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HEARSEY The earliest record of the Hearsey family which can be obtained is the name of a cer- tain Sir Malvicius de Hercy in the year 1210. The family appears to have come originally from Flanders, and a Hughe de Hersey was Governor of Trou-Normandy in 1204. Ed- ward I. held another Hugh when a minor, i. e. took all his rents until he came of age. There is a Count Herce-Maine, France, running from the year 1550. Sir Malvicius married Theophania, daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Arches, Baron of Grove, and from him de- scended the family of Hercy of Grove, one of the first families in the county of Nottingham.
Branches of this family seem to have settled in several of the southern counties of England, and they seem to have been prominent. The name is found in Sussex, England, in 1376 to 1482, owning property seven miles round. In Warwickshire there is still a village which is called Pillerton Hersey or Hercy. The Her- seys of Grove only show a direct descent in the male line down to 1570, but the branches in Oxfordshire and Berkshire go to 1794, at which date a son-in-law took the name Hersey, and these branches in England come down to the present time through him.
There are numerous Hearseys, Hersees, Hearses, and Herseys to be found, and a num- ber of entries are in the London churches. The name of Robert Hearse occurs as minister of Trinity Church, London, in 1578. The arms
of the English Hercys are, Gules, a chief ar- gent ; crest, a Moor's head wreathed on a coronet.
(I) Nathaniel Hearsey (Hercy) lived in Reading, Berkshire county, England, and died there in 1629. He was descended from Sir Malvicius de Hercy, who lived in the reign of King John. Children : I. William, born 1596, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, born 1599.
(II) William Hearsey, son of Nathaniel Hearsey (I), was born in England in 1596 and was the immigrant ancestor. He came to New England in 1635, and early in the au- tumn of that year settled in Hingham, Massa- chusetts. He was granted a house lot of five acres, July 3, 1636, on what is now South street, nearly opposite West street. He was called husbandman and was admitted a free- man in March, 1637-38. At the time of the trouble about the election of officers for the train band in 1644-45, William Hearsey was assessed a heavy fine for supporting the views of Rev. Peter Hobart and his friends. The family rate towards the erection of a new meeting house was the largest but one on the list. He was selectman in 1642-47-50, and in the artillery company in 1652. He married Elizabeth who died October 6, 1671. He died March 22, 1657-58. His will was dated March 9, 1657-58, and proved April 29, 1658. He bequeathed to his wife and children ; to grandchildren John Croade and William Hersie. His wife was executrix. His estate was appraised April 28, 1658, at four hundred and nineteen pounds thirteen shillings and six- pence. Children : I. Gregory, had son Robert who died in England leaving no issue. 2. Pru- dence. 3. Nathaniel, left son and grandson who died in England about 1794, leaving no issue. 4. William, mentioned below. 5. Frances, married, April 29, 1656, Richard Croade, of Hingham, afterwards of Salem. 6. Elizabeth, married Moses Gilman, of Exeter, New Hampshire. 7. Judith, baptized in Hing- ham, July 15, 1638; married, December 21, 1663, Humphrey Wilson, of Exeter, New Hampshire. 8. John, born August 9, 1640. 9. James, born 1642 or 1643.
(III) William Hearsey, son of William Hearsey (2), probably came to New England with his parents in 1635. He resided on the homestead in Hingham, which was willed to him by his father. He was selectman in 1678- 82-90 ; constable in 1661 ; was admitted a free- man in 1672. He married (first), about 1656 or 1657, Rebecca Chubbuck, baptized in Hing- ham, April, 1641, and died June 1, 1686, daughter of Thomas and Alice Chubbuck. He
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married (second) Ruhamah He died September 28, 1691. His will was dated 1689 and proved January 27, 1691-92. Children, all born in Hingham by the first wife : I. William, October II, 1657. 2. John, October 27, 1659, mentioned below. 3. James, December 2, 1661. 4. Rebecca, August 20, 1663, married, June II, 1683, Benjamin Johnson. 5. Deborah, Janu- ary I, 1665-66, married, April 29, 1687, Sam- uel Lincoln. 6. Hannah, February 13, 1668- 69, married, December 27, 1688, Ebenezer Lane. 7. Elizabeth, May 26, 1671, married, May 18, 1695, John Beal. 8. Ruth, February IO, 1673-74, married, February 4, 1695-96, Caleb Beal. 9. Mary, June 4, 1676. 10. Joshua, March 29, 1678. II. Judith, September 6, 1680, died September 13, 1681. 12. Judith, August 29, 1686, married Israel Vickery, of Hull.
(IV) John Hearsey, son of William Hear- sey (3), was born at Hingham, October 27, 1659, and died at Milton, December 1, 1725. He was selectman at Hingham in 1694. He married Elizabeth and removed to Mil- ton soon after 1700. His will was dated at Milton, September 30, 1712, and bequeathed to his wife, sons Caleb, Israel and Solomon ; daughters Elizabeth Montgomery, Ruth Wild, Mary Bowditch, Deborah and Rachel Hearsey, and also his brother, William Hearsey. Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth, born September 23, 1694, married, March 24, 1718, at Milton, William Montgomery. 2. Ruth, April 13, 1696. 3. Caleb, April 1I, 1698, married, March 15, 1727-28, Hannah Stoddard, at Milton. 4. Mary, March 1, 1699-1700. 5. Israel, April 17, 1702, mentioned below. 6. Solomon, Feb- ruary, 1703-04, died March 30 following. 7. Solomon, married at Milton, August 23, 1739, Anna Swift.
(V) Israel Hearsey, son of John Hearsey (4), was born at Hingham, April 17,. 1702, and removed with his parents to Milton, He married Abigail -, who died about 1740. He married (second) Tabitha Chil- dren : 1. John, born April 20, 1728. 2. Abigail, November 27, 1733. 3. James, March 12, 1734. 4. Elizabeth, March II, 1739. Chil- dren of the second wife: 5. William, October 24, 174I, mentioned below. 6. Elias, Novem- ber 5, 1743. 7. Esther, March 10, 1745. 8. Susanna, December 17, 1746. 9. Samuel Park- man, September 3, 1748. 10. Dorcas, March 16, 1749-50.
(VI) William Hearsey, son of Israel Hear- sey (5), was born October 24, 1741. He was in the Revolution as a private in Lieutenant- Colonel Jabez Hatch's regiment guarding
stores in 1777; in Captain Nathan Packard's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regi- ment on the expedition to Rhode Island in 1778; and in Captain Nathan Alden's com- pany, Major Eliphalet Cary's regiment on the Rhode Island expedition in 1780. Children, born at Boston: I. William, born March 19, 1764; mentioned below. 2. John, May 27, 1765. 3. Samuel, November 3, 1766. 4. Ed- ward, June 2, 1768. 5. Elias, November 8, 1769. 6. Mary, April 8, 1771.
(VII) William Hearsey, son of William Hearsey (6), was born March 19, 1764. He was a soldier in the Revolution in the same company with his father. He married Sarah born March, 1766, died October 16, 1857. He resided in Boston. Children, born in Boston : 1. William, April 6, 1786, died Oc- tober 19, 1848. 2. Mary, April 26, 1788. 3. Martha R., January 26, 1790, died July 4, 1816. 4. Sarah, February 9, 1792, died De- cember 21, 1854. 5. John F., April 10, 1794, mentioned below. 6. Abigail, June 13, 1795. 7. Edward, May 10, 1796, died November 23, 1864. 8. George W., June 16, 1798.
(VIII) John F. Hearsey, son of William Hearsey (7), was born in Boston, April 10, 1794, and died July 3, 1839. Only child, born in Boston, William Edward, December I, 1817, mentioned below.
(IX) William Edward Hearsay, son of John F. Hearsey (8), was born in Boston, December 1, 1817. He married Nancy Bake- man Smith, born September 19, 1819, daugh- ter of Elisha and Sally (Bakeman) Smith. Her father sailed from Brookville, Maine, in the schooner "Hero" and was last heard from December 17, 1818. He settled at Castine, Maine. Children of Elisha and Sally (Bake- man) Smith: i. John B. Smith, born Septem- ber II, 1811; ii. Alfred Smith, October 7, 1813, died January 29, 1814; iii. Albert Smith, February 4, 1815, died August, 1865; iv. Elisha Smith, Jr., January 19, 1817, died May 17, 1817; v. Nancy B. Smith, September 19, 1818, died February 14, 1896; all born at Boston, Massachusetts. Children of William Edward and Nancy Bakeman (Smith) Hear- sey, some of whom were born at Castine, Maine : 1. William Edward, Jr., January 17, 1840, died December 13, 1867. 2. Frances Augusta, March 4, 1842. 3. Sarah Ellen, June 26, 1844. 4. George Whitten, July 19, 1846, died April 22, 1865. 5. Charles Augus- tus, September 25, 1849, mentioned below. 6. John Albert, November 5, 1851. 7. Mary Eayres, April 16, 1854. 8. James Henry, March 28, 1856, died August 15, 1858. 9.
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Walter Herbert, in Cambridge, November 14, 1859. 10. Alice Bakeman, April 14, 1862, died December 26, 1863.
(X) Charles Augustus Hearsey, son of William Edward Hearsey (9), was born at Boston, September 25, 1849. When he was nine years old the family moved to Cambridge and he was educated in the public schools of Boston and Cambridge and in the Cambridge high school. He was a clerk for one year in a wholesale hardware concern ; in 1864 he enlist- ed at Boston in Company E, Sixtieth Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred days, and at the expiration of this term re-enlisted in Company H, Sixty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served to the end of the Civil war. He took part in the battle of Petersburg and other engagements. After he was mustered out of the army he served five or six months in the navy and then began an extended career on whaling voyages, to the Arctic Ocean. He went to Australia in 1872, but returned home in 1873 and gave up his sea life. In 1873 he went to Colorado on a prospecting trip. Upon his return east he entered the employ of the Boston Can Company and in 1876 was elected a director. He made a trip to Arizona and re- mained about five months in 1876, but return- ed to the Boston Can Company where his knowledge of metals and his enterprise and energy made him particularly useful. In 1900 the can company was absorbed by a larger corporation and Mr. Hearsey became connect- ed with the Worcester Iron and Metal Com- pany. He retired in 1904 from the manufac- turing business and engaged in farming at Stow, Massachusetts. He has twenty-one acres and makes a specialty of poultry and eggs. He is a Republican in politics. He and his family attend the Unitarian church at Stow. He is a past noble grand of Mt. Ver- non Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; past chief patriarch of Mystic Encamp- ment ; past worthy patron of Middlesex Chap- ter, Eastern Star; member of Mt. Hermon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Mystic Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Med- ford Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Bos- ton Commandery, Knights Templar : master of Stow Grange, No. 103, Patrons of Hus- bandry ; life member of Massachusetts Charit- able Mechanics' Association.
Mr. Hearsey married, September 28, 1886, Charlotte Foye Saul, born Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, September 19, 1862, daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth Howard (Gates) Saul. Children : I. Alice Gates, born
at Everett, December 19, 1887, educated in the public and high schools of West Medford, Worcester and Stow, now training for the pro- fession of nurse at the Waltham (Massachu- setts) Hospital. 2. Evelyn, born April 25, 1891, graduate of the Stow high school, now a student in Tufts College, class of 1911, vice- president of her class. 3. Helen Elizabeth, born at West Medford, August 13, 1894, stu- dent in the Stow high school.
BESSOM The surname Bessom is the survival of one of the numer- ous spellings of the surname of an old Marblehead, Massachusetts, family. In the early records the name was spelled Bes- son, Bezoon, Bezune, Bessom, Besume, Bis- son, and it seems to be the same name spelled Bason, Basom, Barsham, Bessom, Bazume, Bosson, in Boston and Roxbury records. (See sketch of the Roxbury family of Bosson). In both places the final letter was as often "m" as "n." From evidence accessible at present, even the name of the immigrant is in doubt. As early as July 22, 1646, Nicholas Batson, seaman, bought a ship in Boston of Christo- pher Lawson. Of his family we know nothing, but the fact that this name is the same as that of the first known settler in Marblehead, and was also in the same business, points to re- lationship if not direct ancestry. Then we find Richard Basin in Boston, a resident, included in an order issued by the selectmen September 30, 1695. This Richard had a wife Elizabeth, and the following and perhaps other children : I. Katherine, born in Boston July 21, 1690. 2. John, born December 30, 1691, died young. 3. John, born December 31, 1693, baptized June II, 1694. 4. Isaac, born January 18, 1696. 5. Gershom (see probate records for proof). Katherine, born August 12, 1694. Richard seems to have a brother Samuel Bason who by his wife Mary, had, in Boston: I. Samuel, born March 17, 1700-I. 2. Richard, born January 21, 1703. 3. Mary, born September 27, 1705.
(I) Nicholas Besson, the first of the name appearing in the records of Marblehead, was born about 1700 ; was probably son or nephew of Samuel or Richard Besson, of Boston, and perhaps grandson of Nicholas, mentioned above. The spelling of this rather unusual name creates great difficulties in the way of proving the lineage. Nicholas married at Marblehead, June 8, 1725, Rebecca Bowden (Bowdoin). Children, baptized at Marble- head: 1. John, baptized March 26, 1727, died
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young. 2. Mary, baptized August 4, 1728. 3. Elizabeth, baptized February 21, 1730-I. 4. John, baptized April I, 1733. 5. Rebecca, baptized April 25, 1736. 6. Nicholas, bap- tized November 4, 1739. 7. baptized April 26, 1741. Richard Besson died in 1812, aged eighty-four years.
(II) Philip Besson, son or nephew of Nich- olas Besson (I), was born in Marblehead or vicinity, in 1731-2, and died there September 4, 1797, aged sixty-six. His wife Sarah died December 12, 1802, aged sixty-six years two months. Children, born at Marblehead: I. Mary, born October 14, 1753. 2. Sarah bap- tized October 13, 1754. 3. Mary, baptized November 7, 1756. 4. Philip, baptized July 13, 1760. 5. Joseph, baptized February 12, 1764; mentioned below.
(III) Joseph Bessom, son of Philip Bessom (2), was born at Marblehead, Massachusetts, February 12, 1764; married, February 28, 1786, Rebecca Chin. Children, born at Mar- blehead : 1. Philip, baptized August 20, 1786; mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, baptized Feb- ruary 27, 1791. 3. Joseph, baptized January 26, 1794.
(IV) Philip Bessom, Jr., son of Joseph Bessom (3), was baptized August 20, 1786. He was called "Junior" because of another and older Philip Bessom in the same town. There are two records of his death on the town books, one giving it in May, 1824, stating that he died at sea by suicide ; the other recording the fact of his death as "Received September II, 1824." He is called "son-in-law of Dick Master"-a puzzling description. He married, first, January 22, 18II, Elizabeth Martin : second, December 7, 1817, Rebecca C. Smith. He was deceased before May 1, 1825, when two of his children were baptized. Children of Philip Jr. and Elizabeth Bessom, born at Marblehead: I. Philip, born November 24, 18II ; mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born Jan- uary 7, 1815. Children of Philip Jr. and Eliz- abeth Bessom, born in Marblehead: 3. Sarah, Elizabeth, baptized May 24, 1818. 4. Hannah Phillips, baptized May 1, 1825. 5. Charlotte Woodruff, baptized May I, 1825.
(V) Philip Bessom Jr., son of Philip Bes- som (4), was born in Marblehead, Massa- chusetts, November 24, 181I. He married Louisa and settled at Lynn, Massa- chusetts. Children : I. Charles F., mentioned below.
(VI) Charles F. Bessom, son of Philip Bes- som (5), or Besson, was born in Lynn or Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1844. He mar- ried Mary F. Lovejoy, born in Nashua, New
Hampshire, March 24, 1847, daughter of John E. and Mary Ann (Avery) Lovejoy. He was educated in the Lynn public schools, and learned the trade of printer, and was in the printing business all his life. In religion he was a Unitarian, in politics a Republican. He enlisted in the civil war in Company F, Sixth Massachusetts Regiment Massachusetts Vol- unteers. He died March 31, 1872. Children : I. Charles F., single, lives in Reading, Massa- chusetts. 2. Gertrude L., who married Frank L. Edgerley, of Reading, Massachusetts ; they have one child, Alice C. 3. Frank Arthur, born in Lynn June 13, 1872 ; mentioned below.
(VII) Frank Arthur Bessom, son of Charles F. Bessom (6), was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, June 13, 1872. His father died two and one-half months before he was born, and his mother removed to Hollis, New Hampshire, later to Reading, Massachusetts, where he was educated in the public schools, graduating in 1889 from the Reading nigh school. He began his business career as clerk in a dry-goods store in Reading. Since 1897 Mr. Bessom has been assistant postmaster of Reading. He is also a partner in the under- taking firm of Edgerly & Bessom, Reading. He is a Republican in politics, and a Congre- gationalist in religion. He is a member of Good Samaritan Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and of Security Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Reading.
He married August 30, 1903, at Reading,. Alice B. Rand, born April 6, 1880, a graduate of the Boston high school, daughter of Charles S. Rand, an inspector of the Metropolitan Water Board, Boston. She is a descendant of Governor William Bradford. They have no children.
The surname Stickney is of STICKNEY Saxon origin, though the family in England is de- scended from a Norman noble who took the name of the place as a surname on becoming Lord of the Manor. In 1331 John de Stickney was in possession of the Manor of Stickney, Lincolnshire. In 1422 it passed into the hands of the Craycroft family, which has held it to the present time, so that it may be said that the ancestors of the present possessor have held the place about a thousand years. Stickney is a large village on the Boston road, eight miles and a half from the Boston station and three from New Bolingbroke, pleasantly sit- uated on the borders of East and West Fens in the Soke of Bolingbroke, Union of Spilsby,
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Lindsey division, diocese of Lincoln, England. The church of Stickney is dedicated to St. Luke. The Stickney coat-of-arms from time immemorial has been : Ermine three lozenges. (I) Robert Stickney, progenitor of the American family given here, died at Frampton parish, Wapentake of Korton, parts of Hol- land, county Lincoln, England, situated three miles and a quarter from Boston. The names of many of the Stickney family are found on the parish register from 1558 to 1609, when the family seems to have left the place.
(II) William Stickney, son of Robert Stick- ney (I), was baptized at St. Mary's Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire, December 30, 1558; married there June 16, 1585, Margaret Peir- son.
(III) William Stickney, son of William Stickney (2), was baptized at Frampton Church, September 6, 1592. He was the im- migrant ancestor of the American family, set- tling first in Hull, England, whence he came to America in 1637, and was admitted to the church at Boston, Massachusetts, January 6, 1638-9, with his wife, Elizabeth, and dismiss- ed from that church to the church at Rowley, Massachusetts, by letter dater November 24, 1639. He was admitted a freeman October 7, 1640. He was a planter, or husbandman. In 1643 he received in the division of lands an acre and a half on Wethersfield street, adjoin- ing the houselot of James Barker. He built his house at the corner of Bradford and Wethersfield streets, west of the home of the late Deacon Nathaniel Nugent; it descended to his son Lieutenant John Stickney in 1664. Under John's will, dated 1708, the homestead went to his son Samuel, whose son Moses had a part of it after his death. Hannah, daughter of Moses, died September 19, 1653, at the age of ninety, widow of Joseph Kilborn, owned part of the old homestead, and after her it was owned by Mrs. Sarah (Stickney) -Upton, her niece. The old King James Bible brought over by the pioneer has been preserved in the same branch of the family that held the home- stead. The most ancient halfway covenant of the Rowley church is found written in this old Bible. William Stickney was on the committee of 1652 to draw up a covenant and agreement between Rowley and the first settlers on the Merrimac lands, now Bradford, Massachu- setts. He was a clerk of the market; juror in 1653; selectman in 1656 and 1661 ; lieutenant in 1661, or earlier. He died in January, 1664-5, and was buried January 25. His will was dated January 21, 1664, and proved March 28, 1665. Children of Lieutenant Wil-
liam and Elizabeth Stickney : I. Samuel, born 1633 ; mentioned below. 2. Amos, born 1635 ; married June 24, 1663, Sarah Morse. 3. Mary, born 1637 ; married James Barker, Jr. 4. John, born March 14, 1640; married June 9, 1690,. Hannah Brocklebank. 5. Faith, born Febru- ary 4, 1641 ; married Samuel Gage. 6. Andrew, born May II, 1644-5; married Emma Lam- bert and Elizabeth Jewett. 7. Thomas (twin), born March 3, 1646-7; died. 8. Elizabeth (twin), born March 3, 1646; died December 4, 1659. 9. Mercy (twin), born January 14, 1648; died January 14, 1676. IO. Adding (twin), born January 14, 1648; died Septem- ber 17, 1660. The dates of birth in the genealogy are wrong, due apparently to the writer's ignorance of the old style calendar.
(IV) Lieutenant Samuel Stickney, son of Lieutenant William Stickney (3), was born in 1633, and died in 1709. He married at Row- ley, Massachusetts, February 18, 1653, Julian Swan, who died in Boxford about 1670; mar- ried second, April 6, 1674, Prudence ( Leaver) Gage. He was dismissed from the church of Haverhill to Bradford, January 7, 1682-3 ; re- moved to Boston, and again to Rowley. He received his portion of his father's estate when he came of age, and purchased of William Acre a freehold with land, dwelling house and barn, laid out originally to Thomas Leaver on. Holmes street near the home of his father-in- law, Richard Swan, and bounded south by the common lands and east by the street. He was keeper of the pound, 1662-7. At the expira- tion of his seven year lease of the Rogers land he sold his house in 1669-70, and re -- moved to Bradford, where his wife died. He was a selectman of Bradford in 1671-81-82- 89-91-93-94-95; constable 1676; representa- tive to the general court in 1689 and 1690. He took the oath of fidelity December 16, 1678, and later the oath of allegiance of Major General Denison at Ipswich; was ad- mitted freeman October II, 1682; was lieu- tenant as early as 1691 ; served on the grand jury April 13, 1697 : as juror 1701-8; tithing- man in 1704. He deeded his homestead to his sons William and Samuel, Jr. William had the house. Samuel had six-score acres of land in Bradford by deed dated January 28, 1703-4. The homestead was on the Merrimac river, extending to Rowley Lane, now in George- town, Massachusetts. Part of the homestead is still owned by descendants in Groveland, Massachusetts. His wife died October 26, 1716 (gravestone). His will was dated Aug- ust 30, 1716, his son John being executor. Children : I. Elizabeth, born May 9, 1661 ;
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married Daniel Tenney. 2. Samuel, born April 5, 1663; mentioned below. 3. William, born October 21, 1665, died young. 4. Sarah, born October 20, 1667; died April 15, 1689. 5. William, born January 2, 1774; married September 4, 1701, Ann Haseltine. 6. Thomas, born March 19, 1676-7; drowned in the Merrimac river, June 12, 1689. 7. Jona- than, born February II, 1679, died unmarried.
(V) Samuel Stickney, son of Samuel Stickney (4), was born in Rowley, in 1663, and was baptized there April 4, 1675. He married Mary Haseltine, born in Rowley, April 30, 1672, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Langhorne) Haseltine. In 1684 he was on a committee of the town to see about the setting up of a corn mill in Brad- ford. This mill was erected on Johnston creek. He was selectman in 1686-87-89-1701- 03; assessor in 1694; constable in 1699 and surveyor in 1707 and 1708. He was one of the purchasers of the tract of land ten miles square in Haverhill, by deed dated March 28, 1700. He received his farm from his father by deed of gift dated January 28, 1703-04. Samuel died December 30, 1714. His widow was admitted to full communion March 17, 1716, and her children baptized. She married second, August 30, 1722, Joseph Tidd, and was dismissed to the church at Lexington, May 26, 1723. She died at Lexington, Janu-
ary 4, 173I. Children: I. Sarah, born De- cember 9, 1690; married June 17, 1717, Sam- uel Spofford. 2. Mary, born September 29, 1692; married Richard Kimball, Jr. 3. Thomas, born August 23, 1694 ; married Mary Mullikin, and second Dorothy Munroe. 4. Elizabeth, born August 20, 1696; married Benjamin Mullikin. 5. Amos, born October 31, 1699; died 1716. 6. Samuel, born August 24, 1701 ; married Elizabeth Hardy and Su- sanna Johnson. 7. Abraham, born October 16, 1703; married Abigail Hall. 8. Ebene- zer, born July 25, 1705 ; died August 2, 1705. 9. Jonathan, born January 19, 1707; men- tioned below. 10. Richard, born May 9, 1709; married Mary and Susannah Tucker. II. Dorothy, born March 18, 1711-12; mar- ried July 31, 1731, Joseph Tidd. 12. Benja- min, born October 27, 1714, died young.
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