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William Daniel Kendall married Laura Perkins, of Templeton, this county, and has two children- Anna Rosaline and Eviline Gertrude. Clarence Francis Kendall, who is a carpenter by trade, and a very skillful workman, is unmarried and resides at home. Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall died April 30, 1903.
JACOB AUGUSTUS KENDALL. Francis Kendall (I), the immigrant ancestor of the late Jacob Augustus Kendall, of Leominster, Massachu- setts, was born in England in 1620 according to a deposition of his made December. 1658, when he stated his age as thirty-eight years. He was in Woburn before 1640, and became a prominent citi- zen there. He was a miller by trade and the site of his mill is still known by his name; some of the original homestead has remained in possession of his descendants to the present time. He was ad- mitted freeman May 26, 1647. Ite was frequently honored with positions of trust and responsibility by his townsmen. He died 1708. His will dated May 9, 1706, mentions children named below and several grandchildren: also the eight children of his brother, Thomas Kendall, that were living when Thomas died. His wife died 1705.
He married, December 24, 1644. Mary Tidd, daughter of John Tidd. Their children were: John, born July 2, 1646: Thomas, born January 10, 1648-9; Mary, born January 20, 1650-1, married Israel Reed ; Elizabeth, born January 15. 1652-3, married James Pierce : Hannah, born January 26, 1654-5, married William Greene; Rebecca, born March 21. 1656-7, married Joshua Eaton; Samuel, born March 8, 1659-60: Jacob, born January 25, 1660-I, of whom later ; Abigail, born April 6, 1666, married William Reed.
(II) Jacob Kendall. eighth child of Francis Ken- dall (I), was born in Woburn, January 25. 1660-61. He removed to Billerica about 1716. He was in the military company. He married, January 2, 1683-4, Persis Haywood, who died October 19. 1694. Ile married (second). January 10. 1694-5. Alice Temple. The children of Jacob and Persis Kendall were: Persis, born August 24, 1685: Jacob (twin), born January 12, 1686-7, died January 20, 1686-7 : Jacob (named after twin brother who died), born January 12. 1686-7, died probably before April 22, 1714: Joseph, born December 17, 1688, married twice ; died October 3, 1743: Jonathan, born November 2, 1690, died November 11. 1690; Daniel, born Octo- ber 23. 1691. The children of Jacob and Alice Kendall were: Ebenezer, born November 9, 1695; John. born January 9, 1696-7. died October 17. 1697 ; Sarah, horn July 18, 1698, married Benjamin Whit- more: Esther, born November 20, 1690: Hezekialı, born May 26, 1701; Nathan, born December 12, 1702; Susanna, born October 27. 1704: Phebe, born De- cember 19. 1706: David, born September 28, 1708; Ebenezer. born April 5. 1710, of whom later ; Alice, born January 31. 1711-12: Abram, born April 26, 1713: Persis, born August 23, 1715; Jacob, born at Billerica, July 1, 1717.
(III) Ensign Ebenezer Kendall, son of Jacob Kendall (2), his sixteenth child, was born at Biller- ica. Massachusetts. April 5. 1710. He settled at Dunstable with a number of other members of the Kendall family. The first town meeting was held March 12, 1743. when the new town was organized in his house. He was a taxpayer there in 1744. was on the committee to build the meeting house
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elected before 1753 when the church was reported, December 24, to be completed. He was in the sec- parisli which was set off June 14, 1755, and he signed the covenant of the new church May 12. 1757. He bought the most expensive pew in the meeting house in 1759, and was a liberal supporter of religion all his life. He built the tavern which was the rallying point of the troops during the rev- olution. He died December 2, 1774, in his sixty- fifth year. His wife Hannah died February 10, 1761. in her forty-fifth year. He married (second)
The children of Ensign Ebenezer and Hannah Kendall were: Asa, born March 16, 1735, of whom later ; Ebenezer, Jr., born October 5, 1736; Abra- ham, born February 17, 1739; Hannah, born Octo- ber 13, 1741; Molly, born April 9, 1741; Abraham, born November 29, 1747; William, born October 9. 1750; Hezekiah, born April 14, 1753; Abraham, born April 12, 1956; Joseph Hasey, born December 1, 1759, died 1761. The child of the second wife was Isaac, born January 29, 1763.
(IV) Sergeant Asa Kendall, son of Ebenezer Kendall (3), was born March 16, 1735. He built the parish pew in the meeting house at Dunstable in 1763. He was a member of the Dunstable Train Band, June 25, 1776. There is a record of the meeting at his house of the Train Band, September I8, 1776. He was a soldier in the revolution serv- ing as a private in Captain Reuben Butterfield's company, Colonel David Green's regiment, April 19. 1775, and responded with his company to the Lexington alarmı. He served at various other times. He was lieutenant in Captain James Hosley's com- pany ; Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, in 1777, and marched to assist the northern army under General Gates, the company being raised in Townsend, Pepperell and Ashby, Massachusetts, all in the vicinity of Dunstable. Mr. Kendall moved to Ashby during the revolution and became a prominent citizen there. He was moderator of the town meeting in 1781 and other . years, select- man 1781-92-96-97-98, and perhaps other years. He held other offices of the town.
He married Sarah -, and their first five chil- dren were born in Dunstable, perhaps all of them. The children: Sarah, born September 4, 1760; Asa, born May 27, 1762, became a prominent citi- zen of Ashby, frequently in public office; Cather- ine, born April 28, 1764: Benjamin, born November 27, 1765; Mary, born December 29, 1766; Pierpont, born about 1769, married Sarah had son Oliver, born June 30, 1792, at Asliby; Oliver, of whom later: Joseph, settled in Ashby, father of Joseph O. Kendall, a prominent citizen.
(V) Oliver Kendall, son of Asa Kendall (4), was born at Dunstable about 1775. He settled in Ashby when a young man and .was a farmer there all his life. He was selectinan of Ashby in 1814-15- 16-17-18-19-20-21-22-27. He married Lucy Welling- ton. Their children were: Hosea, selectman in 1847-48-51, a prominent man ; Liberty W., born No- vember 21, 1803, of whom later.
(VI) Liberty W. Kendall, son of Oliver Ken- dall (5), was born at Ashby, Massachusetts, No- vember 21, 1803. He settled in Ashby and lived there till 1836. He bought land at Leominster, January 9, 1836, of Benjamin Perkins, and moved there. He resided in Leominster the remainder of his life, his death occurring November 14, 1889. He married Sarah Puffer. Their children, all born
in Ashby, were: Jacob Augustus, of whom later; George Wakefield, carriage manufacturer at Leom- inster, married Ellen Taylor, and they had one daughter, Orocy, who married Jolin Kivlan; Caro- line, died aged six years.
(VII) Jacob Augustus Kendall, son of Liberty W. Kendall (6), was born in Ashby, Massachusetts, 1827. He received a common school education in his native town supplemented by a course in West- minster Academy. He learned the painter's trade at Lexington and followed house painting as jour- neyman and employer all his life. He started in bus- iness for himself at the early age of nineteen in Leominster, employing from five twenty or thirty men according to the season, and maintain- ing a large and prosperous business. No man in his line of business was better or more favorably known in his vicinity. He died November 13, 1886.
"He was a man of unusual activity, indomitable perseverance and pushed ahead to success," writes one who knew him. "In business matters he was thoroughly wide awake and in money matters. especially in dealing with his help, he was always prompt and reliable." It was said of him that he never broke his faith either with his customers or his employees and never asked his men to do for him more than they were paid for. He had a business career of thirty-five years in Leominster and left a handsome property for his family. It was said of him that he had done work upon almost every building in the town. He was domestic in his habits and declined public office. He was a member of the Masonic order for twenty-two years. He attended the Orthodox Congregational Church of Leominster.
.He married (first) Mary E. Sheldon, and after her decease married Helen MI. Richardson, Decem- ber 19, 1860. She was the daughter of Eri and Abigail Chandler ( Bragg) Richardson. Their only child was Caroline M. Kendall, born August 19, 1876. 1
JOEL ELI PROUTY, for many years a leading manufacturer and latterly a prominent agricultur- ist of the place of his nativity, was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, July 25. 1830, son of Liberty and Emily ( Bisco) Prouty, and grandson of Eli Prouty ( see Prouty Family ). The family of Liberty and Emily ( Bisco) Prouty consisted of eight chil- dren, namely : Maria Adeline, Jonas Russell, Joel Eli, Augustus Bisco, Abigail Lavinia, Mary Eliza, Henry Waldo, and Emily Augusta.
Joel E. Prouty attended the common schools in the vicinity of his home until eleven years of age, when he turned his attention to farming, performing such labor as his strength would allow, and con- tinuing the same for five years. He then became a student at Leicester Academy, and after complet- ing one term in this institution became associated with his father in the manufacture of wire, continu- ing to be so engaged with his father under the firm name of L. & J. E. Prouty, and subsequently with his brother under the name of J. R. & J. E. Prouty: In 1876 the brothers Prouty disposed of the business to a corporation known as the Spencer Wire Com- pany. Since his retirement from wire manufactur- ing Mr. Prouty has farmed up to the present time (1906). He is a member of the Methodist church, and a Republican in politics.
Mr. Prouty married, September 10, 1857, Minerva
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J. Wilson, daughter of Horace Wilson, of Spencer, a farmer, by whom he had four children: Joel Liberty, who died an infant. Eddy W., born June 27, 1860, married Saralı Dyer, of Spencer, who bore him five children: Joel C., Harold, Edward Dyer, Cheney Russell, deceased; and Ida Evelyth. Albert Burnside, born May 7, 1863, married Emma Mc- Cormack, of Spencer. Ida Evelyn, born November 7, 1865, became the wife of Fred D. Woods, of Ar- lington, and they are the parents of one child, Dut- ton Prouty Woods.
FITTS FAMILY. Robert Fitts or Fitt, the im- migrant ancestor of Robert Fitts, of Lunenberg, Massachusetts, was a proprietor of Salisbury, Massa- chusetts, in 1639. His brother Richard Fitts set- tled at Newbury, a town near Salisbury, in 1637 or earlier. Both were called planters in the records. Richard bequeathed part of his estate to Abraham, eldest son of Robert, his brother. Robert Fitts lived in Salisbury from 1639 to 1652, when he re- moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was on the tax rolls of Salisbury in 1650. He owned a share in Plum Island in 1664, according to a list of the inhabitants of Ipswich owning such shares. He and his wife gave testimony in court December 22, 1664, as to the promise made by Simon Thompson desiring their son, Abraham Fitts, who married his daughter, to come to Ipswich and resides. His cousin, Isaiah Wood, son-in-law of Simon Tomp- son," also testified.
Richard and Robert Fitts came from Fitzford, Taverstock, Devonshire, England. Robert was a man of some considerable education and social po- sition, a Puritan of high character. He died May 9, 1665. His will was dated January 5, 1663, and proved June 23, 1665. He bequeathed to his wife Grace the goods and estate left to hier by her mother to dispose of among her kindred; his son. Abraham Fitts, was to have the land at Salisbury which he purchased of William Barnes and also other estates, wife to have the remainder for life. His widow Grace appointed her "brother," Robert Townsend, of Ipswich, her attorney in a suit against Samuel Gove, June 17, 1667. Yet she was the sister of Mr. Robert Lord and probably sister- in-law of Townsend. Grace (Lord) Fitts was prob- ably his second wife, as Robert's only son Abra- ham calls her mother-in-law (meaning step-mother). Grace, widow of Robert Fitts, died April 25. 1684. The only child known of Robert Fitts was Abra- ham, see forward.
(II) Abraham Fitts, son of Robert Fitts (1). was born about 1640. He lived at Salisbury during his youth, but at the time of his marriage removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts, at the request of Simon Thompson, his wife's father, who conveyed to him the house and land he had bought of Humphrey Griffin, containing three acres, bounded by Rocky Hill towards the west, John Fuller to the south and the highway east and northeast. He was heir and executor of the will of his uncle, Richard Fitts, who left no children. He joined the church in full communion February 22, 1673. He was admitted a freeman March II, 1673-74. He died March 27. 1692. His will was dated February 24. 1692, and was presented for probate March 29, 1692. The estate was inventoried at three hundred and sixty- six pounds, ten shillings ; he had a homestead, orch- ard and fifty acres of land at Ipswich, besides land at Salisbury.
He married (first) Sarah Thompson, May 16, 1655, (by magistrate, Hon. Symon Bradstreet, as clergymen were not allowed to perform marriages). She was the daughter of Symon Thompson, who was born about 1610, and was in Ipswich, 1636, where he was made a freeman 1641 or 1648. The children of Abraham and Sarah (Thompson) Fitts were: Sarah, born February 21, 1657, died June 14, 1660; Abraham, died 1714, see forward; Robert, born March 30, 1660, died June 15, 1661; Sarah, born March 15, 1661, married, December 30, 1686, William Baker, of Ipswich. The children of Abra- ham Fitts and his second wife, Widow Rebecca Birdley, whom he married January 7, 1668, and who died June 2, 1709, were: Robert, born May 28. 1670, died young; Richard, born February 26, 1672, married, March 18, 1694, Sarah Thorne and lived at Salisbury, Massachusetts; Isaac, born July 3, 1675, imarried ( first) Bethia -, who died Au- gust 22, 1722, and had thirteen children; married ( second ) Mary Noyes.
(III) Abraham Fitts, son of Abraham Fitts (2), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1658-59, and was a resident of that town in 1678. He mar- ried (first) Margaret Choat, daughter of Sergeant John and Ann Choat, immigrant ancestors of a famous old family. John Choat was born 1624 and died December 4, 1695, bequeathing to Mar- garet (Choat) Fitts in his will dated 1691 and proved May 1, 1697. Ann Choat died February 28, 1691-92. The children of Abraham and Margaret Fitts were: Abraham, Ebenezer, born August 6, 1685, died young ; Anna, born June 18, 1686, died young ; Robert, born July 19, 1690, see forward. Abraham Fitts married ( second), January 9, 1692, Mary Ross, who died 1739. Abraham Fitts died in August, 1714: his will is dated August 4, 1714, and was proved September 13, following. He was im- pressed with twenty-eight other Ipswich men for the Narragansett expedition, November 30, 1675, in King Philip's war. He was in Major Appleton's company and served in the winter's campaign, during which, December 19, three Ipswich men were killed and twenty-two wounded. He served also in the ill-fated Canada expedition in 1690 under Phipps.
(IV) Robert Fitts, son of Abraham Fitts (3), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, July 19, 1690. He was a yeoman there until 1731, when he sold his farm to his brother Abraham and purchased a farm of Benjamin Marsh in Sutton, Massachusetts, where he and his wife joined the church by letter in 1732. He has on record many conveyances of land from 1731 to December 22, 1752, while living in Sutton. His will was made May 10, 1753, and presented for probate June 15, 1753. He married, at Ipswich, January 1, 1717-18 (by Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth). They had eight children born at Ipswich and three at Sutton. The children: Ro- bert, Jr., born November 9, 1718, see forward ; Jonathan, baptized April 24, 1720, died 1792, aged seventy-five years; married, November 27, 1745, Mary Hutchinson; Hannah, baptized November 19, 1721, died December 28, 1721; Hannah, baptized January 20, 1723, married, June 27, 1740, Bartholo- mew Towne, of Sutton, who died at Sutton, 1783, aged seventy years ; Margaret, married Little ; Benjamin, baptized April 16, 1728, married (first), October 31, 1749, Sarah Rich; married (second), October 19, 1762; died February 14, 1803: Mercy, baptized March 1, 1730; Ebenezer, born March 19, 1732, died 1790; married Bethiah Hutchinson ; Me-
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hitable, baptized March II, 1723, at Sutton; Mary, born October 29, 1734; Abraham, born September 5, 1739, married, April 14, 1767, Mary Holman, of Sutton, lived also at Oxford, Massachusetts, and Dummerston, Vermont ; soldier in revolution.
(V) Robert Fitts, Jr., son of Robert Fitts (4), was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, November 9, 1718, died 1754, in his thirty-sixth year. He set- tled in Sutton and united with the church there on profession of faith in 1741. His will was dated July 2, 1754, and proved September 9, 1754. He married, November 9, 1739, Keziah Towne, of Topsfield, born February 9, 1715, daughter of Will- iam Towne by his second wife Margaret, who was widow of John Willard, who was executed at Salem during the terrible witchcraft delusion in 1692. The great-aunts of Keziah were also executed (Rebecca and Mary), while another sister of these two barely escaped a similar fate. The children of Robert and Keziah Fitts were: Keziah, born Jan- uary 25, 1741, married August IS, 1760, William Nichols; Robert, born April 21, 1742, see forward; Samuel, married, May 14, 1772, Martha Stearns ; Hannah, born December 12, 1743; Margaret, born April 10, 1745; John, born June 16, 1747; married, January 15, 1771, Rebecca Stockwell: Ruth, born April 27, 1749, died at Dudley, Massachusetts, un- married; Lucy, born April 26, 1751, married, Feb- ruary 28, 1772, Benjamin Nichols; Phebe, horn August 9, 1753.
(VI) Robert Fitts, son of Robert Fitts (5), was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, April 21, 1742. He lived in Sutton, Oxford and Templeton, where he died February, 1826. He was a store-keeper or trader, and was taxed in 1771 for "goods and wares" thirty pounds. He bought a farm at Oxford of Ebenezer Gale, April 16, 1770, about the time he went there to live. He sold this place to Benja- min Hovey, March 21, 1777. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain John Crowell's company of minute men, Colonel Learned's regi- ment, which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19. 1775-
He married (first), June 2, 1767, Lydia Towne, born April 5, 1739, daughter of Isaac and Lydia Esty Towne, by Benjamin Marsh, elder of the Bap- tist church, of Sutton; she was his cousin. He married (second), at Templeton, Sarah (Nichols) Treadwell, of Templeton, April 17, 1783, by Rev. Ebenezer Sparhawk. She was the widow of Sam- uel Treadwell, whom she married June 16, 1766. She died June, 1829. Children of Robert and Lydia (Towne) Fitts were: Robert, see forward; Isaac, married, January 2, 1794, Mehitable Bishop ; Lydia, mentioned in the settlement of her mother's estate, December 29. 1797. The children of Robert and Sarah (Nichols) Fitts were: John and Sarah (twins), born December 22, 1783; both died in in- fancy.
(VII) Robert Fitts, son of Robert Fitts (6). was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, about 1770. He settled in Royalston when a young man. He mar- ried Mrs. Keziah Nichols, April 21, 1793. He died June, 1803, and the inventory of his estate was dated August 10, 1803. Children of Robert and Keziah Fitts were: Robert, born at Royalston, October 19. 1793, see forward; Keziah, born November 13, 1796; son, born July, 1800, died November 13, 1800: George, born April 20, 1803, died September 18, 1801.
(VIII) Captain Robert Fitts, son of Robert
Fitts (7), was born at Royalston, Massachusetts, October 19, 1793. He received his early education in the public schools there. At the age of fourteen he went to Winchendon to begin an apprenticeship in the wheelwright's trade, and was employed in the factory of E. Murdock & Company, where he remained until he was of age. He then worked at Troy, New Hampshire. In IS28 he removed to Mason, New Hampshire, and was employed as mill- wright there by the Barrett Cotton Manufactur- ing Company, and for twenty years he was master mechanic for this concern. He then removed to New Ipswich and went into business for himself. He was employed by firms and companies in Winchendon, Ashburnham and other towns in the vicinity needing expert millwrights. He came to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1860, to live with his son Robert and worked at his trade but little after- wards. He died at the home of his son Robert, in Lunenburg, March 24, 1878. He was a Universal- ist in religion. In politics he was first a Whig, then a Republican. He was an Abolitionist during the anti-slavery movement. He was a member of Bethel Lodge, No. 24, Free Masons, of New Ips- wich. He was captain of the Troy, New Hampshire, militia company.
He married, June 5, 1821, Tryphena Farrar, who. died October 17, 1842, and their children were: I. Robert, see forward; it will be noticed that Ro- bert is the name of the eldest son, for the past seven generations. 2. Mary T., born at Troy, Feb- ruary 10, 1824, married, 1847, John Milton White, of Peterborough, New Hampshire, and they had- Fremont Milton, Josephine Mary, Ida Honora. 3. Keziah Nichols, boru at Troy, New Hampshire, June 27, 1826, married, 1857, Thomas P. Kenyon, of Millbury, Massachusetts, and had-Ellen T., born at Ashburnham, died young; Jane Florence, born at Fitchburg, now residing in Akron. Ohio ; Theodora ( daughter called Theo) ; Thomas Charles. 4. Samuel Lawrence, born at Mason, July 23, 1830, married, 1854, Nancy Jane Shepard, of Bedford, New Hampshire ; had no issue. 5. Lucy Ann, born at New Ipswich, June 30, 1833, died May, 1878. 7. Honora, born at New Ipswich, December 9, 1839, died September 28, 1840. 6. George W., boru at New Ipswich, November 24, 1836, died March 20. 1837.
(IX) Robert Fitts, son of Robert Fitts (8), was born at Troy, New Hampshire, March 26, 1822. At the age of six years he moved with his parents to Mason, New Hampshire, where he at- tended the common schools for four years. He re- moved with his parents to New Ipswich and com- pleted his schooling there at the age of nineteen. He then learned the trade of millwright of his father and followed it for ten years. He then be- came master mechanic for Winchester Brothers of Ashburnham, chair manufacturers. He remained with this firm until 1858, when he reinoved to West Fairlee, Vermont, to take charge of the farm of his wife's father, Erastus Buck. In 1860 he came to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he was em- ployed in the chair factory of Walter Heywood, as master mechanic, and held that position for the space of thirty consecutive years. He came to Lunenburg in 1872 and bought his present farm of twenty acres, situated near the Fitchburg line, in what is called the Marsh district. Since 1890 he has devoted his entire attention to his farm. Mr. Fitts commands the respect of his townsmen and
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all who know him. He attends the Universalist church at Fitchburg, and is a member of the Charles W. Morse Lodge of Free Masons at Fitchburg. He was formerly a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Mason, New Hampshire.
He married, September 1, 1843, Maria Louisa Wood, born December 12, 1822, at Woodstock, Vermont, daughter of Elisha and Sally ( Cooper) Wood. Her father was a farmer. She died March 9, 1850. He married ( second ), September 1, 1853, Maria Tamer Buck, born May 21, 1828, daughter of Erastus and Matilda ( Morse) Buck. Her father, Erastus Buck. was a farmer and prominent in the militia. Children of Robert and Maria Louisa Fitts were : I. Georgiana Louisa, born May 23, 1844, married ( first) Lieutenant Jesse B. Smith, of the United States navy; married ( second) Hor- ace G. Howes, of Boston, who died July 25, 1905; no issue. 2. Arabella Tryphena, born October 8, 1846, married William G. Wright, of Fitchburg ; died February, 1904, in California; their children : Robert Murray, born June 9. 1869, married Gertie Holbrook; they have two children: Dorriss and Robert MIcGregory; Blanche Louise, born October II, 1870, married David Thompson, of New York : one child, Gardinier : Etta Fitts, born August 25. 1874; Madeline Gardner, born February II, 1886; the family reside in New York. 3. Robert Almont is the seventh Robert Fitts in direct line, a most un- usual and remarkable line of descendants, in fact all of his ancestors in this country in the Fitts line were named Robert except the second and third generation (two Abrahams) ; Robert A. married Sarah P. King, of Fitchburg, and they have Georgie Louise, born January 13, 1873, married William O. Evarts, of Wakefield, and they have-Eleanor Ken- dall Evarts. They reside at Sanbornton, New Hampshire. 4. Samuel Adelbert, born February 18. 1850, resides with parents. Children of Robert and Maria T. Fitts were 5. Willis Edward, born July 2, 1854, died August 14, 1855. 6. Lauretta Maria, borit January 28, 1856, died December 6, 1873
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