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Mr. Edgar was a refined gentleman, of ex- emplary character, and was one of Waverly's most respected citizens. He and his family were members of the Episcopal church. He was a Republican, and never sought public office. He was cemetery commissioner, filling
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the position to the satisfaction of all for a number of years. He was a member of Bel- mont Lodge of Free Masons and received the Royal Arch degree December 17, 1900, at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He became a Knight Templar in Coeur de Lion Command- ery at Charlestown. He was a member of Trapelo Lodge, No. 238, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of Waverly Council, No. 313, Royal Arcanum; of the Gardeners' and Flor- ists' Club of Boston; of the Flower Growers' Co-operative Association of Boston.
Mr. Edgar was thrice married; his first marriage was to Mary Ann Martin, December 31, 1873 ; he married (second), Ellen Noonan, born 1860, died May 2, 1892, daughter of Dennis and Ellen (O'Brien) Noonan. He married (third), December 12, 1894, Rose Helena Farmer, born in Montgomeryshire, North Wales, October 8, 1866, daughter of John and Frances (Morris) Farmer, of Mont- gomeryshire. Her father was a mason by trade. Children of the first wife: I. William Wallace, Jr., born November 29, 1874. 2. Grace Elizabeth, born January 28, 1881, mar- ried, March 15, 1905, James McHutchison, of Jersey City, New Jersey. 3. Robert Stewart, born January 22, 1882, married Bertha Milton, of Waverley, Massachusetts. 4. John Frank- lin, born October 14, 1885. 5. Mary Flor- ence, born June 5, 1888, died August 17, 1889. 6. Helen Margaret, born February 22, 1890. 7. Kathleen (twin), born April 30, 1892, died August 23, 1892. 8. Pauline (twin), born April 30, 1892. Children of the third wife: 9. Emelie Francis, born June 28, 1897. 10. Kath- erine Farmer, born March 20, 1907.
BRIGHT (I) Deacon Henrie Bright was born in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, England, and baptized December 29, 1602. His father, Henry Bright, was son of Thomas and Margaret (Jervis) Bright ; grandson of Walter Bright, a parishioner of St. Mary's church, Bury St. Edmund's, and who died in 1550, great-grand- son, with but little doubt, of John Bright, malster, who lived in the parish of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's, in the time of Henry VII. To Thomas Bright, Jr., of the parish of St. James, Bury St. Edmund's, was confirmed in 1615 a coat-of-arms which was emblazoned with a dragon's head vomiting flames. As it was ornamented with escallops, it is reasonable to be supposed to have been adopted in the time of the Crusades. There are family por- traits of the Brights at Nutherhall, one of full
length being in armour. A portrait of Thomas Bright, who had numerous landed estates, and was buried September 1, 1587, was procured by the corporation of Bury St. Andrew's, and hangs in Guild Hall. Henry and Marie Bright had several children, including Robert, who lived in London, but the male line in England became extinct by the death of all his sons without issue, except Henrie, who was the first of the name in America. There is much evidence that he came with the Winthrop par- ty in 1630, as his name appears as the forty- eighth in the list of members of the First Church in Boston, which was made up of members from the First Church in Charles Towne. He appears on May 6, 1635, as an admitted freeman of the town of Watertown. Between 1640 and 1667 his name appears in the town records several times as selectman, and when eighty-two years of age he was a juror, July 22, 1684, on the court of assistants. In his church office of deacon two years later, while carting chairs and other articles from the church where they had been used in the ordination of the Rev. William Bailey, he received injuries from which he died, October 9, 1686. He left the homestead property to his son John, but on John's death and the marriage of John's widow, it went to his second son, Nathaniel.
(II) Nathaniel Bright, second son and sev- enth child of Deacon Henrie and Anna (Gouldstone) Bright, was born March 5, 1647. He was proprietor of a tanyard in the north- ern part of Watertown, in addition to the homestead, and on his death, May II, 1726, the homestead, under his will, went to his brother Henry. Nathaniel Bright was mar- ried July 26, 1681, to Mary, daughter of Sam- uel and Hannah (Barron) Coolidge, and granddaughter of Ellis Barron, of Watertown, and they had ten children born between the years 1682 and 1698. Of these, Mary mar- ried Deacon Thomas Livermore, of Waltham, in 1704; Henry married Margaret Jackson, of Newton: John married Rebecca Wain ; Jo- seph married Elizabeth Elliot ; Hannah mar- ried Jonas Bond; Abigail married John Brown; Mercy married John Coolidge, 1726.
(III) Nathaniel Bright, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Coolidge) Bright, was born in Watertown, December 28, 1686. He enlarged the tanyard inherited from his father and added to the property by purchase. He mar- ried Anna, daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Ann (Barnerd) Bowman, and they had six children : Anne, born 1715, married Daniel Brown, of Lexington, 1736; Nathaniel (q. v.) ;
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was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, August, 1793, and received his education in Waltham. He was married in 1817 to Abigail Fiske, who was born in Waltham, November 13, 1794, and died in Mobile, Alabama, November 26, 1833. Henry Bright was a merchant in St. Stephens, Alabama, and subsequently in Mo- bile, Alabama, and with interests in Selma. His wife, Abigail Fiske, died in Mobile, Ala- bama, and he was married secondly to Emeline M. Pinney, of Simsbury, Connecticut.
(VII) William Ellery Bright, son of Henry and Abigail (Fiske) Bright, was born in Mo- bile, Alabama, September, 1831. He was given an excellent academic school training, and 1852-53 made a voyage to California as a seaman before the mast on the famous clip- per ship "Flying Cloud." In 1855 he became member of the firm which then became Torrey, Bright & Copen, dealers in carpetings, on Washington street, Boston.
February 28, 1861, he married his cousin, Elizabeth Gar- brance Bright, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Huguenin (Garbrance) Bright, and they had three children : I. Mary Huguenin Bright, born in Waltham, May 7, 1862, married, De- cember 19, 1893, to Henry Haynie, a journal- ist, and for some time Paris correspondent of the Boston Herald, Chicago Herald, New Or- leans Picayune, and San Francisco Chronicle. They made their home in Newton, Massachu- setts, and two children, Hylda Haynie, born May 14, 1895, and Helen Haynie, born Feb- ruary 22, 1898, were born of the marriage. 2. William Ellery Bright, born in Waltham, October 6, 1864, married Josephine Boerum Jackson, of New York, October 8, 1889, and they had three children : Elizabeth Garbrance, born January 14, 1891; William Ellery, Jr., born April 10, 1892, and Jackson Van Renss- elaer, born October 7, 1899. 3. Bertha Tyrell Bright, born in Waltham, January 28, 1871, who made her home with her mother in the family residence on Main street, Waltham. William Ellery Bright, Sr., died at his home in Waltham on March 12, 1882.
(VIII) Elizabeth Garbrance (Bright) Bright, daughter of Jonathan Brown and Mary Huguenin (Garbrance) Bright, and grand- daughter of Peter and Jane (Van Buskirk) Garbrance, and of Lawrence and Jane (Van Buskirk) Van Buskirk, was educated in New York city and Boston, living in New York city up to 1843, when she came to Boston, where she completed her education and was married February 28, 1861, to her cousin, William Ellery Bright, merchant (q. v.). She
was of Dutch extraction, being descended from Horperd Gerrebrants through his son Pieter Gerrebrants, who was born in Belleville, New Jersey, and baptized by the Dutch Reformed minister of Hackensack, New Jersey, January 31, 1725, removed on attaining manhood to New York city, where he was married in 1750 to Catherine, daughter of Chasuerus and Hil- pah (Cooper) Turk, of New York. The Turk family were emigrants from the Lower Pal- atinate, settling both on Manhattan Island and at Albany. Pieter Gerrebrants (1754-1815) anglicized the family name by spelling it Gar- brance. He married Jane, daughter of Law- rence and Jane (Van Buskirk) Van Buskirk. The Van Buskirks were early settlers of the Hudson River Valley. Lawrence Van Buskirk served in the British army during the revolu- tion, as did many of the wealthy class in and about New York city, and at the close of the war his property was confiscated, and he fled to Nova Scotia with other loyalists, and was granted lands in that province in consideration of his services and the losses he had incurred by loyalty to the crown. Another of the fam- ily, Colonel Abraham Van Buskirk, served under Arnold in his expedition to New Lon- don, September 7, 1781, being lieutenant-col- onel of the Third Battalion of New Jersey (loyalists) volunteers, found refuge in Nova Scotia, as did the Garbrances also, who were loyalists, and had their property confiscated.
SNOW George Walter Snow, son of Har- mon and Sarah Sears Deming Snow, grandson of the Rev. Amos Deming, of. Wethersfield, Connecticut, and of Simeon Snow, born in Mansfield, Bristol coun- ty, Massachusetts, and removed to Savoy, Berkshire county, Massachusetts; he was a pioneer manufacturer of nails at Mansfield, the first of which he made on an anvil under a hand hammer. He then removed to a large farm in Berkshire county, and carried on the farm until his death about 1854. He married Polly Phillips, of Mansfield, and they had six children : I. Simeon, Jr., married successive- ly two sisters, and had children: Jacob, Leslie, Charles, Horatio, Margaret, Eliza and Anson Snow. He lived in the town of Root, New York. 2. Hannah. 3. Harmon (q. v.). 4. Abigail, who did not marry. 5. Delsie, mar- ried William Dunham and had one son, Ran- som. 6. Russell, who married twice and had children, Zarina; Edward and Leslie.
Harmon, son of Simeon and Polly ( Phillips)
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Snow, born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary, 1807 ; married twice ; his first wife died leaving two sons, Richard H. and Henry A. Snow, and his second wife, Sarah Sears, daughter of Amos Deming, a Baptist minister of Savoy, Massachusetts, bore him two chil- dren: I. Sarah Abbie, who married Nathan B. Baker, a soldier in the Civil war. 2. George Walter (q. v.). Amos Deming, who mar- ried (first) Edna Kinney, and lived in Che- shire, Massachusetts. They had four children : Arthur Harmon, Harry, Abbe, who graduated at Adams high school, and Walter, a graduate of the grammar school. Edna Kinney died about 1895, and he married (second) Nettie Drake, and had no children. Amos Deming Snow was engaged in business in North Ad- ams, Massachusetts, and lived in Adams, Mas- sachusetts, in 1907.
George Walter Snow, son of Harmon and Sarah Sears (Deming) Snow, was born in Savoy, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, De- cember 24, 1848. He attended the public schools, and at the age of twenty-one (1869) removed to Newton, Massachusetts, but worked in the mahogany mills of Palmer Park- er & Company of Boston, and has remained with this firm up to 1885, when he established the hardwood, paint and oil business at 2I Union Square, Somerville, with William E. Whitney, the firm being Whitney & Snow. He was a member of the Prospect Hill Congrega- tional church and its treasurer for several years, and always a liberal contributor to its various charitable and institutional work. He helped to organize the Somerville Co-operative Bank and is its vice-president, serving from 1897. He is also a member of the Somerville Board of Trade and of the Republican Club of Somerville. He is a member of John Ab- bott Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of the Oasis Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Encampment; of the American Order of United Workmen, and a member of the Workmen's Benefit Association.
He is a member and trustee of the Royal Arcanum. He was married June 28, 1871, to Martha Baker, daughter of Harvey and Ann Eliza (Carter) Baker. Martha Baker was born October 28, 1848, was a pupil of the Haw- ley and Charlemont schools and taught there about five years. Their daughter, Clara Belle Snow, was born in Somerville, May 29, 1872, was graduated a pupil in the grammar and English high school, and was employed in the city clerk's office of Somerville as first assist- ant city clerk. Mr. Snow resides at No. 12 Sanborn avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts.
Edward G. Tilton, of Malden, TILTON Massachusetts, traces his an- cestry on the paternal side to David (I), and Jane (Greeley) Tilton, who were the parents of seven sons, and whose his- tory can be traced back to the year 1756.
(II) Samuel Tilton, son of David and Jane (Greeley) Tilton, was born in Kingston, New Hampshire, July 3, 1776, died of apoplexy, April 26, 1848, aged seventy-two years. He located in Knox, Maine, after his marriage, when that section was a wilderness, and cleared for himself a farm which he cultivated and improved and on which they resided for the remainder of their days. He acquired a good education for the times, was a shrewd business man, devoted considerable time and attention to religious subjects, and was a Whig in politics. He and his wife were consistent members of the Congregational church. He married, in Kingston, New Hampshire, Feb- ruary 6, 1806, Abigail Bussell, born May 5, 1777, in Kingston, died October 19, 1871, aged ninety-four years. Their children were: Han- nah B., born November 23, 1808, died August, 1818. David G., born November 6, 1813, see forward. Samuel N., born January 26, 1816, see forward.
(III) David Greeley Tilton, eldest son of Samuel and Abigail (Bussell) Tilton, born No- vember 6, 1813, died on the farm where he was born, January 31, 1893. He attended the common schools of his neighborhood, and fol- lowed farming as an occupation throughout the active years of his life. He married, in April, 1849, Esther Kiles, who bore him three children : Abigail Ann, born November 15, 1852, married, November 15, 1870, Granville Small. Mary Kiles, born July 19, 1855, mar- ried, January 1, 1883, Martin Whitten. Sam- uel G., born February 24, 1858, married, No- vember, 1881, Martha Ellen Vose.
(IV) Samuel Newton Tilton, youngest son of Samuel and Abigail (Bussell) Tilton, born January 26, 1816, in Knox, Waldo county, Maine, died on the farm adjoining where he was born, March 15, 1892. He was chairman of the selectmen of the town for years, a mem- ber of the Baptist church, and a Whig and Republican in political faith. He married, April 22, 1840, in Freedom, Maine, Christiana Johnson, educated in the common schools and academy, daughter of Elisha and Rachel (Huse) Johnson, the former of whom was a blacksmith by trade. Children: I. Hannah Bussell, born October 7, 1843, in Thorndike, Maine, married, March 24, 1874, Ora O. Cros- by, who died October 12, 1906; one child,
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Charles E., born August 25, 1875, in Albion, Maine. 2. Isadore Estelle, born June 22, 1847, in Thorndike, Maine, died 1867; married, March 25, 1866, Pardon T. Bessey, now de- ceased ; one child, Elmer Francis, born Octo- ber 6, 1868; he resides in Albion. 3. John Newton, born November 27, 1850, in Thorn- dike, died 1901 ; married, January I, 1888, Isa- dore Bishop, three children: Harold Bishop, born September 29, 1889, died February 22, 1897; Christine, born September 29, 1895; John Malcolm, December 4, 1898. John N. Tilton was a merchant, and resides in Thorn- dike. 4. Edward G., born November 14, 1854, see forward. All these children were educated in common schools and Freedom Academy.
(V) Edward G. Tilton, youngest son of Samuel Newton and Christiana (Johnson) Til- ton, was born in Thorndike, Waldo county, Maine, November 14, 1854. He received his education in the schools of Thorndike and Pittsfield, Maine. When eighteen years of age he came to Boston and entered the employ of A. W. Hastings & Company, dealers in doors, windows and blinds, as office boy. By the exercise of diligence, prudence and care he advanced steadily step by step until he was admitted to partnership in the year 1896, Feb- ruary I, the name of the firm remaining un- changed. Mr. Tilton's business career is an example of what can be accomplished by per- severance, diligence and prudence, and is well worthy of emulation by young men desirous of making their mark in the world. Mr. Tilton settled in Malden, Massachusetts, after his marriage, and has since resided there, occupy- ing a fine house which was erected in 1891. He is a Republican in politics, a Mason of high degree, holding membership in the blue lodge, chapter, commandery and consistory, and a member of Kernwood Club of Malden.
Mr. Tilton married, September 6, 1882, Irene May Morton, daughter of Edward F. and Adelaide (Philbrick) Morton, who were the parents of four children : I. Nathan E., married Anna Hunt; one child, Nathan E., died 1902. 2. Irene May, above mentioned. 3. Elmer E., died May, 1907. 4. Maud H., married Charles W. Dodson ; one child, Dor- othy ; resides in Malden. Edward F. Morton was born in Standish, Maine, son of David Morton, a farmer of that town, and later he became a farmer of Thorndike, Maine, where he passed his active life. Mr. and Mrs. Tilton are the parents of one child, Earl Edward, born in Malden, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, July 7, 1884; he was prepared for college in the Malden public schools and Phillips Acad-
emy, Andover, and was graduated at Tufts Medical College, Massachusetts, 1908.
FOSS Robert Woodbury Foss, a native of Durham, Strafford county, New Hampshire, father of Eliphalet Jay Foss, was a farmer, a selectman of the town, a representative in the New Hampshire legis- lature, and a sterling Democrat in political faith. His father was Robert Foss, and his grandfather Jeremy or Jeremiah Foss, and his ancestors on both sides were early settlers of the New Hampshire grants. Robert Wood- bury Foss married Eliza Wedgewood, daugh- ter of William and Love (Smith) Jones, of Durham. William Jones was a farmer and inherited the land that he cultivated, it having been handed down from generation to genera- tion of the Jones family from the first settle- ment in 1633, when it was taken up by Stephen Jones, the emigrant, who come over with Thomas Mittell and John Smith.
Eliphalet Jay Foss, son of Robert Wood- bury and Eliza Wedgewood (Jones) Foss, was born at Strafford, Strafford county, New Hampshire, February 24, 1840. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and early showed talent in portraiture and as an artist in oil colors. He removed to Boston in 1862, where he engaged in photography, and in 1874 re- moved his studio to Malden. He followed the profession of photographer up to 1897, when he gave his entire time to painting in oil. He was an acknowledged master of all the arts of portrait photography, and he furnished copies for the leading Boston portrait painters and sculptors, including Young, Ordway, Hunt, etc. His skill was most apparent in lighting. He produced a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emer- son, acknowledged by the family the best ever secured, and it was extensively copied and duly appreciated by his friends and admirers. He also produced a portrait of Edmund Yates (1831-1894), the noted English journalist and novelist, and one of James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), the historian, litterateur and edu- cator, which were accepted as the best ever published either in England or America. He invented and patented in 1871 the screen which came into universal use in producing half-tone pictures from photographs. Mr. Foss was an early advocate of no license in Massachusetts, casting his first vote in that state against licens- ing liquor dealers.
He was married at Thetford, Vermont, No- vember 26, 1864, to Louise Woodward, daugh- ter of Thomas G. and Mary (Leighton) San-
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born. Thomas G. Sanborn was a contractor in Thetford, Vermont, and a descendant from the Sanborns who gave the name to Sanborn- ton, New Hampshire. Mrs. Foss was a suc- cessful platform reader and traveled over the United States, reading on the same platform from which Beecher, Phillips, Mrs. Livermore, Anna Dickenson, W. H. H. Murray, John B. Gough, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Cushman did. Mrs. Foss died in Sep- tember, 1892. The children of Eliphalet Jay and Louise Woodward (Sanborn) Foss were: I. Edward Sanborn, born in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, August 30, 1865, educated at the Boston Latin School, and the Malden high school, graduating in 1879, and from the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology in 1883, and was instructor in chemistry at the Institute 1883-90, his death in 1890 being indirectly due to an accident in the laboratory while he was experimenting. 2. Harold Leighton, born in Malden, Massachusetts, February 14, 1883, was a graduate of the grammar and high school of that city, and matriculated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, in the class of 1908. 3. Paul Maurice, born in Malden, Massachusetts, July 21, 1884, was graduated in the grammar and high school of Malden and entered the Boston University Law School with the class of 1908.
The Cushing family is one of CUSHING the most distinguished of any family in New England or the country. The immigrant ancestor of Walter F. Cushing, of Medford, and of nearly all by the name of Cushing in the United States, was Matthew Cushing, born in Hardingham, Eng- land, and baptized there March 2, 1589. He was a son of Peter and Susan (Hawes) Cush- ing, and was descended from Galfridus Cussyn, of Hardingham, Norfolk county, England, who was mentioned in the Subsidy Rolls for Norfolk in 1327. He added to the original estate in Hardingham an estate to Hingham. The following is the line from Galfridus Cussyn to Matthew Cushing: I. William. 2. Thomas. 3. William. 4. John. 5. Thomas. 6. Peter.
(I) Matthew Cushing was married in Eng- land, August 5, 1613, to Nazareth, daughter of Henry Pitcher. They resided in Hingham, England, where their five children were born- Daniel, Jeremiah, Matthew, Deborah and John. In 1638 they decided to come to New England, and sailed in the ship "Diligent," arriving in Boston, August 10 of that year, and proceeded ii-29
to Hingham, where some of their townsmen had already settled. He lived on Bachelor street (Main) ; was a deacon in the Rev. Peter Hobart's church, a man of influence in the community, and took an active part in the af- fairs of the town. He died September 30, 1660.
(II) David Cushing was baptized in Hing- ham, England, April 20, 1619. He was mar- ried (first) January 19, 1645, to Lydia, daugh- ter of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman, born in England, but died in Hingham, Massachu- setts, March 12, 1689. He was married a sec- ond time, March 23, 1691, to Elizabeth, widow of Captain John Thaxter, and daughter of Nicholas and Mary Jacob. She was born in England, but died in Hingham, Massachusetts, November 24, 1725. Daniel Cushing died De- vember 3, 1700. A lot of land was granted to him by the town of Hingham in 1665. He be- came a selectman the same year, and served in that capacity for several years. He was a delegate to the general court in 1680, 1682 and 1695, and was elected town clerk in 1669 and served in that capacity for thirty years. It is stated in the "History of Hingham" that "it is to Daniel Cushing more than to any of his contemporaries that the present generation is indebted for much of the valuable information which has come down to us relating to the early planters of the town." The following were the names of his children, all by his first wife, and all born in Hingham: Peter, March 29, 16.16. Daniel, July 23, 1648. Deborah, November 13, 1651. Jeremiah, July 3, 1654. Theophilus, June 7, 1657. Matthew, July 15, 1660. For many years Daniel Cushing kept a country store.
(III) Matthew Cushing was married De- cember 31, 1684, to Jael, daughter of Captain John and Mary (Russell) Jacob. She was born in Hingham, September 7, 1662, and died December 23, 1708. He died June 23, 1715. He resided in the ancestral homestead, Main street, below Pear Tree Hill. He was lieu- tenant and later was captain, and was select- man in 1710. In his will, proved July 21, 1715, he gave "to oldest son Solomon all my estate, both real and personal, except that which is named hereafter; to son Samuel, land in Co- hasset ; to son Job, a sum to pursue his college studies and £300 in addition, and to daughter Jael £300, she to be well educated." Children, all born in Hingham: David, June 28, 1686, died September 15, 1687. David, February 25, 1688, died February 2, 1689. Jael, born Jan- uary 20, 1690, died March 6, 1693. Solomon, January 29, 1692. Job, July 19, 1694. Moses,
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December 19, 1696, died 1698. Samuel, Feb- ruary 14, 1699. Isaac, April 28, 1701, died July 13, 17II. Obadiah, May 15, 1703, died August 10, 1705. Jael, February 14, 1706.
(IV) Samuel Cushing was born in Hing- ham, February 14, 1699. He was married (published November 7, 1722) to Hannah Til- eston, of Dorchester. She died July 17, 1748. August 10, 1749, he was married to Mrs. Han- nah Sparhawke, of Scituate. They resided in Hingham, second precinct, Cohasset. He was a selectman in 1731, 1732, 1746 and 1749, was a justice of the peace, and often engaged in the public affairs of the town. Children, all born in Hingham, second precinct, Cohasset : Hannah, July 28, 1723. Isaac, September 6, 1724. Jael, August 27, 1726. Samuel, August 21. 1728, died June 15, 1729. Samuel, Novem- ber 24, 1729. Calvin, November 18, 1731, served as a soldier in the revolutionary war at different times between August 1, 1775, and October, 1779. Ephraim, January 8, 1734. Joel, January 17, 1736. Timothy, February 2, 1738. Lois, December 27, 1739. Solomon, April 1, 1742. Job, April 17, 1744.
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