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I. James, born August II, 1734. 2. Josiah, born March 21, 1735-36; mentioned below. 3. Thankful, born September, 1739, died young. 4. Thankful, born October, 1741, probably died young. 5. Jacob, born April 10, 1743. 6. Daniel, born January 2, 1745-46; married, July 5, 1770, Mary Balcom, of Sudbury ; died March 13, 1829. 6. Rebecca, born February 2I, 1747-48; married April 15, 1766, Stephen Gibson, of Stow. 7. Sarah, born November, 1750, married Ithamar Rice, of Sudbury. 8. Rev. Reuben, born January 5. 1756; noted clergyman of Berlin, Massachusetts.
(V) Josiah Puffer, son of Captain Jabez Puffer (4), was born at Sudbury, Massachu- setts, March 21, 1735-36; died July 9, 1806. He married November 29, 1759, Mary Read, daughter of Jacob and Experience Read, great- granddaughter of Dr. Philip Read, of Con- cord, Massachusetts ; Mary died July 19, 1831, at Westminster, Massachusetts, at the ad- vanced age of ninety years. Josiah Puffer set- tled in Westminster about the time of incor- poration, 1759, on lot No. 62, in the south part of the town, on the farm now or lately owned by Cephas W. Bush. In early youth Puffer lost a thumb by the explosion of a gun in his hands, and was disqualified for military serv- ice. When he enlisted it is said that he passed
the examination by wearing gloves, of which the thumb of one was filled with wood. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and was sergeant of the company under Cap- tain Noah Miles, Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment, on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was also in Captain Elisha Jackson's company, sent to reinforce the Northern Con- tinental army in 1777. He was an active, in- fluential citizen, of sound judgment, able and upright. He was representative to the general court in 1787, 1790 and 1791. He was the best educated man in town, except perhaps the minister. He retained his health to the day of his death. He mowed an acre of heavy grass the day before he died, and indeed died in the hayfield next day, while making his hay, pitch- fork in hand, and was found dead by a neigh- bor. Children, born in Westminster: I. Rev. Isaac, born January 24, 1761 ; married Sally Merriam; settled in Louisville, New York; soldier in revolution. 2. Mary (Polly), born April 5, 1763 ; married John Dunn. 3. Jabez, born June 14, 1765; removed to Louisville, New York. 4. Eunice, born August 7, 1767, married Nathan Whitney. 5. Thankful, born April 17, 1769. 6. Lucena, born at Sudbury, May 27, 1771 ; married Asa Merriam. 7. Sam- tel Read, born October 21, 1773; mentioned below. 8. Ruth, born November 1, 1776. 9. Sally, born November 22, 1780. 10. Asahel, born December 20, 1781. II. Betsey, born March 19, 1783.
(VI) Samuel Read Puffer, son of Josiah Puffer (5), was born in Westminster, Massa- chusetts, October 21, 1773. He dropped the use of the name "Read" in 1827. He married November 6, 1801, Polly, born 1783, died March 24, 1843, daughter of Nathan and Mehitable (Cowee) Wood. He succeeded to his father's homestead in South Westminster ; was a quiet, industrious and upright citizen. His wife is said to have been the best educated and informed woman in the town. She died March 27, 1843, aged sixty. He married sec- ond, Elizabeth Brooks, widow of Ezra Brooks, November, 1844; she died in 1858; he died March 22, 1854, aged eighty. He enlisted for the war of 1812, and he and his wife used their spoons to cast bullets at the time of an alarm. Children of Samuel and Polly Puffer : I. Mer- rick, born February 9, 1803; married Mary Mentz ; son Frank resided in Fitchburg, Mas- sachusetts ; now deceased. 2. Mary P., born April 19 or 20, 1805; married Samuel H. Evans, of Chelsea; son Edward was a Con- gregational minister; now deceased. 3. El-
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mira, born September 9-10, 1807; married Samuel Merriam, and had six children. 4. Josiah, born January 2, 1810; mentioned be- low. 5. Mehitable Cowee, born January I, 1812; married William P. Bigelow, and re- sided in Holden, Massachusetts. 6. Joel W. Wood, born December 25-27, 1813; died De- cember 22, 1828. 7. Sarah Bigelow, born September, 1815; married Newton S. Hub- bard; resided in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and had three children, of whom John Hubbard resides in Chicago; she died April, 1889. 8. Nancy Wood, born November 17, 1817; mar- ried Reuben W. Twitchell; resided at West- minster and Chelsea, Massachusetts. 9. Sam- uel Augustus, born October 9, 1820; died Feb- ruary 24, 1825. 10. Caroline Abby, born Feb- ruary 28, 1822 ; married Samuel Whitney, and had four children, of whom William (3) is a Yale graduate. II. Martha Raymond, born 1825 ; married Amos S. Taylor, and had three children ; resided at Boston, 83 Chandler street.
(VII) Josiah Puffer, son of Samuel Read Puffer (6), was born in Westminster, Massa- chusetts, January 2, 1810; married, Septem- ber, 1834, Emeline Page, born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, July 11, 1813, daughter of Joel and Thirza ( Wheeler) Page, of Fitchburg. He was a man of much public spirit and promi- nence, active in military life and in the temper- ance movement. He was a manufacturer of chairs in Westminster, then took charge of a farm in Bolton, and later bought a farm in Harvard, Massachusetts, and conducted it for six years. He lived at Ayer for a number of years, having a real estate and auctioneer busi- ness. While at Harvard he kept a hotel. He finally bought another farm at Westminster, where he spent the rest of his days. He died there January 10, 1881, aged seventy. Chil- dren, born at Westminster: I. Merrick Har- wood, born July 1, 1835; married Melissa E. Everett ; resided in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he was a milk dealer, and later kept hotel at Westminster; had five children. 2. George Gibson, born October 23, 1838; men- tioned below. 3. William Augustin, born July 20, 1843; married Sarah Barnard; resided in Harvard and Ayer, Massachusetts, where he was in the employ of the Fitchburg railroad, died December 30, 1887, leaving one child.
(VIII) George Gibson Puffer, son of Jo- siah Puffer (7), was born at Westminster, October 23, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and brought up on his father's farm. He left home at the age of twenty, and until the civil war broke out drove a four-horse team for the firm then
known as the Greenwood Wright Chair Com- pany, manufacturers of chairs at Gardner, Massachusetts. He enlisted in Company E, in the old Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, un- der Captain Frank H. Whitcomb, July 8, 1864, and was discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment, October 27, 1864. He worked for a time on his father's farm, then engaged with a milk contractor on a milk car form Stow to Boston, then from Littleton to Boston until 1868, when he made his home in Ayer, Massachusetts. He held various posi- tions for five years, then again took charge of a milk car running from Pepperell to Boston, continuing for nine years or more. He bought a farm in Littleton, but soon sold it again and returned to Ayer to live, and engaged in the coal business later. He was a clerk in various stores in that town for several years. Since 1889 he has devoted his time to the care of his real estate, in which he has made some very fortunate investments in Ayer, and in the supervision of real estate for others. In poli- tics Mr. Puffer is a Republican, but has never held office. He is a member of the Unitarian church, and of Geo. S. Boutwell Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ayer. He is a well- known and highly respected citizen of Ayer.
He married, at Littleton, January 1, 1868, Ellen Louise (Sprague) Willard, widow, born August II, 1835, at Littleton, daughter of John and Lydia (Sanderson) Sprague. Her father was a Littleton farmer, a native of that town. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Puffer is Mabel Emaline, born at Ayer, May 23, 1870; resides at home with her parents.
Thomas Eames, immigrant an- EAMES cestor of one of the oldest fami- lies of Framingham, Massachu- setts, was born in England about 1618, and came to America as early as 1634. He was a soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. In 1640 he was an inhabitant and proprietor of Dedham, Massachusetts. He removed to Medford, where he was living from 1652 to 1659, occupying the water mill on the Mystic side, Charles- town, then Woburn. . He then moved to Cambridge, where he owned a house and eight acres of land east of the Common. He sold his property there February 10, 1664, to Nich- olas Wyeth, and removed to Sudbury, where he leased Mr. Pelham's farm and lived until 1669. He settled finally in Framingham, where he built his house and barn, though he attended church at Sherborn and was recorded as an inhabitant there January 4, 1674. Dur-
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ing King Philip's war, February 1, 1076, his wife and several children were killed or taken captives. He held the office of selectman, and was on various important committees before coming to Framingham. He died suddenly January 25, 1680. He married (first) Marga- ret and (second) Mary Paddlefoot, widow of Jonathan Paddlefoot, daughter of John Blanford, of Sudbury ; she was killed by Indians, February, 1676. Children : I. John, born May 16, 1641, died September 17, 1641. 2. John, born October 6, 1642, died December 14, 1733; married (first) Mary Adams, (sec- ond) Elizabeth Eames, May, 1682. 3. Mary, born May 24, 1645, married Abraham Coz- zens, of Sherborn. Children of Thomas and Mary Eames: 4. Elizabeth, married, Decem- ber 18, 1673, Thomas Blanford, of Watertown. 5. Child captured by Indians. 6. Child killed by Indians. 7. Thomas, baptized July 12, 1663, killed by Indians 1676. 8. Samuel, born at Sudbury, January 15, 1664, taken captive by Indians but returned. 9. Margaret, born July 8, 1666, taken captive and redeemed; married, February 21, 1668, Joseph Adams, of Cam- bridge. 10. Nathaniel, born December 30, 1668, mentioned below. II. Sarah, born at Framingham, October 3, 1670, killed by the Indians. 12. Lydia, born at Framingham, June 29, 1672, killed by the Indians.
(II) Nathaniel Eames, son of Thomas Eames (I), was born in Sudbury, Massachu- setts, December 30, 1668, and died January I, 1746. He built in 1693 the eastern part of the Jonathan Eames house which was preserved until 1886, when it was torn down. When a child he was captured by the Indians with oth- ers of the family, but regained his freedom. In 1699 he petitioned the general court to have his lands remain a part of Natick, instead of Sherborn ; July 27, 1710, he was taxed to se- cure a stock of ammunition for the colony. He was on the school committee in 1717-18, church committee in 1726, and selectman 1726- 27. He married Anne who died March 12, 1743. Children: 1. Lydia, born December 10, 1694, married, November 15, 1716, Benjamin Muzzy, of Lexington. 2. Re- becca, born July 25, 1697, married. Daniel Bigelow. 3. Sarah, born November I, 1701, married Nathaniel Coy. 4. Nathaniel, born April 18, 1703. mentioned below. 5. Anne, born January 27, 1706-07, married, April 23, 1740, Samuel Knight, of Sudbury. 6. Will- iam, married Sarah Perry. 7. Daniel, born March 20, 1711-12, married Silence Leland.
(III) Nathaniel Eames, son of Nathaniel Eames (2), was born at the old Jonathan
Eames place on the Framingham-Sherborn- Natick line, April 18, 1703, and lived there all his life. He died March 13, 1796. He was corporal in Captain Isaac Clark's. company of troopers from August 21 to September 18, 1725, in the Indian war service, and again in 1757 was in the French war in Captain Henry Eames' company. He was one of the petitioners for a new meeting house in 1730. He married, November 27, 1735, Rachel Lovell, of Medfield. She died October 19, 1778, aged sixty-eight years. Children : Benjamin, born September 15, 1737, died young. 2. Nathaniel, born July 31, 1739, died young. 3. William, born February 21, 1741, died young. 4. Ann, born August 6, 1744, died young. 5. Nathaniel, born September II, 1747, mentioned below. 6. Alexander, born October 15, 1748. 7. Benjamin, born March 16, 1751. 8. Rachel, married Richard Gleason. (IV) Nathaniel Gleason, son of Nathaniel Gleason (3), was born at Framingham, Sep- tember II, 1747, died September 8, 1820. He lived on the place owned later by his son Jona- than and was a prosperous farmer, raising stock and following also his trade as butcher. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain Micajah Gleason's company of minute men at Concord and Cambridge in April, 1775 ; private in Captain Nathan Drury's com- pany, Colonel Abner Perry's regiment (Sixth) in 1780. He married Katherine Rice, born at Framingham, September 5, 1751, died May 30, 1833, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Eames) Rice, of Framingham. Children : I. Anna, born February 5, 1772, married, Aug- ust 1, 1802, Amasa Forbes, of Roxbury, Mas- sachusetts. 2. Alexander, born July 5, 1774, died October 28, 1861 ; married Abigail Lovell, of Medfield. 3. Zedekiah, born February 13, 1776, died aged two years. 4. Abel, born May 23, 1778, died August 18, 1859; married Molly Fames. 5. Rachel, born May 30, 1780, mar- ried Seth Forbes. 6. Stephen, born July 6, 1782, died aged four years. 7. Lovell, born February 7, 1785, died December 4, 1865; married, April 5, 1810, Lucy Eames. 8. Zede- kiah, born October, 1787. 9. Patty, born 1790, baptized August, 1790; died July 29, 1884. 10. Jonathan, born July 5, 1793, mentioned below.
(V) Jonathan Eames, son of Nathaniel Eames (4), was born at Framingham, July 5, 1793, and died February 6, 1877. His school- ing was rather brief, as he was obliged to go to work on the farm with his father as soon as he was able. Part of the farm came to him when his father died and his house was stand-
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ing until 1886 as stated above. He was one of the prosperous farmers of the town in his day, a man of quiet, retired habits; generally re- spected and thoroughly upright and honest in business affairs. He attended the Baptist church. In early life he was a Whig, later a Republican. He trained in the state militia and enlisted in the war of 1812. He married Susan Eames, who was born January 16, 1792, daughter of Henry and Azubah (Haven) Eames, of Framingham. Henry Eames was a farmer and also a descendant of the pioneer, Thomas Eames. Children of Jonathan and Susan Eames : I. Zedekiah, born October 28, 1818, died August 8, 1820. 2. Lawson, born November 6, 1819, died November 27, 1846; married (second) Sarah Elizabeth Smart and both were lost at sea November 27, 1846, when the ship "Atlantic" foundered. 3. Emerson, born November 10, 1821, died August 19, 1870, unmarried. 4. Clarissa, born May 16, 1824, died March, 1893; married, October, 1849, Benjamin Foster, of Framingham; chil- dren : . Emma, Alice, Ella Jane Foster. 5. Eliphalet, mentioned below. 6. Fannie Clark, born February 24, 1828, died May 31, 1894. 7. Emily Belle, born February 18, 1830. 8. Henry Gardner, born July 10, 1832, married Sarah M. Annette, of Southborough, Massa- chusetts ; children : i. Flora, married Dwight Gardner; children: Chester and Harley; ii. Wilbur, married Maud Miller. 9. William Richardson, born March 30, 1834, married Mary J. Hudson, of South Framingham; children : Susan Belle, married Harry Estes, of Duxbury, and had son Wendell Eames.
(VI) Eliphalet Eames, son of Jonathan Eames (5), was born at Framingham, April IO, 1826. He worked on his father's farm and attended the village school in his youth. After the opening of the Milford branch of the Boston & Albany Railroad he worked for a short time as fireman. He preferred the shoe- maker's trade, however, and combined farm- ing and shoemaking until he was fifty years old. He made shoes in the winter season in a little shop on his farm, after the universal cus- tom among the shoemakers of the early half of the nineteenth century. In later years he de- voted his whole attention to his farm and the care of other real estate. He built the house now occupied by his son, Everett L. Eames, on the old Eames property, on Hollis street, then known as the Holliston road, about 1853. He owned much valuable land in that section. He died January 1I, 1892. He was a member of the Framingham Baptist church. He served
several years on the school committee and was Republican in politics. He was fond of out- door sports, particularly of fox hunting, at which he was an adept. He married Mary E. Guild, of Franklin, Massachusetts. Children : I. Anna Jenette, born February 20, 1854, died aged four years. 2. Etta Orvilla, born April 21, 1856, died December 20, 1870. 3. Everett Linwood, born January 5, 1868, mentioned below.
(VII) Everett Linwood Eames, son of Eliphalet Eames (6), was born at South Framingham, January 5, 1868. He received his education in the public and high schools of his native town. During his boyhood he worked on the homestead with his father; at the age of fifteen he left the high school to enter the employ of George H. Eames in his market as a delivery clerk. After about ten months he left to become a pressman in the straw shop of Emmons and Billings, where he worked three years. He filled a similar posi- tion in the straw shop of Thomas L. Barlow, Park street, Framingham, and was employed altogether for ten years in that business, and afterward was in the bleaching department of the Singapore Rattan Company at South Framingham. When his father died in 1892 the property came to him, and he has since then been occupied in the care of his own real estate and that of the estate. He has a large number of tenants on his property and some forty others on property of the Eames heirs .. Mr. Eames is a man of unquestioned business ability and is highly esteemed by his towns- men. He is a member of the Framingham Baptist church, Park street. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Pericles Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Pythias, and was formerly a member of Nedus Tribe of Red Men, South Framingham, and of the Fram- ington Club. He served in Company E, Sixth Regiment. Massachusetts, in 1893-94. He married, May 6, 1896, Helen Lucy Ward, born at Brookfield, Massachusetts, April 14, 1879, daughter of George and Lucy Rebecca (Slay- ton) Ward, of Brookfield. George Ward was a carpenter by trade; he served in Company D, Twenty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteer Infantry, in the Civil war; member of Post 10, Grand Army of the Republic, at Wor- cester. Children of Everett L. and Helen L. Eames : I. Linwood Everett, born April 5. 1898. 2. Harold Francis, August 5, 1900. 3. Hazel Mildred, July 17, 1901. 4. Stanley Wal- lace. November 25, 1903.
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This surname comes from the
ALLEN Christian name Allen, which is very ancient. In the roll of Bat- tle Abbey, Fitz-Aleyne (son of Allen) occurs. Alan, Constable of Scotland, and Lord of Galloway and Cunningham, died in 1234. Sur- names in England came into general use about the close of the twelfth century. One of the first using Allen as a surname was Thomas Allen, sheriff of London in 1414. Sir John Allen was mayor of London in 1525, Sir Will- iam Allen, in 1571, and Sir Thomas Alleyne, in 1659. Edward Allen (1566-1626), a distin- guished actor and friend of Shakespeare and Ben Johnson, founded in 1619 Dulwich Col- lege, with the stipulation that the master and secretary must always bear the name of Allen, and this curious condition has been easily ful- filled from Allen scholars. There are no less than fifty-five coats-of-arms of separate and distinct families of Allen in the United King- dom, besides twenty others of the different spelling of this same surname. There were more than a score of emigrants of this surname from almost as many different families leaving England before 1650 to settle in New England.
(I) Walter Allen, the immigrant ancestor, was in Newbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1640, and resided there several years. He re- moved to Watertown, Massachusetts, about 1652. In 1665 he sold his estate in Watertown and bought of John Knapp sixty acres in Watertown Farms, lying near Concord. In 1669 he purchased two hundred acres more at Watertown. By deed of gift, dated October I, 1673, he conveyed lands at Watertown to his sons Daniel and Joseph, and soon afterward moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he died July 8, 1681, aged eighty years. He deposed in 1677 that his age was seventy-six, so he must have been born in 1601. At the time of his death he owned land in Watertown and Charlestown, Sudbury and Haverhill. He acquired the latter farm in 1673. His occu- pation is variously given in old records as farmer, planter, haberdasher, shopkeeper, and once in 1673 as "haberdasher of hats." The inventory of his estate amounts to 3,015 pounds. When he came to Watertown he had a wife Rebecca. He married second, November 29, 1678, Abigail Rogers. Children of Walter and Rebecca Allen, the first three of whom were probably born in England: I. John, settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts. 2. Daniel, married Mary Sherman. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, born October I, 1641. 5. Benja- min, born April 15, 1647.
(II) Joseph Allen, son of Walter Allen
(I), was born in England; a cooper by trade. He settled in Watertown Farms, which was incorporated as Weston in 1712, probably in the northwestern part, near Concord and Sud- bury. He died in Weston, September 9, 1721, probably eighty or over. His will was dated January II, 1713, bequeathing to wife Anna and children. He married October II, 1667, Anne Brazier, who died December, 1720. Children: I. Abigail, born and died 1668. 2. Rebecca, born April 8, 1670; died January 30, 1674-75. 3. Anna, born August 22, 1674; died January 26, 1697-98. 4. Joseph, born June 16, 1677; died November 1, 1729, men- tioned below. 5. Nathaniel, born December 8, 1687, deacon of Weston. 6. Sarah, died 1699. 7. Deborah, married, 1714, John Moore, of Sudbury. 8. Rachel, married Jo- seph Adams. 9. Patience.
(III) Joseph Allen, son of Joseph Allen (2), was born in Weston, Massachusetts, then Watertown Farms, June 16, 1677, and died there November 1, 1729. On his tombstone in the old burial ground at Weston Center he is called "Ensign." He married first, Decem- ber 19, 1700, Elizabeth Robbins, who died No- vember, 1712. He married second, Abigail Children of Joseph and Elizabeth Allen, all born at Weston: I. Isaac, born November 10, 1701. 2. Prudence, born May 18, 1703; married, 1724, Isaac Hagar. 3. Amy, born September 21, 1706. 4. Rebecca, born February 25, 1708. 5. Joseph, born April 2, 1709; mentioned below. 6. Elizabeth (twin), born 1711. 7. Anne, born 1711. 8. Silence, born November 1712. Children of Joseph and Abigail Allen: 9. David, born September 26, 1714, settled at Claverack, New York. 10. Abigail, born May 14, 1716. II. Elijah, born September II, 1718, lived at Sut- ton, Massachusetts. 12. Sarah, born August 10, 1720. 13. Tabitha, born October 26, 1722. 14. Daniel, born August 31, 1724, lived at Sheffield, Massachusetts. 15. Timothy, born April 8, 1727, died young.
(IV) Joseph Allen, son of Joseph Allen (3), was born in Weston, the Watertown Farms, April 2, 1709; removed to Grafton, Massachusetts, about 1730, and six years later to Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he died August 18, 1793, aged eighty-four. He was a housewright, captain of militia as early as 1740, selectman, assessor, clerk and treasurer of the town, and deacon for nearly fifty-seven years. He married first, August 16, 1733, Mercy Livermore, of Grafton, who died March 1, 1789, aged seventy-six, and married second, August 2, 1789, Sarah Knowlton,
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widow. His house at Hardwick was destroyed by fire, and he erected the one now standing on his old farm. He was not only one of the earliest, but also one of the most active and energetic of the pioneers of Hardwick. After his death a pamphlet was published containing several articles written by him, chiefly on re- ligious subjects. In one of them is a scrap of autobiography which fixes the date of his birth.
"My native place where born was I, In seventeen hundred nine, Does sixteen miles from Boston lie, In Westown, called mine.
"Between my third and my fourth My mother left this life, Which was to me affliction sore, My father lost his wife.
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"In all my father's family Once sixteen did survive; Before my father two did die, Then fourteen left alive."
Children : I. Sarah, born July 25, 1734, married Benjamin Winchester. 2. David, born August 18, 1738; mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born September 19, 1743 ; married October 10, 1765, Lemuel Cobb. 4. Mercy, born April 19, 1746; married February 4, 1771, John Ami- don. 5. Joseph, born December 21, 1748.
(V) David Allen, son of Joseph Allen (4), was born August 18, 1738, in Hardwick, Mas- sachusetts, where he died August 5, 1799. He was selectman and assessor there; a very ac- tive and prominent citizen. He married first, November 12, 1761, Elizabeth Fisk, who died October 22, 1791, aged forty-eight ; he married second, January 22, 1794, Lydia Woods, of New Braintree, Massachusetts. Children, all born in Hardwick: I. Rhoda, born Septem- ber 27, 1763; married David Barnard. 2. Eunice, born August 22, 1765 ; married John Earl. 3. Daniel, born September 20, 1767. 4. Elizabeth, born October 27, 1768; married" Isaac Wing. 5. David, born May 12. 1771 ; mentioned below. 6. Mercy, born May II, 1773. 7. Moses, born March 9, 1776, died young. 8. Moses born March II, 1779; prominent citizen of Hardwick. 9. Lydia, born October 18, 1784; married Daniel Mathews, of New Braintree.
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