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(III) Lieutenant Seth Wyman, ninth child of John Wyman (2), was born in Woburn, Massachu-
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setts, August 3, 1663. He settled there. He mar- ried. December 17, 1685, Esther Johnson, daughter of Major William Johnson. She died May 31, 1742, and he died October 26, 1715. Their children were: I. Seth, see forward. 2. Esther, born October 25, 1688. 3. Sarah, born January 17, 1690-91, married Caleb Bryant. 4. Jonathan, born November 5, 1693, died January 19, 1693-94. 5. Susanna, born June 30, 1695. 6. Abigail, born February 6, 1698-99, married, January 19, 1725, Timothy Brooks; she died March 16, 1780. 7. Love, born February 14, 1701-02, mar- ried Josiah Wyman.
(IV) Ensign Seth Wyman, eldest child of Lieu- tenant Seth Wyman (3), was born in Woburn, Mass- achusetts, September 13, 1686, probably on the old Wyman place in what is now the west part of Burl- ington, Massachusetts, a farm bequeathed to his father by the immigrant grandfather Wyman. He was in the famous Lovewell fight with the Indians in 1725 and had the conduct of the company after the commander was shot. He was one of the nine who escaped serious wounds out of the thirty-three in the company. We quote from the history of Wo- burn: "At Lovewell's Fight he greatly distinguished himself by his self-possession, fortitude and valor. All his superior officers having been killed or mor- tally wounded early in the engagement, he had the command of our men almost the whole time of its continuance and by his prudent management and courageous example he was doubtless mainly instru- mental under God for preserving so many of them as there were from being utterly cut off. Seeing them in danger of becoming dispirited in the contest in view of greatly superior numbers and other ad- vantages of the enemy, he animated them to action (it was afterwards reported by Eleazer Davis, who was one of them) by assuring them 'that the day would be their own if their spirits did not flag,' and so encouraged by these exhortations and so briskly did they fire in consequence that several discharged their muskets between 20 and 30 times apiece."
Immediately after the return of the survivors Wyman was honored by Lieutenant-Governor Dum- mer, then commander-in-chief of Massachusetts, with a captain's commission. He also received from his fellow-citizens, in testimony of the public apprecia- tion of his valor, a silver-hilted sword, but he did not live long to enjoy the honors that came to him. To encourage volunteers to enlist against the In- dians the general court offered four shillings wages per day in addition to the bounty of one hundred pounds for every scalp. Many enlisted and marched under command of Captain Wyman and others, but the extreme heat and illness effectually stopped their progress. Several died on their return, among them Captain Wyman, September 5, 1725, in his thirty-eighth year.
lle married, January 26, 1715-16, Sarah Ross, of Billerica. She died November 5, 1727. Children of Captain Seth and Sarah Wyman were : Seth, born November 5, 1715. 2. Ross, see forward. 3. Peleg, born August 20, 1719. 4. Hezekiah, born Au- gust 5. 1720. 6. Sarah, born September 20, 1722.
(V) Colonel Ross Wyman, second child of Cap- tain Seth Wyman (4), was born in Woburn, Au- gust 16, 1717. He was a farmer and gunsmith. In 1746 he removed with his wife and elder children to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He made muskets for General Artemas Ward, who commanded the Amer- ican army at Cambridge until the appointment of George Washington. Wyman was the captain of
the Shrewsbury Artillery Company of Minute-men. He was intensely patriotic and even refused to work for Tories. When he was in Boston he was attacked once by a press gang and narrowly escaped having to serve the hated British on a man-of-war. He was a big, athletic man and made a stout resistance. While the combat was still in doubt lie came within reach of a fish stand and seized a big cod fish, with which he belabored his antagonists. The slapping of the slimy tail of the cold fish was too much for the gang and they gave up their attempt to enlist Wy- man in the King's navy. He was an influential cit- izen of Shrewsbury.
He married (first) Jefts ; (second) Dinah Taylor, daughter of William Taylor, April 10, 1751. She died November 15, 1759, aged thirty- two years, eight months. He married ( third) Sarah Haggett, widow of Bradford Haggett, in 1761. She died November 30, 1808, aged eighty-eight years. Captain Wyman died September 11, 1808, aged nine- ty-two years. Children of Captain Ross and his first wife were: 1. Levi, born in Woburn, settled in Hub- bardston. 2. Elizabeth, married, November 23, 1769, John Fessenden, of Rutland, who served in the general court in both houses; their children were: John, born 1770; Wyman, born 1772; Eliza- beth, born 1775: Stephen, born 1777; Relief, born 1780; Thomas, born 1783. The children of Colonel Ross and Dinah Wyman were: 3. Seth, born Decem- ber II, 1751, died June 6, 1752. 4. Sarah. born June 3, 1753, married Thaddeus Estabrook, of Rutland, December 31, 1771. 5. Catherine, born December 9, 1755, married Jonathan Harrington. 6. Seth, see forward. The children of Colonel Ross and Sarah were : 7. Olive, born about 1762, married, 1782, John L. Whitney. 8. Susanna, born 1764, baptized Sep- tember 30, died young.
(V) Colonel Seth Wyman, sixth child of Colo- nel Ross Wyman (5), was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, March 5, 1758. He removed from Shrewsbury to Buckland, Massachusetts, but return- ed after a few years to Shrewsbury, about 1788. He had a farm and built the grist mill and saw mill. He was colonel of the militia, and selectman of the town. He was a large lumber dealer. He married, 1782, Mary Brown, of Ipswich, now New Ipswich, New Hampshire, a sister of Mrs. Simon Maynard. She died January 15, 1820, aged seventy-one years. He died on the old homestead at Shrewsbury, De- cember 29. 1827, aged sixty-nine years, nine months. Children of Colonel Seth and Mary Wyman were : 1. Sarah, born at Buckland, June 9, 1784, married Sylvanus Belling, Jr. 2. Ross, born in Buckland, July 7, 1785, died unmarried in Shrewsbury, March 2, 1834. 3. Seth, Jr., see forward. 4. Oliver, born in Shrewsbury, April 9, 1789. 5. Mary, born Febru- ary 28, 1791, married, 1815, Calvin How. 6. Clar- issa, born April 7, 1793, married William Johnson, of Shoreham, Vermont. 7. Levi, born November 25, 1795.
(VI) Seth Wyman, Jr., third child of Colonel Seth Wyman (6), was born in Buckland, Massa- chusetts, July 23, 1787. He was for several years engaged in mercantile business, but after the death of his father he bought the interests of the other heirs in the old homestead and conducted the farm the remainder of his life. In addition he carried on an extensive business in cattle, buying from the farmers in that section of the state and selling in the Brighton market, near Boston, formerly the cen- tre of interests for all stock raisers in New England.
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He was vigorous, active and enterprising even up to the time of his death at the age of seventy-seven years, in 1893.
He married, November 28, 1816, at Shrewsbury, Lucy Baker, born there August 3, 1794, daughter of John and Lydia (Goulding) Baker, married, Decen- ber 12, 1793. Her father was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Baker and was born in Shrewsbury, December 29, 1768. Children of Seth, Jr., and Lucy Wyman were: I. John B., born July 12, 1817, re- moved to Illinois, where he superintended the con- struction of the Illinois Central Railroad; served several years as adjutant general of Illinois; was colonel of the Thirteenth Illinois Regiment in the civil war and while commanding a brigade at the siege of Vicksburg was shot from his horse and killed. 2. Charles Dexter, one of the pioneers in constructing telegraph lines, born September 12. 1820, died in Minnesota. 3. Jane Caroline, born September 6, 1822, married Henry Pratt, of Shrewsbury, where she died. 4. Nancy Baker (Anna), born June 28, 1824, married Augustus Irving, of Hartford, Con- necticut, for nearly three years the secretary of the American Legation at St. Petersburg during the Pierce administration; about the close of the year 1855 he resigned, left Russia, meeting his wife in Paris, and after travelling several weeks in France, England and Scotland they sailed, January 23, 1856, for New York on the ill-fated steamer "Pacific," and were never heard from again. 5. Oliver Brown, see forward. 6. Lucy Maria, born March 20, 1830; was teaching in a private school in St. Louis at the time of her death in 1864. 7. Seth Henry ( Henry S.), born August 17, 1832, was a pioneer in the railroad business ; died in Shrewsbury in 1866. 8. Mary Put- nam, born August 29, 1834. 9. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 8, 1837.
(VIII) Oliver Brown Wyman, fifth child of Seth Wyman (7), was born in Shrewsbury, Massa- chusetts, September 16, 1826. He owns and occupies the house built by his great-grandfather, Colonel Ross Wyman, who came to Shrewsbury in 1746. He was born on the old place and educated in the Shrewsbury public schools. Except for a period of six years he has always lived on the old homestead. . He was engaged when a young man with his brother, Charles Dexter Wyman, in constructing telegraph lines. Their headquarters were at Hartford, Con- necticut. He constructed the first telegraph line along the Fitchburg railroad, the lines from Burl- ington and from Rutland, Vermont, the Boston line from New London to Meriden, Connecticut, and others. He returned to Shrewsbury to live in 1850. In the following year he caught the gold fever and went to California, where he engaged in mining for a year and a half.
With the exception of fifteen months in the civil war in military service, Mr. Wyman has since been engaged in farming and lumbering. He buys wood lots in Shrewsbury and neighboring towns, cuts the timber and manufactures lumber in his saw mill for the local market. His farm is one of the best and certainly from a historic point of view one of the most interesting in the town. He has been very suc- cessful with his dairy and market gardening.
Mr. Wyman enlisted in 1863 in the Fifty-first Massachusetts Infantry and was mustered out in 1864 after serving under General Foster most of the time in North Carolina. In politics Mr. Wyman is a stalwart Republican, and has been the local leader of his party as chairman of the town committee.
He has been honored by his fellow-citizens with the various town offices and for a number of years was chairman of the board of selectmen. He has been on the public library committee for a number of years. In 1878 he was representative to the general court from the district of which Shrewsbury was a part. He served on the committee on parishes and religious societies. He is a member of the Grand Army, the Shrewsbury Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry, and of Montacute Lodge of Free Masons of Worcester.
He married, January 31, 1852, Hannah L. Carter, a descendant in the eighth generation of Rev. Thomas Carter, the first settled minister at Woburn. Their only surviving child is Agnes, born Septem- ber 14, 1854, resides at home with her parents.
ISAAC C. WRIGHT. John Wright (1), an carly settler in Charlestown, in New England, was the immigrant ancestor of Isaac C. Wright, of Fitchburg. He was settled there as early as 1640 and was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. He undoubtedly came from England. He removed to the adjoining town of Woburn, and became one of the most distinguished citizen of his time. He was deputy to the general court, select- man 1645-46-47-49-50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-60-61- 62-63-64-70. He was a commissioner of the rate in 1646 and 1671. He was deacon of the church from November 10, 1664, to his death. His wife Priscilla died at Woburn, April 10, 1687, and he died June 21, 1688, aged eighty-seven years. Their children : John, born in England about 1630, died April 30, 1714, of whom later; Joseph. died March 31, 1724, married Elizabeth Hassell; Ruth, born April 23, 1646, married Jonathan Knight; she died April 13, 1714: Deborah, born January 21, 1648-9: Sarah, born February 16, 1652-3, married Joshua Sawyer.
(Il) John Wright, eldest child of John Wright (1), was born in England about 1630 and brought to this country when a young child. He became one of the first settlers of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, near Concord, and his nine children were born there. He had a dispute with the church and was pre- sented by the grand jury in 1671 for refusing to take communion with the church. He was select- man of Chelmsford in 1690 and was tithingman of the Boggy Meadow End in 1692. His children as given in the Westford, Massachusetts, history differ some from the list in the Genealogical Register in 1883. Those given in both lists are included below. He made his will May 24, 1701. and it was proved November II, 1714. It names his wife and children. He died probably in Woburn, April 30. 1714, aged eighty-four years. His widow died April 6, 1726, aged eighty-four years. He married, 1661, Abigail
Warren, of Woburn. Their children: John, of whom later; Joseph, born 1663, settled in Chelms- ford: Ebenezer, born 1665. settled in Chelmsford; Jacob, born 1667: Abigail. born 1668; Priscilla, born 1671, married Samuel Damon; Josiah, born 1674. died January 22, 1746-7; Samuel. born 1683, removed to Groton : Lydia, born 1686, married Giles Roberts : Ruth : Deborah, married Nathaniel Pat- ten ; Josiah, died January 22, 1746-7.
(III) John Wright, eldest son of John Wright (2), was born in Chelmsford. 1662. and settled there. He married (first) Mary Stevens. He married (second) about 1702, Hannah Fletcher ; he died October 13, 1730. The children of John and Mary Wright were: Jacob, born 1692, died young ;
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Ebenezer, born 1693; Edward, born 1695; Jacob, born 1698; Henry, born 1700, of whom later; John (twin), born 1701, died young; Mary (twin), born 1701, died young. The children of John and Hannah Wright were: Hannah, born 1704; Thomas, born 1707 ; Simeon, born 1710.
(V) Henry Wright, third child of Henry Wright (3), was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 1700. He resided in that part of his native town that was set off as Westford. He was selectman and town treasurer of Westford and deacon of the church. He had eleven children. He died April 13, 1771. He married Esther Adams. Their chil- dren : Phebe, born 1728, married Benjamin Knowl- ton, 1750; Hannah, born 1730; Henry, Jr., of whom later; Sibyl, born 1734; Olive, born 1736; Rachel, born 1738; Eunice, born 1740; Philip, born 1742; Mary, born 1745; Sarah, born 1747; Huldah, born 1749. married Sampson Warren.
(V) Henry Wright, third child of Henry Wright (4), was born in Chelmsford in 1732. In 1770 he was of a committee of arrangements to build a new meeting house at Westford, and his son Elijah was the first child baptized in the new building. He served the town as treasurer and was on the committee of safety and correspondence during the revolution. In 1780 he removed to Ashby, where his descendants have been numerous. He married, January 17, 1753, Sarah Spalding, who died March 8. 1784. He married (second) Mercy - who died December 11, 1789. He married (third), 1790, Hannah Bounton. He died October 12, 1806. The children of Henry and Sarah Wright were: Mary, born 1753: Thankful, born 1754: Stephen, born 1758. removed to Littleton; Bridget. born 1760; Esther, born 1762; Rebecca. born 1763; Sarah, born 1765; Henry, born 1767; Hannah. born 1768; Abel, of whom later; Elijah, born 1771, first child bap- tized in the new church.
(VI) Abel Wright, tenth child of Henry Wright (5), was born in Westford, Massachusetts. 1770. He settled in the new town of Ashby near his na- tive place. He married (first) Hayward, of Acton, and (second) Rice, of Ashburnham. He was the father of nineteen children. Of these we have not all the names. Laban, one of his sons settled in Westminster. For Isaac, see forward.
(VII) Isaac Wright. one of the nineteen chil- dren of Abel Wright (6), was born in Ashby. Feb- ruary 12. 1799. He also settled in Ashby and was a farmer. He was prominent in town affairs and held several town offices. In politics he was an Old Line Whig. He taught singing schools in the vicinity.
He married Arvilla Kendall. daughter of Oliver Kendall, of Aslıby. They had six children. He died at Ashby. May 25. 1864. Their children : I. Isaac, of whom later. 2. Luke W., born Septem- ber 27, 1821. married. April 7. 1816. Abigail Esta- brook. daughter of Attai and Polly (Peirce) Esta- brook, of Lexington. where she was born December 16, 1819. The children of Luke W. an! Abigail were: Sarah Arvilla, born October 5. 1848: Abbie Elizabeth, born September 29, 1854. died January 22, 1850; Alice Arthmetta. born January 20. 1861. 3. Mrs. Lucy K. Damon. 4. Rebecca, married Dr. Ed- ward Page. of Charlestown. 5. Mrs. L. J. Kendall, of Waltham. 6. Mrs. E. L. Manchester, of Canton. Ohio.
(VIII) Isaac C. Wright. son of Isaac Wright (7), was born in Ashby, Massachusetts, December
21. 1824. He attended the public schools of Ashby until he was nine years old, when he went to Lex- ington to live with an uncle. He worked in Lexing- ton after leaving school and later was in Ashby. In 1851 he removed to Fitchburg and established a livery stable in the rear of the American House, which he carried on successfully for a number of years. In 1857 the firm of Wright, Kendall & Com- pany was formed to deal in hardware. Mr. Wright was the senior partner. Their store was near Water street on the present site of the Park build- ing until 1862. In 1863 he became interested in the sale of country produce. He went into the hard- ware business again, however, with George N. Proctor for his partner. Their store was at the corner of Main and Laurel streets. Fitchburg, where the E. M. Dickinson block is now. In 1866 the firm became Wright, Woodward & Company. The. partners of Mr. Wright were: F. F. Woodward and Charles L. Fairbanks and they and their suc- cessors have conducted one of the leading hardware stores of the vicinity since then. Mr. Woodward sold out to his partners and became the cashier of the Safety Fund National Bank, April 17, 1874. at the time it was organized. Mr. Fairbanks re- tired in 1876. Mr. Wright was then alone in busi- ness until 1883, when his son-in-law, M. B. Damon, who had been with him several years, was ad- mitted to partnership. The firm name continued to be I. C. Wright & Co. until 1892, when it became Damon & Gould. In 1896 the business was incor- porated under the name of Damon & Gould Com- pany. Mr. Wright retired from the business at the time the name was changed. Few men in Fitchburg were better known, and none were more generally esteemed than Mr. Wright.
He was interested also in public affairs. In politics he was a Republican. He was an alder- man in 1876 and a member of the city board of health in 1896 and 1897. At the time of his death, April 10, 1900, he was a representative to the gen- eral court from Fitchburg. He was a director of the Rollstone National Bank from 1883 to the time of his death, and a trustee of the Worcester North Savings Institute since 1873. He filled all these positions of honor and trust with scrupulous fidel- ity. He was a prominent Free Mason, a member of Aurora Lodge. Thomas Royal Arch Chapter. and of Jerusalem Commandery. Knights Templar. Ile attended the Rollstone Congregational Church.
He married. May 13, 1847, Lydia C. Burr. daughi- ter of Cushing Burr, of Ashby. The Burr family was one of the most distinguished and best known of that townl. Mr. and Mrs. Wright celebrated their golden wedding in 1897, an occasion that proved very interesting and enjoyable to them- selves, their relatives and friends. Their children are: Marcellus, died young ; Sarah F., married C. A. Gross : Ella S .. married Myron B. Damon ; Flora M., married A. A. Wyman.
FRANK L. MASON. Robert Mason (1), the immigrant ancestor of Frank L. Mason, late of Shrewsbury. Massachusetts, was born in England. He settled in this country, first in Roxbury, where his wife died April. 1637. He sold his place there November 24, 1640, having already moved to Ded- ham, Massachusetts. He died in Dedham. October 15, 1667. and his three sons administered the estate. They were born in England, viz .: John, Robert, settled at Medfield; Thomas, see forward.
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(II) Thomas Mason, son of Robert Mason (1), was born in England and came over with his father. He settled in Medfield in 1652. He married Margery Partridge, who died 1711. His house was destroyed by the Indians in King Philip's war, and he and two sons were killed in the meadow opposite his house. His wife and other children probably fled to the garrison house. Their children: 1. John, born November 3, 1655, killed November 29, 1679, when fighting Indians in Captain Swett's company. 2. Mary, born February 8, 1657-58, married, 1677, Abraham Harding. 3. Thomas, born July 2, 1660, killed by Indians. 4. Zechariah, horn December 29, 1662, killed by Indians. 5. Mehitable, born January 29, 1665-66, married Thomas Thurston. 6. Eben- ezer, see forward.
(III) Ebenezer Mason, son of Thomas Mason (2), was born at Medfield, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 12, 1669, died March 18, 1754. He was the only male of the family surviving the Indian war. He married, April 25, 1691, Hannah Clark, who died November 4. 1757. Ebenezer was selectman seven years, quartermaster in 1716 and deputy to the gen- eral court in 1730. The children: I. Hannah, born May 21, 1692. 2. Mehitable, born November 20, 1693. 3. Dorcas, born August 12. 1695. 4. Tabitha, born July 3, 1697. 5. Thomas, born April 22. 1699. 6. Ebenezer, born April 6, 1701. 7. Zechariah (twin), see forward. 8. Mary (twin), born Janu- ary 7. 1702-03. 9. Margery, born January 5, 1704-05. 10. Eliphalet, born August 30, 1706. 11. Jemima (twin), born September 29, 1707. 12. Kezia (twin), born September 29, 1707. 13. Joseph, born June I, 17II.
(IV) Zechariah Mason, son of Ebenezer Mason (3). was born in Medfield, January 7, 1702-03. He resided on the Mason homestead; married there, January 25, 1732-33. Sarah Rich. Children :
I. Zechariah. Jr., born October 15. 1733. 2. Amos, born April II. 1735- 3. John, see forward. 4. Margery, born November 26, 1744. 5. James, born September 21, 1750.
(V) John Mason, son of Zechariah Mason (4), was born in Medfield, June 22, 1738, died Septem- ber 15. 1829, aged ninety-one years. He resided on Bridge street, Medfield, on the Penniman home- stead. lately owned by Perley Case. He was a private in the revolution, in Captain Sabin Mann's company of Medfield in 1776. He was in the same company later in the Rhode Island campaign. He married Mercy Penniman, who died January 31, 1829, aged eighty-eight years. He sold out in Med- field in 1794 and with wife and three adult chil- dren removed Shrewsbury.
Children : 1. Gregory, see forward. 2. John, born August 17, 1775. 3. Sarah, born November 22, 1778, married, November 21, 1790, Nathaniel Brigham.
(VI) Gregory Mason, son of John Mason (5), was born in Medfield. November 17, 1773, married. November 16, 1797. Susanna Slocomh, daughter of George Slocomh. He resided on the homestead, Shrewsbury, and died there May 21, 1846. Their children: I. Charles, born March 7. 1708, married Nancy Harrington. daughter of Samuel Harrington, of Grafton: went to Michigan. 2. Vesty, born Feb- ruary 5. 1800, married Christopher Wright. of Northampton. April 20. 1831. 3. Margaret. born July 15. 1802. 4. Horace, born December 16. 1804. 5. James Penniman, born June 7, 1807, killed by the accidental discharge of his gun, Mav 31, 1821. 6. Henry Harding, see forward. 7. Albert Augustus,
born July 29, 1820 (name changed to James Penni- man after decease of his brother of that name), died November 16, 1825.
(VII) Henry Harding Mason, son of Gregory Mason (6), was born in Shrewsbury, January II, 1815. He was educated in the schools of his na- tive town and took up farming as his occupation. He became the owner of a large and valuable farm. He was a Republican in politics and a Congrega- tionalist in religion. He married Harriet Maria Howe, a native of Shrewsbury, daughter of Lyman Howe. She died in 1897. Their children: Ellen Maria, Jennie H., Walter H., Willis, Frank L., see forward.
(VHI1) Frank L. Mason, son of Henry Hard- ing Mason (7), was born in Shrewsbury, December 29, 1849, died there November 4, 1904. He began hiis education in the public schools of Shrewsbury, and completed his studies at the Leicester (Massa- chusetts) Academy. Reared upon a farm and realizing at an early age the numerous advantages accruing from the independent life of a New Eng- land farmer. he readily adopted agriculture as a permanent occupation, and made excellent use of every opportunity which tended to insure his ad- vancement. For years he was associated with his father in the management of the latter's extensive property, and his progressive tendencies were of a nature well calculated to preserve the high standard of cultivation which has always characterized the Mason estate. His ability as an agriculturist was recognized throughout this section of the county, and his death was the cause of general regret. Politically he was a Republican, but he had no ambition for holding office, believing, like his father. that the public service should be in the hands of those whose preference for it exceeded his own. In his religious faith he was a Congregationalist.
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