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MCCRACKEN FAMILY. William McCracken (I), progenitor of the McCracken family of Mill- bury, Massachusetts, was born about 1700, probably in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lived the greater part of, if not all, of his life. He belonged to an ancient Scottish family having its origin in Gallo- way county, Scotland. Among his children was William, see forward.
(11) William McCracken, son of William Mc- Cracken (I), was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1744, and died in Belfast, Ireland, April 25, 1817, aged seventy-three years. He learned the trade of weaver and when a young man removed to Lan- cashire, in the industrial section of England. From there he went to Belfast, Ireland, where at that time weavers were in great demand and where even now linens of world-wide fame are manufactured. In the summer after his death his widow and four of his children started for America. He married Eliza- beth Johnston, daughter of Lord Johnston, as the children were told, though the match was against the wishes of her parents and she never heard from or communicated with her own family after her marriage. She died on the voyage to America in latitude 44, longitude 54. August 28, 1817, on the ship "Mary Ann." She was born in 1748. William and Elizabeth McCracken had ten children. The sons who came to America were: Francis, see forward; William, settled in Baltimore, Maryland ; James, settled in Massachusetts; George, settled in Massachusetts.
(111) Francis McCracken, son of William Mc- Cracken (2), was born in Lancashire, England, in 1784, in a place called Sadleworth. When he was six years old he was sent to Scotland to be edu- cated. He learned the trade of weaver. He served in the British army during the war with France in the regiment of the Marquis of Douglas and Clides- dale and held a commission. He was stationed in IV-23.
Ireland when in the military service, and when he was mustered out, just after his father's death, he sailed for the United States. While in the service in Ireland he was out on a detail to get provisions for his regiment and had occasion to stay over might at the house of William Kirk and Margaret Dunlap, his wife, linen drapers and weavers. They were stern old Scotch Covenanters who had come from. Scotland to Potter's Walstown, Antrim, Antrim county, Ireland. The young officer fell in love with the youngest daughter of their family of ten, and. when he started for America she was his wife .. Besides the young couple were his widowed mother, his brother William, his brother James and wife,. and his brother George McCracken. Francis Mc -- Cracken settled in Millbury and followed his trade as weaver. He started the first loom that was run by power on woolen goods in America at Walpole, Massachusetts, in the mill of Truman Clark. He started the first power loom in Northbridge, Massa- chusetts, in the mill of Sylvanus Holbrook. He did the first weaving by hand of fancy kersey in the town of Millbury. In the thirties he began to mall- ufacture woolen goods in Millbury. The deed of his null shows that Samuel Waters, Orra Goodell. and Horace Waters, of Millbury, sold for five thon- sand dollars to Francis McCracken, Mary Ware, Mary Goodell, Tyler Waters, Josiah Woodward, Samuel Goodell, Andrew Elliott, John P. Lovell. Elijah Waters, Amasa Dow, Seth Hartwell, Allen. S. Wood, John Mallalien and John Brierly their woolen factory at Millbury with three dwelling. houses and land, water privilege, etc., all for debts due. The deed is dated October 7, 1834. In his later years Mr. McCracken devoted his attention to farm- ing. He died at Millbury, September 13, 1876, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. His will was dated January 2, 1869, and the estate was ad- ministered by his son, George W. McCracken, seven of his eight children being alive when the will was. made.
The children of Francis and Hannah ( Kirk) Mc- Cracken were: Sarah Ann, died young. Sarah Jane, born 1818, married Newell Wood, April 4, 1847. Francis, mentioned in will, born March 22, 1820, resides with Herbert McCracken; Hannah. Harriett, born July 7, 1822; George Washington,. born Jannary S. 1826, see forward; Elizabeth Jolin- son, born October 17, 1828; Nancy Kirk, born Sep- tember 23. 1831, married Newton Clark; William John, born August 4, 1833, died September 24, 1833 ; Samuel Charles, born October 8, 1834; Harriet, mar- ried Loran Young.
(1V) George Washington McCracken, son of Francis McCracken (3), was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, January 8, 1826. At the age of three years he removed with his parents to Lowell, Massachusetts, but their stay there was brief. He was educated in the common schools and at an early age learned the trade of weaving in his father's mill, and at the age of sixteen was operating a loom regularly. He worked for the firm of Woodward & Company. receiving the usual wages of the time, fourteen dollars a month and his board. He was energetic, industrious and skillful, and at the age of eighteen was made designer, which was equivalent to superintendent of the mill. He went to Con- necticut for a time and was engaged in setting up weaving machinery, but owing to ill health he had to give up his position and return to his home in Millbury. After six years more of the woolen busi- ness in the factories at Cherry Valley, Leicester,
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Massachusetts, Mr. McCraeken was advised by his physician to leave the loom for the farm. Accord- ingly he bought a farm at Millbury of Leonard Dwinnel and became a farmer. His health improved in his new occupation and he devoted forty-four years to agriculture with substantial success, retiring only when he reached an advanced age. He is now living ( 1900) at his home in Braymansville, Mill- bury, having retired from farming and active busi- ness, but enjoying all his mental faculties, fair health and strength. Mr. MeCracken is a Republican m politics. He attends the Congregational church.
Hle married (intentions dated September 26, 1847) Mary Edgerly Thornton, a descendant of a notable Scoteh-Irish family, one of whom, Hon. Mathew Thornton, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for the state of New Hampshire. She was born May 15, 1824, in the town of Thoril- ton, New Hampshire, named for her grandfather, its founder. She was the daughter of Nathan and Olive (Edgerly) Thornton and great-granddaugh- ter of Captain Thomas Thornton, of Durham, who was a soldier in the revolution, and whose wife died at the advanced age of one hundred and four years, according to family records, at Lowell, Massa- chusetts. Her grandfather, George Edgerly, was a farmer of Rye, New Hampshire. George Washing- ton and Mary E. MeCracken have eight children, seventeen grandchildren and eight great-grandchil- dren. The children: I. Mary Luella, resides at home with her parents; George Washington, Jr., resides at Clinton, married Abbie J. Marsh and has four children-Alpha, Edith, Carrie L., George L .; Herbert, see forward; Oriana K., married Sumner Emmons and have had four children, of whom one djed. the others being Charles S., Etherlyn and Ed- ward; Etella Lois, died young; Warren J., resides in Charlton, married ( first) Cora Wilcox: (second ) Nellie Cook and they have children : Elsie May ( de- cased ), Lavina E., Ethel Luella, Warren Leon, Ralph Stanly ; Francis W., died at twenty-six years of age; Etta Ella, died in infancy.
(V) Herbert McCraeken, son of Gtorge Wash- ington McCraeken (4), was born in Millbury, Mas- sachusetts, May 31, 1853. He acquired his early education in the public schools and at a private school in Worcester. After leaving the schoolroom he engaged in farming, a business he has followed with uniform success from the first. He owns a very attractive and productive farm in West Mill- bury and ranks among the leading farmers of his section. He is a member of the Millbury Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is a life-long Republican. is especially interested in town affairs, and has served the town as overseer of the poor for two terins. Ile and his family are members of the Congregational church of Millbury. He married. April 28, 1881, Hannah B. Stockwell, daughter of Charles and Anna Hall Stockwell, of Sutton, Massa- chusetts. Their children are: Alice May, born June 23, 1882, married S. F. Stockwell and they have two children: Bertha and Stephen II .; Waldo A., born January 14, 1884; Cora M., born April 16, 1887; lda B., born March 6, 1889.
CALVIN A. CHAMBERLAIN. Edmund Chamberlain (1), the immigrant ancestor of Calvin A. Chamberlain, of Westborough, Massachusetts, settled at Woburn, Massachusetts, and removed about 1655 to Chelmsford. He drew land at New Roxbury ( Woodstock, Connecticut ) lot No. 56, and liis son Edmund settled there. Edmund Chamber-
lain married at Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 4, 1647, Mary Turner, probably sister of John Tur- ner. She died in Roxbury, December 7, 1669, at the house of Samuel Ruggles, of Roxbury. He married (second) at Malden, June 22, 1670. The children of Edmund or Edward (the names were used interchangeably) Chamberlain were: Mary, baptized at Roxbury, April 16, 1048; Sarah, born December 18, 1649; Edmund, Jr., born May 20 or 30, 1650, was in Captain Moseley's company, killed December, 1675: Sarah, born March II, 1651-52; Jacob. born October 5, 1658. The children of Ed- mund and Hannah Chamberlain, born or recorded as born at Malden, were: Susanna, born June 16, 1671. died 1672: Ebenezer, born 1672, died 1672; Susanna, married, November 14, 1093, John Tucker- man, of Boston; Edmund, born January 31, 1676, settled in Woodstock, Connecticut.
(II) Jacob Chamberlain, son of Edmund Cham- berlain (1), was born in Chelmsford, October 5, 1658. He owned a lot of twenty-three and one-half acres at Woodstock and is presumed to have lived there from about 1687 to 1690 or later. He was first at Roxbury, later in Newton and Boston, Massachusetts. He and his wife Susannah March 8, 1685, probably soon after their marriage "did yt day take hold on o covenant." He married
Susanna and their children were: Jacob, baptized at Roxbury, March 15, 1685. married Abiel and owned the covenant at Roxbury, December, 1714; had children in Boston-Phebe, born Sep- tember 4. 1728; Edmund, October II, 1730; Na- thaniel,. October 27, 1732; Abiel, October 7, 1734. Ebenezer, baptized September 6, 1687, probably died young. Jason, born in Newton, February 26, 1701. Ebenezer, born July 31, 1704, see forward. John, married Mercy - , settled in Westborough. The children of this Jacob and wife Susannah are con- fused by Jackson in his history of Newton with the family of Jacob and Susanna of Newton given elsewhere in sketch of General Robert H. Chamber- lain, of Worcester. Neither of these Jacobs must be confused with Jacob who married Experience. The latter may have been an uncle of the two cousins Jacob, who also lived in Newton.
(III) Ebenezer Chamberlain, son of Jacob Chain- berlain (2), was born in Newton, Massachusetts, July 31, 1704. He settled in Newton first, but soon removed with his brother John to Westborough, where the name has been numerous and honored . ever since. He married. 1733. Mary Trowbridge, daughter of Thomas Trowbridge. She died at Westborough, February I, 1756. He married (sec- ond) Mrs. Joanna Morse, of Southborough. Decem- ber 23, 1756. Many of the family lived at South- borough. Ebenezer Chamberlain was selectman of Westborough in 1766. The children of Ebenezer and Mary Chamberlain were: Anna, born Jan- uary 13, 1734-35; Nathaniel Longley, born July 1, 1736, died January 22, 1756; Mary, born July 17, 1738, died 1756; Ebenezer, Jr., born October 10, 1740, sergeant in Captain George Baker's company April 19, 1775; married Esther Fay, April 10, 1766 ; Edmund, the name of the immigrant is found in every generation, born August 20, 1742, settled in Southborough and Westborough: married, Jan- uary 22, 1767, Ruth Pratt: Lydia, born February 21, 1744-45. married, December 19, 1770, William Brig- ham: Martha, born December 23, 1747, married. October 13, 1768, David Brigham. of Shrewsbury ; Joshua, born March 1, 1749-50: Daniel, born March 12, 1753, see forward. The only child of Ebenezer
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and Joanna Chamberlain was: Jonathan, born June 10, 1759. All the foregoing were born at West- borough.
(IV) 'Daniel Chamberlain, son of Ebenezer Chamberlain (3), was born at Westborough, Massa- chusetts, March 12, 1753. He was a leading man in town and church at Westborough. He was deacon of the church for many years and before the intro- duction of new-fangled instrumental music it was part of his duty to "line off" the hymns for the choir and congregation at the "meeting." The practice was not given up without a struggle. lu 1779. the Sunday following the discontinuance of the awkward old custom in Worcester, the deacon was told to discontinue it, but he persisted and there was a short but decided conflict between the deacon and the choir in which numbers, not de- termination, won the victory. Deacon Chamberlain presented charges against John Robinson, former pastor of the church, August 10, 1814, and the charges were sustained at the trial. The deacon was a soldier in the revolution in his youthful days. He was a private in Captain George Baker's com- pany, April 19, 1775. on the Lexington Alarm. He was also in Captain Edmund Brigham's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, marching August 21. 1777, to re-inforce the northern army.
He married, January 4, 1775, Lydia Harrington, of Westborough, daughter of Samuel and Eliza- beth Harrington; she was born there April 24, 1754. The children of Daniel and Lydia Chamber- lain, all born in Westborough, were: Joshua, born October 15, 1777; Daniel, born March II, 1782, (captain) sold the homestead to Westborough for a town farm; Elizabeth, born November 9. 1784; Samuel, born May 13, 1787, see forward; Eli, born October 4, 1789; Nancy, born August 12, 1792; Curtis, born November 23, 1790; Julia, born June 4, 1801.
(V) Samuel Chamberlain, son of Daniel Cham- berlain (4), was born in Westborough, Massachu- setts, May 13, 1787. He was a farmer, and lived in his native town all his life. In politics he voted with the Whigs. He handed down the homestead to his son Samuel. He married, April 8. 1812, Nancy Forbes, of Westborough, the daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Forbes, of Westborough, and she was born there May 24, 1790. He married (second ) (intentions dated September 4) 1833, Alfreda Gibbs, who was born at Sturbridge, August 18, 1792, the daughter of Zephaniah Gibbs. His will was dated February 10, 1858. There were nine children, among them being Samuel.
(VI) Samuel Chamberlain, Jr., son of Samuel Chamberlain (5), was born in Westborough, Massa- chusetts, about 1815. He was a life-long resident of his native town. He inherited the homestead from his father and conducted it all his life. He died 1877. He married, October 1, 1850, Azuba Wight, and they had seven children, viz. : Hiram, Calvin, died young, Abijah, Emma, Caroline, Alice, Calvin A., born January 16, 1868, see forward.
(VII) Calvin A. Chamberlain, son of Samuel Chamberlain (6), was born at the old Chamberlain homestead in Westborough, Massachusetts, January 16, 1868. He was educated at the public schools of his native town and at Lawrence Academy. He has devoted his entire attention to the farm where he lived with his father, and succeeded his father as the owner of the old place. He is progressive and shrewd in management, energetic and thrifty. He
is a Republican in politics and attends the Congre- gational Church. He married, June, 1902, Clara MI. Tufts, daughter of Henry Tufts, of Nova Scotia.
JOAB WINTHROP HOLT. Nicholas Holt, immigrant ancestor of Jacob Winthrop Holt, was born in England, in 1602, probably in Romsey, whence he came to America, sailing in the ship "James" of London, William Cooper, master, from Southampton, April 6, 1635, arriving at Boston in New England, June 3, following. He was a tan- ner by trade. He settled first at Newbury, where he had a four acre house lot among the earliest settlers. Edward Rawson and Archelaus Woodman owned adjoining lots. He was one of the famous ten adherents of Governor Winthrop who walked to Cambridge in 1637 to take the freeman's oath in order to vote for Winthrop against Sir Harry Vane for governor. He was admitted a freeman May 17, 1037, after his journey from Newbury. He did not care so much about voting next year ; he was fined for being absent from the annual town meeting of Newbury February 24, 1638. He was a town officer. He removed to Andover in 1644 and his name is sixth on the original list of first settlers. His house was located on Stony Plain. He had a house lot of fifteen acres, besides one hundred and sixty acres of meadow and three hundred and sixty of other land. He sold his New- bury property November 14, 1652. He deposed April 11, 1071, that his age was sixty-three years, fixing his year of birth as 1608, a difference of sev- eral years from the date previously given at emi- gration.
He and Sergeant Marshall were appointed May 26, 1647, to lay out the road from Reading to Andover. He died at Andover, January 30, 1685. aged eighty-three years, indicating that his year of birth was 1602. He distributed his property during his life and left no will. His wife Elizabeth, whom he married in England, died at Andover. November 9, 1056. He married ( second), June 20, 1658, Hannah Rolfe, widow of Daniel Rolfe, and daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet. She died June 20, 1665, and he married ( third) Mrs. Martha Preston, May 21, 1666. She died March 21, 1703, aged eighty years. She was the widow of Roger Preston. . The children of Nicholas and Elizabeth Holt were: Hannah, married, March 8, 1669, Rob- ert Gray; Elizabeth, born at Newbury, March 30, 1636, married Ralph Farnum; Mary, born October 6. 1638, married, July 5. 1657, Thomas Johnson : Sarah, born June 2, 1640; Samuel, born October 6, 1611, married Sarah --; Henry, born 1644, see forward: Nicholas, born 1647, married, January 8, 1679, Mary Russell; James, born 1651, married, October 12. 1675, Hannah Allen; Priscilla born June 20, 1653, died October 14. 1662. The children of Nicholas and Hannah Holt were: Rebecca, born November 14. 1662, died young; John, born Janu- ary 4. 1663-64, married Sarah Gecrey.
(1]) Henry Holt, son of Nicholas Holt (1), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, 1644, died January 17, 1719, aged seventy-five years. He set- tled in Andover and became a prominent citizen, serving on important town committees. His father deeded him his share of the estate in 1681. In 1686 he secured permission of the town to erect a mill on Ladle brook. He was a member of the church at Andover June 3. 1716. He married, Feb- ruary 24, 1669. Sarah Ballard, daughter of William
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Ballard. She died at Andover, November 25, 1733. Their children, all born at Andover, were: Eliza- beth, born December 29, 1670, married, June 14, 1711, Benjamin Harnden; Oliver (sergeant), born January 14, 1671, married (first) Hannah Russell and (second) Mary Hughes; Henry, born January 24, 1073; James, born September 3, 1675, see for- ward; George, born March 17, 1677, married Eliza- beth Farnum and Priscilla Preston; Sarah, born August 17, 1678, married, February 18. 1707-08, John Crain ; Josiah, born December 13, 1679, mar- ried Mary Lovejoy ; Dinah, born May 23, 1681, mar- ried David Pierce; Paul, born February 7, 1684, married Abigail Holt; William, born February 3, 1687; Zerviah, born March 24, 1689, married Jona- than Abbott; Keturah, born December 15, 1690; Humphrey, born September 22, 1693; Benjamin, born July 8, 1696.
( 1]]) James Holt, son of llenry Holt (2), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, September 3, 1675. Hle settled in Andover. He married, May 24, 1705, Susanna Preston, who died February 20, 1741-42; he died November 25, 1751, aged seventy-six years. Children of James and Susannah Holt, all born at Andover, were: Abigail, born March 20, 1705, died November 10, 1716; James, born 1707, married, October 22, 1733, Mary Chandler; Zerviah, born 1712, died October 9, 1715: Barzillai, born October 25, 1715, see forward; Abigail, died February 20, 1750.
(IV) Barzillai Holt, son of James Holt (3), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, October 25, 1715. He settled in Marlborough and Shrewsbury and was the first settler in the part that is now West Boylston. He married (first), August 27, 1738, Elizabethi Goss. and ' ( second ), February 22, 1759, Lois Allen. He died at Boylston, 1774, aged fifty-eight years. Children of Barzillai and Eliza- beth Holt were : Abel, born at Marlborough, June 14, 1740, see forward; Barzallai, born May 12, 1745, at Marlborough, married, November, 1770, Lucy Williams: resided at Winchendon, Massachusetts ; Troy, New York; Glenmary, Canada; and died at Plattsburg, 1819, aged seventy-four years; James, born June 6, 1746, probably died young; Elizabeth, born August 29, 1753, married Boynton ; ( second ) Josiah Beaman; she died February 28, 1842; Silas, married, January 25, 1772, Sarah Har- rington, daughter of J. H. Harrington, resided at Westminster. Children of Barzillai and Lois Holt were: Levi, born May 6, 1760, soldier in the revo- lution, died in camp; Abiel, born May II, 1763, re- sided in Lancaster and West Boylston; married Dolly Fairbanks; Jotham, born at Marlborough, January 10, 1765, married, January 3, 1788, Lydia Fairbanks.
(V) Abel Holt, son of Barzillai Holt (4), was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, June 14. 1740. He was a soldier all through the revolutionary war. He was in Captain Robert Andrews' company of minutemen and marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. Ile was then in the second pre- cinct of Shrewsbury. In 1777 he was in Captain A>a Rice's company, Colonel Job Cushing's regi- ment, and turned out on the Bennington aların. Later he was in Captain Joseph Warren's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Wheelock's regiment. He was also in Captain Ephraim Lyon's company, Colonel Wade's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign of 1778. Again in rySo he enlisted for three months in Captain Daniel Grout's company, Colonel Enoch
Hallett's regiment, August 7, 1780, to re-inforce the Continental army. He settled in that part of Boyls- ton set off as West Boylston, and he died in West Boylston, February, 1815, aged seventy-five years.
He married, October 21, 1765, Eunice Keyes, daughter of Henry Keyes, of Shrewsbury. She was born April 19, 1745, died October 21, 1840, aged ninety-five years and a half. Their children were : Lois, born in Shrewsbury, May II, 1767, married William Drury, of Holden; Amasa, born in Boyls- ton, April 24. 1772, married, 1798, Nabby Nourse, of Berlin; she died July 7, 1807, aged thirty years, two months, twenty days; he married ( second ) Hannah Moore; he died at Berlin, November 3, 1815. Asa B., born January II, 1775, resided at West Boylston, died August 10, 1847. Abel, born at Boylston, June 26, 1776, married Hannah Wright, who died at West Boylston, January, 1835, aged seventy-seven years, eight months, five days. Jonas, born October 22, 1779, see forward. Eunice, born at Boylston, October 21, 1782, married Brigham Prescott. Henry Keyes, born July 2, 1788, married, November 16, 1813, Lydia, daughter of Seth and Relief Fairbanks. Tyler, born September 21, 1791, married, October 1, 1812, Arethusa Fairbanks.
(VI) Jonas Holt, son of Abel Holt (5), was born at Boylston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1779. He was a carpenter by trade, an occupation that he followed from early manhood until he became in- capacitated a few years before his death from the effects of rheumatism. He owned a farm in the southern part of West Boylston deeded to him by his father, Abel Holt. It is known as the old Holt place and contains some seven acres of land. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and served with his regiment in guard duty. Few Massachusetts soldiers were in any engagements during that war. He died April 9, 1853, aged seventy-four years, five months. He was a member of the Congregational Church. In politics he was a Whig.
He married, 1803, Anna Reed, born February 25, 1780, died August 6, 1845. Children of Jonas and Anna Holt were: I. Russell, born August 19, 1804, at Boylston, married (first) Emeline P. King- man, of West Boylston. and they had Robert B. and Emeline T .; married (second) Anna S. Parker, November 28, 1806; she died September 2, 1808; their child, Amanda, became the wife of Horace Broad and had children Arthur H. and Mabel Broad; Amanda married ( second) William
Wheeler. 2. Anna S., born November 28, 1805. died September 2, 1808. 3. Joab Smith, born at West Boylston, October 25, 1807, see forward. 4. Louisa Smith, born January 1, 1811, married Oliver S. Bassett, of Connecticut, and they have George Oliver Bassett, born June 22, 1839, imarried Caro- line L. Pierce ; their only child died in infancy. 5. Ward Edmund, born March 3, 1813, died January 13, 1877; married. September 17, 1840, Elmira Pierce Butler, of West Boylston, who was born September 12, 1823, died March 6, 1902; their chil- dren are-Nelson Smith, born April 1, 1841, died at Berlin, Massachusetts, January 9, 1859; Frank Ward, born November 18, 1860, married Minnie Bixby, of Worcester, and they have a son, Harold Ward; Edwin Mann, born August 20, 1862, died December 4. 1892; Myra Anna, born June 5, 1847, married (first), December 25, 1867, Frederick G. Wilson : married (second), May 30, 1885, Marius T. Cooley. 6. Marshall Shedd, born April 19, 1820, died September 14, 1822.
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