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Mr. Jefts is a Republican in politics. His family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church at Melrose.
He married, April 14, 1892, Mary Louise Perry, daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Perry, of Salem, Massachusetts. They have one son, Norman Farquhar, born September 16, 1894.
Johan Philip Frederick
FREDERICK was born in Manheim, Germany, in 1804. He was educated in the schools there. He mar- ried Dorotha Cramer, who was born in Darm- stadt, Germany, in 1809, and died in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1891. With his wife and fam- ily Mr. Frederick came to America in 1849 and settled in Racine, Wisconsin, and Milwau- kee, removing finally to Beloit, Wisconsin. For many years he was one of the oldest citi- zens of that town. He died in 1893. He was by trade a gardener, and in religion was a Protestant. Children : Eliza, Christopher, Phoebe, Caroline, Laura, Charles W. H., Wil- liam.
(II) Charles W. H. Frederick, son of Johan Philip Frederick (I), was born in Darmstadt, Germany, November 9, 1847. He came to this country with his parents when only two years of age, and received his educa- tion in the public schools of Beloit, Wiscon- sin. At the age of fifteen he went to work in a printing office, but after one year, was ap- prenticed to learn the trade of making willow ware. Two years later he went to Chicago in the employ of M. J. Tillman, manufacturer of chairs and willow goods. In 1871 he was admitted to the firm of his employer, the firm name becoming Tillman & Company. After the "Great Fire" the firm was re-organized and became Tillman & Frederick, continuing thus until 1880 when the partnership was dis- solved. Mr. Frederick withdrew from the business and his partner continued. Mr. Frederick engaged in the manufacture of wil- low and rattan goods on his own account and built up a large business, importing rattan from the East Indies through New York houses and developing the rattan industry in this country to extensive proportions. Mr. Frederick himself made the first rattan chair ever manufactured in Chicago in the year 1873. He continued his Chicago business with marked success until its consolidation in 1880 with the Wakefield Rattan Company. (See sketch of Wakefield family in this work.) Mr. Frederick took charge of the Wakefield
Company's western business as manager, and remained in Chicago in this position until August, 1893, when he took charge of the Wakefield Works in the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts, as the general superintendent. He has since then resided in the adjacent city of Melrose, where he is a highly esteemed citizen. He is a member of Wyoming Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Melrose, and of the Royal League. In politics he is a Republi- can, of independent tendencies, especially in municipal affairs. He and his family attend the Congregational church of Melrose.
He married, December 26, 1871, Louisa Rothfuss, daughter of Gottlieb and Ann Maria (Burkhardt) Rothfuss, of Chicago. She was born February 3, 1853, and died June 29, 1888. Children: I. Eva D., born Janu- ary 26, 1873. 2. Philip, born July 24, 1874, married, in 1894, Eleanor Thole; children : Phyllis D., born November 16, 1895, and Marion. 3. Paul, born October 18, 1877, died November 20, 1879. 4. Louisa, born Sep- tember 19, 1879, married Lawrence Franklin ; child, Barbara Louise Franklin, born April 29, 1906. 5. Hattie C., born August 9, 1881. 6. Ella C., born November 12, 1883. 7. Martha, born September 21, 1885. 8. Charles, born June 13, 1888, died August 15, 1888.
GOWING Robert Gowing, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England about 1615-20. His name is also spelled Gowen. He settled first at Ded- ham, Massachusetts, where he was admitted to the church July, 1639, and was a proprietor December 23, 1640. He was a yeoman or farmer. He removed to Wenham, Massachu- setts, before 1651, and signed a petition to the general court with other Wenham men May 23, 1650. He married, October 31, 1644, Elizabeth Brock, who was admitted to the Dedham church October 27, 1643. She was a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Brock, and a legatee in his will, which was proved Octo- ber 19, 1652. Mr. Gowing died at Lynn, June 7, 1698. Children : I. John, born November 13, 1645, at Dedham. 2. Elizabeth, baptized April, 1647. 3. Hannah, baptized February 21, 1648-49. 4. Priscilla, born at Wenham, 5, 1655. 5. Nathaniel, born about 1665, married probably (second) Martha
,who died April 27, 1775, aged eighty- eight; had ten children born at Wenham or Lynnfield, Massachusetts; freeman of Read- ing in 1691. 6. Daniel, born about 1670, mentioned below.
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(II) Daniel Gowing, son of Robert Gow- ing (I), was born at Wenham or Lynn about 1670. He may be the Lieutenant Daniel Gow- ing who died at Wilmington, August 5, 1764. He married, October 15, 1691, Sarah Streeter, and (second), May 20, 1698, Mary Williams, of Beverly. Hannah, wife of Daniel, died May, 1721, may have been a third wife, or the wife of his son Daniel. Children: I. Daniel, born October II, 1692, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, married, December 27, 1720, Sarah Hawks. 3. William, was connected with this family at Charlestown. 4. John.
(III) Daniel Gowing, son of Daniel Gow- ing (2), was born at Lynnfield, October II, 1692, and died at Albany, New York, of fever, September 10, 1756, aged sixty-five (Lynn records). His intentions of marriage with Esther Damon were dated March 20, 1719-20, when he was about eighteen years old, but their first child (on record) was born ten years later and the marriage may have been post- poned for some years. He certainly married Esther, however. He and John Gowen or Gowing, perhaps a brother, leased a farm at Beaver Dam, Lynn, of the town in 1702. He settled at Wilmington, Massachusetts. Chil- dren, born at Wilmington: I. Daniel, born October 28, 1729, mentioned below. 2. John, born August 17, 1732, married, February 5, 1756, Lydia Rich; resided at Wilmington. 3. Tabitha, born July 16, 1737, married, Novem- ber 2, 1766, John Hathorne, Jr. 4. Sarah, married, January 28, 1732-33, Joseph Kellar. Perhaps other children were born before he settled in Wilmington. Another Sarah mar- ried in Wilmington, December 27, 1748, Jona- than Damon.
(IV) Daniel Gowing, son of Daniel Gow- ing (3), was born in Lynnfield, Massachu- setts, October 28, 1729, died May 6, 1809, at Wilmington, aged seventy-nine years. He married at Wilmington, October 3, 1754, Sarah Burnett, who died there January 10, 1812, in her eightieth year. He was a soldier in the Revolution with his son Jabez in Cap- tain Timothy Walker's company, Colonel Green's regiment, and turned out on the Lex- ington alarm: was also sergeant in 1776 in the service. Children, born at Wilmington : I. Daniel, Jr., born July 5, 1754, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, born February 28, 1756, died May 12, 1756. 3. Jabez, born March 9, 1757, was in Revolution. 4. Mehitable, born October 4, 1758. 5. Joseph, born November 24, 1760. 6. James, born August 6, 1764. 7. Thomas, born August 6, 1764. 8. Sarah, born December 27, 1766.
(V) Daniel Gowing, son of Daniel Gowing (4), was born in Wilmington, July 5, 1754, and died there May 13, 1809, aged fifty-four years. He was a soldier in the Revolution as well as his father and brother. He was a pri- vate in Captain Timothy Walker's company, Colonel Green's regiment, on the Lexington alarm; also in Captain Cadwalader Ford's company, Colonel Eleazer Broad's regiment, in 1778, at the two forts in Cambridge. Chil- dren, born at Wilmington: I. Abigail, born December 21, 1779. 2. Sally, born January 15, 1781. 3. Susanna, born April 27, 1783. 4. Daniel, born March 15, 1785. 5. Hannah, born June 4, 1787. 6. Micajah, born Sep- tember 27, 1790. 7. James, born October 21, 1793, mentioned below. 8. Phebe, born March 15, 1796. 9. Jonathan, born February 27, 1799.
(VI) James Gowing, son of Daniel Gow- ing (5), was born in Wilmington, Massachu- setts, October 21, 1793. He was educated there in the common schools, and was a butcher by trade. He learned the trade of Asa D. Sheldon, a Wilmington farmer, and after a few years engaged in business for him- self in Lawrence, Massachusetts, continuing to the time of his retirement a few years be- fore his death, in 1888. In politics he was what was known as an Old Hunker Demo- crat; was selectman of Wilmington for eigh- teen years : representative to the general court one year. He married Mary Harvey Eames, daughter of Caleb, Jr., and Betsey (Locke) Eames. She was born in Wilmington, April 24, 1804. Caleb Eames, Jr., was born June 17, 1763, and married (first), November 22, I792, Hannah Jenkins; (second), May 3, 1796, Betsey Locke. Children, born at Wil- mington : James, Charles, George, Henry, William E., born September 24, 1824, men- tioned below; Mary, Mary, Mary (all died young), Charlotte K., Sarah Locke, born May 31, 1846.
(VII) William E. Gowing, son of James Gowing (6), was born in Dracut, Massachu- setts, September 24, 1824. He attended the public schools of Wilmington in his youth. At the age of fourteen he began to drive a butcher's cart for his father and continued in this occupation until November 25, 1845, fol- lowing his twenty-first birthday, when he bought out his father's business and has con- ducted it very successfully to the present time. He does a wholesale busines in pork, beef, lamb and poultry. He had his own slaughter- house on his place at Wilmington until 1873, when his business had grown to such an ex-
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tent that he made arrangements with Swift & Company, of Chicago, to do his butchering, and the arrangement has continued since then, uninterruptedly. In 1857 his brother was in partnership with him, and on account of the financial panic they lost practically all of their outstanding accounts. Failures were univer- sal. He had hardly recovered from this loss when his brother was drowned, in 1860. In 1877 he failed with liabilities of sixty thou- sand dollars. He paid his creditors forty cents on the dollar, resumed business and eventu- ally paid the other sixty with interest, after fifteen years of hard work. In 1878 he form- ed a partnership with J. W. Higgins, who was a brother-in-law of Gustavus F. Swift, head of the Swift & Company concern of Chi- cago. In 1900 this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Gowing's son entered the firm, the, name of which became, as at present, William E. Gowing & Son. Mr. Gowing is a Repub- lican in politics ; was selectman of Wilming- ton three years ; alderman for two years in the city of Lawrence, where he made his home for twenty-five years. He was representative to the general court in 1867 from the district comprising Reading, North Reading and Wil- mington. Mr. Gowing is an active and liberal member of the Congregational church.
He married, March 13, 1860, in Wilming- ton, Charlotte Elizabeth Blanchard, daughter of Walter and Lucy ( Bond) Blanchard. She was educated in Charlestown public schools, and finished her schooling in Abbott Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Her father was a wholesale commission and flour merchant, and was general inspector of hops in Massa- chusetts. Her grandfather was a commissioned officer in the Revolution, known far and wide as "Squire Blanchard" of Wilmington. Chil- dren : I. Annie, born July 10, 1862, died June II, 1897. 2. William Walter, born Aug- ust 10, 1864, his father's partner, mentioned above, resides in Lawrence, Massachusetts ; married Carrie Phelps Shepard, of Westfield, Massachusetts ; children: Catherine, Char- lotte E., Lillian. 3. Caroline (twin), born August 27, 1866, died September 24, 1866. 4. Catherine (twin), born August 27, 1866, died September 30, 1866.
BRADT The first of the family of Bradt came from Holland to' New Am- sterdam in 1630, and journeying up the Hudson River Valley settled at Fort Stanwix (Albany). In 1769 members of the family migrated to Massachusetts Bay and lo-
cated in Middlesex county, but kept in close touch with the Albany family. Barne- bas Bradt, grandfather of David Henry Bradt, was a glass manufacturer in Albany.
David Bradt, son of Barnebas Bradt, was born in Albany, New York, in 1801, and mar- ried Sarah F. Merrill, of Amesbury, Massa- chusetts. He was the father of Dr. Gerrett J. Bradt, of Lowell, John Henry, Peter, David H., George.
David Henry Bradt, son of David and Sarah F. (Merrill) Bradt, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, February 18, 1841. He re- ceived his education in that place and learned the trade of baker. He was married Noven- ber 22, 1871, to Mary M., daughter of Alex- ander and Sabra (Claflin) Wright, and sister of Sabra Wright (q. v). Mary M. Wright was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 18, 1838. Her grandfather on the paternal side was Duncan, son of Peter and Agnes (Ferguson) Wright. Duncan Wright was born in Del- lanny, Argylshire, Scotland, in 1776, and died in Tewksbury, Middlesex county, Massachu- setts, January 26, 1836. He learned the trade of chemical bleaching, and learning of the need of skilled bleachers in Philadelphia he left Scotland in 1812, and the ship in which he sailed was captured by the privateer "The Yankee" and taken to Bristol, Rhode Island. Captain De Wolfe, the commander of the American privateer, was financially interested in the Arkwright factory located at Dighton, Massachusetts, and in conversation with his prisoner he learned of his occupation and of his intended destination. He at once advised him of the cotton factory at Dighton, in which he was interested and sent him there with a letter to the manager, who at once engaged the Scotch bleacher as superintendent. of the bleaching, and it is claimed, with much show of justice, that Duncan Wright was the first chemical bleacher of cotton cloth in America. His success at Dighton induced him to send for his wife and three sons, and they took pas- sage on the ship "General Knox" and landed in Boston in September, 1815. His wife Janet was a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Mc- Nab) Wilson, of Paisley, Scotland, and a sis- ter of Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the American ornithologist. On the arrival of his family in Boston Mr. Wright took passage to Smithfield, Rhode Island, where he was em ployed as a chemical bleacher in the cotton mill of that place. After several years resi- dence at Smithfield, the field at Waltham Middlesex county, Massachusetts, where the Boston Manufacturing Company had been so
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successful in weaving cotton cloth by ma- chinery, was presented to him and he estab- lished a bleachery on the Charles river near the Waltham cotton factory, and in 1820 he sold his bleachery to the Boston Manufactur- ing Company and started a new bleachery at Medway, Norfolk county, which he conducted for several years, after which he went to Fall River, Bristol county, to engage in calico printing. Meantime his son Alexander had learned the business of manufacturing textiles, and in 1820 he established a coach lace factory at Medway.
In 1825 Alexander, son of Duncan and Janet (Wilson) Wright, who was born in Arkelstine, near Paisley, Scotland, May 4, 1800, and came to America with his mother and two brothers, became interested in the subject of carpet weaving and he journeyed to Philadelphia to visit a carpet factory recently started in that city of "Brotherly Love." He was refused the privilege of witnessing the operation of carpet weaving as carried on in the mill, and disappointed and somewhat chagrined he returned to Medway and soon after sailed for Scotland with the intention of gaining the knowledge he needed in the home of his birth. His visit was entirely successful. He purchased three carpet looms in Scotland, and accompanied by his relatives, Claude and William Wilson, skilled operatives of the car- pet loom, he sailed for America in the ship "The Rival" and reached the port of Boston, after a stormy voyage, with his machinery which with the aid of the Wilsons he set up in his factory in Medway and operated the car- pet factory with but little financial success; he later sold it to a Mr. Burdett, and the next owners were Frederick Cabot and Patrick T. Jackson, who organized the Lowell Manufac- turing Company on February 22, 1828, and removed the machinery to Lowell, and Alex- ander Wright continued to superintend the works. On removing from Medway to Lo- well in 1828, he married Sabra, daughter of William Claflin, of Holliston, Massachusetts. He produced at the mills of the Lowell Manu- facturing Company the first carpet ever manu- factured in Lowell, and in 1839 he suggested to E. B. Bigelow, the inventor of the im- proved carpet loom, the improvements that aided Bigelow to produce the power loom in- troduced by the Lowell Company in 1843, which practically revolutionized the methods of manufacturing carpets by machinery. Mr. Wright was an old line Whig, and in 1836 represented his district in the general court of Massachusetts, and in the adoption of a city
charter he was elected a member of the first board of aldermen. Alexander and Sabra (Claflin) Wright had five daughters and two sons, among whom was Mary M. Wright, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 18, 1838. She was married November 22, 1871, to David Henry Bradt, of Lowell, and they had no children.
JOHNSON William Johnson, the Eng- lish progenitor of this family, lived at Canterbury, county Kent, England, where his children were bap- tized in St. George's Church. His wife Susan was buried there April 10, 1604. He mar- ried, August 24, 1617, (licensed August 25, 1617) Ann Cobb, widow. She was buried September 27, 1637, and he was buried De- cember 27, 1637. William Johnson was a joiner by trade. Children all baptized at St. George's, Canterbury: I. Matthew, February 17, 1593-94. 2. George, 1594. 3. George, January 18, 1795-96. 4. Edward, September 16 or. 17, 1598, mentioned below. 5. Eliza- beth, September 6, 1601, buried September 14. 6. Thomas, August 8, 1602. 7. Daniel and Bartholomew (twins), March 18, 1602-03
Edward Francis Johnson, who wrote a sketch of this family, says: "The conjecture which I formed regarding these (dates of bap- tisms and burials extending back to 1545 in St. George's register) was that 'William John- son, parrish clarke' was the father of the town clerk of Woburn, and that he occasion- ally put in a back item into the records when he came to have charge of them; that he was born in 1559; that perhaps the John Johnson who died in 1598 was his father, born perhaps in 1541 or 1542; that the William Johnson who died in 1576 was his grandfather, 'hus- band of Elizabeth,' who died in 1575."
(II) Captain Edward Johnson, son of Will- iam Johnson (I), was born in Canterbury, Kent, England, and baptized in St. George's parish, September 16 or 17, 1598; died in Woburn, Massachusetts, April 23, 1672. He came to Charlestown with the first immi- grants and soon returned to England, and on his second voyage to New England, about 1636, brought his family, wife, seven children and three servants. He was famous as a sur- veyor and early explorer of New England. In 1665 he was appointed by the general court to make a map of the colony in conjunction with William Stevens. He was recognized as one of the leading historians of his day, and in 1672, after his death, the general court in
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carrying out its purposes to preserve records and historical data relating to the establish- ment of the colonies and towns, appointed a committee "to make diligent inquiry in the several parts of this jurisdiction concerning anything of moment that has passed, and in particular of what has been collected by Mr. John Winthrop, Sen., Mr. Thomas Dudley, Mr. John Wilson, Sen., Capt. Edward John- son, or any other; that so, matter being pre- pared, some meet person may be appointed by this court to put the same into form; that so, after perusal of the same, it may be put to press." His will dated May 15, 1671, men- tions wife Susan, his children and some of his grandchildren. The inventory returned May II, 1672, gives the value of his estate at seven hundred and six pounds, five shillings, six- pence; homestead one hundred and fifty-nine pounds; rents supposed to be due in England; houses and lands in England three hundred pounds. The will of his wife Susan dated December 14, 1689, proved March 2, 1690-91, mentions her husband, Captain Edward John- son, and states that her son John, with whom she had lived since her husband died, had taken care of her during that time and was entitled to what estate she had. She died March 7, 1689-90.
Captain Johnson was a man of much influ- ence in the colony, held many offices and was in many ways the foremost citizen of Woburn. At the first meeting of the commissioners for the settlement of the town he presented a plan of the territory and was chosen first town clerk. He was active in founding the first church, and commanded the first military company of Woburn. He is the author of some unique lines at the beginning of the first volume of the Woburn town records. "His verse-making when compared with the work of other writers of his time in this country was no better nor worse than theirs. No fuller account of the origin and settlement of a town of equal age in New England has been given than that by him of Woburn in his "Wonder- working Providence of Zion's Savior in New England," first printed in London in 1653. Children, all born in Canterbury, England: I. Edward, baptized November 7, 1619, married Katherine Baker. 2. George, baptized April 3, 1625. 3. Susan, baptized April 1, 1627, married James Prentice, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 4. William, baptized March 22, 1628-29, mentioned below. 5. Martha, baptized May 1, 1631, married John Amee, of Boston. 6. Matthew, baptized March 30, 1633, married Hannah Palfrey and Rebecca
Wiswall. 7. John, baptized May 10, 1635, married, April 28, 1657, Bethia Reed.
(III) Major William Johnson, son of Cap- tain Edward Johnson (2), was born in Canter- bury, England, in 1629, and baptized March 22, 1629, married, May 16, 1655, Esther Wis- wall, daughter of Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Dorchester and Newton .. She died December 27, 1707. He attained high civic offices; was assistant of the colony; major in the military forces of the colony and during the days of Governor Andros was one of those who re- sisted the aggressive acts curtailing the lib- erty hitherto enjoyed by the colonists, and commanded, until superseded by an officer deputed by the government, a detachment of about three hundred men, assembled in arms at Billerica, August 23, 1695, because of the killing or capture of fifteen persons at that place by hostile Indians. As second in com- mand he accompanied the troops in a search for the enemy, but the Indians made good their escape. He was the second town clerk and held many town offices. He died May 22, 1704, in Woburn. His will was dated May IO, 1695, and proved September II, 1704. Children: I. William, born February 26, 1656. 2. Edward, born March 19, 1658. 3. Eben- ezer, born March 29, 1660. 4. Esther, born April 13, 1662, married Lieutenant Seth Wy- man. 5. Joseph, born June 14, 1664. 6. Benjamin, born October 15, 1666, mentioned below. 7. Josiah, born January 15, 1669. 8. Susanna, born June 29, 1671, married, June 6, 1704, Daniel Reed. 9. Abigail, born October 4, 1674, married, June 14, 1705, Samuel Pierce.
(IV) Sergeant Benjamin Johnson, son of Major William Johnson (3), was born in Wo- burn, October 15, 1666. Married, November 22, 1699, Sarah Walker, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Wyman) Walker, of Billerica. He died April 22, 1733, and she died January 17, 1749. He was known as a sergeant from 1700 to the time of his death. His house was that occupied later by the Rev. Thomas Jones and the latter's successors, the Marrett and Sewall families. It was destroyed by fire, April 23, 1897. He gave, June 3, 1732, to the Second Precinct of Woburn (now Burlington) land for a meeting house at a place called Forest Field Hill "near my dwelling house, on the road leading to Sandy Bridge." Children, born in Woburn: I. Benjamin, born October 8, 1700, mentioned below. 2. Josiah, born July 28, 1702, settled in Billerica. 3. Seth, born April 23, 1707. 4. Sarah, born March 19, 1709, married David Comee, of Lexing-
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ton. 5. Hanna, born September 7, 1710. 6. Esther, born February 2, 1715, married John Wood.
(V) Captain Benjamin Johnson, son of Sergeant Benjamin Johnson (4), was born in Woburn, October 8, 1700. Married (first), April 10, 1728, Mary Walker, daughter of Samuel and Judith (Howard) Walker, of Wo- burn, who died June 5, 1762-63. He married (second), February 14, 1765, Mary (Pierce) Wyman, widow of Solomon Wyman and daughter of John and Mary (Parker) Pierce. He was captain of a Woburn company in the Crown Point Expedition from September 8, 1755, to January 3, 1756. The records show that he lost his gun, sword and certain articles of clothing for which he was reimbursed by the government. As one of the four select- men of Woburn he signed a census of that town in 1764. He was styled captain in the alarm list of Captain Walker's company, Wo- burn second precinct, March 9, 1776. He died May 4, 1781, aged eighty years, seven months. His estate was settled by the agreement of the heirs. He deeded the land for the old bury- ing ground to the town, this plot having be- longed to his family, but having been used as a cemetery for forty years before the deed was given, June 26, 1769, the condition being that the wall around the grounds be kept up. Children by the first wife: I. Joel, born January 31, 1729, died September 4, 1758. 2. Mary, born November 6, 1730, married (first) Eli Wyman, and (second) Abraham Sheldon, she being his fourth wife. 2. Azal or Asahel, July 9, 1732. 4. Judith, born February 26, 1734, married David Wilson, of Bedford; mar- ried (second) James Johnson. 5. Benjamin, born April 12, 1736, died June 21 1756, when a student at Harvard, by drowning. 7. Keziah, born April 9, 1741, married, June 25, 1761, Jacob Kendall; married, February 2, 1779, Amos Wyman; married (third), October 22, 1799, Ebenezer Richardson as his seventh wife; she died November 13, 1814, aged seventy-five years. 8. Ruth, born June I, 1743, married, October 31, 1765, Silas Cutler: died April 4, 1802; resided in Templeton, Massachusetts. 9. Abijah, born June 13, 1745 ; mentioned below. 10. Enoch, born May 12, 1748, died April 13, 1750.
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