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(III) Gershom Flagg, son of Lieutenant Gershom Flagg (2), was born in Woburn, March 10, 1668-69, and died there, August 24, 1755 ; married Hannah ; she died Jan- uary 4, 174I. Children: I. Elizabeth, born May 22, 1696. 2. Gershom, born November 22, 1698, died July II, 1700. 3. Zachariah, born June 20, 1700, see forward. 4. Gershom, born January 25, 1701-02, died May 14, 1753. 5. Joseph, died September 19, 1725. 6. Ben- jamin, died April 7, 1725.
(IV) Zachariah Flagg, son of Gershom Flagg (3), was born in Woburn, June 20, 1700, and died there, 1782. He married (first), January 2, 1732-33, Mary Gardner, born May 28, 1705, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Lane) Gardner, of Charlestown. He married (second), at Middleton, July 12, 1753, Mrs. Mary Fuller. Zachariah Flagg was living in Woburn in 1777, but appears to have
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spent part of his life in Wilmington. He held the rank of captain as early as 1748. His name disappears from the Woburn tax list in 1781. His will, dated April 9, 1773, called him gentleman, "he being aged;" names wife Mary, sons Zachariah, Samuel and John, and daughter Mary Sawyer; probated April 4, 1782. Children : I. Joseph, born February 9, 1734-35. 2. Zachary, born June 17, 1737. Zachary Junior, enlisted at the beginning of the French war of 1755, and continued in ser- vice to its close, with the exception of one year. He served fourteen months in Nova Scotia, was taken and stripped by savages, and narrowly escaped with his life, at Fort William Henry, 1757. He was carried to Montreal as a prisoner. His sufferings affected his mind. In 1764 his father petitioned the general court for aid for his expenses on account of the fatigues and hardships his son had undergone in the war, having broken down a sound con- stitution, and leaving him physically and men- tally in a very poor condition. In 1773 his father, in his will, gave him only a silver spoon, "because of his weakness," and provided for him otherwise. He died in Woburn, Febru- ary 17, 1791. 3. Mary, born September 2, 1739, died young. 4. Mary, born February 24, 1741-42, married (first), 1763, William Belknap; married (second), May 3, 1770, Elijah Sawyer, Jr., of Lancaster. 5. Samuel, born June 23, 1744. 6. John, born August 29, 1746, see forward.
(V) John Flagg, son of Zachariah Flagg (4), born in Woburn, August 29, 1746, died there May 24, 1825, aged seventy-eight years. He married (first), November 6, 1769, Hannah Tidd, born February 17, 1749, daughter of Jonathan and Sasirah (Baker) Tidd, who died August, 1772. He married (second) Abigail Thompson, daughter of James and Abigail (Simonds) Thompson, of Wilmington, born March 9, 1747-48, died in Woburn, February I, 1847, in her ninety-ninth year. Mr. Flagg was a farmer, and during the Revolutionary war was engaged in teaming merchandise from Boston to New York. He was present in Bel- knap's Woburn company at the battles of Lex- ington and Concord, April 19, 1775, and was twenty-seven days in service at that time. On good testimony he is said to have taken the second prisoner from the enemy on the day of April 19, 1775. Children: 1. Joseph, born February 7, 1769. 2. Child, died August, 1772. 3. Abigail, born September 1, 1775, married, April 20, 1797, David Lovering, of Woburn, whose children were: i. Maria, born Novem-
ber 26, 1797; ii. Joseph Flagg, born March I, 1799. 4. Hannah, born March II, 1777, died July 8, 1786, aged nine years. 5. John, born October 7, 1779, died March 17, 1835, aged fifty-five years. 6. Josiah, born April 23, 1782, died 1830. 7. William, born July 25, 1784, see forward. 8. Hannah, born May 7, 1786, died April 24, 1857, aged seventy-one years.
(VI) John Flagg, son of John Flagg (5), was born at Woburn, October 7, 1779. He received a common school education in his native town, and was brought up on his father's farm. He was a farmer for many years. He also kept the tavern at the corner of Salem and Broad street's for several years. His farm was one of the largest in this sec- tion. At one time he owned all of the land on Broad street from Union to Salem street and to the crest of Union Hill. He accumulated considerable wealth for his day. In disposi- tion and character Mr. Flagg was genial, cheerful and attractive. He stood high in the estimation of his townsmen. He was a mem- ber of the Woburn militia company. In reli- gion he was an orthodox Congregationalist, and in politics a Democrat. He died March 17, 1835, aged fifty-five years. He married, September 6, 1801, Mary Fowle, of Woburn, daughter of Joseph Fowle. Their children : I. Mary, born at Woburn, November 22, 1801, died unmarried; blind during her last years. 2. John Gardner, born June 9, 1805, see for- ward. 3. Catherine, born April 25, 1807, at Woburn, died unmarried. 4. Adeline, born at Woburn, July 30, 1809, married Asa Goodell, of Vermont; child, Ellen, born 1852, married Buell. 5. Abigail Thompson, born at Woburn, April 7, 1811, married Amos Sweet- zer, of Boston ; children: i. Annie, ii. Rosette. 6. Sumner, born at Woburn, December 7, 1812, married, February, 1846, Antoinette Beals, of Boston ; children: i. William, born February, 1847; ii. Antoinette, born 1849; iii. Harriet G., born 1850; iv. Joshua Gardner. 7. Cynthia, born at Woburn, September 17, 1814, married (first) Nehemiah Littlefield; (second) Bicknell; no issue.
(VI) William Flagg, son of John Flagg (5), was born at Woburn, July 25, 1784. He received the education of the farmer boy of that day, attending the district school until fifteen, and helping his father on the farm. He early learned the trade of shoemaker, work- ing at it in different places. He subsequently went to Boston, where he found the trade of mason more to his liking and more
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profitable. Here he served an apprenticeship, and then worked as a bricklayer (which trade was in those days one of much importance) from 1806 to 1825, when he returned to his home in Woburn, to the farm which belonged to the old homestead, and after the death of his father he purchased the entire property of his heirs. Of the original ninety-five odd acres he sold off part. He conducted general farming until about 1845, when he began to raise for the Boston market all kinds of early produce, which netted him well. The farm was situated in Burlington township, where the present Heald Brothers are located; in the best part of the town. He was a very energetic and hard working man, of strong temperance opinions. He trained in the early militia. He married, June 28, 1821, Myra Fowle, born at Woburn, March 29, 1795, died March 10, 1873, daughter of John and Lois (Richardson) Fowler, of Woburn. Children : I. William Eustice, born September 2, 1823; see forward. 2. Benjamin Franklin, born June 13, 1825, married Rebecca Parkinson, of Ireland; children: i. Dr. Franklin, married Emma McLean; children : Marion and Madeline; ii. Martha Eveline. 3. Lydia Al- mira, born September 3, 1827, married, June 5, 1857, Ephraim Davis, of Lowell; children : i. Lillian Maria, born August 20, 1859 ; married Henry Clapp; child, Roland; ii. Minot Flagg. 4. Lois Amanda, born May 20, 1832, died May 10, 1873 ; unmarried. William Flagg ( father ) died February 18, 1877.
(VII) John Gardner Flagg, son of John Flagg (6), was born at Woburn, June 9, 1805. He attended the public schools of his native town, and when very young went to work as a clerk in a grocery store in Charlestown. He returned to school after a year or so, attend- ing the Lexington public schools, teaching schools for a year while yet a student in the district school. He began his business career in Boston in the employ of a Mr. Marriner, manufacturer and dealer in mattresses, bed- ding, etc. He made himself so useful to his employer that a few years later when Mr. Marriner was unable, on account of illness, to attend to business he placed Mr. Flagg in charge. Needless to add the business was con- tinued profitably. At length Mr. Flagg be- came the owner of the business, which he carried on with gratifying success. He manu- factured the first ready-made mattresses that were placed on. the market, and this branch of his business developed into very large pro- portions. He supplied the mattresses for many
of the new hotels in this country, and his re- quirements of curled hair for making his goods were so large that he had to go to Russia to buy the stock. He also bought live geese feathers in large quantities and sold them to advantage in the American markets. He made seven trips abroad for this purpose to Russia and other foreign countries. His first trans- atlantic trip was in the "Great Western," one of the first steamships to cross the ocean. He travelled all over Russia and other countries, and was the first who made a success of im- porting geese feathers to the United States. He finally retired from business, on account of ill health, and took to farming on the home- stead which his father left to him at his death. During the civil war he took contracts from the government for mattresses for the navy, having a factory at Brooklyn, New York. In this business he was in partnership with his brother, Sumner Flagg, who had charge of a similar factory at the Charlestown navy yard. After retiring from this business in Brooklyn, he manufactured satinet prints in the city of New York. He was one of the promoters of the Crystal Palace of that city. This building was destroyed by a wind storm. He returned to the homestead at Woburn and conducted the farm, as aforementioned, at one time mak- ing a specialty of growing potatoes, and dur- ing one season shipped nine hundred barrels to Florida, his brother Sumner selling and de- livering them. He died at Woburn, March 17, 1893. In religion Mr. Flagg was a Unitarian ; in politics he was a Democrat, but never sought public office.
He married, October 11, 1833, Sarah Felt Reeves, born June 15, 1816, daughter of Cap- tain Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Saul) Reeves, of Salem, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Reeves was a sea captain. Their children: I. Eliza- beth, born at Boston, November 5, 1834, died June 19, 1869; married, December 18, 1856. John M. Leathe, of Woburn. 2. Sarah Ellen, born in Boston, January 20, 1837; married, September 2, 1856, William H. Loring, of Boston; children: i. Frederick, born Decem- ber 19, 1857 ; ii. Alice Grampner, born Decem- ber 2, 1859; iii. Ida Dayton, born February 27, 1864; iv. Robert Gardner, (twin) born Sep -. tember 23, 1868; v. Richard Tuttle, (twin) born September 23, 1868. 3. John Gardner, Jr., born April 2, 1841 ; married, August 18, 1863, Maria Malleville Allen, of Woburn ; children : i. Annie Gridley, born July 31. 1864 : ii. Edith Loring, born March 18. 1866: iii. John Allen, born June 11, 1875, died August
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22, 1878; iv. Alice Reeves, born March 14, 1880. 4. George Henry, died young. 5. Fran- ces Gertrude, born March 19, 1849; married, September 1, 1868, David B. Clark, of Cats- kill, New York; children: i. Elizabeth Flagg, born June 13, 1869 ; ii. William Gardner, born July 5, 1873. 6. Charles Horace, born April 22, 1852, see forward.
(VII) William Eustice Flagg, son of William Flagg (6), was born at Woburn, Sep- tember 2, 1823. He received a liberal educa- tion in the nearby district school during the winter months up to eighteen years of age. He began work on his father's farm when quite young, and continued in this up to twen- ty-five years of age, when he and his brother, Benjamin Franklin Flagg, started in the busi- ness of market gardening on the old home- stead, which continued two years, when Ben- jamin Franklin removed from Winchester, and Mr. Flagg carried it on alone for a time. In March, 1863, he bought his present farm of forty acres, known as the old Hale place, of George Russell, situated in the best part of Woburn, in Cambridge street. He devoted his time to market gardening with market in Boston up to about 1894, when his two sons, Walter Clifford and Charles Henry, took the business and conducted it five years together. Charles H. now conducts the interest for his father. Mr. Flagg is of a retiring disposition, devoted to the interests of his farm and fam- ily, and commands the respect of his neighbors and citizens. He is an attendant of the Bap- tist church at Woburn, and is a Republican in politics. He married, December 21, 1857, Nancy Evelyn Steele, born October 4, 1837, daughter of Joseph and Sally (Wood) Steele, of Woburn. Joseph Steele was a shoemaker and farmer. Children: I. Walter Clifford, born April 2, 1870, married, December 22, 1892, Violet Maude McLane, of Woburn; children: i. Viola May, born October 7, 1894; ii. Helen Louise ; born June II, 1899; iii. William Erving, born January 26, 1903; iv. Beatrice M., born December 27, 1904. 2. Charles Henry, born August 3, 1874, married, January 17, 1906, Bessie Elva Noyes.
(VIII) Charles Horace Flagg, son of John Gardner Flagg (7), was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, April 22, 1852. He completed his schooling at the age of fourteen, and left his home at Woburn to become a clerk in a dry goods house at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a year and a half he entered the employ of James Lee and learned the art of designing calico prints. Two years later he went to
Newport, Rhode Island, and attended the pub- lic schools there for a year .. Then he held a position as designer for the firm of Amos Lawrence & Co., Chauncey street, for three years, and for the firm of White, Payson & Co., IIO North street, New York City, agents for the Manchester (New Hampshire) Print Works, for two years. He was proprietor of a fruit store at Fulton Ferry for a year and a half. He then came to his native place to live, having accepted a position as carpet designer for the Lowell Carpet Company of Lowell, Massachusetts. He was with the Lowell Car- pet Company a year, and since then has con- ducted the homestead farm and worked for the various leather firms of Woburn. At pre- sent (1907) he is associated with his son in farming and market gardening. While em- ployed and in business in New York he re- sided in Jersey City, New Jersey. Mr. Flagg is a Unitarian in religion; in politics he was formerly a Democrat, but in later years a Republican.
He married, January 23, 1875, at Jersey City, New Jersey, Charlotte E. Clark, born at Bloomfield, New Jersey, April 15, 1853, daugh- ter of William and Ellen (Peloubet) Clark, of Bloomfield. William Clark was a wholesale jewelry manufacturer. Mrs. Flagg traces her Peloubet ancestry to Norman stock, her grand- father, Count Michael Peloubet, being the im- migrant. On the maternal side the Alcott family lineage is traced to Mayflower stock. Children : I. Hubert Clinton, born December 14, 1875, see forward. 2. Prescott Clark, born December 16, 1877. 3. Phillip Peloubet, born October 31, 1883. 4. Randall Alcott, born November 5, 1887. 5. Dorothy Gardner, born August 14, 1893. 6. Sarah Eleanor, born Oc tober 22, 1896.
(IX) Hubert Clinton Flagg, son of Charles Horace Flagg (8), was born at Jersey City, New Jersey, December 14, 1875. He removed to Woburn, Massachusetts, when very young and attended the public schools there. He worked on the farm between terms of school and after graduating until 1899, when he enter- ed the employ of the Boston & Maine rail- road. He was injured in an accident soon after he began work. He was compensated in money for his loss of time and injuries, but preferred to return to the farm, and in 1901 he purchased the homestead of his father and has since then been engaged successfully in market gardening in Woburn. His father and brother are associated with him in the work of the farm. He has a hundred acres of land, a.
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part of the original Flagg farm of his paternal ancestors. It is located in the eastern part of the town. He makes a specialty of lettuce, cucumbers and celery for the Boston market. He is a Unitarian in religion, a Republican in politics. He is unmarried and lives at home with his parents.
(I) William Brown, the immi-
BROWN grant ancestor belonged, ac- cording to the family tradition, to one of the numerous Scotch families of Brown. He came to America at the time that many thousand young Scotchmen were sent here by Cromwell as prisoners of war after the battle of Worcester. He settled in Boston, where he married, April 16, 1655, Elizabeth Ruggles, daughter of George Ruggles, of Braintree, Massachusetts. Another man of the same name living in Boston at about the same time makes the records confusing as to property and public service. He died in 1668, and his widow Elizabeth married second, July 6, 1669, John Rogers, of Billerica. Two of the Brown children were mentioned in the will of Rogers. Children of William and Elizabeth Brown : I. Mary, born March 16, 1655-6. 2. Sarah, born January 8, 1657. 3. Elizabeth, died August 10, 1691 ; married Sep- tember 23, 1678, James Kidder. 4. George, born April 5, 1668; mentioned below.
(II) George Brown, son of William Brown (I), was born April 5, 1668, and died Sep- tember 28, 1738. He took the oath of fidelity with eighteen others, March 18, 1685. He received among a list of eighty-one proprie- tors a four-acre right of twenty-five acres in 1708, and there he built the original house, which descended for four generations in direct line to his descendants. The farm is in the eastern part of the town. He was captain of the military company, and served as assessor of the town. He was representative to the general court 1716-7, 1721-4 and 1727 ; select- man 1710-2, 1714-20, 1722-26 and 1729. Many of his descendants in the vicinity have been engaged in the lumber business.
He married, January 30, 1689-90, Sarah Kidder, who was born June 1, 1667, daughter of James and Anna (Moore) Kidder, of Bel- lerica. She died February 27, 1717-8. Her father was a prominent citizen in civil and military affairs. Children: I. Joseph, born November 3, 1690; married first, Mary Bald- win ; second, June 28, 1733, Anne Cleveland. 2. Sarah, born March 8, 1691-2; died Septem-
ber 26, 1704. 3. Elizabeth, born January 12, 1693-4 ; died August 6, 1732; married March 28, 1721, Oliver Whiting. 4. Josiah, born April 19, 1695; married first Hannah - ; second, November 29, 1739, Mrs. Rebecca (Simonds) Danforth, widow of Thomas Dan- forth; third, March 1, 1748-9, Widow Mary Ellis, of Needham. 5. William, born October 21, 1696; married Mary Baldwin. 6. Mary (twin), born September 27, 1698; died No- vember 19, 1698. 7. James (twin), born Sep- tember 27, 1698; died December 1, 1698. 8. John (twin), born November 27, 1699; died December 12, 1699. 9. Thomas (twin), born November 27, 1699; died December 12, 1699. IO. Samuel, born January 27, 1701-2; men- tioned below. II. Ephraim, born January 23, 1702-3; married Hosley and lived in Townsend. 12. Isaac, born and died January 27, 1702-3. 13. Dorothy, born January I, 1704-5; married December 9, 1729, Samuel Crosby; lived in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. 14. Sarah, born December 21, 1707; married May 19, 1741, Jacob French ; she died August 16, 1765.
(III) Samuel Brown, son of George Brown (2), was born at Billerica, January 27, 1701-2. He was brought up on the farm, and was a farmer all his life. He had the homestead and bequeathed it to his son. The first saw mill erected in the vicinity was on this farm, owned by a firm of farmers of the neighbor- hood, and was in operation until 1740. Brown served in the French and Indian wars, and attained the rank of lieutenant. In 1736 he occupied the front seat in the meeting house, an indication of his leading position in the community. He was selectman 1743-4. He died July 6, 1779. He married Mrs. Mary (Davis) French, who was born May 31, 1706, widow of Jonathan French and daughter of Joseph and Rebecca ( Patten) Davis, of Biller- ica. She died November 11, 1758. Her father, Joseph Davis, was a farmer and deacon of the church at Billerica. Children: I. Mary, born December 9, 1731 ; married April 9, 1752. Benjamin Lewis. 2. Samuel, born September 12, 1733, mentioned below. 3. Joshua, born January 1, 1734-5. 4. Sarah, born February 20, 1735-6; died August 19, 1811; married November 29, 1759, Edward Farmer, a soldier in the Revolution. 5. Anna, born September 21, 1737 ; married Samuel Bullen. 6. Rebecca, born February 18, 1738-9; died January I, 1814; married January 3, 1760, James Lewis. 7. Abigail, born April 14, 1740; married Jan- uary 6, 1762, Lieutenant Isaac Marshall. 8.
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Martha, born March 22, 1741-2; died May 21, 1818; married January 25, 1763, Eleazer Stickney. 9. Persis, born October 23, 1743; married Asa Emerson. 10. Esther, born Jan- uary 23, 1744-5; died February 17, 1744-5. II. George, born June 22; died July 26, 1746. 12. George, born September 16, 1747 ; married November 21, 1771, Elizabeth French.
(V) Samuel Brown, son of Samuel Brown (4), was born June 15, 1762, at Billerica. He was raised on the farm, and had the advan- tages of a common school education. He inherited the homestead and lived there all his life. In his later years he was a Unitarian in religion and a Whig in politics. He was an officer in the militia company of his town, and his sword is in the possession of his grandson, George E. Brown of Woburn. He married Elizabeth Noyes, of Andover, who died Jan- uary 10, 1850, aged eighty-one years. Chil- dren: I. Samuel, born November 16, 1788; mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 30, 1790; married December 24, 1718, Joseph Cram, of Lyndeborough, New Hamp- shire ; children: Louisa Cram, wife of John A. Putnam; and Harriet, married George Rus- sell ; died 1900. 3. Timothy N., born Novem- ber 12, 1792; married Mahala Griffin, of Wo- burn, May, 1823. 4. Isaac, born August 7, 1794, drowned. 5. Sarah C., born May 10, 1796; died unmarried, April 25, 1859. 6. Sus- annah, born January 21, 1798. 7. Ruby, born February 17, 1802; married Jeremiah Harts- horn, of South Reading. 8. Lucy, born Feb- ruary I, 1804; died November 1, 1884; mar- ried James Cram, of Lyndeborough ; children : i. Nancy Cram, born February 21, 1832, died April 17, 1832 ; ii. Albert Cram, born Novem- ber 8, 1834, married May 31, 1869, Mary Elizabeth Brown, and had Addie M. Cram,
born January 21, 1871, died July 20, 1874; iii. Charles H. Cram, born November 3, 1836; married April 13, 1863, Sarah Van Buskirk. 9. Isaac, born April 21, 1806. 10. Harriet, born June 30, 1808. II. Mary, born Septem- ber 26, 1809; married Leonard Stratton, of Wilmington, Massacusetts ; no issue.
(IV) Samuel Brown, son of Samuel Brown (3), was born at Billerica, September 12, 1733. He had the Brown homestead, and followed farming as a calling, and was a well-to-do citi- zen. He built a grist mill in 1760 on the old place on the Wilmington road, in the eastern part of the town, near the school house on the - he lived, and inherited the homestead at his same privilege occupied by the old saw mill. This location is now designated by the name of Patten's Mills. He married, August 16, 1759, Sarah Noyes, of Andover, Massachusetts. Children: I. Sarah, born September 26, 1760; died December 9, 1795. 2. Samuel, born June 15, 1762; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born June 19, 1764; married April 12, 1803, Silas Chandler. 4. Susanna, born April 3, 1767; died November 23, 1793.
(VI) Samuel Brown, son of Samuel Brown (5), was born at Billerica, her 16, 1788. He attended the district schools of is native town, principally during the winter terms, and worked for his father on the homestead until he was of age. He remained at home and was associated with his father as long as death. He had about a hundred acres of land, most of which was the original homestead of the family. In addition to his farming, he cut and sold timber from his wood lots. He was interested in historical matters, and in 1852 compiled a genealogical register of the descendants of William and Elizabeth Brown, mentioned above. He was of a quiet, domestic disposition, of excellent character, active in the temperance movement and other good works. He died in 1866. He was a Unitarian in relig- ion, and served as the collector of the Bil- lerica parish many years. He was a Whig in politics, and always interested in municipal affairs. He served in the militia company when a young man. He married, February 26, 1839, Mrs. Nancy Maria (Butters) Emerson, was born at Wilmington, in 1803, daughter of Jedediah and Betsey (Boutwell) Butters, of Wilmington. Her father was a farmer. Chil- dren: I. Mary Elizabeth, born September 19, 1840; died November 14, 1897 ; married May 31, 1869, Albert Cram, of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, and had Addie Maria, born Janu- ary 29, 1871, died July 20, 1874. 2. George Everett, born July 20, 1843 ; mentioned below.
(VII) George Everett Brown, son of Sam- uel Brown (6), was born at Billerica, July 20, 1843. He received his education in the com- mon schools of his native town, and worked on the homestead with his father until he was nineteen years old, when he enlisted in Com- pany D, Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Adin B. Underwood. His regiment proceeded to Alexandria, Vir- ginia, and became a part of the Elev- enth Army Corps, Second Division, Sec- ond Brigade. He suffered from a sun- stroke received while on duty, remaining unconscious thirty-six hours, and later was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, taken prisoner, and sent to the rear of the
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