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(V11) George Willard Legg, son of Peter Legg (6), was born September 5, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of Uxbridge, and was a very
prominent citizen of that town for many years. 1Ie was on the board of overseers of the poor and on the board of selectmen for a long time. He was prominent in Grand Army circles. He enlisted 11 the civil war, August 12, 1862, in the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, under General Augustus Boon Reed Sprague, of Worcester, and served till the close of the war. Then he returned to his native town and settled on the homestead in the east part of the town and followed farming. He was one of the most prosperous and successful farmers of the section. He married, August 11, 1862, Etta Scott. Their children: I. Gertrude, born December 6, 1865, married Waldo P. Johnson and had one son, George W. Johnson. 2. Alice, born October 12, 1870, married William Brown. 3. Henry Holbrook, see forward.
(VII ) Henry Holbrook Legg, son of George Will- ard Legg (7), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, on the old Legg homestead, where he has always lived. He attended the public schools, and from an early age helped his father on the farm. After he was fourteen years old he devoted all his tine to his father's farm, and since his father's death has had the farm and has made extensive improvements in it. In 1905 he established himself in the ice business and met with instant success. He has had to enlarge his place, and the business is in a most flourishing and promising condition. He is one of the most active and successful of the younger busi- ness men of the town. In politics Mr. Legg is a Republican ; in religion a Methodist. He is greatly interested in music and has charge of the choir in the Methodist Church. He is prominent in church affairs. He married, January 3, 1902, Nellie Haynes, daughter of Reuben Haynes. Their children are: Alice Ardell, born August 19, 1903; Ruth Evelyn, born March 29, 1905.
JOHN ICHABOD DOWNS. Ichabod Downs (I), grandfather of John Ichabod Downs, of Mil- ford, Massachusetts, was born in ,Lebanon, Maine, of a well-known Scotch-Irish family which settled early in the eighteenth century in Maine. He mar- ried Susan Butler.
(II) Isaac Downs, son of Ichabod Downs (I), was born in Lebanon, Maine. He settled in that town and married Catherine O'Neil. All their chil- dren were born in Lebanon, viz .: Joshua, Lucy, Mary, died February 22, 1904; Sophia, Parthenia, Alexander H., resides in Manchester, New Hamp- shire; Stephen, John Ichabod, see forward; Isaac. Betsey, died young: Elizabeth, died young.
(111) John Ichabod Downs, son of Isaac Downs (2), was born in Lebanon, Maine, July 4, 1826. He was educated in the public schools of North Ber- wick, Maine. He began as a boy of eighteen as fire- man on the P. S. & R. railroad and worked for sev- eral years with the expectation of following rail- roading. He went to New York city, where he was employed as fireman and engineer by the firm of Goodwin & Co., then as collector for several years. Next he came to Boston, where he was employed by the firm of Loring & Company, boat builders. When the war broke out he enlisted in Holliston, Massa chusetts, in Company B, in the regiment of Colonel Powell T. Wyman, assisting also in recruiting the company. He was located at Fortress Monroe, where he was transferred to the navy on account of his knowledge of steam engineering. He became chief engineer on the transport "De Molay." He was en-
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gineer of the transport "Mississippi," which carried General Benjamin F. Butler to New Orleans. In recognition of his faithful service, he was advanced in rank to the grade of fourth lieutenant. After the war he returned to Boston and for many years was an inspector in the Charlestown navy yard, also in the navy yards at Portsmouth and Brooklyn, New York. Then for twelve years he was the engineer for the Boston Journal, having full charge of the steam plant and was one of the most trusted employees of that newspaper. The cost of operat- ing the department in his charge amounted to seven- ty-five thousand dollars a year.
In 1896 Mr. Downs came to Milford, Massachu- setts, to live with his sister. He was then eighty years of age and now, ten years later, is hale and hearty. "Unele John" as he is known to his friends, is of quiet tastes, social, attractive in manners, a thoroughly upright and honest man. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Lake Dun- more Lodge of Odd Fellows, and was chairman of the committee that built the Odd Fellows Home in Lebanon. He is not married.
LEANDER WARREN CUMINGS. Isaac Cumings (I), the first American ancestor of Leander Warren Cumings, of Fitchburg, was born in 1601, probably in England, but of Scotch ances- try. He was an early settler at Salem and Tops- field, Massachusetts. According to tradition he was descended from the "Red Cumin" of Badenoch in the southeastern district of Inverness-shire, a wild, mountainous country,
presenting wide bleak stretches of moorland. There the clan flourished from 1080 to 1330 and then began to decline. Ac- cording to the Chronicle of Melrose, the first of the name who figured prominently was slain with Malcolm Ill at Alnwick in 1093, leaving two sons, John and William. From John all the Cumins in Scotland are said to be descended. Sir John, the Red Cumin or Comyn, was the first Lord of Badenoch from Alexander Il to Louis 1X of France. His son John called the Black Lord of Badencch, was inferior to no subject of Scotland for wealth and power. He supported Queen Margaret and at her deathi became a competitor for the Crown of Scotland. The son of this Lord, called, in turn, the Red Cumin, was the last Lord of Badenoch of the surname Cumin. The badge of the clan was the Cummin plant. Another tradition gives the origin of the family in Comines near Lille on the frontier be- tween France and Belgium. In the year 1069 Robert of Comines or Comyn with seven hundred horse of William the Conqueror seized Durham and held it forty-eight hours, but the people rose up against him and he perished. His nephew William became Chancellor of Scotland in 1133. By the middle of the thirteenth century his descendants numbered among others one lord, four earls, and thirty-two belted knights by the name of Comyn. Within seventy years this house was overthrown and few were left. Some took refuge in England.
Isaac Cumings was in New England in 1635. He was first in Watertown, but settled in Ipswich, where in 1630 he lived on East street next to the lot of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers. lle bought other land from time to time. He was admitted a free- man May 18, 1642, and was also proprietor of Watertown in that year. He served on the Essex grand jury in 1675 and was moderator of the town meeting in Topsfield in 1676. Ile was for many
years deacon of the Topsfield Church. His will is on file. His children were: John, born 1630; Isaac, 1633; Elizabeth, married, April 2, 1661, John Jew- ett, of Rowley; she died in Ipswich, July 9, 1679; Ann, married, October 8, 1669, John Pease, of Salem.
(II) John Cumings, son of Isaac Cumings (I), was born in England in 1630. He married Sarah Howlett, daughter of Ensign Thomas and Alice ( French) Howlett, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He received by inheritance his father's homestead consisting of forty acres with houses, barns, orchards and fences. He sold it in 1680 to Edward Kneeland, his next door neighbor. He removed to the neigh- boring town of Boxford about 1658 and was ad- mitted a freeman there in 1673. Both he and his wife were members of the Topsfield Church, and in 1685 they were dismissed to the Church shortly to be gathered at Dunstable, Massachusetts. John was dismissed without "commendation," but his good wife "with commendation." He removed with his family to Dunstable (now Nashua, New Hamp- shire), where he was one of the first settlers. He was a selectman in 1682 and a member of the Church in 1684. He died there December 1, 1700, and his wife December 7, 1700. Their children were : Jolin, horn 1657, at Boxford; Thomas, born October 6, 1658; Nathaniel, born September 10, 1659, of whom later; Sarah, born January 27, 1661, married, December 28, 1682, Lieutenant Samuel French, son of Lieutenant William French, one of the first settlers of Dunstable; they had eight chil- dren; Abraham; Isaac, killed by the Indians, Novem- ber 2, 1688; Ebenezer, killed by the Indians Novem- ber 2, 1688, and with his brother remained unburied until November 28, 1688; William (twin), born Au- gust 5, 1671, died March 30, 1672; Eleazer (twin), born August 5, 1671; Benjamin, born February 23, 1673: Samuel, born December 28, 1677.
( 111) Nathaniel Cumings, third child of John Cumings (2), was born in Boxford, Massachusetts, September 10, 1659. He married, April 14, 1697, Abi- gial Parkhurst, and settled at Dunstable, Massachu- setts. Very little is found on the records about him. Their children: John, born January 14, 1698; Na- thaniel, of whom later; Eleazer, born October 19, 1701; Joseph, born May 26, 1704.
(IV) Nathaniel Cumings, second child of Na- thaniel Cumings (3), was born in Dunstable, Massa- chusetts, September 8, 1699. He married Elizabeth Whitney, of Stow, Massachusetts. Their children were: Nathaniel, of whom later ; Jeremiah, born De- cember 27, 1726, married Mary ; died Octo- ber 10, 1773; was selectman of Dunstable in 1766; Oliver, born April 10, 1728; Elizabeth, born Decem- ber 10, 1730, married, January 15, 1761, Asa Davis, of Nottingham West, a very prominent citizen ; Abi- gail. born February 12, 1732, married, March 23, 1756, Temple Kendall; Eleazer, born October 2, 1737; Rachel, born 1741, married, May 28, 1761, Thomas Fletcher; Simeon, born 1743; Lydia, born 1744, married Samuel Pollard.
(V) Lieutenant Nathaniel Cumings, eldest child of Nathaniel Cumings (4), was born in Dunstable, July 7, 1724. He married, November 29, 1749, Kath- erine Baldwin, daughter of John and Sarah (Hill) Baldwin, of Billerica, Massachusetts. She was born in Billerica, September 25, 1727. Her name takes the place of his on the tax list in 1773. She died in Dunstable, November 4, 1807. He was a soldier in the Louisburg expedition in 1754. He died about
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1773. Their children, all born in Billerica, were: Nathaniel, of whom later; Sarah, born June 2, 1753; married, December 1, 1772, Josiah Crosby; Kate, born July 31, 1755; Patty, born March 5, 1757, mar- ried, February 27, 1777, Benjamin Dutton; Betty, born January 17, 1761.
(VI) Nathaniel Cumings, eldest child of Nathan- iel Cumings (5), was born in Billerica, February 3, 1751. He married, June 30, 1774, Rebecca Wilson, daughter of John and Alice (Tatman) Wilson, born in Billerica, February 6, 1752, died October 13, 1808. He died May 21, 1812. He probably removed to Westford, Massachusetts, a neighboring town, as two of his children are recorded there. He was a pri- vate in the revolution in Captain Oliver Bates's com- pany, Colonel James Prescott's regiment, which marched from Westford on the Lexington call, April 19, 1775.
The children of Nathaniel and Rebecca Cumings were : Rebecca, born August 19, 1776, died July, 1796; Nathaniel, born in Westford, September 15, 1778, of whom later; John, born October 9, 1781, at Westford; Josiah, born in Groton, Massachusetts, July 12, 1783, married, July 10, 1812, Rebecca Proc- tor, daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Proctor.
(VII) Nathaniel Cumings, second child of Nathaniel Cumings (6), was born in Westford, Massachusetts, September 15, 1778, married (inten- tions October 27) 1800, Martha Fletcher, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Cummings) Fletcher. She was born in Dunstable, October 26, 1781, and died December 26, 1815. He married ( second), June 4, 1816, Anna Fletcher, daughter of Phineas and Anna ( Burge) Fletcher; she was born in Westford, Octo- ber 29, 1784, and died in Mason, New Hampshire, February 2, 1837. He removed to Mason and Town- send, where he was selectman in 1808-09-10-II-12- 13-15-16-17-18-19-20-22. He died in Townsend, Mas- sachusetts, September 1, 1854. The children of Nathaniel and Martha Cumings were: Nathaniel Fletcher, of whom later; Jesse, born March 28, 1803, died young ; Jephthah, born March 28, 1803, married, April 24, 1828, Asenath Warren; he was an invalid most of his life; he had two children : Martha Flet- cher, born June 4, 1835, married Samuel G. Hart, and (second) Enoch K. Gibbs; Sarah Warren, horn February 25, 1839, resides in Cajon Pass, California, and has children.
(VIII) Nathaniel Fletcher Cumings, eldest child of Nathaniel Cummings (7), was born in Mason, New Hampshire, October 2, 1801. He was a farmer. He was town clerk of Mason five years; justice of the peace from 1833 to 1835 inclusive and chair- man of the selectmen of Townsend, Massachusetts, whither he removed, for several years. He died April 28, 1874 ..
He married, April 20, 1826, Lucy Sanderson. of Mason, born August 2, 1797, and died in Townsend, Massachusetts, August 6, 1872. Their children, all born in Mason, were: 1. Lucy Ann, born May 22, 1827, married, December 27, 1848, Christopher Gates. and had two children. 2. Edwin Nathaniel, born April 29, 1830, married, November 28. 1850, Maria Spaulding, daughter of Israel Heald Spaulding; he died in Keene, New Hampshire, August 7, 1872 ; their children: Addie M., born June 20, 1852, mar- ried. October 5, 1871, Dana L. Fuller : he died Feb- ruary 22, 1890, in Fitchburg: (the children of Dana L. and Addie M. Fuller were: Louie C., born Au- giist 3, 1872, Edith M., born July 18, 1878. Mary Ml., born October 6, 1882). Kate E., born May 30,
1856, married, August 15, 1877, Charles E. Kirby, and they have two children: Sadie E., born Sep- tember 20, 1878, Florence E., June 9, 1890; Ernest N., November 5, 1860, married, December 1, 1881, Ida M. Baker, and had Edwin Nathaniel, born Sep- tember 4, 1882. 3. Leander Warren, of whom later. 4. Emily C., born August 28, 1837, married. March 6, 1866, Jonas Spaulding, Jr., and have four chil- dren. 5. Catherine P., born August 4, 1838, died September 8, 1840.
(IX) Leander William Cumings, third child of Nathaniel Fletcher Cumings (8), was born in Mason, New Hampshire, December 21, 1831. He removed with his father's family to Townsend when a young child and went to school there. He had a common school education. In his youth he had to work on the farm. Later he learned the butcher's trade and become a dealer in meats and provisions, first in Townsend, then in Boston, and acquired a competence in about twenty years. He removed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1873, and invested ex- tensively in real estate there. He has been occupied by the care and management of his real estate and has lived quietly at his attractive home on Day street. He is a Republican in politics and held several town offices in Keene, New Hampshire. He attends the Unitarian Church.
He married, April 13, 1853, Frances M. Wright, born in 1835, the daughter of Artemas Wright, of New Hampshire. Their children are: Frederick L., born July 7, 1855. married Helen Taylor, and they have three children: Mary B., born January 13, 1882; Paul L., born January 24, 1885; Fred F., born July 22, 1892; Caroline F., born March 10, 1858, died young ; Nellie M., born September 6, 1862, mar- ried Walter G. Corey, cashier Wachusett National Bank, Fitchburg.
CORNELIUS R. DAY. Anthony Day (1), the immigrant ancestor of Cornelius R. Day, of Mill- ville, Massachusetts. was born in England, 1616. He was an early settler at Gloucester, Massachu- setts, where he was a proprietor before 1645. He signed the mill agreement in 1664 and deposed about it in 1695, when he stated his age as eighty years. He bought a house and land near The Poles in 1657. He died April 23, 1707, aged ninety-one years, and the bond of his administrator, his son Ezekiel, was filed May 13, 1708.
He married Susanna Ring, born in England, 1623. Babson in his history of Gloucester mentions that Day vindicated the good name of Susan Matchett at the quarterly court in Salem in 1649 against the aspersions of William Vinson and thought that Susan might have been the one he married. His wife died December 10, 1717, aged ninety-four years, at Gloucester. Their children: I. Thomas, born 1651, married, December 30, 1673, Mary Langton, who with her daughter Mary was killed by lightning July 15, 1706; he died January 29, 1726, aged seventy- five years. 2. Timothy, born 1653, married. July 24, 1678, Phebe Wildes, who died April 8, 1723, aged seventy years. 3. John, born April 28, 1657, had house near The Poles; married, December 12, 1681, Abigail Lead, who died February 9, 1726, aged sixty- three years. 4. Ezekiel, born March 12, 1659, died 1662. 5. Ezekiel, born May 19. 1662, had grant of land between Lobster Cove and Hogskin Cove, 1694, and was one of the first settlers there ; married, Jan- uary 27, 1690, Mary Rowe; he died February 18, 1725; had Pelatiah, Samuel, Nathaniel and Jonathan.
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6. Nathaniel, see forward. 7. Elizabeth, born April 2, 1667. 8. Samuel, born February 25, 1669-70, married Rachel Rowe, August 9, 1692, daughter of Hugh Rowe, whose two sisters married his two brothers : she died September 6, 1698, and he mar- . ried ( second ) Priscilla -, about 1702; re- moved to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with his brother Nathaniel ; married ( third), April 22, 1714, at Reho- both, Mary Weeks and had several children there; removed to Attleborough. 9. Joseph, born April 4, 1672, married, August 15, 1695, Elizabeth Gouge and had sons Jeremiah, William, Joseph, et al.
( II) Nathaniel Day, son of Anthony Day (1), was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1665, died at Attleborough, Massachusetts, February 5, 1735. According to the history of Attleborough, Samuel Day, his brother, was the first of the name there, but Nathaniel seems to have gone there about the same time. He married, at Gloucester, February 13, 1690, Ruth Row, born 1671, died May 10, 1736. Their children, all born at Gloucester, were : 1. Ben- jamin, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, and of Killingly, Connecticut, born 1691. 2. Ruth, born 1694, married, April 26, 1727, Ephraim Ingraham, at Rehoboth. 3. Nathaniel, Jr., born 1606. 4. Rachel, born 1098. 5. Nathaniel, Jr., born 1700. 6. David, see forward. 7. Miriam, born 1705, died 1707. 8. Mary, born 1707, married Benjamin Hobben. 9. Miriam, born 1709, married John Streeter. 10. Deborah, born 1712, married Ebenezer Godfrey. 11. Dorcas, born 1715, married John Filmore, of Norwich, Connecticut.
(III) David Day, son of Nathaniel Day (2), was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1703, died at Attleborough, Massachusetts, January 19, 1768. He married, November 9, 1727, Ruth Whipple, at Reho- both, hoth being residents of Attleborough, however, She was born 1708 and died 1789. They settled at Attleborough and their children were all born there, viz .: I. David, Jr., born 1728, settled at Killingly, Connecticut. 2. Lydia, born 1730. 3. Elkanalı, born 1733, settled at Westminster, Vermont. 4. Dorcas, born 1735, died 1739. 5. Mary, died 1739. 6. Com- fort, born 1741, settled in Killingly. Connecticut, and at Granville, New York. 7. Eliphaz, born March 2, 1744, died February 19, 1820; soldier in the revolu- tion in 1775 in Captain Elisha May's company ; was second lieutenant in Captain Samuel Robinson's com- pany ; married Anne Peck; (second) Eunice - and had three children. ( See American Ancestry, Vol. 1X, page 135). 8. Dorcas, born 1746. 9. Ruth, born 1747. 10. Loammi, see forward.
(IV) Loammi Day, son of David Day (3), was born in Attleborough, Massachusetts, August 13, 1750. He settled in his native town. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Stephen Rich- ardson's company, which marched from Attleboro, September 25, 1777, in the regiment of Colonel George Williams. He was also a private in Captain Elisha May's company, Colonel Daggett's regiment, 1778, at Rhode Island. He was also in Captain Sam- uel Robinson's company. Colonel Isaac Dean's regi- ment, in 1780, in the Rhode Island campaign. He died at Attleboro in 1827. He married Mary Jenckes. Among their children was Nathaniel, see forward.
( V) Nathaniel Day, son of Loammi Day (4), was born at Attleboro, Massachusetts, October 7, 1783. He was a carpenter by trade. lle married Elizabeth Southwick and resided at Smithfield, Rhode Island, and at Attleboro. Among their children was David LeRoy, see forward.
( V) David LeRoy Day, son of Nathaniel Day
(5), was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1818, and died 111 1887. He learned the trade of tanner and cur- rier and followed that trade for a number of years at Millville, Massachusetts. He enlisted September 6. 1861, in Company B, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass- achusetts Volunteers, Colonel Edwin Upton, of Fitchburg, under Captain Wallace Clark, of Milford, Massachusetts, and was appointed orderly sergeant. He served for three years in the civil war. He worked for some years as a shoemaker in the fac- tories at Blackstone and vicinity.
He married Jane H. Mahoney, born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, daughter of Cornelius Ma- honey, and granddaughter of Timothy Mahoney, who was a soldier in the revolution. Children of David LeRoy and Jane H. Day were: 1. Cornelius Roscoe, see forward. 2. Mary M., resides at Hope- dale. 3. Elizabeth S., born June 4, 1858, married, December 25, 18So, Charles H. Robinson, in Great Falls, New Hampshire; they reside at Millville; children-Charles Lorimer, born in Natick, Rhode Island, July 15, 1882, graduate of Blackstone high school and Brown University ; is in business with his brother in Providence; Leonard Morse, born in South Boston, June 8, 1884, educated in the Black- stone and Providence high schools, now in business with his brother in Providence; John Day, born February 17, 1886, in Malden, Massachusetts, edu- cated in the Blackstone schools. 4. Charles M. ( Florence originally ), entered the employ of the Drapers at Hopedale and rose to the position of agent and finally of general manager of the works, a man of large ability and attainments; died 1902; married ( first) Ella Spaulding, of Milford, Massa- chusetts, and ( second) Laura B. Bancroft, of Hope- dale. (See sketch of Bancroft Family ).
(VII) Cornelius Roscoe Day, son of David Le- Roy Day (6), was born in Blackstone, Massachu- setts, December 29, 1847. lle was educated in the public schools and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Providence, Rhode Island. Before enter- ing the last named school he was employed for a year by F. B. and A. E. Smith, woolen manufacturers at Geneva, North Providence. After completing his course he became cashier for B. T. Cunningham, Providence, furniture dealer. During the year 1869 he was bookkeeper for T. T. Smith, Millville. He entered the livery stable business in 1870 on Centre street, Woonsocket, in partnership with D. F. South- wick, and in 1872 he sold out and during the follow- ing year conducted a livery stable in the same place for a year. From there he went to Slaterville and became associated with A. M. Armstrong in the same line of business. A short time afterward the firm of Day & Armstrong bought of Mr. Southwick the stable at Millville, now owned by Mr. Day, and they carried on the business in Blackstone and Slaterville until 1880, when they sold ont the Slater- ville stable. Having previously purchased the hotel property in Millville they carried it on until 1883. when they sold the furniture and leased the building. The firm of Day & Armstrong continued in business very successfully until November, 1895, when Mr. Day bought out his partner and continued since then alone. He had an extensive lumber, coal, wood and ice business and did much of the heavy trucking of the vicinity. He retired from active business life in 1905.
Mr. Day has been successful in business and prominent in political life. He is a Republican and has been chairman of the Republican town committee
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of Blackstone sice 1885. He was selectman five years and has often been sent as delegate to the coun- ty, congressional and state conventions of his party. . He has been road commissioner of the town eight years. He has been on the water supply committee and on other important special committees of the town. He was elected representative to the general court in 1896 and served on the printing committee ; was re-elected and served on the federal relations committee. He was elected to the state senate and rendered valuable service for his district.
He is the treasurer of the Rhode Island Mining Company in Oldham, Nova Scotia, and of the Black- stone Water Company. He is a member of the Sons of the American revolution, the Home Market Club of Boston and the Middlesex Club. He is an active member, vestryman and clerk of St. John's Church ( Protestant Episcopal) of Blackstone. Mr. Day is one of the best known and most highly esteemed men in public life in his section of the state. He is upright, kindly, generous, a man of many friends, having the confidence of everybody.
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