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The name of his first wife was Sarah, and the fact that she had children named John and Baker, as well as the incident above men- tioned, suggests that she was of the Baker family. Lieutenant John Baker was in Dover as early as 1643; was deputy in 1650-51, and a man of prominence.
Richard Nason married (second) Abigail Follet, widow of Nicholas Follet. In his old
age he lived with his son Benjamin. His will dated July 14, 1694, was probated March 15, 1696-97. Children of Richard and Sarah Nason : I. Richard, married Shuah -; was killed by the Indians in 1675 ; widow mar- ried John Douglass. 2. Jonathan, mentioned below. 3. John, married Hannah Heard; (second) Bridget Weymouth. 4. Joseph, taxed at Cocheco in 1671. 5. Benjamin, mar- ried Martha Kenney; (second) Sarah
6. Baker, married Elizabeth and lived in Berwick, Maine. 7. Charles (?), died about 1698. 8. Sarah, married Henry Child ; (second) John Hoyt.
(II) Jonathan Nason, son of Richard Nason (I), was born about 1650. Married Sarah Jenkins, daughter of Reynolds Jenkins. He had a grant of land of a hundred acres in 1670 ; was constable in 1682; was killed proba- bly by accident in 1691. His widow Sarah married John Kay, Sr., of Berwick. Children of Jonathan and Sarah Nason: I. Mary, born about 1675, married, October 6, 1693, James Grant. 2. Sarah, married Henry Snow. 3. Jonathan, mentioned below. 4. Alice, mar- ried Joseph Abbot. 5. Abigail, married, Janu- ary 3, 1694, John Abbot. 6. Charity, married, April 6, 1696, Job Emery.
(III) Jonathan Nason, son of Jonathan Nason (2), was born about 1680 in Kittery, Maine. He married, April 27, 1702, Adah Morrell, daughter of John and Sarah (Hods- den) Morrell. Both were baptized and owned . the convenant at Berwick, April 13, 1712. His will dated November 4, 1745, was probated April 7, 1746. His wife Adah survived him. Children: I. Richard, born February 14, 1703, mentioned below. 2. John, born Octo- ber 24, 1704, married Margaret Lord. 3. Mary, born November 30, 1706, married, Sep- tember 3, 1730, Matthew Libby. 4. Sarah, born November 25, 1708 (?), married James Frost, Jr., of Berwick, December 25, 1729. 5. Jonathan born November 7, 1710. 6. Uriah, born January 31, 1712-13, married Sarah Stone, of Wells, and had a son Jere- miah, born September 23, 1741. 7. Adah, born January 6, 1714-15, married, December 3. 1747, Benjamin Wormwood, of Wells. 8. Azariah, born July 25, 1716, married Abigail Staples. 9. Philadelphia, born December 28, 1719, married, January 12, 1742, James Ran- kin, of Wells; (second), August 12, 1756, John Harvey ; she died aged one hundred and two years. 10. Rachel, born May I, 1724. II. Elizabeth, born May 27, 1727, married, February 7, 1750, James Goold.
(IV) Richard Nason, son of Jonathan (3),
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was born February 14, 1703, Married, No- vember 5, 1725, Abigail Libby, daughter of David and Eleanor Libby. This whole family removed to Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Most of them seemed to have removed to the vicinity of what is now Minot, Maine, after the Revo- lutionary war. We find Uriah, Nathan, John, Richard and Isaac Nason there from 1786 to 1800, owning land. Children of Richard and Abigail Nason: I. Ephraim, born December IO, 1727, settled in Gorham, Maine. 2. Eleanor, born September 20, 1729, married Jonathan Berry. 3. Abigail, born April 9, 1731, married, January 31, 1748, James Cobb. 4. Sarah, born January 25, 1734, married Daniel Small. 5. Richard, born March 27, 1736, married Eunice Wilson. 6. Isaac, born December 14, 1738, mentioned below. 7. Jonathan, born August 1, 1741, married Sarah Chick, resided in Eliot, Maine. 8. Uriah, born January 14, 1743, married Bathsheba Partridge. 9. Adah (?), married John Young, October 19, 1769. IO. Elizabeth, married May 14, 1772, Francis Jackson, of Cape Elizabeth.
(V) Isaac Nason, son of Richard Nason (4), was born in Kittery, Maine, December 14, 1738. Married, May 13, 1760, Sarah Small. The best evidence shows that he and his brothers settled in the vicinity of Auburn, Maine. Isaac Nason was a taxpayer in Au- burn (now Minot) before 1800, owning lot No. 68. Child, William, mentioned below.
(VI) William Nason, grandfather of Sid- ney Nason, of Natick, was born about 1775, and went with his parents to what is now Minot, Maine. He married Relief Hatch. He was a farmer and blacksmith, skilful at his trade, and besides did much teaming of lum- ber, etc. He enlisted in the War of 1812. Children: I. Moses, was a police officer in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1850. 2. Isaac, mentioned below. 3. William, married Aurelia Leach. 4. Nathaniel, married Sarah Ann Ver- rill. 5. Charles, married Betsey Winslow. 6. Henry, never married. 7. Asenath, married Lemuel Pinkham. 8. Mary, married David Nevins. 9. Jane. 10. Sarah, married twice. And three others died young.
(VII) Isaac Nason, son of William Nason (6), was born in Minot, Maine, about 1808, and died May 30, 1844, in the prime of life. He was a farmer at Avon, Franklin county, Maine, and also did considerable teaming. He was an energetic, active man. He married Mary Leach, born May 23, 1813, daughter of Joseph and Betsey (Young) Leach, died Sep- tember 8, 1877. Children: 1. Sumner, born
July 17, 1834. 2. Sidney, born April 27, 1836, mentioned below. 3. Mary Sibyl, born July 13, 1838. 4. Horace, born June 18, 1843. 5. Asenath, died March 17, 1844. 6. Susan, born May 28, 1844, died December 21, 1862.
(VIII) Sidney Nason, son of Isaac Nason (7), was born in Avon, Franklin county, Maine, April 27, 1836. He attended the com- mon schools for a while, but at an early age was apprenticed to a farmer living near now West Gardiner, Maine, after his father's death. At the age of thirteen he ran away and be- came self-supporting, working first as a bob- bin boy in the Lancaster Gingham Mill, town of Clinton, but in a year was promoted to be third hand in a division, repairing looms, con- · tinuing in this position until he left the mill. He was the youngest boy to hold this position. In 1853, at the age of seventeen, he came to Natick, Massachusetts, and learned the shoe- maker's trade. He worked in various shoe factories and for various shoe manufacturers in Natick and until 1865, when he engaged in the ice business, in the town of Ashland. He was elected constable of Natick in 1857 when he was only twenty-one years of age, and re- elected each year until 1862, when he left the town. For a period of thirty years he was a police officer in Ashland, South Borough, Brookfield, and Natick, where in 1886-89 he was the chief of police. He has always been a Republican.
When he left the police force of Natick he purchased the building moving business of the late Benjamin Hartford, of Natick, from the estate, and for eighteen years has carried on the largest business in this line in that sec- tion of the state. He has carried out success- fully many large and difficult contracts for moving buildings, and has an extensive plant. He is an attendant of the First Congregational Church at Natick. He became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Ashland in 1867, still a member.
Mr. Nason was an exceptionally efficient head of the Natick police force at a time when the enforcement of the liquor law presented almost insuperable difficulties. He was a ter- ror to all evil-doers; an honest, upright and fearless officer, whom all classes respected. In a town presenting great difficulties in preserv- ing good order and enforcing the law, Chief Nason made a record that has been set up as a standard ever since. He has prospered in business, and has always been counted among the substantial citizens of the community in which he has lived.
He married, September 14, 1858, at Natick,
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Mary Eliza Travis, born March 28, 1839, daughter of Deacon John and Mary (Sawin) Travis, of Natick. They have no children.
Deacon John Travis was a leading citizen of Natick for many years; was deacon of the First Congregational Church forty-five years. He married (first) Hannah Mann; (second) Abigail Mann, and (third) Mary Sawin. Children : i. Hannah M. Travis, born 1815; ii. John Travis, born 1818; iii. Munroe Travis, born 1821, died 1827; iv. Eliza Anne Travis, born 1823, died 1824; v. Alonzo F. Travis, born 1825; vi. Eliza Ann Travis, born 1829, died 1835 ; vii. Claudius B. Travis, born 1831, a well-known shoe manufacturer of Natick ; viii. Edward P. Travis, born 1833; ix. Daniel C. Travis, born 1835, died 1836; x. Mary' Eliza Travis, born 1839, married Sidney Na- son, mentioned above.
Daniel Travis, father of Deacon John Travis, was the son of Daniel Travis. Mar- ried, May 29, 1793, Abigail Sanger, born 1772, daughter of John and Anna (Leland) Sanger. Children of Daniel and Abigail (Sanger) Travis : i. John, born April 8, 1794, mentioned above ; ii. Curtis, born February 8, 1796, mar- ried Betsey Childs, died 1836; iii. Randall, born 1798, married Abigail Perry; was a farmer and currier, Holliston; iv. Otis S. Travis, born 1801, married Eliza Perry, was a farmer in Natick ; v. Clark Travis, born 1803, a victualler at Holliston, married Ede Bacon ; vi. Louisa Travis, born 1806, died 1843, mar- ried James Hawkes; vii. Hiram S. Travis, born 1808, farmer at Townsend, Massachu- setts ; married Betsey Trow; viii. Relief, born 1810, lived in New York City, married Lo- renzo Mann ; ix. Daniel B. Travis, born 1814, lived in Holliston, died 1835.
Anna Leland was the daughter of Caleb, granddaughter of Ebenezer Leland. She was born in 1746 and died in Natick in 1844. Caleb Leland, her father, married Judith Morse and Mary Harding. Ebenezer Leland, father of Caleb, married Martha Death, of Sherborn. Ebenezer Leland, father of Eben- ezer last-named, married Deborah and Mary Hunt ; lived and died in Sherborn; was son of the immigrant ancestor and founder of the Leland family in America, Henry Leland. Henry was born in England about 1630 ; mar- ried Margaret Babcock and came to America in 1652, settling in Sherborn, where he died April 4, 1680.
John Sanger, who married July 23, 1768, Anna Leland, mentioned above, was born in Sherborn, July 24, 1746, seventh child of
Richard Sanger, a blacksmith, of Sherborn. Richard Sanger was a remarkable man. In 1737 he opened a general store in Sherborn, and in 1747 another in Boston, but after a year returned to Sherborn; traded extensively in. merchandise and real estate. He accumulated. a fortune; was selectman ten years; often moderator ; was on the committee of safety in 1776. He married Deborah Rider, daughter of Hon. William and Deborah (Morse) Rider. Richard Sanger, born February 22, 1666-67, father of Richard just mentioned, came to Sherborn, Massachusetts, with his brother Nathaniel, and set up a blacksmith shop and after a year's residence was granted twenty acres of land, July 1, 1689, and he built his house on the north side of the common and it was the nearest to the meeting house.
Richard Sanger, father of Richard just mentioned, was of German origin, but came from England, embarking April, 1638, at Southampton. He was a blacksmith · at Sudbury and Watertown. (For the Travis an- cestry of Mrs. Nason, see Travis family sketch).
CASE Edward Case, the immigrant an- cestor of James Brown Case and of the Case family of New Eng- land, came to Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, before 1638, and appears in Cohasset, Plymouth Colony, where he was one of the forty-six original purchasers of that place from the Indians, and took the oath as a free- man in 1638, and was an incorporator of the newly organized town of Taunton, March 3, 1639. He is regarded as being a man of ex- cellent repute, and he served the Plymouth Colony as a deputy to the general court of the province for four years. His home lot was on what is now Dean street, Taunton, near the junction of Spring and Main streets.
The next of the family of which we have record is Wanton Case, who was one of the proprietors of Westport at the time it was set off from the town of Dartmouth, July 2, 1787, and at the first town meeting held at the house of William Gifford, August 20, 1787, he was chosen as one of the surveyors of highways of the new town. He was a member of the So- ciety of Friends, which sect constituted the majority of the persons making up the town and controlling its government. James and Alice Case were among the early settlers of Westport, and they were farmers and Quakers of retiring disposition, and their estate has re -.
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mained in the possession of the Case family up to a recent date.
James Brown Case, son of Allen Green and Roby (Allen) Case, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, September 27, 1826. His father was a contractor and builder in Providence, and when the Providence railroad was first laid out and constructed he had the contract for erecting the freight and passenger stations along the route. He was brought up on his father's farm in Westport, and his wife was the daughter of Wesson Allen, who owned a farm adjacent to that of Wanton Case, and originally owned by James Case and his wife Alice, probably descendants of Edward Case, the immigrant, who was a proprietor of the town of Taunton, organized with church and civil government March 3, 1629.
James Brown Case was educated in the schools of Providence, Rhode Island, and when nineteen years old went to Boston, Mas- sachusetts, to find employment in the dry goods house of Smith & Sumner, who then had a store on the corner of Milk and Hawley streets. He was so useful and important as a clerk and salesman that on reaching his major- ity in 1847, he was made a partner, the firm becoming Smith, Sumner & Company. He later became a partner in an importing dry goods house with Theodore Von Arrim. Sub- sequently (1875-76) the wholesale millinery firm of Wentworth, Case and Company was formed, which was from 1878 to 1886, Case, Leland & Company, with Mr. Case as senior partner. He continued as senior member of the succeeding firm-Case, Dudley & Bartell -from January 1, 1886, to January 1, 1898, when he retired and the firm became Dudley, Bartell & Hurd. He was president of the Bank of Redemption of Boston for thirteen years, and a director of the First National Bank in Boston up to the time of his death. He was an upright and straightforward mer- chant, and an honorable and esteemed banker. He was a Democrat in political faith, and his religious belief was in accord with the Uni- tarian Society. His clubs included the Algon- quin and St. Botolph of Boston, and the Coun- try Club of Brookline. He was a traveler of more than ordinary experience, having made over forty voyages across the Atlantic and several journeys across the continent of Amer- ica, and he extended one of his trips so as to circumnavigate the world, visiting all the prominent places of interest en route. In many of his journeyings he was accompanied by his family. His recreation, besides travel and club
attendance, he found in life on his extensive farm at Weston, where he owned one of the finest estates in Middlesex county, and his principal delight was his splendid herd of Guernsey cattle and his stable of fine road and coach horses.
Mr. Case married, at Jamaica Plain, Massa- chusetts, October 26, 1854, Laura Lucretia, daughter of Moses and Mary (Blake) Wil- liams, and granddaughter of Thomas Blake, a paymaster in the Continental army in the revolutionary war, and a participant in the battle of Ticonderoga. On October 26, 1904, James Brown and Laura Lucretia (Williams) Case observed the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding at their home in Weston, where they were surrounded by a goodly number of friends and relatives. The children of the hon- ored bride and groom of fifty years gathered at the Golden Anniversary were: Caroline Sumner, born May 28, 1856, married, June 6, 1888, James G. Freeman, real estate dealer in Boston and resident of Weston; Louisa Wil- liams Case and Marion Roby Case, unmarried, and residing with their mother on the Case estate in Weston, and in the city home of the family on Beacon street, Boston. Mr. Case died at his home in Boston, April 11, 1907.
Francis Plumer, the first
PLUMMER American ancestor of Dr. Frank J. Plummer, of Mal- den, Massachusetts, was born in the west of England. He came to Massachusetts Bay Colony with the early settlers sent out by the Massachusetts Company including his wife and two sons, landing at Naumkeag (Salem), becoming a freeman of Salem, May 14, 1634, and settling on the plantation called Wessacu- con, which on May 6, 1635, was established as the town of Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Col- ony. Francis Plumer was by trade a linen weaver. With his wife Ruth and two sons Samuel (1619-1702) and Joseph (1630-1683) he made the journey from Salem to the new plantation on the Merrimac river by boat, and he established a tavern at Newbury and held various town offices.
Samuel Plumer (1619-1702), eldest son of Francis and Ruth Plumer, was admitted as a freeman by joining the church at Newbury and taking the freeman's oath June 2, 1641, shortly after attaining his majority; he was deputy to the general court of the colony. He was the owner of a ferry privilege at New- bury, across the Merrimac river. He married Mary Bidfield and had children : Samuel, born
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April 20, 1646, married, December 5, 1670. Mary, born February 3, 1650, married, De- cember 6, 1676, John Swett. John, born May II, 1652, killed while a member of Captain Lathrop's company at the battle of Bloody Creek, September 18, 1675. Ephraim, born September 16, 1655, married, January 15, 1680, Hannah Jaynes, and died August 13, 1716. Hannah, born February 16, 1657, mar- ried David Batchelder. Sylvanus, born Feb- ruary 22, 1658, married, January 18, 1682, Sarah Moody. Ruth, born August 27, 1660, married, January 18, 1682, Richard Jacques. Elizabeth, born October 10, 1662, married, June 26, 1682, Richard Jackman. Deborah, born March 13, 166-, married, November 6, 1699, Elizabeth Dale. Lydia, born July 2, 1668, married Joseph Marsh; Batchelder, born July 31, 1679, died young.
Joseph Plumer, the second son of Francis and Ruth Plumer, was born in England in 1630, and accompanied his father, mother and elder brother Samuel to Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was married December 23, 1652, to Sarah Cheney. He died in Newbury, De- cember II, 1683. The other children of Francis and Ruth Plumer were; Hannah, born 1632, married, May 3, 1653, Samuel Moore. Mary, born 1634, married, May 26, 1660, John Cheney.
Francis Plumer married his second wife, Widow Ann Palmer, March 31, 1648, and she died October 18, 1665. He married as his third wife, November 29, 1665, Beatrice, widow of William Castleberry, of Salem, and he died at Newbury, January 17, 1672. Among his descendants were William Plumer (1759- 1850), of Epping, New Hampshire, and his son William Plumer ( 1789-1854), the elder being distinguished as a state legislator, United States senator, governor of New Hampshire, presidential elector and author, over the pen name of "Cincinnatus," and the younger, William, was representative of the United States congress, 1819-25, United States loam commissioner, state legislator and member of the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1850. These noted publicists of Epping, New Hampshire, were direct de- scendants from Francis Plumer (I) through Samuel and Mary (Bidfield) Plumer (II) ; Sylvanus and Sarah (Moody) Plumer (III) ; Samuel and Hannah (Woodman) Plumer (IV) ; Samuel and Mary (Dale) Plumer (V), whose son William married Sallie, daughter of Philip Fowler, of Newmarket, New Hamp- shire, (VI), and their son William and his wife Margaret F. (Mead) Plumer (VII).
James Plumer, grandfather of Dr. Frank J. Plummer, was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, in the early part of the nineteenth century. The first date we find recorded was February 20, 1822, when his son, William G. Plummer, was born. His wife was Priscilla Upton.
William G. Plummer, son of James and Priscilla (Upton) Plummer, married Jose- phine Kennedy. They made their home in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was a rope- maker and was employed in the navy yard at that place. In 1874 he was appointed on the police force of Boston, and served for many years. He was a Democrat in politics until 1862, and after that time was a Republican. He was a member of Indepen- dent Order Odd Fellows from 1847, affiliated with Howard Lodge, of Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, and was also a member of the Grand - Lodge. He died January 30, 1907, at the home of his son, Dr. Frank J. Plummer .; his wife on Thanksgiving Day, 1901. Their chil- dren were: I. William Henry, born November I, 1844, married Fannie M. Platt, of St. Louis, Missouri, issue, John Platt Plummer ; they re- side in Chicago. 2. Augustus, died young. 3. Edmund, died young. 4. Edmund Augustus, born 1851, married Catherine O'Donnell, of Lewiston, Maine ; issue, Edmund L. 5. Mary Josephine, born 1853, married Abraham T. Rogers, issue: William, a dentist; George, lawyer and secretary to Boston police commis- sioner; Edward, physician; May, Elizabeth, Louisa, John and Abraham. 6. Frank J., of whom further.
Frank J. Plummer, M. D., youngest child of William G. and Josephine (Kennedy) Plummer, was born in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, February 4, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of the city of Boston, graduating from the high school. He studied for his profession in the Baltimore (Mary- land) Medical College, and was graduated therefrom in :896 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He has resided in Malden since 1883. He has acquired a wide reputation as a medical practitioner, and stands high in the profession of Middlesex county and of the state. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Malden Medical Society, American Medical Association. He married, 1883, Mary Louise Hickey, who died at the family home in Malden, April 23, 1906, leav- ing three children: Mary Josephine, born September 7, 1884. Ruth Virginia, July 15, 1886. Helen, July 8, 1892.
Samuel Sanders
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RICE Samuel Sanders, father of Harriette A. (Sanders) Rice, was born in Plymouth, England, September 17, 1801. He left his native country when a mere lad, after receiving a fair English education, and landed in Boston, and drifted thence to Cambridge to find a congenial home within his means. He learned the carpenter's trade in Boston, and walked the distance from his home to his work, carrying his tools in a bag flung over his shoulder. He became an expert workman at his trade, and in 1824 was able to take upon himself the responsibility of married life. He married Susan, daughter of John and Mary (Whitney) Dudley, of Weston, Massachusetts. From 1848 to 1857 he served as chief engineer of the fire department of Cambridge, having previous to that time act- ed as a member of a volunteer fire company, proved his qualities as a fire-fighter, always ready to respond to the call of the fire bell, be it day or night, and performing his duty in an earnest and heroic way. On leaving the position of chief engineer, he was elected a member of the city council of Cambridge and served during the administration of Mayor John Sargent. He then took up the business of fire insurance, and was also an assistant assessor of the city when Dr. Brown was as- sessor. His wife bore to him two children, and died at their home, II Market street, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, January 31, 1883. One of his children died in infancy, and the other, Harriette A., became the wife of Homer Rice, of Cambridge. Mr. Sanders died at his home, a house which he built about 1826 at No. II Market street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 19, 1897, aged ninety-six years, leaving his only daughter a widow with a child, Samuel S.
(II) Harriette A. (Sanders) Rice, daughter and only living child of Samuel and Susan (Dudley) Sanders, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Whitney) Dudley, of Wes- ton, Massachusetts, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1825. She was married May 29, 1845, to Homer, son of Barnabas and Betsey (Lawrence) Rice, and a descendant from Edmund Rice (1594-1663), of Sudbury, Massachusetts. He was born in Southboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, February 8, 1821, and was a broker in Boston. They had one son, Samuel S. Rice, also a broker, who died March 9, 1904. Homer Rice died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 21, 1893. Her mother's brother, Samuel Whitney Dudley, was born February 17, 1812, in Wes- ton, Massachusetts, and was a carpenter by
trade. He married and made his home in Cambridge, where he was highly esteemed, and at the time of his death was superinten- dent of the Cambridge Water Works. Of his three children a son died young; a daughter, Lucy Jane Dudley, married Frank E. Russell, and was in 1907 a resident of Keene, New Hampshire; and another daughter, Anna Maria Dudley, married William H. Wood, a lumber merchant in Cambridge, who died April 14, 1877. Mrs. Rice is the owner and occupant of the house her father, Samuel Sanders, built about 1826, and in which her mother and father lived and died, and in which she has lived since she was three years old.
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