Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. IV, Part 2

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 710

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(III) Elisha Rice. son of Thomas Rice (2), born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, December II, 1679; married, February 20. 1707-8, Elizabeth Wheeler, of Concord. He resided for a few years in Sudbury, and in 1719 was one of the proprietors of Worcester and was residing there. Soon after- ward he returned to Sudbury, and died there in 1761. His youngest of seven children was Zebulon Rice.

(IV) Zebulon Rice, son of Elisha, Rice (3), born in Sudbury, January 5, 1725; married. Decem- her 7. 1749. Susanna Allen, of Sudbury. He settled in Lancaster, and at the incorporation of the town of Boylston. or some other change in the town lines, his farm was included in Boylston. He died in Boylston, December 26, 1799. His widow died in Ashburnham, December 17, 1823. Of the seven- teen children of Zebulon and Susannah ( Allen) Rice six lived in Ashburnham-Jonas, Reuben, Eliakim, Susanna. wife of Jonathan Samson; Mary. wife of Stephen Randall, Jr., and Dolly, wife of John Babcock.

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(V) Jonas Rice, son of Zebulon Rice (4), was born in Boylston, Massachusetts, then Lancaster, February 16, 1754. He resided in Salem in 1775 and in 1776-77 was in Sterling. He married, May IO, 1779. Zilpah Townsend, daughter of Joshua and May Townsend, and in the same year settled in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He was a farmer and an industrious, respectable citizen. He settled in the southwest part of the town; but later removed to the Sawin farm. He died April 26, 1836. His widow died July 22. 1846.

Jonas Rice enlisted April 19, 1775, in a company of volunteers at Salem, commanded by Captain Derby and marched to Cambridge. After a week of service he enlisted at Cambridge for eight months in the company of Captain John Bachelor of Colonel Bridge's regiment. (This company was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill.) He was stationed during all of this service on Cambridge commons at the house of one Hastings. He was employed under General Putnam in an attempt to construct a fort on Lechman Point, from which they were driven by British ships. He again enlisted in the summer of 1776 for five months in a militia company of Captain Samuel Sawyer. Marched from Sterling through Worcester, Hartford, New Haven to New York city, remained there a few days and then moved up the Hudson about two miles; was on duty at Fort Prescott when the city of New York was given up to the British. He then moved up to Harlem Heights, where he remained through the rest of this service. Ile again enlisted July I, 1777, for six months in militia company of Captain Francis Wilson, of Holden, Colonel Keyes' regi- ment. He marched to Leicester, thence to Provi- dence. During this time of service he went to Point Juliette to assist in collecting boats to be used on an attack on New York. In sailing around the point many of the boats were destroyed, eight men being drowned and so the contemplated attack was abandoned.

The children of Jonas and Zilpath (Townsend) Rice were: Persis, born July 1, 1782. blind, died unmarried July 4. 1857 ; she was an apt scholar and became quite proficient in reading by raised letters ; she had the Psalms and other books; she enjoyed reading : Zilpah. born February 25, 1784, married Abel Wright. of Ashby ; Levi, born August 19, 1785 ;- Mary, born June 9. 1788, married, January 28, 1813, Luther Willoughby, of Hollis, New Hampshire ; they resided in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where she died April 1. 1843: Lucy, born July 24. 1790, married. 1809. Ebenezer Jaquith; lived at Wash- ington. New Hampshire, and subsequently at Mil- ford, New Hampshire; Jonas, born April I, 1792, blind. died unmarried, November 26, 1854. Al- though born blind he so perfected himself in music that he was in great demand throughout the county to assist in private as well as public musical en- tertainments : he could play equally well on the violin, melodeon or flute; Ruth, born December 31, 1793, married Samuel Brooks, son of Thaddeus Brooks; Susan, born January 20, 1796, died un- married. June 13, 1863: Silas, born April 13, 1798; Salmon, born September 30. 1800.

(VI) Silas Rice, son of Jonas Rice (5), was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, April 13, 1798. He settled in Ashburnham and conducted a farm there. He removed to Ashby in 1844 and died there September 30, 1862. He married. September 12, 1825. Almira Corey, daughter of Stephen and

Joanna (Adams) Corey, of Ashburnham. She died February 25, 1843. He married (second), May 8, 1844, Adaline ( Kendall) Sawin, widow of Stephen Sawin, of Ashburnham. She died in Fitchburg, August 24, 1885. Silas Rice was very active in the town affairs of Ashby; he was chosen as one of the selectmen for ten years out of the eighteen that he resided in the town.

Children of Silas and Almira (Corey) Rice were: I. Elizabeth C., born March 21, 1827, died in Fitchburg, May 3. 1874: she married Jonas Whitney, of Fitchburg, April 4, 1850, who was associated with his father, Prescott Whitney, in manufacturing of organs and melodeons. Only one child was born to them, Frank O. Whitney. who graduated with the first class that was graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute; he has been in the civil engineering department of Boston ever since his graduation. He married Annie Snow, of Boston, and they have one son, Franklin Snow, who is now a senior in Harvard College. 2. Ed- win, born December 21, 1834, died in Paxton, Illi- nois, April 24. 1884. He married Almarine Moore, in Lisbon, Illinois, 1859. He was a successful grain and real estate dealer in both Chicago and Paxton. 3. Walter, born December 25, 1836, a Congrega- tional minister, graduated from Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1862, and from Newton, Massachu- setts, Theological Seminary. Subsequently he took a special course at Andover Theological Seminary. He has preached as a settled pastor in West Acton, South Royalston, Lunenburg and Brandon, Ver- mont ; at present and for over fourteen years pas- tor Agawam Congregational Church. He

married Nellie F. King, August 24, 1865; to them one son, Dexter W., was born, September 6. 1870, and died May 8, 1890; the wife died November II, 1901. 4. Dexter S., born August 3, 1840, died Oc- tober 9. 1896; married Mary Bangs, November 29, 1866. He went to Portland, Maine, in 1860, and entered the employ of Walter Corey Furniture Co. Enlisted in the Thirteenth Maine Regiment, Decem- ber 10, 1861. Served through the civil war and was mustered out of the service January 6, 1865. On returning from the service he became manager and later principal owner of the Walter Corey Furniture Co. The business was greatly enlarged under his administration. One son Irving was born June 14. 1870, now engaged in the coal business in Portland; married Maud Packard, of Portland, in 1896. 5. Charles H., born February 19, 1843. 6. Almira M., born January 28, 1845. died February 17. 1856. She was of the second marriage to Ada- line (Kendall) Sawin.

(VII) Dr. Charles H. Rice, son of Silas Rice (6), was born in Ashburnham, February 19, 1843. When he was a young child the family removed to Ashby. He attended the public schools of that town and subsequently graduated at Appleton Acad- emy at New Ipswich, New Hampshire. in 1863. Dr. Rice studied medicine with Dr. Emerson, of Ashby, and was graduated from Dartmouth Medical Col- lege in 1865 and from Harvard Medical School in 1866. He located immediately in Fitchburg and has since practiced his profession successfully in that city. Dr. Rice has built up a large general practice in Fitchburg. He has been not only a physician of prominence, but a leading citizen. He is a mein- ber of the Worcester North District Medical Society and of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He was for twelve years surgeon of the Sixth Regiment,

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Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, from December, 1884, to April, 1897. He was the first city physi- cian in Fitchburg and also chairman of the first city board of health. He served for sixteen years consecutively on the school committee. He is a trustee of the Burbank Hospital and a consulting physician and surgeon for that institution. He is one of the trustees of the Wallace Public Library. He is a Mason of high standing. He belongs to Charles W. Moore Lodge, Thomas Royal Arch Chapter and Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar of Fitchburg. Ile is a member of the Royal Arcanum, the local council.

He married, June 1, 1870, Delia L. Estabrook, . daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Hayward) Esta- brook, of Ashby. Their children are: Dr. Robert Astley, born August 13. 1875, graduated at the Fitchburg high school in 1894, at Amherst Uni- versity in 1898 and at the Harvard Medical School in 1902; he has since practiced his profession in Fitchburg: Helen Haywood, born November 13, 1878, graduate of the Fitchburg high school in 1897 and of Smith College in 1901, is living with her parents; Margaret Corey, born February 13, 1886, graduate of the Fitchburg high school, class of 1902, of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1903, member of class of 1908, Smith College.

ROCKWELL-GIBSON. John Gibson (1), the emigrant ancestor of Henry Franklin Gibson, and progenitor of many Fitchburg and Worcester county families, was in New Towne, as Cambridge was first called, in 1634. He was born in England in 1601, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1694, aged ninety-three years. He was admitted a freeman May 17, 1637, although his name appears on the records first August 4, 1634. He had a grant of six acres of land in a list of lots granted to settlers in the West End, in that part of the city lying between the present Sparks street, Wyeth and Garden streets, Harvard and Brattle squares, and the Charles river, now a very valuable section in the heart of the city. His house was built at the end of Sparks street, not far from Brattle street, then called the Path to Wa- tertown. He bought a large amount of real estate during his life in Cambridge. In 1639 he bought of Edward Elmer three acres adjoining his land on the southeast, which extended his house lot or home- stall to Garden street. He doubtless belonged to the church of Mr. Hooker on his arrival in 1633. He became a member of the succeeding society Feb- ruary 1, 1636, under Rev. Thomas Shepard, and is on the list of members in 1637. He remained a member until his death. The original church until 1650 stood at the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets. He held several minor town offices, and in 1676 was a fence viewer. His connection with the witchcraft delusion is probably of more interest to his descendants than it was to him. He and his wife were sued by Winifred Holman for damages for accusing her daughter, Mary Holman, of being a witch. The Gibsons were found guilty, and doubtless they really believed that Mary was a witch. They were fined the costs of the court and fifteen shillings, ten pence. At the same time one of their sons was obliged to apologize in court for calling Mary a witch when being a witch was dangerous business.

John Gibson married first, Rebecca who was buried December 1, 1661, in Roxbury. He married ( second), July 24, 1662, Joan, widow of

Henry Prentice. of Cambridge, and together with his wife administered the estate of her late husband. Children of Jolin and Rebecca Gibson: 1. Rebecca, born Cambridge, 1635, baptized in the First Church ; inarried (second), June 22, 1654, Charles Stearns, of Watertown. (The fact that she partially lost her mind believing herself bewitched by Mary Hol- man explains the law suit brought by Mrs. Holman against the Gibsons ). + 2. Mary, born May 29, 1039,. married, November 3, 1657, Jacob Newell, of Rox- bury ; he was born on board ship, 1634, and buried in Roxbury, December 30, 1678 ; was son of Abraham and Frances Newell, from Ipswich, Suffolk county, Eng- land, Roxbury pioneers of 1634. 4. John, Jr., born about 1641, married Rebecca Errington. 5. Samuel, born in Cambridge, October 28, 1644, died in Can- bridge, March 20, 1709-10; married, October 30, 1668, Sarah Pemberton, who died October 10, 1676; married ( second), June 14, 1679, Mrs. Elizabeth ( Remington) Stedman, of Cambridge; married ( third) Abigail

(II) John Gibson, Jr., son of John Gibson ( I), born Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1641, was baptized in First Church there; died in Cambridge, October 15, 1679. He settled in Cambridge on the old home- stead at the west end, deeded to him by his father, November 30, 1668. He also was involved in the suit of the Holmans. He had accused Mary Holman of being a witch, believing, when he said it, that his sister was a victim of her arts. The court gave him his choice of openly acknowledging his error in court or of paying a fine of five pounds. He saved the five- pounds. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, in Captain Thomas Prentice's company, August 27, 1676. The expedition started for Rhode Island, June 24, 1676. He was in the fight at Swansea. June 28, and in the skirmish in July on Mt. Hope Neck, near Bristol, Rhode Island. He was also in the company of Lieutenant Edward Oakes, which started on a scouting expedition, March 24, 1675-76, near Marlboro. He was a private in Captain Daniel Henchman's company, impressed April 27, starting May 27, reaching Hadley, June 14, 1676. He was possibly the John Gibson in the list of Captain Joshua Scotow's men at Malock Point, near Saco, Maine, September, 1677, the garrison being captured the following month by Mogg Megone, a celebrated Indian chief. He was admitted a freeman October 11, 1670, and held various small offices in Watertown. He was only thirty-eight years old when he died of smallpox. His widow was administratrix. He mar- ried, December 9, 1668, Rebecca Errington ( Harring-

ton later), born in Cambridge, baptized in the First Church, and died December 4. 1713, daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Cutler) Errington. Her father was a blacksmith, the son of Widow Ann Er- rington, who was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng- land. Abraham Errington died at Cambridge, May 9. 1677, aged fifty-five years. He married Rebecca Cutler, born in England, a member of the Cam- bridge Church in full communion prior to January 1659; died at Cambridge, 1697. Children of John, Jr., and Rebecca Gibson : I. Rebecca, born in Cam- bridge, October 4, 1669, died in Woburn, June 10, 1698, unmarried. 2. Martha, born in Cambridge, died in Woburn after 1733; married (first), 1696, Reuben Lilly, of Concord ; married (second). April 4. 1699, Joseph Knight, of Woburn, born at Woburn, December 12, 1673, died January 23. 1732-33, son of Joseph and Hannah Knight, of Woburn, and prob- ably grandson of John Knight, of Watertown, Mass-

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achusetts. (See Knight Family). 3. Mary, born at Cambridge, married at Concord, October 17, 1700, Nathaniel Gates, of Stow (born probably at Cam- bridge, died 1731, aged fifty-six, son of Stephen Gates. (See Gates Family). 4. Timothy, of Sud- bury and Stow.

(III) Timothy Gibson, son of John Gibson, Jr., (2), was born in Cambridge, 1679, died at Stow, July 14, 1757. His gravestone in the graveyard in the lower village in the eastern part of Stow indi- cates that he was seventy-nine years old when he died. He married (first), in Concord, November 17, 1780, Rebecca Gates, of Stow, daughter of Stephen, Jr., and Sarah (Woodward) Gates. (See Gates Family). She was born in Marlboro, July 23, 1682, and died in Stow, January 21, 1751, and was buried at the right side of her husband. He married (second), (published November 30.) 1755, Mrs. Sub- mit Taylor, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. She died in Stow, January 29, 1759, and was buried at the left of her husband. Deacon Gibson was brought up by Selectman Abraham Holman, of Cambridge, son of William and Winifred Holman. After 1689 he removed with him to Stow. He lived with the Holman family until 1703, when he removed to the northwest part of Sudbury, and settled there near the Assabet river, on a sixty-aere farm, bounded west by the Stow line, east by the road to Concord from Jewell's mill, southwest by land of Joseph Jewell, north by land of John and Jonas Burk. It was deeded to him June 21, 1703, by his foster father Holman. Again, November 29, 1708, Holman gave him twenty aeres of land on the north side of the Assabet river, in Sudbury, and again ten aeres southeast of the river, April 23, 1711. Timothy Gibson's will, dated September, 1711, mentions his wife Sarah, nephews Abraham and Jeremiah Hol- man, son Timothy.

Timothy Gibson was one of the thirty-one signers of the petition for a church at the west precinct, now the centre of Sudbury, dated January 15, 1706-07. The church at Rocky Point, as Sudbury Centre was then called, was not built until 1723. The original church, where all in the vicinity worshiped from 1639 to 1723, was in East Sudbury, now Wayland, Massachusetts. The first bridge over the Assabet river was built between land of Gibson on one side and Burk on the other, by vote of the town, Deeem- ber 14, 1715. Timothy Gibson also owned land in Cambridge and Lunenburg. The records show that Ephraim Sawtelle sold land to Timothy Gibson about June 25, 1723. Five or six other lots were granted to him. Of his sons, John, Harrington, Isaac and Reuben settled in Lunenburg. They were men of great personal prowess, and they and their descendants were prominent in the town. Timothy Gibson removed to Stow between December 6, 1728, and February 24, 1731-32. He was selectman of Stow, 1734, 1735, 1736 and 1739. He was one of those who dissented from the vote to give Rev. John Gardner sixty pounds May 17, 1736. He was a dea- con of the church while Gardner was the pastor. His homestead in Stow lay on the south slope of Pomcitieut Hill. He deeded his homestead to his son Stephen ten years before he died, and the place deseended in the family in this way until 1823, when it was sold. In 1826 it was bought by the Maynard family, who called it Summer Hill Farm. The northwest part of Sudbury, including Assabet village and the northeast part of Stow, including the hill and the Gibson homestead, were incorporated April 19, 1871, as the town of Maynard.

The children of Deacon Timothy and Rebecca (Gates) Gibson were: Abraham, born in Stow, 1701, died there November 8, 1740; married Mary Wheel- er, born November 5. 1707, died in Stow, Jantary 15. 1793, daughter of Deliverance and Mary ( Davis) Wheeler; resided in Stow and Sudbury. 2. Captain Timothy, born in Stow, January 20, 1702-03. 3. Re- becca, born in Sudbury, March 19, 1703-04; married, May 4, 1727, Joseph Farnsworth, of Groton, born in Groton, February 26, 1698, died 1731, son of John and grandson of Matthias Farnsworth, pioneer. 4. John, captain, born in Sudbury, April 28, 1708, settled in Lunenburg, died there June 10, 1761 ; mar- ried at Lancaster, November 9. 1737, Elizabeth Hart- well, born 1715: married (second ), May 9, 1764, Jacob Gates, of Harvard, died February 1, 1792, daughter of Judge Edward and Sarah (Wilder) Hartwell, granddaughter of Edward Hartwell, born in England, settled in Coneord, Massachusetts. 5. Sarah, born in Sudbury, October 27, 1710, married (first) Thomas Willard, of Harvard, son of Heze- kiah and Anna ( Wilder) Willard, of Lancaster. 6. Samuel, born in Sudbury, August 27, 1713, died April II, 1746. 7. Stephen, born in Sudbury, March 1715, died young. 8. Harrington, born in Sudbury, March 22, 1717, died in Lunenburg, February 24, 1756; he died July 15, 1795, aged seventy-eight. 9. Stephen, deacon, born in Sudbury, June 6. 1719, died in Stow, October 23, 1806; married, 1744, Sarah Goss, daughter of John and Mary Goss; she was born in Lancaster, April 13, 1719, and died in Stow, October 26, 1802, aged eighty-four. 10. Isaac, born in Sudbury. April 27, 1721, lived in Stow, Fitchburg, Grafton, Vermont (originally Thomlinson), died in Grafton, Vermont, June 1, 1797, in his seventy- "seventh year; married at Lunenburg, February 4, 1744-5, Keziah, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Re- becca Johnson (Rebecca was descendant of Capt. Edward Johnson, author of "Wonder Working Providences of Zion's Saviour in New England") ; married (second), at Leominster, November 27, 1766, Mrs. Abigail ( Darby or Stearns) Bennett, who died at Grafton, Vermont, November 26, 1808, aged eighty-one years. 11. Mary, born in Sudbury, June 14, 1723. 12. Captain Reuben, born in Sudbury, Feb- ruary 14, 1725.

(IV) CAPTAIN REUBEN GIBSON, son of Timothy Gibson (3), born in Sudbury, February 14, 1725, died in Fitchburg, July 27, 1800, buried in the South Street burying ground; married, at Sudbury, November 13, 1746, Lois Smith, born in Sudbury, November 1, 1726, died in Fitchburg. November 22, 1816, (aged ninety-four as per stone, correet age was ninety as per church records), daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith, and granddaughter of John and Sarah Smith, of Sudbury.

Captain Gibson was one of the famous Gibson brothers of Lunenburg. Four of them settled there on Pearl Hill. Reuben had a farm of one hundred acres there before he was of age, deeded to him by his father, October 25, 1744. This homestead re- mained in his family until 1863, when it was sold. The old house was torn down in 1892. The Gibson boys were famous for their size, great strength and physical courage. They were remarkable also for their enterprise and force of character. They were leaders in Lunenburg and Fitchburg after the new town was formed. Captain Reuben Gibson was on the first board of selectmen of Fitchburg, 1764. The first election was on March 5, 1764. He served the town as highway surveyor 1767; was one of the thirteen largest taxpayers in 1771 and afterward a

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member of the committee of correspondence, elected December 1, 1773; constable, 1775; chairman com- mittee of safety and correspondence, 1776; tax col- lector, 1781. He was captain of the militia com- pany, as the records of the town show, after 1772; was one of the five Gibsons among the forty-four Fitchburg minutemen in 1775; was a soldier in the Revolution, sergeant in Capt. Ebenezer Woods' company, Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment of militia, April 19, 1775, in the Lexington call. His will, dated May 10, 1797, was allowed September 2, 1800. The children of Captain Reuben and Lois ( Smith) Gibson were: 1. Lois, born August 15, 1747, at Lunenburg, died in Ashburnham, May 27, 1820; married in Fitchburg, June 12, 1772, Joshua Billings, of Cambridge Farms, part of Ashburnham, died there May 18, 1799. 2. Reuben, born in Lunenburg, September 21, 1748. 3. Abraham, born in Lunen- burg, August 15. 1752, died in Leicester, April 10, 1829; married Mary Brown (born in Lexington, May 5, 1758, died in Goshen, Vermont, March 3, 1835), daughter of Daniel and Anna (Bright) Brown, of Lexington; a Revolutionary soldier. 4. Thomas, born November 19, 1753, died in Ash- burnham, June 11, 1841 ; married, April 1, 1783, Re- lief Hartwell, of Fitchburg; she died October 19. 1849, aged eighty-five; daughter of Phineas and Mary (Pierce) Hartwell; a soldier in the Revolution. 5. Harrington (or Arrington), born in Lunenburg, August 14, 1756, died in Fitchburg, October 12, 1847, settled on Pearl Hill; was in the Fitchburg train band in 1775. 6. Bezaleel, baptized August 29, 1761, died in Ashburnham, November 17, 1840, married at Acton, November 23, 1784, Lois Billings, of Acton (baptized July 21, 1832), died in Ashburnham, Octo- ber 27, 1854; was a soldier in the Revolution. 7. Is- rael, born at Fitchburg, December 8, 1765, died April 14, 1818, buried at Laurel Hill cemetery ; married (published March 10, 1797), Lucinda Whiting (born in Hanover, Massachusetts, died in Fitchburg, July 15, 1870, aged ninety-three years). 8. Ephraim, born in Fitchburg, November 10, 1768, died there September 7, 1844; married, November 18, 1795, Ly- dia Kinsman (born in Ipswich, July 15, 1770, died in Fitchburg, September 4, 1863, aged ninety-one years), daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Kinsman, of Ipswich and Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

(V) Reuben Gibson, son of Captain Reuben Gibson (4), was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, September 21, 1748, died in Fitchburg, April 20, 1836. He married, February 8, 1774. his second cousin, Betty Gibson, born in Stow, June 6, 1750, died September 12, 1824 (her name is given Betsey on her gravestone), daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Forristall) Gibson. He was a soldier in the Revo- lution, a private in Captain Ebenezer Woods' com- pany, Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, and was with the company when it marched to Lexington, April 19, 1775. He was a man of great strength and cour- age. It is said of him that he and his cousin "Jake" set at defiance the soldiers sent to arrest them as suspects at the time of Shay's Rebellion. He held many offices of honor and trust; was surveyor and collector of highway taxes, 1778; on school com- mittee 1783, 1786 and 1788. He acquired consider- able real estate in Fitchburg, besides the forty-nine acres he bought of his father, March 22, 1777. He had half a pew in the meeting house in Ashburnham. His will was dated November 4, 1831, and proved June 2, 1836. He left a small legacy to each of his children, and the residue to his eight surviving daughters and the three children of his deceased

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. IV, Part 2

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 710

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 710