USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume III > Part 28
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99
a member of Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in 1858, and continued an active and devout member of this society until his death, being for several years its treasurer, and always interested in its charitable work. Mr. Brown was known, in the community in which he lived and in which he did so much for its betterment, as a man of spotless integrity and sterling honesty. Personally agreeable and attractive in manner, he made many friends, and was much beloved and respected.
He married (first) Elizabeth Draper ; (second) 1875, Mary Jane Sweat, of Vassal- borough, Maine. She was well educated, and before her marriage was a school teacher in her native town. She survives her husband, living in the homestead at Lowell, and since his death has had the entire care and manage- ment of her late husband's real estate and other property. She is a member of Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, and a lib- eral contributor to its various charities. She is also an active member and supporter of the society in charge of the Children's Home of Lowell. They had no children.
WOODBURY
John Woodbury, the im- migrant ancestor, came from Somersetshire, Eng-
land, about 1624-25, in the interests of the Dorchester Company, which established itself at Cape Ann, now Gloucester, Massachusetts, at or shortly before that period. Perhaps no better or clearer account can be given of his earlier connection with this company as its agent, than to give in full the deposition of his son Humphrey, who accompanied him thither on his second voyage. This deposition was given to disprove Mason's claim to extensive tracts of land in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, under date of February 16, 1680- 81 :
"Humphrey Woodbury, Beverly, aged sev- enty two, testifies, that when I lived in Somer- setshire in England, I remember that my father, John Woodberye (since deceased) did about 56 years agoc remoove for new England & I then traveled with him as farr as Dorches- ter (Eng.) & I understood that my said father came to new England by order of a company caled Dorchester company (among whome mr. White of Dorchester in England was an active instrument) & that my father and the com- pany with him brought cattle & other things to Cape Ann for plantation work & there built an house & kept theire cattle & sett up fishing &
ยท
-
I002
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
afterwards some of them removed to a neck of land since called Salem. And after about three years absence my said father returned to England & made us acquainted with waht set- tlement they had made in new England & that he was sent back by some that Intended to set- tle a plantation about 3 leagues west of Cape Ann. to further this designe after about half a years stay in England, my father returned to new England & brought me with him; wee arrived at the place now caled Salem in or about the month of June, 1628; where wee found several persons that said they were ser- vants to the Dorchester company & had built another house for them at Salem besides that at Cape Ann. The latter end of that sumer, 1628: John Endecott Esq: came over gover- nor, declaring his power from a company of pattentees in or about London; & that they had bought the houses boates & servants which belonged to the Dorchester company and that he sd Endicott had power to receive them which accordingly he did take possession of ; when we settled the Indians never then molested us in our improvemts or sitting downe either on Salem or Beverly side of the ferry, but showed themselves very glad of our company & came & planted by us & oftentimes came to us for shelter saying they were afraid of their enemy Indians up in the country : & wee did shelter them when they fled to us & wee had theire free leave to build & plant where wee have taken up lands; the same year, or the next after, wee came to Salem, wee cut hay for the cattel wee brought over on that side of the ferry now caled Beverly : & have kept our possession there ever since by cutting hay or thatch or timber & boards & by laying out lotts for tillage : & sometime after building & dwelling heere, where, with others have lived about 40 years: In all this time of my being in new England I never heard that Mr. Mason took possession here, dis- bursted estate upon, or layd claime to this place of ours, save the discourse of a claim within this yeare or two."
John had a brother, William Woodbury, who came over before 1630, when the two brothers settled in what is now Beverly, near Wood- bury's Point, on Mackerel Cove. John was admitted a freeman in 1630, and was deputy to the general court from 1635 to 1638. In 1635 John was appointed one of the commit- tee to lay out lands. In the year in which Harvard College was established, 1636, Cap- tain Endicott, in behalf of Colonel John Humphries, presented a motion to the general
court to set off some lands beyond Forest river for the erection of a college there. Woodbury was appointed on the committee of six to view the lands. In 1637 he was elected selectman, and continued in that office until his death, being present at every meeting. He and wife Agnes were among the original members of the First Church at Salem, in 1629. His will was proved February 8, 1642-43, but is not preserved. He was probably about sixty years old at the time of his death. Children : I. Humphrey, born 1609-10; mentioned below. 2. John, resided in Beverly, called senior. 3. Hannah, baptized December 23, 1636 ; married April 26, 1658, Cornelius Baker. 4. Abigail, baptized November 12, 1637; married John Hill. 5. Peter, baptized September 19, 1640 (born June 19, 1640, according to Savage).
(II) Humphrey Woodbury, son of John Woodbury (I), was born in 1609-10, in Eng- land. He and six others were granted a half- acre each at Winter Harbor for fishing trade and to build upon. In 1636 he received a grant of forty acres of land, and January 29, 1636-7, forty acres more. He was called "fisherman" in the deeds of various parcels of land that he bought. He married Elizabeth-who made her will May 1, 1689. It was proved Novem- ber 26, 1689, mentioning her two grandchil- dren: Peter, son of John Woodbury, and Peter, son of William, to both of whom she gave ten shillings because they were named for her son Peter, who was killed by the In- dians in King Philip's war, under Captain Lathrop; two daughters, Susanna (Tenney) and Christian Trask, to whom she gave a legacy of twenty shillings each, and daughter Elizabeth Walker, Peter Woodbury and Cor- nelius Baker, her friends, were named as over- seers of her will. Children: I. John, baptized October 24, 1641. 2. Isaac, baptized Febru- ary 4, 1643-4; died March II, 1725. 3. Hum- phrey, baptized March 8, 1646-7; died April 9, 1727. 4. Thomas, born about 1639; men- tioned below. 5. Susanna, born February 4, 1648-9; married December 2, 1668, John Ten- ney, son of Thomas and Ann Tenney, of Row- ley, who was born December 14, 1640. 6. William, baptized May 4, 1651. 7. Peter, born March 28, 1653; killed in 1675. 8. Richard, born February, 1654-5; died 1690 on return from Canada expedition. 9. Elizabeth, born
April 28, 1657; married Walker, of Boston. 10. Christian, born April 20, 1661; suicide ; married April 9, 1679, John Trask.
(III) Thomas Woodbury, son of Hum- phrey Woodbury (2), was born about 1639.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
1003
His will is dated December II, 1716, and proved April 20, 1719, mentioning wife Eliza- beth; sons William, Jonathan and Samuel ; daughters Hannah, wife of John Ober, and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Herrick, and chil- dren of his son Samuel, deceased, viz .: Sam- uel, Keziah, Mary. Thomas deeded to his son William a house in which William had been living. He gave other heirs divers parcels of land during his life-time. He married first, Hannah Dodge, daughter of William and Eliz- abeth Dodge. She was baptized in the First Church of Salem, July 24, 1642, and died Jan- uary 2, 1688. She was first the wife of Sam- uel Porter, son of John, the immigrant, who died in 1651, leaving one son, John, who set- tled in Wenham. Woodbury married second, April 29, 1690, Elizabeth Curtis, widow of Samuel. Children of Thomas and Hannah Woodbury: I. William, born September 17, 1662; died November, 1725. 2. Samuel, born 1665-6; died April 18, 1689. 3. Thomas, baptized July 3, 1667. 4. Israel, born May 23, 1670. 5. Hannah, born February 25, 1672; married July 5, 1694, John Ober. 6. Elizabeth, born February 6, 1676; married Joseph Herrick. 7. A daughter, born January 20, 1679, died young. 8. Susanna, baptized March 7, 1680; died before 1716. 9. Jona- than, born September 12, 1682; mentioned below. 10. Samuel, born February 2, 1690-I.
(IV) Jonathan Woodbury, son of Thomas Woodbury (3), was born September 12, 1682, at Beverly, Massachusetts. He was a shore- man by trade. His will is dated April 29, 1762, and proved February 7, 1774. He mar- ried March 25, 1708, Eleanor Ellinwood, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ellinwood, of Beverly. She was baptized with her brothers William and Benjamin, June 26, 1692, and she died in 1759. Children, born in Beverly: I. Benjamin, born April 4, 1709 ; died September II, 1710. 2. Hannah, born November 2, 1710; died March 29, 1751. 3. Eleanor, born Feb- ruary 4, 17II ; married, 1734, Ralph Elling- wood. 4. Jonathan, born December II, 1713. 5. Elizabeth, born May 15, 1716; married William Ellingwood. 6. Cornelius, born June II, 1718; died November, 1807. 7. Nathan- iel, born April 1, 1720; mentioned below. 8. Edward, born December 1, 1721; died De- cember 13, 1721. 9. Johannah, born June 5, 1725; died September 10, 1738. 10. Eunice, born June 21, 1727; married George Gallup and William Dike. II. Anna, born March 20, 1729 ; married Joseph Lovett. 12. Edward, born April 21, 1731 ; died 1754 going to Vir-
ginia. 13. Susanna, born September 16, 1734; died November 26, 1761.
(V) Nathaniel Woodbury, son of Jonathan Woodbury (4), was born in Beverly, Massa- chusetts, April 1, 1720; died there December 24, 1805. He married, September 24, 1747, Abigail Dike, daughter of Benjamin and Anna Dike. She was baptized February 26, 1720-I. Children, born at Beverly: I. Charity, born May 17, 1747; married November 16, 1769, George Honour; married second, William Stevens. 2. Benjamin, born February 9, 1749; died July 13, 1753. 3. Benjamin, born September 2, 1751. 4. Nathaniel, born September 2, 1751; mentioned below. 5 Israel, born March 29, 1753; married, in 1774, Sarah Smith. 6. Abigail, born June 14, 1755 ; married Daniel Bunker. 7. Benjamin, bap- tized September 18, 1757; died October 26, 1759. 8. Anna, born April 6, 1763; married, in 1785, Nathaniel Black. 9. Betsey, born August II, 1766; married, in 1788, William T. Manning. 10. Joanna, born July 11, 1768; married Henry Seward.
(VI) Nathaniel Woodbury, son of Nathan- iel Woodbury (5), was born at Beverly, Sep- tember 2, 1751. He married Mary Wood- bury. They resided at Beverly or Ipswich, Massachusetts. Child: Betsey, born about 1775; married Robert Brown; (See Brown sketch).
Asa R. Minard, of Medford,
MINARD Massachusetts, is a lineal de- scendant of Stephen Hopkins, who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower," in I620.
(I) Stephen Hopkins was born in England, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1644. He married, and his children were: I. Gyles. 2. Constance, married Nicholas Snow. 3. Damaris; married Jacob Cook. 4. Oceanus. 5. Caleb. 6. Deborah. 7. Ruth. 8. Eliza- beth.
(II) Gyles Hopkins lived in Plymouth. His daughter,
(III) Mary Hopkins, married Stephen Smith, son of Rev. Ralph Smith, one of the earliest ministers of Plymouth. Their son
(IV) John Smith, married Bethia Snow, whose mother, Constance, was the second child of Stephen Hopkins, and a sister of Gyles; she married Nicholas Snow. John and Bethia (Snow) Smith. They had a son
(V) Stephen Smith, born in Chatham, Cape Cod, 1706, died January 13, 1766. He married
I004
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
Bathulia Colins, who was born in 1726. They had a son.
(VI) Stephen Smith, who married Mehita- ble Eldridge, granddaughter of Roger Conant, of Salem, Massachusetts, and removed to Nova Scotia in 1760, where he died November 9, 1807. They had a daughter, Tabitha.
(VII) Tabitha Smith, daughter of Stephen and Mehitable (Eldridge) Smith, married William Cahoon, who was born in New Eng- land, September 20, 1752. They had a daugh- ter, Dorcas.
(VIII) Dorcas Cahoon, daughter of Wil- liam Cahoon and Tabitha (Smith) Cahoon, married Asa Morine, August 13, 1785, who was descended from a Frenchman, a retired officer in the French army. They had a son, Asa.
(IX) Asa Morine, son of Asa and Dorcas (Cahoon) Morine, married Mary Foster daughter of Edward and Lucy Foster. They had a daughter, Amorene Kinsman.
(X) Amorene Kinsman Morine, daughter of Asa and Mary (Foster) Morine, married James Rogers Minard, whose great-grand- father on his mother's side, Ladowick Smith, was a son of Stephen and Mehitable Smith, and a brother of Tabitha, who married Wil- liam Cahoon. Ladowick married Elizabeth Cahoon, a sister of William, November 18, 1778. They had a daughter Hannah. She married William Lewis, a retired sea captain from England, and had a daughter Melinda.
Melinda Lewis, daughter of William and Hannah (Smith) Lewis, married James Mi- nard. Their eldest son (X) James Rogers Minard, married Amorene Kinsman Morine. Children : I. Viola Maud, born December 12, 1867, died February 19, 1880. 2. Edna Jane, born April 6, 1869, died 1880. 3. Lionel Claude, born November 10, 1870. 4. Asa Ray- mond, born August 31, 1873. 5. Bradford Lester, born June 12, 1875, died December 24, 1880. 6. Eva Mabel, born 1877, died 1880. 7. Lester Douglas, born June 28, 1881. 8. Clifford, born March 6, 1883. 9. Alice Maud, born June 17, 1885.
(XI) Asa Raymond Minard, born August 31, 1873, at Port Medway, Queens county, Nova Scotia. He was educated in the public schools of Nova Scotia and Boston, also at- tended evening high and Boston Latin school. He is a member of the Baptist denomination, and has held the following positions: Worthy patriarch of Signal Light Division, Sons of Temperance, of Boston; worthy patriarch of Ray of Hope Division, Sons of Temperance,
of Nova Scotia; president of the Lafayette Lyceum of the Loyal League of America, a patriotic organization; superintendent of the Bible Schools of the Baptist church in West Somerville, and also at West Medford ; chair- man of the standing committee at the West Medford church; has held offices in the fol- lowing churches: Ruggles Street Baptist Church, Boston; First Baptist Church, Bos- ton; West Somerville and West Medford churches ; president of the largest Young Peo- ples' Society in New England in 1893; presi- dent of the Boston Central Convention, com- posed of the Young Peoples' Societies in the Baptist churches of Greater Boston ; president of the Young Men's Baptist Social Union in 1904; treasurer of the Boston East Associa- tion of Baptist churches from 1904 to 1907; secretary of the Canadian Club of Boston 1905-6-7, and elected president, January 6, 1908; sent as a special representative by the Canadian Club to represent it at the annual dinner of the Canadian Clubs at Hamilton, Ontario, in March, 1906, at Ottawa in Feb- ruary, 1907, at Toronto, November, 1907; sent as a special delegate to the International Council of the Canadian Clubs and Societies of Nova Scotia and Canada at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, Canada, in July, 1907 ; was elected vice-president of the council and chairman of the councils of the Canadian Clubs of the United States. Mr. Minard was a member of the Medford board of aldermen in 1904-05 ; member of the Boston City Club ; an original member of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade, having joined Company D the night of its organization ; original member of the Neighborhood Club of West Medford; member of Mt. Hermon Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons of Mystic Royal Arch Chap- ter, and of Medford Council of Royal and Select Masters. Mr. Minard has filled many engagements as a platform speaker at relig- ious and political gatherings, also as an after- dinner speaker.
He married, August 7, 1894, Adelaide Mer- cy Minard, daughter of David and Louisa (Chute) Minard. Their children are: I. Asa Raymond Minard, Jr., born January 3, 1896, at Boston. 2. Basil Boise Wood, born August 17, 1897, at Leominster, Massachu- setts. 3. Roger Wolcott, born December 26, 1900, at West Medford. 4. Robert Butter- worth, born April 4, 1907, at West Medford.
Adelaide M. Minard, wife of Asa R. Min- ard, is descended from Elijah Minard (I), who came from the state of Connecticut about
1005
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
1761, and married Peggy Peach. They set- tled in Milton, Queens county, Nova Scotia. Children: I. Wheeler, married Sarah Slo- comb, daughter of Captain Slocomb.
(II) Levi Minard, born Milton, 1763 ; mar- ried Rebecca Kempton, daughter of Richard and Fear Kempton, of Plymouth, Masschu- setts, June 27, 1790. Lived in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Children: I. Levi, born 1792; was the first manufacturer of the well-known "Minard's Liniment." 2. Lucy, born 1795; married Edward Foster, of Port Medway; their daughter Mary married Asa Morine, grandfather of Asa R. Minard. 3. David, born May 8, 1801 ; married Sarah Wear, Sep- tember 25, 1828; died at Cornwallis, Decem- ber 10, 1880. His wife Sarah, born at Clem- ents, Nova Scotia, October 2, 1810, died in Boston, February 25, 1887. Their son David Minard (3), was born December 19, 1833; married Louisa O., Chute, September 14, 1865, at Clements, Nova Scotia. Children, born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. I. Percy I., born August 29, 1866. 2. Clarence R., born April 21, 1868. 3. Serena A., born April 24, 1870, died at birth. 4. Serena E., born June 3, 1871. 5. Adelaide M., born August 24, 1874, mar- ried Asa R. Minard. 6. Archibald E., born January 18, 1878. 7. James F., born August 24, 1881, died 1886. Asa R. Minard is also a lineal descendant of Richard Warren (I), who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower" in 1620.
(II) Mary Warren, daughter of Richard Warren, married Robert Bartlett, who came over in the "Anne" in 1623.
(III) Sarah Bartlett, daughter of Robert and Mary (Warren) Bartlett, married Sam- uel Ryder.
(IV) Samuel Ryder, son of Samuel and Sarah (Bartlett) Ryder, married Lydia Til- den.
(V) Hannah Ryder, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Tilden) Ryder, married Jeremiah Jackson, of Boston.
(VI) Faith Jackson, daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah (Ryder) Jackson, married James Shurtleff, of Plymouth.
(VII) Faith Shurtleff, daughter of James and Faith (Jackson) Shurtleff, married Cap- tain Slocomb, and moved to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, about 1764.
(VIII) Sarah Slocomb, married Wheeler Minard.
(IX) James Minard, son of Wheeler and Sarah (Slocomb) Minard, married Melinda Lewis.
(X) James Rogers Minard, son of James and Melinda (Lewis) Minard, married Am- orene Morine.
(XI) Asa Raymond Minard, son of James Rogers and Amorene ( Morine) Minard, mar- ried Adelaide M. Minard.
The Minards came from France, which country they left with other Huguenot fami- lies. Passing over into Scotland, where they lived for some years, some of their members crossed into the north of Ireland, and from there went to Connecticut. Although not numerous, they may be found in New Eng- land, New York state and Pennsylvania.
John Bancroft, the immi- BANCROFT grant ancestor, came from England with his wife Jane on the ship "James," sailing from London in 1632. They settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, where he died in 1637. In 1638 the widow received a grant of land in Lynn. Her son John went to Connecticut early and is the founder of the Connecticut branch of the fam- ily. There is a family tradition that the Wid- ow Jane went to Connecticut also to live with this son, and that she died there. Children of John and Jane Bancroft, all born in England : I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Amos. 3. John, settled in Connecticut. 4. Samuel. 5. William (probably ).
(II) Thomas Bancroft, son of John Ban- croft (I), was born in England about 1622, and came with his parents to Lynn in early life. He was a townsman of Dedham in 1648, and built his house near the Beaver dam. He removed to Reading about 1653 and settled in the west parish. In 1655 he hired a farm of five hundred acres from Samuel Bennett. The farm was in that part of Lynn now Saugus, Massachusetts, three or four miles south of Reading, where he attended church. He had no part apparently in the common lands of Reading and may never have lived in that town. He was a lieutenant of the military company and a prominent citizen. The name of Bancroft still clings to the place just south of the straits, a narrow roadway through the rocky hills from Reading to Saugus. Surveys of the line between Lynn and Charlestown about 1670 mention "the house that was En- sign Bancroft's." In 1670 he bought seventy acres of land at Lynnfield, only three miles east of the Reading church, which was still the nearest meeting house, and in 1678, the deed of the adjoining Holyoke farm recites
I006
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
that it "had been for some years in possession and improvement of Thomas Bancroft" and a half acre with a building was reserved from the five hundred and fifty acres and deeded to Bancroft. He died intestate at Lynn, Aug- ust 19, 1691, but the settlement of his estate is on record. The inventory was filed Novem- ber 24, 1691, by his son Ebenezer, showing that he owned land at Lynn, Reading and other places. The agreement for division of the real estate was signed by the widow Eliz- abeth : sons Thomas, John and Ebenezer ; Jo- seph Brown, husband of the daughter Eliza- beth; and Sarah Bancroft, youngest daugh- ter. His widow Elizabeth, died May I, 17II.
He married (first), March 31, 1647, Alice Bacon, daughter of Michael Bacon. She died March 29, 1648. He married (second), July 15, 1648, Elizabeth Metcalf, daughter of Mich- ael and Sarah Metcalf. She was admitted to the Dedham church, December 14, 1651, and . She died in 1815 ; he died in 1825. He was a joined at Reading, being dismissed from Ded- ham, November 22, 1669. The only child of Lieutenant Thomas and Alice Bancroft, Thomas, born and died in 1648. Children of Lieutenant Thomas and Elizabeth Bancroft: 2. Thomas, born 1649, mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, born and died, 1650. 4. John, born February 3, 1651-52. 5. Elizabeth, born at Reading, December 7, 1653, married Joseph Brown. 6. Sarah, born 1660, died 1661. 7. Raham, born 1662, died 1683. 8. Sarah, born 1665, married John Woodward. 9. Ebenezer, born 1667. 10. Mary, born 1670, died unmar- ried, in 1691.
(III) Thomas Bancroft, son of Thomas Bancroft (2), was born in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, in 1648 or 1649. He settled in Read- ing and became one of the most prominent and useful citizens of that town. He was a selectman several years and an officer in King Philip's war. He resided in the western part of the town where the old Bancroft homestead is to be seen at the present time. His was the fourth house built in the west parish; it was near what is now called the Abraham Temple place. He married, in 1673, Sarah Poole, daughter of Jonathan and Judith Poole. Chil- dren, born in Reading: I. Thomas, men- tioned below. 2. Jonathan, born and died in 1675. 3. Sarah, born 1676, married Abraham Bryant. 4. Mehitable, born 1678, married Parker. 5. Jonathan, born 1681, died in 1702. 6. Raham, born 1684. 7. Judith, born 1688, married - Parker. 8. Samuel, born 1691, died 1692. 9. Samuel, born 1693. IO. Elizabeth, born 1696, married in 1713.
(IV) Captain Thomas Bancroft, son of Thomas Bancroft (3), was born in Reading in 1673. Married Mary Webster and settled in his native town. He was captain of the military company and leading citizen of the town. Children : I. Thomas, born about 1705. 2. Benjamin, captain, settled in Gro- ton, Massachusetts. 3. Jonathan, married Mary Pierpont. 4. Joshua, married . Mary Lamson, resided in Reading and Worcester, Massachusetts.
(V) Lieutenant Joseph Bancroft, son of Ensign Thomas Bancroft (4), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1735. He lived on the place on West street, Reading, now or late- ly owned by his grandson, George Bancroft, and inherited from his father, first settled by his grandfather, Thomas Bancroft (3). He married Elizabeth Temple, daughter of Lieu- tenant John and Rebecca (Parker) Temple,
soldier in the Revolution, a sergeant in Cap- tain Thomas Eaton's company, Colonel Green's regiment, in 1775; second lieutenant of Captain James Bancroft's company (Fourth Company), Second Middlesex Reg- iment, in 1776 ; first lieutenant in Captain Ab- ner Foster's company (Fourth), Second Mid- dlesex Regiment, commissioned August 20, 1777; also first lieutenant in Captain Jesse Wyman's company, Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment, serving as guards for Burgoyne's army in 1778. Children: I. Elizabeth, born 1756. 2. Rebecca, born 1758. 3. Susanna, born 1760, married, 1778, Timothy Wakefield. 4. Joseph, born 1762, mentioned below. . 5. Timothy, born 1764, succeeded to the home- stead; father of Captain George Bancroft; married, 1789, Lydia Parker, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Parker. 6. Thomas, born 1766, settled in Lynnfield. 7. Nehemiah, born 1768, settled on Captain Abraham Foster's place. 8. Jonathan, born 1774, settled in Wil- mington, Massachusetts. 9. Hannah, married James Weston. IO. Anna, married, 1807, Loea Parker.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.