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presidential ticket in the following campaign. In that year also he was the unanimous choice of the Somerville and Medford dele- gates for the congressional nomination. There were two other principal candidates-Hon. Samuel W. McCall, of Winchester, and Wil- liam F. Wharton, of Boston, each of the candidates having about a third of the dele- gates. After five ballots Mr. Glines withdrew in favor of Mr. McCall, who has been re- elected at each subsequent election.
In 1900 Mayor Proctor appointed Mr. Glines a trustee of the public library, a posi- tion that he resigned a year later to become mayor of the city, he being the first native born citizen to occupy that position. For three years he was the chief executive of the city, each year being accorded a unanimous nomina- tion, and his refusal to stand for a fourth term ยท caused much disappointment and regret. Mayor Glines gave his time, talents and ener- gy to the city during his terms of office. With his aggressive determination to accomplish results, he had tact and good sense, keeping his administration working smoothly from the highest to the humblest public servant. The city finances were admirably managed and many public improvements undertaken. Pros- pect Hill Park was laid out and the tower con- structed; highways were greatly improved; various schoolhouses built; the property for the contagious hospital was purchased; the armory established; and in all ways the city blossomed under his wise and vigorous admin- istration. The small pox epidemic, the coal famine, the assassination of President McKin- ley, the development of the Broadway Athletic Field, the suppression of the brown-tail-moth pest and the case of Patrolman Knight, re- quired action during his term of office, and gave him opportunity to demonstrate his ability to act in difficult and disagreeable as well as other situations. As the official head of the city, Mayor Glines brought Somerville into public notice and prominence to an unusual degree. His eloquence and forcefulness as a public speaker, inspired by a genuine love for his native place and regard for her institutions, attracted attention to the city, and undoubtedly assisted in its growth and progress. From his subordinates he required closest attention to duty, and inspired them with his own devotion to the city. He gave up office, to the regret of the people, feeling that he could no longer neglect his own affairs.
Edward Glines was too young to serve in the Civil war, but when the war with Spain broke out he volunteered and was commissioned a
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captain by President Mckinley. For seven years he served on the staff of General Thomas R. Mathews, of the First Brigade Massachu- setts Volunteer Militia, retiring in 1905 with the rank of major. He is now deputy quarter- master-general, on the staff of Governor Guild, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Besides being a patriotic and public-spirited citizen, Mr. Glines has always been a generous contrib- utor to public and private charities. He is a member of many social organizations, and was one of the founders of the Central Club, of which he was president in 1894-95. He has held office in the Somerville volunteer fire de- partment. He is also a member of Soley Lodge of Free Masons; Somerville Royal Arch Chapter; Orient Council; De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar ; Paul Revere Lodge of Odd Fellows; the Boston Athletic Club; the Corinthian Yacht Club; the Bay State Riding and Driving Club; the Republi- can Club of Massachusetts; the Middlesex, New England, Algonquin, Boston, Taylor, Cliff and Point Shirley clubs ; the Naval and Military Order, Spanish American War ; com- panion of the Legion of Foreign Wars; and member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in which he has served as chairman of the com- mittee on arbitration. He is also a life member of the Somerville Improvement Association ; the Somerville Historical Society; and associ- ate member of Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, Grand Army of the Republic. No citizen of Somerville is more widely and favorably known. Few if any men in business in Boston stand higher in the estimation of their associ- ates. The stamp of this firm is a guarantee of excellence. Not once during its existence has the factory been closed for want of orders. Each year has shown an increase in business and in net profit over the preceding year. On the order books of the Glines Company are the names of customers who were buying of the Glines firm before the present head of the house was born. The largest and best hotels of Boston are supplied by this concern. At no time in its history has the business been more flourishing and prosperous.
Mr. Glines married Frances C. Hanks, daughter of Ziba P. and Nancy L. (Hender- son) Hanks, of Augusta, Maine. No children.
John Showler Verity, son of VERITY Rev. William Verity, a clergy- man of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, was born at Manchester, Eng- land, July 31, 1822.
In 1853 John S. Verity came to this country
and found employment as an atcher in one of the large cotton mills of Manchester, New Hampshire. After a few years he engaged in the grocery business, his store being located in the city of Manchester. Subsequently he dis- posed of his store and removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he engaged in the gro- cery business, and also made arrangements with the Fleischman Yeast Company to repre- sent them in Cambridge. He purchased the territory from the company, and by dint of exceedingly hard work built up a large and profitable business. Associated with him was William G. McLeod, a young man, who later became his son-in-law, and who helped to build up the business. Mr. Verity gave him certain territory and sold him the goods. Mr. Verity's health having failed, owing to his close atten- tion to the business and the hard work neces- sary to introduce a new article, he removed to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he had territory in Essex county, and continued to sell the yeast. Before his removal to Lynn, Mr. Verity gave the Cambridge territory to Mr. McLeod, who continued the business until he sold out to the Fleischman Company, after which he devoted his attention to the care of his real estate, in which he has invested extensively in Cambridge. The business is now under the management of Walter S. Verity, son of John S. Verity, with headquarters in Boston, Massa- chusetts.
In 1861 Mr. Verity was united in marriage with Lucy Jane Preston, who was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, July 31, 1824, daughter of Jeremiah and Anne (Proctor) Preston. She is a descendant on both sides of early New England colonists among whom was a "Mayflower" pilgrim. On the parental side she is descended (probably) in the eighth generation from Roger Preston, who was born in 1614, came to America in the "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635, settling first in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and later in Salem, where he died January 20, 1666. He was married at Ipswich, in 1642, and the christian name of his wife was Martha. She survived him and be- came the wife of Nicholas Holt, of Andover, Massachusetts. Her death occurred in An- dover, March 21, 1703, at the age of eighty years. Roger Preston was the father of seven children : Thomas, Samuel, John, Jacob, Levi, Elizabeth and Mary. Samuel, John and Jacob accompanied their mother to Andover. Cap- tain Samuel Preston, a descendant of John of Andover, settled in Littleton, New Hampshire, in 1728. Mrs. Verity's grandfather, Isaac Preston, was a Revolutionary soldier and, ac-
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cording to the records, he enlisted first January 30, 1776, as a private in Captain Ebenezer Green's company of Colonel Bedel's regiment, raised in New Hampshire for the northern Continental army under General Washington ; was a member of Captain John Sloan's militia company in the town of Lynn, December 20, 1776 ; and in 1780 was at West Point as a ser- geant in Captain Benjamin Spaulding's com- pany of Colonel Moses Nichols regiment. He married Susanna Fletcher, a descendant of Robert Fletcher, who came from Yorkshire, England, in 1630, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. He was the American ances- tor of nearly, if not all, of the New Hampshire Fletchers. Isaac Preston's wife was probably the Susanna Fletcher who was born in 1754, daughter of Samuel and (Lawrence) Fletcher, who were married in Littleton in 1729. Samuel was a son of William and a grandson of Samuel Fletcher.
Jeremiah Preston, Mrs. Verity's father, was of New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Her grand- mother, Anne (Proctor) Preston, was
a daughter of Cyrus and Sybil (Farnsworth) Proctor, of Hollis, New Hampshire. On the maternal side Mrs. Verity is a lineal descend- ant in the sixth generation of Robert Proctor, who emigrated from England early in the Colonial period and settled in Concord, Massa- chusetts, where he was admitted a freeman in 1643. The Proctors were prominent freehold- ers of the county of Norfolk, England, in the fourteenth century, and intermarried with the distinguished Beauchamp family, possessor of the earldom of Pembroke. At the beginning of the sixteenth century there were Proctors residing at Nether Bordley in Yorkshire, and they were in all probability descended from the Beauchamp-Proctor family of Norfolk. It is also quite certain that Robert Proctor, the emi- grant, was a descendant of the Nether Bordley family. December 31, 1645, Robert Proctor was married in Concord to Jane Hildreth, eld- est daughter of Richard Hildreth of that town, and in 1653, with several other residents of Concord, including his father-in-law, he re- moved to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where his death occurred in 1697. His children were : Sarah, Gershom, Mary, Peter, Dorothy, Eliz- abeth, James, Lydia, John, Samuel, Israel and Thomas.
John Proctor, fourth son and ninth child of Robert and Jane (Hildreth) Proctor, was born in Chelmsford, August 17, 1663. The maiden surname of his wife, whom he married in 1692, does not appear in the records, but her chris- ti n name was Miriam, and his children were:
John, Miriam, Edward, Hannah, Benjamin and Moses.
Moses Proctor, youngest son and child of John and Miriam Proctor, was born in Chelms- ford, November 19, 1706. He was one of the original petitioners for the charter of West Dunstable, Massachusetts, and Proctor Hill in that town, where he settled, was named for him. His name appears in the first tax-list, issued in 1740, and he served as a selectman in 1749. He married Mary Byam, of Chelms- ford, and was the father of Mary, Rebecca, Cyrus, Moses and Philip.
Cyrus Proctor, third child and eldest son of Moses and Mary (Byam) Proctor, was born in Chelmsford, September 13, 1745. He settled in Hollis, New Hampshire, where March IO, 1771, he married Sybil Farnsworth of that town. She became the mother of the following children : Cyrus, Timothy, Sybil, Nathaniel, Thomas, Mary (who died young), Elizabeth, John, Abigail, Amos, Anne, Mary and Susan- na. The mother of these children died Decem- ber 9, 1843, aged ninety years.
Anne or Anna Proctor, fifth daughter and eleventh child of Cyrus and Sybil (Farns- worth) Proctor, was born in Hollis, September 7, 1793. April 18, 1816, she became the wife of Jeremiah Preston, of New Ipswich, and she died in 1879, having had children : Horace, Sybil, Lucy Jane, Jeremiah, and one other daughter, who died in infancy.
John S. Verity died at his home in Lynn, February 10, 1885. He was the author of a book on phonography. He was a man of great natural business ability, of versatility in mind, upright in character ; a useful citizen. He left a widow and two children: Walter S., local manager for Fleischman Company for Boston and vicinity, married Cora Hopkins, of Rich- mond, Virginia, and they are the parents of two children : Hilda and Preston Verity. Mary, wife of William G. McLeod, and their children are : Elsie, Alice Preston, and William Preston McLeod, M. D., a graduate of the Harvard Medical School and practicing in New York City.
SPAULDING The name Spaulding (or Spalding, as it is always written in England) ap- pears quite early in English history. It was unquestionably derived from the town of Spalding, in Lincolnshire, England. There have been in all ten coats-of-arms granted to families of Spaldings, but it has never been ascertained whether any of them belong to the American branch of the family.
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(I) Edward Spalding (or Spaulding) came to America probably with Sir George Yeard- ley, about 1619. He and his family were es- tablished in the Virginia Colony in 1623. He removed to Braintree, Massachusetts, about 1634, and was among the first settlers there, and was made a freeman May 13, 1640. In 1653 he was living in the plantation which at the request of the settlers was incorporated into the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in May, 1655, and was one of the proprietors there. He was selectman in 1654, 1656, 1660 and 1661; surveyor of highways in 1663; and one of the surveyors of Newfield, afterwards North Chelmsford, in 1666, where he owned land. The attention of the settlers was early given to the culture of apple trees, and spec- ial mention is made in 1664 of the orchard of Edward Spaulding. He married first, Mar- garet who died August, 1640. He mar- ried second, Rachel Children of first wife: I. John. 2. Edward. 3. Grace, bur- ied May, 1641. Children of second wife: 4. Benjamin, born April 7, 1643. 5. Joseph, born October. 25, 1646. 6. Dinah, born March 14, 1649. 7. Andrew, born Novem- ber 19, 1652; mentioned below. Edward Spaulding died February 26, 1670. His will was dated February 13, 1667, and proved April 5, 1670.
(II) Andrew Spaulding, son of Edward Spaulding (1), was born November 19, 1652, and died May 5, 1713. He inherited the es- tate from his father. He was deacon of the church, and held the office until he died. He married April 30, 1674, Hannah Jefts, who died January 21, 1730, daughter of Henry Jefts, of Billerica, Massachusetts. His will was dated June 6, 1712. Children: I. Han- nah, died March 25, 1677. 2. Andrew, born March 25, 1678; mentioned below. 3. Henry born November 2, 1680. 4. John, born Au- gust 20, 1682. 5. Rachel, born September 26, 1685; married December 7, 1703, Samuel Butterfield. 6. William, born August 3, 1688. 7. Joanna, born October 8, 1689 or 90; mar- ried Josiah Fletcher. 8. Benoni, born Feb- ruary 6, 1691. 9. Mary, born December 5, 1695; died July 18, 1698.
(III) Andrew Spaulding, son of Andrew Spaulding (2), was born March 25, 1678, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and died No- vember 7, 1753. He resided in Chelmsford, and was a deacon of the church. He married February 5, 1701, Abigail Warren, who died May 12, 1768. He owned land in London- derry, New Hampshire, which he conveyed by deed to John Goffe, of that place. His
will was dated February 19, 1741-42. Chil- dren: I. Andrew, born December 8, 1701. 2. Jacob (twin), born September 6, 1703. 3. Henry (twin), born September 6, 1703. 4. Josiah, born January 3, 1706. 5. Ephraim, born August 8, 1708. 6. Isaac, born Octo- ber 28, 1710; mentioned below. 7. Abigail (twin), born July 8, 1712; married James Parkhurst, of Chelmsford. 8. Joanna (twin), born July 8, 1712. 9. James, born October 27, 1714. 10. David, born September 28, 1717. II. Benjamin, born January 7, 1720; died December 13, 1737. 12. Sarah, born June 9, 1723; married, December 1, 1741, Samuel Comings.
(IV) Deacon Isaac Spaulding, son of An- drew Spaulding (3), was born in Chelmsford, October 28, 1710, and died March 4, 1776. He removed to Townsend, Massachusetts, soon after his marriage, and lived and died in that town. He was deacon of the church. The farm on which he settled is still in the Spaulding family. The following is an ac- count of a family gathering which appeared in a local newspaper August 26, 1877:
"Wednesday was a day long to be remem- bered by the descendants of Deacon Isaac Spaulding, who to the number of about two hundred assembled on the spot where he erected his dwelling one hundred and forty years ago, near the place called 'the Har- bor,' in Townsend. The house was destroyed by fire some eight years since, and nothing now remains to mark the spot but a few venerable trees and the cellar. A large num- ber of relatives had met, however, to hold a centennial anniversary, and a rustic tenement had been erected for their convenience. On the post where once stood the front door was an evergreen motto, 'Gone Before;' also a fine picture of the house and surrounding buildings as they were before the fire, with the words, 'Our father's home, August 30, 1776,' drawn by Mrs. General Dix, of New York. Deacon Spaulding was distinguished for his integrity, industry and honesty. He died leaving to his children a name unstained and a father's blessing.'
He married Sarah Barrett, born 1714, died February 1I, 1806, aged ninety-two. Chil- dren: I. Jonathan, born July 28, 1734. 2. Lydia, born August 20, 1737; married Oliver Heald, of Temple, New Hampshire; died March, 1802. 3. Sarah, born August 22, 1739; married John Craggin, of Temple. 4. Benja- min, born August 14, 1743 ; mentioned below. 5. Abigail, born March 16, 1747. 6. Lucy, born April 7, 1749; married, about 1768, Eldad
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Spofford. 7. Esther, born December 17, 1753; married November 27, 1788, Jonathan Pierce, in Townsend, Massachusetts.
(V) Lieutenant Benjamin Spaulding, son of Isaac Spaulding (4), was born in Towns- end, Massachusetts, August 14, 1743, and died May 27, 1832, aged eighty-nine. He always resided in Townsend, and there all his children were born. He was a successful school teacher, and this occupation was follow- ed by three of his daughters. He served in the Revolution as sergeant in Captain James Hasley's company, Colonel William Pres- cott's regiment. He marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge, and served eighteen days. He appears to have served in various other regiments during the war. He married December 5, 1765, Mary Heald, who was born July 27, 1744, and died Janu- ary 24, 1826, aged eighty-one. Children: 1. Benjamin, born April 17, 1767. 2. Peter, born June 10, 1769. 3. Mary, born May 27, 1771 ; married, July 2, 1794, Peter Lawrence; died June II, 1804. 4. David, born July 27, 1773; mentioned below. 5. Joel, born July 26, 1775. 6. Abel, born September 6, 1777. 7. Isaac, born December 24, 1779. 8. Sarah, born October 23, 1782: married March 8, 1803, Peter Shumway; died May 20, 1842. 9. Ephraim, born July 15, 1786. 10. Nancy, born June 27, 1789; married June 11, 1817, Cushing Wilder; died June 2, 1852.
(VI) David Spaulding, son of Benjamin Spaulding (5), was born in Townsend, Massa- chusetts, July 27, 1773, and died October I, 1827. He married in Sharon, Massachusetts, Sarah Esthmur Kingsbury, of Milton, Massa- chusetts, who died August 2, 1824, aged forty-five. Children: I. David, born April 30, 1800. 2. Sarah, born April 4, 1802; mar- ried May 24, 1825, Jarvis Billings. 3. Louisa, born March 10, 1804; married May 24, 1825, Abel Farrington. 4. Joshua Kingsbury, born September II, 1805; mentioned below. 5. Mary Hale, born July 31, 1807; married first, October 20, 1830, William Downes; married second, October 20, 1847, Joshua Martin Hadley. 6. Calista, born May 10, 1809; mar- ried November 5, 1829, Daniel Howard, of North Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 7. Caro- line, born May 24, 1811; married July 9, 1829, Elijah Tolman, of Sharon, Massachusetts; died May 28, 1852. 8. Edward Hutchinson, born March 1, 1814. 9. Benjamin Sumner, born July 4, 1818.
(VII) Joshua Kingsbury Spaulding, son of David Spaulding (6), was born in Towns- end, Massachusetts, September II, 1805, and
died in Pepperell, Massachusetts, May 7, 1887. He married, November 18, 1830, in Pepperell, Patty Prescott Parker, the inten- tion being recorded October 7, 1830. She was born October 14, 1805, and died Janu- ary 4, 1869. He was a cooper and a farmer. Children I. Harriet Augusta, born October 15, 1831; married June 3, 1861, Christopher Morgan. 2. Mary Ann, born December I, 1833; married May 10, 1856, Rufus Atwood Maxfield, of Lowell, Massachusetts; died July 3, 1890. 3. Parker Prescott, born April I, 1837. 4. David Sumner, born January 14, 1841; mentioned below. 5. Martha Elizabeth, born October 25, 1845; married August 26, 1866, William Henry Gilbert. 6. Calista Irene, born May 24, 1848; married Daniel Spofford; died June, 1893.
(VIII) David Sumner Spaulding, son of Joshua Kingsbury Spaulding (7), was born: in Pepperell, Massachusetts, January 14,. 1841. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of mason. He worked at his trade for many years in Fitchburg, Boston and elsewhere. For a number of years he returned to his father's home in the winter season and worked with his father making shoes and slippers, and also at the cooper's trade. He removed to Lowell,, Massachusetts, in 1860, and followed his; trade for a time, was then for six years on the Lowell police force. He then established the' fancy goods and jewelry store in Lowell, con- ducting it successfully for a period of twenty- five years. He dealt extensively in real estate' also during the later years of his life, begin- ning with a tract of land at Pawtucketville, in Lowell. When his health began to fail he started a summer hotel in 1889 at Lake Mas- kuppick, Dracut, near Lowell. His widow still conducts this hostelry, which has been: a favorite summer resort for seventeen years .. The locality is known as Lake View Park .. . He died February 3, 1906, at his home in Lake View. He was an Independent in poli- tics, a member of Wamalacit Lodge of Free Masons and Pentucket Lodge of Odd Fel- lows. He traveled extensively to California,. Nevada, etc., making the Pacific Coast trips for over two years, traveling on this trip in 1860-1861. He married June 9, 1861, Ellen Mary Green, born September 17, 1839. Her father, Samuel Smith Green, born September 14, 1803, died June 15, 1873; married May 13, 1828, Caroline Lamb, born February 5, 1804, died April 7, 1873; children : i. Martha E. Green, born April 18, 1829, died June 30, 1859, unmarried; ii. Joseph S. Green, born
DAVID SUMNER SPAULDING
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May 13, 1830, died May 22, 1901; iii. Samuel J. Green, born February 22, 1831, died March 27, 1893; iv. Caroline A. Green, born May 19, 1833, married William H. Jefts, died Sep- tember 22, 1863; v. Watson Lamb Green, born April 28, 1835, enlisted and served in the civil war; taken ill and died on furlough at home, May 8, 1864; vi. Phebe E. Green, born October 13, 1837, died April 20, 1902; vii. Ellen M. Green, born September 30, 1839; viii. Webster M. Green, born March 31, 1842, died October II, 1905, served in Seventh Massachusetts Battery, enlisted May 21, 1861, discharged November 20, 1864. Samuel Smith Green, the father, was the son of Samuel Green, and the grandson of Will- iam Green, who eloped with Esther Green from England, and settled in Stow, Massa- chusetts. His father, Samuel Green, married twice. Samuel Smith Green, son of the first wife, was but eight years old when his father married again, and he set out for himself to earn his own living. The family was then in the west, and the boy worked his way east- ward, doing odd jobs by the way, until he reached Cherry Valley, New York, where he learned the trade of blacksmith and horse and ox-shoeing. He removed to Barre, Worces- ter county, Massachusetts, and engaged in business for himself as a blacksmith. He in- vented a machine for cutting horse-shoes, and though his financial return from it was small owing to the invention of similar machines, he must be counted among the important in- ventors of useful machinery in his day and generation. He removed from Barre to Lo- well, Massachusetts, and was employed for a time there in a carriage factory. He was a Congregationalist in religion.
Children of David Sumner and Ellen Mary (Green) Spaulding: I. Parker Sumner, born March 28, 1867; resides in Pawtucketville, corner Sixth avenue and Mt. Grove street; married Allie Hogle; children: Sumner Parker, Ellen Maria, Parker Charles. 2. Frank Elmore, born April 14, 1869, in Lo- well; educated in public schools and attended commercial college there; also graduated from Lowell Evening Architectural School, appeared successfully in five different exhibi- tions, winning a three years course from the perspective course; was seven years engaged with his father in brokerage business on Mer- rimack street; is now associated in business with his mother, with an interest in the prop- erty; married, August 13, 1890, Mary Ann Lovely, born July 28, 1870, daughter of George and Amelia Ann (Stickney) White-
field; children: i. David Elmore, born Sep- tember 29, 1893, in Lowell; student in Lo- well high school, class of 1911. ii. Child died in infancy. 3. Mayola Irene, born March. II, 1877, died August 9, same year.
STANIFORD ford), the immigrant an- John Staniford (or Stan-
cestor, was born in Eng- land. He used as his seal the coat-of-arms of . the English family of Stanford : Azure, a chev- ron between three birds argent. (See copy of his seal in "Antiquarian Papers, Ipswich," May, 1882). He was called Mr. in the early records of Ipswich, where he settled, indicating: by the custom in using this title that he came from a family of high social standing. He was. a man of intellectual qualities, and much occu- pied with duties which require legal knowl- edge. Several early wills are in his hand- writing, and three have his seal as given above -those of Obadiah Wood in 1694, William Caldwell in 1694, and Madame Rebekah Sy- monds in 1695. He was deacon of the church. He died in Ipswich in 1730, and his old grave- stone, still standing there, is inscribed : "Here lyes Buried Ye Body of Deacon John Stani- ford aged 82 years Decd May ye 27, 1730."" The death of his wife is thus recorded : "Mar- garet, Relict wido of Dea'n John Staniford, Died May Ist 1750, Et. 93." She was the daughter of Thomas and Martha (Lake) Har- ris, and was born August 6, 1657. She was named for her grandmother, Margaret Lake,. who died in Ipswich in 1672, wife of John: Lake and daughter of Edmund Read, sister of Elizabeth Read, who mar- ried Governor John Winthrop, Jr., founder- of Ipswich, and sister also of Martha Read, who married first, Daniel Epps, and second, Deputy. Governor Symonds. The children of John and Margaret Lake were: John, Hannah: and Martha Lake, of whom Hannah married Captain John Gallup, who was killed at Narra- gansett, December 19, 1675; Martha married Thomas Harris, and lived in Ipswich. The will of Margaret Lake is very quaint ; she be- queathed to her granddaughter, Margaret Staniford, a carved box, a damask table cloth and six damask napkins. The Staniford and Harris families were also remembered in the will of Madame Rebekah Symonds, the last wife of Deputy Governor Symonds ; she calls them "cousins," perhaps because a former wife of Mr. Symonds was their aunt, the word cousin being used to denote uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces, as well as the relatives
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