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Henry (2) Glover, son of Henry and Abi- gail Glover, was probably born in Dedham. He was living in Boston in 1660, and went from there to Milton, where he died April
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26, 1714, at the age of seventy-two years. The Christian name of his wife was Hannah. She was admitted to the church at Milton, Rev. Peter Thatcher pastor, August 24, 1684, and died there September, 1729, aged seventy- nine years. Their children were Thomas, Hannah, Elizabeth, Henry, Sarah, Mary, Abi- gail, Alice, Edward and Francis.
Edward Glover, third son and ninth child of Henry and Hannah Glover, was born in Milton, April 26, 1681, and died there May 14, 1745, leaving a widow and six children. April 26, 1718, he married for his first wife Sarah Gill, of Milton, who died February I, 1740, and on October 24 of the following year he married Mrs. Mary Bake, a widow. His children, all of his first union, were: Edward, Hannah, Mary, John, Moses and Henry.
John Glover, fourth child and second son of Edward and Sarah (Gill) Glover, was born in Milton, January 23, 1726. He inherited a portion of the family estate, and occupied it until his death. He served in the French and Indian war (1755-7), survived the war- ships of that sanguinary struggle, and return- ing to his home in Milton, died, suddenly, Oc- tober 17, 1739. He married Abigail Holmes, and she bore him four children: John, Lem- uel. Edward and Abijah.
John Glover, eldest son and child of John and Abigail (Holmes) Glover, was born in Milton, May 31, 1753. He went to Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Grafton, Vermont, in 1799, owning farms in both of these places, and from the last-named he returned to Massachusetts, finally pur- chasing a farm in Randolph, not far from his birthplace. He died in Randolph, July 22, 1829. He married Rachel Littlefield, who was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, daughter of Moses Littlefield, and she died in Grafton, Vermont, July 22, 1799. He is said to have married again, at Randolph, Bet- sey Mann. His wife Rachel bore him ten children: Polly, Betsey (who died young), Edward, John, Lucy, Betsey, Abijah, Lemuel, Benjamin and William. Four were born in Milton and the others in Lunenburg.
Benjamin Glover, fifth son and ninth child of John and Rachel (Littlefield) Glover, was born in Lunenburg, December 30, 1788. His boyhood was spent in Grafton, Vermont, and when a young man he settled in Harvard, Massachusetts. In 1812 he enlisted in the United States army, in which he served through the second war with Great Britain, and while on his return was accidentally drowned while crossing a bridge. He was
married July 16, 1810, to Polly Terry, a na- tive of Lebanon, Connecticut, and a repre- sentative of the noted Terry family of that state. Besides a widow, Benjamin Glover left one son, Ephraim Terry. His widow married for her second husband Thomas Liv- ermore, Esq., of Boston, and resided at the West End.
Ephraim Terry Glover, only child of Benja- min and Polly (Terry) Glover, was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1812. Having served an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, he went to Manchester, New Hamp- shire, where he plied his calling in the mills of that place, and he died at Concord, from the effects of a sunstroke. In 1836 he married Mary Webster Sleeper, of Chester, New Hampshire, and she died, leaving three chil- dren: Mary Livermore, who became the wife of Charles Freeman Small, as previously stated; Martha S., born November 7, 1838; and Thomas Livermore, born July 10, 1842, served in the civil war, participating in the battle of Bull Run, and died at the Seminary Hospital, Germantown, District of Columbia, September 15, 1862.
Mrs. Small is the mother of two children: Louise, born in Boston, November 29, 1860, married Ernest Lovejoy Fuller, son of L. C. Fuller, ex-mayor of Malden; and Charles Thomas, born in Boston, April 17, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, who reside at Melrose High- lands, have two children: Loren, born June 22, 1888; and Everett Small, born September II, 1893. Charles T. Small is associated in business with his brother-in-law, E. L. Fuller, under the firm name of the Franklin Rubber Company, with a factory in Malden, and a wholesale and retail establishment on Sum- mer street, Boston. He married Inez V. Yale of Malden, and has one son, Charles W., born October 12, 1886.
GAY John Gay, the immigrant ancestor of Edward Gay, of Malden, Middle- sex county, Massachusetts, and of many of the Gays in New England, emigrated to America about 1630, and settled first at Watertown.
(II) Samuel Gay, son of John Gay, the im- migrant, was born March 10, 1639.
(III) Timothy Gay, son of Samuel Gay, was born September 15, 1674.
(IV) Timothy Gay (2), son of Timothy Gay, was born December 29, 1703.
(V) Timothy Gay (3), son of Timothy Gay (2), was born July 30, 1733.
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(VI) Ebenezer Gay, son of Timothy Gay (3), was born in Dedham, March 17, 1764.
(VII) Ira Gay, son of Ebenezer Gay, was born October 17, 1790. He was married July 25, 1813, to Mary White, and they resided first at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and after- wards in Nashua, New Hampshire. Ira Gay died August 20, 1837. His wife died October 15, 1865. Ira and Mary (White) Gay had thirteen children, and the parents and some of the children were members of the Olive Street Congregational Church in Nashua, New Hampshire. Ira Gay was a machinist and in- ventor. He possessed a mechanical genius of the first order, and made many valuable im- provements in manufacturing machinery. For several years he was agent of the Nashua Manufacturing Company, and at the time of his death was a director of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and one of a committee to superintend the building of the road. He was the first clerk and one of the first directors of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire.
(VIII) Edward Gay, son of Ira and Mary (White) Gay, was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, October 26, 1836. He prepared for college at South Brookfield, Massachusetts, and Lowell, Massachusetts, and was graduated at Amherst College in 1856. He became teach- er in the Quincy School, Boston, in September, 1856, and remained in this position nearly nine years, when he resigned in order to engage in mercantile business. In 1873 he accepted a position with A. Cochrane & Company, manu- facturing chemists of Boston. This firm was incorporated in 1883 and is known as The Cochrane Chemical Co. Mr. Gay was married December 31, 1859, to Eloise Howe, daughter of Colonel Isaac Jackson and Sophia H. (Wilder) Fox, of Groton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. Eloise Howe Fox was born in Groton, Massachusetts, January 29, 1837. They lived in Boston up to 1866 when they re- moved to Malden. The children of Edward and Eloise Howe (Fox) Gay were: Charles Edward, born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 14, 1861, died September 8, 1862. Clara Eloise, born in Malden, Massachusetts, May 21, 1874, died June 25, 1878. Mrs. Gay, so soon bereft of her children, herself died February 10, 1890.
RUTTER
Frederic Plympton Rutter,
president of the Waltham Coal
Company, Waltham, Massa-
chusetts, was born in Waltham, August 16, 1851. His first ancestor in America was John
Rutter, the immigrant, who came from Pen- ton, Harts county, England, to Boston, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, in the ship "Confidence," in the spring of 1638, and settled in Sudbury, at the time known as the New Plantation by Concord, but established as the town of Sud- bury on September 4, 1639. The petition to the general court to take up the land was pre- sented in the fall of 1637, and on November 20, that year, a committee was appointed to "set oout a place for them by marks and bounds sufficient for fifty to sixty families upon the river that runs to Concord." The next step was to purchase the land of the In- dian proprietors. The third step was to lay out the village plot, which was done in the fall of 1638. The home lots were staked out on two streets known as the North street and the South street. The plot provided for fifty-four house-lots of four acres each. These lots were located in the northerly site of North street, and on the southerly side of South street, and the space enclosed between the streets was laid out into the meeting house lots, the ox pasture, the sheep pasture, general planting fields and a training place which extended a considerable distance on the north side of the street beyond the house lots. On February 17, 1642-3, it was agreed between the townsmen and John Rutter, one of their number, as the other part : "That the said John Rutter shall fill, saw, hew and frame a house for the meeting house, 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, 8 feet between joints, 3 feet between studs: Two cross dorments in the house, six clear story windows, two with 4 lights apiece and four with 3 lights apiece and to intertie between the studs." The town agreed to draw all the timber to the place and help raise the house and to pay John Rutter for his work £6. The contract included only the frame. The roof was thatched, and the body of the house was covered with oak cleft- boards six feet long ; this roof and cleft board- ing cost an additional fio. There was no floor laid till 1645. In 1653 a new and more imposing meeting house was built on the old spot, 40x25, and 12 feet high, with gable ends, two pinnacles, two doors. John Rutter re- ceived besides his contract price for building the first meeting house, three acres of meadow as an acknowledgment of public services ren- dered by him.
His descendant in the sixth generation, Gen- eral Micah M. Rutter, was born in Sudbury, in 1779. This was one year before the part of the town in which his parents resided was set off as East Sudbury, April 10, 1780, and the name of the town was not changed to Wayland
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till March II, 1835. He was deputy sheriff of Middlesex county, a major-general in the state militia by appointment of Governor Lin- coln, having won the position through succes- sive promotions, was a man of great energy of character and public spirit and identified with all movements intended to promote the social, educational and religious interest of his native town and county. A short time before he died he remarked to a friend at his fireside: "My mother taught me the cradle hymn 'Now I lay me,' when I was a child, and I have never failed throughout a somewhat busy life to re- peat it on retiring to rest at night." General Rutter died in Wayland, Massachusetts, in 1837.
Josiah Rutter, son of General Micah M. and Abby Eliza (Maynard) Rutter, was born in East Sudbury, Massachusetts, and gradu- ated at Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts, 1833. He has the distinction among the alumni of Harvard as being the only graduate by the name of Rutter, and of having had as class- mates a large number of distinguished educa- tors, including Francis Bowen, George Ed- ward Ellis, and Abiel Abbot Livermore, Joseph Lovering, Robert Thaill, Spence Lowell, Ed- ward Josiah Storms, Henry Warren Torrey, Jeffries Wyman and Morrill Wyman. He practiced law in Waltham for more than thirty years ; was chairman of the Waltham school committee for twelve years; trial justice for fifteen years; and represented his district in the general court of Massachusetts for three terms. He married Abigail Baldwin, a sister of William H. Baldwin, a distinguished Bos- ton merchant, and for forty years ( 1868-1908) president of the Young Men's Christian Union of Boston. The children of Josiah and Abigail (Baldwin) Rutter were: William B. Rutter, who was an artist of local repute, and died November, 1888; Frederic Plympton Rutter, (q. v.) ; Francis J. Rutter, for many years connected with the New England Dressed Meats & Wool Company of Boston; and Na- thaniel P. Rutter, a well known citizen and hardware merchant of Waltham. Hon. Josiah Rutter died in Waltham, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 3, 1876, and Mrs. Abigail B. Rutter died in Waltham, in May, 1889.
Frederic Plympton Rutter, second son of Josiah and Abigail (Baldwin) Rutter, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, August 16, 1851. He was educated in the public schools of Waltham. He was a clerk in the drygoods store of Clark, Maynard & Company, Wal- tham, 1868-72 ; member of the firm of Rutter Brothers, coal dealers in Waltham, 1872-76.
In 1876 the firm sold the business to William A. Hunnewell, and Mr. Rutter remained as manager of the business up to the incorpora- tion of the Waltham Coal Company Corpora- tion in 1893, when he was elected president and general manager of the corporation, and he has continued in that position since that time. Under his effective administration the business of the corporation has steadily in- creased and they now have two extensive yards in Waltham. He is also president of the Nonantum Coal Company yards at Bemis. Mr. Rutter was president of the Waltham Cemetery board of managers 1892-96, resign- ing in 1896 to take his place on the board of assessors of the city of Waltham, to which position he was elected that year, and in which he has served to the present time. He is ex- president of the Suburban Coal Club; first vice-president of the Waltham Business Men's Association, and secretary for five years ; past master of Monitor Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; member of Waltham Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons; and of Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templar, of Newton. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum. He joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows early in life, and is a member of Prospect Lodge, No. 35, and of the Encampment of Waltham.
Frederic P. Rutter married, February 22, 1874, Minnie Holden, daughter of Samuel O. Upham of Waltham, and they have one daugh- ter, Abby Baldwin Rutter, born October 20, 1879.
Mr. Upham was born in Waltham, June 21, 1824, and was a direct descendant of John Upham, the immigrant who came from Eng- land to New England in 1635, and settled at Weymouth with the Hull Colony. At that time he was thirty-five years of age, and with him came his wife Elizabeth, (probably Webb), who was thirty-two years old; his sister Sarah Upham, twenty-six years old; his son John Jr., aged seven; his son Nathaniel, aged four years, and his daughter Elizabeth, aged three years. That he was a man of im- portance and worth is evidenced by the fact that he was admitted as a freeman on Septem- ber 2, 1635; was a deputy to the great and general court of the Colony in 1636 and 1637, and from the first term held in Newtown in 1638, at which session the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. His son John was buried "5d.4m. 1640" at Weymouth. He was one of six colonists appointed to treat with the Indians for lands at Weymouth and they were successful in obtaining a title for the
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settlers in these lands. He then served as se- lectman of the town 1645, 1646 and 1647, and he was one of three of the freemen of Wey- mouth appointed by the court to "end small causes at Weymouth." We next find him a selectman of the town of Malden, 1651 and 1655, and a commissioner to "end small causes" in Malden, 1657, 1661 and 1662." He was a deacon of the church; moderator of town meetings in Malden, 1678, 1679 and 1680; was interested in the settlement of Worcester in 1678. His wife died December 2, 1670, and in August, 1671, he married his second wife, Katherine Holland, who was a passenger with the Hull Colonists. His grave- stone may be seen in the burying ground of Malden, which records the date of his death February 25, 1681. His descendant, Samuel O. Upham, was born in Waltham, January 21, 1824, attended school and worked in the cot- ton mills of the Boston Manufacturing Com- pany at Waltham, where General Nathaniel Banks had before him served as a bobbin boy. He was only twenty-one years old when he represented his district in the great general court of Massachusetts, and in 1858, when General Banks, his fellow townsman, was elected governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, he made young Upham mes- senger to the governor and council, and he held the position during the administration of Governor Banks, 1858-61. He was inspector in the United States custom house, Boston, 1861-65 ; member board of selectmen of Wal- tham, 1867-71 ; postmaster of Waltham, 1869- 86, under the administration of Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Cleveland. He again represented his district in the great and general court of Massachusetts, 1887, and as senior member of the house he presided over its deliberations during the election of a speak- er, and he was re-elected, and went from the state house in 1888 to serve for three years as county commissioner of Middlesex county, 1888-91. He served as vice-president of the Middlesex Club, and as a member of Monitor Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
The only child of Frederick Plympton and Minnie Holden (Upham) Rutter, is Abby Baldwin Rutter, who graduated at Waltham high school 1897. The Rutter family are members of the Unitarian Society, and attend- ants of the First Unitarian Church of Wal- tham, and Mr. Rutter has been for many years a member of the Parish Committee of the Society. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rutter have
inherited the spirit of usefulness for long lines of distinguished ancestors, and in their immi- grant forbears they have splendid examples of achievements in planting colonies in a new world and shaping the destiny of a new nation.
Benjamin True Soule, of Cam- SOULE bridge, Middlesex county, Mas- sachusetts, son of James and Mary (Bradford) Soule, is a direct descendant from George Soule, who came over with the family of Edward Winslow in the "Mayflow- er," landing at Plymouth, December 21, 1620, and on his mother's side from William Brad- ford, for thirty-four years governor of Ply- mouth Colony, and the most reliable and in- dustrious historian of the early settlement of New England. James Soule was a ship build- er, and as his years increased he settled upon a farm in Duxbury, Plymouth county, where he died. James and Mary (Bradford) Soule had four sons and one daughter.
Benjamin True Soule was born in Dux- bury, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, June 24, 1832. He was brought up in Duxbury, where he attended the public school and Par- tridge Academy. Upon leaving the acad- emy he went to Boston, where he worked in a restaurant for William Greenwood, and after five years service he purchased the business from his employer and continued it on his own account up to December, 1906, when he re- tired. In 1861 he served for nine months in the Civil war, enlisting in Company H, Cap- tain De Forrest, the Forty-seventh Massachu- setts Infantry, Colonel Marsh, and while his regiment was stationed at New Orleans he was taken prisoner, carried to Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia, and when he was ex- changed he returned to Boston and resumed charge of the restaurant business. He mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Simeon and Me- hitable (Kenney) Smith, of Boston, and their children were: I. Minnie, born in Boston, Massachusetts, married Thomas C. Smith, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2. Justus F., born in Boston, Massachusetts, was a pupil in the public grammar and high school in Cambridge, and was professor of Latin and Greek in the University of Wyoming, at Laramie, Wyom- ing. He married Dora Simpson. 3. Bessie, born in Cambridge. Benjamin T. Soule is the only representative of the family of James and Mary (Bradford) Soule, his sister and three brothers resting with their father and mother in the family burying ground at Duxbury.
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The Thayers of New England
THAYER are descendants from two brothers, Richard and Thomas Thayer, natives of Thornbury, Gloucester- shire, England, on the Severn river, but who came directly from "Thayerdom," Essex, Eng- land, a manufacturing village about eighteen miles from London, and from a vicinity that gave so many notable families to New Eng- land history and so many names to New Eng- land towns and cities. Richard and Thomas Thayer were shoemakers, and emigrated with their families to the new world, landing in Boston about 1630, and locating at Mount Wooliston, established as Braintree, May 13, 1640, and they were that year admitted as freemen. Thomas Thayer married Margery Wheeler, and they had three sons : Thomas, Jr., Ferdinand and Shadrach.
(V) Richard Thayer (1772-1821), of the fifth generation from Thomas and Margery Wheeler Thayer, and the founder of the firm of J. H. & J. P. Thayer, of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, was born in Braintree, in 1772, but removed to Cambridge at an early age, and he carried on the business of house painter fron 1790 up to the time of his death in 1821. It is said that Indians from the surrounding wild- erness came into the paint shop to purchase red paint to decorate their faces, and the wares they manufactured were sold to the white set- tlers. Richard Thayer married Abigail Pearce, and they had eleven children; one of their sons, Richard, Jr., was killed by falling from the eaves of the Unitarian church in Harvard Square, Old Cambridge, while engaged in painting that edifice. A younger son, James H., succeeded to the business, and still a third, Joshua P., became a partner in the concern in 1837, at which time the business took the name of J. H. & J. P. Thayer, which it con- tinued to hold for seventy years, and in 1907 the business, as established by Richard Thayer in 1790, had been in existence one hundred and seventeen years.
(VI) James H. Thayer, son of Richard and Abigail (Pearce) Thayer, was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, 1814. He succeeded his elder brother, Richard Thayer, Jr., in the paint business established by their father, tak- ing entire charge of the business upon the ac- cidental death of Richard and continuing up to 1837, when he admitted his younger brother, Joshua P. Thayer, and formed the firm of J. H. and J. P. Thayer. He married Martha T. Foster, daughter of John and Martha (Trow) Foster, who bore him two sons, Farwell Jacob and Edward Everett, mentioned below.
(VI) Joshua P. Thayer, son of Richard and Abigail (Pearce) Thayer, was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, February 4, 1816. He learned the trade of house painter, and in 1837 became a member of the firm of J. H. and J. P. Thayer, above-mentioned. He was mar- ried about the same time to Martha Ann, daughter of Ebenezer and Eliza Bradley (Fos- ter) Tucker, of Old Cambridge. Her father was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, and was by trade a chaise trimmer, and later a har- ness maker, having his shop in Old Cambridge. Her mother was born in Boston, Massachu- setts, and gave birth to thirteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Thayer had four children, namely : I. William Richard, died young. 2. Joshua P., Jr., died when twelve years of age. 3. Fannie Louisa, married Charles T. Derry, of Barre, Massachusetts, and the children born to them were : Cecil Thayer, graduated at Har- vard University, A. B., 1903, and became a teacher in the Cambridge Latin School. Arthur Tyler, a member of the class of 1910, Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Univer- sity. Charles Ralph, died young. Evelyn Thayer, a member of the class of 1910, Rad- cliffe College. Miriam Frances, a graduate of Harvard grammar school, class of 1907, now a member of Cambridge Latin School, class of 1912. Malcolm Derry, a pupil in the grammar school in Cambridge. 4. Hattie Ann, unmarried, who became a public school teacher.
(VII) Farwell Jacob Thayer, eldest son of James H. and Martha T. (Foster) Thayer, was born in Cambridge, March 4, 1844. In 1861 he began to learn the trade of house painting, and in 1872 became a partner in the firm of J. H. & J. P. Thayer, the name being then changed to J. H. & J. P. Thayer & Com- pany. His father died in 1881, and his uncle, Joshua P. Thayer, September 18, 1876, but the business was continued under the same name. In 1902, Farwell Edward Thayer, son of Far- well Jacob Thayer, born September, 1875, a graduate of Harvard, A. B., 1899, was ad- mitted as a partner, thus representing the fourth generation of the house of Thayer in the business of house painting in Cambridge, the business being founded in 1790.
(VII) Edward Everett Thayer, second son of James H. and Martha T. (Foster) Thayer, was born in Cambridge, 1846. After attend- ing the public schools of Cambridge, Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he was prepared to take up the profession of a physi- cian, but at the age of twenty-five he was stricken with a fatal sickness and passed away.
Joshua
P. Thayer,
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He was a promising young man and would undoubtedly have achieved success in his chosen calling. .
Thomas Gage, the immigrant an-
GAGE cestor, was born in England about 1625. He settled first at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and was a mariner by occupation. The first record of him is in 1650, when his son aged a year and a half was drowned in a well. He married before 1648, Johanna Knight, daughter of William Knight, of Salem and Lynn. Knight was a mason by trade, deacon of a dissenting con- gregation in England, and "came over with one Hawthorne and others for the enjoyment of liberty of conscience ; had house walls plastered outside with plaster of Pelis; had estate in land in England ; also the liberty of killing deer and rabbits in certain parks there." In 1655 Gage was charged with "profaning the Lord's Day" by putting forth to sea from Sandwich that day. He took the oath of fidelity at Yarmouth in 1657. In King Philip's war, in the fight near Seekonk, Captain Michael Pierce was slain with fifty-one other Englishmen and eleven friendly Indians, only seven or eight escaping. His three sons, John, Henry and William were slain. The heirs of these three were grantees of the township of Narragansett No. 7 (Gorham, Maine), on account of their services in the Narragansett war, April 18, 1735. Thomas died between June 30, 1695, and July 17. His will was proved August 5, 1695. Chil- dren: I. Son, born 1648, died 1650. 2. John; killed March 26, 1676, with his two brothers, March 26, 1676; was with Captain Gorham's expedition against Mt. Hope, June 24, 1675. 3. William, was killed March 26, - 1676, with two brothers. 4. Henry, was with Captain John Gorham in the Swamp fight, December 19, 1675; killed March 26, 1675. 5. Thomas, born about 1650; mentioned below. 6. Benjamin. 7. Adam, was in the expedition to Canada in 1690. 8. Moses, born 1668; settled in Beverly; conveyed to son John of Dover, New Hampshire, two rights in Narra- gansett No. 7, granted on account of the ser- vices of his brothers, late of Yarmouth, John and William Gage; Moses was in the expedi- tion of 1690 to Canada, and in 1735 claimed a grant of land for his services; in Captain William Raymond's company.
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