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damages in such cases, payment was refused and litigation kept up for four years. In the end, however, Mr. Hoitt won his case and the precedent in that case became the law of the land. Thus he contended not only for his own rights but for thousands of others who were not in a position to fight the corporation unaided. General Hoitt was fond of the mili- tary life and continued in the state militia many years, rising in rank through the various grades to major-general of the state militia, and he had the reputation of being one of the best disciplinarians in the service. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat. He was selectman of Lee for some years; surveyor of highways; overseer of the poor. While at Lee he was elected to both branches of the state legislature, and was again elected to the house from Durham in 1874. He was honor- ed with a unanimous election to the office of selectman of Lee. In 1881, although he was not a resident of Dover, he was nominated for mayor by the Democrats and came within one hundred and seven votes of defeating the Republican candidate when the Democratic party was in the normal minority of about one thousand votes. In religion he was an Ortho- dox Congregationalist.
General Hoitt was equally popular and dis- tinguished in business and public life. He was ever bright, energetic and active in whatever he was about ; of strong and determined char- acter ; of excellent judgement in business and of large influence and authority in his town, county and state. In business he never had to give a note except for part of the purchase price of his first venture in real estate. He was a typical self-made man.
His interesting family was a source of great joy and satisfaction to him as the years passed. After a remarkable family gathering, the Democrat Press of Dover, New Hampshire, said in its issue of December 5, 1875: "The family gathering at General Hoitt's on Thanks- giving Day was a remarkable one for these latter days at least. General Hoitt and wife have been married forty-eight years and have reared a family of thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. All are now living, the youngest being twenty-seven years. Three sons and six daughters are married and the entire family including grandchildren, twenty- one in number, making forty-two with the general and his wife assembled at the pater- nal home to celebrate the Thanksgiving holi- clay. We doubt if another such family as General Hoitt's can be found in New England.
Both sons and daughters are all smart and capable, intelligent and well situated in life- true chips of the old block. The average weight of the entire family, father, mother sons and daughters is one hundred and eighty- six pounds, and their mental powers are com- mensurate with their bodily vigor. General Hoitt and wife commenced the labor of life together with only their own efforts to rely upon for success. Their prosperity in every essential respect proves their reliance not a vain one."
He married, October 26, 1828, Susan De Meritt, born at Northwood, New Hampshire, December 22, 1806, and died at Durham, New Hampshire, April, 1877. He married (sec- ond), January 6, 1879, Mrs. Mary A. Smart, of Boston. Children: I. Franklin Wood- bury, born April 5, 1829, died unmarried February 3, 1877. 2. Alfred DeMeritt, born October 14, 1830, mentioned below. 3.
Alvina Amanda, born February 8, 1832, died April 22, 1889; married, January 1, 1856, Daniel C. M. Pierce, of New Market, New Hampshire, who died April 16, 1889. Chil- dren : i. Ida May Pierce, born January 21, 1864, married, December 18, 1889, J. L. McKone and had Welden Pierce McKone, born February 22, 1891, and Evelyn Ruth McKone, born March 18, 1896; ii. Frank Daniel Pierce, born November 9, 1867; iii. Ned Hoitt Pierce, born May 1, 1874, married, December 14, 1898, Amy Belle Bryant. 4. Samuel Piper, born March 16, 1833, died April 20, 1902; married, January 28, 1855, Mary Elizabeth Doe, of New Market, New Hampshire; children: i. Carrie Ellen, born March 18, 1859, died December 2, 1874; ii. Annie Isabelle, born October 3, 1860, married, November 15, 1882, Henry Gilbert Hayes, of Madbury, New Hampshire, and had Isabelle Chadwick Hayes, born January 28, 1884, Ralph Hoitt Hayes, born August 20, 1885, and Helen Louise Hayes, born October 31, 1891 ; iii. Fred Thornton, born June 24, 1866, died September 9, 1872; iv. George Gaines, born September 12, 1872, married, June 1, 1893, Laura Mabel Sleeper, of Alexandria, New Hampshire, and had Carrie Elizabeth, born March 17, 1894, Alice Joanna, born April 28, 1895, Martha Luena, born September 2, 1896, Ellen Crawford, born September I, 1898, Mary Georgene, born November 19, 1903, and Samuel Waldo, born July 23, 1905. 5. Elizabeth Susan, born March 1, 1835, died January II, 1906; married Samuel Chesby Hayes, of Madbury, New Hampshire; chil-
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dren : i. Harry Edgar Hayes, born December 12, 1865, married, October 16, 1901, Emma Susan Tilton, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and had Alfred Henry Hayes, born September 14, 1906; ii. Alfred Samuel Hayes, born May 14, 1869, married, June 8, 1899, Sara May Bart- lett, of Rockland, Maine, and had Robert Hayes, born June 2, 1907. 6. Lydia Olive, born October 30, 1836, married, at Durham, New Hampshire, Rufus W. Willey, of Dur- ham; children : i. Clarence Hoitt Willey, married Mary Elizabeth Appleton; ii. Allie Willey, born May 30, 1868, married, April 18, 1894, Frederick D. Hall and had Marion Hall, born January 30, 1895, and Eleanor Hall, born February 17, 1901. 7. Henrietta, born Feb- ruary 28, 1838, married, November 6, 1860, Alden P. Sherburne, of Concord, New Hamp- shire ; children: i. Elmer D. Sherburne, born November 5, 1868, married, June 25, 1892, Alice Howe, and had Grace M. Sherburne, born November 12, 1895, Dorothy P. Sher- burne, born August 5, 1899, and Avis A. Sherburne, born December 5, 1901 ; ii. Charles L. Sherburne, born January 25, 1871 ; iii. Al- den Hoitt Sherburne, born October 25, 1880, married, September 4, 1902, Frances Good- rich, of Concord, New Hampshire, and had Harold Sherburne, born April 7, 1904. 8. Mary Frances, born July 22, 1839, married (first), 1860, Charles Bean, of Nottingham, New Hampshire; children: i. Edgar Bean, born December, 1861 ; ii. Walter C. Bean, born October II, 1863, died April 18, 1900; married (second), January 16, 1870, Jonathan Frank Young, of Barrington, New Hampshire, who died June 24, 1905; one child; iii. Jonathan Frank Young, born May 25, 1872. 9. Martha Ann, born April 20, 1841, died January 4, 1890; married Marcellus H. Perkins, of Dur- ham, New Hampshire, one child, Alberta Per- kins. 10. George Irving, born February 2, 1843, married Emma Weldon, of Boston. II. Washington. 12. Sylvia Victoria, born Janu- ary, 12, 1847, married, May 8, 1879, Laban M. T. Hill, of Barrington, New Hampshire. 13. Charles Edward, born March 8, 1849, married Martha Longley, of Durham, New Hampshire.
(VIII) Alfred DeMeritt Hoitt, son of Gen- eral Alfred Hoitt (7), was born in Lee, New Hampshire, October 14, 1830. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, removing with his father to Durham in 1849. He was clerk in his father's store for a time, and in 1852 was appointed postmaster by Pre- sident Pierce, holding the office also under Pre-
sident Buchanan. In 1857 he removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and engaged in the hay and grain business with a store on Canal street, Boston. He was energetic and enterprising by nature, and soon built up a profitable business and took a leading position in his line of trade. He continued in business in Boston with uninterrupted success for a period of thirty years and retired with a com- petence in 1887.
While a resident of Charlestown he was a member of the common council of that city before it was annexed to Boston, and he was an alderman the year before annexation. He removed to Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1873, and has lived there since that time, filling many positions of trust and responsibility. He was a member of the water board and board of assessors for ten years, and was chairman of both boards. He has been trustee of the sinking fund and various other town funds for a number of years. He has been a direc- tor of the Metropolitan National Bank of Bos- ton for nearly thirty years. He was one of the founders of the Arlington National Bank and has been vice-president many years. He has been prominent in Democratic politics, serving on the state committee and being del- egate to several national and many state and other nominating conventions. He has been postmaster of Arlington since 1895, when he was appointed by President Cleveland. A local newspaper says of him recently: "Quite an unusual coincidence came to our notice the other day in a paragraph from a local paper of New Hampshire. From it was learned that Mr. Alfred D. Hoitt, the postmaster of Arl- ington, was postmaster of Durham, New Hampshire, in 1853. It is safe to assume that Mr. Hoitt will round out his business life as postmaster. It is now thirteen years since he received his appointment as postmaster at Arl- ington, and the office has grown almost out of recognition in these years. and is quite a model of excellence in all respects. Mr. Hoitt was twenty-two years old when he became postmaster of Durham and held the office un- til he came to Boston in 1857 and went into the hay and grain business, in which it is estimated that he made a tidy fortune, so that he retired from business many years ago.
"When the vacancy in Arlington postoffice occurred through the resignation of Mr. Fred E. Fowle, who had served the town many years, Mr. Hoitt was sought to return to the occupation and office of his early manhood and to give to the town of Arlington the bene-
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fit of his mature experience in postoffice work, and received the appointment. He has always taken great pride in the office and will no doubt call these, his last thirteen years, his best years. Mr. Hoitt is in his seventy-eighth year, but he has the vigor of many a younger man, and his enthusiasm and interest in his work are unabated."
The following extract is from the Boston Daily Globe, February 18, 1902: "Alfred D. Hoitt, superintendent of the Arlington branch of the Boston postoffice is probably one of the oldest and most successful station superinten- dents in the Boston postal district. Mr. Hoitt is one of the veterans in years in the service, but his postoffice experience did not begin (in Arlington) until the second Cleveland admin- istration when he was appointed as a compro- mise candidate for postmaster. Arlington was then a presidential appointment, but since then has been attached to the Boston office and Mr. Hoitt has continued at the head of the office, but at half the salary that he formerly re- ceived as postmaster. In addition to the sup- erintendent there are three clerks. During the first year the sale of stamps amounted to $7,000. Last year the sales of 1901 amounted to $16,000. There has been a vast increase in the registry and money order business."
He married, August 24, 1858, Mary E. Sawyer, born at Dover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1833, died at Arlington, Massa- chusetts, May 9, 1880, daughter of Thomas E. Sawyer, of Dover, New Hampshire, the first mayor of that city after its incorporation in 1855 and at one time candidate for governor of the state. Mrs. Hoitt was a member of the Arlington Congregational Church and much interested in the benevolent work of that soci- ety. Children : I. Alice Elizabeth, born at Charlestown, February 4, 1863, drowned in Spy pond, May 26, 1875. 2. Gertrude Saw- yer, born August 28, 1866, married, October 30, 1889, T. Ralph Parris, of Arlington, Mass- achusetts, no issue. 3. Fannie Elwood, born December 7, 1869, married, January 17, 1901, Walter F. Hooker, of Worcester, Massachu- setts ; children : i. Alice Gertrude Hooker, born October 7. 1902; ii. Robert Elwood Hooker, born June 21, 1905. 4. Alfred Woodman, born February 19, 1875, unmarried.
Wood, or Woods, is a surname of WOOD ancient English origin, and had its origin in designating some men from their residence near woods. Atwood and Bywood are forms of the same name.
The surname Hill is of similar origin, and perhaps quite as generally used. Other sur- names formed in this way are Pond, Rivers, Lake, Bridge, etc. The medieval spelling of this surname was Atte Wode, afterwards soft- ened to. A'wood. Since the immigrants came to this country with the early settlers at Ply- mouth we find Wood and Atwood used inter- changeably. Almost every conceivable Wood in England surnamed some family back in the tenth, eleventh or twelfth centuries, and hence the multitude bearing the name. In Domes- day Book the name is found in the Latin form De Silva in county Suffolk. In the Hundred Rolls the forms de la Wode, In le Wode and Ate Wode are found. Many famous men in England and America have belonged to the Wood family. In England and Scotland one hundred different coats-of-arms belong to the various Wood families. A branch of the Scotch Wood family is numerous in Ireland. 'There is a general similarity of design in the armorials of many of these families that indi- cate common ancestry at some remote period. The Derbyshire family fanily coat-of-arms : Azure three naked savages proper, each hold- ing in the dexter hand a shield argent charged with a cross gules, and in the sinister a club resting on the naked hand proper. Crest : An oak tree proper acorned or. Many are like this old one. The families bearing arms and the surname Wood are numerous in Dev- onshire, Gloucestershire, county Kent and county Middlesex. Thomas Wood, chief jus- tice of the court of common pleas in 1501, had these arms: Gules semee of crosses crosslet fitchee argent three demi-woodmen holding clubs proper. Note the resemblance in design to the other. Viscount Halifax bears: Azure three naked savages ambulant in fess proper, in the dexter hand of each a shield argent charged with a cross gules in the sinister ; a club resting on the shoulder also proper on a canton ermine, three lozenges conjoined fess sable. Crest : a savage as in the arms, the shield sable, charged with a griffin's head erased argent. Motto: Perseverando. Most of the Scotch and Irish families bearing arms have the following or one very like it: Azure an oak tree eradicated or. The family had seats in Fife and Forfarshire as early as the sixteenth century.
Josiah Wood, the immigrant an-
WOOD cestor, was one of a score or more by the name of Wood who settled in New England before 1650, or soon
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after that date. He was born in England in 1629, and died September 24, 1691, aged sixty- two years. He settled in Charlestown, Mass- achusetts, and was a member of the First Church. He bought the rights of a commoner in Charlestown, and was granted the rights of four common shares in 1681. He bought two lots of Elizabeth Checkley in 1675-6, and other lots of Nathaniel Hayward and Samuel Carter in Charlestown. His will was dated May 19, 1691, and was proved December 29, following. It mentions sons Josiah, Samuel and Joseph. The inventory shows the estate was valued at 378 pounds. He married, Octo- ber 28, 1657, Lydia Bacon (by Captain Ed- ward Johnson, magistrate), (see Bacon fam- ily). She was admitted to the Charlestown church, June 29, 1762, and died November 25, 1674. Children, born at Charlestown : I. Josiah, born October 10, 1658, baptized July 6, 1662, died young. 2. Lydia, born Novem- ber 23, 1659; died December 20, 1659. 3. Josiah, born July, 1662; mentioned below. 4. Lydia, born July, 1662; died September 17, 1681, (gravestone). 5. Samuel, born Novem- ber 12, 1671 ; married Hannah Buck. 6. Jo- seph, born December, 1674, baptized December 27. 7. Ruth, born June, 1676, baptized June 4.
(II) Josiah Wood, son of Josiah Wood (I), was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, July, 1662; died at Woburn, Massachusetts, March 9, 1740; married, December 13, 1686, Abigail Bacon, daughter of Michael of Biller- ica. (See Bacon family). She was born March 1, 1666, and died December 6, 1743. Michael Bacon, of Woburn, deeded to Josiah Wood, Jr., of Charlestown, October 22, 1686, all his real estate in Woburn, consisting of housing and lands, in particular his mansion house, barn and outbuildings. In 1687, Josiah Wood was settled in Woburn. Children, born in Woburn: I. Josiah, born August 31, 1687; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born May I, 1689; married James Simonds. 3. Abigail, born September 10, 1691; married, in 1723, Benjamin Simonds. 4. Samuel, born Decem- ber 10, 1693, died May, 1745; married Eliza- beth 5. Joseph, born April 25, 1696; died December 30, 1713; unmarried. 6. Sol- oman, born January 23, 1698; died October 13, 1699. 7. Ruth, born January 4, 1700; died August 2, 1736; unmarried.
(III) Josiah Wood, son of Josiah Wood (2), was born August 31, 1687, in Woburn, and died there January 4, 1753. He married Ruth Peabody, who died in 1752. Children,
born in Woburn: I. Josiah, born April 23, IZII; died February, 1729-30. 2. John, born November 27, 1713; mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born December 29, 1715. 4. Edward, born February II, 1717-18. 5. Ruth, born February 24, 1719-20; married, 1742, Benja- min Nutting. 6. Solomon, born February 23, 1721; married, September 20, 1752, Martha Johnson. 7. Susannah, born March 6, 1724; married Nathan Reed. 9. Mary, born March, 1726; married, March, 1746, George Reed. 9. Phebe, born April 23, 1729; married William Clark.
(IV) John Wood, son of Josiah Wood (3), was born in Woburn, November 27, 1713, and died there April 29, 1752. He left all his pro- perty to his wife. He married, October 21, 1736, Esther Johnson, born February 2, 1715, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Johnson, and granddaughter of the pioneer, William. (See Johnson sketch). Children, born at Wo- burn: I. Esther, born May 6, 1737 ; married, March, 1757, Eleazer Carter. 2. Lucy, born September 16, 1738; married Ebenezer Locke. 3. John, Jr., born August 23, 1740 ; mentioned below. 4. Susannah, born September 13, 1742; married, 1762, Silas Wyman. 5. Ruth, born May 29, 1745, died October 13, 1763. 6. Josiah, born June 23, 1747. 7. Silvanus, born January 27, 1748; married Deborah Bruce. 8. Sarah, born October 4, 1752; married Nathaniel Wyman.
(V) Captain John Wood, son of John Wood (4), was born in Woburn, August 23, 1740, and died there October 19, 1809. His birthplace is now within the town of Burling- ton, set off from Woburn, and his grave is in the old cemetery in Burlington. He entered the army at the age of sixteen in the second year of the French and Indian war, 1755-1763. The enlisting officer was inclined to refuse him at first on account of his youth, but he offered to test his marksmanship against any of the other soldiers and recruits, and showed so much spirit that he was accepted and assigned to duty. He took part in the expedi- tion against Canada under Benedict Arnold. One of the soldiers had a sore break out, swelling and suppurating until he was disabled from further marching. To leave him alone meant death, so the commander asked for a volunteer to remain behind to care for him. Wood was the only soldier ready to undertake this dangerous and trying duty. His comrades built a hut, and left among other supplies a two-quart bottle of rum. When he drew aside the blanket in front of the tent next day he
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saw a group of Indians. Seeing that resist- ance was out of the question, if attacked, he resolved to try other measures, and with his bottle of rum advanced to meet the enemy, saying "Oncapee," (ardent spirits). After the Indians had required him to drink first to be sure that no trick was being played with poisoned rum they accepted the firewater and became friendly. One of them had a knowl- edge of medicine, and when shown the suffer- ing man in the hut proceeded to lance the sore with a broken flint, and then made a dressing from an herb that he dug from under the snow at the root of a hemlock tree. When the re- lief party returned at the end of three days they found that the Indian remedy had cured the soldier. He was commissioned captain in Colonel Loammi Baldwin's regiment in the Revolution, and served in 1775 and 1777. When he married, April 4, 1767, he was living in Cambridge, afterward Woburn district; he married Dorcas Smith, of Lexington, April 4, 1764. She was born March 28, 1746, and died September 19, 1809, daughter of Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Wellington) Smith. Joseph Smith, father of Hezekiah, married Mary Richards. Thomas Smith, father of Joseph, married Mary Hosmer. Thomas Smith, father of Thomas, married Mary Knapp. John Smith, father of Thomas, died at Water- town, Massachusetts, July 12, 1639, aged six- ty : was an immigrant from England.
Captain John Wood was on a committee headed by Colonel Loammi Baldwin to confer with a committee of the second parish which asked for a division of the town, and the con- ferences were held at his house. In 1787 he was on a committee of seven to secure separ- ation of Burlington from Woburn. Children : I. John, born December 26, 1764; married Hannah Blanchard. 2. Lucy, born March II, 1767, died August 21, 1779. 3. Dorcas, born March 5, 1769; married Lawrence. 4. Josiah, born May, 1773; married Betsey Wy- man. 5. Ruth, born June, 1778; married Jon- athan Trask Fiske. 6. Sylvanus, born Sep- tember 15, 1787 ; mentioned below.
(VI) Sylvanus Wood, son of John Wood (5), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts (Burlington), September 15, 1787, and died August 14, 1843. He was brought up on his father's farm and educated in the public schools. He taught school for some years in the vicinity. He bought his farm containing over one hundred acres about the time of his marriage and conducted it all the rest of his life. He was a man of sound judgment and
much force of character. He was a justice of the peace, and filled many other positions of trust and honor. In personal appearance he was tall and erect, and resembled in fea- ture Daniel Webster. He was a member of the Burlington Congregational church (ortho- dox). In politics he was a Whig. He be- longed to the militia company of Woburn. He married, July 1, 1810, Rebecca Carter, born July 29, 1789, died October 6, 1850, daughter of Jonas and Phebe (Carter) Car- ter, of Woburn. Her father was a farmer. Lineage: Rebecca (7); Jonas (6); Eleazer (5); William (4) and Abigail Butters; Eb- enezer (3) and Lydia Butters; Thomas (2) and Margery Whitmore; Rev. Thomas (I),. the immigrant, born 1510, died 1684; first minister of Woburn. Children : I. Sabra, born August 21, 1812; married March 16, 1837, Philip Russell ; children, all born in Lex- ington : i. Sabra Ann Russell; ii. Marshall Russell; iii. Henry Russell; iv. Ella Russell. 2. Lucy, born April 15, 1814; died December 24, 1841. 3. Sylvanus, born December 3, 1815; died December 9, 1843; unmarried. 4. Rebecca, born July 27, 1817; died March II, 1847; married Jeduthan Richardson, of Wo- burn, Massachusetts; children : i. Rebecca Richardson; ii. Alvin Richardson. 5. John, born September 18, 1819; married December 26, 1847, Sylvinia Hart; children: i. Mary Hart; ii. John Dexter Hart; iii. Anna Hart; iv. George Hart. 6. Josiah, born September 8, 1821 ; died August 5, 1850; married August 13, 1846, Mary Jane Tarr. 7. Eliza, born September 14, 1823; died August 7, 1852; married, October 13, 1846, George Munroe; children: Eliza and Georgiana. 8. Albert, born July 31, 1825, died June 21, 1862; kill- ed in civil war; he married, May 20, 1850, Sarah M. Deering; children: i. Sarah M., born April 4, 1851, died November 8, 1867 ; ii. Albert, born May 5, 1852, died July 3, 1853; iii. Frank Gilbert, born December 6, 1853; married September 10, 1877, Edith M. Tice; iv. Louisa Wilcott, born May 29, 1855, died September II, 1865; v. Ida, born March 17, 1857; married, May 31, 1885, Jacob L. True; vi. Henry, born April 10, 1860, died May 19, 1878. vii. Edward Ever- ett, born April 25, 1862; married January 27, 1886, Lenora Birdsall. 9. Marshall, born Oc- tober 2, 1827; mentioned below. IO. Selina. born May 8, 1829; died November 9, 1848; married, October 12, 1848, Richard J. Alley ; no children.
(VII) Marshall Wood, son of Sylvanus
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(6), was born in Burlington, Massachusetts, October 2, 1827. He attended the district school, and worked during his youth on his father's farm, and from the time of his father's death in 1843 he carried on the farm for his mother until 1850, when he bought the interests of the other heirs and became the owner. This farm consists of some eighty acres in the northeast part of the village. He had a fine dairy and a productive farm. Since his death his farm has been conducted by his widow and son-in-law, A. Dane. Mr. Wood was devoted to his family and his busi- ness. He attended the Burlington Congrega- tional church. In politics. he was a Republi- can ; was a member of the school committee and trustee of the public library.
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