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(V) Benjamin Felch, son of Daniel Felch (4), was born March 28, 1754. He settled after the Revolution in Topsham, Vermont, about 1804. Married Sarah Campbell, who died in 1854 at Racine, Wisconsin, at the ad- vanced age of ninety-four years. They lived at Deering, New Hampshire, for a time and also at Francestown, where his brother John settled and lived in the north part of the town near the Deering line, until 1814, when he moved to Sutton, where he died two years later ; his wife Ruth Sweetser died September 5, 1826; they left many descendants in Francestown, and vicinity. Benjamin was a soldier in the Revolution in the company raised for the expedition against Canada in 1776 under Second Lieutenant Timothy Worthley, of Weare, Captain Dearborn's com- pany and Colonel Daniel Moore's regiment. His wife was a remarkable woman, retaining her faculties to the time of her death at the age of ninety-four, and possessing a wonderful memory. During her active life she was very energetic and industrious, and was always bright intellectually and an interesting con- versationalist.
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Children : I. Daniel, born at Deering, Octo- ber 27, 1780,mentioned below. 2. Hezekiah, re- sided at Topsham. 3. William, removed to Fillmore county, Minnesota. 4. Enos. 5. Eli. 6. Benjamin, born February 14, 1790, married Jerusha Steele Jackson, who died in 1864; he died in 1865; (of him, his son, Benjamin F. Felch, of Chicago, writes: "My Father, Ben- jamin Felch, was a healthy, robust man, five feet, ten inches in height, weighed one hun- dred and eighty to two hundred pounds, and measured forty-four inches around the chest. He was remarkable for his strength, especially the grip of his hands; he would catch a wild steer by the top of the neck with one hand and hold on until he could get hold of the horns ; I saw him once, when he was seventy years old, catch a shy horse by the mane and hold on until carried several rods, and the horse was glad to stop. He came from Topsham, Vermont, to Cattaraugus county, New York, when twenty-one years old. When he arrived, he had but one dollar in money and an ax as capital. He took a contract from the Holland Company for one hundred acres of land, which he afterwards paid for ; he cleared one hundred acres of very heavy timber land with his own hands; soon after commencing to clear his land, he married Jerusha Steele Jack- son, only daughter of Abraham Jackson. As the fruits of this union, twelve children were born to them, ten of whom lived to be men and women. He removed to Racine, Wiscon- sin, with his family about 1835, and settled about six miles southwest of Racine, where he bought quite a large tract of land ; about 1856 he removed to Steven's Point, Portage county, Wisconsin, where he died, aged nearly seven- ty-five, and was buried at Amherst, Wiscon- sin, with his wife and son.") 7. Mehitable. 8. Jane.
(VI) Daniel Felch, son of Benjamin Felch (5), was born in Deering, New Hampshire, October 27, 1780, and died February 26, 1845. He married Ruth Walker. His son, Benja- min F. Felch, writes of him: "Daniel Felch was born in Deering, New Hampshire. The facilities for culture during the period of his childhood and youth were poor, the school far away, the stucture rude, and the teacher not always master of the rudiments he endeavor- ed to teach; his literary acquirements conse- quently were small. He was six feet in height, very muscular, and possessing great physical ability. At the age of twenty-three he mar- ried Ruth Walker; by this union they were blessed with fourteen children, twelve of whom grew to the full stature of men and
women, eleven of whom married and have children. His pecuniary circumstances were such as to induce him to labor early and late, in wielding the ax, tilling the soil, or making shoes, to supply the needs of his large family, and by industry he acquired the frugal means of support. He was strongly imbued with a sense of his reliance upon God, and endeavor- ed so to live as to finally receive the welcome plaudit, 'Well done, good and faithful ser- vant.' He died while on a visit to his daugh- ter in Groton, Massachusetts, February 26, 1845, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and was buried at Mason Center, New Hamp- shire." Children: Betsey, Ruth, Ruhamah, Rhoda, Daniel, Henry, Levi, mentioned be- low; Sarah J., Mary, Hannah, Benjamin F., Andrew W., Mary J., Mercy.
(VII) Levi Felch, son of Daniel Felch (6), was born at Antrim, New Hampshire, May 18, 1813, and died April 18, 1890, in Ayer, Massachusetts. He was educated in the com- mon schools and raised on a farm. He learned the trade of machinist and followed his trade in Ayer, Massachusetts, for many years. In politics he was a Republican from the time that party was formed, but never sought pub- lic office. He was one of the original mem- bers of the Baptist church at Ayer, and active in church affairs throughout his life. He was engaged in the florist and market gardening business in his later years, and was very suc- cessful, especially with his green-houses, ac- quiring a fair competence. He married, No- vember 5, 1835, Clarissa M. Wright, in Goffs- town, New Hampshire. She died in Ayer, Massachusetts, January 21, 1896. Children : Eli and Eri (twins), born May 13, 1838. An- drew Walker, born in Lowell, October 8, 1845. Eugene A., born in Groton, September 3, 1849. Gilbert E., born in Lawrence, October 23, 1852. George Edgar, born September 22, 1855, mentioned below.
(VIII) George Edgar Felch, son of Levi Felch (7), was born September 22, 1855. He was educated in the public and high schools of Ayer, his native town. He established himself in the business of florist about 1878 and has followed this calling to the present time with uniform success, building up a large and flour- ishing trade. Mr. Felch is a Republican, but not active in politics. He is an active member and liberal supporter of the Baptist church. He is a well-known and highly esteemed citi- zen of Ayer. He married, January 2, 1886, Nellie Ann Fuzzard, born at Brighton, Massa- chusetts, May 18, 1859, daughter of John and Ann (Spinner) Fuzzard, natives of England.
JAMES RICKER
CATHARINE (MOORE ). RICKER
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Children : I. Edna Eliza, born September 29, 1886, died April 22, 1906. 2. George Alfred, born February 10, 1890. 3. Harold Edgar, born July 4, 1893. 4. Marion Josephine, born August 4, 1899.
Edwin Whitney Gay, deceased, for
GAY many years an active and successful business man of Newton, Massachu- setts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 7, 1845, son of Aaron Richards and Mary J. (Whitney) Gay.
Aaron Richards Gay (father) was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, October 9,' 1815, died at his home on Bacon street, Newton, April 7, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of Boston, and graduated at rne Bos- ton high school. He was a wholesale and re- tail stationer on State street, Boston, achieving therein a well merited degree of success. He removed from Boston to Newton in the year 1850, and took an active interest in its affairs up to the time of his death. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist church. He married (first), October 4, 1840, Mary J. Whitney, born May 28, 1818, at Lincoln, Massachusetts, died at Newton Corner, Massachusetts, Au- gust 4, 1850; she was the mother of Edwin Whitney Gay; married (second), October 13, 1853, Martha Ann Fisher, of Claremont, New Hampshire.
Edwin Whitney Gay removed to Newton with his father in 1850, and received his edu- cational training in the public and high schools thereof. He engaged in the stationery busi- ness with his father, first as clerk, and on the death of his father succeeded to the business, which he continued to conduct up to his death, September 24, 1902. He was a Republican in politics, and represented the seventh ward in the common council of Newton, 1880-81-82-83, and presided over that body for a portion of that time. He served in the Federal army in the Civil war, and was a member of the Charles Ward Post, Grand Army of the Re- public. He affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity, was a member and past master of Dal- housie Lodge of Newton, and a Knight Tem- plar, Gethsemane Commandery. He was a member of the Newton, Hunnewell and Mon- day Evening clubs. He was married in New- ton, June 14, 1884, to Maria Moore, daughter of James and Catherine (Moore) Ricker. There was no issue of this marriage.
James Ricker, father of Mrs. Gay, was born at Hartford, Maine, about the year 1801, died at Newton, Massachusetts, November 13.
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1860, aged fifty-nine years. He was one of a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters, of whom two are living at the present time (1907), namely: Albion, aged ninety-two, resides at Turner, Maine; Asia, aged eighty-two, resides at Worcester, Massa- chusetts. James Ricker received his educa- tional training in the schools of his native town, and upon attaining manhood took up the practical duties of life. Upon taking up his residence in Newton, Massachusetts, he engaged at farming, acquiring the old Moore farm, formerly the homestead of his mother- in-law, Mrs. Henrietta (Durant) Moore, and here he spent the remaining years of his ac- tive life. He was successful in his undertak- ing, being a man of industry and thrift, and he was highly respected by his fellow-citizens for his many sterling qualities. He took an active interest in the material and moral wel- fare of his adopted city, was actively connect- ed with its advancement along educational lines, and served in the capacity of selectman. He was a Whig in politics until the formation of the Republican party, to which he hence- forth gave his allegiance, and in religion was a Congregationalist, as was also his wife.
James Ricker was married at Newton, Mas- sachusetts, in 1833, to Catherine Moore, who was born at the Moore homestead at Newton, Massachusetts, 1798, died there in April, 1883. Two children were the issue of this marriage : Maria Moore, widow of Edwin Whitney Gay. Henrietta Durant, born in 1834, died at New- ton, Massachusetts, September 16, 1880.
Anthony Morse, the immigrant MORSE ancestor of the honorable family of Morses in America, was born about 1606, son of Anthony Morse, of Marl- borough, England, born about 1575, and the progenitor of names that became conspicuous
in American history, including: Jedediah Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Edward Sylves- ter Morse, Sidney Edward Morse, George Washington Morse and numerous others who have enriched the world by their attainments in various walks of life. Anthony Morse, Jr., came from Wiltshire, England, to the New England Colonies, tak- ing ship at Southampton, England, on board the "Susan and Ellen," March II, 1635, and having as fellow passengers the Thomas Park- er Colony, and Morse landed with them and other colonists in (Lynn), Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1635, and settled in Newbury.
(II) Benjamin Morse, born in 1640, son of
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Anthony Morse, married Ruth Sawyer, of Newbury.
(III) Benjamin Morse, Jr., son of Benja- min and Ruth (Sawyer) Morse, was born in Newbury in 1688, married Susanna Merrill, and died 1743.
(IV) Captain Abel Morse, son of Benja- min, Jr., and Susanna (Merrill) Morse, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1692, married Grace Parker in 1714, removed to Chester, New Hampshire, about 1745. He was captain of the Colonial Company at Ches- ter, and the first representative from Rocking- ham county to the general court of New Hampshire.
(V) Stephen Morse, son of Abel and Grace (Parker) Morse, was born in Newbury in 1723, removed with his parents to Chester, New Hampshire, married Abigail, daughter of Captain Samuel Ingalls, an original pro- prietor of the town of Chester, New Hamp- shire, and died in 1807.
(VI) Peter Morse, son of Stephen and Abi- gail (Ingalls) Morse, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, in 1774, married Sarah Brown, a direct descendant of the first Browns who landed at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Col- ony. He died in 1862.
(VII) Peter Morse, Jr., known as Captain Peter Morse, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, in 1801, son of Peter and Sarah (Brown) Morse. He went to sea early in life in the East India and Mediterranean service, and at one time commanded a vessel owned by Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. He was in this service as boy and man, 1816-40, and was married, in 1838, to Mary E., daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Page) Randall. They migrated to the Ohio Valley in 1840, and set- tled at Lodi, Athens county, Ohio. Peter Morse died in 1879.
(VIII) George Washington Morse, son of Captain Peter and Mary E. (Randall) Morse, was born in Lodi, Athens county, Ohio, Au- gust 24, 1845. He was a pupil in the prepara- tory department of Oberton College, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts ; and Ches- ter Academy, Chester, New Hampshire. While a student at Haverhill, Massachusetts, the civil war broke out, and in May, 1861, although less than sixteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in the old Second Massachusetts Regi- ment that had offered its services to Governor Andrew for three years' service, and the regi- ment went into camp on the Brooks Farm at Roxbury, and after a few weeks drill was mustered into the United States Volunteer service in the Second Massachusetts Volun-
teer Infantry, and marched to the front to take a place in the Army of the Potomac, and after two and a half years' service in that army, the regiment was transferred to the command of General Joseph Hooker, who, with the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps, was sent to the relief of General Rosecrans at Chatta- nooga, and the two corps consolidated as the Twentieth Corps, defeated the Confederates at Wauhatchie, marched into Lookout Valley, October 27-28, 1863, and on November 24, 1863, the corps, aided by Osterhaus and Crabb, scaled the heights and fought the "bat- tle above the clouds." Hooker then joined Sherman in pursuit of the Confederates into Georgia, and fought the stubborn battle of Ringgold, Georgia, November 27, 1863; Snake Hill Gap, May 8, 1864; Rocky-face Mountain, May 9, 1864; Resaca, May 13, 1864; Dallas, May 27-28, 1864; and Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864. Hooker, being re- lieved of his command after the battle of Peach Tree Creek, the Twentieth Corps con- tinued with Sherman's army through Georgia and to the sea, and thence by South and North Carolina to the last battle of the war at Ben- tonville, North Carolina, March 18, 1865, and the consequent surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston's army, April 26, 1865. He had entered the army when fifteen years and nine months old, and when Johnston surrendered he was nineteen years and eight months old, and he had been promoted from the ranks through the non-commissioned offices to the commissioned office of lieutenant, and he had command of a company when the regiment was mustered out, the youngest officer who ever served in the regiment. Four months of his time of service had been passed as prisoner of war in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, and on Belle Isle, but he had never been ab- sent from a battle in which his regiment en- gaged. He was not only the youngest by three years of any man in his company, but the only one left on the call of the original muster roll to receive a commission. The Second Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, lost. upon the battle field in killed and wounded, nearly one thousand men, not including those who died of disease contracted while in the service.
On returning home in July, 1865, he attend- ed Phillips Academy, Andover, for one year, and entered Dartmouth College in the Chand- ler Scientific Department, sophomore class, and completed the studies of the sophomore and junior years when he was twenty-three years of age. He determined to forego the senior year and diploma, to give that year to
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the study of law, and he was a law student in the office of Charles S. Stevens, Clinton, Mas- sachusetts, and while a resident of Clinton, he edited and published the Ashland Advertiser, 1868. In 1869 he removed to Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1869. He practiced his profession with George Bemis, and subsequently took a course in law in Paris at the Ecole de Droit, and at the Sor- borne, and he practiced alone at Ashland, Massachusetts, which had been his home from 1868, retaining his law office and practice in Boston. He was connected with the Boston, Hartford & Erie litigation as counsel; with N. C. Munson, the railroad contractor, in or- ganizing railroad corporations ; with the prom- inent leather houses of Boston which met dis- aster in 1883; with the Thompson-Houston and General Electric Companies, 1889-96, as special counsel, and he was prominently con- nected with other capitalists in organizing the street railroad connecting Newton, Waltham, Lexington and Concord and other points in Middlesex county. He was also employed as counsel in reorganizing railroad systems cen- tering at Macon, Georgia, and Knoxville, Tennessee. At home he was counsel for the Central Massachusetts Railroad Company, and in the consolidation with the Boston & Maine, had charge of the legal matters of the Central Massachusetts. He served the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts as a representa- tive from Newton in the general court, 1880 and 1882, declining further public office. He was for several years president of the Miorse Society ; was a member of the Newton Club, the Algonquin Club of Boston, and the Boston Bar Association. His military service secured him companionship in the Massachusetts Com- mandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and comradeship in Charles Ward Post; 62, Grand Army of the Republic, of which organization he was past- commander. He was also a member of the Sons of the Revolution, his ancestors, John Lane, Francis John, Solomon Brown, and John Page, having been promoted in the Con- cord and Lexington engagements, April 19, 1775, and his colonial ancestors, both in the Page, Lane and Brown families, the Shaw- sheen Cemetery at Bedford attests on numer- ous tombstones as to the commissioned and non-commissioned officers who served in the Indian, Colonial and Revolutionary wars. His direct ancestor, Nathaniel Page, the immi- grant, settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1685, was first sheriff of Suffolk
county, removed to Bedford, Middlesex coun- ty, in 1688, where he purchased a large tract of land, a considerable part of which was in the family as late as 1907. His son, Nathaniel, married Susanna Lane, a direct descendant from
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(I) Job Lane, the immigrant, who came from Rickmansworth, England, in 1635, and settled in that part of Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, organized as the town of Billerica, May 29, 1655, and as the town Bedford, September 23, 1729. He purchased a part of the Gover- nor Winthrop estate in the Concord river.
(II) John Lane, son of Job Lane, the immi- grant, was the first military officer in the col- ony, commissioned colonel by the crown. He commanded the militia of Middlesex county for many years, and had numerous engage- ments with the Indians, and one of the daugh- ters was made famous in the history of the early Indian warfare in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(III) Susanna Lane, daughter of Colonel John Lane, was married November 6, 1701, to Nathaniel Page, son of Nathaniel Page, the immigrant, who settled in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, in 1686; removed to Bedford in 1688, and was a large land owner.
(IV) John Page, son of Nathaniel and Su- sanna (Lane) Page, was born October II, 1704. He was a man of extraordinary stature and strength, and at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, aided in capturing six British regulars. He was also present at Bunker Hill, June 19, 1775, and took part in the defence of the American position. He married Rebecca Wheeler, of Concord, and their son, Nathaniel Page (of the fourth generation), was born June 20, 1742, was married December 15, 1774, to Sarah, daughter of James Brown, of Lexington, born March 24, 1747, granddaugh- ter of John Brown, of Wat Farm, and of Cambridge, who was born 1631, married Es- ther Makepeace, April 24, 1655, and great- granddaughter of John Brown, the immigrant. baptized at Hawkedon, England, October 11, 1601, son of John Brown, arrived in Massa- chusetts Bay Colony as a passenger on the Ship "Lion," 1632, and settled at Wat Farm. afterward Weston, Middlesex county. Massa- chusetts. Sarah Brown's uncle, John Brown, was killed at the first fire of the British at Lexington Green, April 19, 1775, and her brother, Solomon Brown, brought the first information of the intended march of the British into Lexington, took part in the Lex- ington fight, volunteered to watch the progress of the British soldiers from Lexington toward
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Concord, and was captured while on this duty, and managed to escape. Her cousin Francis, son of James Brown, was "one of the gallant band which boldly stood before the British troops on the memorable 19th of April, 1775. He met the enemy in the morning and on their flight from Concord, Brown received a severe wound, the ball entering his cheek and pass- ing under his ear, lodged in the back of his neck. Notwithstanding this, he commanded the Lexington Company in 1776, and lived for twenty-five years." Another of George Wash- ington Morse's immigrant ancestors, Mr. Thomas Makepeace, appeared at Boston in 1637, and was allotted a house plot and gar- den plan, which in the survey of the town was located on Hanover street near Court street. He was a person of consequence and wealth, hence this name, "Mr. Thomas Makepeace," and was one of the oldest members of the An- cient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. About 1641 he removed to Dorches- ter, where he owned an estate. He was one of the first to advocate free schools, served in an expedition against the Indians of Narra- gansett, and tradition gives to him the posses- sion of noble blood and connection with the Washingtons of Solgrave Manor, England, of whom George Washington was a descend- ant. Thomas Makepeace's daughter Hester married John Brown, the ancestor by several removes of Sarah Brown, who married Na- thaniel Page of the fourth generation. An- other of the immigrant ancestors of George Washington Morse was John Wilde, who came from England on the "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635, and settled in the town of Ips- wich, which town was established August 5, 1634, from common land called Agawam. He subsequently removed to Topsfield, also in Essex county. His descendant in the fourth generation, Millie Wilde, married Samuel Randall, of Stowe, and their son, Samuel Ran- dall, married Sarah Page, born May 22, 1777, daughter of Nathaniel Page, of the fourth generation from Nathaniel Page, the immi- grant, 1686. Mary E. Randall, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Page) Randall, married Captain Peter Morse, father of George Wash- ington Morse. See "Lane and Page Me- morial" with illustrations of old family home- steads, including the one at Rickmansworth, England, compiled by George Washington Morse, and of which only four typewritten copies were made, and one of these deposited in the State Library of the Historic Genealogi- cal Society, Boston, Mr. Morse retaining one copy as an heirloom for his family, and pre-
senting one to Lucius Page Lane, son of Jon- athan Abbot Lane, merchant of Boston, and a direct descendant of Job Lane, the immigrant.
Mr. Morse was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Middlesex Club, the Newton Club, and the Boston Athletic Association. He was one of the organizers of the Newtonville Trust Company, the Newton Land and Im- provement Company, the Newton Real Estate Association, and the Newton Electric Light. and Power Company. He was one of the members of the syndicate that presented the Bulloughs Pond Park to the city of Newton. He profitably spent five years in travel and ex- ploration in Europe, Asia and Africa, and in. the education of his children in the schools of Europe. His alma mater, Dartmouth Co ?- lege, conferred on him the degree of B. S., 1879; A. M., 1889. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, having taken all the York and Scottish rite degrees. On his fourth tour of the old world, and his first around the world, he died suddenly of pneumonia at Marseilles, France, April, 1905, and his remains were sent to his home with military and Masonic- honors, and interred in Shawsheen cemetery,. Bedford, Massachusetts, where his distin- guished ancestors had sepulture.
George W. Morse was married October 20,- 1870, to Clara R., daughter of James Henry and Amanda Church (Berry) Boit, (See sketch following), of Newton, Massachusetts,. granddaughter of John and Rebecca (Wes- son) Boit, and their children, all born in New- tonville, Massachusetts, were eight in number,. six of whom reached maturity.
BOIT John Boit appeared in Boston. about 1760, married and became first a grocer and then a West In- dia merchant. As he was nineteen years of age when he arrived in Boston, his birth year may be fixed as 1733. He accumulated prop- erty in Boston, and the house in which he lived he owned, and it was situated on Green street, and his land extended back of his house. to the mill pond located near the present Hay- market Square. Paul Revere mentions John. Boit as a well known citizen of his time. His next door neighbor on Green street, John Du- ballet, was a wealthy French merchant and married a daughter of John Boit by his first wife. This friendship and alliance may lead us to suppose they were both of French ori- gin, and their business was identical, they be- ing joint owners of considerable real estate in. Boston. He married as his first wife, in 1762,.
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