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Children of Knealand and Christiana S. (Morgan) Osgood: I. Cyrus Madison, born March 17, 1834, killed May 1, 1862, at the bat- tle. of Chancellorsville, Virginia, in the Civil war, Twenty-second regiment, Massachusetts Sharp Shooters. Married, June, 1856, at Waterville, Maine, Zilpha Morse, of Clinton, Maine; children: George Albert, died 1869; Charles Walter. 2. Byron Alfred, born Octo- ber 24, 1836, married, October 9, 1863, at Newport, Maine, Emma A. Akely, of West- brook. 3. Laura Jane, born September 5, 1838, married, January 28, 1862, at Portland, Maine, Eden N. Whitehouse, who was born
at Minot, Maine, March 18, 1818. 4. Eden Parris, born August 2, 1840, died at Surry, Maine, November 29, 1844. 5. Sarah Maria, born August 7, 1842, married, September 20, 1866, at South Reading, Massachusetts, Charles A. Stiles, of Lynn, Massachusetts, now of Malden, Massachusetts, mentioned in the Stiles sketch. 6. Anna Delia, born Sep- tember II, 1844, married, July, 1867, at Bos- ton, Royal C. Graves, of Melrose ; children : Annie Florence, Laura May and Royal Her- bert Graves. 7. Edwin Parris, born at Somer- set, Maine, December 31, 1846, died June 26, 1905, drowned in his steam launch at Baker Island; was a dry goods merchant in Boston thirty years; married, November 10, 1870, at Lynn, Ada P. Butler, of Lynn. 8. John Francis, born April 4, 1849, died at Waterville, Maine, March 29, 1853.
John Tapley, the immigrant TAPLEY ancestor, was born in England in 1638. He married at Salem, Massachusetts, December 6, 1663, Elizabeth Pride, daughter of John Pride, of Salem. He was a fisherman by trade, and bought land in Salem, June 28, 1666. In 1680 he was a peti- tioner for a new church at Salem. He was a taxpayer in Salem as late as 1689, and was liv- ing November 14, 1693, when he sold the house in which he lived to John Higginson. Children : I. Elizabeth, born January 20, 1664, married Mathew Barton, who was born in Salem in 1642; she joined the first church May 31, 1713. 2. Mary, December 10, 1667, died July 14, 1668. 3. John, April 7, 1669, mentioned below. 4. William, August 30, 1670. 5. Hannah, April 21, 1672. 6. Robert, December 17, 1673. 7. Mary, June, 1678, married, September 17, 1706, Christopher Batten. 8. Samuel, February, 1683, married, July 15, 1703, Elizabeth Vealy. 9. Benjamin, February 3, 1688.
(II) John Tapley, son of John Tapley (I), was born in Salem, Massachusetts, April 7, 1669. Married Anne Lewis, daughter of Peter and Grace Lewis, of Kittery, Maine; she was left property by her father's will in 1712-13. Tapley was taxed in Salem in 1691 and re- moved afterward to Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. He sold his homestead lots in Kittery in 1740-44-59. Children: I. William, men- tioned below. 2. Mary, of Portsmouth, mar- ried, October 3, 1725, William Partridge, of Portsmouth.
(III) William Tapley, son of John Tapley
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(2), was born probably at Portsmouth, where he first appears on record and where his first five children were born. He subsequently re- moved to Kittery. In later life he was a tailor. He gave power of attorney to William Pep- perell, Jr .; he and wife Rebecca deeded John Haley some of her father's real estate Decem- ber 18, 1745. Children, baptized by Rev. John Emerson and Rev. William Shurtleff at Portsmouth: I. Sarah, October 20, 1728. 2. Thomas, October 20, 1728. 3. Mary, October 19, 1729. 4. William, January 24, 1731. 5. Elizabeth, August 10, 1735. 6. Joseph, born 1733. 7. Job, born at Kittery, September 14, 1736, mentioned below. 8. James Robert, born 1754. 9. Peletiah.
(IV) Job Tapley, son of William Tapley (3), was born September 14, 1736, at Kittery. Married Susanna who was born July 29, 1740, and died at Saco, Maine. He was a caulker by trade. Children: I. Peletiah, born October 2, 1757, mentioned below. 2. Sally, born at Kittery, March 25, 1761. 3. Susanna, born at Saco, June 1, 1765. 4. John, born at Saco, May 26, 1767. 5. Ellis, born at Saco, October 26, 1771, died December., 1794. 6. Joshua, born at Saco, August 30, 1774. 7. William P., born at Saco, April 5, 1776. 8. Joel, born at Saco, February 6, 1778, died May 14, 178I.
(V) Peletiah Tapley, son of Job Tapley (4), was born in Kittery, Maine, October 2, 1757. Married Sallie Stover, who was born at Brookstive, Maine, August 25, 1768, died August 16, 1823. He died there October 23, 1831. He removed from his native place to Bagaduce (now Brooksville), Maine, about 1780, and settled on the right bank of the Bagaduce river in a log house that he built himself. He is on the petition for the incor- poration of Penobscot in 1785, and was one of the original members of the First Parish Church at Penobscot in May, 1793. From 1784 to 1891 forty-five Tapley children were born on the old homestead, and but one of them died in infancy. They include the chil- dren of Peletiah, son Robert, grandson Wil- liam, William's son John and grandson Joseph. Children, all born at Brooksville: I. Susanna, born April 27, 1784, aforementioned as the wife of Jacob Osgood. 2. Lucy, April 3, 1786. 3. Sally, March 6, 1788. 4. Benja- min, 1789. 5. Rebecca, September 5, 1790. 6. Robert, May 10, 1792. 7. Thomas, March - 15, 1794. 8. William, March 13, 1796. 9. Peletiah, October 16, 1797. 10. Elsy, August 25, 1799. II. Mary, August 29, 1801. I2. iii-12.
Job, May 17, 1803. 13. John, May 7, 1805. 14. Luther, April 1, 1808. 15. Nancy, March 29, 18II. 16. Joel, July 20, 1814.
(VI) Susannah Tapley, daughter of Pele- tiah Tapley (5), was born in Brooksville, Maine, April 27, 1784. Married, December 23, 1802, at Blue Hill, Maine, by Rev. Jona- than Fisher, Jacob Osgood, who was born March 12, 1777, and died March 10, 1842, at Blue Hill.
Edmund Faulkner, the im- FAULKNER migrant ancestor, was born in England about 1625. He was the ninth settler in order of their coming to Andover, Massachusetts. He was licensed in 1648 as the first innkeeper in the town. He was one of the ten freeholders who organized the Andover church, October 24, 1645, and was one of the few men honored with the designation "Mr." in the records. He with Mr. Woodbridge negotiated the purchase of the plantation from the Indians. He took the oath of allegiance at Andover, February II, 1678; was selectman in 1674; town clerk 1675 and held other positions of honor. In King Philip's war the Indians attacked his house, knocked off one of his cow's horns, cut out her tongue, put a horse, ox and cow into a hovel and then set it afire "only to show how they delighted in exercising cruelty." His daughter and her husband, Pasco Chubb, were killed by the Indians, February 22, 1697-98, at Andover. 'The Indians were thus revenged for a cowardly and treacherous act of Chubb's when in command of Fort Pemaquid in 1696. He had killed several Indians who came to exchange prisoners; then when the French and Indians attacked the fort he gave up the fort stipulating only for his personal safety. For this act of treason he was cashiered and put in the Boston jail, but was finally released and was living in seclusion at Andover when the Indians found him.
Edmund Faulkner married at Salem (by John Winthrop), February 4, 1647, Dorothy Robinson, who died, December, 1668. Chil- dren: I. Francis, born May, 1651, mention- ed below. 2. John, born May, 1654, died 1706; children: Daniel, Joseph and Nehe- miah. 3. Mary, married, May 3, 1671, Jo- seph Marble. 4. Hannah, married, May 29, 1689, Pasco Chubb.
(II) Francis Faulkner, son of Edmund Faulkner (I), was born in Andover, Massa- chusetts, May, 1651, died there in 1732, aged
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eighty years. He married, October 12, 1675, Abigail Dane, daughter of Rev. Francis Dane. She was a woman of noble character and ex- emplary piety, but was accused of witchcraft, tried and condemned to death. She passed through the terrible ordeal with unshaken faith and courage. The sentence was revoked and her life spared, however. Children, born at Andover: I. Elizabeth, died August 17, 1678. 2. Edmund, had a son John. 3. Am- miruhammah, mentioned below. 4. Paul.
(III) Ammiruhammah Faulkner, son of Francis Faulkner (2), was born in Andover about 1692. He came to Concord Village in 1735 and settled at the "great falls" of the Great Brook where he erected the mills which have since been owned and occupied by his descendants. He died there August 4, 1756, aged sixty-four years. Children: I. Francis, born September 29, 1728, at Andover, men- tioned below. 2. James, whose son Paul, born March 15, 1767, settled in Lancaster, Massa- chusetts. And others.
(IV) Colonel Francis Faulkner, son of Ammiruhammah Faulkner (3), was born at Andover, Massachusetts, September 29, 1728, and came to Acton with his father when a young child. He died in Acton. August 5, 1805. He married, April 29, 1756, Lizzie Mussey. He was a member of the Provincial congress held in Concord in 1774, and was rep- resentative to the general court from Acton in 1783-84-85. He served on the committee of safety and correspondence. For thirty-five successive years he was town clerk of Acton and he kept the records with neatness, clear- ness and system. He was one of the famous leaders of the Revolutionary war in its early days. He had a military commission under the King but resigned, and in 1775 was elect- ed major of a regiment organized to "oppose invasion." On the morning of April 19, 1775, he responded to the alarm and marched with the Acton patriots to the North bridge, Con- cord, where he engaged the British and with his men pursued them to Charlestown, as col- onel in command of the Middlesex regiment. He was several times afterward engaged in actual service, being lieutenant-colonel in the regiment of Middlesex militia called to rein- force the Continental army at Dorchester Heights in March, 1776. He was in service when Burgoyne was taken, and commanded the regiment guarding the army of prisoners after the surrender. He was commissioned major, February 7, 1776, in Colonel James Barrett's (Third Middlesex County) regiment
of Massachusetts militia, but next day became lieutenant-colonel. He was commissioned col- onel of the Third Middlesex County Regiment of Massachusetts militia February 6, 1779. His son Francis was also in the service as a fifer in the Acton company in 1776 at the evac- uation of Boston. Colonel Faulkner was a courageous officer, and able legislator and ex- emplary Christian. He built the mills which for a century and a half have been known as the Faulkner Mills, now of South Acton. At first they were only a saw and grist mill, later a fulling mill.
The old Faulkner house is thus described by a writer in the Middlesex County history : "No tongue and no record fix the original date of this ancient landmark. It is safe to call it two hundred years old (in 1890), some parts of it at least. It was a block-house, and in the early colonial times it was a garrison- house, where the settlers in the neighborhood would gather in the night for protection against the assaults of the Indians. Enter the southwest room. It will easily accommodate 100 persons. It is a square room neatly kept and furnished with antique mementoes. Raise your hand and you easily touch the pro- jecting beams of dry hard oak, which the sharpest steel cannot cleave, eighteen inches solid. The space between the beams of the sides of the room are filled with brick, which make it fire-proof against the shot of the en- emy. You notice the two small glass windows as large as an orange in the entering door of this room. They were for use in watching the proceeding of the courts which once were held here by Francis Faulkner, the justice. Meas- ure the old chimney, nine feet by seven, solid brick, furnished with three large fire-places and an oven below and an oven above in the attic for smoking hams, large enough to ac- commodate all the neighbors and hooks attach- ed to the arch where the hams could remain suspended till called for."
He married Rebecca Keyes. Children : I. Francis, born January 31, 1760. 2. Rebekah, August 19, 1761. 3. Sarah, August 10, 1763. 4. Elizabeth, March 13, 1765. 5. Mary, July 12, 1767. 6. Lucy, May 16, 1770. 7. Susan- na, February 21, 1772. 8. Winthrop, March 21, 1774, resided in Acton, but had land in Worcester county; died March 17, 1813; one of charter members of Corinthian Lodge of Free Masons; magistrate at Acton. 9. Wil- liam Emerson, October 23, 1776, mentioned below. 10. Luther, May 7, 1779. All born at Acton on the homestead.
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(V) William Emerson Faulkner, son of Colonel Francis Faulkner (4), was born in Acton, Massachusetts, October 23, 1776. He lived in Acton and Berlin. He bought land in Berlin of Silas Coolidge, of Bolton. Dinah Baker sold the estate she bought of Stephen Baker to William Faulkner at Berlin, October 7, 1812. He married Esther Baker, daughter of Benjamin Baker and Dinah (Wheeler) Baker. Her father was born in Gloucester, Rhode Island; settled in Berlin, Massachu- setts, on the present Farwell farm which he sold to Stephen Baker, his son, and in 1790
bought the place on which - Howe lived later, and finally he lived on the Ira Brown farm bought of Benjamin Bruce; children, born 1758 to 1774: i. Jonathan Baker; ii. Miriam Baker, married Stephen Wheeler; iii. Dinah Baker, married Ephraim Larkin; iv. Elizabeth Baker; v. Stephen Baker ; vi. Hul- dah Baker ; vii. Hannah Baker, married James Rich; viii. Esther Baker, married William Faulkner, as stated above; ix. Ann Baker, married Stephen --. Benjamin Baker was doubtless a descendant of Thomas Baker, an early settler at Newport and Kingston, Rhode Island, who was ordained in 1655, was founder of the Second Baptist Church, leaving the first church because of a "prejudice against psalmody and the restraints that the liberty of prophesying was laid under and also against the doctrine of particular re- demption and against the rule of laying on of hands as a matter of indifference;" he re- moved to Kingston in 1666 and succeeded the first pastor, Rev. Richard Sweet. His son Benjamin married in 1705 and had a son Ben- jamin born about 1710. The latter was prob- ably father of Benjamin Baker, of Berlin. Children of William E. and Esther ( Baker) Faulkner : Lydia, born April 8, 1802, married Silas Moore, born in Stow, July 31, 1799. (See sketch of Moore family).
John Moore was born in Eng- MOORE land. He came to New Eng- land and seems to have settled first at Sudbury, Massachusetts. He bought a house and land there in 1642 of Edmund Rice, from his farms in what is now Wayland. He took the oath of fidelity July 9, 1645. He mar- ried Elizabeth Whale, daughter of Philemon Whale. She was executrix of his will. His estate was valued at eight hundred and four pounds, seven shillings. His will was dated August 25, 1668, and proved April 7, 1674.
He died January 6, 1673-74. He mentioned his sons John Moore, of Lancaster; William ; Jacob; Joseph, to whom he left the homestead, and Benjamin; daughters Elizabeth, wife of Henry Rice; Mary, wife of Daniel Stone, and Lydia, wife of James Cutler. His wife died December 14, 1690. Children: I. Elizabeth, born perhaps in England, married Henry Rice. 2. John, eldest son. 3. William, born about 1640, bought land in 1664 in Sudbury. 4. Mary, born September 8, 1641, married (first) Richard Ward; (second) Deacon Stone. 5. Lydia, born June 24, 1643, married, May 3, 1664; married (second), June 15, 1665, James Cutler. 6. Jacob, born April 28, 1645, mar- ried Elizabeth Loker. 7. Joseph, born Oc- tober 21, 1647, mentioned below. 8. Benja- min, born December 13, 1648.
(II) Joseph Moore, son of John Moore (I), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, October 21, 1647, and died January 2, 1725-26. He received the homestead at Sudbury. He mar- ried (first) Lydia Hayward, and (second), after 1718-19, Ruth His will was made in 1718-19, and proved in 1726, with the consent of the wife, after Benjamin and John made suitable provision for her support. The nine children were living when the will was made. Children : I. Benoni, born at Sudbury, April 14, 1669. 2. Joseph, August 1, 1670, men- tioned below. 3. Hannah, January 2, 1673, mar- ried, February 17, 1705, Joseph Gleason. 4. Thomas, December 9, 1676. 5. Benjamin, May 5, 1679. 6. John, May 8, 1683. 7. Eliz- abeth, September 20, 1685, married, December 27, 1716, Henry Rice. 8. Lydia, January 5, 1687. 9. Obadiah, died about 1726.
(III) Joseph Moore, son of Joseph Moore (2), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, August 1, 1670. He married Elizabeth who died March II, 1748-49. Children, born at Sudbury: I. Sapphira, born August 4, 1701, married, August 1, 1721, John Wood- ward. 2. Zerviah or Zibiah, May 8, 1704, married, June 4, 1728, Benjamin Moore. 3. Elias, (or Eliab), mentioned below. 4. Mary.
(IV) Elias or Eliab Moore, son of Joseph Moore (3), was born in Sudbury, and mar- ried Susanna Thompson. In 1740 he bought two pieces of land in Sudbury. He died Oc- tober 21, 1770. His will speaks of himself as "being weak and decayed in body;" mentions wife, who with son Obadiah, was executrix. Children : I. Obadiah, born September 20. 1726, mentioned below. 2. Isaac, August 4, 1730, died April 19, 1733. 3. Jeduthan, June I, 1741, married Ruth Moore, daughter of
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Hezekiah Moore; settled in Rutland in 1767; shoemaker, lived on Pound Hill; died in 1816, leaving wife Ruth and children Ruth, Jesse and Cumming.
(V) Obadiah Moore, son of Elias Moore (4), was born September 20, 1726. He mar- ried Eunice Hayden, May 22, 1744, and they resided in Sudbury, where their children were born. Children: I. Sarah, born November 13, 1744. 2. Eliab, April 26, 1747. 3. Lucy, November 3, 1748. 4. Uriah, March 4, 1750, mentioned below. 5. Susannah, July 16, 1751. 6. Catherine, September 21, 1752. 7. Isaac, April 18, 1753.
(VI) Uriah Moore, son of Obadiah Moore (5), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, March 4, 1750. He married at Sudbury, April II, 1776, Lydia Witt, and seems to have set- tled after the Revolution in Stow, Massachu- setts. There were three of this name of about the same age in Sudbury and the records in- dicate that all were soldiers in the Revolution, but it is impossible with the information avail- able to determine the exact record of each. He had two children born in Sudbury: I. Eunice, October 15, 1776. 2. Uriah, Decem- ber 29, 1777, mentioned below.
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(VII) Uriah Moore, son of Uriah Moore, (6), was born in Sudbury, December 29, 1777. He was sergeant of the militia company or- ganized in 1802 by Colonel Cutting, of Marl- borough, Massachusetts. He married at Sud- bury, in 1798, Eunice Willis, born November 22, 1756, daughter of Jesse and Eunice Willis, of Sudbury. Jesse Willis was born January 8, 1730-31, son of Samuel and Jerusha Willis. Samuel Willis, father of Jesse, was born April I, 1675, son of Roger and Ruth Willis, of Sudbury. Children, born in Stow: Silas, born July 31, 1799, mentioned below. Warner, Sarah and Emeline.
(VIII) Silas Moore, son of Uriah Moore (7), was born in Stow, Massachusetts, July 31, 1799. He resided in Stow and manufac- tured brick there in addition to carrying on his farm. He died there August, 1869. He mar- ried Lydia Faulkner, born April 8, 1802, daughter of William and Esther (Baker) Faulkner, of Berlin, Massachusetts. (See Faulkner family). She died August, 1888. Children: I. Roxanna, married Miles. 2. Mary Ann, married Taylor. :3. Eunice, married Miles. 4. Charles Warren. 5. Henry S., born May 10, 1835, mentioned below. 6. Harriet.
(IX) Captain Henry S. Moore, son of Si-
las Moore (8), was born in Gleasondale, for- merly Rock Bottom, in the town of Stow, Massachusetts, May 10, 1835. He was edu- cated there in the public schools. He learned the trade of shoemaker and, before the Civil war, was in charge of the sole leather room of the Randall & Bigelow factory in Groton. He was for many years fore- man of the stitching room of Houghton shoe factory; foreman of the cutting room in Truell & Mawhinney's factory, where he had a force of forty-five men. In every posi- tion he held he had the confidence and esteem of his employers and proved an efficient and careful foreman, mindful alike of the rights and feelings of employees and the require- ments of the business. He won distinction in the service during the Civil war. He was ap- pointed second lieutenant of Company I, Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, June 24, 1862. Later in the year he resigned his commission to become sergeant in the Thirty- sixth Massachusetts Regiment, August I, 1862, and served in the company until the close of the war, being mustered out June I, 1865. He was elected captain of Company I, Fifth Regiment, of which he was formerly a lieutenant, received his commission from Gov- ernor Washburn and served for a number of years. He is a member of Reno Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and in the seventies was its commander. During the war he took part in many important battles of the Civil war-Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, the Wilder- ness, Spottsylvania, Campbell Station, Cold Harbor and others of less importance. Cap- tain Moore was appointed postmaster of Hud- son, February 1, 1896, by President Cleve- land, and December 1, 1899, was reappointed by President Mckinley, January 5, 1904, he received his commission for a third term of four years, but owing to ill health was obliged to resign in March, 1906. He has since then been living in Hudson, retired from active business and labor. He is a member of Doric Lodge of Free Masons; Houghton Royal Arch Chapter of Marlborough; Hiram Council of Worcester ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of Hudson; Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Boston; Corinthian Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He also belongs to Elks Lodge, No. 559.
He married, February 12, 1854, Addie Bou- tell, born in Groton, daughter of Rev. Luther Boutell. She died in 1862 and he married (second), Belle H. Hardy, born 1836, daugh- ter of Dr. Samuel Hardy, of Cornish, New
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Hampshire. His only son, Charles Henry, born April 20, 1855, died in 1856.
John Butcher, father of Robert BUTCHER Heapey Butcher, was born in Bolton, England, April 4, 1803, was there educated, and early master- ed the art of printing and finishing cotton cloth. He married an English girl, Elizabeth Smith, and to them were born in England four children; one only survived to come with her parents to Lowell, Massachusetts, about 1827, who died in early childhood.
Taking employment with the Merrimack Print Works, he had for many years full charge of its finishing department from which position he retired to establish an iron and steel and heavy hardware business, which he successfully conducted until his death in April 1881, four children surviving him-Robert, Heapey, Elizabeth Anne, Mary Jane, and Aar- on Walter, all born in this country.
Robert Heapey Butcher, son of John But- cher, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 5, 1830, and died July 7, 1883. He attended the public school of his native city, and later served an apprenticeship as a printer and finisher under his father's direction, fin- ally succeeding to his father's position with the Merrimack Print Works, which position he held for several years. From printing, like his father, he turned to the iron business, be- coming a partner in the American Bolt Com- pany, of Lowell, Massachusetts, an extensive manufacturing concern establised in 1841, which for many years enjoyed a large and prosperous business and of which he was the largest owner and treasurer at his death. He was a Republican in politics, a thirty-second degree Mason, and a devoted sportsman, an organizer of the Wild Goose Club of Maine soon after the war, and rarely missed a trip, spring and fall, to that charming spot where, evidenced by the club register, many eminent men were frequently attracted, among them General Benjamin F. Butler, his townsman and warm personal friend.
Mr. Butcher married, December 15, 1857, Celestia A. Currier, daughter of John and Mary (Riggs) Currier. Two children were the issue: I. Annie Gertrude, wife of Percy Parker, of Lowell; children: Robert B., John M. G., Gertrude, Percy, died in infancy, and Percy. 2. Walter H., died 1887.
Mrs. Celestia A. (Currier) Butcher is a des- cendant of a distinguished ancestry. Richard
Currier, the first of whom we have definite information, was born in England, 1616, died February 22, 1689. His'son, Deacon Thomas Currier, born March 8, 1646, married Mary Osgood, December 9, 1668, died September 27, 1712. His son, Joseph Currier, born 1685, married, December 9, 1708, Sarah Brown, died 1748. His son, Nathan Currier, born November 16, 1710, married, 1733, Mehitable Silver, died 1782. His son, Seth Currier, born March 10, 1734, married Ellis Sargent, died March, 1792. His son, Joseph Currier, born August 13, 1770, married, August 26, 1792, Betsey Kendrick, died May 15, 1814. His son, John Currier, born July 10, 1810, married, May 5, 1833, Mary Ann Riggs, and their daughter, Celestia A., married, December 15, 1857, Robert H. Butcher.
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