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(III) "Deacon" Daniel Heywood, son of John (2), born 1696, settled at Worcester, and married Hannah Ward, September 25. 1718, at Worcester. Hannah was the daughter of Obediah Ward and sis- ter of Daniel Ward. She died at Worcester, Feb- ruary 24, 1760, aged sixty-four years. Daniel and Hannah had seven children: I. Mary, born May, 1719, married Captain Jemison. and died September 19, 1782, aged sixty-nine years. 2. Rebecca, born July 25, 1725. married Noah Jones, of Worcester, and died January II, 1771, aged forty-six years; he died July 6, 1781, aged seventy years. 3. Daniel, born 1727, married Anna Wait, at Worcester. De- cember 13, 1753, and died June 30. 1756, aged twenty- nine years-left a son Daniel, to whom his father bequeathed most of his estate. 4. Sarah. born Feb. ruary, 1723, married Asa Moore, of Worcester. and died there. December I3, 1760. Mr. Moore then married Lucy who died March II, 1801. He died June 30, 1801, aged eighty years. 5. Abel, born 1729. married Hannah Goddard. from Brookline, and died at Worces- ter, November 8, 1760, aged forty years. His son Abel married Abigail Chamberlain, of Worces- ter. April 27, 1780. 6. Abigail, horn 1785. married Palmer Goulding, Jr., of Worcester, where she died May 26. 1825, aged thirty-five years. Palmer Gould- ing was the son of Palmer and Abigail (Rice)
Goulding, both of Sudbury, and were married De- cember 4, 1722. 7. Grace.
(IV) Hon. Benjamin Heywood, son of Phineas Heywood (3), born October 25, 1746, settled in Worcester, and from 1802 to 1811 was judge of the court of common pleas. He died in Worcester, De- cember 16, 1816, aged seventy years. His wife died June 18, 1839.
Mr. Heywood was the "son of a respectable farmer of Shrewsbury." At the common age he was bound apprentice to a housewright and after serving his time began carpenter business on his own account, working at it two years. Love of let- ters and a confidence of capacity for wider useful- ness induced him to throw aside the hammer and chisel and devote himself assiduously to preparations for collegiate education, and he entered Harvard College in 1771. He was proficient in mathematics. The young men of the college formed a military company styled the Marti-Mecurian Band. Mr. Hey- wood was ensign of this corps on April 19, 1775. and with some of his comrades participated in the perils of that never-to-be-forgotten day. Among the tumult of arms the pursuits of literature were suspended, the students were dismissed, and the halls occupied by troops. The senior class of which our subject was a member did not return to the seminary' although their degrees were conferred in course. Heywood at once entered the service of his coun- try, receiving the commission of a lieutenant May, 1775. In 1776 he was promoted to captain and he retained that rank throughout the revolution. He was made a paymaster. He was at the capture of Burgoyne, and partook of the suffering and shared in the glorious victories of the army. Another proof of his ability was the fact of his being appointed on a committee to adjust the accounts of the officers of Massachusetts. It was a long drawn-out negotia- tion, and was finally justly settled, and was con- cluded by a voluminous report by Captain Heywood. Upon the disbanding of the army he was retained some time in settling the complicated affairs of the war. After peace had finally been restored he re- turned home and married Melitable Moore (adopted daughter of Nathaniel Moore), who was the real daughter of Elisha Goddard, of Sutton, Massachu- setts. Being a man of good judgment he was often sought after as arbitrator. executor, and guardian. For many years he was active magistrate of Worces- ter county, and a member of the board of trustees of the Leicester Academy. He was twice chosen an elector of president and vice-president of the United States. By the general court he was ap- pointed trustee of the Hassanamisset Indians. and was an officer of many charitable and religious asso- ciations. His was a life of usefulness well spent, and his character was untarnished. His children were: 1. Mchitable. died September 18, 1839. 2. Nathaniel Moore, horn 1788, married Caroline Sum- mer, of Boston. 1816, and died at Richmond, Vir- ginia. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Benjamin Franklin, of whom later. 5. Joseph. 6. Lucy. 7. Nancy.
(V) Dr. Benjamin F. Heywood, son of Hon. Benjamin Heywood (4), born April 24, 1702, mar- ried (first) Nancy Green, and (second) her sister. Elizabeth Green. Benjamin F. was born in the city of Worcester, and graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1812. He attended the medical lectures at Dartmouth and Yale Colleges, taking the degree of M. D. at Yale in 1815. He formed a part- nership with Dr. John Green, in the practice of
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medicine, which existed twenty years. Dr. Heywood was councillor and censor of the State Medical So- ciety, and became a member of the Society of Cin- cinnati in 1859, in the right of his father, who was an original member. As a physician he was very popular among his patients. He had the confidence of his fellow citizens, being sent repeatedly to both branches of the city government. He was admitted a member of the Fire Society in July, 1817, and re- mained an active member more than fifty-two years, and until his death, December 7, 1869.
By his first marriage he had the following named children: 1. Benjamin, horn July 16, 1821. 2. Caro- line. born August 7, 1823. 3. Frederick, born June 30, 1825. 4. John Green, born May 24, 1828, died 1833. By his second wife (Elizabeth Green) Dr. Benjamin F. Heywood had: 5. Nathaniel Moore, born July 20, 1839, died August 7, same year. 6. Nancy, born December 24, 1840; she married Dr. Griswold, and their children were: 1. Arthur Hey- wood, born December 14, 1879, graduated from Har- vard College, class of 1902, and now a medical student in Johns Hopkins University. 2. Ralph Mansell, born August 8, 1881, graduated from United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and now with the South Atlantic Squadron in Cuban waters. 7. John Green, born March 1, 1843, attended the public schools of Worcester and entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard at, the age of eighteen years, and graduated with the class of 1864, the year of his attaining his majority. He was one of the founders of the Quinsigamond Boat Club in 1860. In 1896 he was one of the organizers of the Worcester Museum of Art, and has been a man- aging director from that time. He was admitted to the Society of the Cincinnati in 1871, and became a member of the standing committee in 1890. In reli- gion he was reared a Unitarian. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. Ile has no dis- position for official preferment. 8. Mary Elizabeth. born September 27, 1845, became the wife of Captain H. L. Stone; they were the parents of the following named children: I. Elizabeth, deceased. 2. Mary Chandler, born February 28, 1873. a graduate of Smith College, class of 1895. 3. William Henry, born March 4, 1875, unmarried. 4. Benjamin Hey- wood Stone, born April 21, 1876, a graduate of Har- vard. class of 1898.
CHARLES HENRY GIBSON. John Gibson (I), the first American ancestor of Charles Henry Gibson, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was the pro- genitor of the Fitchburg family of this surname, a family that ranks among the most distinguished as well as the oldest in the city.
John Gibson came to Cambridge in New England as early as 1631. He was born in England in 1601 and died in Cambridge in 1694, aged ninety-three years. He was admitted a freeman in Cambridge, May 17, 1637. His home lot was granted in the west end of the town, August 4, 1634. It was lo- cated between Harvard and Brattle squares, in what is now an important business district, and extended to the Charles river. His house stood at the end of what is now Sparks street, not far from Brattle street, on the road to Watertown and was built before October 10, 1636.
He was doubtless a member of Rev. Mr. Hooker's Church and belonged later to the succeeding so- .ciety of First Church, February 1, 1636, under the pastorate of Rev. Thomas Shepard. He held minor
town offices. His wife and daughter accused Wini- fred Holman, widow, and her daughter of witch- craft and the charge not being sustained they were sted for damages by the Holmans. For particulars of this interesting case, see sketch of the Holman family. Curiously enough descendants of these two parties are living neighbors in Fitchburg at the present time. Gibson paid a small fine.
He married ( first) Rebecca -, who was buried December 1, 1661, at Roxbury. He married (sec- ond), July 24, 1662, Joan Prentice, widow of Henry Prentice, a pioneer at Cambridge. The children of John and Rebecca Gibson were: Rebecca, born in Cambridge, 1635, married Charles Stearns, of Wa- tertown; she thought she was bewitched by the Holmans; Mary, born May 29, 1637, died at Rox- bury, December 6, 1674. married John Ruggles; Martha, born April 29, 1639, married, November 3, 1657, Jacob Newell, of Roxbury; John, Jr., born about 1641, married Rebecca Harrington; Samuel, born October 28, 1644, died at Cambridge, March 20, 1709-10.
(11) John Gibson, son of John Gibson (1), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1641, and died October 15, 1679. He married, December 9, 1668, Rebecca Harrington, who was born in Cam- bridge, the daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Cut- ler ) Harrington, or Errington, as it was spelled and perhaps pronounced. Her father was a blacksmith, born at New Castle-on-Tyne, and died in Cambridge, May 9, 1677. Her mother died in Cambridge, 1697.
John Gibson settled in Cambridge on the home- stead deeded to him by his father, November 30, 1668. He also was involved in the trial of his fam- ily for calling the Holmans witches and had to acknowledge his error in court or pay a fine. He took the cheaper course. He was a soldier in King Philip's war under Captain Thomas Prentice. He was in the Swanzey fight June 28. 1675, and was in the Mt. Hope expedition later. He was also in Lieutenant Edward Oake's troop scouting near Marl- boro, March 24, 1675-6, and in Captain Daniel Henchman's company, September 23, 1676, which marched to Hadley in early summer time. He was possibly the John Gibson in Captain Joshua Scot- tow's company at Black Point, near Saco, Maine, September, 1677, where the garrison was captured the following month by the Indians. He was ad- mitted a freeman October II, 1670, and held a num- ber of minor offices. He died of small pox when only thirty-eight years old.
The children of John and Rebecca Gibson were: Rebecca, born at Cambridge, October 4, 1669, died at Woburn, June 10, 1698, unmarried; Martha, mar- ried twice; Mary, married at Concord, October 17, 1700, Nathaniel Gates, of Stow; Timothy, settled in Sudbury and Stow.
(III) Timothy Gibson, son of John Gibson, Jr. (2), was born in Cambridge, 1679, and died at Stow, July 14, 1757. His grave is in lower village grave- yard in the eastern part of Stow. He married (first), in Concord, November 17, 1780, Rebecca Gates, of Stow, who was born in Marlboro, July 23, 1682, and died in Stow, January 21, 1751. She was the daughter of Stephen, Jr., and Sarah ( Wood- ward) Gates. He married (second) (published No- vember 30), 1755, Mrs. Submit Taylor, of Sud- bury, who died at Stow, January 29, 1759, in her seventy-fifth year. Both wives are buried by his side.
Deacon Gibson was brought up by Selectman
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Abraham Holman, of Cambridge, son of William and Winifred Holman, who were involved in the law suit with his parents and grandparents. In 1689 the Holmans removed to Stow and he went with them, living in the family until 1703, when they removed to the northwest part of Sudbury and set- tled on the Assabet river on a sixty acre farm bounded on the west by the Stow line, on the east by the road from Concord to Jewell's Mill. Hol- man died in 1711. Gibson was a prominent citizen of Sudbury and owned land also at Lunenburg, laid to him and his son Timothy. Neither ever lived at Lunenburg, however, but John, Arrington, Isaac and Reuben, his younger sons, settled there, and all were noted as men of great personal prowess. He removed to Stow between December 6, 1728, and February 24. 1731-2, and was selectman there in 1734-35-36-39. His homestead in Stow lay on the south slope of Pomciticut hill and was deeded ten years before his death to his son Stephen and was passed down in the family until 1823. This farm is now in the town of Maynard, which was formed from Sudbury and Stow in 1871.
The children of Deacon Timothy Gibson were : Abraham, born in Stow, 1701, died there November 8, 1740; Captain Timothy, born January 20, 1702-3 ; Rebecca, born in Sudbury, March 19, 1703-4, mar- ried, May 4, 1727, Joseph Fransworth, of Groton; John (captain), born in Sudbury, April 28, 1708, settled in Lunenburg; Sarah, born October 27, 1710, married (first ) Thomas Willard, of Harvard; Sam- uel, born August 27, 1713, died April II, 1746; Stephen, born March 14, 1715, died young; Arring- ton, born March 22, 1717, died at Lunenburg, July 15, 1795, aged seventy-eight years ; Stephen, deacon, born at Sudbury, June 16, 1719, died at Stow, Oc- tober 23, 1806, married Sarah Goss; Isaac, born at Sudbury, April 27, 1721, lived at Stow and Fitch- burg and Grafton, Vermont (originally Thomlin- son, New Hampshire, and Vermont), where he died June 1, 1797; Mary, born June 14, 1723; Captain Reuben, of whom later.
(IV) Captain Reuben Gibson, youngest child of Timothy Gibson (3), was born in Sudbury, Feb- ruary 14, 1725, and died at Fitchburg, July 27, 1800. He is buried in the South street burying ground. Ile married at Sudbury, November 13, 1746, Lois Smith, who was born in Sudbury, November 1, 1726, and died at Fitchburg, November 20, 1816, aged ninety years. She was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith, and granddaughter of John and Sarah ( Ilunt) Smith, of Sudbury.
Captain Gibson was one of the famous Gibson brothers, four of whom settled in Lunenburg. He left Stow and settled on Pearl hill, Lunenburg, be- fore he was of age. His father deeded to him a hundred acres of land, October 25, 1744. His old homestead was sold by his descendants in 1863 and the old house was taken down in 1892. It was in that part of Lunenburg which became Fitchburg. He was a prominent man in the new town of Fitchburg, was on the first board of selectmen in 1764, was highway surveyor in 1767, and was one of the largest taxpayers in 1771. He was on the committee of safety and correspondence in 1773 and chairman in 1776. He was constable in 1775 and collector of taxes in 1781. He was captain of the military company as early as 1772. He was one of the five Gibsons among the forty-four minute men who marched at the Lexington call in 1775. He was sergeant of Captain Ebenezer Woods' com-
pany, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment of militia, April 19, 1775. His will was dated May 10, 1797. and allowed September 2, 1800.
The children of Captain Reuben and Lois Gibson were: Lois, born August 15, 1747, at Lunenburg, died in Ashburnham, May 27, 1820; married Joshna Billings, of Cambridge Farms; Reuben, born at Fitchburg, September 21, 1748; Abraham, born at Fitchburg, August 15, 1752, died at Leicester, April 10, 1829; was a revolutionary soldier ; Thomas, born November 19, 1753, died at Aslıburnham, June II, 1841, married Relief Hartwell; Arrington, born Au- gust 14, 1756, died at Fitchburg, October 12, 1847, lived in the Pearl hill homestead; Bezaleel, bap- tized August 29. 1,01, died at Ashby, November 17, 1840; married Lois Billings, of Acton; was sol- dier in the revolution; Israel, of whom later; Ephraim, born at Fitchburg, November 10, 1768, died September 7. 1844, married Lydia Kinsman.
(V) Israel Gibson, seventh child of Captain Reuben Gibson (4), was born in Fitchburg, Mass- achusetts, December 8, 1765, and died there April 14, 1818. He is buried in the Laurel Hill cemetery. He married (published March 10) 1797, Lucinda Whiting, of Hanover, Massachusetts, who died at Fitchburg, July 15, 1870, aged ninety-three years, seven months, seven days.
The children of Israel and Lucinda Gibson were : I. Israel, born in Lincoln, March 30, 1798, died April 14, 1798. 2. Polly, born at Ashby, March 16, 1800, died March 27, 1800. 3. Lucinda, born at Ashby, November 7, 1801, died at Fitchburg, January 17, 1880, unmarried. 4. Lemuel Whiting, of whom later. 5. Margaret, born at Ashby, July 20, 1806, died at Fitchburg, July 27, 1861, unmarried. 6. Bethana, born at Ashby, November 3, 1808, died young. 7. Israel, born April 24, 1811. 8. Arrington, born at Ashby, November 17, 1813, died at Fitchburg. De- cember 30, 1863; married, April 14, 1834, Saralı Brown, who was born February 16, 1815, the daugh- ter of Amos and Sally (Mclntire) Brown; they lived on Pearl Hill ard sold the old house of Cap- tain Gibson, built about 1746; they had twelve chil- dren : Sarah Elizabeth, born December 7, 1834, mar- ried Oscar Davis; Rosella Jewett, born December 13, 1836, married Sedney Sibley; Artemas Adams, born November 28, 1838; Marietta, born January 3, 1811, married George Lincoln Chipman; Harriet Ann, born May 28, 1843, married Henry Lyman Sheldon ; Caroline Belinda, born June 9, 1845, mar- ried Joseph Augustine Tufts; Alvin B., born Feb- ruary 18, 1847, died September 1, 1847: Helen. born September 29, 1848, married Willard H. Rice ; Char- les Abbott, of Jersey City, New Jersey, born January 27, 1851, married Mary Jane Wood; Cherrie Mal- vina, born February 22, 1855, married Walter R. Taylor ; Everett Arrington, born September 6, 1857, married Mary L. Estabrook; Adelaide Florence, born May 5, 1862, married Herbert L. Chase. 9. Reuben, of Fitchburg, New Salem and Troy, New Hampshire, and Springfield, Vermont, born in Fitchburg, De- cember 8, 1816, married (first), May 21, 1840, Louisa Pierce ; he married (second), July 16, 1843, Mary Maynard, who died at Fitchburg, December 24, 1845, aged twenty-two years; he married (third) Sarah A. Ilarris; (fourth) Eunice Crane, who died at New Salem ; (fifth) Hitty - , of New Salem, Mass- achusetts, who died in Troy; he married (sixth) Alcasta _ , who died in Felchville, Vermont ; he married (seventh and last) Mars Giddings, a widow; he was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting
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October 17, 1862, as private in Company E, Fifty- third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, discharged September 2, 1863. (Note that his un- cles served in the revolution),
(VI) Lemuel Whiting Gibson, fourth child of Israel Gibson (5), was born in Ashby, Massachu- setts, July 1, 1804, died May 26, 1856. He was brought up and educated in Fitchburg. He married (published February 3.) 1836, Jane G. Whittemore, of Fitchburg, who was born December 11, 1809.
The children of Lemuel Whiting and Jane E. Gibson, all born in Fitchburg, were: 1. William Ad- dison, born November 20, 1837, married, June 27, 1861, Sarah A. Ellenwood, and they have one child, Florence Maud, born Jannary, 1876, married, May 6, 1897, Charles Howard Watson, of Fitchburg. 2. Appleton Moss, of Norfolk, New York, born at Fitchburg, January 5, 1841, married (first), July 4, 1868, Nellie Forbush, of Orange; married (second), November 9, 1885, Lucy Garno, who was born De- cember, 1859, and they have four children : Fred, born December, 1886; Mary, born August, 1888; Murtie, born September, 1892; Everett, born Febru- ary, 1895. 3. Mary Jane, born June 28, 1842, mar- ried, August II, 1865. Waldo Whitman, of Fitch- burg, who was born December 8, 1842, and had one child, Emmogene Whitman, born November 13, 1867. 4. Lemuel \V., born June 5, 1844, married, November 20, 1875, Elizabeth Whittemore, who was born June, 1842, and they have a son, George Lemuel, born in West Fitchburg, August 25, 1877. 5. Daniel O., born June 25, 1846, married, March 3, 1869, Adeline J. Robinson, and they have five children, all born in Fitchburg. viz .: Fannie Jane, born October 18, 1869, married, January 20, 1887, Joseph J. Sylcox, of Worcester ; Addie Josephine, born July 23, 1872, married, February 28, 1892, Frank M. Petts ; George, born August 17, 1876; Carrie Ida, born December 11, 1877, married, December 6, 1893, Arthur E. Dan- iels; Harry Whiting. 6. Charles Henry, of whom later. 7. Susan A., born March 2, 1850, married, May 12, 1867, George Noah Jackman, of Fitchburg, and they have three children: Hattie M. Jackman, born 1867, married, December 15, 1891, Walter A. Hardy, of Fitchburg; they have a daughter, Carrie Hardy, born February 3, 1892; Mabel Jackman, born April 8, 1871 ; Stella J. Jackman, born 1873, married, 1895, Frank Rice. 8. Ellen E., born May 22, 1852, married, June 16, 1872, Alfred N. Wheeler, of Ashby, Massachusetts, and Nashua, New Hampshire, and they have : Helson A. Wheeler, born at Ashby, Octo- ber 27, 1875; Effie Sleepers, of Athol.
(VII) Charles Henry Gibson, sixth child of Lemuel Whiting Gibson (6), was born in Fitch- burg, Angust 12, 1848. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native city. When a young man he was engaged in the lumber business. He was en- gineer in a chair factory in the town of Westminster and later worked for the Heywoods in the Fitchburg factory. For a number of years, however, lie has given his attention to real estate and has built a large number of houses for renting in Fitchburg. He is occupied in the care of this property. He is one of the largest owners of small houses in the city. Mr. Gibson is an Independent Republican in politics and never cared for public office. He at- tends the Second Advent Church.
He married, December 18, 1872, Adah A. Kelley, daughter of George W. and Emeline (Jones) Kelley, of Fitchburg. Their only child is Herbert C., born in Fitchburg, October 22, 1879, married Martha
Rabsall, and they have one child, Charles F. Gibson, born Hudson, October 28, 1903.
OLIVER B. WYMAN. The origin of the sur- name Wyman is German, although the American families are descended from English stock of ancient pedigree. The English family Wymond is evidently of the same original stock, as the coat of arms is the same. The German spelling was Weymann, found in many of the early records in America as well as England.
(1) Francis Wyman, father of the immigrant ancestor of Oliver B. Wyman, of Shrewsbury, Mass- achusetts, and the progenitor of many of the Ameri- can Wymans, was born in England and lived at West Mill, near Buntington, Hertfordshire, all his life. He paid tithes at West Mill. The Genealogist Waters established the fact that he was the father of the American emigrants. He married, May 2, 1617, Elizabeth Richardson, doubtless of the Richardson family, some of whom settled in Woburn, Massa- chusetts. She was buried at West Mill, June 22, 1630. His second wife also was buried there. July, 1656, and he was buried September 19, 1658. The deaths can be reckoned within three days of the in- terment. Children of Francis and Elizabeth Wy- man were: I. Thomas, baptized at West Mill, April 5, 1618, married Ann Godfrey, settled in New Eng- land. 2. Francis, baptized February 24, 1619, settled in New England. 3. John, see forward. 4. Richard, baptized March 14. 1623. 5. William, baptized Au- gust 31, 1628, buried there July, 1630. ( See page 46. Vol I, N. E. Register.)
(II) John Wyman, son of Francis Wyman (I), and the immigrant ancestor of Oliver B. Wyman, was baptized at West Mill, Hertfordshire, England, February 3. 1621, and was doubtless born about a month previously. He was one of the early settlers at Charlestown in New England. His name appears on the records as early as 1640, together with his brother Francis, who is associated closely with him through life. He was a subscriber at Charlestown, December, 1640, to town orders for Woburn, which was set off from Charlestown. He removed to Wo- burn soon after and his name is on the county tax list there under date of September 8, 1645. He was a tanner by trade. He was admitted a freeman May 26, 1647. He deposed in court, December IS, 1660, that his age was about thirty-nine years, which would make his birth and baptism closely corres- pond. He died May 9, 1684.
He married, November 5, 1644, Sarah Nutt, daughter of Miles Nutt,
an early settler at Watertown, who removed to Woburn. She married (second) Thomas Fuller, of Woburn, August 25, 1684. Children of Jolin and Sarah Wyman were : I. Samuel. born September 20, died 1646. 2. John, Jr., born March 26, 1648, died 1676, mentioning in his will housing and land given him by his grandfather Nutt. 3. Sarah, born April 15, 1650; married, December 15, 1669. Joseph Wal- ker, of Billerica : she died January 26, 1729. 4. Solo- mon, born February 26, 1651-52, died September 22, 1725. 5. David, born April 7, 1654. 6. Elizabeth, born January 18, 1655-56, died November 21, 1658. 7. Bathsheba, born October 6, 1658. married Nath- aniel Fay, of Billerica, May 30, 1677; died July 9, 1730. 8. Jonathan, born July 13, 1661. 9. Seth, see forward. 10. Jacob.
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