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died January 5, 1881, aged eighty-three years, six months; married Abel Prescott. 8. Rich- mond, born January 12, 1803, died October 6, 1842; married, April 25, 1832, Susanna Shattuck.
(VI) Josiah Sawtell Williams, eldest son of Jacob (5) and Hannah (Shepley) Williams, was born November 9, 1781, died December 17, 1865. He was named for Colonel Josiah Sawtell, of Groton. He lived where Samuel P. Williams, his grandson, lived later. He re- ceived a good education in the public schools and became a school teacher. "He was stout, strong-built and weighty, withal," writes Mr. Green, the Groton historian, "and, consequent- ly, was called on to teach some very difficult schools, both in Groton and adjoining towns. He never failed to go through with the schools in a winter, though the school terms were gen- - erally short." He was brought up on a farm, followed farming between terms of school and finally devoted all his time to agriculture. His place was on the Chipopee road in the north part of the town and comprised about fifty acres. He was Orthodox in religion ; belonged to the state militia ; was a member of the school committee of Groton, an active, upright, able and influential citizen. He married, November 20, 1804, Lydia Simonds, born September 8, 1784, died June 25, 1865. Their children: I. Josiah, born June, 1805, married Olive Wake- field, who died November 12, 1832; married (second), Elizabeth M. Mansfield, February 25, 1835; Josiah died January 23, 1847. 2. Lydia, born January, 1807, died Au- gust I, 1878; married, November 24, 1825, Leonard Farwell, and lived at Nashua. 3. Rufus, born September 6, 1808, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born February 2, 1812, died May 1, 1896; married Warren F. Stone, who died February 5, 1858; he was a prominent citizen, a school teacher, and repre- sentative to the general court. 5. Sarah F., who was a school teacher at Chicopee, South Braintree and Groton, Massachusetts ; mar- ried, November 28, 1850, Dr. Luther F. Locke, of Nashua, in which city her death occurred May 5, 1861.
(VII) Rufus Williams, son of Josiah Saw- tell and Lydia (Simonds) Williams, was born in Groton, September 6, 1808. He received his education in the common schools of his na- tive town, working meanwhile on his father's farm. He was particularly interested in fruit culture and became expert in budding, grafting and raising tree stock. He bought a farm in Groton when a young man and conducted it with profit. After his marriage he bought the
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old Sawtell farm of sixty acres, besides his farm and nursery. He was a dealer in rough and sawed lumber and owned considerable woodland in and near Groton. After culti- vating the Sawtell place twenty years he ex- changed it for the farm known as the Blood Place and owned by Albert F. Parkhurst, situ- ate in the northern part of the town and con- taining one hundred and seventy-five acres. He sold part of the land and built a new house in which he lived the remainder of his life. He attended the Groton Congregational church. In his later life he was a Republican in politics, and served the town at various times in posi- tions of trust and responsibility. He married Margaret Shattuck Hartwell, daughter of Ol- iver and Rachel (Shattuck) Hartwell. She died at Groton, September 16, 1878. Children : I. Sarah Margaret, born at Stetson, Maine, August 8, 1834; died at Groton, September 14, 1852. 2. George Henry, born May 4, 1836; married, November 20, 1861, Susan A. Eaton, of Framingham, Massachusetts ; he was killed near Dallas, Georgia, in the Civil war, May 25, 1864 ; member of Company E, Thirty- third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. Child, Lina Louise, born November 27, 1863, died July 2, 1870. 3. Marcelina Phoenicia, born July 4, 1839, married, April 15, 1862, Al- bert F. Parkhurst, of Dunstable and Groton; child, Alice Theresa Parkhurst, married Gar- diner Rockwood, of Groton, and has three children ; Horace H., Ruth and Christine. 4. Adelaide Louise, born December 16, 1841, married David H. Cochrane, of Brookline, New Hampshire, November 26, 1865; child, Earle Wadley Cochrane. 5. Frances Adelia, born August 28, 1843 ; married, March 9, 1865, Albert Lawrence Blood, of Groton. 6. Asa, married Caroline Adams, of Townsend, Mas- sachusetts ; children: Guy, Ethel, Arthur, Eleanor, Myron and Richard G. 7. Josiah Sawtell, born August 13, 1848, mentioned be- low.
(VIII) Josiah Sawtell Williams, third son and seventh child of Rufus (7), and Margaret H. (Shattuck) Williams, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, August 13, 1848. He attended the public schools and Lawrence Academy in Groton. When eighteen years old he also be- gan to teach school. In the next few years he had schools at Groton and at Brookline, New Hampshire. Between terms of school he was selling agent of the Massachusetts Life In- surance Company of Boston for three years. About 1869 he removed to Townsend, Massa- chusetts, and formed a partnership with his brother Asa to carry on a general store busi-
ness. After two years he sold out to his part- ner, and in 1872 took charge of the farm at Nobscot, Framingham, Massachusetts, owned by his wife's father, Elbridge G. Eaton. He succeeded to the ownership of the farm later and has added to it large tracts of woodland, from which he cuts timber. He also makes a specialty of market gardening, finding an ex- cellent market for small fruits and vegetables in Boston. His farm was formerly known as the old Brackett Place.
When the post office was established at the village of Nobscot he was appointed postmas- ter and served fifteen years in that position. He attends the Plymouth Congregational Church at Framingham Centre. In politics Mr. Williams is a Republican, and has served on various occasions as delegate to state, coun- cilor and representative conventions. He has been a member of the Framingham school committee, and was for two years on the board of assessors. He has also been on the board of fire engineers, and town constable. He was a charter member of the Framingham Grange, No. 1113, Patrons of Husbandry, was lecturer for that body, and now master of the degree staff. He is a member and has been one of the trustees of the Middlesex South Agricul- tural Society. He served eight years in Com- pany B, Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteer Militia, and was for three years captain of the company.
He married, September 28, 1871, Mary Ella Prentice Eaton, who was born January 19, 1850, daughter of Elbridge 'Gerry and Lydia Kingsbury (Brackett) Eaton, of Framingham. Her father was a carpenter and farmer, prom- inent in the militia, active member of Plymouth church, and a Republican. Their children : I. Bertha Louise, born September 2, 1873, mar- ried, November 15, 1892, John Minot Harring- ton, of Framingham ; children: i. Helen Ten- ney, born May 24, 1894; ii. Catherine, born April 20, 1900; iii. Margaret Williams, born April 28, 1904. 2. Carleton Hartwell, born May 9, 1875 ; married, August 18, 1898, Fan- nie Louise Bigelow, of Framingham ; children : i. Philip Loraine, born May 6, 1901 ; ii. Grace, born April 2, 1906. 3. Gladys Idella, born February 2, 1877, married, December 28, 1898, Fred E. Barrett. 4. Harold Gerry, born July 12, 1879, florist, Sudbury, Massachusetts. 5. Laurence Lincoln, born February 13, 1882, resides with parents. 6. Meredith Gilbert, born March 25, 1884, graduate of Bates Col- lege, teacher in high school, Abington, Massa- chusetts.
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Thomas Davenport, im- DAVENPORT migrant ancestor of this family, was born in Eng- land. He settled in Dorchester in New Eng- land before November 20, 1640, when the records show he was a member of the church there. His wife joined the church March 8, 1644. He was admitted a freeman May 18, 1642, and was constable in 1670. His dwell- ing house was on the east slope of Mt. Bow- doin, near the corner of Bowdoin street and Union avenue, Dorchester, now part of Bos- ton. He bought a house and land of William Pigrom, November 25, 1653, and more land February 5, 1665, of William Blake. He left the homestead to his youngest son John after the death of widow. He died November 9, 1685; his widow October 4, 1691. His will was dated July 24, 1683, and in it he calls himself aged. The estate was valued at three hundred and thirty-two pounds, sixteen shill- ings and eightpence. Children: I. Sarah, born December 28, 1643, married Samuel Jones. 2. Thomas, baptized March 2, 1645, killed in King Philip's war at the Narragan- sett Fort, December 19, 1675, in Captain Johnson's company. 3. Mary, baptized January 21, 1649, married Samuel Maxfield. 4. Charles, baptized September 7, 1652. 5. Abigail, baptized July 8, 1655. 6. Mehitable, born February 14, 1657. 7. Jonathan, born March 6, 1659. 8. Ebenezer, born April 26, 1661. 9. John, born October 20, 1664, men- tioned below.
(II) John Davenport, son of Thomas Davenport (I), was born at Dorchester, Mas- sachusetts, October 20, 1664, died at Milton, March 21, 1725. His wife Naomi died Janu- ary 7, 1739, probably daughter of Timothy Foster, of Dorchester, born February II, 1668. John inherited the homestead at Dor- chester after the death of his parents accord- ing to his father's bequest, but he removed to the adjoining town of Milton in 1706, his name appearing on the tax list in 1707. He lived on the old Isaac Davenport estate as his farm has been known in later years from the name of his descendant, Isaac. His children are mentioned in his will. Children: all born in Dorchester, except the youngest: 1. John, born June 10, 1695, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born October 20, 1697, mentioned below. 3. Ephraim, baptized August 6, 1699, buried February 25, 1774, unmarried. 4. Joseph, born August 30, 1701, married Sarah Ware. 5. Stephen, born October 8, 1703, married Thankful Bent. 6. Mehitable, born August 30, 1705. married James Mears, of
Roxbury. 7. Benjamin, born at Milton, August 12, 1707.
(III) John Davenport, son of John Daven- port (2), was born at Dorchester, Massachu- setts, June 10, 1695, died at Stoughton, July 20, 1778. He married, June 10, 1725, at Mil- ton, Mary Bent, daughter of Joseph, bap- tized January 28, 1699, died July 20, 1768. Children, born in Stoughton, now Canton, Massachusetts: I. Mary, born November 19, 1729, married Joseph Houghton. 2. Miriam, born April 15, 1732, married February 23, 1749, Ebenezer Billings. 3. Mariah, born November 13, 1735, married, March 23, 1754, Isaac Fenno, Jr. 4. John, Jr., born Novem- ber I, 1737, mentioned below. 5. Mehitable, born April 30, 1740, married, January 6, 1757, Oliver Billings, of Dorchester.
(III) Samuel Davenport, son of John Davenport (2), was born in Dorchester, Oc- tober 20, 1697, and died in Mendon, Massa- chusetts, June 29, 1773. He married Re- becca Craft, who was born in Milton, Febru- ary 9, 1699, and died in Mendon, September 23, 1777. Their first two children were born in Roxbury, the others in Milton. He gave his Milton homestead to his eldest son and removed to Mendon about 1741. Children: I. Samuel, Jr., born September 1, 1720, men- tioned below. 2. Rebecca, born May 3, 1723, married Jonathan Wadsworth. 3. Abigail, born April 15, 1726, died July 7, 1738. 4. Sarah, born July 22, 1730, died July 21, 1738. 5. Benjamin, born February 4, 1733, died June 30, 1738. 6. Elizabeth, born April 2, 1736, died July 4, 1806; married James Lov- ett, of Mendon. 7. Seth, born November 2, 1739, ancestor of the Mendon Davenports.
(IV) John Davenport, son of John Daven- port (3), was born at Canton, Massachusetts, November 1, 1737, died at Stoughton, April 25, 1776. He married, 1759, Lois Badlam, of Weymouth, who died at Stoughton, February II, 1809, aged seventy-two years. Many de- scendants reside in and about Canton. Chil- dren, born at Canton: I. Mary, born No- vember 9, 1757. 2. Jesse, born October 14, 1761, mentioned later at length. 3. Hannah, born May 9, 1764. 4. John, born January 16, 1767, married Lucy Lewis. 5. Lois, born September 16, 1768. 6. Mehitable, born April 22, 1771. 7. Sarah, born June 5, 1773. 8. Samuel, born August 23, 1776.
(IV) Samuel Davenport, Jr., son of Samuel Davenport (3), was born at Milton, Massa- chusetts, September 1, 1720, and died Decem- ber 6, 1793. He was a blacksmith by trade and carried on business in Milton. He was one
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of the jury that tried Captain Preston on ac- count of the Boston massacre, November 27, 1770. He is the progenitor of most of the Suffolk and Norfolk county lines. He mar- ried, June 4, 1741, Sarah Whiting, of Ded- ham. She died June II, 1764. He married (sec- ond), September 24, 1769, Sarah Tuck- er, widow of Nathaniel Tucker. Chil- dren of Samuel, Jr., and Sarah (Whit- ing) Davenport: I. Lemuel, born March IO, 1742, married, October 4, 1764, Patience Stone, of Stoughton. 2. Sarah, born July 29, 1744, married, 1761, John Cre- hore, of Milton. 3. Nathaniel, born April 12, 1747, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, born Au- gust 16, 1749, married, July 6, 1769, Lemuel Gay. 5. Rufus, born January 19, 1752, died April 12, 1752. 6. Isaac, born November 12, 1753. 7. Mehitable, born April 14, 1759, married, 1777, John Vose, of Milton.
(V) Jesse Davenport, son of John Daven- port (4), was born at Canton, Massachusetts, October 14, 1761. Married Hannah Crane, January 12, 1784. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in Captain Samuel Holden's com- pany, Colonel Ebenezer Thayer's regiment (Suffolk county), in 1780, raised to reinforce the Northern army. Children, born at Can- ton: I. Nancy, born December 16, 1784, married Nathaniel Davenport (6), mentioned below. 2. Catherine, February 15, 1787. 3. John, June 4, 1789. 4. Hannah Crane, Dé- cember 8, 1791. 5. Silas, October 8, 1794. 6. Jesse, Jr., April 22, 1798.
(V) Nathaniel Davenport, son of Samuel Davenport (4), was born at Milton, April 12, 1747, died June 13, 1813. He was a butcher by trade and conducted business in the Bos- ton market. He was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, a private in Captain Josiah Vose's com- pany that guarded the coast in 1776. He married, February, 1767, Lydia Stone, of Stoughton, who was born July 25, 1747, daughter of Henry and Lydia Stone. Chil- dren: I. Samuel, born April 9, 1769, died young. 2. Phinehas, March 9, 1772. 3 Avis. 4. Avis, May 3, 1779, married, Decem- ber, 1794, Dr. Benjamin Turner, of Milton. 5. Nathaniel, born March 7, 1781, mentioned below.
(VI) Nathaniel Davenport, son of Nathan- iel Davenport (5), was born at Milton, Massa- chusetts, March 7, 1781, and died May 5, 1863. His children were descended as is shown by the lineage both through mother and father from Thomas Davenport, the immi- grant ancestor. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Milton and at Phillips Academy, Andover. . He began life as a farmer on the homestead at Milton, owned by the family since 1706, but which he afterward sold to Augustus Heminway, father of the donor of the Heminway Gymnasium at Harvard Uni- versity. Mr. Davenport made a specialty of flower culture and sale. He was the first man in the town to make the cultivation of flowers a special vocation, beginning in 1827 and carrying on the business of florist for full thirty years. His greenhouses were on Can- ton avenue. He was a Unitarian in religion, a Whig and finally a Republican in politics. He married Nancy Davenport, daughter of Jesse Davenport, (5), who died March I, 1865. Children: 1. Nancy, born March 3, 1801, married, January II, 1821, Jason W. Houghton, of Milton. 2. George, born Feb- ruary 3, 1805, married, November 30, 1828, Harriet C. Davenport, daughter of Elijah Davenport. 3. Lewis, born September 25, 1808, married, December 9, 1834, Margaret L. Babcock, of Milton. 4. Nathaniel T., born January 8, 1811, married, January 29, 1834, Sarah Dunham, of Milton. 5. Lydia, born February 22, 1814, married, July 20, 1837, James Breck, of Milton. 6. Edward, born August 21, 1816. married, September 27, 1855, Sarah M. Sampson. 7. Edwin, born August 21, 1816, married, February 14, 1855, Ellen M. Bennett. 8. Henry Seth, born June 27, 1819. 9. Fred Jason, born January 5, 1824, married, October 6, 1845, Hannah M. Cutting. 10. Lyman, born June 26, 1829, mentioned below.
(VII) Lyman Davenport, son of Nathaniel Davenport (6), was born at Milton, Massa- chusetts, June 26, 1829, died August 4, 1900. He was educated in the public schools. He started in his business career in the employ of George Greene, at Milton. He soon left that position to work for his brother Lewis, a florist. About 1862 he was appointed city forester of Boston and filled that position four years. He then engaged in the business of florist on his own account, growing roses for the Boston market. He sold out his busi- ness in 1890 to Charles Rogers, a Boston florist, and removed to South Framingham to live with his son, Harrie L. Davenport, and there he spent his last years, free from the cares of business. Mr. Davenport was a Uni- tarian in religion. In politics a Republican. He filled the office of member of the school committee in Milton. He married, November 29, 1855, Harriette Low Blaney, born April 27,
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1832, at Boston, died at South Framingham, February 24, 1906, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Miller. (Bowman) Blaney, of Boston. Benjamin was a mason by trade ; manufactured and installed furnaces and heaters; was cap- tain of the volunteer fire department; repre- sented his district in the general court. Chil- dren: 1. Harriette Louise, born July 7, 1857, died April 28, 1859. 2. Lyman, Jr., born April 13, 1860, died December 19, 1860. 3. Harrie Lyman, born January 17, 1862, men- tioned below. 4. Edith Blaney, born Octo- ber 29, 1865, died November 20, 1866. 5. Mabel Blaney, born July 9, 1868, died Janu- ary 29, 1882.
(VIII) Harrie Lyman Davenport, son of Lyman (7) and Harriette Low (Blaney) Davenport, was born at Milton, Massachu- setts, January 17, 1862, on the original Davenport estate held by the family since 1707. He was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, from which he graduated in 1880. He entered the employ of Houghton, Coolidge & Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, High street, Boston, in the same year, and in 1882 was transferred to the Para Rubber Shoe Company plant at South Fram- ingham, of which Houghton, Coolidge & Company were the selling agents. At the rubber mills Mr. Davenport acted as the purchasing agent of the company, a position which he filled until the mills were closed some ten years later. In 1889 the South Framingham Co-operative Bank was organ- ized, principally among the employees of the Rubber Company. and Mr. Davenport was elected its treasurer, a position which he holds at the present time. He is also the treasurer of Westborough Insane Hospital, a state institution located at Westborough, Massachusetts. being appointed to that office in 1895. In 1907 he was elected one of the members of the first board of water commis- sioners of the town of Framingham, being its secretary and also acting as water registrar. Mr. Davenport is a thirty-second degree Ma- son, being a member of Massachusetts Consis- tory and subordinate Scottish Rite lodges of Boston, and a member of Alpha Lodge, A. F. and A. M. and Concord Royal Arch Chapter, of South Framingham, and Natick Command- ery of Natick. He married, November 14, 1897, Helen Cliff, born April 28. 1878, daughter of James S. and Jennie (Dykeman) Cliff, of Lower Line. Queensbury, York county, New Brunswick, Canada. Children: 1. Edith Cliff, born July 5, 1899. 2. Harriet Cliff, born January 30, 1902.
GERRY
Thomas Gerry, the immigrant
ancestor, is said to have been of Irish ancestry. He was born in 1638. Two immigrants of this surname came
to Massachusetts early,-Dennis Gerry, who settled at Saugus, but died in 1637 and provided for the return of his wife and daughters to England; and William Gerry, who settled in Salem about 1638, and left sons and daughters. Thomas
Gerry lived for a time in Reading
where he owned land, but about 1668 settled in Charlestown End, now Stoneham. Dean tells us that he was a boatswain on an English man-of-war; that when in Boston he fell in company with Patrick Hay, a Scotch- man, and they decided to settle in this country. He was allowed to leave his ship on condition that he return to service if war with France broke out. The historian of Stoneham names Gerry first in the list of founders of that town. In 1678 the inhabitants were Thomas "Gery," John Gould, Sr., John Gould, Jr., William Rogers, Thomas Cutler and Matthew Smith. "The monuments that survived them were the fields they cleared, the walls they built and the families they reared. The records have saved a little and tradition some more." Gerry made his clearing and built a house just beyond the northern slope of Farm hill, on or near the present High street, and had his home there during King Philip's war. As early as 1668 he was complained of for cutting an acre of grass without authority in Charlestown mea- dows. Thomas Gerry was a soldier in King Philip's war, impressed as soldiers in Captain Hutchinson's company. Gerry was third on the list of subscribers for the new Charlestown meeting house in 1688. He was at the same time a cunning and courageous man. It is re- lated that on a certain occasion, having risen early in the morning, his attention was at- tracted by the suspicious movements of an In- dian lying concealed behind a log, and having reason to believe that he was lying in wait for him, but not caring unnecessarily to expose himself, he extended through the partly open door his coat and hat in such a manner as to draw the arrow of the unwary savage, and the next instant the ball had whizzed from his unerring musket with fatal effect. Fearing the vengeance of the tribe should they discover the dead body, he buried it in his own cellar. On another occasion, as the story goes, he had been away from home one winter's day cutting wood, and on his return, just after dark, stop- ped at the house of his neighbor, Thomas Cut- ler, who invited him to remain and spend the
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night, urging upon him the danger of proceed- ing, as a pack of wolves had been heard in the neighborhood. Mr. Gerry, however, thought of his family and their anxiety if he failed to return, so he declined the invitation, shouldered his ax and set forth again. He had gone but a short distance when he was attacked by the wolves. With his back against a big tree, he fought the hungry pack with his sharp ax and finally drove them away, When he returned to the scene of the battle next day, he found the carcasses of four wolves. He died in No- vember, 1690, on the return of the Phipps Ex- pedition against Canada. His descendants have held a prominent place in every genera- tion since in the town he helped to establish in the wilderness. He married Sarah who survived him. The inventory shows an estate valued at one hundred and fifty-nine pounds. Children : I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, of Lynn. .
(II) Thomas Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (I), was born about 1670. He bought land at Charlestown in 1703-04, and various lots of land from 1708 to 1725, probably in what is now Stoneham. June 26, 1710, the selectmen of Charlestown put on record that they "have ordered and impowered Henry Green and Thomas Gary, both inhabitants of Charlestown, to demand and receive of every person that shall lay any cord on either part of said bank that belongeth to Charlestown, except the inhabi- tants of Charlestown the sum of three pence per cord." (to protect the fisheries). He mar- ried, April 10, 1701, Hannah Streeter, of Read- ing. Children: Captain Benjamin; and Thom- as, Jr., mentioned below.
(III) Thomas Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (2), was born in Stoneham about 1702. Pos- sibly Hannah Streeter was his father's second wife. He was of age and a taxpayer in 1725, when his father and cousin of the same name were also living there. "He married Abigail Vinton, who was born at Reading, December 28, 1704, eldest daughter of John Vinton, a leading man and the largest land owner of Stoneham. Children : 1. David, born at Stone- ham, November 27, 1728, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, born 1732, married (first) Jane Wil- der, of Lancaster, April 22, 1756; (second), October 24, 1765, Priscilla Jewett, of Lancas- ter ; settled at Chocksett in Lancaster. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Stoneham in Captain Isaac Hall's company, Lieutenant Col- onel William Bond's regiment, in 1775 and 1776. 3. John.
(IV) David Gerry, son of Thomas Gerry (3), was born at Stoneham, November 27,
1728, and married, March 30, 1748, Keziah Holden, of one of the oldest families of the town of Stoneham. Samuel Holden came to Stoneham from Groton in 1690. He was the son of the immigrant, Richard Holden, who was born in England in 1607, settled at Water- town, then Woburn, then Groton, Massachu- setts, and died at Groton, March 1, 1696. The Holdens left Groton on account of King Philip's war, and Samuel died there in 1739, aged eighty-eight years. The Holdens owned an extensive territory in the southwest part of Stoneham and easterly of Bear Hill. Many of the family achieved prominence in later generations. Children of David and Keziah Gerry: I. David, born September 3, 1751, mentioned below. 2. Reuben, grandfather of Robert Gerry, of Malden.
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