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(VIII) Horatio F. Twombly, son of Phebe Jane Twombly (7), was born at Salisbury, Connecticut, January 30, 1865. When an infant he came to Framingham with his mother and was educated there in the public schools. He graduated from the Framingham high school in 1882: and for a time afterward worked at home. He organized the Bay State Manu- facturing Company, making all kinds of leather goods, and he continued this business successfully for about ten years. He then sold out and devoted his attention to the erec- tion of various buildings for investment, in- cluding the Twombly Block and the one ad- joining, and the Hollis Block. Besides car- ing for this real estate Mr. Twombly is con- nected with the Boston office of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, though he con- tinues to reside in Framingham. He also has large property interests at Lynn, Massachu- setts. He is a member of the Framingham Baptist Church and treasurer of the parish, superintendent of its Sunday school and a member of the church finance committee. In politics he is a Republican, and active in town affairs. He represented his district in the general court in 1899. He is a member of Alpha Lodge, Free Masons, at South Fram- ingham; of Concord Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of the Order of the Eastern Star; of Garfield Council, Royal Arcanum; Framingham Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Waushacum Encampment ; of the Baptist Social Union; of the Framing- ham Board of Trade. For six years he has served as a member of Framingham school board, and is one of the building com-
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mittee in charge of the erection of the new high school building. He married, January 30, 1895, Edith Carter, who was born July, 1869, daughter of Francis and Sarah (Kins- man) Carter, of Keene, New Hampshire. Their only child: Francis Horatio, born De- cember 4, 1898.
William Ham, the immigrant an-
HAM cestor, was according to family tradition of Scotch ancestry, but he came to New England from Plymouth, Eng- land, in June, 1635, in a company sent out by Robert Trelawny, a merchant of that city, who was granted land and rights in Maine by Gorges. This grant included Richmond's Island and several thousand acres on the main- land between Sperwick river and Cape Eliza- beth just below Portland. Trelawny belonged to an ancient family whose seat was at Ham or Hame in Devonshire. It is surmised that the Ham family took its name from this place, but no records are found to substantiate the assumption. Trelawny sent the first company to Maine in 1632 in charge of John Winter, to hunt, fish and trade with the Indians. Ham came with Nares Hawkins and others in June, 1635, working for Trelawny on shares and wages. Hawkins was the chief colonist in charge in the absence of Winter and in a letter dated June 29, 1636, he names six men who came with him, viz .: Lander, Ham, Bellin, Clark, William Freythe and Simmons (Sim- onds). These men were dissatisfied, claiming that Winter and Hawkins had cheated them. In June, 1636, they left Falmouth and went westward to Portsmouth. Winter wrote, report- ing their leaving June 28, 1636. Their names were: William Ham, Oliver Clark, John Bel- lin, William Freythe and John Simmons (Simonds). The latter was a servant of John Mason, the proprietor of New Hampshire, and in 1635, after Mason died, found employment with Winter.
Ham was in Exeter as early as 1646. In 1652 he had a grant of fifty acres of land in the adjacent town of Portsmouth, where he probably lived most of his life after 1636. His homestead was at Freeman's Point, called Ham's Point until 1833, when the widow of Benjamin Ham sold the remainder of the homestead to Peyton R. Freeman. This point is just above the Portsmouth Bridge, on the road to Kittery, Maine, a place of beautiful scenery. Ham built a house which is now or was lately standing on the Point. He owned Noble's Island, also called after him Ham's
Island until recently. He had in his home lot sixteen and three-quarter acres of land and he was assigned to the first squadron in the divi- sion of inhabitants into garrisons in 1653. From 1658 to 1666 he was a subscriber to the fund for maintaining the minister. He died January 26, 1672, aged seventy-two. His will was proved at Exeter. His son Matthew died before the will was made, and in it he bequeathed to his daughter, Elizabeth Cotton, wife of William Cotton; to his grandsons, William, Thomas and John, the children of Matthew Ham. The relationship between William Ham, of Portsmouth, and John Ham, of Dover, remains undiscovered. John was nephew, brother or cousin of William. Will- iam married Honor Children of Will- iam Ham: I. Mathew, born 1626, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, married William Cotton; she was born in 1629, died 1678.
(II) Mathew Ham, son of William Ham (I), was born we are told in the Isle of Man, England, in 1626, and died in 1664, and proba- bly came to New England some years after his father. In 1654 he had a lot of land granted adjoining his father's homestead at Ports- mouth; in 1660 he had twenty-five acres granted between the Point farm and the pres- ent main road "to be laid out at the next con- venient time." In 1656 he with others filed his cattle mark (brand) at Portsmouth : A capital "H." He subscribed to the ministerial fund from 1658 to 1666. In accordance with his father's will the property was entailed to the eldest son through four or five generations. Mathew's widow survived him. Their chil- dren : I. William, born about 1651, executor of his father's estate; heir of his grandfather's entailed estate in 1672; his eldest son Samuel succeeded him there as early as 1700, and his grandson William, born 1712, had the entailed estate; leaving seven sons, Samuel, who had the estate, Timothy, George, William, Eph- raim, Nathaniel and Benjamin, and one daughter, who married Captain John Tucker- man; the last-named, Samuel, broke the en- tailment and the property was finally sold. 2. Thomas, born about 1653, mentioned in grandfather's will, mariner, went to Rhode Island. 3. John, born about 1660, mentioned below. 4. Matthew, cooper by trade; no traces of descendants.
(III) John Ham, son of Mathew Ham (2), was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about 1660. He was a fisherman and doubt- less followed the sea during his active life. He died at Portsmouth in 1731, aged seventy-one. He had a farm at Newington and a part of the
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homestead at Portsmouth, the latter of which he called his homeplace. He was industrious, prosperous and acquired a handsome property, and had a large family. He inherited land from his grandfather in 1673 and lived on that place part of the time, giving it finally to his sons Willam and Thomas in 1725 and Will- iam built himself a new house and settled on it. He married (first) Lisson; (sec- ond) Judith Pitman, of Oyster River, Janu- ary 8, 1715. Children of first wife: I. Eliza- beth, born 1691, married, July 27, 1713. 2. Mary, born 1693, married, December 16, 1723, Robert Bond. 3. Dorcas, born 1696, married. December 1, 1723, John Remick. 4. William, born 1698, married, 1719, Elizabeth Staples. 5. Thomas, born 1702, married, 1723. 6. John, born May 13, 1705, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 7. Benjamin, born October 10, 1716, settled in Bath. 8. Tobias, born November 23, 1717, married Abigail Smith. 9. Reuben, born April 25, 1720. 10. Nathaniel (twin), born April 19, 1723. II. Samuel (twin), born April 19, 1723, married Elizabeth Bickford. The last five named were baptized at Newington, August 18, 1728.
(IV) John Ham, son of John Ham (3), was born at Portsmouth, May 13, 1705, died at the age of one hundred years, seven months and fifteen days, at Shapleigh, Maine, Decem- ber 18, 1805. We are told by the newspapers that "the intellects of his mind remained unim- paired until a few days previous to his death. He was born in Portsmouth and well remem- bered when he was the only trader in that town, now a large and flourishing commercial town." (See Columbian Sentinel of Boston, De- cember 28, 1805). He resided in Portsmouth, where his children were born and grew up, but he spent the last of his life with his son Samuel, who with wife and five children settled in Shapleigh in the spring of 1782. He and his brother Samuel were soldiers in the French and Indian war in 1748, and earlier, under Captain Job Clement. From this venerable sire sprang many of the illustrious branches of the family. Three or four of his sons were soldiers in the Revolution-Benson, John, George, Samuel and William. He was a man of high charac- ter and great piety. He married, March 7, 1728-29, Anna Searle, of Portsmouth. Chil- dren, born at Portsmouth: I. Benson, born November 15, 1730, died 1802, aged seventy- two, before his father. 2. John, born about 1733, settled at Barrington, New Hampshire. 3. George, born 1736. 4. Samuel, born Octo- ber 3, 1738, mentioned below. 5. Thomas, born 1740. 6. William, born 1741-44. 7.
Anna, born 1744-47. 8. Elizabeth, born 1747- 50. 9. Mary, born 1750-52.
(V) Samuel Ham, son of John Ham (4), was born in Portsmouth, October 3, 1738. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in the same company with his brothers George, William and Ephraim Ham, in 1780, Captain Jewell's company, Colonel Bartlett's regiment. Sam- uel was in the service earlier in 1778 and in Captain John Drew's company. Colonel Evans's regiment, in 1776. He is the hero of a story of the battle of Bunker Hill. When the American powder gave out and it became necessary to retreat, Ham's captain found him shooting away from the shelter of an apple tree. The retreat sounded, and Ham remon- strated with the captain: "No, just hold on captain, the p-p-picking here is too d-d-dam g-g-good." He stuttered in his speech and his comrades were never tired of relating his eagerness to use up his ammunition on the British. When he was married, he drove with his bride to the neighboring town of Green- land, where they were married by Rev. Dr. McClintock, chaplain later at the battle of Bunker Hill-the "Fighting Parson." Ham married, September 21, 1773, Elizabeth Sher- burne, who was born October 13, 1750, and died in Shapleigh in 1836, daughter of Nathaniel Sherburne (4), whose lineage was -John (3), (2), (I), a well-known New Hampshire family.
George Ham, brother of Samuel, was the. fifth settler of the town of Shapleigh, in the year 1775. Samuel left Portsmouth April 30, 1782, and located in Shapleigh, where he cleared his farm and brought up a large family of children, viz .: I. William, born March 8, 1774, married Esther Mildrum. 2. Jacob, born June 22, 1775, married Betsey Abbot. 3. Thomas, born December 6, 1777, married Patience Penny. 4. John, born December 25, 1779, married Mary Patch. 5. Elizabeth, born February 10, 1783, unmarried. Born at Shapleigh : 6. Abigail, born February 10, 1784, married Ivory Lowe. 7. Anna, born January 5, 1786, married Edward Littlefield. 8. Samuel, born February 13, 1788, married Nancy Thompson. 9. Benjamin, born June 23, 1791, married Phebe Davis.
(VI) Jacob Ham, son of Samuel Ham (5), was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 22, 1775, and died at Shapleigh, October 19, 1859, at an advanced age. He was a far- mer at Shapleigh, living about a mile from the village center. He married Betsey Abbott, who was born at Shapleigh in 1783, and died there May 15, 1855. Children, born at Shap-
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leigh: I. Levi, born August 9, 1804, men- tioned below. 2. Jane, born 1806, married William Ferguson. 3. Susan, born 1808, married Abraham Dodge. 4. Nathaniel, mar- ried Mary Sheldon. 5. Statira, died young. 6. Anna, married Bradley Sayward. 7. Leb- beus, born 1814, married Dorcas Worcester. 8. Orpha, born 1818, married Darling Ross. 9. Dorcas, born 1820 or 1824, married G. W. Manning. 10. Mary, born 1823. II. Jacob, died young.
(VII) Levi Ham, son of Jacob Ham (6), was born at Shapleigh, August 9, 1804, and died July 20, 1883. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, attending the winter terms until he was twenty years old, and working in the summer on his father's farm. At the age of twenty-three he came to Danvers, Massachusetts, and secured employment in Putnam's brick yard. After his first year he was foreman, and after three years he returned to Shapleigh, buying a farm of about a hundred acres, near the center of the town, a part of his father's homestead and building a house there. In 1856 he bought the remainder of his father's homestead of his brother and conducted it until 1868, when he sold it to his son, Fernald E. Ham, who owned it until his death, January 21, 1907. Levi Ham lived with his son Fernald for two years at Burlington, removing thence to Wenham, Massachusetts, where he lived on a small place that he bought, until his death, July 20, 1882. He was a member of the Baptist church at Shapleigh. In politics he was a Whig, later a Republican. He was a member of the state militia when a young man.
He married, December 1, 1831, Sarah F. Fernald, who was born at Shapleigh, July 26, 1807, and died May 28, 1893, the daughter of Robert and Betsey (Ferguson) Fernald. Children : I. Jane E., born May 1, 1833, died June 15, 1858. 2. Fernald Elliot, born April 2, 1835, mentioned below. 3. Edwin Jacob, born March 24, 1840, married, September 18, 1864, Addie L. Hobbs, of Boston : children : i. Carrie E., born September 2, 1865; ii. Flora J., April 15, 1868; iii. Edwin M. (twin), February 26, 1875; iv. Elroy E. (twin), February 28, 1875; v. Waldo M., March 24, 1880. 4. Martin Luther, born Feb- ruary 2, 1842, married, November 22, 1883, Jane S. Day, of Boston ; children : i. Roscoe Conklin, born May 1, 1885 ; ii. Roderick, Octo- ber 6, 1886, died April 10, 1898; iii. Uriel Stephens, September 26, 1891; iv. Elizabeth Irene, April 21, 1897. 5. Benjamin Adams, born August 23, 1846, married, April 7, 1875,
Louise Andrews, of Waterboro, Maine; chil- dren: i. Guy Andrews, born July 8, 1878; ii. Harry Howard, March 16, 1883 ; iii. Ever- ett Adams, October 14, 1894.
(IX) Fernald Elliot Ham, son of Levi Ham (8), was born at Shapleigh, Maine, April 2, 1835, and was educated in the com- mon schools of that town. Being the eldest he was obliged to begin work at an early age and assisted in the support of the family. When he came of age he went to Danvers, Massachusetts, and found employment in the shoe factories of that town and later worked at farming for Frank Dodge and also for Major Gidden. After working eight years and saving his first thousand dollars, he en- gaged in teaming in Boston on his own ac- count and built up a thriving business. He was employed largely by the Spencer Repeat- ing Rifle Company and the Chickering Piano Company. In 1868 he bought a farm of fifty acres at Burlington, Massachusetts, known as the Cumston Place, where the old tavern on the turnpike from Lowell to Boston was lo- cated, and he engaged in general farming and market gardening, sending his produce to Boston. He had an excellent dairy, having some thirty-five head of Holstein cattle. He stocked the old Ham farm at Shapleigh, which he owned, with his high-grade cattle. One notable result of his study to perfect his work was the originating by him of a new variety of sweet corn, which, bearing his name, is upon the seed market of to-day, rated second to none. His products were invariably of high grade. He acquired a competence and ranked high among the business men of his com- munity.
He was a member of the Baptist church of Lexington, and at the time of his death, Janu- ary 21, 1907, was a member of the Tremont Temple of Boston. He was one of the trus- tees of the Lexington church. In politics he was a Republican and served as delegate to various nominating conventions. He was on the board of health of Burlington. He was a Free Mason for forty years, a member of Adelphi Lodge of South Boston. He was a member of the Boston Market Gardeners' Association and of the Boston Horticultural Society. The Burlington Agricultural So- ciety, an organization which conducted several eminently successful agricultural fairs, owed much to his energetic co-operation. He was actively interested in Grange work, being a member of Lexington Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and for a time its treasurer. His many interests never made him forget his
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youthful home in his native town, and he re- tained ownership of the homestead and erected in the old church in Shapleigh a memorial window to his father. One who knew him well wrote of him: "Fernald Elliot Ham was a typical New Englander, strongly imbued with the homely sense, the keenness, shrewd- ness and sagacity of the early settlers. Oft- times blunt of speech-it was the bluntness born of innate honesty of thought and pur- pose. His was a kindly heart; open to every righteous appeal making for the moral uplift of his fellows. His judgment men valued. His opinions men built upon, because it was conceded that they were safe and sane, the result of careful consideration, and not im- pulsive, undisgested utterances. His word was his bond. In him dwelt the characteris- tics men honor. Vigorous and progressive to the last, his life was a lesson-his memory an inspiration."
He married (first), October 25, 1866, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sarah F. Wyatt, who was born in Portsmouth, April 7, 1831, and died June 23, 1879, the daughter of Ebenezer Wyatt. He married (second), October 17, 1880, Helen Almeda Huff, who died May 9, 1882, the daughter of Captain James and Martha C. (Gove) Huff. He mar- ried (third) Martha W. Huff, sister of second wife. Children of Fernald Elliot and Sarah F. Ham: I. Hattie Cumston, born May 5, 1868, died August 23, 1877. 2. Alice Currier, born December 1, 1870, married, January 20, 1892, George H. Rupert, of Charlestown, Massachusetts ; children : Fred H. Rupert, born December 16, 1892; ii. Harold Tryon Rupert, March 17, 1902. 3. George Elliot, born July 10, 1872, mentioned below.
(X) George Elliot Ham, son of Fernald Elliot Ham (9), was born in Burlington, Mas- sachusetts, July 10, 1872, and was educated there in the public and high schools. He re- mained at home, working on his father's farm until he was of age, when he entered the em- ploy of Avery & Waldron as clerk in their wholesale produce establishment, 10 Mercan- tile street, Boston. He continued with this firm until 1901 when the firm was reorganized as Waldron & Sheppard, and he has continued with the concern to the present time as sales- man in charge of the commission business. The firm has a wholesale and retail trade in fruits and produce. Mr. Ham resides at 43 Rogers avenue, Somerville, where he owns a beautiful double apartment house, recently purchased. He is a member of the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church. In politics he is a
Republican. He was made a member of Soley Lodge of Masons at Somerville, February 20, 1905; of Somerville Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, December 21, 1905; of Lexington Grange, No. 233, Patrons of Husbandry, of Lexington. He is a member of the Mercantile Market Relief Association of Boston. He married, December 7, 1898, Agnes Lillian. Chase, who was born at Fall River, Massa- chusetts, December 3, 1878, the daughter of Ambrose P. and Eunice Ellen (Johnson) Chase, of Rutland, Vermont. They have one child, Fernald Elliot, born November 12, 1901.
BOIT John Boit, the progenitor of the American family of this surname, was born in 1733. It is not known whence he came, but family tradition says that he was a Huguenot and came from France to Boston when a young man. He was a West India merchant and became a. man of property. Paul Revere mentions him as one of the well known citizens of his time. He was a member of King's Chapel parish and for many years was the owner of Pew No. 64, formerly the property of Samuel G. Jarvis. Boit's name appears in the list of pew owners. as early as 1775. He died intestate in Boston, December 28, 1798, and is buried in King's. Chapel Burying Ground. He married, in 1762, Hannah Atkins, of Boston, (See Suffolk Wills -21,000). Their children: I. Henry, born July 3, 1763. 2. Hannah, born July 3, 1765, married, 1789, Crowell Hatch, of Boston. 3. John, Jr., born March 8, 1767, mentioned be- low. His mother died at his birth and the infant was afterward adopted by a Mr. Williams, of Lexington, Massachusetts. John Boit's sec- ond wife was Sarah Brown, of Boston. They were married by Rev. Andrew Eliot, August 3, 1769, children : 4. Sarah, born April, 26, 1772, married, 1790, John Duballet, of Boston. 5. John, Jr., born October 17, 1774, (will proved at Boston, 1829). 6. Mary, born May 12, 1776. (The appearance in this family of two of the name of John, Jr., is explained by the fact that the first John, Jr., was adopted by a Mr. Williams, but he always gave his name as John Boit.)
(II) John Boit, Jr., son of John Boit (I), and his first wife, Hannah Atkins, was born in Boston, March 8, 1767. After the death of Mr. Williams, his foster father, he removed from Lexington to Peterboro, New Hamp- shire. He followed farming for an occupation first at Peterboro, then at Groton, Massachu- setts. He married Rebecca Wesson, of Cam-
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bridge, Massachusetts. She died at Groton,
August 25, 1835. Their first child was
at Peterboro, the others all at born Groton. Children : I. Eliza W., born May 12, 1800. 2. John Williams, born
January 25, 1806. 3. Sarah, born June 26, 1808. 4. Helen Clarissa, born September 17, 18II. 5. Timothy W., born January 12, 1813. 6. Harriet W., born March 16, 1817. 7. Rebecca W., born March 24, 1822. 8. James Henry Stuart, born August 13, 1824, men- tioned below.
(III) James Henry Stuart Boit, son of John Boit, Jr. (2), was born at Groton, Massa- chusetts, August 13, 1824. He was educated in the public schools and worked in his youth on the homestead. He removed to Boston, and finally to Newton Lower Falls, Massa- chusetts. He learned the trade of stationary engineer, but at Newton Falls engaged in paper manufacturing. In later life he was for twenty years in charge of the Hamilton School Building at Newton Lower Falls, and also for many years sexton of Saint Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church. He married, May 7, 1846, Amanda Church Berry, born 1824, in Bridgeton, Maine, and they lived to celebrate their Golden Wedding in 1896. Mr. Boit died January 16, 1899; his wife, April I, 1899. Their six children, all daughters, were born in Newton: I. Julia Amanda, born April 12, 1847, died March 15, 1861. 2. Eliza- beth Eaton, born July 9, 1849, mentioned be- low. 3. Clara Rebecca, born February 3, 1851, married, October 20, 1870, George W. Morse, of Newtonville, Massachusetts. 4. Harriet Maria, born August II, 1853, mar- ried, March 1, 1881, Clarence A. Wiswall, and resides at Reading, Massachusetts. 5. Helen Augusta, born November 28, 1859, mar- ried, June 26, 1882, Dr. F. W. Freeman, of Newton Lower Falls; they reside at Lynn- field, Massachusetts. 6. Susan Henrietta, born January 31, 1864, died April 1, 1886.
(IV) Elizabeth Eaton Boit, daughter of James Henry Stuart Boit (3), was born at Newton, July 9, 1849. She pursued the ele- mentary studies in the Newton public schools, and after her graduation from the grammar school took a two years course at Lasell Sem- inary, Auburndale, Massachusetts. When she was eighteen years old she accepted the posi- tion of timekeeper in the sewing or finishing department of the Dudley Hosiery Knitting Mill, Newton, of which H. B. Scudder was at that time the agent. The able and thorough manner in which she performed her duties soon caused her promotion to the position of
assistant forewoman, from which she was soon adanced to the position of forewoman, and within five years was given full charge of the finishing department. When Mr. Scud- der established the Allston Mills at Allston, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of hosiery and children's scarlet-wool goods, she be- came the superintendent of the mills, a posi- tion she filled until the property was sold five years later.
Desiring to enter business for herself she formed a partnership with Charles N. Win- ship, formerly of the Dudley Mill, and later foreman of the knitting department of the Allston Mill, under the firm name of Win- ship, Boit & Company, and established the Har- vard Knitting Mill at Cambridge, Massachu- setts, in 1888. The business was removed to Wakefield in the following year, occupying one floor of the Wakefield Block. Although the capital of the firm was small at first, the partners had a thorough knowledge of the business and from the first commanded suc- cess. Miss Boit was in charge of the finances of the company as well as having charge of the finishing department, while Mr. Winship attended to the knitting and other branches of the business. The excellent quality of the goods made in the Harvard Mill created a large demand and made them popular every- where in the country. The firm made a speci- alty of knit underwear. As the business in- creased the company was able to enlarge its facilities and production, and at length was compelled to erect a spacious building for its own use.
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