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Massachusetts, then Dedham, January 8, 1639-40. Married, 1668, Elizabeth Bullen, daughter of Samuel Bullen, of Medfield. He settled about 1685 on the old Rehoboth road in Mendon, Massachusetts, near where An- drus Wheelock lately lived and died. He be- came a large owner of lands in that section; as early as 1706 he acquired possession of the original Benjamin Albee corn mill in the southwest part of the town, now the Lewis B. Gaskill place. He is said to have bought it of Matthias Puffer or his heirs, and Puffer had it of Albee or his heirs, making Wheel- ock the third owner of his historic place. Wheelock deeded it to his two sons in 1713 and joined them in a deed of it in 1719 to Jo- siah Wood, who became the fourth owner. The mill had been burned before this trans- fer. Children, born in Mendon: I. Eliza- beth, born 1671. 2. Mary, 1674. 3. Alice, 1676. 4. Benjamin, 1678. 5. Obadiah, men- tioned below.
(III) Obadiah Wheelock, son of Benjamin Wheelock (2), was born in Mendon, in 1685. Married Elizabeth Darling, January 8, 1708. He was an important citizen of Rehoboth and Mendon. He resided on the old mill site several years, then moved to the northeastern part of what is now Milford on what is Plain street. His farm extended from a point east of Mill river near the cellar holes on the Stoddard place, notable for its old lilacs, ex- tending on the west side of the road to and including the Lowell Fales place. He owned other large tracts in the eastern part of the town towards the Charles river, probably in- herited from his father. Children, born in Mendon: I. Elizabeth, born July II, 1709, married, July 3, 1733, Ephraim Daniels. 2. Obadiah, Jr., born September 21, 1712, mar- ried, October 26, 1733, Martha Sumner. 3. Samuel, born September 6, 1714, married, February 16, 1738, Hannah Ammidown. 4. Hannah, born August 18, 1716, married, Feb- ruary 16, 1737, Joshua Underwood, of Hol- liston. 5. Ebenezer, born August 13, 1718, married, February 16, 1738, Mary Sloeman. 6. Rebecca, born August 30, 1720, married, No- vember 26, 1747, Benjamin Fisk, of Upton. 7. Margaret, born February 18, 1723, mar- ried, July 16, 1739, James Albee. 8. Josiah, mentioned below.
(IV) Josiah Wheelock, son of Obadiah Wheelock, Sr. (3), was born in Mendon, March 30, 1725, died there December 28, 1794. He lived on what is now Howard street, South Milford, and left a large estate
to Obadiah and his other heirs, Obadiah hav- ing the real estate and paying the bequests. His will was dated November 14, 1793, and was filed January 13, 1795. His widow's will was dated August 22, 1796, and filed May 4, 1807. She died March, 1807. He married Experience Clark, daughter of Theophilus Clark, of Holliston, January 6, 1747-48 (by Rev. A. Frost). Children: I. Experience, born May 15, 1748-49, died at New Brain- tree, March, 1807; married, April 13, 1769, Henry Penniman, who settled in New Brain- tree and died there December II, 1809, aged seventy-seven. 2. Eleazer, born February 2, 1750, settled in Warwick, Massachusetts; executor of father's will. 3. Thankful, born May 7, 1752, non compos. 4. Alexander, mentioned below. 5. Bathsheba, born De- cember 14, 1760, married, August 29, 1784, Jotham Thayer. 6. Josiah, born August 12, 1763. 7. Joseph, mentioned in wills of both parents. 8. Olive, born April 3, 1769, married, August 8, 1790, Abner Allen. 9. Obadiah, born April 6, 1771, married, 1797-98, Lydia Thurber, of Rehoboth ; had the homestead. IO. Ruth, provided for in father's will as non compos.
(V) Alexander Wheelock, son of Josiah Wheelock (4), was born in Milford, formerly Mendon, Massachusetts, September 2, 1754, married Sophia Penniman, sister of Henry Penniman, descendant of James Penniman, of Braintree, Massachusetts, (See sketch of Penniman family). Wheelock was a soldier in the Revolution from Milford in Captain Gershom Nelson's company (Fourth), and went to Cambridge, April 19, 1775, on the Lexington Call. He removed to Orange, Mas- sachusetts, incorporated later as a town, just about the close of the Revolution with his family. The name of Timothy Wheelock ap- pears on the list of settlers in 1791, when Alexander had either died or conveyed his property to his sons. Many Mendon and Milford families settled in Orange. In 1770 Joseph Metcalf, of Milford, bought of John Erving five hundred acres of land near Fall Hill, Orange. The Chenys of Orange came from Milford, also the White, Thayer, and David and William Legg's families. Children: I. George, signed the bond of his uncle as executor of his grandmother's estate June 2, 1807, his father perhaps being dead at that time. George resided at Orange and had lands at Athol. 2. Lynds, mentioned below. 3. Timothy, was a prominent early settler of Orange. 4. Samuel, married, July II, 1802,
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Fanny Goodnow, of Keene, New Hampshire, where Lynds also settled; she died July 20, 1818, aged thirty-five years.
(VI) Lynds Wheelock, son of Alexander Wheelock (5), was born at Orange, Massa- chusetts, April 5, 1785, died at Keene, May 28, 1825, aged forty-one years. (May 27 011 church record). He married Sarah F. or So- phia Conant, of Winchester, New Hampshire. His wife Sarah F. or Sophia died at Keene, October 12, 1839, aged forty-six years. He resided at Keene, New Hampshire, where he owned a farm. Children: I. George Alex- ander, born at Keene, January 21, 1816, presi- dent of the Keene National Bank and prom- inent in business and financial circles. 2. So- phia Penniman, born July 17, 1817, died August 22, 1819. 3. Andrew Conant, men- tioned below. 4. Emily Jane, born June 25, 1821. 5. Adeline, born December 17, 1824, died April 17, 1829.
(VII) Andrew Conant Wheelock, son of Lynds Wheelock (6), was born at Keene, February 17, 1819. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. At the age of twenty years he came to Lowell and engaged in the dry goods business. He had a store on Merrimac street from 1840 to 1847 on the site now occupied by the store of A. G. Pollard. He sold his business to Amos Dodge and invested his means largely in real estate. Time proved that his investment was wise. As the city grew his property in- creased in value. His good judgment, fore- sight and good management won for him a fortune. He is among the wealthiest real estate owners of the city. He is deemed one of the best judges of real estate in that sec- tion. Notwithstanding the fact that he is eighty-nine years old, he attends to his busi- ness as regularly as ever, day by day. He is tall, of fine physique and as erect and youth- ful in looks as many a man is at fifty. He wears his glasses only when reading, having preserved his sight remarkably well. He writes a very good hand. He attributes his lack of infirmities in his old age to abstinence from tobacco and liquor. He was one of the organizers of the Prescott National Bank of Lowell and also of the Traders' and Merch- ants' Insurance Company of Lowell. In his younger days Mr. Wheelock was active in municipal politics, and was a member of the common council two years, the youngest man ever elected to that office. He resides in a very attractive and beautiful home on Nesmith avenue. He has a large and well selected library where he spends most of his
leisure hours. He is especially interested in tthe current literature and is an omnivorous reader. He is a member of the Unitarian church of Keene. He married, 1898, Mar- garet McLennon, of Canada, whose ancestry is Scotch. There were no children.
CURRIER
Richard Currier, the immi- grant ancestor, was born in England about 1616, and set-
tled at Salisbury, Massachusetts. He was a planter and millwright. He married (first) Ann and (second), October 26, 1676, Joanna Pindor, widow of Valentine Pindor (2) and also of William Sargent (I). He drew land in Salisbury in 1641-42 and was a com- moner of that town. He was taxed there in 1650, and in 1654-55 was the largest tax- payer of Amesbury, the town adjoining. He was town clerk of Salisbury in 1654-58-59-62- 64-68. He and his predecessor, Macy, were authorized to build a saw mill in 1656, and he owned a saw mill right in 1675. In the seat- ing of the Amesbury meeting house in 1667 his name stands first "to set at the Table," but apparently retained membership in the Salisbury church in 1677. He seems to have been a soldier in King Philip's war, although older than most of the soldiers. He was one of the leading citizens of his day. His last years were spent at the house of his wife's son, Philip Rowell. He had conveyed his real estate by deed to his heirs, so that no administration was necessary at the time of his death. Twenty-five years afterward his grandson was appointed, November 6, 1710, and his heirs were granted land at Buxton, Maine, for his service in the Narra- gansett war. He died February 22, 1686-87, and his widow Joanna October, 1690. His daughter Hannah joined with Sarah Rowell, widow of Philip Rowell, in petition for a set- tlement of the estate of Richard and Joanna Currier. Currier deposed April 12, 1664, that his age was forty-seven. Joanna Pindor was the daughter of Henry Pindor, of Ips- wich, who came over in the ship "Susan and Ellen" in April, 1635, Joanna being then four- teen years old. Children of Richard and Ann Currier: 1. Samuel, born in England, prob- ably in 1636; married Mary Hardy. 2. Han- nah, born July 8. 1643, married, June 23, 1659. Samuel Foote. 3. Thomas, born March 8, 1646, mentioned below.
(II) Thomas Currier, son of Richard Cur- rier (1), was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, March 8, 1646, and died September 27, 1712.
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Married, December 9, 1668, Mary Osgood, daughter of William Osgood, the pioneer settler. Her father deeded to them a quarter interest in his saw mill in 1693. Currier was received in the township in 1666 and admitted a freeman in 1670. He was town clerk of Amesbury in 1674. His wife died November 2, 1705. His will was dated August 25, 1708, and proved November 3, 1712. Children: I .. Hannah, married, March 18, 1687, John Stev- ens. 2. Thomas, born November 28, 1671, married, September 19, 1700, Sarah Barnard. 3. Richard, born April 12, 1673, mentioned below. 4. Samuel, born January 3, 1674-75, married Dorothy Fox. 5. Mary, born No- vember 28, 1676, married, March 17, 1706-07, Robert Hoyt. 6. Anne, married, October 22, 1696, Samuel Barnard. 7. William, married Rachel Sargent. 8. John, married Judith Sargent. 9. Joseph, married, December 9, 1708, Sarah Brown. 10. Benjamin, born March 27, 1688, married Abigail Brown. II. Ebenezer, born August 22, 1690, married, December 8, 1713, Judith Osgood. 12. Daniel, born May 3, 1692, married, Decem- ber 12, 1717, Sarah Brown.
(III) Captain Richard Currier, son of Thomas Currier (2), was born at Amesbury, April 12, 1673, and died there February 8, 1747-48. He was a yeoman in his native town. He served in the military company of Ames- bury and rose to the rank of captain. He married, August 29, 1695, Dorothy Barnard (3), who died March 2, 1765, in her ninety-first year. His will was drawn June 6, 1744, and proved shortly after his death, April 18, 1748. Children: I. David, born February 17, 1696, mentioned below. 2. Jonathan, born Febru- ary 7, 1698-99, married Anne 3. Hannah, born July 31, 1701, married, Octo- ber 26, 1721, Samuel Lowell. 4. John, born April 5, 1704, married April 16, 1724, Rachel Whittaker. 5. Dorothy, born November 5, 1706, married James Crocker. 6. Richard, born February 12, 1708. 7. Miriam, born April 10, 17II, married Titcomb. 8. Aaron, born January 2, 1716. 9. Barnard, born April 15, 1719. 10. Mary, born August 2, 1722. II. Moses.
(IV) David Currier, son of Captain Rich- ard Currier (3), was born February 17, 1696, married, December II, 1718, Keziah Colby, of Amesbury, East Parish. The inventory of his estate was filed July 20, 1737, and the estate was divided in 1747. His widow Keziah married (second), June 2, 1748, Jacob Bagley, and she died November 3, 1754. Children: I. Electa, born August 31, 1719,
married, 1741, Daniel Currier (4). 2. Doro- thy, born April 10, 1722, married Tristram Barnard, Jr., and removed to Weare, New Hampshire. 3. David, born March 6, 1724- 25. 4. John, born October 17, 1726. 5. Miriam, born December 22, 1728. 6. Richard, born November 27, 1730, mentioned below. 7. Edmund, baptized May 27, 1733. 8. Isaac, baptized September 7, 1735. 9. Mary, bap- tized or born September 1, 1737.
(V) Richard Currier, son of David Currier (4), was born in Amesbury, November 27, 1730, baptized in the East Parish of Ames- bury, May 16, 1731, and was living there at the time of his father's death. The Revolu- tionary Rolls show that Richard Currier, of Amesbury, was second lieutenant in Captain Benjamin Evans's company, Colonel Timo- thy Pickering, Jr.'s regiment, ordered to Danbury, Connecticut, in 1776, via Provi- dence. Children, born at Amesbury: I. Jacob Bagley, born 1753, mentioned be- low. 2. Richard, Jr., soldier also in the Revo- lution.
(VI) Jacob Bagley Currier, son of Richard Currier (5), was born in Amesbury, 1753, in the East Parish. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain Timothy Barnard's company of Minute Men, April 19, 1775. By some error he is also recorded as corporal in Captain Jonathan Evans's com- pany of Minute Men on the Lexington alarm in Colonel James Frye's regiment. He was in this regiment in Captain William Hudson Ballard's company in the battle of Bunker Hill; was paid for articles, lost during the battle, June 17, 1775, as ordered in a council meeting, June 13, 1776. He was among the veterans who assisted at the laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument. He died in 1831. He married Elizabeth Johnson. He was much attached to his little namesake, Jacob Bagley Currier, who was born two years before his death. Child: Jacob Bagley, Jr., born August 29, 1784.
(VII) Jacob Bagley Currier, son of Jacob Bagley .Currier (6), was born in Amesbury, August 29, 1784, and died there August 12, 1850. He was a ship's blacksmith by trade. He married Mary Hoyt, who was born at Amesbury, December 17, 1785, and died there in 1830. Child: I. Willibee Hoyt, born July 6, 1806, mentioned below.
(VIII) Willibee Hoyt Currier, son of Jacob Bagley Currier (7), was born at Ames- bury, July 6, 1806. He was a successful manu- facturer at Haverhill and at Lowell, dying at the latter place November 17, 1862. He mar-
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ried Anne Clay, who was born in Candia, New Hampshire, in 1806, and died in Lowell in 1882. Child: Jacob Bagley, born October 3, 1829, mentioned below.
(IX) Jacob Bagley Currier, son of Willi- bee Hoyt Currier (8), was born in Amesbury, October 3, 1829. He attended the district schools in Haverhill and also the Haverhill high school. In 1848 he came to Lowell to learn his trade in the wood work department of the Lowell Carpet Corporation, where he continued for five years, after which he worked at model and pattern making for John E. Crane, making models for pat- ents, some of which are still to be seen in the patent office, Washington. About 1855 he engaged in business with A. J. Simpson in the manufacture of a patented barometer, of which some twelve hundred were manufac- tured. In 1862 he embarked in the picture frame business at the same location that he has occupied since as an undertaker. He was the inventor of the Currier Telephone Indi- vidual Electric Bell and of the Currier sys- tem of counting Australian ballots, used in Lowell and also by the city of Boston in all the recounts.
In 1864, in company with the late Daniel H. Gordon, he bought out the coffin and cas- ket business of Amos Hull. In 1870 he bought out his partner and established him- self in the business of undertaker. After a long and successful business career as an un- dertaker, he recently retired. He held the position of city undertaker throughout his continuance in business. He was admirably adapted by natural gifts and training for this profession and performed his duties most ac- ceptably to his clients. Mr. Currier is a Re- publican in politics, and a Congregationalist in religion, attending the High Street Church. He is and was for many years a member of the board of governors of the Old Residents' Association. He was prominent in the old Middlesex Mechanics' Association. He is a member and past noble grand of Oberlin Lodge of Odd Fellows and past chief patriarch of Wannalancit Encampment, Odd Fellows. The History of Lowell says of him: "Mr. Currier is one of the older resi- dents of the City of Lowell and has been closely identified with its progress and pros- perity. He is highly respected by all who know him as a man of character and worth." He married, in 1853, Ann Eliza Yeoman, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Yeoman, of Lowell. Children : Alice M., Frank H., died July 5, 1882.
The name Holmes is from HOLMES Holm or holms, meaning a flat land or small island. The name has an ancient and honorable history in England, and many of the family there as well as in America have been prominent.
(I) Thomas Holmes, the progenitor, was a lawyer of Gray's Inn, London, and was killed during the civil war, probably in May or June, 1640, at the siege of Oxford. He married Mary Thetford. Their son Thomas is men- tioned below.
(II) Thomas Holmes, son of Thomas Holmes (1), was born in London, England, in 1625. At the time of the Great Plague in 1665 he emigrated to Virginia. Thence he removed to New York, where he married Lucretia Dudley, daughter of Thomas Dud- ley, of London, England. They settled fi- nally in New London, Connecticut, where she died July 5, 1689. Thence he removed to East Haddam, Connecticut, where many of his de- scendants have lived after him. He died there December 12, 1723, aged ninety-eight years. Of his children John seems to be the only one leaving descendants.
(III) John Holmes, son of Thomas Holmes (2), was born in New London, Con- necticut, March II, 1686-87. He married a daughter of John and Miriam (Moore) Willey, and settled in New London, where he was admitted a townsman in 1710, and leased "an acre of rocky land by Cedar Swamp where his father hath planted some apple trees." About the spring of 1714 he removed to Ma- chamoodus (East Haddam) and bought lands there. He was town surveyor in 1719, select- man in 1721. He died at East Haddam, May 29, 1734, in his forty-ninth year. His widow joined the church at East Haddam, Novem- ber 3, 1734, and married (second), June I, 1736, Samtiel Andrews. Children of John Holmes: I. Thomas, born December 4, 1707, married Lucy Knowlton. 2. John, born Feb- ruary 24, 1708-09, resided at East Haddam and Saybrook; married Lucretia Willey. 3. Lucretia, born July 14, 1711, married Joseph Willey. 4. Mary, born February 1, 1712, married Abel Willey, son of Abel and Hannah (Bray) Willey; removed to Westchester, Con- necticut, and Middle Haddam. 5. Christo- pher, born June 4, 1715, married, March 2, 1736, Sarah Andrews, daughter of Samuel and Eleanor (Lee) Andrews. 6. Grace, born August 4, 1717, married Robert Hungerford. 7. Eliphalet, born July 13, 1722, married Da- marias Waterhouse. 8. Sarah, born June 14, 1726, married Nathaniel Niles. 9. Abigail,
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born August 1, 1729, died August 26, 18II, unmarried.
(IV) Nelson W. Holmes, descendant of John Holmes (3), was born in western New York. His father or grandfather went from Connecticut with other pioneers. He lived in Potsdam, whence he came to Lowell, Massa- chusetts. He was a soldier in the Civil war. He is living at present in the Soldiers' Home, Togus, Maine. Children: I. Catharine, mar- ried William Osborn, of New York, where they reside. 2. Henry, educated in the Lo- well public schools; learned the baker's trade, and at present is manager of the bakery of D. L. Payn, of Lowell. 3. Charles Hiram, born October 4, 1866, mentioned below.
(V) Charles Hiram Holmes, son of Nelson W. Holmes (4), was born in Potsdam, New York, October 4, 1866. He came to Lowell with his father when he was four years old and attended the Lowell public schools. He was apprenticed to learn the trade of machin- ist in the shop of George L. Cady & Com- pany. He worked at his trade as apprentice and journeyman for a number of years. He was then engaged as engineer by the Lannon Manufacturing Company of Lowell, and re- mained in that position the remainder of his life. He was killed in an accident on the rail- road, June 17, 1902. He was one of the most competent stationary engineers of Lowell, a city where the steam engine plays an import- ant part in industry, a center of mechanical skill and art. He represented the Lowell Engineers as delegate to the World's Fair and again to a national convention in New York City. He was trusted fully by his em- ployers and popular with his men. He en- joyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a man of attractive per- sonal qualities, a member of the Hadley Street Free Baptist Church, of which he was a generous supporter and an active worker. He was prominent in the Odd Fellows. He married, 1886, Maggie Long, of Carlisle, Massachusetts. She survives her husband, residing with her children at the homestead in Lowell. Children: I. Bertha Eleta, born January 31, 1888. 2. Nelson Charles, born May 15, 1890. 3. Mildred Josephine, born April 20, 1899.
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LANCASTER Henry Lancaster, the im- migrant ancestor, was born in England about 1610 or earlier. He was of Piscataqua, now in Maine, on or before 1631, and of Dover,
New Hampshire, in 1634, when he served on the grand jury. He was on the tax list there in 1642. In 1653 he was admitted a freeman, and from 1652 to 1657 was a tax- payer at Bloody Point, paying in 1652 and ·later the largest tax. For some special ser- vice he was granted all the meadows at Bloody Point by the town. The Gilmanton history states that he died July 18, 1695, but the correct date seems to be July 18, 1707, and his age was about one hundred years, thus fixing his birth year between 1607 and 1610. (See Pike's Journal). His name was also spelled Langstaff. Children: I. Henry. 2. Joseph, born about 1637, mentioned be- low. 3. Sarah, married Anthony Nutter. And probably others.
(II) Joseph Lancaster, son of Henry Lan- caster (1), was born in or near Dover in 1637- 38. He lived in Amesbury, Massachusetts, after 1690. He received the rights of a commoner at Bloody Point in 1669; took the oath of al- legiance December, 1677; belonged to the trainband in 1680, and was admitted a free- man in 1690. His will was dated April 7, 1718, and was proved February 2, 1718-19. The will mentions no wife; she died earlier doubtless. He married (first) Mary Carter, who was born October 6, 1641, daughter of Thomas Carter, the pioneer settler of Salem. Lancaster married (second), after 1676, Han- nah Children: I. Joseph, born Feb- ruary 25, 1665-66, mentioned below. 2. Mary, born September 8, 1667, married (published May 9, 1696) Timothy Wyman, of Newbury. 3. Thomas, born March 15, 1668-69, married Mercy Green, daughter of Abraham Green, of Hampton; killed by the Indians August 17, 1703, in Hampton. 4. John, born July 24, 1671. 5. William, born July 10, 1673. 6. Anne, born about 1680, married, December 21, 1693, Joshua Remick, of Kittery, Maine. 7. Samuel, married (published August 9, 1701) Hannah Plats. 8. Henry, married, July 15, 1703. 9. Hannah, born July, 1686.
(III) Joseph Lancaster, son of Joseph Lancaster (2), was born in 1666. Married, March 31, 1687, Elizabeth Hoyt, at Ames- bury. Children, born in Amesbury: I. Mary, born April 5, 1688, died April 20, 1688. 2. Hannah, born July 22, 1689, died February 12, 1691. 3. John, born August 22, 1691, mentioned below. 4. Daniel, born Novem- ber 13, 1693, married, January 19, 1713-14, Damarus Gould. 5. Abraham, born Novem- ber 20, 1696. 6. Ann, born April 14, 1699. 7. Micah, born May 30, 1702, resided in Ames- bury.
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(IV) John Lancaster, son of Joseph Lan- caster (3), was born in Amesbury, Massachu- setts, August 22, 1691, and died there May 6, 1742. He married, December 20, 1716, Mary Hoyt. (See history of Gilmonton, New Hampshire). Children, probably born in Amesbury: Henry, Timothy, mentioned be- low; Mary, Elizabeth, Miriam, Hannah, Sarah.
(V) Timothy Lancaster, son of John Lan- caster (4), was born in Amesbury about 1720. Married at Amesbury, April 2, 1747, Seers Sargent, of an old Amesbury and Salisbury family. (See Sargent family sketch). Both joined the Second Church in 1748, and the wife was baptized at the Second Church, April 12, 1752. Children, all baptized in the Second Church of Amesbury: I. Timothy, Jr. (twin), born June 19, 1748. 2. Seers or Seurs (twin named for mother), born June 19, 1748. 3. Jacob, baptized December 24, 1749, men- tioned below. 4. Sarah, baptized February 9, 1752. 5. Molly, baptized November 18, 1753. 6. Thomas, baptized April 10, 1757, married, November 15, 1781, Sarah Sargent. 7. Jud- ith, baptized March 18, 1759.
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