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(For first two generations see Henry 2).
FELCH (III) John Felch, son of Henry Felch (2), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, February 26, 1660, and died in Weston, Massachusetts, April 9, 1746, aged eighty-six years. He married, May 25, 1685, Elizabeth Gowing, of Reading. He was a farmer. At some time between 1703 and 1709 he removed to Wes- ton, formerly part of Watertown, and resided there the remainder of his days. The inscrip- tion on his gravestone in the Weston burying ground reads: "Here lyes buried ye body of Mr. John Felch, who departed this life April the 9th in the 86th year of his age." On the gravestone of his wife: "Here lyes buried ye body of Mrs. Elizabeth Felch, wife of Mr. John Felch, who departed Apl 10, 1746, in the 86th year of her age." His son John adminis- tered the estate. The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Felch, born in Reading, were: I. Elizabeth, born February 23, 1686. 2. John, born February 17, 1688, removed to Canter- bury, Connecticut. 3. Samuel, born February II, 1690, died November, 1725 ; married, May 6, 1714, Katharine Smith, daughter of Francis and Ruth Smith, of Reading. 4. Hannah, born August 3, 1692, married, January 4, 1715, Thomas Clapp. 5. Mary, born March 17, 1695. 6. Daniel, born June 3, 1697, died July 15, 1703. 7. Nathaniel, born April 27, 1699, married, October 29, 1732, Mary Hanks, of Lynn; ancestor of the Maine branch. 8. Ebe- nezer, mentioned below. 9. Abigail, born June 15, 1703.
(IV) Ebenezer Felch, son of John Felch (3), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, July 20, 1701. When a young child his family removed to Weston, adjoining Natick, Massa- chusetts. In 1723, before his marriage, he lo- cated in Natick which was then and for many years afterward an Indian town, and he was the fourth white settler. Tradition tells us that he came as an assistant superintendent of the Indians who were not entirely self-governing at that time. In 1731-32 he was the teacher of the public school; in June, 1746, he was elected town clerk, an office he held for fifteen years. He also held other town offices from time to time. He was deacon of the Natick church under the ministry of Rev. Oliver Pea- body, who was installed in 1741. His home was in the northern part of the town known as North Natick. The homestead, or a consider- able part of it, still remains in the possession of his descendants. He was a farmer, a useful and prominent citizen, one of the foremost of his day and locality. He married, May 15, 1728,
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Mary Bacon, of Needham, Massachusetts. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Ste- phen, born September 10, 1731, removed to Walpole, Massachusetts ; was of peculiar char- acteristics, fond of mathematics and casting horoscopes ; had five daughters, Hannah, Olive, Abi, Polly and Rebecca. 3. Daniel, born December 8, 1734, married, April 9, 1763, Annie Bent, of Sudbury ; he went to Annapo- lis, Port Royal, in 1746, with other Natick soldiers. 4. Mary, died unmarried August 6, 1813.
(V) Captain John Felch, son of Ebenezer Felch (4), was born in Natick, Massachusetts, 1729-30, and like his father was one of the leading citizens. He was selectman, assessor, member of the school committee and, like his father, teacher of the Natick school. He mar- ried Mary Bacon, of Natick, a descendant of the immigrant, Michael Bacon, of Dedham, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was the same. (See Bacon family in this work). She died August 26, 1813, aged seventy-six years. John Felch was captain of the Natick company, and when the Lexington alarm came on April 19, 1775, he went with Captain Jo- seph Morse's company, Colonel Samuel Bul- lard's regiment. In 1776 his eldest son John was drafted, and the captain took his place as substitute in the ranks in June, 1776. The son was then but sixteen years old, the father was forty-five or more. Captain John Felch was in Captain Aaron Gardner's company, Colonel Brook's regiment, and was killed in the battle of White Plains, New York, October 28, 1776. His gravestone at North Natick gives his age as forty-seven. Children, all born in Natick : I. Mary, born June 4, 1757, died July 12, 1841, aged eighty-four ; married Thomas Cool- idge, September 19, 1776, and had seven chil- dren, many of whose descendants still live in Natick. 2. John, born March 28, 1760, men- tioned below. 3. Ruth, born December 9, 1762, died June 23, 1852, aged eighty-nine ; married, September 9, 1784, James Eames ; removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, and thence to Newry, Maine; had nine children. 4. Zeruiah, born April 30, 1765, died March 3, 1850, aged eighty-four; married, May 18, 1786, Ethel Jennings ; had seven children. 5. Asa, born July 9, 1769, died March 21, 1846, aged seventy-seven; married Lavinia Newton at Wayland, Massachusetts, about 1792; had five sons and three daughters; among these children were Isaac Felch, who was the father of Lucy E., Sarah G., Isaac K .. Charlotte K., Laura E. and Henry F. Felch, of Natick. Asa's home was what was later known as the
Deacon Wright place on the Worcester turn- pike; Asa sold it to his son-in-law, Rev. Isaac Jennison. 6. Levi, born June 8, 1773, died September 19, 1861, aged eighty; married, April 16, 1816, Patty Coggin, widow, and had three daughters, two of whom lived at Park- ersburgh, Iowa; Levi removed from Natick to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he died.
(VI) John Felch, son of Captain John Felch (5), was born in Natick, March 28, 1760, and died there March 6, 1830, aged. nearly seventy. Married, November 16, 1788, Hannah Loker. (See Loker family in this work). After his father went into the army in 1776 he took his place as head of the family and carried on the farm. In 1780 he enlisted as private in Captain Joshua Fisk's company, Colonel Abner Perry's regiment, for a week's service in Rhode Island. They had three sons and four daughters, among whom were : John, Levi, Oliver, Hannah, Eunice.
(VII) Oliver Felch, son of John Felch (6), was born in Felchville, Natick, Massachusetts, December 27, 1805. He married, November 10, 1833, Hannah Washburn Fuller, who was born March 1, 1808, and is now in her hun- dredth year with the full expectation of com- pleting it. They were married at the parson- age in Needham on Sunday morning, and she has lived ever since on the old Felch home- stead, 416 North Main street, Natick. Oliver Felch was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker, and in accordance with the custom of his time follow- ed farming in summer and made shoes and boots in the winter season. He died March 14, 1898. Children, born at Natick: I. Lucy Ann, born June 13, 1835. 2. Oliver Amandus, born November 17, 1836, mentioned below. 3. John Francis, born October 7, 1839, mention- ed below. 4. Hannah Maria, born October 15, 1843. 5. Charles Benjamin, born May 1, 1845. 6. Mary, born September 17, 1847. 7. George, born February 16, 1850. 8. Harrington, born September 17, 1851.
(VIII) Oliver Amandus Felch, son of Oli- ver (7), and Hannah Washburn (Fuller) Felch, was born on the old homestead at North Natick in the town of Natick, November 17, 1836. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. During his boy- hood, like most boys of Natick at that time, he learned how to make shoes and helped his father. At the age of twenty he began to manufacture on his own account, buying one roll of leather at a time. His business was interrupted during the Civil war, but in 1864 the large factory on North Main street, known
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for a full generation as Felch Brothers' shop, was built and the firm of Felch Brothers began business there. The original firm consisted of John F. Felch and Oliver A. Felch. In 1873 Harrington Felch, another brother, was ad- mitted. The firm of Felch Brothers was one of the most prosperous and continuously suc- cessful concerns in the business of shoe manu- facturing in Natick. Oliver A. Felch retired from the firm in 1903, when the business was sold to his nephew, Walter L. Felch, son of John F. Felch.
He is a member of Meridian Lodge of Free Masons of Natick; of Parker Royal Arch Chapter, Natick; of Natick Commandery, Knights Templar, Natick; and of the various bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry to the thirty- second degree in Boston. He is a member of Takawambait Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Natick Encampment, Natick. In politics he is a Republican. He is president of the board of trustees of the Fiske Memorial Meth- odist Episcopal Church of Natick. He is a trustee of the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank, and for a period of twenty years was a director of the Natick National Bank. He is a trustee and president of the North Cemetery Association, and has held many other positions of public and private trust. No man is more generally known and esteemed in the town. Enterprising in business, popular in clubs and social life, influential in party and town affairs, he is counted among the foremost citizens of the town. His influence has always been on the right side, and he has been a source of strength, especially to the temperance cause in a community where public sentiment is nearly evenly divided. He has been for many years a leader in the church, generous in supporting its benevolences, liberal also in private char- ity. His house is on the site of Ebenezer Felch's (4) homestead. Oliver A. Felch mar- ried, at Worcester, Massachusetts, June 10, 1862, Martha White Gleason, who was born August 7, 1843, and died November 5, 1898, daughter of Phineas Merrill and Sallie (White) Gleason. Children, born in Natick : I. Sarah Alice, born April 30, 1870, died July 30, 1872. 2. Anna Isabelle, born July 9, 1873, died June 16, 1896. 3. Frederick Oliver, born November 9, 1874, died January 24, 1880. 4. John Edwin, born June 23, 1876, died April II, 1897. 5. Albert Amandus, born October 27, 1878, mentioned below. 6. Charles Henry, born July 12, 1882, died April 3, 1885.
(IX) Rev. Albert Amandus Felch, son of Oliver Amandus (8) and Martha White (Gleason) Felch, was born in Natick, October
27, 1878. He attended the public schools of Natick, graduating from the high school in the class of 1897, and from Boston University in the class of 1901 as class orator. He studied for the ministry at the Theological School of Boston University, class of 1904, and was or- dained April, 1903, at Brookline, Massachu- setts, by Bishop Andrews, of the Methodist Episcopal church. His charges have been the Methodist churches of Jefferson and Sudbury, and he is at present pastor of the Congrega- tional church at South Natick. He has been a member of the Natick school committee since 1901. He is a member of the Masonic order ; Meridian Lodge, of which he is chaplain, and of the Boston Lodge of Perfection, also Inde- pendent Order Odd Fellows. He married, June 10, 1903, Jessie S. Keep, born November 14, 1878, daughter of George F. and Mary (Bruce) Keep. Children: I. Grace Alberta, born August 8, 1905. 2. Emory Albert, born June 29, 1907.
(VIII) John Francis Felch, son of Oliver (7) and Hannah Washburn (Fuller) Felch, was born on the old homestead in North Natick, town of Natick, October 7, 1839. He learned the trade of shoemaker, as did also his brothers and most other boys of his day, and when a young man began to manufacture boots and shoes. As stated in the sketch of his elder brother, Oliver Amandus Felch, the factory of Felch Brothers was built in 1864. and the firm did a thriving shoe manufactur- ing business for many years. He remained in business until his death, October 8, 1899, and was succeeded by his son, Walter L., the pres- ent owner. He was a man of high character, spotless integrity and attracted many friends. He was a faithful member and liberal sup- porter of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cochituate, Massachusetts. In politics he was a staunch Republican, and served the town as selectman and held other positions of trust and honor in the community.
He was married November 4, 1860, by Rev. David Mason, at Cochituate, Massachusetts, to Mary Lucy Loker, born December 25, 1842, daughter of Jefferson and Caroline (Whee- lock) Loker. Jefferson Loker was born March I, 1807, in the village of Cochituate, town of Wayland, Massachusetts, and died March 25, 1900. He was a farmer, and member of the Cochituate Methodist Episcopal church. Car- oline (Wheelock) Loker died June 18, 1878. Their children were: i. Abbie Ann Loker, married George Kemp; ii. Willard Wesley Loker; iii. Mary. Lucy Loker, born December 25, 1842; iv. Ellen Frances Loker. married
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Henry C. Dean; v. Leonard Loker. Paul Loker was the father of Jefferson Loker and grandfather of Mrs. Felch. Children of John F. and Mary Lucy (Loker) Felch: I. John Elmer, born February 13, 1862, attended public and Allen school of West Newton; married at Saxonville, August 6, 1883, Nellie L. Whitney; children: i. Marguerite Mae, born May 20, 1890; ii. Gladys Iola, born Feb- ruary 28, 1898, died August 15, 1899; iii. Enid Whitney, born December 6, 1900. 2. Walter L., born September 9, 1863, educated in the Natick public schools and the Allen School of West Newton, learned the business in his father's shoe factory and since May, 1903, has been the proprietor of the Felch Brothers factory and business ; married Laur- etta Bent, of Sudbury, March 1, 1886. 3. Grace, born April 12, 1865, married, August I, 1883, John M. Adams, a boot and shoe salesman for J. B. Lewis, Boston ; children : i. Bessie Caroline Adams, born November 30, 1885, graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1907; ii. Charles Maxwell Adams, born May 15, 1889, student in Natick high school; iii. Mary Louise Adams, born March 7, 1892, student in Natick high school; iv. Eva Belle Adams, born November 28, 1896; v. Marie Felch Adams, born March 2, 1899. 4. Louise, born September 16, 1870, married, November 20, 1889, Charles A. Goodnow, buyer of Clark Hudson & Co., Boston; son John Ruyter Goodnow, born August 5, 1898.
PHELPS Edward Phelps, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England and settled in Newbury, Massa-
chusetts. Very little is known of him. Sav- age is authority for the statement that he had a son Edward.
(II) Edward Phelps, son of Edward Phelps (I), was born about 1660 in Andover prob- ably. He was a weaver by trade. He re- moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, about 1708 with his family. His was the second name on the church covenant dated March 29, 1708-09. The birth of his daughter Elizabeth in 1690 is on the Lancaster records, but as frequently happened, was added after the fam- ily came to that town. The family was not there in 1704. In fact the first land record mentioning Phelps in Lancaster is dated May 10, 1710, when he bought of Jeremiah Rog- ers, of Salem, a wheelwright, and Jehosaphat Rogers, of Topsfield, a tailor, his farm at Lan- caster. He had a grant of land April 8, 1717, on his common rights. He and his wife were
received by letter from Andover into the Lan- caster church, November 4, 1716. He was. selectman and town treasurer from 1725 to. 1743. His wife Ruth died at Lancaster, Feb- ruary 1, 1744-45, and he died November 30. or December 3, 1747. His will was dated Feb- ruary 28, 1735, and presented for probate: February 4, 1748. He bequeathed to his wife: Ruth; children: Edward, Ruth Carter, Han- nah Fletcher, Elizabeth Willard, Bathsheba Bennett, Rebecca Wilson and Sarah Good- ridge, Robert and Joshua. He mentions his commoners rights at "Quasanonum" and the: rights bought of Jeremiah Rogers.
Children: I. Edward, Jr., mentioned be -- low. 2. Robert, died March 19, 1749; was soldier in the Indian wars under Captain John White in 1727; settled in Lancaster and had. a large family there. 3. Joshua, born about 1700, died July 3, 1784, aged eighty-four; first wife died June, 1738; he was in Captain. Samuel Willard's company in 1725; was mem- ber of the First Church of Lancaster in 1748 ;. married (second), 1744, Rebecca Beman; children: i. Joshua, born March 23, 1732-33,. died April 13, 1733; ii. Rebecca, born May 12, 1734, died young; iii. Elizabeth, born April II, 1736, died young ; iv. Joshua. Children of second wife: v. Elizabeth, born July 13, 1745 ;. vi. Rebecca, born October 24, 1746; vii .. Sarah, born August 22, 1748; viii. Abel, born August 7, 1750; ix. Lydia, born August 14,, 1753; x. Peter, born August 3, 1755, died. April 15, 1757; xi. Relief, born October 23,. 1757; xii. Deborah, born October 31, 1764 ;. xiii. Joshua, Jr., born September 22, 1766. The will of Joshua, Sr., dated December 12,. 1782, and allowed August 3, 1784, mentions Abel, Joshua, Jr., Rebecca Godfrey, Lydia. Johnson, Relief Phelps, Deborah Phelps and his grandson, Moses Phelps. (His sons were both in the Revolution). 4. Ruth, married Carter. 5. Hannah, married
Fletcher. 6. Elizabeth, born at Andover, January 27, 1689-90. 7. Bathsheba, married, July 23, 1718, John Bennett. 8. Rebecca, married Wilson. 9. Sarah, married Goodridge.
(III) Edward Phelps, son of Edward Phelps (2), was born in Andover, Massachu- setts, in 1691 or 1694, and died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, aged "ninety or ninety-three," March 7, 1784. He married at Lancaster, No- vember 24, 1718, Mary Bennett, and they lived there all their lives. They were mem- bers of the First Church of Lancaster. Chil- dren: I. Mary, born August 13, 1719. 2. Asahel, born July 18, 1721, a prominent figure
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in the Revolution. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Lydia, born February 18, 1726. 5. Eben- ezer, baptized December, 1726. 6. Edward, born February 13, 1729-30, married Martha , who married (second) Joslin ; son Peter, born 1758, settled in Leominster ; son Abel; sons Luther and Levi; owned land in Leominster : 7. Phinehas, born January 16, 1732-33. 7. Oliver.
(IV) John Phelps, son of Edward Phelps (3), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, February 18, 1723-24, and died there August 14, 1785, aged sixty-three.' He was one of the appraisers of the estate of Rev. John Prentice, minister of Lancaster, and doubtless a close friend of his. He married (first) Zipporah Wilder, whose gravestone states that she died June 20, 1758, aged thirty-four, and that she had been previously the widow of Asaph Wilder. The town records give the day of death as the nineteenth. She is buried in the Old Common Burying Ground. On her gravestone is inscribed:
"Thou hast by death cut short my days
"But I immortal, Thou shalt raise."
John Phelps married (second), May 12, 1762, Elizabeth Walker, and (third) (inten- tions May 31, 1766) Achsah Whiting, of Bil- lerica, who died October 15, 1802, aged sixty- one years. Children, born in Lancaster: I. John, born December 13, 1748, married, Feb- ruary 10, 1774, Lois Davis. 2. Joseph, born February 28, 1750. 3. Aaron, born Novem- ber 9, 1753 (duplicate gives 1754). 4. Josiah, born March 16, 1756. 5. Jacob, baptized June 13, 1758. Children of Elizabeth, his second wife : 6. Elizabeth, baptized May 8, 1763, two days old. 7. Peter, baptized May 5, 1765, died young. Children of Achsah, his third wife: 8. Achsah, born July 15, 1767, baptized May 14, 1769. 9. Martha, born July 17, 1769. 10. Zilpah, baptized February 16, 1772. II. Peter, baptized July 24, 1774, mentioned below. 12. Lydia, born March 6, 1777.
John Phelps died intestate in 1785, and Timothy Whiting, Jr., of Lancaster, was ap- pointed administrator August 25, that year. Timothy Whiting married the daughter Lydia and was guardian of Zilpah, one of the chil- dren. Martha and Sally Phelps were wit- nesses. Aaron Phelps, the eldest son, also agreed to the appointment of his brother-in- law. John owned forty-three acres of land in Lancaster and his estate was valued at 280 pounds. Jonathan Wilder was also guardian of Achsah, aged eighteen, Martha, sixteen, Lydia and Peter. The real estate of John Phelps was finally divided between Aaron,
Jacob, Josiah, Elizabeth, Achsah, Mar- tha, Peter, Lydia and Zilpah.
(V) Peter Phelps, son of John Phelps (4), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 16, 1774, and was baptized July 24, when about a week old. He died in Lancaster, and is buried there with others of the family. The gravestone gives the date of his death as March 7, 1847, and his age as seventy-two. By his side is the grave of his child Abiel, and of Sally, wife of his brother Aaron; she died April 12, 1794, aged thirty-six; his brother John is also buried there, dying January 14, 1778, in his twenty-eighth year. Peter Phelps left Lancaster when a young man, and lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Rockport, Maine, but finally returned to his native town. He was a farmer. In politics he was a Demo- crat. In religion he was liberal, and a faithful member of the Unitarian church, being active in the society, and holding various offices in both church and society. Soon after he came of age, March 19, 1796, he deeded to John Whiting land in Lancaster adjoining Whit- ing's land, the deed being witnessed by his brother Aaron and brother-in-law, Timothy Whiting, Jr. He was of Boston, October 19, 1803, when with his sister Lydia and her hus- band Timothy Whiting they deeded their in- terests in the dower of Achsah Phelps, widow of his father, John Phelps, to Abner Pollard. His will has not been discovered. He married, in Boston, May 30, 1805, Mary Newell, born at Scituate, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, May 27, 1784. Their children (of whom in 1907 Levi W. and Louis alone survive): I. Edward, born in Boston, December 30, 1807. 2. Mary, born in Boston, July 20, 1809. 3. Abiel Smith, born July 21, 1811. 4. Lydia Ann Whiting, born April 17, 1813. 5. Augusta, born May 12, 1815. 6. Jonathan Russell, born April 28, 1817. 7. Barney Smith, born May 28, 1819. 8. Levi Whiting, born April 29, 1821. 9. Jerome, born Novem- ber 2, 1823. IO. Louis, born October 30, 1826. The two youngest died in infancy; all the others came to maturity.
(VI) Levi Whiting Phelps, son of Peter Phelps (5), was born in Lancaster, Massachu- setts, after his father returned from Maine, April 29, 1821, and was baptized there in the First Church, July 15, following. He re- ceived his education in the public schools. He left home when he was only ten years old and became a farmer's apprentice to Nathaniel Thayer, the leading citizen of Lancaster. He left Mr. Thayer's house when he was fifteen and worked on a farm in Sterling during the
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following two years. During the followingthree years he lived in Leominster, Massachusetts, where many of his relatives had settled, and while in that town learned and followed the trade of carpenter. He established himself in business in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and be- came the owner of a saw mill and lumber planing mill. In 1854 he removed to Ayer, Massachusetts, continuing to have a lumber mill there ever since. At the age of eighty- six he attends to his daily duties at the mill, although the responsibility and care of the business have been transferred largely to his son and partner. He is one of the most prominent, successful and influential business men of the town. In politics Mr. Phelps is a Republican. He is a member of the Lodge of Free Masons. He is an active mem- ber of the Unitarian church, in which he has held all the important offices from time to time, and to which he has been a liberal con- tributor. He is a benevolent public-spirited citizen.
Mr. Phelps married, January 15, ' 1853, Shirza J. Wright, born in Pepperell, Massa- chusetts, March 1, 1833, daughter of Franklin and Amanda (Ames) Wright, both of Pepper- ell. The children of this marriage are: I. Emma Augusta, born in Pepperell, March I, 1854, married Daniel W. Fletcher, and has four children: i. Ethel, married Ira W. Dwin- ell, and has daughter Marion; ii. Howard, married Beatrice Robbins; one daughter Mar- jory; iii. Frank; iv. Dorris; 2. Ella Frances, born October 26, 1855, at home. 3. Lena May, born November 2, 1863, married George M. Moore, of Plymouth, Vermont; two chil- dren: Levi Phelps, born February, 1891, and Milton George, born August, 1901. 4. Albert McCallister, only son of Levi W. Phelps, born at Ayer, November 9, 1866. He was educated in the public schools, and then entered the em- ploy of his father, learning the carpenter trade, and becoming proficient in every branch of lumber manufacturing in his father's ex- tensive establishment. He is a Republican in politics, and attends the Unitarian church. He married, August 26, 1881, Annie C. Morrison, of Ayer, daughter of Charles and Mary (Cox) Morrison. They have one child, Bertha M., born January 1, 1900.
(For the first three generations see Daniel 3).
(IV) Daniel Felch, son of Dr. FELCH Daniel Felch (3), was born at Seabrook, New Hampshire, April 5, 1718. He was a soldier at the capture of Louisburg, June 17, 1745, in Captain Ed-
ward Williams's company. He married, Feb- ruary 14, 1749, Jane Page, of Hampton, New Hampshire. He and his brother Joseph were appointed administrators of their father's es- tate March 28, 1753. Daniel sold his home- stead in Hampton Falls, containing about a half-acre of land with a dwelling house, to Jonathan Moulton, of Hampton, by deed dated October 17, 1756. This site was subsequently occupied and owned by Goshen Griffith as a tavern stand, and at last accounts the house was still standing and well preserved. He succeeded his father in the ownership of the homestead, where he subsequently lived and died; he was a farmer. His wife died June 20, 1787. Children, born in Hampton Falls : I. Molly, January 22, 1750, died February 24, 1803, aged fifty-three; married (first), about 1769, William Cilley, who died at sea in 1772; married (second), December 13, 1774, David Boyd, who died July 23, 1834. 2. Benjamin, October 3, 1751, died in infancy. 3. Benja- min, March 28, 1754, mentioned below. 4. Rhoda, June 21, 1756, died May 26, 1785, aged thirty-one years; married, about 1775, Joseph Hook, of Saybrook. 5. Daniel, June 18, 1759, died July 12, 1763 ( ?). 6. Amos, born October 13, 1761, died February 9, 1780, aged eighteen, in the British war prison, New York City. 7. John, February 23, 1763, mar- ried, March 8, 1787, Ruth Switcher, who was born January 22, 1763.
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