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Mr. Morrill was a Republican in politics ; was overseer of the poor in Wakefield; road commissioner and always active in town af- fairs and working for its prosperity and de- velopment. He was active and prominent in the Masonic order and also in the Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of Golden Rule Lodge of Masons, was past commander of Wakefield Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was most interested, how- ever, in the Wakefield Methodist Church, of which he was a trustee, and member of the finance committee. During the early strug- gles of this church he was one of the main- stays, not only through his financial support but in assisting the growth of the church in membership and in every other way possible. Mainly through his constant and self-sacrific- ing labors the church debt was paid, affording him one of the greatest pleasures of his life. He was of pleasing personality, generous in charity, a model citizen, enjoying the respect and confidence of all his townsmen.
He married (first) Nancy M. Blake, May 3, 1854; (second), April 20, 1893, Alice Taylor, who was born in Greenwood, Massachusetts, August II, 1862, daughter of William and Roxanna (Cross) Taylor. Children of John Gilman and Nancy M. Morrill: I. Lily, born December 4, 1854, married October 6, 1880, Lewis L. Phinney; children: i. Grace M. Phinney, born October 6, 1881 ; ii. L. L. Phin- ney; iii. Lottie M. (twin), born April 14, 1889; iv. John L. Phinney (twin), born April 14, 1889; v. Blanche Phinney ; vi. Her- mon Phinney. 2. Lea S., born March 23, 1861, deceased; married, April 20, 1893, Alice Taylor; children: Clyde Gilman, born July 14, 1889; ii. Alice Lea, born October 15, 1891.
Rev. Thomas Jenner, the immi- JENNER grant ancestor, was born in England. He came to Rox- bury, Massachusetts, 1634-35, and was ad- mitted a freeman in Massachusetts Bay, De- cember 8, 1636. He removed to Weymouth where he and his son, Thomas Jenner, Jr., were proprietors in 1636; was called to be pastor of the Weymouth church, and he and his people had a misunderstanding which was
settled by a gathering of elders, January 9, 1637-38. He was admitted a freeman of the Plymouth colony, September 6, 1639. In 1640 he was at Saco, Maine. His son Thomas, then of Charlestown, sold house and lands at Wey- mouth, which had been his father's, December 28, 1649, and Mrs. Jenner consented to the deed. Mr. Jenner returned to England and sat down at Cottishall, Norfolk county, and resigned his rectorship in 1657. Their only child known to have remained in America was Thomas, Jr., mentioned below.
(II) Thomas Jenner, son of Rev. Thomas Jenner (I), was born in England. He mar- ried Esther who was admitted to the Charlestown church, July 9, 1648. Sewall says he married (second) Winsley. He owned land in Charlestown in 1658. The records show but one child, Thomas, mention- ed below.
(III) Thomas Jenner, son of Thomas Jen- ner (2), was born probably in England 1630- 35. He was a seafaring man, steward of the ship "Providence," Captain R. Story, October 13, 1656, sea captain. He was admitted to the Charlestown Church, March 13, 1680-81. He married, May 22, 1655, Rebecca Trerice, daughter of Nicholas and Rebecca Trerice, master of the ship "Planter," of Charlestown. She was admitted to the church April 29, 1660, and died September 23, 1722, aged eighty-six years, seven months (see gravestone). He sailed for London, November 2, 1685, and died in England. The news of his death came De- cember 12, 1686. Children: I. Rebecca, born February 7, 1655-56, married Samuel Lynde. 2. Thomas, born September 20, . 1658. 3. David, born October 20, 1663, mentioned be- low. 4. Sarah, born July 17, 1667, died Aug- ust 24, 1667. 5. Samuel, born March 18, 1669-70. 6. Eleanor (twin), born February II, 1670-71. 7. Elizabeth (twin), born Feb- ruary II, 1670-71. 8. Eleazer, born April 15, 1674, married William Wyer.
(IV) David Jenner, son of Thomas Jenner (3), was born in Charlestown, October 20, 1663. He was admitted to the Second Church of Boston, January 17, 1685-86. He married, June 14, 1688, Mabel Russell, who was born January 21, 1669, admitted to the church De- cember II, 1715. He died August 24, 1709, in his forty-sixth year (see gravestone). She was the daughter of Hon. James Russell, of Charlestown, judge, councillor, treasurer, a man of great eminence. Her mother was Mabel Haynes. Her grandfather, Hon. Rich- ard Russell, of Charlestown, was the son of Paul Russell, of Herefordshire, England, born
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there in 1611 ; came to Massachusetts in 1640, was merchant, councillor, deputy to the gen- eral court, speaker of the house of deputies, treasurer's assistant; married (first) Maud Pitt, who died in 1652, the daughter of Will- iam Pitt, sheriff of Bristol, England. The Russell family in England has had many dis- tinguished lines for centuries. Children of David and Mabel (Russell) Jenner ; I. Mabel, born October 31, 1690, died November 14, 1702. 2. Rebecca, born January 2, 1691, died November 8, 1702. 3. Thomas, born Decem- ber 21, 1693, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, baptized at Second Church, August 2, 1696, married Ezekiel Cheever, son of the famous schoolmaster. 5. David, born July 4, 1699. 6. Abigail, born September 19, 1700, married Edward Wyer.
(V) Thomas Jenner, son of David Jenner (4), was born in Charlestown, December 21, 1693. He was a magistrate, justice of the peace many years, town clerk, merchant, cap- tain of the Charlestown militia, admitted to the church there February 5, 1720-21. He fig- ured in scores of real estate transactions, deeds and mortgages. His home was on Meeting House Hill. His will was made March 25, 1760, and proved July 8, 1765. He married, July 3, 1718, Joanna Everton, who was ad- mitted to the church February 15, 1729-30, and died June 23, 1765, aged seventy-two. Children : I. Joanna, born July II, 1721, died February 15, 1722. 2. Joanna, born June 3, 1723, died April 19, 1731. 3. Mabel, born January 23, 1724-25, married Samuel Bird. 4. Thomas, born June 5, 1727, died July 6, 1727. 5. Thomas, born August 1, 1728, died December 18, following. 6. Henry Phillips, born October 12, 1729. 7. David, born Octo- ber 20, 1732. 8. Joanna, baptized January, 1733-34. 9. Samuel, born. November 3, 1735. IO. Rebecca, baptized April 2, 1738. II. Elizabeth, baptized April 13, 1740. 12. Abi- gail, baptized February 10, 1744-45, married David Goodwin (see Goodwin sketch).
(I) Christopher Goodwin, GOODWIN the immigrant ancestor, set- tled in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, where his wife Mary was admitted to the church, August 9, 1656. He was a mason by trade. He died there, according to his gravestone, January 22, 1682, aged sixty-five years. Children: I. Nathaniel. 2. Christo- pher, aged thirty-five in 1682. 3. John. 4. Mary, married, 1672, William Brown. 5. Elizabeth, born March 13, 1659. 6. Timothy, baptized June 8, 1662.
(III) John Goodwin, grandson of Christo- pher Goodwin (I), was born about 1680 in Charlestown. He resided at Boston, Cam- bridge, Malden and Charlestown. He was a housewright by trade. He had a large estate. He married (first) -; (second) Lydia Sprague, November 25, 1714; (third), Sep- tember 3, 1751, Margaret Gibbs, who died in 1759, probably a Prentiss of Cambridge. Chil- dren : I. Edward. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, born March 16, 1716-17.
(IV) John Goodwin, son of John Goodwin (3), was born about 1710 in Charlestown. He was also housewright. He married, April 8, 1736, Ann Davison, who died June 14, 1752, aged according to her gravestone thirty-seven years. He married (published March I, 1733) Anna Cox. Children, born at Charles- town: I. John, born November 22, 1736, died young. 2. Ann, born 1738. 3. Samuel, bap- tized December 30, 1739. 4. Sarah, baptized February 21, 1742. 5. David, born October 19, 1744, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan, born May, 1747. 7. Hannah, baptized May 27, 1750. 8. William, baptized October 1, 1755. 9. Elizabeth, baptized November 27, 1757. 10. Rebecca, born 1760. II. Mary baptized Aug- ust 9, 1761. 12. Abigail, baptized January 16, 1763.
(V) Captain David Goodwin, son of John Goodwin (4), was born in Charlestown, Octo- ber 19, 1744. He was also a housewright by trade. He was a soldier in the Revolution, captain of the Charlestown company. He was deacon of the Baptist church of that town. He married (first), November I, 1764, Abigail Jenner, who was baptized July 13, 1746, and died May 26, 1811, aged sixty-seven, accord- ing to her gravestone. Captain Goodwin mar- ried (second), October 24, 1811, Catherine Rayner, who died April, 1834, aged eighty- four. Children, born at Charlestown by the first wife: I. Child, buried January 5, 1765. 2. David, Jr., born August 10, 1766, mention- ed below. 3. Abigail, born September 19, 1768. 4. John, born August 27, 1771. 5. Edward, born March 27, 1778. 6. Sally Davis, born October 6, 1780. 7. Thomas Jenner, born September 14, 1783.
(VI) David Goodwin, son of Captain David Goodwin (5), was born in Charlestown, Aug- ust 10, 1766. Late in the war he served in the Revolution in his father's company. He was also a housewright. He married, April 28, 1791, Mary Reed, who died June 3, 1840, aged seventy-six years. Children : I. Mary, born March 3, 1792. 2. Mary, born July 31, 1793. 3. David, born February 21, 1795. 4.
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Thomas Russell, born October 28, 1797. 5.
Henry Phillips, born November 14, 1799. 6. Ann Davidson, born December 31, 1801. 7. Margaret Jane, born September 1, 1804. 8. Abigail Jenner, born September 12, 1807, mar- ried General Joseph Boyd (see Rice sketch). (Abigail Jenner Boyd, their daughter, mar- ried, December 30, 1858, George D. Rice.)
RICE Edmund Rice, the immigrant an- cestor, was born in Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England, about 1594. He probably came to Massachusetts early in 1638; he was proprietor and selectman of Sudbury in 1639. The village plot of Sud- bury, now Wayland, was laid out in 1639, and Rice was one of the first to build his house. His house lot was on Old North street, near Millbrook. He received his share in the meadow lands in the division, September 4, 1639, April 20 and November 18, 1640. He shared also in the division of all the uplands, and had altogether two hundred and forty- seven acres in grants. He had eleven acres in the south part of the town between Timber Neck and Mr. Glover's farm. This lay near the spring and he sold part of it to Thomas Axtell and part also to Philemon Whale. He leased the Dunster farm on the east shore of Lake Cochituate in 1642 for six years. Later he bought the Philemon Whale house and nine acres of land forming the nucleus of the Rice homestead, where the family has held reunions in recent years, near the famous spring. Rice leased the Glover farm in Fram- ingham, September 26, 1647, for ten years, and April 8, 1657, bought the Jennison farm of two hundred acres in Sudbury, extending from the Dunster farm to the Weston line, and on some of this tract his descendants have lived ever since. He and his son bought the Dunster farm, June 24, 1659. Besides these grants and purchases the general court gave him fifty acres at Rice's End in 1652, and eighty acres near Beaver Dam in 1659 in Framingham.
He was very prominent in public affairs. He served on the committee to apportion the Sudbury river meadows, September 4, 1639; was admitted freeman May 13, 1642; deputy . to the general court in 1643 and 1654 ; deacon of the church in 1648; selectman in 1639 and 1644; and various other positions of trust and honor. He was one of the fifty-six petitioners from Sudbury for the grant of what became the town of Marlborough, Massachusetts ; re- ceived a house lot and other lands there and
removed thither in 1660. He deposed April 3, 1656, that his age was about sixty-two years. He died May 3, 1663, aged, according to the record, sixty-nine years. A petition for the division of his estate was signed June 16, 1663, by his widow Mercy, eight elder and two younger children. He married (first) in England, Tamasin -, who died at Suc- bury, June 13, 1654. He married (second) Mercy (Heard) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham. Children : I. Henry, married Elizabeth Moore. 2. Edward, born 1618, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, born about 1620. 4. Mathew, married Martha Lamson. 5. Samuel, married Elizabeth King. 6. Jos- eph, married Mercy King. 7. Lydia, married Hugh Drury. 8. Edmund. 9. Benjamin, born May 31, 1640. 10. Ruth, born Septem- ber 29, 1659. II. Ann, born November 19, 1661. 12. Daniel.
(II) Edward Rice, son of Edmund Rice (I), was born in England in 1618, and died August 15, 1712, aged about ninety-three. He married (first) Agnes Bent. He married (second) Anna -, who died at Marlbor- ough, June 4, 1713, aged eighty-three years. He resided first in Sudbury, removing thence to Marlborough in 1664. He was deacon of the church at Marlborough. He made a depo- sition October 2, 1666, in which his age is given as forty-seven years. He and his wife Anne deeded half the homestead which he had of his father to their son, Edmund Rice, April 16, 1706. His brother John had the other half of the homestead near the spring. Children : I. John, born about 1647, married Tabitha Stone. 2. Lydia, born and died July 30, 1648. 3. Lydia, born December 10, 1649. 4. Ed- mund, born December 9, 1653, mentioned be- low. 5. Daniel, born November 8, 1655, mar- ried Bethia Ward. 6. Caleb, born February 8, 1657, died April 27, 1658. 7. Jacob, born 1660, married Mary 8. Anna, born November 19, 1661, married Thomas Rice. 9. Dorcas, born January 29, 1664, married Thomas Forbush. IO. Benjamin, born De- cember 22, 1666. II. Abigail, born May 9, 1671, married Samuel Forbush.
(III) Deacon Edmund Rice, son of Ed- ward Rice (2), was born in Sudbury, Decem- ber 9, 1653, and died September 25, 1719. He married Joyce who was born March 31, 1660, daughter of William and Martha Russell, of Cambridge, October 12, 1686. Ed- mund Rice was the administrator of the estate of his mother-in-law, Martha Russell. He re- sided in the southeast part of the town of Sud- bury, now Wayland, near the spring where his
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grandfather first settled. He was deacon of the Sudbury church and deputy to the general court in 1707. He and his wife conveyed half his house and half his barn and two-thirds of the meadow land, orchard and pastures, No- vember 14, 1718, to their son, Jason Rice. His inventory was taken November 19, 1719. Children : I. Joyce, born August 3, 1681, married Samuel Abbot. 2. Edmund, born July 9, 1688, died October 1, 1712. 3. Lydia, born May 24, 1690. 4. Jason, mentioned be- low. 5. William, married Martha Rice.
(IV) Jason Rice, son of Edmund Rice (3), was born in Sudbury about 1695-1700, and died there February 19, 1729-30. He mar- ried Abigail Clark at Watertown, May 31, 1722. His widow Abigail married (second), December 7, 1741, Nathaniel Haven. He re- sided at Sudbury. Children, born at Sudbury : I. Abigail, born April 17, 1723, married, June 14, 1753, Samuel Fiske; settled at Barre. 2. Edmund, born June 10, 1725, mentioned be- low 3. Jason, born August 7, 1728, married Susan Haven.
(V) Edmund Rice, son of Jason Rice (4), was born June 10, 1725, married, February 22, 1749-50, Margaret Smith, of Sudbury. He resided at Sudbury, now Wayland, on the Rice homestead given him by his father and con- veyed by him in turn to his son Edmund, Feb- ruary 22, 1796. His widow married Thomas Damon, of Wayland, in 1800, and died there November 24, 1813, aged eighty-two years. Children, born at Sudbury: I. Margaret, born December 25, 1750, married Peter Johnson. 2. Abigail, born February 13, 1753, married Nathan Drury. 3. Edmund, born December 28, 1755, mentioned below. 4. Salome, born February 2, 1759, married Elisha Drury. 5. Lot, born May 11, 1762, married Elizabeth Bellows. 6. Mary, born October 14, 1764, married Caleb Hayward. 7. Mark, born March 16, 1768, removed to Burlington, Ver- mont. 8. Jemima, born May 26, 1770, mar- ried Nehemiah Miller.
(VI) Edmund Rice, son of Edmund Rice (5), was born December 28, 1755, at Sudbury. He married, September 30, 1784, Abigail Cut- ting, of Rutland. She died at Wayland, Feb- ruary 1, 1813, in her fifty-third year. He mar- ried (second) Betsey Train, widow of Arthur Train, (published November 22) 1815. He died at Wayland on the home of his ancestors May 14, 1841, in his eighty-sixth year. He was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain Nathaniel Cudworth's company, Colonel Abi- jah Pierce's regiment, on the Lexington alarm,
April 19, 1775. For eight months in 1775 he was in Captain Thaddeus Russell's company, Colonel Jonathan Brewer's regiment. His widow Betsey was born in 1775, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Stratton) Seaverns, of Weston ; she drew a pension for fourteen years after the death of her husband and she died at Weston, November 21, 1855, aged eighty-six years. His will was dated October 9, 1827, and proved December 3, 1841; bequeathing to wife Betsey, sons Edmund and Edward, daughters Salome Nixon, Isabel Hancock, Abigail Heard, Mary Sibley, Mary Rice, Al- mira Rice and Cynthia Rice. Children: I. Edmund, born August 13, 1785, mentioned below. 2. Salome, born November 1, 1787, married Warren Nixon. 3. Isabel, born Aug- ust 12, 1789, married Torrey Hancock. 4. Abigail, born April 22, 1791, married Richard Heard, Jr. 5. Edward, born February 25, 1793, married Nancy Bond. 6. Abner, born April 8, 1795, died December 30, 1812. 7. Mary, born August 19, 1797, married Mark C. Sibley. 9. Nancy, born December 14, 1800. 9. Almira, born December 29, 1802, married Elisha Child. 10. Cynthia, born January 12, 1805.
(VII) Edmund Rice, son of Edmund Rice (6), was born in Wayland, August 13, 1785. Married Abigail Maynard, who was born October 5, 1809, at Sudbury, the daughter of Moses and Elizabeth (Haynes) Maynard. They removed to Brighton, Massachusetts, now part of Boston. He was deacon of the church there. Children, born at Wayland or Brighton : I. Moses M., born May 12, 1811, mentioned below. 2. Edmund, born Septem- ber 25, 1813, married Martha A. Fletcher. 3. Abigail, born June 19, 1816, died September 8, 1817. 4. Mary N., born March 6, 1818, married Rufus H. Bent, born May 13, 1818, at Sudbury. 5. Abigail, born June 26, 1822, married James H. Woodward. 6. Elizabeth, born November 12, 1825, died August 29, 1826. 7. Elizabeth A., born April 30, 1830, died May 25, 1830. 8. Daniel A., born June 29, 1831, removed to California.
(VIII) Moses M. Rice, son of Edmund Rice (7), was born at Brighton, May 12, 1811, and died in 1862. He married, January 31, 1834, Eliza Damon, who was born January 23, 1817 and resided at Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. Mr. Rice resided in Brighton and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Children: I. George D., born February II, 1835 (records), mentioned below. 2. Moses M., born May 31, 1837, died June 12, 1847. 3. Eliza, born Octo-
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ber 25, 1838. 4. Edmund (twin), born Octo- ber 25, 1838. 5. Charles, born November 18, 1843. 6. Israel I. G., born December 14, 1846. (IX) George D. Rice, son of Moses M. Rice (8), was born in Brighton, February II, 1835, died July 19, 1892. He was educated in the public schools and scientific school at Cam- bridge. When a young man he engaged in the business of general contracting. He and his father had the contract to construct the first horse railroad that ran out of Boston. He con- structed several large municipal water works and sewer systems. During the Civil war he was a government contractor, supplying stores and equipment for the army and doing some construction for the government. In politics he was a Republican; in religion a Unitarian. His home was at Melrose. He married, De- cember 30, 1858, Abigail Jenner Boyd, daugh- ter of General Joseph and Abigail Jenner (Goodwin) Boyd. Her father was born in Salem; her mother in Charlestown. (See Goodwin and Jenner sketches.) Her father was for twenty-five years a draughtsman in the United States navy. Mrs. Rice is living at the home in Melrose. Children: I. George D., Jr., born January 23, 1861, married, Feb- ruary 25, 1883, Elizabeth Fells; he has no children ; is a clergyman; chaplain at present of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, United States Infantry ; educated at Tufts college. 2. Abbie F., born March 14, 1868, married H. Dwight Farnsworth, February 5, 1891 ; their daughter Hazel, born February 22, 1892; she married (second), November, 1906, Charles Eames. 3. Maude W., born February 22, 1872, married, February 22, 1891, A. Leslie Danielson : children : i. Alma Paine Daniel- son, born June 22, 1892; ii. Abbie M. Daniel- son, born October 2, 1895; iii. Florence G. Danielson, born June 18, 1899; iv. George D. R. Danielson, born January 19, 1905.
PUFFER The surname Puffer, Poffer or Pougher, seems to be of Ger- man origin. The American im- migrant, George Puffer, settled in Boston as early as 1639, unquestionably from England, among Englishmen. The only English family found after a careful search of available Eng- lish records is traced back to one William Pougher, or Puffer, who was born about 1690, died at Hart's Hill, near Atherstone, county of Warwick, England. From the fact that he had a grandson George, and that no other family of the name is to be found, it is rea- sonable to believe that George the immigrant
was his brother. The family of Puffer was located in Hesse, Germany, before 1569, when one of the family was ennobled for civic serv- ices. General Joseph Puffer, of Austria, a Baron, was doubtless of this German family. He was born May II, 1801; knight of the Order of the Iron Crown, second class.
(I) George Poffer, of Boston, Massachu- setts, had land granted him for five heads at Mount Wollaston, later Braintree, Massachu- setts. According to one account he died Sep- tember 27, 1639, and no record of him as liv- ing after that date has been found. He and his descendants lived in old Braintree nearly a century. The original homestead was located about two miles east of the Old Colony rail- road station (now the New York, New Haven & Hartford) in Quincy, Massachusetts. His widow died February 12, 1677, at Braintree. Children : I. James, born about 1624, men- tioned below. 2. Matthias, married March 12, 1662, Rachel Farnsworth. 3. Mary, died July 22, 1700.
(II) James Puffer, son of George Puffer (I), was born in England, about 1624. He came to Braintree in 1639, with his father, and when his father died carried on the farm for his mother, and succeeded to its ownership. He was also a boatman, living at Ship Cove, now Quincy Neck. He also owned land in what is now Randolph, Massachusetts. He died at Braintree, July 25, 1692, aged about sixty-eight. He married, February 14, 1656, at Braintree, Mary Ludden, born at Wey- mouth, Massachusetts, December 17, 1636,. daughter of James Ludden, who was a corpo- ral and town officer in Weymouth. Children, born in Braintree: I. Richard, born March 14, 1657. 2. Martha, born December 28, 1658; died unmarried, March 29, 1701. 3. Mary,. born February II, 1659-60; married at Boston, November 26, 1700, Philip Blackler. 4. James, born May 5, 1663. 5. Ruth, born. January 25, 1667; died January 29, 1667. 6. Rachel, born January 25, 1667 ; married Janu- ary 7, 1695, Eleazer Isgate, of Braintree. 7. Jabez, born February 4, 1672, mentioned below.
(III) Jabez Puffer, son of James Puffer .(2), was born at Braintree, February 4, 1672, baptized February 22, 1673-74, ; married at. Braintree, December 3, 1702, Mary Glazier. He owned the covenant in Braintree church,. May 21, 1704, and his wife joined the church same day. He bought land in 1712 at Sud- bury, whither he and his brother James re- moved. He became a prominent citizen in- Sudbury; was captain of the militia company
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when Indian fighting was frequent. He died there November 5, 1746; his widow January 2, 1749-50. Children: I. Martha, born Octo- ber 18, 1705; married Phinehas Pratt. 2. Jabez, born 1705 ; mentioned below. 3. Sam- uel, born October 12, 1707. 4. Jonathan, born November 2, 1709 ; died November 9, 1709, at Braintree. 5. Jonathan, born at Braintree, October 22, 17II ; died November 1, 1782. 6. Ephraim, born at Sudbury, July 22, 1716. 7. William, born at Sudbury, February 25, 1720.
(IV) Captain Jabez Puffer, son of Captain Jabez Puffer (3), was born at Braintree, in 1705, removed about 1715 to Sudbury, with his father. He married at Sudbury, July 24, 1731, Thankful Haynes, who was born April 22, 1708, and died June 24, 1737, daughter of Deacon James and Sarah (Noyes) Haynes, who were married November 4, 1689. James Noyes was born March 17, 1661, died October 15, 1732, son of John Haynes, born 1621, in England. Dorothy Haynes was daughter of the immigrant, Walter Haynes. He married second, October 18, 1738, Hannah Treadway ; third, July 22, 1778, Sarah Perry, widow. He was captain of the military company, and prominent in town affairs. He joined the Sud- bury church July 12, 1727. He died June 21, 1789. Children, all born in Sudbury :
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