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The children of Enoch and Charity (May- berry) Graffam were as follows: Barsheba, born September 9, 1775, baptized January 7, 1787, died unmarried, December 30, 1837, aged sixty-two years. Hannah, born August 26, 1776, baptized January 7, 1787, married Jedi- diah Loveitt, January 24, 18 , and lived in Cape Elizabeth, Maine; he was born March 29, 1776, and had the following children : Caleb, born April 23, 1802, married Susan Davis; Enoch, born April 23, 1802, mar- ried Hannah Pillsbury .; Nathan, born April 30, 1804; married Maria P. Angell; Re- becca, born August 29, 1806, married John Pillsbury; John, born April 20, 1809;
Mary, born September 18, 1811, mar- ried James Boothby; David, born June 16, 1814, married Betsy Cobb; George, born Au- gust 31, 1816, married October 21, 1839, La- vina Goold; James, born December 20, 1820, married Lucinda Goold. Caleb (3), born Oc- tober 17, 1780, baptized January 7, 1787 ; Peter (4), born May 31, 1783, baptized January 7, 1787 ; Enoch, Jr., born July 29, 1785, baptized July, 1787, died young. Enoch Jr., born Au- gust 27, 1787, of whom there is no detailed re- cord. Rebecca, born August 26, 1789, baptized October II, 1789, died August 18, 1805. Eliza- beth, born March 29, 1792, died October 23, 1861, married 1810, Samuel Willard, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, born February 16, 1792, and died June 4, 1863. Charity, born August 31, 1794, married August 4, 1816, Jonathan Goold, of Cape Elizabeth, who was born at Eliot, Maine, September 23, 1793; he was the son of Alexander and Margaret (Emery) Goold.
Alexander Goold was a soldier in the army and marine in the navy of the Revolution. His full record can be found in the publication, "The Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution from Kittery and Eliot," by Lieutenant O. P. Remick. Jonathan Goold served in the war of 1812, in Captain Nathan Goold's Windham company. He was married in Windham, moved to Denmark, where his wife died. He went to Willard, Cape Elizabeth, about 1849, where he married for his second wife, Sarah R. (Graffam) Cobb, in April, 1859; she was the widow of Samuel Cobb, of Cape Elizabeth, and was born in Windham, June 9, 1807, and died at Willard, May 1, 1894, aged eighty-six years. By her first husband she had a daugh- ter, Mary Cobb, who married Samuel Angell, of Cape Elizabeth. Jonathan Goold died at Willard January 5, 1875, aged eighty-one years. The Goold pedigree is: Jonathan (6), Alexander (5), Benjamin, Jr. (4), Benjamin (3), John (2), and Jarvice Goold (I). Char- ity (Graffam) Goold died at Denmark, Maine, March 3, 1848, aged fifty-three years. The children of Charity (Graffam) and Jonathan Goold are: I. Lavina, born December 15, 1817, married October 21, 1839, George Love- itt, of Cape Elizabeth; she died July 21, 1847, aged thirty years ; they were cousins, he being a son of Jedidiah and Hannah (Graffam) Loveitt; children : Lucina, born August II, 1842, died young ; Rufus C., born August 18, 1844; Daniel G., born July 25, 1852. 2. Nathaniel, born August 30, 1819, married De- cember 7, 1847, Eveline L. Twombly; she died at Cape Elizabeth, January 13, 1892, aged seventy-two years; he died there July 22, 1896, aged seventy-six years ten months ; their children were: George Loveitt, born Septem- ber 20, 1848, married Sarah L. Graffam; Abba Allen, born January 7, 1851, died in 1897, mar- ried September 25, 1870, Edward Bouther- house ; Sarah Hicks, born September 2, 1855, died July 7, 1883. 3. Lucinda, born January 30, 1822, married July 19, 1846, James Loveitt ; she died July 10, 1865, aged forty-three years ; he married second, Lydia Cameron; the chil- dren were: Loenah, born August 26, 1847; Charity, born July 18, 1849, married Mr. Therar ; Lois, born December 20, 1851 : twin boys died in infancy. 4. Rebecca, born No- vember 1, 1824, died at six months. 5. Dan- iel, born March 7, 1826, died October 3, 1835. 6. Lois, born August 2, 1828, married Captain Benjamin J. Willard ; she married, second, Ber- nard Holmes. 7. Jonathan, born June 10, 1831, married, first, Lizzie Butland; second, Mar- garet Doyle ; children by first wife : George L.,
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married ; Francis ; Benjamin Willard, married. 8. Daniel, born September 16, 1833, married Jessie McDonald; he was accidentally shot while unloading guns from the privateer "Ta- cony," during the civil war. Children: Ella Frances, married William Allen; Cora Belle, died young ; and Emma. 9. Mary Elizabeth, born January 27, 1837, married November 20, 1859, Henry Pillsbury, lived at South Port- land; children : Alice A., born June 24, 1864; Winfield Henry, born January 4, 1867. 10. Dennis, born March 23, 1841, was drowned off Two Lights, Cape Elizabeth, March 19, 1860, aged nearly nineteen years.' Polly, a twin sister of Charity, born August 31, 1794, mar- ried Ithiel Rand, March 29, 1830. John, born September 15, 1796, married, first, Mary Gay, ot Raymond, died February 16, 1833; second, Margaret True, of Denmark, died February 17, 1835. James, born October 21, 1799, married Dorcas Pillsbury, of Cape Elizabeth. Lois, born July 5, 1802, married John Lowe, of Sac- carappa ; no children.
Caleb (2) Graffam, eldest son of Enoch (2), married April 2, 1801, Polly Joseph. She died June 10, 1807. Their children were : Sally Joseph, born May 17, 1802; Peter, born July 4, 1803 ; Mary, born April 2, 1805; Sarah R., born June 9, 1807, died May 4, 1894. His second wife was Polly Cloudman, whom he married December 1, 1808, died July 3, 1814; children : Hannah, Nancy, and Jedidiah, born June 6, 1813, living now (1901) at Cape Eliza- beth, Maine. His third wife, Rachel Clay, married March 17, 1815, died August 13, 1816; one child, Thomas, who died at sea. His fourth wife was Mary Swett, of Gorham, children were: Annie; Clement P., born March 16, 1817, married November 17, 1839, Mary A. Sanborn, lived at 418 Cumberland street, Portland, Maine; he died August 16, 1887; Joshua S., born February 24, 1819, died September 16, 1819; Mary J., born March 20, 1820; Rachel A., born March 15, 1822 ; Sophia S., born March 20, 1824; Caleb S., born March 17, 1826; Rebecca, born March 29, 1828, died 1849; Leander L., born February 14, 1830, lives in Bangor ; Ben R., born June 24, 1832, died June 19, 1833 ; Caroline E., born June 27, 1833; David H., born April 10, 1835; Joseph F., born February 25, 1837; William C., born February 20, 1839, died February 23, 1839; Evelyn B., born March 19, 1840; Charles W., born October 23, 1841, died March 8, 1843.
Samuel and Elizabeth (Graffam) Willard, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, had eleven children: I. Mary R., born December 6, 1812, married Benjamin Franklin Woodbury ; children : Ben-
jamin Franklin, Jr., and Carrie. 2. Samuel, born March 12, 1815, married February 6, 1840, Jane Trundy, and was lost at sea, 1852; children: Freeman Gilman, born 1845, died August 3, 1867 ; Augustavus ; Georgianna ; Lu- cinda, died December 29, 1841. 3. James, born April 6, 1817, died young. 4. Elizabeth, born May 12, 1818, married August 13, 1839, Edward H. Woodbury, died August 4, 1901, aged eighty-three years; children; Joseph H., Edward Israel, Clara, Eldredge, Willard, Charles, Almeda, and William. 5. William, born December 12, 1820, married Sarah Mar- iner, died May 10, 1877, aged fifty-six; chil- dren : William H. and Sarah Adelaide. 6. Enoch Graffam, born February 28, 1823, mar- ried Sarah D. Loveitt, lives in Portland (1902); children : Enoch Franklin, born May 21, 1853, died March, 1883 ; Sarah Frances, born Febru- ary 24, 1857 ; Mary Ellen, born June 15, 1859; Martha Pauline, born May 21, 1861. 7. Char- ity G., born May 8, 1825, married, first, Nath- aniel Jordan ; second, William T. Rolfe; chil- dren: Susan and John. 8. Captain Benjamin Jesse, born October 30, 1828, married, first, Lois Goold; second Henrietta Gardiner ; she was born March 14, 1839, died November 19, 1885, aged forty-six years. He lived in Port- land, Maine, had no children, died April 4, 1899. 9. Susan D., born November 20, 1831, married Caleb Willard; she died December I, 1886; children : Elizabeth, Mary F., Warren. IO. Captain Charles Joseph, born December 7, 1834, married 1861, Ellen Elizabeth Graff- am; he was lost at sea in March, 1872, aged forty-seven years ; children : Samuel W., born August 17, 1862, died August 1, 1873 ; Charles Wilton, born August 7, 1868, died May I, 1869; Charles Joseph, born April 26, 1872. II. Captain Henry E., born November 9, 1837, married Appia D. Loveitt ; children : Charles H., Albert, and Amelia.
John (3) and Margaret (True) Graffam had four children : Enoch, born March 30, 1836, married Lemara C. Washburn, January 24, 1856; Robert, born September 18, 1837, mar- ried Mary A. Custin, and died March 10, 1860; Joseph A., born April 9, 1839, married Pa- trinea D. Morill, November 26, 1862; Harriet, born March 9, 1842.
James (3) Graffam and his wife, Dorcas Pillsbury, had thirteen children, all born at Cape Elizabeth, Maine; children: Rebecca, born September 26, 1826. Solomon Berry, born July 10, 1827, married in 1848, and had ten children. George Henry, born September 9, 1828, married Mary Jane Clark May 13, 1853, and died March 25, 1878; had one child.
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Lucy Jane, born July 25, 1830, married in 1853, Joshua Pillsbury, born October I, 1829, died December 31, 1892; had two children. Barsheba, born September 9, 1832, married March 8, 1857, John Berry, born September 23, 1831 ; no children. Daniel Pillsbury, born December 26, 1834; married Annie Scott ; had three children. Margaret, born May 30, 1837, married Gustavus Woodsum; he died aged fifty-four years; she died January 1, 1899; no children. Joshua P., born September 26, 1839, died July 22, 1841. Joshua P., born May 10, 1842, died unmarried, March 31, 1865; he was in the battle of Petersburg. Mary, born Au- gust 25, 1843. James Osgood, born Septem- ber 10, 1845, married Mary Jane Hall, and had seven children. Benjamin J., born Sep- tember 18, 1847, married Clara Paul, of Rock- land. Sarah L., born October 8, 1850, mar- ried George L. Goold, January 14, 1873; had one child.
Peter (3) Graffam, fourth child of Enoch (2) and Charity (Mayberry) Graffam, mar- ried, first, in 1812, Betsey Boston, who was born in 1791, and died February 9, 1833. He married for his second wife, in 1834, Jane Jel- lison, who died April 10, 1853, aged seventy years. He died June 17, 1870, aged eighty- three years. He had five children by each marriage. His children by his first wife Betsey Boston were: William H., born 1814 (Decem- ber 31), who died March 8, 1875; Rebecca, born 1816 (November 28) ; Mary Jane, born October 24, 1818, died young; James, born 1821 (September 13), married Louisa Smith, and had three children-Sarah Jane, Shirley E., and James, Jr .; and Mary Jane, second, born June 24, 1824, died January 4, 1903, mar- ried November 26, 1846, Henry Witham, and had two children ; Mary E., born May 22, 1854, married first, George Young, of Windham, and had two children; she married again, John Colby Mayberry, of Windham, and had two sons. Sadie H., born December 31, 1857, mar- ried 1894, A. A. Maines, of Raymond. Henry Witham served in the civil war, and was killed in the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. His widow married Josiah Webb, of Casco, Maine. By his second wife, Jane Jellison, Peter (3) Graffam had: Betsey, born January 19, 1835, (who married in 1853, Ebenezer Proctor, and had three children ; Charles, born August 16, 1857 : Arthur, born July 29, 1861 ; Irvin, born May 9, 1865) ; Henry, born December 19, 1836; Barsheba, born 1839; Mark, born 1841, and Eliza, born 1843. Henry Graffam was mustered into the United States service (Sev- enteenth Maine Regiment) August 18, 1862,
and served in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (three days), Warpen Heights, Mine Run, Locust Grove, Wilderness (May 5, 1864, where he was wounded), Deep Bottom, Bull Run, Hatcher's Run, and Petersburg (April 2-3, 1864). He was mustered out June 10, 1865.
William Henry Graffam, eldest child of Peter and Betsey (Boston) Graffam, was born December 31, 1814. He married November 9, 1842, Charlotte Gardner, of Otisfield, Maine, a daughter of Richard and Eleanor (Johnson) Gardner. Richard Gardner, who was born December 9, 1772, went from Saccarappa to Otisfield in 1800, and died March 12, 1853. His wife Eleanor, who was born August 20, 1778, died in Naples, Maine, in May, 1859. William H. Graffam and his wife Charlotte lived on the Gardner homestead at Otisfield. They had five children-Ellen Elizabeth, Sarah Adeline, Peter, William, Henry and Edwin Mayberry. Ellen Elizabeth, born De- cember 26, 1843, married in 1861, Captain Charles J. Willard, of Cape Elizabeth, and lived on the old Willard homestead at Cape Elizabeth; their children were: Samuel W., born August 17, 1862, who died May 1, 1873 ; Charles W., born August 7, 1868, who died September 18, 1869; and Charles J., born April 26, 1872. Sarah Adeline, born August IO, 1847, married October 9, 1867, Charles L. Abbott, of Brunswick, Maine, born 1840, a son of Lewis and Dorcas Abbott. Her children were: Lewis, born at Cape Elizabeth, August 3, 1868, died October 20, 1868; Charles Wood- bury, born at Naples, April 10, 1869; William Henry, born at Bath, May 16, 1871; Edward, born at South Thomaston, Maine, March IO, 1873; Martha Ellen, born at Vinalhaven, Maine, April 2, 1878.
(VII) Peter Graffam, son of William Henry Graffam (6), was born August 5, 1849, in Otisfield, Maine. He was educated in the public schools of Naples and Portland, Maine, and at a commercial college in Boston. In 1875 he removed to Malden, Massachusetts, and engaged in the contracting and building business on his own account. Among oth- er contracts he had the building of the Maplewood school building and the factory of the Boston Rubber Company. After ten years of successful business in Malden and vicinity he took several larger contracts in Boston, and engaged in the real estate busi- ness on a large scale. He promoted building and the development of the Back Bay section of Boston, Beacon street, and Huntington and Commonwealth avenues. In 1889 he bought
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twelve acres of land in Roxbury, and has built seventy houses there. He had twelve acres in Brookline, where he has built and placed on the market sixty-five houses. He built Hotel Graffam, Beacon and Dartmouth streets, in 1891, in Boston. After a remarkably active and successful career in real estate, Mr. Graff- am retired, and has since been occupied in the care of his rented property and other invest- ments.
He has resided in Malden since 1875. His home is at 181 Clifton street. He is a Repub- lican in politics, but has had no time to spare from business to hold public office. He is a director in the Malden Trust Company. He is an active member and for twenty years trustee of the Methodist Episcopal chur n, and took an active part in the building of the present edifice, and he is a prominent member of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is also a member of Mount Vernon Lodge Free and Accepted Masons; Melrose Council; and Beauseant Commandery, Knights Templar, of Malden ; and Sons of the American Revolution.
He married, November 12, 1879, Alice Susan Tufts, born in Malden, December 30, 1851, daughter of Edward and Susan (White) Tufts. Edward Tufts was born in Medford, April 28, 1815. Later he removed to Malden, where he followed his trade of blacksmithing. His political affiliations were with the Republican party. He married, February 20, 1844, Susan White, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, died De- cember 31, 1866, and they were the parents of: 1. Edward, born in Malden, December 4, 1844. He is a foreman in a last factory. He married Ella Kite, of Connecticut, and they have chil- dren : Marian Lina and Edward Harold. 2. George Francis, born August 10, 1847, died May 22, 1891, dry goods merchant of Malden ; he married Etta J. Winship, and had one daughter, Jennie Barnard, born May 30, 1873, who married Frederick M. Bartlett, of Marl- boro, Massachusetts. 3. Alice Susan, who married Mr. Graffam. 4. Austin Noyes, born December 21, 1859, died February, 1863. David Tufts, grandfather of Mrs. Graffam, was born at Malden, August 28, 1753; mar- ried, March 31, 1784, Elizabeth Pratt, of Mal- den; died November 28, 1804. Stephen Tufts, great-grandfather of Mrs. Graffam, was born in 1710, died in Malden, December 5, 1785; he married Catherine born in 1714; died June 23, 1787. John Tufts, great-great- grandfather of Mrs. Graffam, was the son of Peter Tufts, of Charlestown, who was the em- igrant ancestor. (See sketch of Tufts family elsewhere in this work.) John Tufts married
Mary Putnam, who died May 28, 1728. Their children were born in Medford and Malden, whither he removed in 1705-6.
Peter and Alice Susan (Tufts) Graffam have had children: I. Grace Ellen, born No- vember 18, 1881. She was educated in the Malden schools and at the Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts. 2. George Fran- cis, born December 5, 1884, died April 23, 1891.
William Henry Graffam (second), real es- tate dealer, Malden, born February 10, 1852, married in Malden, January 19, 1887, Mary L. Worcester, daughter of Leigh R. and Ann B. Worcester, of Malden. Born in Ipswich, Mas- sachusetts, October 24, 1860, she died July 8, 1892, aged thirty-one years. They had two children ; a son, born May 30, 1889, who died June 2, 1889; and a daughter, Lizzie Leigh, born May 28, 1890.
Edwin Mayberry Graffam, real estate dealer, Malden, born February II, 1854, is unmarried (1908), and resides in Malden.
The surname Pattee is vari-
PATTEE ously spelled in the early records Pettee, Petty, Patty
and Pattee. According to family tradition the progenitor was a French Huguenot who set- tled in the Isle of Jersey when he fled from France.
(I) Sir William Pattee, the ancestor of this family, was a prominent physician. He was physician to Cromwell under the Common- wealth, and later to King Charles the Second also. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society established by the physicians, and he was knighted in 1660. He was a copious writer on political economy and is mentioned as an authority in Macaulay's History of Eng- land.
(II) Peter Pattee, son of Sir William Pat- tee (I), was born in Lansdown, England, in 1648. In 1669, on account of certain political notions which he entertained, he found it necessary to take a hasty departure from his country, and he settled in Virginia. In 1676 or 1677 he left Virginia, possibly from domes- tic troubles, as we find him accused of leav- ing a wife in Virginia, after he had married in Massachusetts. The merits or the disposition of the charge do not appear. He apparently won his case, for he was a citizen of Haver- hill the remainder of his life. In November, 1677, he took the prescribed oath of fidelity and allegiance to England. We are told that he established the ferry which still bears his
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name and that it was the first in the town of Haverhill. Somewhere he had picked up the trade of shoemaker, and at the annual town meeting of Haverhill, in the spring of 1677, a year after an application of William Thomp- son asked "to be accepted a Townsman, to dwell here and follow his trade of shoe-mak- ing" had been refused, Pattee made a similar application and met with the same refusal. The record of the transaction is : "Petter Patie making a motion to the town to grant him a piece of land to settle upon, it not being till then known to the town that he was a married man and a stranger, having hitherto accounted of him as a journeyman shoe-maker, his mo- tion, according to law, was rejected. And the Moderator declared to him before the public assembly that the town doth not own him, or allow of him for an inhabit- ant of Haverhill, & that it was the duty of the Grand-jury men to look after him." But this was in line with a general custom in the towns at that period. The very best famili- lies, when removing from one town to an- other, were. according to this custom, "warned out," so that in case any of the fam- ily became paupers they would not have a legal residence where they dwelt. As a rule no attention was paid to these warnings. Nor did the refusal of the people of Haverhill dis- courage Peter Pattee. He settled there and lived there the remainder of his life, even holding town offices at a later period. In 1680 he was presented to the court for being absent from his Virginia wife several years, but no record of action taken. Next year he was presented for having another wife in Vir- ginia. But this again seems to have had no effect on Pattee, and in 1694 we find him chosen to the important office of constable in Haverhill by a "Plentiful, clear and legal paper vote." As late as 1710 he was the regu- lar ferryman at "Pattee's Ferry." It appears that Pattee was the first shoemaker regularly to follow his trade in a place since famous for the manufacture of boots and shoes, for he paid no attention to the town vote. He was un- doubtedly of different faith and standards of life from the stern old Puritans of Haverhill who were in control. The same opposition to Pattee is shown when he asked to be accepted as a townsman, persisted, and in 1695 when he asked permission to erect a grist mill at East River Meadow he was refused. The reason given was that the town was under obligations to Currier & Greeley, who were also in the mill business. But if tradition is correct he built a mill at Haverhill, one of
the earliest in that town. He had a tavern in 1696 when Nathaniel Saltonstall complained that there were too many taverns licensed in the vicinity. His second wife was Sarah Gile, whom he married November 8, 1682. There is no record of children by the Virginia wife. Eight children were born in Haverhill be- tween July 28, 1683, and May 15, 1696, viz: I. Moses, born 1683. 2. Benjamin, died young. 3. Jeremiah. 4. Samuel, had a seat in the meeting house in 1709. 5. Hannah. 6. Mercy. 7. Jemima. 8. Benjamin, born May 15, 1696, mentioned below.
(III) Benjamin Pattee, son of Peter Pat- tee (2), was born May 15, 1696. He settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1745 he was the only one of the family remaining in Hav- erhill and paying taxes there.
(IV) Captain Asa Pattee, son of Benjamin Pattee, it is said, and certainly grandson of the redoubtable Peter Pattee (2), was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1732. He set- tled first at Goffstown, New Hampshire, and at about the close of the Revolution settled in Warner, New Hampshire. He was captain of a company in the old French and Indian war, and was present at the taking of Quebec in 1759, under General Wolfe against General Montcalm. In the Revolution he was a Loyal- ist, and the place of his residence in Warner came to be called from him Tory Hill. His residence was where the village of Warner is located and his was the first frame house built there. It is now called the Dr. Eaton house. In it for several years he kept hotel. He had the largest farm in the town, and raised much stock, cattle, sheep and horses. He became well-to-do, and notwithstanding political dif- ferences was highly esteemed and trusted by his townsmen. He was married twice and according to family tradition had twenty-two children by his second wife. Among his chil- dren were: I. John, born September 2, 1769, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, born about 1775, settled in Canaan, New Hampshire; father of Mrs. Daniel Bean and Mrs. Jacob Currier.
(V) John Pattee, son of Captain Asa Pat- tee (4), was born at Goffstown, New Hamp- shire, September 2, 1769, and died at Warner, New Hampshire, August 19, 1865. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the ustal common school education of his day. He removed to Warner, New Hampshire, about the time of his marriage in 1791. He bought the farm of his father and lived all the remainder of his life on the homestead on Tory Hill. It was the largest farm in the
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town, consisting of about five hundred acres about a mile and a half from the village to the north. He also owned a large tract of land on the side of the Lower Kearsarge Mountain on what was called the Gore. He raised large flocks of sheep and the wool was spun into yarn on the farm. He also raised cattle and horses for the market. He was a very devout man, and the visiting ministers of the town were in the habit of staying at his house. He knew the Bible by chapter and verse and was fluent in quoting from it. He enjoyed nothing more than a Scriptural argu- ment with a clerical guest, and often he was more than a match in Biblical learning and interpretation for his antagonists. He was a skilful penman, though the paper used in those days was costly and difficult to get. For ordinary purposes birch bark was used. He was called a natural physician and bone set- ter, so readily did he acquire the art, and often he was called in cases of sickness rather than physicians. He was an active and liberal member of the Baptist church of Warner, re- sponding to every proper call upon his purse in charitable ways. He served in the militia and was a Democrat in politics.
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