabeth, March 29, 1686 (twin of the preceding).
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married Spencer, of East Greenwich, July, 1708; John, December 14, 1683; Thomas, see for- ward ; Josiah, December 12, 1690; Mary, May 15, 1695, married - Beard; Richard, February II, 1692, married Wait Gould, daughter of John and Wait Gould. The children of the second marriage were: Caleb, July 25, 1698, died July 31, 1745; mar- ried Barbara Easton, daughter of Nicholas Easton, May 19, 1720: Sarah, March 22, 1700; James, March 17, 1701; a daughter, January 15, 1703; Benjamin, January 31, 1705, died December 17, 1710; Ann, November 18, 1709; Waite, January II, 1709; Com- fort. April 22, 1711.
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