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(I) Robert Bullard died at Watertown, June 24, 1659, aged forty, leaving a widow Ann, who married (second) Henry Thorpe. She had a grant of land in Watertown in 1644. Her son Benjamin mentions his mother as Ann Thorpe in a quitclaim deed of his rights in her estate October 15, 1660. Children of Robert and Ann Bullard :. I. Benjamin, born in England in 1634, mentioned below. Also, it is said, two daughters, names un- known.
(II) Benjamin Bullard, son of Robert Bul- lard (1), the early progenitor of this family. and himself an immigrant, was born in Eng- land in 1634. His father died when he was a young child, and he went to Dedham to live with one, or perhaps both, of his uncles. His mother married (second) Henry Thorpe. She had him give bonds that he would not alienate any of the estate then in her posses- sion and consented to a deed that she had made to her son, Benjamin Bullard, and his sisters. The plural case indicates that there were in 1639 at least two daughters of Rob- ert Bullard, sisters of Benjamin, but they were all minors, and we may presume that Benjamin Bullard's uncle, William Bullard, of Dedham, was his guardian, from the fact that the bond was witnessed by him. Ben- jamin Bullard married, at Dedham, April 5, 1659, Martha Ridge, who was born at Rox- bury January 12, 1642, daughter of the im- migrants, Thomas and Mary Ridge. Bullard was admitted freeman January 1, 1655-56. and soon afterward became one of the set- tlers of what is now Sherborn, Massachu- setts. To Captain Robert Kayne, of Boston, had been granted in 1649 a tract of one thou- sand and seventy-four acres of land at Paw-
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sett Hill, which is now partly in Sherborn, partly in Medway. After his death, March 23, 1655-56, Kayne's executors sold to Bul- lard and George Fairbanks about a third of this tract. Their relatives, Hill and Breck, from Dorchester, about the same time bought another section to the north, and these four men constituted the second group of settlers in the territory, now Sherborn. They had their families living on the clear- ings prior to February 2, 1658, when the first child was born. Bullard and Fairbanks divided their land so as to have building lots well situated and in close proximity, Bullard taking the northerly section and building on the northern shore of Bogistow pond near a copious and valuable spring. From his door he could view the Broad Meadows, five tniles in extent, through which Charles River flows, and which, during the wet seasons is converted from a green meadow to a great lake. He found Wood, Leland and Hol- brook settled from one to two miles north- ward, and was soon joined by Rockwood and Daniels within one mile southward, making with Hill, Breck and Fairbanks, his nearer neighbors, a settlement of nine families to be defended by themselves from the Indians. They built a garrison house a few rods from Bullard's house, and throughout the lives of the first settlers and even later, the settlers had need of the little fort. It is said that there was no similar structure on the frontier equal to it in size and strength. It was sixty-five or seventy feet long, two stories high, faced with stone brought over the ice from a quarry a mile distant at the north- west, and laid in clay mortar. It had a double row of port-holes on all sides, and was lined inside with white oak plank, flaring inward so as to require no one to expose himself before them, while the besieged could aim their weapons in any direction. The fort was lighted and had its entrance on the side toward the pond. The upper floor was reserved for the women and children, with a room for the sick and wounded. Dur- ing times of war all the families gathered here, and several children were born in the fort. The settlers were besieged here during King Philip's war, and after repeated re- pulses the Indians attempted to set fire to the fort by rolling a cart load of burning flax upon it. Fortunately the cart was stopped by a ledge, and though every vestige of the old fort is gone, the rock remains and is often visited by antiquarians. The fort itself was well preserved until 1785, when that sec-
tion of the Bullard estate was sold and the new owner tore it down.
Benjamin Bullard was active in the move- ment to establishment a town. In 1662 he signed the first petition for the incorporation of Sherborn. He sold his house in Watertown deeded to him by his mother, as mentioned above, after his father's death, "lately occu- pied by William Thorp, deceased, with eighty acres of farm land and other parcels to Jus- tinian Holden, October 3, 1673, for forty pounds." In 1674 he signed the second peti- tion for the incorporation of the town Sher- born. This petition was granted, and he, by an act of the general court, with twelve other petitioners and twenty more of such as they might consent to receive as inhabitants, con- stituted a proprietor of lands now com- posing Sherborn, Holliston, and a large sec- tion of Framingham and Ashland. Bullard was a leading citizen; tithingman in 1680; selectman in 1688, and was on the committee to seat a meeting house, being one of six who constituted the church at its foundation. He . contributed twenty pounds to the fund raised to extinguish the Indian claim to the land, and in 1686 he paid another tax to pay an Indian claim on the rest of the township. He was rated among the highest, and this rate having been early adopted as the basis of land grants, he and his heirs drew large shares in each division. He died intestate, September 27, 1689, and administration was granted to his son Samuel, and Sarah Bullard, probably a third wife. He married (second), 1677, Elizabeth Thorpe, daughter of Henry Thorpe, by his first wife. The ancient Bullard farm at Bogistow brook, in Medway, the Bullard farms in south and west parts of Sherborn, and in the north and west parts of Holliston, were inherited from him or drawn in his right. He is buried in the old graveyard to the north of the pond, now in the center of a pasture, but enclosed. The old homestead is now owned by John S. Bullard, a lineal descendant, it having descended by inheritance in direct line. Some of the ancient furniture is owned by Mrs. Charles Nutt, of Worcester, whose mother was a sister of Mr. Bullard.
Children of Benjamin and Martha (Ridge) Bullard: I. Mary, born September 14, 1663, died July 31, 1666. 2. Captain Samuel, born December 26, 1667, married Deborah Ather- ton, and inherited the homestead. 3. Benja- min, born March I, 1670, died 1766. 4. Han- nah, born August 6, 1672, married William Sheffield, May 30, 1692. 5. Eleazer, born June 27, 1676, married Widow Sarah Leland,
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in 1704, settled in Medfield, and died without issue. Children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Bullard : 6. John, born March 7, 1678, mar- ried Abigail Leland, daughter of Deacon Hopestill Leland. 7. Elizabeth, born January 31, 1681, died young. 8. Mary, born Febru- ary 20, 1683, married Hopestill Leland, Jr., February 24, 1701-'02. 9. Malachi, born March 8, 1685, married Bethia Wight, daugh- ter of Ephraim Wight. 10. Isaac, born July 25, 1688, mentioned below.
(III) Isaac Bullard, son of Benjamin Bullard (2), was born in Sherborn, July 25, 1688. He settled in Sherborn, now the north- ern part of Holliston ; drew land in Douglass, Massachusetts, in 1715 and 1730, seventy acres. He made his will July 6, 1742, be- queathing to his wife Sarah, sons Isaac and Samuel, three daughters, but his will was not proved. Sarah was appointed guardian for her son Isaac. Isaac Bullard married Sarah Morse, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Morse, of Medfield, and had children: I. Mary, born March 28, 1711, married John Haven, of Fram- ingham, March 9, 1731-32. 2. Captain Sam- uel, born January II, 1714-15, mentioned be- low. 3. Sarah, born October 3, 1718, married May 30, 1735, Ephraim Littlefield. 4. Eliza- beth, born February 18, 1720-21, married March 17, 1736-37, Aaron Jones. 5. Isaac, born October 9, 1726, died January 12, 1814, married Beulah Leland.
(IV) Captain Samuel Bullard, son of Isaac Bullard (3), was born in Holliston, then Sherborn, January II, 1714-15, died May 27, 1793. He settled in the north part of Hollis- ton on part of his father's farm. He married Deborah Morse, daughter of James Morse, by wife Ruth (Sawin) Morse, and granddaugh- ter of Captain Joseph Morse, of Sherborn, by wife Hannah (Babcock) Morse. Deborah was born in 1718, married July 12, 1739, and died November 25, 1801. Children: I. Sam- uel, born September 5, 1742, mentioned below. 2. Deborah, born November 23, 1747, mar- ried Matthew Metcalf, of Hopkinton, and had Fisher and Matthew Metcalf.
(V) Samuel Bullard, son of Captain Samuel Bullard (4), was born in Holliston, Septem- ber 5, 1742. He was a distinguished mathe- matician, surveyor and draftsman. Some of his instruments are in the possession of Will- ard Austin Bullard, his descendant. He in- herited the homestead of his father in Hollis- ton. He married Lydia Partridge, daughter of James and Keziah (Bullard) Partridge, of Medfield, and granddaughter of John Part- ridge, Jr., of Medfield, by wife Elizabeth Rock-
wood. Children : I. Aaron, born June 7, 1770, married, May 19, 1846, Jerusha Littlefield. 2. Jotham (twin), born May II, 1773, mentioned below. 3. Joseph (twin), born May II, 1773, died young. 4. Samuel, born 1777, married (first) Persis Bailey ; (second) Esther Force.
(VI) Jotham Bullard, son of Samuel Bull- ard, (5), was born May II, 1773, at Holliston, Massachusetts. He settled in East Sudbury, now Wayland, in 1808. He followed farm- ing throughout his life. He married, June 2, 1803, Anna, daughter of John Cutting, of East Sudbury. Children: I. Joseph, born March 26, 1804, mentioned below. 2. Elvira Ann, born April 28, 1805, died March 27, 1841. 3. Mary Cutting, born December 18, 1812, mar- ried George Bullard, of Framingham. £ 4.
Emily, born October 29, 1818, married, March 29, 1838, Ebenezer Johnson, of Boston, and had: Granville Ebenezer, born November 3, 1834; George Jotham, born October 29, 1843. 5. Joanna, born July 13, 1823, married, April 26, 1849, Ira Perry, resided at East Wey- mouth and West Medway, and had: Maria Elvira, born March 31, 1850; Albert, born April 3, 1852, died August 3, 1852, at West Medway; Helen Emeline, born October 14, 1853. 6. Jotham (twin), born July 13, 1823, died November 13, 1842. 11 36444
(VII) Joseph Bullard, son
of Jotham Bullard (6), was born at Holliston, March 26, 1804, and moved with the family to Wayland, in 1808. He was educated in Wayland schools, helped his father on the farm, and inherited his grandfather's place at his death. He died in Wayland, in 1898. He married Harriet Loker, who was born March 26, 1804, and died in 1895, granddaughter of Captain Isaac Loker, a soldier of the Revolu- tion. Children: I. John Cutting, born July 12, 1834, mentioned below. 2. Anna Eliza- beth, born November 25, 1835, married Dr. George J. Arnold. Children : Horace D. Ar- nold; Josephine Arnold, married
Peck; John B. Arnold; Anna Arnold, mar- ried Frank Robinson; Elizabeth Arnold, mar- ried Robert Bruce. 3. Willard Austin born December 14, 1837, mentioned below. 4. Har- riet Augusta, born April 17, 1839, unmarried. 5. Joseph Oscar, born May 20, 184I, men- tioned below. 6. Mary Alice, born December 18, 1842, married Rev. Edward A. Perry. 7. Eldora Caroline, born April 2, 1849, died un- married.
(VIII) John Cutting Bullard, son of Joseph Bullard (7), was born in Wayland, July 12, 1834. He was educated in the public schools, and followed the banking business.
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He became president of the East Cambridge Savings Bank. He was clerk, teller and cash- ier of the Cambridge National Bank for forty years. He has been trustee of many estates ; member of the Cambridge Sinking Fund Com- mission. He resides in Lexington, Massa- chusetts. He is a member of Putnam Lodge of Free Masons. He married Martha M. Hobbs. They have one daughter, Evelyn C., married Charles A. Whittemore, a lawyer in Boston. Children: Elsie Whittemore; Elenor Whittemore; Martha B.
(VIII) Willard Austin Bullard, son of Joseph Bullard (7), was born in Wayland, December 14, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of eighteen began his business career as a clerk in the Faneuil Hall Bank, of Boston. In 1861 he accepted a position with the Har- vard Bank of Cambridge, Massachusetts, then a state bank, reorganized a few years later as the First National Bank of Cambridge, under the National Bank Act, finally resuming a state charter under the name of the Harvard Trust Company. Mr. Bullard rose through the various positions in the bank to the head. He was elected president of the First National Bank in 1896, succeeding Daniel U. Chamber- lin after his death. He had been cashier for many years, and had had much of the respon- sibility of its management for thirty years or more. The bank has recently fitted up and now occupies rooms on the first floor in a very handsome and artistic building in Cen- tral Square, erected by the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. It is constructed of marble, and admirably adapted to the purposes of the trust company, as well as an ornament to the city itself. Mr. Bullard has been called upon to act as trustee and executor of many import- ant estates. He stands high among the finan- cial men of New England, and is interested in many of the important industries of Cam- bridge. He is president of the Cambridge Gas- light Company, director and treasurer of the Allen & Endicott Building Company of Cam- bridge, director of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Company, treasurer and trustee of the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company, trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, director of the Home for Aged People of Cambridge, trustee and treasurer of the Cam- bridge Hospital, from its organization, trustee of Dowse Institute, director of the West Point (Georgia) Manufacturing Company, director of the Riverdale Cotton Mills, director of the Chattachoochee (Georgia) Railroad Com- pany. He is a member of the Cambridge
Club, and attends the Unitarian church. He has a summer home in his native town, Way- land. His residence in Cambridge is at 929 Massachusetts avenue.
He married Susan Matilda Bennett, daugh- tre of Jonas Bennett. Children : I. Amy Celinea, born March 10, 1862, married Her- bert C. Wells. Children: Herbert Clifford, Katherine Bennett, Celinea Wells. 2. Henry Willard, born. December 2, 1863, married Mary Palmer. Children : Gardner, Dorothy, Marion, Harriet, Susan, Barbara. 3. Gardner Cutting, born January 17, 1866, graduate of Harvard, 1889, married Mary A. Whitman. Children : Gardner C., Jane. 4. Arthur Bennett, born July 20, 1872, married Maud Parker, daughter of General Parker, who served in the Civil War on the staff of General Grant; no children. 5. Channing Sears, born December 20, 1879, mentioned below.
(VIII) Joseph Oscar Bullard, son of Joseph Bullard (7), was born in Wayland, May 20, 1841. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and learned the pottery business, becoming a manufacturer when a young man, and from 1865 to 1895 manufactured pottery in Cambridge. Since then he has been retired from active business, living in Cambridge. He is a member of Free Masons and the Grand Army Post in Cambridge. He married Seraph Felton Wadsworth.
(IX) Channing Sears Bullard, son of Will- ard Austin Bullard (8), was born in Cam- bridge, December 20, 1879, and died suddenly in New York City, January 8, 1907. He at- tended the public schools of his native city, and the Stone School in Boston for three years. He then took a three-year course in Harvard Medical School, and for one year was in mercantile life in New York City. At the time of his death he was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was fond of athletic sports, and in the water he was hardly less than a professional swimmer. During his later summer vacations he was employed as a life guard at Captain's Island, Cambridge, and Revere Beaches. In this service he was especially efficient, and rescued a number of lives from imminent peril. He had received several medals of honor in competitive swim- ming contests. With a well-nigh perfect physique, his manly figure attracted the attention of athletes. The Cambridge Chron- icle said of him at the time of his death: "It is a bereavement, not only to his immediate family, but to the community, that one on the very threshold of so promising a future as was his should be stricken down, when life was so
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full of promise to him. It is especially sad that this deep affliction should fall upon his family, while his father and brother Arthur, with his wife, are visiting in Europe. . The funeral was held at the home of W. A. Bullard. Rev. Dr. Beach, of Wayland, con- ducted the service. The body was taken to Wayland for interment." He was unmarried.
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GREENHALGE old family of Lanca- shire, England, and is spelled Greenhalgh; Greenhow or Greenhaugh in the English records. The ruins of the Greenhalgh Castle still stand in that county, raised by the first Earl of Derby, and de- stroyed after a siege in consequence of an Act of Parliament in the civil wars in 1644. One of the most distinguished members of this Lan- cashire family was Captain John Greenhalgh, son and heir of Thomas Greenhalgh, Esq., of Brandlesome or Bradlesham Hall; he was governor of the Isle of Man from 1640 to 1651, appointed to that post by the Earl of Derby, who perished on the scaffold at Derby in 1651. Captain Greenhalgh, a bold and dar- ing soldier, was present with the Earl at the battles of Wigan and Worcester and died from wounds received in an encounter when the Earl was taken prisoner in 1651. Thomas Greenhalgh, son of Governor John Greenhalgh, was qualified to be a knight of the Royal Oak and served as high sheriff of Lancashire. The tombs of this family are in the chancel of the parish church, Bury, or were before 1872 when the church was renovated. The arms of the Lancashire Greenhalgh family are: "Ar. on a bend sa. three bugle horns stringed of the field."
(I) Thomas Greenhalgh, grandfather of the late Governor Greenhalge, of Massachu- setts, was born in Burnley, Lancashire. His family has been traced for four generations. He was the son of Thomas Greenhalge, of Burnley, born December, 1783, grandson of John Greenhalge, of Burnley, great-grandson of Thomas Greenhalge, of Preston, and tradi- tion connects his lineage with Governor John Greenhalgh, mentioned above. Thomas mar- ried Anne Dodson, of Knaseboro, Yorkshire. Of the seventeen children of this union, ten lived to mature age, four sons and six daugh- ters, but only two of the sons married. Chil- dren : 1. William, mentioned below. 2. James, whose children died without issue.
(II) William Greenhalgh, son of Thomas Greenhalgh (1), was born in Clitheroe, Lan-
cashire, in 1810; married there in 1840 Jane Slater. He had a good education and learned the trade of copper engraving. He had charge of the Primrose Print Works at Clitheroe. In 1844 he removed to Eshton and in 1847 to Edenfield, an ideal English village, where he and his brother Thomas became the proprie- tors of an engraving establishment. His liter- ary tastes led him to form a society with other gentlemen of kindred minds for mutual en- joyment and study. Among the members were Rev. Nathan Nelson, rector of the par- ish ; John Aiken, of Iswell Vale; Mr. Hewitts, a mill owner, and a Mr. Austin. A few years later the brothers moved to the city of Man- chester and while there he received an offer from America to take charge of the copper rolling engraving of the printing department of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company of Lowell, Massachusetts, as successor to James Prince, who had died shortly before in Eng- land. This call he accepted, and with his fam- ily sailed from England, May 16, 1855, arriv- ing after a voyage of five weeks, in Boston, June 22, 1855. He settled on Dutton street, Lowell. He was a man of unusual intellectual gifts. He loved art, good books and had no little oratorical ability. His brother Joseph says of him in a book concerning the family published in England: "He was a good spokesman, and at most of the election con- tests at Clitheroe, from 1832 onward, he was chairman, secretary or otherwise, where both writing, auditing and speech-making were re- quired. I remember in 1841, when Cardwell contested the borough in the Tory interests, that he addressed the electors from the Swann window in Whalley, and William spoke to them in opposition; it was said at that period the latter was much the better orator." The Civil war brought disaster to the family of Greenhalge. Business was interrupted at the Merrimack Mills, and in January, 1862, work was suspended. His loss of work was fol- lowed by a long illness, which ended in his death, October, 1862. His wife was a woman of broad mind and strong character, and pos- sessed many remarkable qualities that fitted her to be the mother of a distinguished man. Six daughters and one son they brought to America. Among their children was Frederic Thomas, mentioned below.
(III) Governor Frederic Thomas Green- halge, son of William Greenhalge (2), was born in Clitheroe, July 19, 1842. In 1847 his father located at Edenfield, where most of his English life was spent, and where his education was begun in a private
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school kept by John Ashworth, at which it is said he stood at the head of his classes. He was twelve years of age when his father came to Lowell, and soon after his arrival he entered the old North Grammar school, and a year later the Lowell high school, having the high- est rank of any of the pupils entering at the same time. Mr. Chase, principal of the high school, pronounced Greenhalge the most bril- liant pupil that ever came under hisinstruction. He was one of the editors of the high school weekly paper, The Voice, and wrote short stories for Vox Populi, a Lowell newspaper. He was active in the school debating society and a leader in declamation. He graduated in 1859 at the head of his class, though he did four years work in three, and was the first recipient of the Carney medal for scholarship. He entered Harvard College in the class of 1863. He joined the Institute of 1770 and achieved distinction in college debates ; he was orator of the Institute at the close of his so- phomore year, while Gorham Philip Stevens, who died afterward of wounds received at Williamsburg, was elected poet. Greenhalge also became editor of the old Harvard Maga- zine. Among his classmates were Professor John Fiske; ex-Secretary Charles S. Fair- child, Jeremiah Curtin, Judge Sheldon and Nathan Appleton, his most intimate friend be- ing Rev. I. W. Beard, now of Dover, New Hampshire. Judge Sheldon wrote of Green- halge as a student: "Governor Greenhalge in his college life was one of the marked men of his time. Then, as in his future career, his nature was upright and downright, frank and outspoken, richly endowed with ready wit and keen sarcasm, quick and honest, without any parade or pretence, but genial and full of good companionship. He was a close student ; but he already knew how to give his closest at- tention to those special objects of study which he most affected, and in which he regarded success as most valuable. Perhaps his main distinction was as a writer and debater. He was a powerful speaker, strong and earnest then as afterwards in public life, with a vigor- ous energy which seemed to beat down all op- position, a force of sarcasm which would have scorched and withered but for the kindness of heart which seemed to underlie . his most trenchant invectives. But, after all, the most noticeable trait of his character in college was his frank and unassuming geniality. Simple and unaffected, readily approachable and kindly natured, his lovable qualities were the more attractive because he was wont to cover them, or perhaps hold them in half-concealed
ambush behind a shelter of sarcasm, because he was inclined to express a tender sentiment in biting words, and because he never cared to guard against any misjudgment of his own motives or any misinterpretation of his real meaning. Absolutely independent alike in what he did, what he said and what he thought, his integrity and self-reliance made it impossible for him to cater to the good opinions of others. And yet he was then, as: he always remained, devoted to his friends. But because he loved them utterly, and never could have believed it necessary to put on any disguise or any shadow of pretence to gain or to hold their affections, they would not have become his friends if he could have conceived that their affection was thus to be gained or to be held. And it is perhaps because he joined this sturdy independence, which scorned to abase itself for the merely apparent honor of others, to a complete and self-neglecting per- sistence of affection which was ready to give all without any doubt or sense of hesitancy for the real advantage of his friends, that many of his classmates have felt his loss as a personal affliction, as a bereavement which comes close to their hearts, and makes them slow to speak their grief, because it seems too sacred to be put into words." His brilliant career at college was cut short by the illness and death of his father, and at the end of his junior year he had to leave Harvard, but in 1870 he received his degree from the college in appreciation of his scholarship and subse- quent record. He obtained the appointment as teacher of the school in District No. 2 of Chelmsford in the winter of 1862 and 1863, and proved efficient and satisfactory in every respect. He wished to follow many. of his classmates in the Union army, and tried to enlist in October, 1863, but was refused on account of ill health. He went to Newberne, North Carolina, however, then garrisoned by Illinois troops, and was assigned to duty in the commissary department, hoping eventually to receive a commission. During the attack on the city in February, 1864, he offered his ser- vices in defence and was put in charge of the stores, and detailed men of the Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment, having command of a force of colored men. He was seized with an attack of malaria, and in April, 1864, re- turned home. After returning from the army he resumed in the office of Brown & Alger, Lowell, his interrupted study of law, and in 1865 was admitted to the Middlesex bar. For the practice of his profession his talents and education fitted him admirably. He loved his
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