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The Springfield Republican said of him: "Colonel Norton was one of the old guard of liberty and literature. Born in Newburyport ninety years ago, a younger townsman of Garrison, he seems to have been a Democrat originally, as Bancroft and Hawthorne were,
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and he entered the Boston Custom House in the collectorship of Bancroft two years be- fore Hawthorne did. But while Hawthorne soon tired of his inspectorship (being tech- nically a weigher and measurer) and resigned before the Whigs under Harrison could re- move him, as perhaps they would have done, Colonel Norton remained and served the port at intervals for half a century. He joined the anti-slavery party early. In the first months of 1849, when Emerson, Olcott and others formed the Town and Country Club with rooms at 12 West street, Boston, Alfred Norton was one of its members for a long time, affiliating with the men of letters of the country and others."
At the death of John Brown, the citizens of Winchester invited Colonel Norton to de- liver an address on the day of the execution. His address on that occasion was printed and widely distributed. At the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Colonel Norton had the good fortune to be seated on the platform and to hear the immortal ad- dress of Lincoln. Colonel Norton was one of the founders of the Mercantile Library As- sociation of Boston; secretary of the Boston Lyceum when Alexander Everett, brother of Edward, was present. He was a member of the Radical Club, of which Emerson and other Transcendentalists were prominent members. He was a man of culture and learning, hold- ing views and opinions in advance of his gen- eration. In later years he was ever ready to talk of the great historical period in which he had been active, and he was a ready and interesting conversationalist. He was a Uni- tarian, being a member of Dr. Samuel Croth- ers's church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After the Republican party was originated he supported it loyally for the remainder of his life. He was a Free Mason. He belonged also to the Walt Whitman Club, the Ruskin Club, the Radical Club, all of Boston, and to the Arlington Improvement Society. He was a member of Francis Gould Post, No. 36, Grand Army, of Arlington. He died August 28, 1904. Of unusual ability, personal magne- tism, sympathy and generosity, he had the qualities that make men beloved.
He married, April 25, 1844, Eliza Abra- hams, born November 1I, 1822, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Harrod) Abrahams, of Boston. Her father was a merchant and ship- owner of Boston. Children: I. Alfred, Jr., born March 28, 1845, died at Chicago, Janu- ary 24, 1892; married, December 27, 1883, Elise Lee Clark, of New York City; had no
children. 2. Benjamin Abrahams, born No- vember 30, 1847, mentioned below. 3. George, born at Winchester, August, 1851, died in 1853.
(VII) Benjamin Abrahams Norton, son of Colonel Alfred Norton (6), was born at Chel- sea, Massachusetts, November 30, 1847. He removed when an infant with his parents to Medford, Massachusetts, and thence after a time to Winchester, Massachusetts, where he was educated in the public schools, graduat- ing from the Winchester high school at the age of sixteen. He also took a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's, Boston. He began his business career as clerk in the store of Kendall, Brigham & Barrows, dealers in woolens, on Milk street, in the old Franklin building. He became a salesman and re- mained with the firm until it went out of busi- ness, then with its successors, Kendall, Bar- rows & Company, until the senior partner died, when he was admitted to the firm, the name being unchanged. Kendall, Barrows & Co. were importers of fine Scotch and English woolens, and their place of business was on Essex street. After twenty-five years as sales- man and partner in the two firms owning this concern, he retired and associated himself with E. S. Fessenden under the firm name of Norton, Fessenden & Company, with store at 68 Chauncey street, making a specialty of Scotch and English as well as domestic wool- ens.
He married, November 10, 1875, Mary Pamelia Fessenden, born March 26, 1855, daughter of Nehemiah and Mary Elizabeth (Fiske) Fessenden, of Arlington. Her father was a spice merchant; representative to the general court ; held various town offices in Ar- lington ; was secretary of Hiram Lodge of Free Masons. Children : Leslie, born May 28, 1881. 2. Therese, January 3, 1884. 3. Rachel, April 12, 1888.
MUZZEY This surname was written Muzzy, Mussey, Musse, Muse and Mussel, in the early records. The first of the name was Esther, who was settled in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, as early as 1633, and two years later is on record as owner of a house on the west- erly side of Holyoke street, Cambridge, where the printing house now stands. In 1635 she married William Ruskow (Roscoe) and soon afterward removed to Hartford, Connecti- cut.
(I) Benjamin Muzzey, the immigrant an-
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cestor, was doubtless related to Esther. He lived at Malden and Rumney Marsh, Massa- chusetts. In 1678 he bought a lot of fifteen acres in Charlestown, Massachusetts, selling it again in 1682. In 1680 he bought two hun- dred and fifty acres in Billerica, Massachu- setts. He was then living at Rumney Marsh. He died before January 26, 1696-7. Some authorities give him as the son of Robert Muzzy, of Ipswich, one of the first settlers of that town, admitted freeman September 3, 1634. Robert mentions his son Benjamin in his will dated January 5, 1642, and March 18, 1643-4, proved May 16, 1644; his second wife Bridget married Rowlandson. The other children mentioned in the will are: Mary, Joseph, and Ellen. Perhaps Esther was widow of Benjamin's brother, perhaps daugh- ter. Children of Benjamin: I. Benjamin, born April 16, 1657: mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born March 1, 1658-9. 3. Richard. 4. Sarah, married John Waite.
(II) Benjamin Muzzey, son of Benjamin (2) and grandson of Robert Muzzey of Ips- wich, was born in Malden, April 16, 1657; married first Sarah -, who died at Lex- ington, January 28, 1710, aged fifty. He mar- ried second, Jane He was of Rum- ney Marsh (Chelsea), in 1675, when he was a trooper in King Philip's war. He removed to Cambridge before 1681, and in 1693 he bought two hundred and six acres of land of Ed- ward Pelham, of Rhode Island, at the Farms (Lexington), where he subsequently resided and where his posterity dwells to this day. He was one of the largest taxpayers after 1693 in the Farms, or North Precinct; was one of the subscribers to the meeting house fund in 1692. He owned much land in the center of the town. In 1693 he was on a committee with David Fiske, Sr., Samuel Stone, Sr., and others, to negotiate with Cambridge for the purchase of a tract of land for the support of the ministry. He was constable in 1694, as- sessor in 1700, tythingman in 1716. In 1771 he sold to the inhabitants of the district two acres of land for a village common and site for the meeting house. He and his sons John and Richard also contributed to the fund raised to buy the common. He resided on or near the site of the Rufus Merriam house. Here was opened the first public house in the place, his son John being licensed for that purpose in 1714. He died May 12, 1732, possessed of a large landed property. The in- ventory mentions his mansion house, barn, cider mill and homestead of TII acres. Among other articles appraised were three
slaves, a man valued at eighty pounds, and a woman and child at sixty. Children: 1. Mary, born July 13, 1683. 2. John, born 1685, died March 8, 1768. 3. Benjamin, born February 20, 1689. 4. Richard, drowned in 1719. 5. Amos, baptized January 7, 1699: mentioned below. 6. Bethia, born 1701, baptized in June; married Ebenezer Fiske. 7. Thomas, baptized September 1, 1706; died November 26, 1740.
(III) Amos Muzzey, son of Benjamin Muzzey (2), was born in Lexington, baptized there January 7, 1699; married September 26, 1734, Esther Green, daughter of Samuel and Esther Green. He died June 26, 1752. His widow, probably a second wife, married second, March 4, 1758, Thomas Prentice, Esq., of Newton. Muzzey had a large estate. for his time. He also owned a man and wo- man slave, the former valued at 350 pounds, the latter at one hundred. His mansion house was on the spot where David W. Muzzey now resides, and the land extended down upon Waltham street, to what is now called Grape- vine Corner. He also owned land in Woburn and Townsend. He was assessor in 1744; selectman in 1750. Children: I. Esther, born July II, 1735, died October 9, 1789, unmar- ried. 2. Sarah, born March 30, 1737; married October 19, 1758, Bezaleel Lawrence. 3. Amos, Jr., born June 7, 1739; died July, 1740. 4. Amos, born May 24, 1741; mentioned be- low. 5. William, born July 31, 1743; married Lydia Reed. 6. Samuel, born July 12, 1745; died August 23, 1747. 7. Bethiah, born July 8, 1747; married November 16, 1769, Thad- deus Brown. 8. Mary, born September 8, 1749. 9. Benjamin, born January 25, 1752, graduate of Harvard 1774, chaplain of the privateer "Hero Revenge," in the Revolu- tion; lost at sea, sailing from Boston last in September, 1777.
(IV) Amos Muzzey, son of Amos Muzzey (3). was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, May 24, 1741; married November 29, 1764, Abigail Bowers, of Billerica. They were ad- mitted to the Lexington church, June 26, 1766. She died March 15, 1803, aged fifty- eight. He married second, Abigail Smith, widow of Captain Joseph Smith, December 25, 1806. She died February 18, 1814, aged sixty-three. He died December 10, 1822, aged eighty-three. His tomb at Lexington is inscribed: "The northwest corner of this tomb is reserved for Mr. Amos Muzzy and wives, and no other corpse to be laid there." He was a soldier in the Revolution, in the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775; also in a
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detachment from the Lexington militia com- pany commanded by John Bridge at Cam- bridge the following month, by order of the committee of safety. He was five months at Saratoga and three months at Cambridge in 1778. Children, born at Lexington: I. Amos, born April 19, 1766; mentioned below. 2. Josiah, baptized November 7, 1767; died No- vember 26, 1767. 3. Abigail, born May 27, 1769; married 1800, Thomas Conant, of Bos- ton. 4. William, born May 25, 1771; died April 16, 1835.
(V) Amos Muzzey, son of Amos Muzzey (4), was born in Lexington, April 19, 1766; married Lydia, daughter of Timothy Boutelle, of Leominster. Both were admitted to the Lexington church, April 28, 1798. He was chosen deacon April 14, 1822. He died May 20, 1829; she died December 24, 1838. Chil- dren, born at Lexington: I. Elmira, born Oc- tober 21, 1794; married October 12, 1817, Charles Reed. 2. Benjamin, born December 13, 1795; mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born June II, 1799; married October 29, 1818, Samuel Chandler. 4. Artemas Bowers, born September 21, 1802; graduate of Harvard in 1824; studied theology, was ordained at Framingham, June 10, 1830, installed at Cam- bridgeport in 1834, at the Lee Street Church of Cambridgeport in 1846, resigning the same year, and was settled over the Second Con- gregational Church in Concord, New Hamp- shire; married June 26, 1831, Hepsabeth Pat- terson, daughter of Enoch. 5. Abigail, born November 26, 1804; married September II, 1834, Samuel Chandler. 6. Amos Otis, born June 14, 1808; died January 20, 1812.
(VI) Benjamin Muzzey, son of Amos Muz- zey (5), was born in Lexington, December 13, 1795; married there June 19, 1822, Elizabeth Wood, of Newburyport. He commenced business in Boston as a trader, and continued there until 1830, when he came back to Lex- ington. He was popular among his towns- men, and elected to many positions of trust and honor. He was justice of the peace. The Lexington history says that the "Lexington railroad is a standing monument of his pub- lic spirit and energy of character." He was attacked with apoplexy while on 'change in Boston, April 21, 1848, and was taken to the Exchange Coffee House, where he died. Chil- dren: 1. Charles O., born in Boston, August 17, 1824; entered the navy in the civil war, November, 1861, as secretary to Captain Pickering, of the U. S. S. "Kearsarge;" was transferred to the "Housatonic," May, 1863, and killed by an explosion of a torpedo in
Charleston harbor, destroying his ship, Feb- ruary 18, 1864. 2. Susan Elizabeth, born in Boston, July 21, 1826; died September 12, 1827. 3. Helen Elizabeth, born in Boston, June 25, 1828; married November 22, 1854, Richard F. Hooper, of Charlestown; died July 31, 1905. 4. Loring W., born in Lex- ington, August 28, 1831; mentioned below. 5. David Wood, born July 18, 1833; married December 13, 1860, Anna W. Saville, daugh- ter of David and Anna; child, Benjamin, born September 19, 1866. 6. George Eveleth, born August 4, 1838; entered Twelfth Massachu- setts Volunteers in 1861, was appointed quar- termaster-sergeant in 1862, first lieutenant in 1863, and quartermaster in 1864. 7. Benjam- in Lyman, born November 14, 1840; died March 13, 1855.
(VII) Major Loring W. Muzzey, fourth child and second son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth (Wood) Muzzey, was born in Lexing- ton, Massachusetts, August 28, 1831. He was educated in the public schools, and began his active career as clerk in a hardware store in Boston. On reaching his majority he en- gaged in the coal business on his own ac- count, at the end of the Cambridge bridge, and built up an extensive trade in Boston. After five years he relinquished this and re- turned to the hardware business, in which he continued until the breaking out of the civil war. He enlisted June 21, 1861, under Presi- dent Lincoln's first call for three years troops, in the Twelfth Regiment Massachusetts In- fantry, known as the Webster Regiment, in the capacity of quartermaster-sergeant; was promoted to first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, May 17, 1862; on May 30, 1864, was commissioned by President Lin- coln as captain and commissary of subsist- ence, U. S. V., May 30, 1864; and July 7, 1865, was brevetted major U. S. V., "for effi- cient and meritorious services." He was. present at many hard fought engagements and participated in many of the most dramatic campaigns of the civil war period: Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862; Bull Run, August 30, 1862; Antietam, September 17, 1862; Fred- ericksburg, December 13, 1862; Chancellors- ville, May 1, 1863; Gettysburg, July 3-5, 1863; Bristow Station; the Rappahannock River; Mine Run; the Wilderness; Cold Harbor; Spotsylvania ; siege of Petersburg in 1864; and the subsequent operations culminating in the surrender of General Lee, April 9, 1865, and had in charge the provisioning of the captured rebel army, (Headquarters Army of the Potomac, April 10, 1865,
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General Orders, No. 13, by Command of General Meade, Geo. D. Ruggles, Assist- and Adjutant-General). During this period he was brought into close association with many of the most distinguished officers of the Army of the Potomac, serving at various times in each of the First, Second, Fifth and Sixth Corps, as a staff officer at corps headquar- ters. After the war had closed, he was or- dered to join General Devens at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and subsequently served with General Adelbert Ames, commanding Dis- trict of South Carolina, with headquarters at Columbia, the capital of that state. He was honorably mustered out of the service of the United States on October 13, 1865. Return- ing home with this brilliant military record, he was commissioned by Governor Bullock as captain and engineer officer of the Second Brigade, Massachusetts Militia, General Pier- son commanding. and served in that capacity until 1876, when he resigned, thus bringing to a close an active military career of sixteen years.
Immediately after the war Major Muzzey became treasurer of the Boston Car Spring Company, serving for eight years; was then treasurer of the Boston Drug Mills for two years; treasurer of the Equitable Safe and Deposit Company for six years; and for a number of years was proprietor of the Massa- chusetts House at Lexington. He was ap- pointed tax collector for the town of Lexing- ton in 1899, and has creditably discharged the duties of the position to the present time. He is a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Massachusetts Command- ery; a comrade of the Grand Army of the Re- public ; is affiliated with the Masonic fratern- ity; politically is a Republican; and is a mem- ber of the First Congregational Society of Lexington.
The Graffam family is of GRAFFAM Scotch origin, and the early form of the name seems to have been Grafton. A coat-of-arms was grant- ed to the family of that name in England. Jos- eph Grafton, of Salem in 1636, was a freeman May 17, 1637. His wife Mary died in Novem- ber, 1674. He was a mariner and merchant. and was master of the ship "Endeavor" in 1641. He made two imperfect wills, which were set aside at his death. His second wife was Bethia, the widow of Captain Thomas Lothrop, and daughter of Samuel Rhea. Jos- eph Grafton's children were: I. Priscilla, who married, February 20, 1654, John Gardiner.
2. Joseph, Jr., baptized January 24, 1636, mar- ried October 29, 1657, Hannah Hobart, of Hingham, Massachusetts, and had children; married, second, Elizabeth Brown, June 30, 1664. 3. John, baptized April 28, 1639; mar- ried, December 1, 1659, Gardiner, and had children. 4. Nathaniel, baptized April 24, 1642, died at Barbadoes, February II, 1671 ; married, April 6, 1665, Eliza Maverick, and had children.
It is not known whether Joseph Grafton, above mentioned, was an ancestor of Captain Caleb Graffam, of Windham, with whom the authentic genealogy of the subject of this sketch begins. There was a Thomas Grafton who was one of the early settlers in New Hampshire. Captain Caleb Graffam's name was called Grafton at Scarborough and Wind- ham, though he did not sign it that way in Windham, at least. A fac-simile of his signa- ture, with date of 1770, reads "Caleb Graffam," in a bold and legible hand, not one letter of which could be misread. The statement in the history of Scarborough that Caleb Graffam became an inhabitant of that town in 1714, if applying to Captain Caleb Graffam, as it ap- parently does, is a mistake, as he was then but two years old. The same history says that from 1727 until 1731 he lived at Dunstan as a tenant of William Vaughn, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who owned a portion of Robert Elliot's estate there.
Caleb Graffam removed to Windham about 1743, and was one of the early settlers of that town, where he became a useful citizen. At the beginning of the French and Indian war in 1745, he removed to Falmouth, now Portland, where his family resided. He was a corporal in Captain George Berry's company of scouts from May 19, 1746, until January 19, 1747. In a report made in regard to the settlement of New Marblehead, now Windham, in 1749, now preserved in the Massachusetts Archives, Caleb Graffam is said to have cleared nine acres of home lot No. 61, and at that date built a gar- rison house on the lot. He was a garrison sol- dier there from April 8 to October 31, 1757, for which service he was paid by the colony. He was one of the signers of the petition to Governor Pownell in 1758 for a minister and meeting-house for Windham, and the next May he signed a statement that the meeting- house had not been properly built and that it was not completed. On April 12, 1762, the year of the incorporation of the town of Wind- ham, he signed a letter of thanks for the set- tling of the Rev. Peter Thatcher Smith over the Windham church, and May 5 of the same
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year he was elected the first selectman of the town at its incorporation. He was also elected a church warden and a tithingman. Soon af- ter, on August 4, he was appointed one of the committee to repair the fort, or block-house, to make it suitable for public religious service, and to procure provisions for the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Smith, and he was one of those who signed the agreement of the new minister.
In 1762 Caleb Graffam was the captain of the town military company, which was a part of Colonel Samuel Waldo's regiment. In the report of that regiment his name is given as Grafton. He was town clerk in 1770, and kept the town records. At a town meeting held February 16, 1773, which was called to answer a letter from the town of Boston, Caleb Graf- fam was the moderator. He was put on the committee that was chosen to prepare an an- swer, and that committee reported the pre- amble and resolutions printed in Smith's "His- tory of Windham," pages 25 and 26. At a town meeting held March 15, 1775, Captain Caleb Graffam was chosen to fix up the great gun and swivel as soon as possible, for services for the then impending Revolutionary war. Be- sides being the chairman of the selectmen in 1762, he was selectman in 1764, chairman again in 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1773, selectman in 1779, and chairman again in 1780. He died November II, 1784, at the age of seventy-two years, highly honored as a patriotic and public- spirited citizen. His wife was Lois Bennett, and the date of their marriage 1740. She was admitted to full communion in the Windham church, February 19, 1774, and he was ad- mitted to membership in the same church, April 8, 1770. She died January 12, 1804, aged eighty-three years. They were both buried in the Smith cemetery at South Windham, where their gravestones are in good condition. They had ten children-Peter, Abigail, Han- nah, Mary, Sarah, Enoch, Caleb, Jr., Rebecca, Lois and Elizabeth.
Peter (2), born at Falmouth, April 31, 1742, eldest child of Captain Caleb Graffam, (I), married at Windham, February 16, 1764, Mary Wilson ; secondly, at NewGloucester, December 21, 1775, Mary Allen. His children by the first wife were: Peggy, born February 3, 1765 ; and Mary, February 7, 1768. By his second wife he had: Dorcas, born October 21, 1776, married October 25, 1798, Joshua Bailey, of Falmouth; Lois, born September 29, 1779, died May 21, 1798; Lucy, born March II, 1782; and Sarah born June 14 1783. Peter Graffam moved from Windham to New Glou- cester. He served as second lieutenant in
Captain Nathaniel Merrill's company, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment, in the Bagaduce expedition in 1779. He died May 3, 1783, aged forty-one years.
Abigail, born in Windham, April II, 1744, baptized May 13, 1744, married November 25, 1766, Joseph Chesley ; lived in Windham and Buckfield, and had eleven children; her hus- band, who was a Revolutionary soldier, died at Paris, Maine, in 1825, aged eighty-five years. Hannah Graffam, born at Falmouth, May 31, 1746, died unmarried December 13, 1789; her grave in the Smith cemetery at Windham is marked by a gravestone. Mary Graffam, born in Falmouth October 23, 1748, baptized November 20, 1748, married Decem- ber 14, 1786, Samuel Elder (second wife), and had four children; she died May 27, 1829; he died May 16, 1819.
Sarah Graffam, born in Windham, Febru- ary 23, 1751, baptized April 7, 1751, married October 21, 1773, Ezra Brown, a prominent citizen of Windham, born April 3, 1750; she died December 12, 1797 ; she had nine children. Caleb Graffam, Jr., born in Windham, Septem- ber 26, 1755, married January 3, 1783, Eunice Bailey, of Falmouth, Maine; he was a Revolu- tionary soldier. Rebecca, born in Windham, May I, 1757, married June 21, 1781, John El- der, and lived in Windham; he was born Au- gust 20, 1752, was a Revolutionary soldier, died May 15, 1828; she died October 5, 1829; no children. Louis, born in Windham, April 30, 1759, married in November, 1781, Robert Mug- ford, son of Robert and Mary (Evans) Mug- ford; she died February 10, 1820, aged sixty years ; he died February 14, 1835. They had six children, born in Windham. Elizabeth Graffam, born in Windham, April 30, 1766, baptized May II, 1766, died July 17, 1792, at Gambo, Maine; she married in Windham, February 9, 1786, Samuel Swett, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, June 8, 1759, son of John and Sarah Swett. Enoch (2) Graffam, sixth child of Captain Caleb and Lois (Bennett) Graffam, was born in Windham, Maine, April 14, 1753. He married, August 25, 1774, Charity May- berry, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Den- nis) Mayberry, and granddaughter of William Mayberry, the emigrant ancestor of the family ; she was born August 30, 1755, at Windham. Enoch Graffam was a chairmaker and a farm- er. He lived on the river road at Windham, nearly opposite where William Frank May- berry now (1901) lives. He was a soldier of the Revolution, serving first as a private in Captain William Knight's company at Fal- mouth Neck (now Portland), October 18 until
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October 23, 1775, and eight days in Novem- ber. He enlisted February 1, 1776 ; served two months at the siege of Boston, but probably was transferred to Captain Bartholomew York's company, Colonel Edmund Finney's Eighteenth Continental Regiment, after arriv- ing at Cambridge, as his term of service covers the same period in that regiment. He was discharged December 31, 1776. In August, Colonel Finney's regiment marched and joined the Northern army near Lake Champlain. While in this regiment he re-engaged to serve three years in Captain George Smith's com- pany, in Colonel Joseph Vose's First Massa- chusetts Regiment, and served from January I, 1777, until January 1, 1780. He was at Still- water and Saratoga, spent the winter of 1777- 78 at Valley Forge, and took part in the bat- tles of Monmouth and Quaker Hill. His total service was forty-seven months and thirteen days. He died at Raymond, Maine, August 28, 1827, aged seventy-four years.
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