Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 29

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 704


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(VIII) Abel G. Haynes, son of Leander Haynes (7), was born in Sudbury, July 1, 1837. He attended the old. Pantry School at North Sudbury in his youth. He began his mercantile career in South Acton in the gen- eral store of Tuttle, Jones & Weatherbee. In 1864 he established a general store on his own account in the village of Assabet, now the town of Maynard, under the firm name of Haynes Brothers, his brother, Warren A. Haynes, being his partner. This partnership continued with the utmost harmony and suc- cess for a period of seventeen years, when his brother retired and he continued the business alone until 1895, when he also retired. Mr. Haynes stood high in business circles. Up- right and honorable in his dealings he won his success in life fairly and creditably. Since giving up active business he has continued to reside in his Maynard home. Mr. Haynes has been one of the most active and influential citizens in public life in the town of Maynard. He served three terms on the board of select- men ; twelve years on the board of assessors and was postmaster twenty years, from 1868


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to 1880. He is a member of Charles A. Welch Lodge of Free Masons, Maynard. In religion Mr. Haynes attends the Congrega- tional church. Politically a Republican. He married, March 22, 1859, Martha A. Howard, born in Berlin, Massachusetts, August 4, 1834, daughter of Rufus and Louise (Sawyer) Howard, of Heath, Massachusetts. Children : I. Harry H., born in South Acton, May 7, 1862, died May 20, 1884. 2. Eva L., born June 7, 1867, educated in the public and high schools, a student for three years in the Con- cord high school; married, April 13, 1887, Arthur E. Walker, of Belchertown, Massa- chusetts. Children : i. Mildred Walker, born April 19, 1889, attended the Maynard public and high schools, Concord high school and is now a student in the class of 1910, Simmons College, Boston; ii. Lloyd M., born May 15, 1898.


(VIII) Alfred Thompson Haynes, son of Leander Haynes (7), was born at Sudbury, May 9, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and is engaged in department stores in Maynard and Marlboro. He married. Emma Kendall Smith, daughter of Andrew J. and Mary E. (Porter) Smith, of Stow, Massachusetts. Her parents had also Henry Porter Smith, Frank Herbert Smith and May Louise Smith. Arad and Polly (Stowe) Smith, parents of Andrew J. Smith, had no other children. Arad had a brother. Micah Smith. Children of Alfred Thompson and Emma Kendall (Smith) Haynes, born at Maynard, Massachusetts: I. Florence Fran- ces, born July 22, 1884, educated in the public and high schools, graduating from the May- nard high school in 1901 ; student at Concord high school in 1902 ; graduated at Mt. Holyoke College in the class of 1907. 2. Marion Belle, born January 23, 1887, married, August 14, 1906, Charles Wilcox ; she graduated from the Maynard high school in 1904, was a student at Simmons College one year and studied music in Boston one year before her marriage.


The family of Morrison is MORRISON very numerous in Scot- land, and this surname has been fixed there and in the adjacent island of Lewis for many centuries, probably for a thousand years. It is an old surname in the counties of Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Lan- cashire, England, where persons of the name were knighted and received coats of arms. The family has spread over England, Ire-


land and America. It appears to be evident that all of the name spring from the same stock, and a common origin. The island of Lewis, on the west coast of Scotland, is un- doubtedly the place where the family origin- ated, though its founder was probably of Nor- wegian origin. The family has two tartans -a beautiful red clan tartan and a green hunting tartan. While there is more than one coat of arms, that in most general use and presumed to be the most ancient is: Azure three Saracen heads conjoined in one neck, proper, the faces looking to the chief, dexter and sinister sides of the shield. This design is in general use as a crest and the three Moors' or Saracen heads in other designs are on the shields of other Morrison fami- lies. Motto: Pretio prudentia praestat. (Prudence excels reward. Or-Prudence is better than profit. Or-Longheadedness is above price). It is claimed that the arms and crest were bestowed upon a Morison dur- ing the Crusades for some deed of daring by Richard Coeur de Lion.


The name has been spelled variously- Maryson, Moreson, Moryson, Morreson, Moorison, Morrisson, Morson, Morisown, Morisone, Morison, Morrison, Murison, and Morrowson. In early days the family in Scot- land, England, Ireland and America almost in- variably spelled the name Morison. About 1800 Morrison came into general use in Scotland, England, Ireland and America, and has con- tinued to the present time. The family in New Hampshire followed the general prac- tice. The best authority on the origin of the name states that it means the son of Mary Moore or Maurice, and the name as origin- ally written in Saxon or in Saxon-English would be Moores-son or Mores-son, or if the Gaelic form were retained, Mhores-son. In Norse the name would be Moors-son, Mors- sonm, Mhors-son, everything indicating a close connection between the Moore and Morrison families.


(I) Robert Morrison, the immigrant an- cestor, was born, according to family tradi- tion, in 1700, in Scotland. The same author- ity states that he came to America in 1706. Very little is known of him or his family. He came earlier than the Scotch-Irish of this name at Londonderry. It should be stated too that one Robert Morrison died May 10, 1677, in the vicinity of the town where we find this Robert Morrison settled some years later, and a connection between the two men seems likely, but for the tradition cited.


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Robert Morrison had at least two children: I. Robert, of whom no record is known. 2. Jonathan, born 1756, mentioned below.


(II) Jonathan Morrison, son of Robert Morrison (I), was born in 1756 in Brentwood, New Hampshire, where his father was an early settler. He died in 1840. He was a sol- dier in the Revolution, practically through the entire war. In 1776 he was in Captain Nathan Sanborn's company and Colonel Thomas Tash's regiment, sent to reinforce the Con- tinental army. He was in Captain Shepard's company, Colonel Walker's regiment, also in 1776. In September, 1777, he was in Captain Nathaniel Ambrose's company, Colonel Welch's regiment, from Moultonborough, New Hampshire, sent to join the Continental army under General Gates at Saratoga. The company marched to Northampton, Massachu- setts, after the surrender of General Burgoyne. He was in Captain Richard Sinclair's com- pany, Colonel Thomas Bartlett's regiment, in 1780, and received a gratuity for faithful ser- vice the year following.


At the close of the Revolution he and his young wife joined a party of six families of pioneers and settled in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, which at that time included the town of Gilford, New Hampshire. He chopped down the first tree in the present town of Laconia, New Hampshire, and built a saw mill there. His first house was built of logs, after the custom of the pioneers, and in it his children were born. In 1805 he re- moved to the adjacent town of Tuftonbor- ough. Most of his children lived to advanced ages, and physically were large and tall per- sons. The sons were all farmers. Children, born at Gilmanton, New Hampshire: I. Dan- iel, born August 28, 1783, was a teacher of the public schools thirteen years and preached occasionally; was also a farmer; married Abigail Ladd, of New Hampton, and resided in Tuftonborough and Sandwich, New Hampshire; died in 1860; children: i. Sarah, born May 13, 1818, married Gilman Felch, of Sandwich; died at Brookline, Mas- sachusetts, in 1870, had nine children: ii. Al- mira, born June 27, 1821, married Francis Stickney, of Sandwich, died in 1856 at East Cambridge, Massachusetts; iii. Daniel T., born September 5, 1823, died June 24, 1835; iv. Nancy Ladd, born November 10, 1825, married Samuel Tucker, of Maine; v. Sam- uel, born August 18, 1827, died November, 1828; vi. Samuel L., born February 18, 1829, removed to Chicago in 1856, had one of the largest fruit-farms of the northwest in his


day, married Lizzie M. Lane, of Boston, had five children: vi. Comfort Abigail, born Sep- tember 18, 1831, married Lemuel Webb, re- sided in Boston; vii. Benjamin F., born at Sandwich, March 28, 1834, died March, 1858; viii. Daniel T., born December 28, 1838, died June 24, 1860; ix. Levi Alfred, born at Sand- wich, January 17, 1844, married Lydia and had Mabel Alma, born October 1873, resides in Somerville, Massachusetts. 2. Sarah (twin of Daniel), born August 28, 1783, died aged twenty-four. 3. Rhoda, married Barnard Morrill, of Gilford. 4. Jonathan, Jr., born in 1787, died about 1875; married Mary Libby, (second) Mrs. Gould; children: i. Robert, resides at Robinson, Illinois; ii. George, resides in New York City; iii. Charles L., resides in Boston, Massachusetts; iv. John, resides in Boston; v. Mary, died aged eighteen. 5. Hannah, born in 1789, married John Fullerton, of Tuftonborough; died in 1853; had three children. 6. Samuel, born about 1791, died in 1829 in Tuftonbor- ough; married; children: i. Hannah, mar- ried Daniel Wright and resided in Boston; ii. Samuel, lived in California. 7. Mary, born in 1793, married Joseph Libby, resided at Wolfborough, New Hampshire; had one daughter. 8. Stevens, born in 1795, lived in Tuftonborough, New Hampshire; died in 1876; had three children. 9. John, born in 1797, mentioned below. 10. Ebenezer, born about 1800, married Nancy Ladd; he died aged about fifty; resided on the Morrison homestead in Tuftonborough; children: i, Shuah, married Rev. Daniel Stevens, of Tuf- tonborough; ii. Jonathan, lived in Tufton- borough; iii. Ruth, married Samuel Gordon and lived in Tuftonborough.


(III) John Morrison, son of Jonathan Mor- rison (2), was born in Gilmanton in 1797. He was brought up and educated in Tuftonbor- ough, New Hampshire, but settled in the ad- joining town of Moultonborough, New Hampshire. He was a farmer. He married Lucy Blake, who was born about 1800 in Moultonborough. Children: I. John Hazen, born December 20, 1820, mentioned below. 2. Sally, born October 3, 1822. 3. Jonathan G., born January 19, 1825. 4. Ebenezer S., born January 29, 1830. 5. Nancy, born April 12, 1832.


(IV) John Hazen Morrison, son of John Morrison (3), was born in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, December 20, 1820. He married Elizabeth Stockbridge, daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Rollins) Stockbridge. Her father was born at Alton, New Hamp-


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shire; his mother at Barnet, Vermont. Eliz- abeth was born April 22, 1822, and died No- vember 10, 1894, aged seventy-two years, six months and eighteen days. Children: I. James G., born at Moultonborough, August 20, 1849, mentioned below. 2. Charles D., died young.


(V) James G. Morrison, son of John Haz- en Morrison (4), was born at Moultonbor- ough, August 20, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. For the past thirty years he has been engaged in the wholesale pork business at 72 Blackstone street, Boston, and is a business man of high standing. He is a Republican in politics. His residence is at 85 Glen street, Somerville,


Massachusetts. He married (first) Susan Pease, who bore him two children: Ella, mar- ried Richard Vail. Lillian, married Harry E. Osgood. He married (second) Cora Louise Sweet, who bore him two children: Gertrude; Ruby, died July 13, 1897. He married (third) Mildred A. Fitzgerald, who was born July 28, 1873, in Prince Edward Island, daughter of John and Jenette (Leadbetter) Fitzgerald, the former of whom was born in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, and the latter in Pug- wash, Nova Scotia. Children of James G. and Mildred A. Morrison: James Granville, Jr. and Guy Waterhouse Morrison. Children of John and Jenette Fitzgerald: i. Gerald, born in Newfoundland; ii. Aggie, born in New- foundland; iii. Mildred A., mentioned above; iv. Madeline S., born in Prince Edward Isl- and; v. Winnifred J., born at Spring Hill Junction, Nova Scotia; vi. Thomas B., born at Spring Hill Junction, Nova Scotia; vii. John, born at Spring Hill. Peter and Susan- na (Worth) Leadbetter, parents of Jenette (Leadbetter) Fitzgerald, lived in Nova Sco- tia, and Mr. Leadbetter was a very large holder of real estate in Halifax. Their chil- dren were: A. H., contractor and builder, 70 Standish street, Brockton, Massachusetts; Peter, James, Captain Benjamin, Richard, Eben, Sarah, Jenette, mentioned above, Beth- any.


The first of this family in McGREGOR America came from Scot- land to Prince Edward Isl- and about 1800. Among his children was James McGregor, mentioned below.


(II) James McGregor, son of the immi- grant, was born in Prince Edward Island: married there Jane Brown, also of Scotch de- scent and a native of Prince Edward Island.


Children : Margaret, Annabella, David L., mentioned below ; Charles, John, Mary, Ellen, James, William, Eliza Jane.


(III) David Lawson McGregor, son of James McGregor (2), was born on Prince Edward Island, September 7, 1827. He was educated in the schools of his native place, and learned the trade of harness maker. He came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1851, and engaged in the harness business there. In 1868 he entered partnership with Captain J. P. Crane, of Woburn, in the leather business and they established a store on Pearl street, Boston, doing business under the firm name of J. P. Crane & Company. They were among the hundreds of others whose stores were burned in the great fire of 1872 in Boston. They re- sumed business soon afterward on High street, but shortly afterward this partnership was dis- solved and Mr. McGregor formed the firm of .McGregor & Atwood with Frank Atwood as his partner. This firm dealt in leather, etc., and had its place of business on Lincoln street. He was very successful in business, retiring after he had acquired a competence, in 1885, on account of failing health. In 1893 he pur- chased an interest in the business of the Beach & Clarridge Company, manufacturers of fruit syrups and flavoring extracts, Eastern avenue, Boston, and this investment together with his real estate, of which he was a large owner in Somerville, occupied his time until his last ill- ness. He died at his home in Somerville, 139 Walnut street, May 19, 1895.


At the time of his death Zion's Herald said of him: "Mr. McGregor was a capable and re- liable business man, and won the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He achieved success by unremitting attention to duty and in accordance with principles of strict integrity. In all his social and business relations he was the incarnation of brotherly kindness and self- denial. Many a young man has he established in business by granting material aid in time of need, and though on the whole he was no more than half repaid by those he helped, he never became weary of well-doing. Mr. McGregor loved dearly the land of his adoption. His health at the time of the war exempted him from the draft, yet he hired a substitute to take his place. But it was among his neigh- bors and brethren in the church that his unsel- fish and genial character shone most clearly. From the time of his uniting with the church he was an active member of the official board and was foremost in every good work. None of his brethren gave more liberally than he, nor did more for the advancement of the Re-


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deemer's Kingdom. Many bear testimony that it was due to his winning social qualities that they became attached to the church. His re- moval from Charlestown to Winter Hill in 1879 proved a serious loss to the Monument Square Church, but was a godsend to the struggling enterprise of the Broadway society, which was then worshiping in a hired hall. During the discouraging efforts of the pastor to raise money for a new edifice, he generously came to the rescue by proposing to double every dollar that should be subscribed. This offer put new life into the project and insured its success. It was not until he assured the contractor that he would stand back of him that the latter would go forward with the building. As a member of the building com- mittee with Messrs. John Potter, E. G. Davis and the pastor, he labored incessantly for the success of the enterprise. Thus it was that this faithful servant of God sought to honor his. Master. He aimed to keep in touch with the interests of the church. For thirty-seven years he was a subscriber and an appreciative reader of Zion's Herald. Though he could not always agree with his pastor and brethren in mat- ters of doctrine and discipline, he never was known to hesitate to bear his share, and more than his share, of the burdens of the church. The church will miss him, and a multitude of loving friends are personally bereaved by his death. He fought long and heroically against that most painful disease, cancer of the stomach, but his splendid physique at length succumbed, and he yielded without a murmur, declaring : "It is all right. My accounts with my Master are all settled." He was a member of no secret orders. In politics he was a Re- publican. He married, in 1857, Emily Wake- field, daughter of Stephen and Ruth (Wake- field) Wakefield. (See sketch of Wakefield family).


WAKEFIELD John Wakefield, the im- migrant ancestor of the Maine family of Wake- field, was born in England. The first Ameri- can record of him is dated January 1, 1637, when at a town meeting held at Salem he was assessed fifteen shillings as an inhabitant of Marblehead colony, Massachusetts, and he was probably in New England before the autumn preceding. He received a grant of four acres of land at Marblehead, December 26, 1638, from the Salem town meeting. Prior to 1641 he lived in Salem. His Mar- blehead dwelling was on the Neck. He mar-


ried Elizabeth Littlefield and settled in Wells, Maine. He had a grant of land with his brother-in-law, John Littlefield, under the au- thority of the Ligonia patent, of what is now known as the Great Hill Farm. The hill at that time extended much farther into the sea than at present. Neither of the grantees lo- cated there, however. Wakefield settled in the town of Wells where he attained consid- erable prominence; he was commissioner and selectman in 1648-54-57; and in the same year his father-in-law was associated in the same offices with him.


John Wakefield purchased Drake's Island of Stephen Batson in 1652 and he resided there a few years; then for several years he lived at Scarborough, where he bought a farm. He removed next to that part of Bid- deford which is now Saco and lived the re- mainder of his days. He was in Wells July 2, 1657, when he signed as a witness to a land grant. He was a juror at Wells from Saco, July, 1666. His wife under power of attor- ney sold his Marblehead land September 10, 1670. He died February 15, 1674, and is buried at Biddeford, Maine. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund and Annia (Agnes) Littlefield. Children: I. John, mar- ried Hester Harbor, who married (second) William Hayward, January, - 1706-07. 2. James, mentioned below. 3. Henry, died unmarried March, 1677. 4. William, mar- ried, March 13, 1698, Rebecca Littlefield; he was drowned October 25, 1707. 5. Mary, married William Frost. 6. Katherine, mar- ried Robert Nanny.


(II) James Wakefield, son of John Wake- field (I), was born about 1675. He married Rebecca, daughter of James and - (Lew- is) Gibbons, of Saco, Maine. In 1699 he was granted one hundred acres of land on Kenne- bunk river "at the landing." On November 28, 1700, he and his wife Rebecca witnessed a deed of Benjamin Gooch, of Wells, plant- er, to John Wheelwright, several pieces of marsh in Wells. With his brother, William Wakefield, Moses and Job Littlefield, and Joseph Storer, Jr., on October 25, 1707, he "went out in a small sloop to fish, there was a heavy sea at the bar, and as they attempted to drive the sloop over it she was upset and all were drowned, bodies of four were recov- ered. These men were all valuable citizens and their aid was greatly needed."


James Gibbons, his father-in-law, was "master of magazine" and a landed proprie- tor of Saco; married a daughter of Thomas Lewis, one of the original owners of the


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Lewis and Boynton Patent, and became the heir through his wife of his father-in-law; died in 1730 and among other children be- queathed to Rebecca Wakefield. Children of James and Rebecca Wakefield: I. James, married, December 18, 1719, Mary Darrell. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Kezia, mar- ried, May 27, 1724, Philip Durrell, Jr. 4. Nathaniel, married, 1730, Hannah Emmons. 5. Samuel, married, about 1736, Ruth God- frey. 6. Gibbons, was with brothers John and Nathaniel in the expedition against Rasle in August, 1724.


(III) John Wakefield, son of James Wake- field (2), was born probably at Saco, Maine, in 1700. Married, May 27, 1724, Elizabeth Durrell, of Arundel, now Kennebunkport. He was a resident of Kennebunk, and prev- ious to the building of the new meeting house in 1750 meetings were held at his house. He was one of a committee to engage Rev. Dan- iel Little, who was called as the minister, Au- gust 25, 1750. Children: I. John, born April 16, 1725, mentioned below. 2. Gibbons, born March 7, 1726-27, married, November 13, 1756, Mary Goodwin. 3. Elizabeth, born August 20, 1730, died October 7, 1736. 4. Rachel, born June 24, 1733, married, Novem- ber 3, 1752, Nicholas Bunnell. 5. James, born May 7, 1736, married, July I, 1756, Mi- riam Burbank. 6. Elizabeth, born April 14. 1740, married, February 20, 1761, Jonathan Taylor. 7. Jacob, born July 26, 1742, died August 10, 1742. 8. Isaiah, born December 29, 1743, married, September 9, 1765, Susan- na Fiske.


(IV) John Wakefield, son of John Wake- field (3), was born in Wells or Kennebunk, Maine, April 16, 1725. Married, 1748, Ruth Cousins, daughter of Ichabod and Ruth (Cole) Cousins. She was born October 19, 1731. Wakefield was a soldier in King George's war and a member of the company of Colonel John Storer in the Louisburg seige in 1745. In 1746-47 the vessel in which the Wells and Arundel troops were being transported to Annapolis was cast away on Mount Desert in a snow storm and seventy or eighty men perished, but Wakefield and three others survived, after enduring great suffering, there being no house on the island. They built a boat of such material as they could find. With a gun and some ammuni- tion saved from the wreck they managed to kill some water fowl for food. Part of them embarked on the frail craft they had built and succeeded in landing at Townsend and a boat was sent to take off the other survivors.


Wakefield was one of the original members of the Second Congregational Church founded in Wells, June 14, 1750. He died intestate and his widow Ruth was appointed adminis- tratrix, October 6, 1792. The estate was di- vided at Wells, October 26, 1793.


John Cousins, ancestor of his wife, was born in England, 1596, settled at Westcustogo, now North Yarmouth, Maine, and lived on an island near the mouth of Royal river, still called by his name, purchased of Richard Vines. His son, Thomas Cousins, was an in- habitant of Wells before 1670; his grandson, Ichabod Cousins, son of Thomas, married, July 28, 1714, Ruth Cole, of Kennebunk, and their daughter Ruth was born October 19, 1731, and married John Wakefield, as stated. Children: I. Jacob, married, September 17, 1789, Hannah Hill. 2. John, born about 1751. 3. Nicholas, married, May 5, 1752, Lydia Wakefield. 4. Israel, married, Octo- ber 31, 1772, Sarah Goodwin, daughter of Benjamin Goodwin. 5. Ezekiel, born about 1757, mentioned below. 6. Susanna, mar- ried, June 29, 1774, Jacob Blaisdell. 7. Kath- erine, married, January 10, 1789. 8. Ruth, married (intentions dated November 14), 1795, Frederick Wakefield.


(V) Ezekiel Wakefield, son of John Wake- field (4), was born in Kennebunk, Maine, about 1757. He was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, sergeant in the company of Captain Jesse Dorman, Colonel James Scammon, from May 12, 1775, until winter. He mar- ried, November 6, 1779, Hannah Larrabee. Children: I. John. 2. Ezekiel, born about 1784, married, November 24, 1811, Phebe Taylor. 3. Stephen, born 1793, mentioned below. 4. Eunice. 5. Hannah, married, No- vember 2, 1806, Theodore Goodwin, of Al- fred. 6. Mary, married, April 11, 1805, Jona- than Parsons. 7. Joshua.


(VI) Stephen Wakefield, son of Ezekiel Wakefield (5), was born at Kennebunk, in 1793, resided at Alfred, Maine, and South Boston, Massachusetts, where he died in 1876. He married Ruth Wakefield, daugh- ter of Frederick and Ruth (Wakefield) Wake- field. Her father was the son of John, grand- son of Ezekiel (5) (q. v.). Children, born at Alfred: I. Mary, born August 5, 1825, mar- ried, November 23, 1845, Theophilus Rund- lett Prescott, born September 6, 1823, resided in South Boston, where she died 1903. 2. Frederick, born June 15, 1828, married (first) Hannah Julia Candage, and had one son, William O., of Malden; married (second) Clara Brewer, and had one son, Frank Pack-




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