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(IV) Joseph Frost, son of Thomas Frost (3), was born at Cambridge, in that part known as Menotomy, December 21, 1717, died there September 21, 1798, aged eighty- one years. Married, February 8, 1853, Sar- ah Cook, born March 15, 1729-30, died Oc- tober 28, 1801, aged seventy-one years, daughter of Ephraim and Sarah (Swan) Cook, of Cambridge. He was a farmer. Children: I. James, born June 9, 1753, mar- ried, December 3, 1776, Susanna Dutton. 2. Joseph, born January 14, 1757, residing at Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1798. 3. Sarah, born August 8, 1760, died September 22, 1837, aged seventy-seven. 4. Elizabeth, born December 12, 1764, died May 1, 1813. 5. Mary, born November II, 1767, of Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1798. 6. Jonathan, born January 27, 1775, see forward.
(V) Jonathan Frost, son of Joseph Frost (4), born at Menotomy, Cambridge, January 27, 1775, died at West Cambridge, March 8, 1844, aged sixty-nine years. Married, No- vember 24, 1810, Mrs. Sybil Nurse, widow of Nathan Nurse, of Cambridge, and daughter of Solomon and Abigail (Brown) Bowman; she died November 19, 1860, aged eighty- two years, eight months and fifteen days. Mr. Frost was a farmer. His farm was located on Pleasant street, West Cambridge, and start- ing in life with small means, was very suc- cessful, He marketed his products, vegeta- bles and milk, at Boston. He was eminently a religious man and took much interest in his church and was devoted to his family. In political faith he was a Whig. Children: I. Silas, born August 24, 18II, see forward. 2. Charles Austin, born April 8, 1814, "killed
Giving B. Frost
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by a waggon" September II, 1837, aged twen- ty-three years. 3. Edwin, born November 23, 1816, died December 23, 1816. 4. Mary A., born April 24, 1818, died February 13, 1878.
(VI) Silas Frost, son of Jonathan Frost (5), born at West Cambridge, August 24, 18II, died at Belmont, December 31, 1888. Married, April 12, 1848, Hannah Elliott, born May 20, 1815, died September 6, 1877, daugh- ter of Joel and Mary (Flagg) Elliott, of Fox- borough. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. When sixteen years of age he left school and commenced driving the market wagon into Boston and also assist- ed in cultivating his father's farm. He made good success in market gardening, and later he purchased of Messrs. Hastings and Whitte- more additional land which, added to the orig- inal homestead, made quite a large farm for that section. Mr. Frost having but little prop- erty to commence life with, was successful and accumulated a considerable estate. In 1861 he lost much by fire when his barns and stock were destroyed, but he was not daunted, and continued in his market gardening and pros- pered. He was also engaged in the manufac- ture of pickles, and cider vinegar, which he disposed of in Cambridge, Charlestown and Boston. Mr. Frost was a temperate man, never using liquor or tobacco, of strict honest principles, generous to all and contributed to all worthy objects. He was a Unitarian in re- ligion, and always attended church and brought up his family to always observe the Sabbath and the teachings of that church. In politics he was originally a Whig, later on an Abolitionist, and finally a Republican. At one time he held office of town assessor.
Children : I. Elliott Austin, born June 9, 1849, died June 13, 1849. 2. Silas Edwin, born June 9, 1849, died April 17, 1872. 3. Elliott Augustus, born November 1, 1850, died Au- gust 27, 1851. 4. Mary Ellen, born October 28, 1851. 5. Arthur Clifford, born Novem- ber 17, 1853, married, October 17, 1878, Clara Isabel Richardson, of Deering, Maine, and have : Bertha Mae, born July 15, 1879, mar- ried, June 12, 1906, Asa Frost Abbott, of Port- land, Maine. Angie Florence, born March 29, 1884. 6. Frederick Oscar, born May 7, 1855, married, September 8, 1884, Helen Marr Rich- ardson, of Deering, Maine, and have: Ethel, born April 2, 1886. Norman Richardson, born March I, 1896. 7. Everett Austin, born No- vember 7, 1858, married, March 6, 1875, Ella Augusta Tarbell, of Somerville. 8. Irving
Bowman, born November 21, 1861, see for- ward.
(VII) Irving Bowman Frost, son of Silas Frost (6), born at Belmont, November 21, 1861, married, February 23, 1887, Mary Eliza- beth Torrey, of Deering, Maine, born July 6, 1863, daughter of Albert and Albina (Man- chester) Torrey. He received his education in public schools of Belmont, supplemented by a course at the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Boston. He early began in the duties of the farm, working for his father and conducting the affairs of the farm until his father's decease in 1888. He then, with his two brothers, Frederick Oscar and Everett Austin Frost, formed a partnership under the firm name of Frost Brothers, market garden- ers. The original farm is devoted to the growth of early vegetables, and their concern makes a specialty in their season of lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, dandelions and celery. The farm comprises about fifty acres of land with eight large greenhouses and other build- ings necessary to the successful handling of the plant. The entire product is marketed in the Boston and New York markets. Mr. Irving Bowman Frost has the entire management of the plant. Mr. Frost in religion is an Uni- tarian, in politics a Republican, and has served his party as a delegate to councilor and county conventions. Has been water commissioner for twelve years and a selectman for three years of the town of Belmont. He was made a member of the Belmont Lodge of Masons, December 1, 1892, and was its worshipful mas- ter, 1901-02. Is a member of Menotomy Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, since 1893, and of the Boston Commandery of Knights Templar since 1894, of the Aleppo Temple, Order of Mystic Shrine, since December, 1906. He is a member of Belmont Chapter, No. 108, Order of the Eastern Star, and its first worthy patron. He is a life member of the Massachusetts Hor- ticultural Society at Boston, and a trustee of the Belmont Savings Bank. Child: Roland Torrey, born April 8, 1895.
FROST Lewis Frost, father of Channing Alvoid Frost, farmer and dairy- man of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in Norway, Maine, March 21, 1819, was educated in the public schools of Nor- way, and became a farmer, which occupation he continued in during his entire active life. He was a Whig and then a Republican ; did not belong to any fraternal societies ; attended the
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Congregational Church, and was a man of very strong character, beloved by all who knew him. He was married, February 27, 1848, to, Abiah Town, of Norway, Maine, and their children were: I. Channing Alvoid; see for- ward. 2. Ashley F., born April 1, 1852. 3. Louise T., born November 24, 1857. All were born in Sweden, Maine. The father of these children died in 1886.
Channing Alvoid Frost, eldest child of Lewis and Abiah (Town) Frost, was born in Sweden, Maine, December 27, 1848. He was brought up on his father's farm, attended the schools of Sweden up to the usual time when boys were put at regular farm work, and left home to conduct a farm at Jefferson, New Hamp- shire. In 1867 he removed to Lowell, Massa- chusetts, where he carried on the farming business for several years, leaving the farm to engage in the provision business in the city of Lowell as a member of the firm of Smart & Frost. This business he continued for twenty years, and he then purchased a large dairy farm on the outskirts of the city and engaged in producing milk for the Lowell markets, in which business he was still engaged in 1907.
He was married, September 29, 1877, to Luzella, daughter of Richard K. and Ruth H. (Whitcher) Richards, of Hartford, Vermont. They had no children. The management of the dairy farm devolved largely upon Mrs. Frost, who became known among agriculturists throughout the state by reason of her success in farming, stock raising and dairying, and while not the only woman in Massachusetts having charge of large dairy interests, she was among the most notable by reason of her un- usual success. Mr. Frost was, with his wife, interested in the work done by the Congrega- tional church, of which they were both mem- bers and efficient helpers. He was a Republi- can in political faith, and took a great interest in the affairs of the town but frequently refused to hold public office-his reluctance being largely due to his condition of health.
The McDuffies were
MC DUFFIE among the emigrants from Scotland who set- tled in Londonderry, Ireland, at about the beginning of the seventeenth century, A. D. In the year 1612 John McDuffie and family left their home on the island of Colonsay, on the west coast of Scotland, in the county of Arygle, and settled in Londonderry as be- fore stated. In Johnston's "Book of the Scottish Clans," p. 50, it is stated that the clan is now known as the Clan MacFie.
The Clan MacFie is supposed to be a branch of the race of Alpine; the name is spelt in a variety of ways. Dubhsith in Gae- lic has passed into Duffie in English, which in its MacDuffie form has passed into Mac- Fie, which is also spelt Macafee, Macfee and. Macphee, the name implying dark colored. tribe. After the Norse occupation, Colonsay, in the county of Argyle, fell under the sway of the Lords of the Isles. In 1549 Archdea- con Munro informs us that "The Ile is bruck- et be ane gentle capitaine callit McDuffyhe, and pertained of auld to Clan Donald of Kin- tyre." The MacDuffies, or MacPhees, seem to have possessed the island for a considera- ble time. On the tombstones of Oronsay they figure as warriors and ecclesiastics. The island was held by the MacPhees as late as. the middle of the seventeenth century; there are still several freeholders and many re- spectable families of the name in the county and elsewhere.
During the civil war of 1645, Coll Mac- Donald, a companion of the Marquis of Montrose, was accused of having been guilty, with some of his followers, of the slaughter of Malcolm MacPhee, of Colonsay. The clan having been dispossessed of its original. inheritance, became a "Broken Clan," lost its independence, and so was obliged to rank under more powerful clans; the greater part followed the MacDonalds of Islay, others set- tled in the country of the Cameron's, under Lochiel, where they were distinguished for their bravery; others found homes on both entrances to the firth of Clyde; whilst others. settled in the north of Ireland, where the. name is spelt according to the primitive pro- nunciation, McKaffie and MacAfee.
At the battle of Culloden, 1745, the Cam- erons were one of the few clans who made that furious onset which nearly annihilated the left wing of the Duke of Cumberland's. army, and almost led to a brilliant victory; the Camerons suffered severely, and with them a proportionate number of the Macfies, but soon loyalty to the reigning dynasty was in the ascendant, and the armorial bearings for the race have for motto the words Pro rege.
The name of the family was originally Mac Duff, but it is said that on the accession of King Malcolm to the throne of Scotland, about the year 1050, he gave to the repre- sentatives of this branch a tract of land in the country of Fife as a reward for services, and he added "fee" to the name, indicating a gift from the crown, and thus McDuff be- came McDuffie. A coat-of-arms was given:
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to the family at the same time, which in the Scotch heraldry was a lion rampant with a sword in his paw, guarding the crown and Kingdom of Scotland, having three hawks under his feet, representing the three witches who were met by MacBeth, and a thorn bush representing Birnan Wood. Motto : Pro Rege.
The tomb of the early MacDuffies is shown on the island of Iona, Scotland, and over the grave of Malcolm MacDuffie there is a mon- umental stone on which there is a Keltic in- scription, giving to him many honorable characteristics. In the "Lord of the Isles," by Sir Walter Scott, the name is given as "McDuffith, Lord of Colonsay."
The son of the John before mentioned, who came from Scotland, also named John, and Martha, his wife, were living in or near Lon- donderry, Ireland, at a place called Desert Mar- tin, during the time of its siege in the year 1689. She acquired the name of "Matchless Martha" for having saved a quantity of meal until the people were nearly starved, and then distributing it among the suffering, who were overjoyed at the unexpected relief. This mem- orable siege lasted one hundred and five days, the distressed inhabitants being ultimately relieved by the English, who at length came to their rescue.
John McDuffie and Martha, his wife, of Londonderry, Ireland, had several children- Mansfield, Daniel, Archibald, John and pos- sibly others. Mansfield went to London, England; Daniel, Archibald, and one more, came to America. Daniel came in 1720, and Archibald about the same time. There was also a William, who brought over the coat- of-arms. Of the numerous children who set- tled in New Hampshire and elsewhere, Dan- iel appears to be the only one who settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, formerly called Nutfield. He came with his family to Boston in 1720 and lived there a few months, and then removed to Andover, Massachu- setts, subsequently in 1721 removing to Lon- donderry, New Hampshire. His farm of one hundred acres was laid out to him by the committee, November 20, 1721.
Daniel, son of John and Martha McDuffie, served his time as a lockmaker, and married Ruth Britton, of Colerain, Ireland; he came here with his wife, and daughter then two years old. Their pastor, Rev. James Mc- Gregor, of whose church he was a member, left Treland a year or two before with some sixteen families of his parish. Daniel and Ruth Britton McDuffie had nine children. Martha, the oldest, was born in Ireland, and
the remainder were born in America. Two sons and a daughter settled in Chester, New Hampshire; three sons went to Bradford, Vermont; and a son and daughter remained in Londonberry, New Hampshire.
Hugh McDuffie, born in Andover, Massa- chusetts, March 15, 1721, eldest son and sec- ond child of Daniel and Ruth Britton Mc- Duffie, is the ancestor of John McDuffie, the subject of this sketch. Hugh was a mill- wright by trade. He was a soldier in the English army when Quebec was taken, and was in the fight. He enlisted in the Conti- nental army in 1777, at Chester, New Hamp- shire, in Captain Josiah Dearborn's company. He married Jane Hunter, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, and settled in Chester, New Hampshire, where he died in 1802. He had four children-John, died 1810; James, died 1804; Betsey, died 1843; and Anne, died 1802. John died by accident, by falling into the mill formerly owned by his father.
John last named had two children: John, who married Rosanna Hunter, and died in 1812; and Daniel, who died in 1851. The children of John and Rosanna (Hunter) Mc- Duffie were: James Hunter, born 1802; John, born 1804; Margaret, born 1806; and Rosan- na, born 1808.
John MacDuffie, Sr., was born in London- derry, New Hampshire, May 19, 1804, and removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1827, where he was a painter, with his place of business at Central Square. He died in Cambridge, May 17, 1841. Mary Ann, his wife, daughter of Peter and Susannah (Jones) Varnum, was born in Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, August 17, 1804, and died in Cam- bridge, August 4, 1887.
John MacDuffie, Jr., born December 23, 1828, was a son of John and Mary Ann (Var- num) MacDuffie; grandson of Peter and Su- sannah (Jones) Varnum of Newbury, Massa- chusetts; great-grandson of Nathaniel Jones, a soldier in the American revolution, who participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, and was lost at sea. Susannah Jones, daughter of Nathaniel, was born in Ipswich, Mass., in 1776, and was married in that town to Peter Varnum. She was a di- rect descendant of Ann Franklin, the oldest sister of Benjamin Franklin, daughter and fifth child of Josiah Franklin by his first wife Sarah Heath, who came from Banbury, Eng- land, in 1682, and settled in Boston, dying in 1689, aged thirty-four. Peter Varnum, maternal grandfather, born 1775, was a ma- riner by occupation. He enlisted in Francis
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Stribling's company of light artillery, during the war of 1812.
John MacDuffie Jr., was a pupil in the Cambridge grammar and high school, and upon completing his school years was a clerk in a dry goods store for three years up to 1849, after which he was at Hovey's seed store in Merchants' Row, Boston, remaining with that concern up to 1861, when he was appointed by President Lincoln postmaster of Cambridge, and he held that office up to 1873, when the office was made a sub-station of the Boston postoffice. He also served on the school committee of the city of Cam- bridge, 1860 and 1861. He was a member of the common council of Cambridge in 1866 and 1867, and in 1868, 1871 and 1872 was a representative in the general court, serving upon important committees. In 1876 he was elected clerk of committees of the city coun- cil, and in 1908 still held the office to which he had been re-elected for thirty-two succes- sive years. He is a member of Mizpah Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Royal Arch Chapter and Cam- bridge Commandery of Knights Templar of that fraternity in Cambridge.
He was married in Boston, September I, 1860, to Hannah Elizabeth, daughter of Ben- jamin H. and Mary Ann (Hussey) Givens, of Nobleboro, Maine, where she was born Sep- tember 1, 1834. They made their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their three children were born, as follows:
John MacDuffie, born May 16, 1861; pre- pared for college at Cambridge high school, and graduated at Harvard University, A. B. 1884, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from Lombard University, Illinois, in 1895. He was married, August 10, 1886, to Abbie, daughter of the Rev. James C. and Etta (Blaisdell) Parsons, of Greenfield, Massachu- setts. He is principal of the MacDuffie School for Girls at Springfield, Massachu- setts. They had three children: Jean Mac- Duffie, a graduate of Smith College, North- ampton, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Parsons MacDuffie and Malcolm MacDuffie.
The second child of John Sr. and Hannah Elizabeth (Givens) MacDuffie, was Rufus Leighton, born December 30, 1866; was pre- pared for college in the Cambridge high school, and graduated at Harvard University A. B. 1890. He was married December 18, 1895, to Isabel, daughter of Francis F. and Isabel G. (Stone) Marbury, of New York City, and they had two sons-Francis Mar- bury MacDuffie and John MacDuffie.
The third child of John and Hannah E. (Givens) MacDuffie was Caroline Elizabeth, born June 18, 1869. She was graduated at Radcliffe College with the class of 1894, and was married June 23, 1898, to Charles Win- slow Sherman, son of Eben and Lucy (Mor- ton) Sherman, of Kingston, and a descendant from the Winslows and Shermans of early colonial days. He is a graduate of the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, civil en- gineering department, 1892, and he has made civil engineering his profession. Their chil- dren are John MacDuffie and Richard Win- slow Sherman.
Edmond Goodenough, GOODNOW Goodenow or Goodnow, with his wife Anne and two sons, John and Thomas, aged three and one years, and a servant named Richard Sanger, aged nineteen years, made up one of the families who were among the one hun- dred and ten passengers "great and little" of the "goode shipp the 'Confidence' of Lon- don," that sailed from Southampton, Eng- land, April II, 1638, of which passengers twenty-eight are recorded as having settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and formed the nucleus of the future town set off from common land known as "The New Plantation by Concord," and established with church and town government Septem- ber 4, 1639. Captain Edmond Goodenow, Lieutenant Jonah Haynes, John Goodenow, John Bingham and Joseph Freeman consti- tuted the committee appointed by the general court of Massachusetts Colony to purchase from the Indians the land so occupied. On the same ship and among the list of passen- gers are given the names of John Goode- now of Semley, Wiltshire, a member of the committee named above, and his brother Thomas Goodenow, of Shasbury, and both probable brothers of Edmond. With these two brothers came their families and as Ed- mond's two sons were named John and Thomas, some confusion has resulted in the tracing of the various lines of descent, the proverbial "three brothers" causing the con- fusion.
Edmond Goodnow was a yoeman and an original proprietor of the town of Sudbury, 1639, and took the freeman's oath May 13, 1640. In the history of the town he is named on records of 1648 as having been named with William Brown to direct the building of a pound, so necessary in the new towns to-
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protect the fields and gardens of the settlers from the stray cattle owned by their neigh- bors but not properly fenced in so as to do no damage. His taxable estate in the town of Sudbury was twenty-four acres, and for his services as deputy to the general court of the colony he received an additional six acres of upland and five acres of meadowland, and his son in 1651 was employed to beat the drum twice every Election Day and twice every forenoon and twice every afternoon upon the Lord's Day to give notice of church ser- vices and for this the town paid Edmond Goodnow twenty shillings annually. The records of 1654 name Edmund Good- now and Thomas Noyes and William Kerley as having been appointed by the gen- eral court as commissioners to lay out a high- way towards Lancaster, through Sudbury. Edmund Goodnow was selectman of the town 1641; deputy to the general court of Massa- chusetts Bay Colony 1645 and 1650; com- missioner to try and determine small matters of dispute between the people in 1661. As leader in the militia company and lieutenant of the train band he, during the absence in England of Captain Pelham, was in com- mand of the bands. He removed to Marl- borough, which had been organized as a town May 31, 1660, through the efforts of inhabitants of Sudbury. Among the original petitioners to the general court in May, 1656, is named Thomas Goodnow and the English plantation thus created was called Whipenf- feradge from the Indian hill Whipsuffenecke, and contained twenty-nine thousand four hundred and nineteen acres. The proprie- tors of the English plantation met September 25, 1656, and in 1660 thirty-eight house lots including one for the minister and one for the smith were set off and conformed to their several proprietors, these grants taking up less than one thousand acres of the township. The balance of the land known as con com- mons was left subject to future grants. Thomas Goodnow was one of the first selectmen and the Rev. William Brimsmead their first min- ister. The town records between the first set- tlement and April 27, 1699, are missing and we fail to find any official record of Edmund Goodnow as a resident of the town, but it is claimed that he settled on a lot on North street east of the meeting house and next to one of John Haynes. Edmund Goodnow died April 5, 1688, and was buried in the Sud- bury burying ground beside his wife who had died May 9, 1675. The Sudbury church rec- ords of the children of Edmund and Anne
Goodnow is as follows: John, born in Eng- land, 1635; Thomas; Hannah, born Novem- ber 28, 1639, married, April, 1656, James Pendelton; Mary, born August 25, 1640; Sarah, born March 17, 1642-3, married John Kettell; Joseph, born July 19, 1645; Edmund, married Dorothy Mann.
(II) John Goodnow, son of Edmund and Anne Goodnow, was born in Dunkead, Welt- shire, England, in 1635, and was brought as an infant to Massachusetts Bay Colony on the ship "Confidence" in 1638. He was brought up in the pioneer town of Sudbury and was a citizen of the town up to the age of thirty-eight before he was made a freeman or could take part in the government of the town. He was a farmer, and in 1656 mar- ried Mary Axtell. He was made a freeman in 1673, and March 26, 1677, Peter King, Thomas Reed, Sr., John Goodnow, Joseph Freeman and Jonathan Smith, were granted liberty to build a saw mill on Upper Hop brook above Mr. Peter Noyes' corn mill at a place viewed by a committee of the town, which if they do they are to have twenty tons of timber and earth for the dams. Mary (Ax- tell) Goodnow died in Sudbury, April 14, 1704, and her husband died August 6, 1721. The children were: Hannah, who married James Smith; Mary; Edmund; Sarah; Sarah; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Hayden; Jo- seph; Ebenezer; Lydia; Mary, who married Joseph Patterson (her name is also written Mercy.)
(III) Joseph Goodnow, son of John and Mary (Axtell) Goodnow, was born in Sud- bury, December 1, 1674, and was brought up presumably on his father's farm. His wife, Patience Goodnow, died in Sudbury, Febru- ary 23, 1731-2, and he died there September 3, 1758. Their children, all born in Sudbury, were: Martha, born May 22, 1701; Daniel, born May 24, 1703; Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 1, 1704; Daniel, born June 16, 1707; Pe- ter, born February 10, 1709-10; Jonathan, born April 6, 1714.
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