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been a member of the investment committee of the Framingham Co-operative Bank since 1895, and is president of the Middlesex South Agricultural Society. He is a prom- inent Free Mason. He was made a member of Siloam Lodge, of Westborough, August 24, 1867 ; was master in 1882 and 1883 of Hough- ton Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Marl- borough, January 8, 1883; now member of Concord Chapter at South Framingham, of Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters, Worcester; of Worcester County Command- ery, of Knights Templar, since June 23, 1892; of Worcester Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree Scottish Rite Masonry, since Febru- ary 25, 1892; and of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Boston, since March 30, 1899.
He married, July 8, 1869, Emily Maria Boynton, born at Westborough, September 22, 1847, daughter of Reuben and Arethusa (Buck) Boynton, of Westborough. Her fa- ther was a prominent citizen, representative to the general court, and was engaged in the meat and provision business. Children of Samuel O. and Emily M. Staples: I. Hattie Maria, born July 9, 1870; married, June 7, 1894, George H. Eames, of South Framing- ham; children: i. Blanche Woodbury Eames, born January 26, 1895. ii. Dorothy Boyn- ton Eames, born March 15, 1903. (See Eames sketch). 2. Mabel Boynton, born November 23, 1872, resides with parents. 3. George Holman, born September 23, 1874; married, November 9, 1904, Amy Louise Whitney, of Milford; no issue. 4. Edward Arthur, born March 12, 1876, manufacturer of straw goods at Franklin, Massachusetts ; unmarried.
Sower in his Patrony- PENDERGAST mica Brittanica says that the name of Pren- dergast (another spelling of this surname) designates a parish of Pembrokeshire, Wales, whence went forth with the famous Stronge- brow to the Conquest of Ireland, Maurice de Prendergast. This name is derived from pren (tree), droe (water), and gwest (inn) ; hence, Prendergast, meaning an inn by the tree near water. Edmunds gives this deriva- tion in his book, Names of Places. The sur- name was in use as early as the first half of the twelfth century. Later in that century the progenitor took part in the Conquest of Ire- land and settled in that part now known as Wexford county. The family of Maurice de Prendergast came over with William the
Conqueror, and in common with other Nor- man-English proprietors they were forbidden on penalty of forfeiting their estates to marry Irish women, and it is presumed that the Pen- dergast family intermarried only with families of Norman descent.
(I) Stephen Pendergast, the immigrant an- cestor, was born in County Wexford, in southern Ireland. He came to America in 1718, or soon afterward, and settled in the vi- cinity of Dover, New Hampshire. Peter and William Pendergast were in the fifth com- pany, Captain John Kinslagh, at the siege of Louisburg in 1745, and, living in the same neighborhood, are presumed to be near rela- tives, perhaps brothers of Stephen. He mar- ried, at Greenfield, New Hampshire, March 5, 1727, Jane Cotton, descended from John Cot- ton, who died January 12, 1745-55 (?). He died September 10, 1753. Their children: I .. Margaret, born May 22, 1729. 2. Stephen, Jr., March 29, 1731, mentioned below. 3. Ed- mond, February 22, 1733. 4. Ann, June 13, 1735. 5. Solomon, June 19, 1737. 6. Sarah, August 13, 1739. 7. Mary, October 13, 1741. 8. Bridget, February 24, 1745. 9. John, April 18, 1749.
(II) Stephen Pendergast, son of Stephen Pendergast (I), was born March 29, 1731, at Stratham, New Hampshire, and died at Barn- stead, February 27, 1797. He married Betty Rivers, who was born April 23, 1737, and died September 16, 1836. Their children, all born at Durham, New Hampshire, where they set- tled: I. Jane, born March I, 1762, died March 30, 1785. 2. Dennis, August 16, 1764. died March 19, 1840. 3. Anna, March 2 1767, died November 10, 1851. 4. Sarah, June 2, 1768, died November 19, 1858. 5 Stephen, August 6, 1770, died September 13, 1827. 6. Joseph, July 13, 1773, died April IO, 1860. 7. Solomon, February 26, 1776, died December 3, 1860, mentioned below. 8. Betty C., May 16, 1778, died April 24, 1871. 9 John, October 26, 1780, died June 22, 1796 IO. Thomas, August 21, 1783, died May 4. I862.
(III) Solomon Pendergast, son of Stephen Pendergast (2), was born at Durham, New Hampshire, February 26, 1776, and died at Barnstead, December 3, 1860. He married, December 31, 1801, Rebecca Sherburne, who was born in 1777, and died February 5, 1865, aged eighty-six years, five months and four- teen days. He was deacon of the Barnstead church, succeeding Deacon Ebenezer Nutter. He resided in the north part of the town and was prominent in the town and church for
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many years. He was a Free Mason, which is a remarkable fact for people of those days. The history of the town notes that he was fond of hunting and fishing and somewhat successful in catching bears; of his death it says: "He bade farewell to earth and all the scenes, seek- ing a rest in that as yet undiscovered haven best known to that God whom he served. He left a family of three sons, upon one of whom the mantle of holy order fell" (written about 1863), and three daughters, as follows : Chil- dren born at Barnstead, I. Jane, November 24, 1802, died January 23, 1887. 2. Isaac S., September 19, 1804, died August 30, 1892. 3. Deacon John, July 24, 1807, died January 4, 1890; resided at Barnstead. 4. Betty C., February 12, 1812, died December 1I, 1892. 5. George Sherburne, November 19, 1815, mentioned below. 6. Nancy, June 1, 1819. She served as army nurse during the war of the Rebellion; she is still living, with her nephew, George H. Pendergast and wife.
(IV) George Sherburne Pendergast, son of Solomon Pendergast (3), was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, November 19, 1815. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and at the Stratford and Gilmanton academies. Coming to Boston when he was a young man, he found employment first as clerk in a grocery store, of which in a few years he became the proprietor. In 1844 he removed to Charles- town, Massachusetts, and engaged in the baking business, in which, by diligence, hon- esty and a due regard for the interests of his patrons, he achieved success. He retired from active business in 1862, with the respect and confidence of all who knew him. He never sought public office, but was induced to serve as assessor of Charlestown in 1862-63, but de- clined a re-election, preferring to devote near- ly his whole time to the cause of the Union during the Civil war, assisting in the recruit- ing service and attending to the wants and needs of the Charlestown soldiers in the army. His interest in the soldiers of the Civil war and the veterans afterward was unremitting and zealous. His wife also took an active part in relief and sanitary commission work, collecting food and clothing made for the volunteers, and forwarding them to the front. A testimonial of the citizens of Charlestown for his faithful and valuable ser- vices, in the form of a silver service, was pre- sented to him at that time, and has always been a cherished memento of that self-imposed duty and patriotic service. It was inscribed :
"Presented to George S. Pendergast by the enrolled men of Ward Three, Charlestown, as a testimonial of their appreciation of his ser- vices in aid of recruiting." "January I, 1865." "G. S. P."
He was elected a representative to the gen- eral court in 1864, and re-elected in 1865, serving on a number of important commit- tees. In 1868 he was chosen chairman of the board of assessors of Charlestown, and con- tinued in that position until Charlestown was annexed to the city of Boston. He was a most efficient and valuable officer, establishing var- ious needed changes and improvements in the administration of the tax department. His achievements greatly benefited the city, and reflected much credit on his management. In 1874, when Charlestown lost its identity in its larger neighbor, he became an assistant as- sessor of Boston and continued in that office until 1895, when he voluntarily retired after an honorable and faithful service of nearly thirty years. For thirty-five years he was a trustee of the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank, of which he was one of the vice-presi- dents and member of the investment commit- tee, and to his ability and fidelity to duty much of the growth and development of that institution have been ascribed.
He was a constant attendant of the Har- vard Unitarian Church of Charlestown, was very active in all things pertaining to the wel- fare and advancement of the church. He di- vided his time between his home and his bus- iness or public duties. He belonged to no so- cial organizations. He was an upright, just and honorable man, a faithful citizen. He gave generously but unostentatiously to the poor and needy, and his time and advice were at the call of many who relied upon his judg- ment in their difficulties and troubles. He took especial interest in assisting young men on the way to success and honor. He died after a short illness at the home of his son, George H., with whom he was then residing, February 5, 1896, at the advanced age of eighty years, two months and seventeen days.
He married Sarah Nudd Dearborn, a de- scendant of an old New Hampshire family. She died February 15, 1870. Children : George, born July 8, 1846, died June 5, 1848. George H., November 25, 1848, mentioned be- low. Emma J., December 4, 1850, died June 18, 1852. Sarah, October 6, 1857, died in infancy. Walter Sherburne, February 25, 1862, died July 25, 1862.
(V) George H. Pendergast, son of George
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Sherburne Pendergast (4), was born Novem- ber 25, 1848, at Charlestown, Massachusetts. Attended the public schools, after which he entered a wholesale store in Boston, but ill health compelled him to give it up. In 1873 he entered into his present business, which is stated below. He was elected secretary Feb- ruary, 1878, and elected president July 19, 1901. Mr. Pendergast is now the president of the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company of Charlestown, and senior mem- ber of the real estate and insurance firm of Pendergast & Noyes, Boston. He is a trus- tee also one of the vice-presidents of the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank, and a member of its committee on investment. He is a member of the Mutual Fire Insurance Union, and is a member of the Nine Hun- dred and Ninety-ninth Artillery Company Association ; of the Boston Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution; of the Universalist Club of Boston ; of the Central Club of Som- erville ; of the Winter Hill Men's Club; as- sociate member of the Abraham Lincoln Post, Grand Army of the Republic. In addition to his large real estate and insurance business, he has been trustee and executor for a num- ber of large estates. He is interested in his- torical and genealogical matters, and is a member of the Somerville Historical Society. In religion he is a Universalist, and is an at- tendant of the Winter Hill Universalist Church. Formerly residing in Charlestown, he has been a resident of Somerville for five years, now owning and occupying the old Ru- fus Stickney estate, of the firm of Stickney & Poor. He married, July 8, 1873, Ella Worth, daughter of Ira A. and Emily Thompson (Jones) Worth. (See sketch of Worth Fam- ily). Children of George H. and Ella Pen- dergast : I. Florence Worth, born April 17, 1886, educated at the Chauncey Hall school, Boston, and is a post-graduate of the private school of Miss Marie Ware Laughton; she had private classes in physical culture, elocu- tion and dancing, at her home for one year ; then married, June 27, 1906, Charles H. Mor- ey, of Bemis, New Hampshire, to whom was born March 20, 1907, Charles Henry Morey, Jr. He is a son of George H. and Mary (Noyes) Morey; was educated in the public and high schools of Portland, Maine; has a large estate of timber land in the White Mountains, and deals in timber and lumber. 2. Harold Worth, born February 14, 1892, stu- dent at the Stone School, Beacon street, Bos- ton.
John Worth, progenitor of the WORTH American family of this sur- name, was of the Devonshire, England, family, the original seat of which was at the town of Worth, where the four- teenth successive generation is now occupy- ing the ancestral home. He was killed, to- gether with his eldest son John, while fight- ing in defense of the Plymouth (England) fort; his property was confiscated and his family scattered. The children of John Worth: John, killed, as related above. Francis, emigrated to Portugal. Richard, settled in New Jersey. Lionel, settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts.
William, of Nan- tucket, mention. d below.
The first English ancestor came from Nor- mandy with William the Conqueror in 1066. The coat-of-arms of the Devonshire family is : An eagle imperial, sable, membered, or. Crest : A lion rampant ppr.
(II) William Worth, son of John Worth (I), was born in Devonshire, England, about 1640. He served on the English man-of-war in his younger days, and learned the trade of blacksmith. He came to America in 1665, and was known in Nantucket where he set- tled as an experienced navigator, excellent blacksmith, man of education and ability. He was clerk of the courts in 1678, and the first justice of the island, performing all the mar- riages there until 1724. He married (first), April II, 1665, Sarah Macy, born August I, 1648, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Hop- cott) Macy, who was of the Macy family re- ferred to by Whittier in his "Exiles." He married (second), September 3, 1703, Dama- ris Sibley, who died June 2, 1745. He died January 10, 1723-4. His only child was by the first wife: John, born in Nantucket, May 19, 1666, mentioned below.
(III) John Worth, son of Richard Worth (2), was born at Nantucket Island, in New England, May 19, 1666. He succeeded his father on the homestead at Nantucket. He married (first), September 22, 1684, Miriam Gardner, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Shattuck) Gardner. She died 1701, and he married (second), September 5, 1704, Ann Sarson. He married (third), Dorcas Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith. She died Au- gust 4, 1730. Children of John and Miriam: I. Jonathan, born at Nantucket, October 31, 1685. 2. Nathaniel, September 8, 1687. 3. Judith, December 22, 1689. 4. John, 1690, died young. 5. Richard, May 27, 1692, men- tioned below. 6. William, November 27,
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1694. 7. Joseph, married Lydia Gorham, daughter of Shubael and Puella (Hussey) Gorham. 8. Mary. Child of John and Ann: 9. Sarah, July 15, 1708, died young. Chil- dren of John and Dorcas: 10. John, Septem- ber 14, 1725. II. Sarah, November 5, 1727. 12. Dorcas, February II, 1730 (?).
(IV) Richard Worth, son of John Worth (3), was born at Nantucket, May 27, 1692. He also settled in Nantucket, and married, July 20, 1729, Sarah Hoeg. Among their children was Lionel, mentioned below.
(V) Lionel Worth, son of Richard Worth (4), was born in Nantucket, in 1737. He married, in 1761, Martha Mitchell, a Spanish lady and a native of Cuba, but then a resi- dent of Kittery, Maine. Thus this marriage brought Spanish blood into the family. Lion- el settled at Loudon, New Hampshire. His children were: William, mentioned below. Richard, Joseph, Samuel, James, Marian, Sarah, Susanna, Abigail, Elizabeth, Annie, Joanna.
(VI) William Worth, son of Lionel Worth (5), was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, 1762. After the Revolution he located at Starksboro, Vermont, where he died Decem- ber 23, 1849. He married about 1788, Betsey Tibbetts, descendant of a well-known and highly respected family of Dover, New Hampshire. Their eighth child, Samuel, is mentioned below.
(VII) Samuel Worth, son of William Worth (6), was born in Loudon, New Hamp- shire, May 12, 1795, and removed with his father to Starksboro, Vermont. He died at Farnham, Canada, March 27, 1830, not long after the birth of his son Ira. Samuel mar- ried, February, 1822, Mrs. Phebe Husted Carpenter, born May 1, 1794, died April 12, 1849, daughter of Ezekiel Husted, and granddaughter of Jethro and
Rachel (Brewer) Husted. Her only Husted ances- tors were among the Dutch settlers of Schen- ectady, New York. Samuel Worth was a carpenter by trade. The children of Samuel and Phebe: Annie A., born October 6, 1822. Mary E., March 17, 1825. Ira Allen, men- tioned below.
(VIII) Ira Allen Worth, son of Samuel Worth (7), was born October 23, 1828, in Farnham, Canada, during the temporary stay of his parents in that town, but the registry of his birth is at Ferrisburg, Vermont. In 1852, he removed from Boston where he had been living, to Charlestown, Massachu- setts. He was educated in the district schools of his native town and at Hinesburg
Academy. At the age of nineteen he left his home and came to Boston, where he engaged in the restaurant business for himself many years. He was afterwards with the firm of R. Marsten & Co. for fourteen years, retir- ing from business twenty years ago. He was a past master of Henry Price Lodge of Masons and was a member of Howard Lodge of Odd Fellows of Charlestown for many years. Up to a year ago he was an active member of the Nine Hundred and Ninety- ninth Artillery Association. He had also served as treasurer of the Massachusetts hook and ladder company, whose head- quarters were on Winthrop street, Charles- town, in the old volunteer days and was one of the early members and at the time of his death an associate member of Charlestown veteran volunteer firemen's association. In 1889 and 1890 he represented the ward 4 district, Charlestown, in the legislature. For many years he was a deacon of the Univers- alist church in Charlestown and was super- intendent of its Sunday school. He was at one time a member and president of the board of trustees in charge of Charlestown poor fund, . subscribed by the various churches of the Bunker-hill district. He was also an associate member of Abraham Lin- coln Post, Grand Army Republic. He died November 2, 1907.
Besides his widow, he leaves an only child, Mrs. George H. Pendergast, and two grand- children, Mrs. Florence Worth Morey, wife of Charles H. Morey, of Bemis, New Hamp- shire, and Harold W. Pendergast.
The funeral services were held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pendergast and were attended by many old residents of Charles- town, delegations from Henry Price Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and Howard Lodge, I. O. O. F., together with Winter-hill neighbors and friends. Rev. Francis A. Gray read the Scrip- tures, and an appropriate poem from William Cullen Bryant fittingly emphasized Mr. Worth's long and honorable life.
"His youth was innocent; his riper age
Marked with some act of goodness every day;
And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage,
Faded his late declining years away;
Meekly he gave his being up, and went
To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent."
Rev. John Evan, pastor of the Universal- ist church, Charlestown, in which Mr. Worth
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was a long-time member and deacon, paid a feeling tribute to Mr. Worth as a man of industry and usefulness. He also referred to his social and friendly nature and regarded his as a truly religious man. Following the prayer came the impressive Masonic service for the dead, conducted by Robert Loring, master of Henry Price Lodge, and the chap- lain, Rev. E. C. Herrick, of Charlestown. The Adelphi quartette sang during both por- tions of the service, rendering "Come Unto Me," "Passing Out of the Shadow," "O Paradise," "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and other selections. Among the many beautiful and elaborate floral tokens from friends was a large standing piece from the Universalist church, Charlestown; square and compass from Henry Price Lodge ; three links from Howard Lodge of Odd Fellows. The interment was in Woodbrook cemetery, Woburn.
He married, December 25, 1849, Emily Thompson Jones, who was born July 14, 1832, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joshua and Abigail (Thompson) Jones. In 1899 they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Her father, Joshua Jones, was born in 1799, in Burlington, Massachusetts, the son of Aaron and Re- becca (Beard) Jones, and grandson of Joshua Jones, who was of Woburn in Revolutionary times. Rebecca Beard, wife of Aaron Jones, is said to have been of Scotch descent, the immigrant being one of the early settlers of Billerica, Andrew Beard. Abigail, wife of Joshua Jones, of Charlestown, was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Thompson, who was born in Woburn, April 26, 1760, son of Samuel and Abigail (Tidd) Thompson. Samuel was born in Woburn, October 30, 1731, was of the fifth generation in descent from James Thompson, of Woburn, who came to this country with Governor Win- throp in 1630, who became a member of the church in Charlestown in August, '1633, and in 1640 was one of the thirty-two men who subscribed to town orders of Woburn, where he settled. The Thompson lineage is James (1), Jonathan (2), Jonathan (3), Samuel (4), Samuel (5), Jonathan (6), Abigail (7), already mentioned, who was born August 23, 1800, and died December 28, 1876. (For fuller de- tails of the Thompson family, see "Memorial of James Thompson and his Descendants," by Rev. Leander Thompson). Samuel Thompson (5) was fitted for college before he was seventeen, but on account of his fa- ther's sudden death, changed his plans and
remained at home, the family needing his help. The house on Elm street, North Wo- burn, in which he lived, and there he died, August 17, 1820, was built by his father about 1730, and partly rebuilt by himself in .1764. He became a surveyor, and engaged in important surveys in Woburn and in other towns, some of his work being on the Mid- dlesex canal. While on the latter survey he discovered in Wilmington a wild apple tree, the fruit of which he first called the Pecker Apple, from the fact that the tree showed that woodpeckers abounded in that region, but subsequently he named the apple "The Thompson," and he and his brother Abijah grafted many trees with this stock. They gave grafts to a friend and neighbor, Colonel Laommi Baldwin, who cultivated the apple with great success, and distributed the fruit and trees far and wide. From him the apple finally became known as the Baldwin, though the credit of discovery and first cultivation belongs rightly to Thompson, and a monu- ment has been erected at Wilmington, stat- ing the facts and marking an important step in the advance of horticulture. In 1758, dur- ing the French and Indian war, Samuel Thompson had a commission as lieutenant of provincials, and was stationed for a time near Lake George. "On the morning of the nineteenth of April, 1775, when the alarm was given that the British troops were marching toward Concord, he and his two brothers were among the first to comprehend the grave importance of the occasion. Im- mediately seizing his musket, he hurried to the scene of action, where he performed heroic service, and brought home a musket taken by his own hands from a British soldier whom he had wounded in the conflict." Lieu- tenant Thompson was a deacon of the Con- gregational church of Woburn nearly thirty- six years. Among other offices that he held was that of parish clerk, selectman, repre- sentative to the general court for eight years, and justice of the peace for more than thirty years. "His character for the strictest in- tegrity was known and appreciated through- out his own and the neighboring counties; and although he was a constant witness of litigation, he was universally and emphati- cally called by those who knew him, a peace- maker." He died August 17, 1820. He married (first), Abigail Tidd, who died in 1768: (second), Lydia Jones, of Concord, who died in 1788; (third), Esther Wyman, widow of Jesse Wyman, and daughter of Rev. Joseph Burbeen, of Woburn. There are
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records in the Massachusetts state house showing that he was promoted by Washing- ton for deeds of bravery.
Jonathan Thompson (6), son of Samuel (5), although not quite fifteen years of age when the alarm of war was sounded April 19, 1775, borrowed a musket and followed his father and uncle to Concord, taking with him the leaden weights of the scales, which he moulded into bullets at the shop of a neigh- bor. On his arrival at Concord, the more direct fighting was past, and the enemy was just starting on the retreat toward Boston. Noticing that the method of annoyance em- ployed by his countrymen was that of gain- ing the head of the retreating columns, and then from a favorable position previously chosen, pouring their shot among the British till all had passed, he did likewise. To their mutual surprise he met his father. "Why Jonathan, are you here? Well, take care of yourself. Your Uncle Daniel has been killed. Be prudent, my son, and take care of your- self." Father and son then each pursued his way .. Jonathan followed the British troops to Lexington, then to West Cambridge and Medford, where with others he took refuge in a barn, finally reaching home early the fol- lowing morning. He subsequently served a campaign as a fifer and drummer and several more as a private. He was at Ticonderoga and in Arnold's flotilla on Lake Champlain, the vessel during the action there being run ashore to avoid a surrender, and the crew escaping into the neighboring forest, where for three days they dodged the Indians and were without food. They at last escaped their pursuers by swimming a river. He was subsequently at the battle of Saratoga, at the Stillwater, at the surrender of Burgoyne, White Plains, etc., serving in the army about three years. During part of the time he was a drummer. After the Revolution he became a captain of militia, and until his death, No- vember 20, 1836, was familiarly known as Captain John. Late in life he was a Revolu- tionary pensioner. He married, August 9, 1781, Mary Richardson, daughter of Deacon Jeduthan Richardson (Thomas (4); Samuel (3), (2), (I),) of that part of Woburn, now Winchester. Deacon Jeduthan Richardson was a lieutenant in the Third Company, Sec- ond Middlesex Regiment in the Revolution.
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