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(VI) Edward Bennett, son of James Ben- nett (5), was born at Billerica, 1782. He re- ceived the education common to the farmer boy of those times, and remained on his fath- er's farm up to the time he was married, 1806. when he moved to Burlington, his father hav- ing built his home for him, on the farm where his grandson George H. Bennett now lives. His farm contained one hundred and thirty- five acres, partly in Billerica and partly in Burlington. Here he continued at farming up to the time he died. He was a member of the Burlington church, was a Democrat in politics, and was early trained in a military . company. He married, June 8, 1806, Rebec- ca Richardson, born at Billerica, September 13, 1778, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Walker) Richardson, of Billerica, Massachu- setts. The only child of Edward and Rebecca was George, born January 6, 1815, see for- ward.
(VII) George Bennett, son of Edward Ben- nett (6), was born at Burlington, January 6, 1815, died April 6, 1887. He was educated in the Burlington district school, which he attended until about twenty, going to school mostly during the winter months, working on his father's farm and at farming and teaming during the remainder of the year. At the death of his father the entire property came to him, and he conducted the farm until about 1866-67, when he traded farms with his son, George, residing on and operating the same until his death. He also dealt in wood, buy- ing and selling in large quantities. He was a man of large stature, six feet tall, and of great strength, and there was not a man in all the country round who could outdo him in work. He attended the Congregational (Orth- odox) church at Burlington, was a Demo- crat in politics, and was trained in one of the early military companies. He married Sar- ah R. Coburn, born in Billerica, July 1, 1819, died at Burlington, daughter of Phineas and Sarah Coburn. Children: George Holden, born January 24, 1841, see forward. Edwin Alonzo, born October 1I, 1843, see forward. (VIII) George Holden Bennett, son of George Bennett (7), was born at Burlington, Massachusetts, January 24, 1841. He received his education in the common schools at Bur- lington up to seventeen years of age, in the meantime assisting his father on the farm.
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He remained with his father until twenty- one years of age, when he moved to a nearby farm, in the edge of Billerica, where he re- mained three years. He subsequently pur- chased the George Berry farm, consisting of forty acres, in the center of Burlington, which he conducted three years. This he traded with his father for the old homestead, where he has remained up to the present time (1907). His present farm consists of one hundred and thirty-five acres, and in addition to this he is the owner of fifty acres in Bur- lington and one hundred in Bedford. He has dealt extensively in wood, cutting off lumber more or less, cattle, milk and market garden- ing. Mr. Bennett is respected by his towns- people for his honesty and square dealing in all transactions. He attends the Congrega- tional (Orthodox) church at Burlington, and is a Democrat in politics. He has served his town as selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor and road commissioner. He married, November 6, 1870, Mary T. Foster, born at Dublin, New Hampshire, February 9, 1836, daughter of Edward and Julia T. (Fiske) Fos- ter, of Burlington, Massachusetts. Edward Foster was a teacher for many years, after which he turned his attention to farming. Children of George H. and Mary T. Ben- nett : I. Edward Dana, born April 6, 1871, married, at Woburn, Nellie Louise Sewell, daughter of Samuel Sewell, and their chil- dren are: Joshua Holden, born August II, 1900: Elizabeth Mary, born August 22, 1902. 2. Harold Wilson, born June 7, 1872, unmar- ried, resides at home. 3. Julia Alice, born February 27, 1874, married, October 8, 1901, William M. Roper, of Princeton, Massachu- setts, and their children are: Mary Alice, born March 7, 1903; Julia Adeline, born June 24, 1905. 4. Webster, born August 31, 1877, married, 1904, Josephine Cox, of Woburn : two children, Trueman, born September 26, 1905, and George Holden, born February II, 1907.
(VIII) Edwin Alonzo Bennett, son of George Bennett (7), was born at Burlington, Massachusetts, October II, 1843. He at- tended the common schools until the age of seventeen, in the meantime assisting his father on the farm, and continued farming and teaming until 1871, when he moved to a farm in the center where the present town park is located. In 1884, after conducting this farm for thirteen years, he purchased his present farm of about fifty acres, known as the Henry Nichols place, Mr. Nichols being the father of Mrs. Bennett. The farm is mostly tillage
and pasturage. Mr. Bennett is engaged in general farming, milk raising, having a herd of from ten to twenty head, and the wood bus- ness, having a market for the latter commodi- ty from Woburn to Boston, and a large- amount goes to Cambridge, near Harvard College. Mr. Bennett is a man of retired manners and habits, methodical and painstak- ing in the performance of his labor, honest and conscientious in his transactions, and his word is considered as good as his bond. He has served his town as selectman, overseer of the poor, assessor and highway surveyor. He attends the Congregational (Orthodox) church at Burlington. He was formerly a Democrat in politics, but now gives his alle- giance to the Republican party. He married, December 21, 1871, Susan Emily Nichols, born August 14, 1852, at Burlington, daugh- ter of Henry Nichols, who was a farmer and teamster, and Harriet (Bennett) Nichols, of Burlington.
Samuel Scripture, the im- SCRIPTURE migrant ancestor, was born about 1650. He settled in Groton, Massachusetts, just before the out- break of King Philip's war, and late in 1675, with the other inhabitants, had to leave that town to its fate. He appears to have been among the first to return from his place of refuge in some older town, for his daughter Mary, according to the records, was born in 1680, in Groton. He was of Lieutenant Jonas Prescott's company in garrison March 17, 1691-2. Scripture seems to have been living in 1733, and he may have been the Samuel Scripture, Sr., who joined the Groton church, July 13, 1728, for no reason appears why his son Samuel should be called Sr. at that time. He married first Elizabeth He mar- ried second, about 1707, Sarah , and both owned the covenant March 30, 1707, at Groton. Children : 1. Samuel, born at Groton, October 4, 1675 ; mentioned below. 2. Mary, born February 7, 1680. 3. Sarah, born Feb- ruary 8, 1682. 4. Deborah, married Septem- ber 4, 1710, Jonathan Whitcomb, of Groton. 5. Abigail, born January 28, 1686-7. 6. Ruth, born February 2, 1696. 7. Lydia, born June 28, 1700. Children of Samuel and Sarah : 8. Jacob, baptized March 30, 1707. 9. Eunice, baptized May 22, 1709; married June 21, 1733, John Goodridge, of Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts.
(II) Samuel ยท Scripture, son of Samuel Scripture (1), was born in Groton, Massachu-
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setts, October 4, 1675, and died September 28, 1723. He married February 8, 1699-1700, Mary Green, of the family of which Dr. Sam- uel A. Green, of Boston, belongs. She died at Groton, September 25, 1723. The Boston News Letter of October 3, 1723, states that a man, his wife and two children died at Groton of spotted fever within a week. The record of this family corresponds with the news item. Children : I. Sarah, born December 16, 1700. 2. Jemima, born April 19, 1702 ; died Septem- ber 30, 1723. 3. Samuel, born April 25, 1707. 4. James, died September 28, 1723.
Samuel Scripture (2) was in the service in 1706, and testified as to the events of February 6, 1706, at a court-martial of his lieutenants, Seth Wyman and Thomas Tarbell, February 16, 1706, as follows: "That on the sixth of February upon our incamping I was sent upon discovery about Sun an hour high at night to march on the left wing and having marched about a mile and a quarter wee met with a Track which Jonathan Butterfield who was with me (another scout) thought to have been a bitch wolfe and her whelps, but I thought to be Indian Doggs and followed their trail about a quarter of a mile, and after a small Stop wee saw Tarbol's (Tarbell) scout who call'd us away and told us they believd there was a thousand Indians upon which wee has- tened away, but Tarbols Scout ran so fast that I could not come up with them to understand what their discovery was till I came to the Camp; where Tarbol related what he had seen, all our men crowded to hear the news ; Lieut. Wyman ordered his men to stand farther off and give room that he might dis- course his officers upon which many of them ran away and the captain sent Sergt. Parham to stop them Lieut, Wayman seing his men de- sert him, and Tarbols men representing ye Enemy as so very numerous, thought it ad- visable to draw off and accordingly wee made the best of our way home." The other scout Jonathan Butterfield confirmed the testimony of Scripture.
(III) Samuel Scripture, son of Samuel Scripture (2), was born in Groton, April 25, 1707. (See Dr. Green's Groton Records, vol -. iv, page 325). He married Elizabeth about 1726. Their only child was Samuel, born April 27, 1727 ; mentioned below. Dur- ing the revolution Samuel Scripture and Sam- uel Scripture, Jr., served in the same com- pany. This fact supports the authority of Dr. Green 'in correcting Butler's "History of Groton," in which Samuel, born April 27, 1727, is made a son of Samuel, born 1675. It
is not probable that Samuel, born 1760, stayed at home, and that his father and grandfather who would be, according to Butler, a hun- dred years old, went into service. It may be possible that Samuel, born 1707, was one of the Samuels in the revolution in 1775, though not likely. Very little is known of Samuel Scripture (3). He enlisted at Groton in 1723 in Captain Jabez Fairbank's company, and served from November 10, 1723, to June 13, 1724, receiving fifteen pounds ten shillings. He had a negro servant Margaret who was baptized January 30, 1733-4, an adult mulatto. She married Priamus, and their son was a soldier in the revolution. Samuel Scripture was living in 1746.
(IV) Samuel Scripture, son of Samuel Scripture (3), was born in Groton, April 27, 1727. He was a private in Captain William- Lawrence's Groton company in 1746 for the short time that King George's war lasted. He and his son Samuel Scripture, Jr., were in Captain Benjamin Mann's company, Colonel James Reed's regiment, both of Mason, New Hampshire (Eighth Company) in 1775 and 1778. His son James was also a revolutionary soldier. Samuel, Jr., appears also as of Town- send in a Massachusetts regiment. Townsend is an adjacent town to Mason. Samuel, Sr., appears also to have served April 19, 1775, in Captain Samuel Douglas's company, Colonel James Prescott's regiment (Massachusetts Records) but this record may be that of Sam- uel Scripture (3).
Samuel Scripture (4) was a leading man of the church at Mason. He was appointed to procure preaching, and out of his arrangement with Rev. Mr. Brown grew considerable liti- gation. He asked the town meeting of August 10, 1770, to release him from the difficulty about Mr. Brown's preaching, but failed to get a vote in his favor. At another town meeting, June 3, 1771, "and article was in the town warrant to see if the town will make any allowance with respect to the charge and trouble he (Scripture) has been put to relative to Mr. Brown, a late preacher in said town ; he the said Scripture being the person that employed him for that business, and he has been sued and put to cost and charge upon this account, and to say what he shall have allowed him for the same." The town again voted against Scripture, the voters apparently being too stingy to pay bills that belonged to the pub- lic not private individuals to pay, but no reason appears on the town records. Samuel Scripture (4) was called Jr. and he or his son "3d." on the records indicating that his father and
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grandfather were both living. He married Oc- tober 9, 1745-6, at Groton, Mary Green. They settled in Mason in or about 1759. Children, born in Groton: i. Mary, born May 5, 1747. 2. James, born January II, 1749; resided at Mason. 3. Oliver, born December 19, 1750; mentioned below. Born at Mason : 4. Sarah, born about 1757-8. 5. Samuel, born December 9, 1760. 6. Hannah, born June 3, 1763. 7. John, born September 18, 1765.
(V) Oliver Scripture, son of Samuel Scrip- ture (4), was born at Groton, December 19, 1750, and died July 27, 1821. He resided at Mason until 1785 or 1786, and then settled at New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He was a farmer and bridge builder. In politics he was active in the revolutionary cause, and his father and brothers were in the service. He married Jane Patterson. Children, born in Mason : I. Betty, born August 7, 1777. 2. Sarah, October 5, 1779. 3. Jane, June 23, 1781. 4. Oliver, June 16, 1783. 5. Lucinda, July 24, 1785. Born in New Ipswich : 6. Nabby, 7. Sybil. 8. Nancy. 9. James P. 10. Betsey. II. Calvin. 12. Isaac, mentioned below.
(VI) Isaac Scripture, son of Oliver Scrip- ture (5), was born in New Ipswich, Novem- ber 9, 1801, and died in Lowell, August 7, 1852. He was educated in the common schools of his native town. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to Bond, the baker, at Wilmington, Massachusetts. He worked there seven years, then removed to East Chelmsford, which later became Lowell, and established his bakery. From a humble be- ginning this bakery grew until it took the leading place in that line of business. The Scripture Bakery has for many years in Low- ell represented the best grade of bread and pastry. He was successful, and acquired an enviable business reputation for shrewdness and integrity. In politics he was an old line Whig. He was interested in politics and mu- nicipal affairs, and was an alderman of the city, and a representative from Lowell to the general court. He was a faithful member of the Unitarian church, and for many years was a deacon. He died in Lowell, August 7, 1852. He married Lydia Mead, daughter of Stephen Mead, of Waltham. She was born July 26, 1806, and died February 17, 1892. Her father was a soldier in the revolution. Children, born in Chelmsford and Lowell : I. Isaac Fiske; see forward. 2. Sarah E., born Janu- ary 29, 1829, died December 26, 1903; married, November 19, 1850, Benjamin Franklin Clark, who died March, 1876; children: Mrs. Cannalt, of Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania ; Frank S., of Hopedale, Massachusetts ; three grandsons-Franklin R., Thornton W. and Fiske, now living. 3. Martha, born 1830, died December 10, 1907. 4. Stephen, born 1832; died young. 5. Stephen A., see for- ward. 6. Abbie B., born 1835; died in in- fancy. 7. Henry, born 1836; died in infancy. 8. Henry W., born 1838; died young. 9. James Oliver, see forward. 10. George E .; see forward. II. Charles F., born 1842. 12. Mary J., born 1844. 13. Emily P., born 1846. 14. Lydia, born 1848. 15. Fannie A., born 1850. Two of the daughters, Mary J. and Fannie A., reside on the homestead in Lowell, and are well known and highly esteemed by many friends and acquaintances in their na- tive city. They are members of the Unitarian church.
(VII) Isaac Fiske Scripture, son of Isaac Scripture (6), was born in Keene, New Hampshire, 1827. He was two years old when his father removed to Lowell, Massa- chusetts, where he was educated in the public schools, with the intention of fitting for col- lege. At graduation from the high school he suspended his studies, his father being in need of his services in his business. After the death of his father, in 1852, he took charge of the business, which he conducted with suc- cess. He established a bakery in Montreal, Canada, in 1862, remaining there until 1876, and being very successful. In the latter year he established the Scripture Laundry in Low- ell, Massachusetts, continuing until he sold out to Frank K. Stearns. He then went to South Boston, where he built up a laundry which he conducted for several years. Re- turning again to Lowell, he again took up the bakery business, which he managed suc- cessfully until his health gave way, and he died December 13, 1906. He was a man of industrious habits and strict integrity. He served as alderman. He was prominent in Masonic circles, having attained to the Thirty- third degree, Scottish Rite. He married Isa- belle Witherell, of Lowell, whose death oc- curred before that of her husband. No issue.
(VII) Stephen Augustus Scripture, son of Isaac Scripture (6), was born in Lowell, Mas- sachusetts, August 30, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, the academies at Derry, New Hampshire, and the Norwich (Vermont) Military Academy. He enlisted in the Union army during the civil war, and served under General Benjamin F. Butler, at Ship Island, where he was placed in charge of the government bakery, and he was similarly employed under the same officer at
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New Orleans and Yorktown. After the war he engaged in the bakery business in Lowell, which he conducted with success until within a few years of his death. In religion he was a Universalist, in politics a Republican, and he was a member of Post No. 185, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Massa- chusetts. He married, April 30, 1868, at Waltham, Martha Maria Carey ; no issue. He died December 2, 1900.
(VII) Rev. James Oliver Scripture, son of Isaac Scripture (6), was born June 26, 1839. He received his education in the Lowell schools and Dartmouth College, leading his classes and making a brilliant record in the last named institution. He taught for several years in the Lowell high school. He afterward attended the General Theological Seminary, New York, from which he graduated in July, 1865. He entered upon the rectorship of St. Peter's church at Salem, Massachusetts, and labored in that capacity until his death, August 8, 1868. He married, October 18, 1865, Augusta, daughter of Abel Wheeler, of Lincoln, Massa- chusetts. His widow and two daughters, Ber- tha and Mary J., reside on the old homestead in Lincoln.
(VII) George E. Scripture, son of Isaac Scripture (6), was born in Lowell, Sepetmber 26, 1840. He was educated in the schools of that city. He was afterwards engaged for years in the bakery business in Scripture Bak- ery and elsewhere in Lowell, and afterward followed the same occupation in Montreal, Canada, and Milford, Massachusetts. He was in the Lowell city government for several years as an alderman. He married, February 4, 1880, Mrs. Mary J. Bangs, a widow, born Scammell, of Milford, where they now reside.
TUFTS Peter Tufts, the immigrant an- cestor, was born in England in 1616, probably in the southern
part of Norfolk county. He was a yeoman and planter of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1638, and in 1646 and perhaps earlier was the ferryman with his brother-in-law, William Bridges. He removed to Malden early and resided where the city of Everett is now lo- cated on the site of the nitre storehouse. He was admitted a freeman May 3, 1665. He died May 13, 1700, aged eighty three. His will was dated March 1, 1693, codicil dated July 8, 1695, and proved June 10, 1700, be- queathing to his wife Mary; sons Peter, Jona- than and John; daughters Mary, widow of
John Eades; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Lynde; Mercy, widow of Joseph Waite, called Mercy Jenkins in codicil; and Sarah, wife of Thomas Oakes; to grandchild, James Tufts; the three sons of Peter Tufts. The widow died January, 1702-03, aged seventy-five years. He married Mary Peirce, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Peirce. Children: I. Peter, born about 1648. 2. James. 3. John, May 7, 1653, died young. 4. Mary, June 10, 1655. 5. Jonathan, June 19, 1657, died June 22, 1658. 6. Jonathan, about May 2, 1659. 7. Elizabeth, about 1660, mar- ried, November 22, 1673, Joseph Lynde. 8. John, mentioned below. 9. Mercy, married, April, 1688, Joseph Waite. 10. Sarah, mar- ried, 1689, Thomas Oakes. II. Persis, died October 2, 1683, unmarried. 12. Lydia, died July 26, 1683, unmarried.
(II) John Tufts, son of Peter Tufts (I), was born at Malden, Massachusetts, in 1665, died there March 28, 1728. He inherited the homestead and his brothers inherited various lands and farms of their father at what is now Everett, Medford, Somerville, Malden and Charlestown. He was admitted a freeman March 22, 1689-90. His will was dated May 9, 1727, and proved April 12, 1728. He gave his son Benjamin a farm at Medford; Na- thaniel at Charlestown, and the farm at Mal- den or Charlestown to Thomas and Stephen. He married Mary Putnam, daughter of Lieu- tenant Nathaniel Putnam, who was born Sep- tember 15, 1668, and died 1758 in Salem Village. The first three children were born at Medford; the others at Malden and Charlestown. Children: I. Mary, born April II, 1688, married John Willis. 2. John, May 28, 1690. 3. Nathaniel, February 23, 1692. 4. Peter, May 10, 1697, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, November 28, 1699. 6. Timothy, October 14, 1703, died May 2, 1727, at Malden. 7. Thomas, December 4, 1706. 8. Stephen, May 1, 171I, died in Malden, De- cember 5, 1785. 9. Mary, September 6, 1716, married Samuel Bleigh.
(III) Peter Tufts, son of John Tufts (2), was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 10, 1697, died there December 5, 1776. He was a housewright by trade and was a taxpayer in Charlestown 1727 to 1737 and 1744 to 1747. His will was dated August 9, 1774, and proved August 18, 1777. He con- veved his real estate to his heirs before his death. He married Lydia Bucknam, son of Joses and Judith (Worth) Bucknam, of Mal. den. She died October 31, 1776, in he>
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seventy-second year, and her gravestone is to be seen in Charlestown, by the side of her husband's. Children: I. Nathan, born May 14, 1724, married Mary Adams. 2. Peter, April 24, 1,23, mentioned below. 3. Lydia, June 5, 1731, married John Ranks. 4. Timo- thy, January 20, 1734, married Ann Adams. 5. Samuel, November 24, 1737, married Martha Adams. 6. Aaron, December 16, 1739, married Mary Stone. 7. Susanna, July 28, 1742, died April 23, 1746.
(IV) Peter Tufts, son of Peter Tufts (3), was born in Charlestown, now Somerville, April 24, 1728. He was an active Patriot dur- ing the Revolution and Chapter Ann Adams Tufts, Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, is named for his patriotic wife (or Mrs. Timothy Adams). He married, April 19, 1750, Ann Adams, of the famous Adams family of Massachusetts ; she died at tthe advanced age of eighty-four years, February 7, 1813. He died March 4, 1791, aged sixty-three. He was a taxpayer in Charlestown from 1756 to 1770. His will was dated March 1, 1791, and proved May 3 following. In it he mentions his wife and ten children. Children: I. Peter, born May 20, 1751, died March 19, 1752. 2. Peter, January 9, 1753. 3. John, November 24, 1754, mentioned below. 4. Ann, January 2, 1757, married Abel Richardson. 5. Eliza- beth, October 23, 1758, married Daniel Swan. 6. Joseph, July 12, 1760. 7. Lydia, June IO, 1762, married Rev. Robert Gray. 8. Asa, July 2, 1764. 9. Thomas, May 18, 1766. 10. Lucy, November 12, 1767, married Jacob Os- good. II. Rebecca, September 20, 1769, married Nathan Adams. 12. Sarah, married Joseph Adams.
(V) John Tufts, son of Peter Tufts (4), was born in Charlestown, November 24, 1754. He married, May 19, 1778, Elizabeth Perry, of Cambridge. Both were dismissed from the church at Medford to the Second Unitarian Church of which they were covenant mem- bers in 1817. His estate was valued at $16,- 909 in 1806, when he had a guardian appoint- ed on account of failing health. Children, all born at Charlestown: 1. John, Jr., Septem- ber 12, 1780, married, September 28, 1806, Abigail Wheeler, of Shrewsbury. 2. Benja -- min, August 27, 1782. 3. James, May 12, 1784. 4. Elizabeth, March 16, 1786. 5. Leonard, March 20, 1788. 6. Cynthia, March 5, 1790, died November 18, 1871. 7. William, May 6, 1793. 8. Lydia, April 5, 1795, married David Sanborn. 9. Sophia, March 20, 1797, died September 23, 1799. 10. Asa, May 16, 1799, mentioned below. 11. Oliver, 1801, married
Dorothy Tufts, widow of his brother, Asa Tufts.
(VI) Asa Tufts, son of John Tufts (5), was born in Charlestown, May 16, 1799. He mar- ried Dorothy Danforth and she married (sec- ond) his brother, Oliver Tufts. For the chil- dren by this second marriage see sketch of Bacon family of Somerville. Children of Asa and Dorothy (Danforth) Tufts: I. William Sumner, (see sketch of Oliver Bacon, of Som- erville, who married his only daughter, Clara Belle Tufts). 2. Caroline E., mentioned be- low. 3. Anna Louise, married Dr. William F. Fletcher, of Cutter Square, West Somer- ville, Massachusetts; no children.
(VII) Caroline E. Tufts, daughter of Asa Tufts (6), was born in Charlestown, April 4, 1826. She married, January 7, 1849, Frank- lin Henderson, son of Andrew and Ruth (Blodgett) Henderson, of Newbury, Ver- mont, where he was born September 27, 1818. He died at Somerville, February 12, 1898. His father was a paper maker at Bellows Falls and Montpelier, Vermont. He received his early education in the district schools of Montpelier. He left home at the age of twenty-one, and in 1839 entered the employ of a farmer named Frost in Charlestown, now Somerville. The farm was on the street now called Somerville avenue. A few years after- ward the section known now as Somerville was set off, Mr. Henderson voting with the majority for the division of the town, and during the remainder of his life was a citizen of Somerville. From 1844 to 1848 Mr. Hen- derson was superintendent of streets; then for sixteen years he was in the employ of the Boston & Maine railroad as track layer. Dur- ing the Civil war he returned to the employ of Somerville in the street department and re- mained twelve years, during which among other important public improvements under his supervision he laid the sidewalks on Somerville avenue. He built his home on Central street, Somerville, in 1848, the year previous to his marriage. They had only one child, Evelyn Louise, born January 27, 1851, married Edward B. Vreeland and resides at Winthrop; their children: i. Dolly Vreeland, died young. ii. Carolyn Elizabeth Vreeland, married Stanley Richmond Ells, and lives at 21 Pembroke street, Somerville; iii. Louisa A. Vreeland, married William J. Mitchell, born in England, stationary engineer; have one son, William Franklin Mitchell, born February 16, 1903; iv. Elsie Ladd Vreeland, married Arthur W. Collier, and they have one son, Charles Collier.
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