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framed most of the houses erected in the neighbor- hood in his day. He was distinguished at "raisings" for his agility, fearlessness and self-possession. He was selectman of Dublin in 1771. He died July 5. 1801 ; his widow died at Sullivan, New Hamp- shire. February 4. 1815. The children of Benjamin and Martha Mason : Betty, born January 15. 1741-42, married, December 2, 1762, Micah Leland, of Sher- born; Benjamin, died young; Thaddeus, born July .1. 1746, married, June, 1768, Sarah Morse, daugh- ter of Thomas Morse; Joseph, born 1748, killed by a falling tree, May 11, 1806; married Anne Prentiss ; Abigail, born April 8. 1752, married, June, 1768, Reuben Morse; Martha, born 1755, died young ; Benjamin, born 1758, died young: Benjamin, born May 28, 1760, died May 16, 1840: married, Janu- ary 27, 1783, Phebe Norcross; Bela, born October, 1764, see forward. All but the last named born in Sherborn.
( V) Bela Mason, son of Benjamin Mason (4), was born in Dublin, New Hampshire. October 1, 1764, died January 6, 1841. He married. May 12, 1785, Sally Norcross, daughter of Asa Norcross. He resided in Dublin until 1810, when he settled in Sullivan, New Hampshire. His wife died March 12, 1846, aged seventy-eight years. Their children : Betsey. born March I. 1786. married, November 22, 1807. John Hoar, of Dublin; Captain Rufus, born May 16. 1788. see forward; James, born April 27, 1793. died September 21, 1822; married, January I, 1817, Muretta Osgood, of Sullivan, removed to Ontario, New York; Jesse, born March 30, 1795, married, November 24, 1817, Lois White, of Sulli- van, removed to Ontario, New York, and then to Coldwater, Michigan; Jerusha, born August 7. 1797, married, October 18, 1824, Curtis Spaulding, of Sulli- van: resided in Keene, New Hampshire; Elijah. born April 14. 1799, married, February, 1828, Amelia Hubbard, of Vernon, Vermont; Sybil. born August 25, 1803. married, May 5, 1826, Ephraim Foster ; Sally.
(VI) Captain Rufus Mason, son of Bela Mason (5). was born in Dublin. New Hampshire. May 16, 1788. He removed with the family to Sullivan while he was a young boy. He had a large herd of cattle and raised many sheep, and was a prosperous farmer in his day. He was selectman of the town of Sullivan in 1817-18-19-20. He was representative to the general court in 1840-41. He held the office of assessor also in Dublin. He died in Winchendon, December 4. 1873. He married, June 1, 1815, Prudence Woods, of Sullivan. Their children : Charles, born June 28, 1816, residing now ( 1907) Marlboro, New Hampshire, he made an address in June on his ninetieth birthday; married, March 22, 1841. Amanda Seward. of Sullivan: Orlando, born May 21. 1818, died August 3. 1823; Sally Louisa, born May 25, 1820, died August 25, 1823; Orville, born August 13. 1822: Orlando, born June 3, 1824, see forward: Enoch Woods, born July 18. 1826, died January 25, 1830: son. born and died March 3. 1828: Rufus Osgood, born Jannary 22, 1830; Helen Amanda Marion, born December 4, 1831 ; Harriet Louisa Augusta, born January 18, 1834.
(VII) Orlando Mason, son of Captain Rufus Mason (6), was born in Sullivan, New Hampshire, June 3, 1824. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the academy at Tethford, Vermont. He then taught school at Nelson, New Hampshire, winters, and March 4. 1844, came to Winchendon, Massachusetts, and deciding to begin
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a business career entered the employ of E. Murdock, Jr., manufacturer of wooden-ware, with whom he remained nine years, six in the factory and three in the office. He then began business on his own ac- count. In token of the industry and fidelity which Mr. Mason had displayed during his many years connection with the business of Mr. Murdock, the latter named gentleman authorized him to draw on him at sight for the sum of two thousand dollars, if ever it might be required in the exigencies of the business upon which he was entering. The offer of such substantial aid was as creditable to the liberality of Mr. Murdock as the fact that it was never taken by Mr. Mason was to the spirit of independence and business enterprise of the younger manufacturer.
Mr. Mason purchased a half interest in the woodenware factory of Ephraim Kendall, in 1853, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Kendall & Mason. In 1863 Mr. Mason bought out his partner and became the sole proprietor. He enjoyed a large and prosperous business up to 1883, when he sold out to Mr. M. E. Converse. ( See Converse family.) Mr. Mason's son, Dwight L., was associated with him from 1869 until he sold out to the present owners with whom Dwight L. remained till May, 1905, the business being con- ducted under the firm name of the National Nov- elty Company. The mill was on Miller's river, near the middle of the central village of Winchen- don. His goods bore the best reputation and found their way to the markets of the whole world. ( For further facts regarding this firm see sketch of H. N. Parker.)
Mr. Mason was an active citizen, interested in the affairs of the town in which he was located. He served at various times as selectman and overscer of the poor, and in 1870-71 was representative to the general court. He took an active part in or- ganizing the Winchendon Savings Bank in 1854, and was a member of its board of investment from the first and president from its organization till 1890. He was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Winchendon in 1864, and was one of the directors until 1905. He was elected to many posi- tions of trust and honor by his townsmen, serving on the town committee to secure volunteers during the civil war; on the committee to select a suitable tract of land for a cemetery; to choose a high school site; to oppose the division of Worcester county ; and to plan the town water works. In politics he was a Republican, and for many years chairman of the town committee of his party. He was a trus- tee of Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, and director of the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Mr. Mason held a leading position in the town of Winchendon for a full half century. Shrewd in business, he made a fortune in manufacturing, and maintained one of the most important industries of the town. He commanded the confidence of his fellow townsmen, regardless of their business connections, political or religious opinions, and was in every way a model citizen. He was a member of the North Con- gregational Church of Winchendon, and his associates in the church remember his singularly acceptable and efficient support of the prayer meeting; his twenty-two devoted years as superintendent of the Sunday school and his loyal and liberal financial aid.
Mr. Mason married, February 13, 1851, Jane S.
Fifield, who died June 26, 1858. Hle married (sec- ond), November 17, 1859, Calista A. Streeter. Chil- dren of Orlando and Jane S. Mason: 1. Dwight L., see forward. 2. Twin daughter, born and died June 26, 1858. 3. Twin daughter, born June 26, 1858, died aged five years. Children of Orlando and Calista A. Mason: 4. Marcus Marvin (twin), born October 7, 1861, graduated at Amherst College in 1883, and in 1884 was engaged in stock raising in Wyoming, with headquarters at Cheyenne. He later came to Boston, engaged in the real estate business, and resided there following this until his death, July 24, 1892. In November, 1886, he married Edith Isham. 5. Mabel Murdock (twin), born Oc- tober 7, 1861, educated at Mt. Holyoke, now resid- ing with her mother in Newton, Massachusetts. Orlando Mason died December 9, 1905, at Carney Hospital, South Boston, having three weeks pre- viously undergone a severe surgical operation. His physician spoke of him as "the most remarkable example he had ever seen of patient endurance and of severe suffering." Ilis wife, who survives him. was his unremitting nurse during his years of sick- ness, while at the same time she continued her long service as president of the Worcester County Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions.
(VIII) Dwight L. Mason, son of Orlando Mason (7), was born in Winchendon, Massachu- setts, August 11, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and in the High- land Military Academy at Worcester, from which he was graduated in 1869. He immediately en- tered into business with his father and was asso- ciated with him till May, 1905, much of the manage- ment and responsibility being transferred to him in later years, He married ( first) Emma A. White, who died November, 1883. Their children : 1. Orland White, born 1877, graduate of Williams College, 1899; now engaged in iron and steel busi- ness in Pittsburg; married, April 18, 1906, Edith Hotchkiss, of Edinborough, Scotland. 2. Josephine, born 1879, graduate of Miss Simons' school, Boston, and Miss Armstrong's school in Cincinnati, princi- pal of Kindergarten school in Washington, D. C. Mr. Dwight L. Mason married (second ), July, 1893, Lois Allyn, of Norwich, Connecticut, and their child, Dwight Allyn, was born in July, 1898.
CHARLES HENRY GENTLE, son of Charles and Mary (Dunn) Gentle, was born at Westmins- ter, Massachusetts, September 30, 1857. He at- tended the district school on Beech Hill until he was twelve years old, when he came to South Ash- burnham with John B. Platts, by whom he was brought up. Here he continued in the common schools, also working on the farm for Mr. Platts. He was first employed regularly by Edwin Hey- wood, for whom he worked two years, subsequently working for A. H. Whitney, chair manufacturer, and later for the Derby Chair concern at Gardner for a year. He then entered the chair shop of W. F. Whitney, where he remained six months, then he worked again for A. H. Whitney remaining in his employ until 1897. He bought the Barrell farm in Westminster of John Carr, owning and conducting it for about seven years, selling it to Madison Brad- ley and buying the Platts farm and the Newton farm, which together amount to three hundred acres of land. Mr. Gentle has been engaged in the coal and grain business since 1897, and has a saw mill where he manufactures lumber on the Platts farm.
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He has also an extensive business in teaming and jobbing for others in connection with his coal, grain, wood and lumber business.
Mr. Gentle is a member of the People's Congre- gational Church at South Ashburnham, and has been deacon for the past seven years. In politics he is a Republican. He married, November 23, 18SI, Sarah Emma Smith, who was born December 19, 1863, the daughter of Leonard and Mary (Mans- field) Smith, of Westminster, Massachusetts. Her father, Leonard Smith, was a farmer in that town. The children of Charles and Emma (Smith) Gentle were: I. Henry Charles, born April 25, 1889; died April 27, 1889. 2. Ralph Mansfield, born June 7, 1897.
WALTER MELVIN FARWELL. Samuel Farwell (I), was the first ancestor in this country of Walter Melvin Farwell, of Northboro, Massa- chusetts. He was probably born in England about 1710, and seems to have been a quiet citizen about which the records have revealed little. He married Mary -, and settled in Marblehead about 1740. He was doubtless a seafaring man. The children of Samuel and Mary Farwell, Farewell or Farweel, variously spelled, all born at Marblehead, Mas- sachusetts, were: Absalom, baptized September 21, 1741, see forward; Foster, baptized June 1, 1746; Mary, baptized October 16, 1748; Richard, baptized September 25, 1743; Robert, baptized September I, 1754
(Il) Absalom Farwell, son of Samuel Farwell (I), was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 21, 1741. The history of Bethel, Maine, where he settled, repeats some family tradition to the effect that he was an English soldier and sailor who settled first in Marblehead, then lived in other plaes and finally fought in th revolution. The fact Absalom was born in Marblehead makes it likely that his father was the Englishman, soldier and sailor, etc., though Absalom was a soldier in the revolution from Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was in 1775 in the company of Captain Joel Smith ( Fourth) ; regiment of Colonel Jolin Glover (Twen- ty-first). A later record of service is given in the archives in the same regiment but under Captain Thomas Grant. After the revolution he removed to Maine and settled. He married, at Marblehead, -
The children: William, born 1788, married Mary Estes; Hannah, married Benjamin Adams ; Melvin, born March 17, 1793, see forward ; Molly, born March, 1795, married Ebenezer Estes; Samuel, born February 5, 1797, married Fanny Swift: Su- sanna, born April 17, 1802, died unmarried ; Richard, born April 17, 1802 (twin), married and resided in New Hampshire: Robert Foster, born August 20, · 1804. married Polly Fairbanks.
(111) Melvin Farwell, son of Absalom Farwell (2), was born in Bethel, Maine, March 17, 1793. lle married Mercy Wilson and they settled in Bethel, where their fourteen children were born, among whom was Alonzo C.
(IV) Alonzo C. Farwell. son of Melvin Farwell (3), was born at Bethel, Maine. He came to Northboro, Massachusetts, when a young man and was employed by Hon. Milo Hildreth, comb manu- facturer, for the succeeding twenty-five years. After- ward he was in partnership with his son, Walter Melvin Farwell, in the comb business about five years. He married Mary Wyman Spear, of New
York city. Their child is Walter Melvin, born in 1852.
(V) Walter Melvin Farwell, son of Alonzo C. Farwell (4), was born in Northboro, Massachusetts, in 1852. He obtained his early education in the public schools and at the Bryant & Stratton Busi- ness College, Boston. After becoming proficient in the manufacture of combs, he was for a number of years in charge of a department in S. Harris' factory, Clinton, Massachusetts, and for the Cen- tennial Exposition of 1876 at Philadelphia he de- signed a unique exhibit containing many novel pat- terns, notable among which was a huge back-comb, representing an old-fashioned stage-coach, and a modern United States mail train.
In 1877 he engaged in business for himself in Northboro, beginning operations in a little room on the site of the present factory, with a limited supply of tools and a small coal stove. Ifis knowl- edge of the mechanical part of the business was practically perfect, but to a young man without the necessary experience in disposing of his goods, the road to success is filled with many obstacles, which must be overcome in the same manner as are the numerous difficulties met with in mastering a trade. Mr. Farwell's first attempt to find a market for his wares in New York was unsuccessful on account of the sharp competition carried on by manufacturers of long experience. He returned home without an order, but undaunted and determined to make up for his lack of business knowledge by producing a line of goods that would command the attention of the large dealers solely upon its merits.
Accordingly he designed a new and unique line of samples, including hairpins, sleeve buttons and monogram jewelry. Upon his next visit to the metropolis he found that his attractive display, not only interested those who had previously declined to purchase of him, but immediately touched the spring which sets the wheels of a commerce in mo- tion, and he returned home with a well-filled order list. His goods have since commanded a ready sale, necessitating the increase both of his facilities and working force. He employs about one hundred and twenty-five hands. He has reached a financial stand- ing which gives him ample prestige among busi- ness men. He has been a director of the North- boro National Bank.
In politics Mr. Farwell is a Republican and for several years was registrar of voters. 1Ie is a mem- ber of the Marlboro Lodge of Free Masons; Hough- ton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Marlboro; and of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of Hud- son. In religious belief he is a Congregationalist. Mr. Farwell married Hattie E. Wood, daughter of David F. Wood, of Northboro. They have one son, Laurence Wood, born September 4, 1885.
EDWIN A. GOODRICH. William Goodridge (1), the pioneer ancestor of Edwin A. Good- rich, of Fitchburg, was probably born in Bury St. Edmunds, County Suffolk, England. He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was a pro- prietor in 1636. He was admitted a freeman in 1642. His homestead of five acres was near the north boundary of the Mount Auburn cemetery. The in- ventory of his estate was dated April 3, 1647. His widow Margaret married John Hull, of Newbury, Massachusetts, where she went to live with her Goodridge children. Mr. Hull died October 1, 1670.
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She died February 3. 1683. Her will was dated August 4, 1682, and proved April 10, 1683. She be- queathed to her sons Jeremiah, Joseph and Benjamin Goodridge; to her grandson Benjamin Goodridge; to her daughter Mary Woodman. and to her grand- children Mary Emery and Elizabeth Woodman.
Children of William and Mary Goodridge were: I. Mary, married December 20, 1653, Edward Wood- man, Jr. 2. Jeremiah (see forward). 3. Joseph, born September 29, 1639; apprenticed by his mother Samuel Thatcher. 4. Benjamin, April II, 1642; married three times.
(11) Jeremiah Goodridge, second child of Will- iam Goodridge (1), born March 6. 1637-8. in Water- town, Massachusetts; married, November 15, 1660, Mary Adams, daughter of Robert and Eleanor Adams. He settled in Newbury. Massachusetts, where he was raised. Children: 1. Mary, born No- vember 21, 1663. 2. William, August 2, 1665. 3. Philip (see forward). 4. Elizabeth. February 27, 1679. 5. Hannah, November 15, 1681. 6. John, May 26, 1685.
(1II) Philip Goodridge, third child of Jeremiah Goodridge (2), born in Newbury, Massachusetts, November 23, 1669; died in Lunenburg, January 16, 1729. He was one of the first settlers in Lunen- burg. and in 1724 he built the third house in that settlement, in what is now Fitchburg. He was dea- con of the church and was the first person who died among the pioneers in Lunenburg. He mar- ried April 16, 1700. Mehitable Woodman, daughter of Joshua and Elizabethi Woodman. She was born September 20, 1677: died February 24. 1755. Chil- dren were: 1. Benjamin, February 3, 1701. 2. John, August 6, 1702. 3. Mehitable, August 2, 1704. 4. Hannah, April 25, 1706. 5. Joshua, February 7. 1708. 6. Sarah, June. 1709. 7. Dorothy, March 4, IFII. 8. Philip. November 24, 1716. 9. David (see forward). 10. Joseph, September I. 1719. II. Daniel, February 7. 1721. 12. Rebecca. April 17, 1723.
(IV) David Goodridge. ninth child of Philip Goodridge (3), born in Newbury, Massachusetts, November 21, 1716; died in South Fitchburg. July 13, 1786. He settled in South Fitchburg when a young man. In 1747 he was surrounded by a party of hostile Indians when he was in the woods look- ing for his cows. He put spurs to his horse and was quick enough to escape the savages. He gave the alarm and the Indians retired. Ten years after. ward an Indian taken on the Connecticut river was wearing the hat he lost during his escape. Fitch- burg was set off from Lunenburg in 1764. He was one of the first selectmen of the new town. He was delegate to the Provincial Congress at Cambridge and Concord in 1774, when John Hancock was presi- dent. and in 1775 at Cambridge.
He married Elizabeth Martin. daughter of John and Jane (Durgin) Martin, and a descendant of John Martin, of Charlestown (1640). In 1741 Eliza- beth Martin was dismissed from the Chebacco Church at Ipswich to Lunenburg. David Goodridge was a soldier in the revolution. He was a private in Captain Ebenezer Bridge's company, Colonel John Whitcomh's regiment. He marched with the com- pany April 19. 1775. He was also in Captain Fuller's company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment 1775. He was corporal in Captain John Joslin's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, and marched from Leominster to Bennington, to join the forces under Colonel Seth Warner, July. 1777. The children of David and Elizabeth (Martin) Goodridge, all born
in Lunenburg, were: I. David, born March 14, 1741; died October 4, 1744. 2. Elizabeth, Novem- ber 6, 1743. 3. Mehitable, August 6, 1745. 4. David, born April 23, 1747. 5. Ebenezer, May 12, 1749. 6. Asaph, June 28, 1751. 7. Hannah, April 7, 1753. 8. John (see forward). 9. Eunice, May 6, 1757.
(V) Major John Goodridge, eighth child of David Goodridge (4), born in Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts, March 17, 1755, or June 17, 1754; married (published October 14), 1778, Desire Nichols, of Leominster. She died February, 1788. He married (second) Prudence (Polly) Butler, July 9, 1789. He was a minute man in the revolution and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He died April -13, 1834, at Fitchburg. He was overseer of the poor in Fitchburg in 1798. Children of Major John Good- ridge, were: 1. John, born June 17, 1780. 2. Me- hitable, August 29, 1782. 3. Betsey, born March 28, 1786; married Samuel Cowdrey, November 6, 1805.
(VI) John Goodridge, eldest child of Major John Goodridge (5), was born in Fitchburg, Massa- chusetts, June 17, 1754; died there December IO, 1845. He spent his twenty-first birthday at the battle of Bunker Hill ; he married, December 22, 1806, Lucy Pierce (published November 15, 1805). He settled in Fitchburg and his children were born there. Children : I. Alonzo Pierce (see forward). 2. John, born No- vember 17, 1808; died April 19, 1888; was in the Fitchburg militia company in 1840; married, Octo- ber 3. 1829, Mary A. Blake, of Concord. 3. Joshua Nichols, March 1, 1811. 4. Mary Ann, May 2, 1814. 5. Albert, June 17, 1816.
(VII) Alonzo Pierce Goodridge, eldest son of John Goodridge (6), did not change the spelling of the name to Goodrich, now followed by all branches of the family. Ile settled in Fitchburg, where he was born August 17, 1807. He resided for fifty-one years in the house on the Palmer place built by his grandfather, Joshua Pierce, and the rest of his long life in his home at 106 Summer street. He inherited the Pierce farm by will from his grandfather, thus giving an instance of two pro- prietors holding land from the time of its settle- ment and clearing, in the city of Fitchburg, down to the present time. Mr. Goodridge died in Fitch- burg, July 28, 1903. At the time the land was bought it was bounded on all sides by common or undivided land.
(V111) Edwin A. Goodrich, son of Alonzo Pierce Goodridge (7), was born in Fitchburg, Mas- sachusetts, June 4, 1837, and was educated there in the public schools. He then learned the business of brick-making and later began to burn bricks on the old Goodridge farm in Fitchburg, and in 1857 went to California, where he conducted the business of brickmaking in Petaluma for three years. He then returned to Fitchburg and successfully carried on the business of brick-making up to the time of his death. The summer of 1906 completed fifty years of brick-making. He was one of the substantial busi- ness men of the city. lle was a Republican in politics, and one of the leaders of his party, interested in public affairs and the welfare of his city. He served the city three years as alderman. Ile was president of the C. W. Bennett Company ( Incorpor- ated), shoe manufacturers of Fitchburg. He was an active member of the Unitarian Church, and frater- nally a Free Mason.
He married, February 3, 1863, Jane Farwell, daughter of Charles and Hannah P. (Chaplin) Far-
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well, of Fitchburg. She died January 15, 1906. He (lied November 17, 1906. Their only child, Elmira H., married Charles Willis Bennett, a shoe manu- facturer, head of the C. W. Bennett Company ( In- corporated ), of Fitchburg.
FAIRBANKS FAMILY OF HOLDEN. Jona- than Fairbanks (1), the immigrant ancestor of Ed- ward Everett Fairbanks of Holden, Massachusetts, was the progenitor of all the early American fami- lies of this name. He was a proprietor of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, where his original house is still standing and occupied, as early as March 23, 1636-7. He was admitted to the church August 14, 1646. Hle signed the famous Dedham Covenant. He was a town officer. He died December 5. 1668, and his will was proved January 26, following. It mentions all the children given below, and some of their children. His widow, Grace, died December 28, 1673. For English ancestry, see will of George Fairbanks of Sowerby, in Halifax, England, dated May 28, 1650 (Register VII, 303) and Genealogy. The children: 1. John. 2. George. 3. Jonas. 7. Jonathan, Jr. 5. Mary, married Michael Metcalf ; ( second) Christopher Smith, 6. Susan, married, Oc- tober 12, 1647. Ralph Day.
(II) Captain George Fairbanks, son of Jona- than Fairbanks (1), came from England with his parents, and resided at Dedham until 1657, when he removed to the south part of the new town of Sherborn, afterward the town of Medway, and now Millis. He was the first settler in the vicinity, and he became a prominent and highly esteemed citi- zen. He was selectman of Sherborn, and belonged to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, The homestead passed down through four George Fairbanks in succession, then two Silas Fairbanks, and went out of the hands of the family about 1820. His was the famous stone house on the northern border of Bogistow Pond, in the eastern part of the town, now in Millis. That which has been more recently known as the Fairbanks farm was the southern part of his large landed estate. The stone house was originally the garrison house built by the residents of Bogistow farms as a place of refuge from the Indians. It was sixty-five by seventy feet long, two stories high, made of flat stones laid in clay mortar, with a double row of portholes on all sides, and was lined with heavy oak plank. The stones have all been carried away, and there is no trace of the house. In 1662 George Fairbanks signed the first petition for the incorpora- tion of the town of Sherborn. lle signed also the second and successful petition in 1674, and he had land granted in Sherborn. He was selectman four years, and on the committee to engage the first minister .. He was a man of sterling character. His descendant are widely scattered throughout this country, Canada and Nova Scotia. He married, October 26. 1640, Mary Adams, of Dedham, who died August 11, 1711, at Mendon, probably at the home of her son-in-law, William Holbrook. Their children: 1. Mary, born November 10, 1647 ; mar- ried August 11, 1665, Deacon Joseph Daniels. 2. George, born May 26, 1650. 3. Samuel, born Octo- ber 28, 1052; died November 20, 1676. 4. Eliesur, born June 8, 1655. 5. Jonas, born February 23. 1656-7: died November 28, 1676. The following were born in Medway: 6. Jonathan, born May I, 1062; died, December IS, 1719. 7. Margaret, born
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