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He married, November 30, 1892, Nora May Dennett, born September 14, 1868, at Gloucester, Massachusetts, daughter of Dr. John Plummer and Louisa (Tilden) Dennett, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. Children : I. John Dennett, born June 7, 1894. 2. Kather- ine, March 2, 1896 .. 3. Eunice Grace, No- vember 8, 1898.
WARREN John Warren, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Eng- land, in 1585, and came from Hayland, to Boston with Governor Winthrop in the ship "Arabella," arriving at Salem, June 12, 1630. From Salem he came with the rest of the company to Charlestown, whence after a brief stay they removed to Watertown, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman May 18, 1631 ; was selectman of Watertown 1636 to 1640; was on the commit- tee to lay out highways. His homestead was between those of John Bisco and Isaac Stearns and William Hammond. He had
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seven other lots amounting to one hundred and seventy-six acres. He sympathized with the Quakers, and was at odds with the Puri- tan church, though he retained his member- ship. He was warned March 14, 1658-59, for not attending church, and was fined April 4, 1654, for not attending church fourteen Sab- baths, at five shillings each-three pounds ten shillings. His house and that of his neighbor, Goodman Hammond, were searched "for Quakers," May 27, 1661. His wife Margar- et died November 6, 1662. He died Decem- ber 13, 1667, aged eighty-two years. His will was dated November 30, and proved Decem- ber 17, 1667. Children, born in England : I. John, born 1622, admitted a freeman May 18, 1645. 2. Mary, married, October 30, 1642, John Bigelow. 3. Daniel, born 1628, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth; married, 1654, James Knapp.
(II) Daniel Warren, son of John Warren (I), was born in England, 1628, and came with his parents to America. He lived in Watertown, was a farmer, and died there. He was a soldier in King Philip's war ; select- man of the town of Watertown, 1682 to 1698. He took the oath of fidelity 1652. He mar- ried, December 10, 1650, Mary Barron. Children: I. Mary, born November 29, 1651, died May 1, 1734; married, May 29, 1668, John Child. 2. Daniel, born October 6, 1653, admitted freeman April 18, 1690; selectman and deputy. 3. Hannah, born September 24, 1655, married David. Mead. 4. Elizabeth, born December 6, 165-, married Jonathan Taintor. 5. Samuel, born July 4, 1658. 6. Susanna, born December 26, 1663, died 1678. 7. John, born March 5, 1665-66, mentioned below. 8. Joshua, born July 4, 1668, died January 30, 1760. 9. Grace, born March 14, 1671-72, married, January 20, 1690-91, Jo- seph Morse, Jr., of Watertown.
(III) Ensign John Warren, son of Daniel Warren (2), was born at Watertown, March 5, 1665-66. He was admitted a freeman May 16, 1690. He married, March 25, 1682-83, Mary Brown, who was admitted to full com- munion in the church August 19, 1688, and who married (second), Samuel Harrington. Warren held various town offices, and the rank of ensign in the military company. He died at the age of thirty-seven, leaving a widow and three sons. Children: I. John, born March 15, 1684-85, died March 25, 1745; father of Ebenezer, first settler of the name at Leicester, ancestor of the Warrens of that town and Holden. ( It has finally been
definitely proved that Ebenezer Warren of Leicester was in no way connected with the family to which General Joseph Warren be- longed, notwithstanding persistent family tra- dition and several lineages in print that seem- ed warranted by the facts known at the time). 2. Jonathan, born April 26, baptized April 29, 1688. 3. Daniel, mentioned below.
(IV) Captain Daniel Warren, son of En- sign John Warren (3), was born in 1689, and baptized September I, that year. He married Rebecca Garfield, who died at West- borough, October 21, 1720, and (second), (according to Caleb Wall), Mary Witherby. Children : I. Daniel, born at Watertown, November 19, 1712, married Hannah
resided at Westborough and Shrewsbury; served in the French and Indian war in 1746, was taken prisoner, carried to Canada, and never heard from. 2. Timothy, born Septem- ber 14, 1715, mentioned below. Born at Westborough: 3. Jonas, November 16, 1717. 4. Silas, July 28, 1720. Children of Captain Daniel and second wife, Mary (Witherby) Warren, whom he married at Westborough, May 23, 1727, and who died there January 18, 1738-39 ; all born at Westborough: 5. Moses, born October 10, 1728. 6. Nahum, Septem- ber 25, 1730. 7. Mary, September 12, 1732. 8. Jonathan, October 14, 1734. 9. Rebecca, December 27, 1736, died September 17, 1740. IO. Submit, January 13, 1738-39, died Feb- ruary 7, 1738-39.
(V) Timothy Warren, son of Captain Daniel Warren (4), was born in Marlbor- ough, Massachusetts, September 14, 1715, died in Westborough, August 3, 1803, in his eighty-eighth year. He lived at Westbor- ough; married there, November 22, 1739, Rebecca Taintor, who died September 16, 1796. Children, born at Westborough : I. Timothy, Jr., born May 28, 1740, married, March 26, 1767, Thankful How. 2. Joseph, born April 24, 1742. 3. Rebecca, born March 30, 1744. 4. Benjamin, born July 21, 1745, mentioned below. 5. Jemima, born Novem- ber 10, 1748. 6. Ruth, born March 9, 1749. 7. John, born February 21, 1751. 8. Eunice, born March 31, 1757. 9. Sarah, born May I, 1759. IO. Abner, born March 15, 1761.
(VI) Benjamin Warren, son of Timothy (5), was born at Westborough, July 21, 1745. He settled in his native town, and owned a large farm near the Northborough line, on the present site of the Lyman school. The Assabet river divided his farm. He also had a saw mill, raised cattle to a considerable ex-
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tent, and traded in cattle at the Brighton market, buying and selling there and through- out this section of the country. He was fond of hunting, and one of the most successful and tireless hunters of his day. He was a member of the Westborough church. He married, April 23, 1767, Lucretia How, who was born June 30, 1751, daughter of Benja- min and Tabitha How, of Westborough. Children, born in Westborough: I. William, baptized July 7, 1776. 2. Molly, baptized July 7, 1776. 3. Hepzibah, baptized July 7, 1776; married, June II, 1798, Benjamin How, of Northborough. 4. Bernice, baptized July 7, 1776. 5. Thankful, born June 27, 1779, married, March 31, 1805, George Washington Beeton ; children : i. Harriet Beeton, born June 21, 1806; ii. Seraph Beeton, July 13, 1809 ; iii. Martha Beeton, November 19, 1817; iv. Wealthy, November 19, 1817. 6. Lucre- tia, born May 19, 1782, married, April 12, 1803, Moses Hemenway, of Framingham. 7. Benjamin, born July 4, 1784, married, March 4, 18II, (intention) Anna Segers, of North- borough; children: i. Lucy Rice, born May 28, 1813; ii. Willard Warner, May 30, 1815; iii. Thomas Baldwin, December 5, 1816; iv. Abraham Beeman, August 1, 1818. 8. Jos- eph, born July 4, 1784, mentioned below. 9. Daniel, born September 10, 1786, married (first), December 19, 1811, Mary Bullard ; (second), -. 10. Nahum, born September 10, 1786, married, January 8, 1828, Mary Childs; child, Mary Ortentia, born September 25, 1828. II. Hannah, born November 30, 1788.
(VII) Joseph Warren, son of Benjamin Warren (6), was born at Westborough, July 4, 1784, died there September, 1863. He was brought up on the farm, and educated in the district schools. About the time of his mar- riage he bought a section of his fathers farm and built a house on it. He was a stone mason by trade and worked out in the vicinity of his home. He sold his place and in later years lived on the Parmenter farm. On account of lameness and rheumatism he was obliged to retire from active business before he was sixty. He had a large and powerful physique, and was very active before his health failed. He belonged to the state mili- tia. He married, August 30, 1812, Arathusa Sever, born at Worcester, July 6, 1799, died at Westborough, February 27, 1881, daughter of Edward and Lucretia (Harris) Sever. Children, born at Westborough: I. Joseph How, born March 13, 1813, mentioned be-
low. 2. Nancy, born June 17, 1815, married, at Marlborough,
Massachusetts, Samuel Chandler Fay, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. (For children see Fay genealogy). 3. Wil- liam, born March 15, 1827, married (first), Widow Thornton; (second), -
(VIII) Joseph How Warren, son of Jo- seph Warren (7), was born at Westborough, March 3, 1813, died at Shrewsbury, Massa- chusetts, March 27, 1856. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of tanner, serving an apprenticeship of seven years in the Davis tannery at Northborough. He followed this trade for some years, then worked in a shoe factory in Worcester in 1847, as shoe dresser, living at 28 Elm street ; in 1849 he worked in the finishing depart- ment, and in 1850 as cutter of upper leather, continuing in this position until his health failed in 1852. Then he opened a hat store at 247 Main street, removing soon to 85 Pleas- ant street, Worcester. In 1855 he removed to Shrewsbury to live on the farm of his wife's father, Calvin Newton, in the hope of improv- ing his health. He established a business soon afterward as itinerant merchant, carrying in his wagon household goods, dry and fancy goods in great variety. He was successful in this business and pursued it as long as his health permitted, shortly before his death. He died of consumption, March 27, 1856. He and his wife were consistent members of the Congregational church (orthodox). He was a Whig in politics. When a young man he served in the militia.
He married, at Shrewsbury, December 31, 1846, Abigail Newton, born at Shrewsbury, February 8, 1820, died March 28, 1856, daughter of Calvin and Patty (Rice) New- ton, of Shrewsbury. Her father was a farm- er and held various town offices in Shrews- bury. Children: I. Joseph Edson, born De- cember 22, 1848, married, November 16, 1871, Marion Elizabeth Perry, of Shrewsbury, daughter of William Holland and Mary Ann (Mahan) Perry, of Shrewsbury ; child, Mabel Genevra, born January 31, 1873. 2. Calvin Edwin, born September 26, 1850, mentioned below.
(IX) Calvin Edwin Warren, son of Joseph How Warren (8), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 26, 1850. At the age of four years he removed to Shrewsbury with his parents. His father died there March 27, 1856, and his mother the following day. Singularly enough his grandfather and grand- mother in the Warren line also died within
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twelve hours of each other, and his great- grandparents, John and Elizabeth ( Wheelock) Rice, died within four hours of each other, the husbands dying first in each case. Calvin E. Warren went to live in Marlborough, after the death of his parents, with Elbridge Wil- kins. He lived there one year and attended school there. He returned to Shrewsbury and lived with his grandfather, Calvin New- ton, and was educated there in the public schools, working on the farm until he was nineteen years old. Then he went to Marl- borough again and learned the trade of car- penter, being in the employ of his uncle, El- bridge Wilkins, for a year. Then he went to Boston and began a mercantile career as clerk in the store of A. M. Aldrich & Com- pany, wholesale produce, Quincy Market, re- maining a year. In the spring of 1872 he accepted a position as billing clerk for the firm of Wright, Bliss & Fabyan, Franklin street. The firm was burned out in the great Boston fire in November of that year, and he entered the employ of Burr, Page & Com- pany, produce merchants, 7 Merchants Row, as bookkeeper, continuing until 1880, leaving at that time to enter the employ of the well- known insurance firm of John C. Paige & Co., 20 Kilby street, Boston, and in a few years rose to the position of auditor of agents' accounts for City of London and Metropole Insurance companies. In 1885 he became superintendent of the sub-agency of the Na- tional Life Insurance Company for Massachu- setts under James T. Phelps, the state agent, remaining in this position until 1893, when he engaged in business on his own account as insurance agent with offices at 40 Water street. He removed later to 79 Milk street to his present offices. Mr. Warren conducts a general fire, life, accident and liability in- surance. His principal life insurance com- pany is the Union Central Life Insurance of Cincinnati, Ohio. He resides at 64 Gray street, Arlington, Massachusetts, removing thither from Everett, Massachusetts, in 1900. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Arlington. While at Everett, he was a member of the Congregational church and served on the standing committee. He was treasurer for one year of the Young Men's Christian Association at Everett and was on the finance committee. In politics he is a Republican, and has been delegate to various political conventions; also serving in the common council of the city of Everett in 1898 and on the school house commission of
that municipality. He is a member of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 78, Odd Fellows. of Charlestown; of the Independent Order of Red Men; of the Men's Club of Arlington ; of the Boston Underwriters' Association. He is treasurer of the Massachusetts Hide Cor- poration, also a director. He was formerly a member of the Glendon Club of Everett.
He married, June 17, 1874, Emma Frances Briggs, born November 22, 1849, daughter of Thomas Henry and Elizabeth Lilly (Burke) Briggs, of Boston. Her father was a painter by trade, veteran of the Civil war, having served in the First Massachusetts Calvary ; was taken prisoner at the battle of Galveston and confined in Libby prison. Children: I. Edwin Clifton, born November 28, 1876, mentioned below. 2. Ednah Abigail, born Jan- uary 12, 1878, teacher in the Everett grammar school. 3. Evelyn Martha, born December 4, 1885, student in Radcliffe College, Cambridge, class of 1908.
(X) Edwin Clifton Warren, son of Cal- vin Edwin Warren (9), was born at Somer- ville, Massachusetts, November 28, 1876, died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Decem- ber 25, 1896. When he was three years of age he removed with his parents to Everett, Massachusetts, and was educated there in the public schools, graduating from the grammar schools with great credit and high standing, and from the high school in 1896, also among the leaders of his class. He entered Harvard College in September following, taking such electives as would aid him in his intended bus- iness career and in music. . His instructors paid high tribute to his ability and faithful- ness. He took high rank in the brief time he was in college, being the star of the mus- ical classes. Early in life he displayed musi- cal talent, which had been cultivated under competent teachers from childhood. Between the ages of nine and twelve he was alto solo- ist in the boys' choir of Emanuel Church, Boston, and was for some years pre-eminent in his position. At the early age of fifteen he was chosen organist of the First Congrega- tional Church at Saugus, Massachusetts. From there he went to the Third Congrega- tional Church at Chelsea as organist, and from there to the Winthrop Street Methodist Church at Boston Highlands. He was next the organist of St. Paul's Protestant Episco- pal Church of Malden, and also its choir- master, being then but seventeen years old and the youngest person in the state having a like responsible position. Here he organized
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the choir of ten men and twenty-three boys, demonstrating remarkable executive ability. He held this position two years, while a stu- dent in the high school, resigning to become organist and choir director of St. John's Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church of Cambridge, while attending college at Har- vard. He died after a short illness at Colora- do Springs, whither he was sent in the hope of benefiting his health.
In boyhood he was a general favorite, full of life, yet considerate always of the rights and feelings of others. He was loyal to his mates, and was never heard to utter a harsh or un- manly criticism. He was bright, hopeful in dis- position, absolutely truthful and upright. His loyalty to his friends was well repaid, and it is said that he had not a single enemy in the world. He was active in the Young Men's Christian Association and for six months was president. His musical ability was exception- al. He had what is known in musical par- lance as the "absolute pitch" and could recog- nize any note or notes with comparing. His ear was attuned to the harmonies. Besides his natural ability, his knowledge of the theory of music and his command of his in- strument, he had the ability to organize and construct, a magnetism that drew all to his support and made his work as director par- ticularly efficient. He was confirmed at the Emanuel Church of which he was a member, and he was a faithful Christian.
YERRINTON The Yerrinton family is of ancient English stock. The name was spelled Yarranton, Yerrington, Yarrington, Yarran, and was derived from two farms called Great Yarranton or Yarran, (originally Yarhamp- ton) in the parish of Astley, Worcestershire, England. Andrew Yarranton, a distinguished member of the family, a Worcester ironmas- ter and captain in Cromwell's army during the civil war, was born in Astley in 1616. Bishop Watson said that he ought to have had a statue erected to his memory because of his eminent public services.
The American progenitor settled in Wind- ham county, Connecticut, about 1750 or ear- lier. At the time of the Revolution we find several of his sons or grandsons in Preston, Ashford, Windham and vicinity. Ezekiel and Ephraim Yerrington were in the Revolu- tion as early as May, 1775, in the same com- pany which was composed of men from Pres-
ton and vicinity. Ephraim was a farmer in Preston in 1776.
Daniel Yerrinton of Preston, was one of the prisoners returned in exchange in 1777 by the British ; was a pensioner in 1818, then living in New York; married at Preston, Con- necticut (by Rev. Samuel Mott) Susannah Tracy, December 7, 1780. Abraham and David Yerrington were in Captain Percival's (Eighth) company in 1775 and 1776, men from Norwich and Preston. Jesse Yerring- ton was in Captain Gallup's company, Colo- nel Parsons' regiment, in 1776; a resident of Groton, Connecticut. Reuben Yerrington was a soldier from Norwich in 1781, and William Yerrington, of Windham, was in Captain William Moulton's company in 1781. Joseph Yerrington, a brother of those mentioned, was born in 1742; married, 1770, Lucy Lef- fingwell; second, Anna, daughter of Ezra Witter, of Preston, widow of Jonathan Park ; their daughter Polly married William Grant, and was an ancestor of General U. S. Grant.
(I) James Yerrinton, of this family, born in Ashford, Connecticut, December 31, 1772, died in Providence, Rhode Island, February 24, 1843. He was a millwright and carpenter by trade, and built the spire of the First Bap- tist Church in Providence, where he settled and followed his trade. He married August 25, 1796, Catharine Brown, born April II, 1768, died August 28, 1831, daughter of Cap- tain Jeremiah and Mary (Cushing) Brown.
Captain Jeremiah Brown, son of Deputy Governor Elisha Brown, born December 28, 1746, married April 21, 1765, Mary, daughter of Elijah and Hannah (Barker) Cushing, born at Hanover, now Scituate, Massachu- setts, December 27, 1737. She was the eldest daughter of his stepmother Hannah, second wife of Elisha Brown. Jeremiah married sec- ond, in Boston, October, 1791, Susanna, widow of Thomas Bowen, of Seekonk, and daughter of John Welch of Boston. She was born April 29, 1756, and died December 16, 1821; her father was a carver by trade in Boston. Jer- emiah Brown lived on Smith street, Provi- dence, on land bequeathed to him by his mother, Martha (Smith) Brown, a two-story building with a row of Lombardy poplars in front. Governor Elisha Brown, father of Captain Jeremiah, born May 25, 1717, was a man of great ability and enterprise, and pos- sessed at one time a large property, but was afterwards unfortunate in business and lost the greater part of his fortune; was promi- nent in public affairs, some years member of
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the general assembly. During the Ward-Hop- kins controversy he supported Governor Ward, and served as deputy governor of the colony of Rhode Island, 1765 to 1767. The homestead of Elisha Brown was on North Main street, Providence, north of Olney street, in an orchard with its gable end to the street, and the door to the south; and upon this site was built in 1859 the Church of the Redeemer, the old house being moved a little to the north- east and a basement added. The old house is now approached through Riley street. The stone bearing the inscription, "E. B.," which formerly formed part of the wall in front of the house, has been placed in the underpinning of the church near the robing room. Elisha, later in life, r moved to Wenscutt, North Providence, some distance to the west of the locality now bearing that name, and his house there has been torn down. He died April 20, 1802. Late in life he joined the Friends. He married Martha Smith, daughter of John and Deborah (Angell) Smith. Her father, John Smith, the fuller, died May 24, 1719, shortly after her birth. She was a granddaughter of James and Abigail (Dexter) Angell, and great- granddaughter of the first Thomas Angell and Gregory Dexter. In consequence of the failure of male heirs in the direct line, the grist mill and adjoining territory reverted to Martha (Smith) Brown, and was recovered by her as heir-at-law to Charles Smith (son of her uncle Philip Smith, miller) in 1754. This sub-division of the home seat of John Smith, miller, comprised the land now known as Smith's Hill, between Smith street on the South and Orms street on the north, and ex- tended to the Moshassuck river. It was call- ed Charlestown, and after the building of the first Mill street bridge in 1733 was the most populous part of the town of Providence. Portions of this land are still owned by des- cendants of the Smith family. Martha (Smith) Brown died September 1, 1760, and Elisha married second, February 22, 1761, Hannah Cushing, widow of Elijah Cushing and daughter of James Barker.
James Brown (3), father of Governor Elisha (4), born in 1666, died October 28, 1732 ; married December 17, 1691, Mary Har- ris, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Tew) Harris, granddaughter of William and Sus- sannah Harris, and also of Richard and Mary (Clarke) Tew. She was born December 17, 1671, and died August 18, 1736. From 1705 to 1725 James Brown was almost continuous-
ly member of the town council, 1714-18 town treasurer ; was elder and pastor of the First Baptist Church, associated with Elder Pardon Tillinghast and later with Ebenezer Jenckes, succeeding the latter in the ministry in 1726 and remaining pastor until his death in 1732. Jonathan Edwards wrote of him: "He was an example of piety and meekness worthy of admiration."
John Brown (2), father of James Brown (3), born 1630, died about 1706; married Mary Holmes, daughter of Rev. Obadiah and Catharine Holmes, of Newport, Rhode Island. He resided in the North End of Providence, near the junction of North Main and Randall streets. He was often on jury duty ; commis- sioner on union of towns 1654; freeman 1665; surveyor of lands; surveyor of high- ways 1659; moderator; member of town coun- cil, deputy in the legislature, assistant. He was elder of the Baptist church. Nearly a hundred years after he sold the homestead in 1672, his great-grandsons, John and Moses Brown, bought part of the land and presented it to Brown University. In 1701 he and Par- don Tillinghast, elders, ordained James Clarke as pastor of the Second Baptist church in Newport.
Chad Brown (I), father of John Brown (2), was born in England and came to this country in the ship "Martin," which arrived at Boston in July, 1638. He soon afterward removed to Providence, where he became a leader and prominent citizen. With twelve others he signed the Providence Compact. He was appointed surveyor to compile a list of the home lots of the first settlers on the Town street and of the meadows allotted to them. His own home lot was on Town street, now South Main and Market Square, with the southern boundary to the southward of Col- lege and South Main streets, about one hun- dred and twenty feet wide and extended east- erly to the Highway, now Hope street. The col- lege grounds of Brown University comprise a large part of his lot. He served on various important committees to settle the line be- tween Providence and Pawtuxet, to prepare the first written form of government, to nego- tiate peace with Warwick settlers and Massa- chusetts Bay. In 1642 he was ordained as the first settled pastor of the Baptist church ; Chad and Elizabeth Brown were buried in an orchard on his home lot, College street, corner of Benefit, where the county court house now stands, and their remains were re-
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moved in 1792 to the Nicholas Brown lot in the North Burial Ground.
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