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transactions. He took an active interest in all local enterprises as had for their object the good and welfare of the community. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Boston, and one of the board of directors for a number of years, was an active member of the board of directors of the Waltham National Bank. He served as treasurer for over six years of Christ Church at Waltham, and was one of the vestrymen for many years. Polit- ically he was a Republican, but never sought any preferment of public office. He was de- voted to his home and family, which afforded him the chief pleasures of his career. George Barker Pope enlisted during the civil war in Company E, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, under Captain Stephen W. Rich- ardson, served his time of nine months with valor, and took part in the engagements at Rawles Mills, Winston, Whitehall, Goldsboro and Little Washington, and was honorably dis- charged June 18, 1865. He returned home and again took up his interests with his father at Waltham.
He married, January 22, 1867, Sarah Field, , daughter of Lester and Sarah (Whipple)
Mason, of Rutland, Vermont. Sarah Field Mason was born in Rutland, July 16, 1842, and on her marriage removed to Waltham, Massachusetts, where she has since resided. Children of George Barker and Sarah Field (Mason) Pope: I. George Frederick, born in Waltham,, Massachusetts, December 14 1868, graduated from Cornell University, 1893, and then entered College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; graduated from that institution with degree of M. D .; he spent one and a half years in the City Hospital at Rochester, New York. He mar- ried, May 17, 1897, Edna Simmonds, and has children : i. Marguerite Marion, born Novem- ber 6, 1899. ii. George Maurice, born August 14, 1901. 2. Florence Whipple, born in Walt- ham, Massachusetts, February 16, 1873, re- sides with her mother in Waltham. 3. Rich- ard Emerson, born in Waltham, Massachu- setts, July 31, 1877, graduated at Harvard Col- lege in 1900. 4. Philip Mason, born in Walt- ham, Massachusetts, November 28, 1884, at present a student in the scientific department of Harvard University.
The surname Lathrop, or LATHROP Lothrop, is derived from the parish Lowthorpe. Thorpe means village, so the meaning of the word literally is low village. Lowthorpe is a small parish in the wapentake of Dickering, East Riding of York, England, having only about a hundred and fifty inhabitants. Walter de Lowthorpe was elected high sheriff of York- shire in 1216, and the name has been common in Yorkshire from that time. Robert and Richard Lowthorp lived at Whepsted, Thin- goe Hundred, Suffolk, in 1287. A prominent family of Lathropps lived in Staffordshire be- fore 1560. Arms: Sable an eagle displayed argent. Crest-A Cornish chough proper.
(I) John Lathrop (or Lowthroppe, as the name used to be spelled) is the first of the ancient family in England to whom the Amer- ican line can be definitely traced. Early in the sixteenth century he was living in Cherry Bur- ton, about four miles from Lowthorp. He was, though belonging to a junior branch of the family, a gentleman of quite extensive landed estates both in Cherry Burton and in various other parts of the county. In the thirty-seventh year of Henry VIII., 1545, his name appears on a subsidy roll, assessed twice as much as any other inhabitant of the parish. Of his parentage and brothers and sisters,
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nothing has been discovered, the early parish registers having disappeared. He left a son Robert, mentioned below, and three daughters whose names are unknown, though their fam- ilies are mentioned in their brother's will.
(II) Robert Lathrop, son of John Lathrop, or Lowthroppe (I), succeeded to his father's estates in Cherry Burton, and during his life- time made considerable additions to them. He died in 1558. His will dated at North Burton (Sheriburton) July 16, 1558, was proved at York, October 20, 1558. He was, of course, a good Roman Catholic, and left bequests to the church; to various friends and relatives, to wife Ellen, children John, Thomas, Lawrence, Margaret. Children: I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. John, died without issue. 3. Lawrence, died before I 572. 4. Margaret, married Robert Hodge- son.
(III) Thomas Lathrop, son of Robert Lathrop (2), was born in Cherry Burton; married Elizabeth Clark, widow, who was buried at Etton, July 29, 1574; married sec- ond Mary , buried in Etton, January 6, 1588; third Jane who married after
his death Coppendale. He removed to Etton, Harthill wapentake, East Riding of Yorkshire, about 1576, and died in 1606. His will is dated October 5, 1606, and proved Jan- uary following. Neither of the sons who were educated were legatees in his will. Children of first wife: I. Robert, married January 27, 1607-8, Ann Pattison. 2. Catherine, married June 12, 1607, William Akett, of Leckonfield. 3. Awdrey, married Wickham. 4. Elizabeth, married, February 19, 1587-8, Thomas Rowood. 5. Anne, baptized at Etton, February 13, 1568-9, died young. 6. Isabell, baptized at Etton, July 3, 1570. 7. Martin, baptized at Etton, October 21, 1572, died same year. 8. Andrew, baptized at Etton, April 23, 1574. Children of second wife: 9. Anne, baptized at Etton, July 29, 1576. 10. Mary. II. Thomas, baptized in Etton, October 14, 1582; graduate Queen's College 1604. 12. John, baptized December 20, 1584; mentioned below. 13. William, baptized May 24, 1587. Children of third wife: 14. Margaret, bap- tized in Etton, February 12, 1590-I. 15. Isa- bel, baptized September 29, 1592. 16. Lucy, baptized in Etton, January 1593-4; married June 16, 1613, Ralph Cawnsley. 17. Richard, baptized October 12, 1595; married Dorothy Lowden, settled in Cherry Burton. 18. Mark, baptized in Etton, September 27, 1597; died in England. 19. Lawrence, baptized August
29, 1599. 20. Jane, baptized March 14, 1600- OI. 21. Joseph, baptized December 31, 1602. 22. Bartholomew, baptized March I, 1604-5. All these parishes and other places are in the same locality.
(IV) Rev. John Lathrop, son of Thomas Lathrop (3), was born at Etton, Yorkshire, England, and baptized there December 20, . 1584. He spelled his name Lothropp. He was educated in Queen's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1601 with the degree of B. A. and taking his master's degree in 1609. He became curate of the parish church in Egelton in the Lower Half Hundred of Calehill, Lathe of Scray, county of Kent. He was there as early as 1614, probably in 1611, and as late as the fall of 1619, and it was doubtless his first and only parish as minister of the Church of England. When he could no longer subscribe to the creed of that church he renounced his orders in 1623, and allied himself with the Puritans. In 1624 he was called to succeed Rev. Henry Jacob, an independent minister of the First Independent Church of London, who had resigned to go to Virginia. The worship of this church was illegal and their meetings secret. The church was discovered by a spy named Tomlinson, and forty-two made pris- oners, eighteen being allowed to escape, April 22, 1632. The Puritan prisoners were con- signed to the old Clink prison in Newgate and in the Gatehouse. In the spring of 1634 all were released on bail except Mr. Lathrop. In the quaint language of Nathaniel Morton in his "New England Memorial" (1669) the story of his further stay in England is briefly told: "His wife fell sick, of which sickness she died. He procured liberty of the bishop to visit his wife before her death, and com- mended her to God by prayer, who soon gave up the ghost. At his return to prison his poor children, being many, repaired to the bishop at Lambeth, and made known unto him their miserable condition, by reason of their good father's being continued in close durance, who commiserated their condition so far as to grant him liberty, who soon after came over into New England." He came to Boston with part of his flock in the ship "Griffin" and another, sailing in the fall of 1634, and arriv- ing September 18, proceeded to Scituate, where nine pioneers had already located and prepared the way for others. He was chosen pastor January 19, 1634. He married again Anna He was granted a farm near the First Herring Brook and had shares in the salt marshes. He left his home at Scituate
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after some disagreement in the church, and with others from Scituate located at Barn- stable on Cape Cod, arriving October 11, 1639, bringing with them the crops they had raised in Scituate. Mr. Lathrop fearlessly proclaim- ed in Old and New England the great truth that man is not responsible to his fellowman in matters of faith and conscience. Differences of opinion he tolerated. "During the fourteen years that he was pastor of the Barnstable church, such was his influence over the people that the power of a civil magistrate was not needed to restrain crime. No pastor was ever more beloved by his people, none ever had a greater influence for good. To be- come a member of his church no applicant was compelled to sign a creed or confession of faith. He retained his freedom, he professed his faith in God, and promised that it should be his constant endeavor to keep his command- ments, to live a pure life and to walk in love with his brethren." He stood among the Puri- tans, a Congregationalist of the Unitarian denomination, as we now class them. Morton says: "He was a man of humble and broken heart spirit, lively in dispensation of the Word of God, studious of peace, furnished with godly contentment, willing to spend and be spent for the cause of the church of Christ." Mr. Lathrop died at Barnstable, November 8, 1653. His will was dated August 10, and proved December 8, 1653, bequeathing to son Thomas, the eldest; to son John, who was in England; son Benjamin, daughters Jane and Barbara; to each of the rest of his children, both his and his wife's.
Children: I. Jane, baptized at Egerton, England, September 29, 1614; married April 8, 1614 (by Captain Miles Standish) Samuel Fuller, son of Edward, who came on the "Mayflower." 2. Anne, baptized in Egerton, May 12, 1616, buried there April 30, 1617. 3. John, baptized February 22, 1617-8, died young. 4. Barbara, baptized October 31, 1619; married John Emerson. 5. Thomas, born in England; became a prominent citizen at Barnstable. 6. Samuel, born in England ; married at Barnstable, November 28, 1644, Elizabeth Scudder ; removed to New London, Connecticut, later to Norwich. 8. Benjamin, born in England ; married Maria -; set- tled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 9. Bar- nabas, baptized at Scituate, June 6, 1636; mar- ried first, December 1, 1658; second, Abigail Dodson, widow. 10. Child born and died July 30, 1638. II. Abigail, baptized at Barnstable, November 2, 1639; married James Clark. 12.
Bathsha (or Bathsheba), baptized February 27, 1641 ; married Alexander Marsh, lived at Braintree. 13. John, born at Barnstable, Feb- ruary 9, 1644; married January 3, 1671-2, Mary Cobb; second, December 9, 1695, Han- nah Fuller, widow of Dr. John. 14. Son, born and died January 25, 1649.
(V) Samuel Lathrop, son of Rev. John Lathrop (I), was born in England, and came with his father to Scituate in 1634. He re- moved to Barnstable, where he married No- vember 28, 1644, Elizabeth Scudder, who had been dismissed from the church in Boston, November 10, 1644, to the Barnstable church. They settled in Barnstable, next the house of John Scudder. Samuel was a house builder and farmer. He was on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. In 1648 he removed to New London, Connecticut, then called Pequot. His house lot was the third in order from that of John Winthrop Esq., and his name is among the first eighteen to whom were assigned lands on the east side of the "great river" of Pequot, January, 1648-9. He was one of the judges in the local court of Pequot, organized in May, 1649, and served on important committees in the town. He assisted in the defence against the Narragansett Indians in the fort at the head of the Nahantick. In 1679 he had the contract to build the Second Church at New London. In 1661 he sold his town house to Rev. Gershom Bulkley. It stood "beyond the bridge over the mill brook, on the east side of the highway toward Mohegan." In 1668 he removed to Norwich, Connecticut, where he was granted a house lot originally granted to John Elderkin. He erected a house on the town street before 1670, where he spent the' remainder of his days. The house built by Dr. Daniel Lathrop, his great-grandson, prob- ably stands on the same site. He was con- stable 1673 and 1682, and "townsman" 1685. He married second, 1690, in Plymouth, Mass- achusetts, Abigail Doane, born January 29, 1632, died 1734, aged one hundred and two years, daughter of Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth. "On her one hundredth birthday a large audience assembled at her house, and a sermon was preached by the pastor of the church." Samuel Lathrop died February 29; 1700, leaving a nuncupative will, proved in I701.
Children: I. John, baptized in Boston, De- cember 7, 1645; married, December 15, 1669, Ruth, daughter of Robert Royce; died August 25, 1688. 2. Elizabeth, born March, 1648; married December 15, 1669, Isaac, son of
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Robert Royce, and settled in Wallingford, Connecticut ; married second, Joseph Thomp- son, of Wallingford. 3. Samuel, born March, 1650; married first, November, 1675, Hannah Adgate; second, December 30, 1697, Mary Edgerton ; settled in Norwich ; died December 9, 1732. 4. Sarah, born October, 1655; mar- ried April 21, 1681, Nathaniel Royce, of Wal- lingford. 5. Martha, born January, 1657; married, 1677, John Moss. 6. Israel, born October, 1659; mentioned below. 7. Joseph, born October, 1661 ; married first, April 8, 1686, Mary Scudder; second, February 2, 1696-7, Elizabeth Waterhouse ; third, Novem- ber 22, 1727, Mrs. Martha Perkins; died July 5, 1740. 8. Abigail, born May, 1665 ; married December 9, 1686, John Huntington. 9. Anna, born August, 1667; married William Hough ; died November 19, 1745.
(VI) Israel Lathrop, son of Samuel La- throp (5), born October, 1659; married April 8, 1686, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bliss, who went from Saybrook to Norwich. Her grandfather was Thomas Bliss, Sr., of Hartford. They settled in Nor- wich. Israel Lathrop was a thrifty man, prominent in the town. He had a large family of sons, who are said to have planted them- selves on seven hills within the old nine-miles square of Norwich. He died March 28, 1733, and she died August 22, 1737. His headstone in old Norwich is the oldest one there, con- taining an inscription: "Here lies buried ye body of Mr. Israel Lothrup, ye Husband of Mrs. Rebekah Lothrup, who lived a life of exemplary piety & left ye Earth for Heaven Mar. ye 28, 1733, in ye 73d year of his age." Children; I. Israel, born February 1. 1687; married June 20, 1710, Mary Fellows ; married second, June 9, 1747, Mrs. Sarah Tuttle. 2. William, born September 20, 1688; married December 18, 1712, Sarah Huntington; died September 27, 1778. 3. John, born October 2, 1690 ; mentioned below. 4. Samuel, born July 12, 1692; married June 26, 1712, Elizabeth Waterman. 5. Rebecca, born April 20, 1695 ; married February 21, 1715-6, Hon. Isaac Huntington. 6. Mary (twin), born Novem- ber 15, 1696; married Simon Lathrop. 7. Martha (twin), born November 15, 1696; married March 24, 1714, after the death of her sister Mary, Simon Lathrop. 8. Benja- min, born July 31, 1699; married November 13, 1718, Martha Adgate; married second, June 15, 1741, Mary (Worthington) Jones. 9. Ebenezer, born February 7, 1702-3; married May 13, 1735, Lydia Leffingwell; died Janu-
ary 28, 1781. 10. Jabez, born January II, 1706-7; married first, November 28, 1728, Elizabeth Burnham; second, May 30, 1734, Delight Otis; third, Lydia (Lothrop) Weth- erell ; died February 1I, 1796.
(VII) John Lathrop, son of Israel Lathrop (6), born in Norwich, October 2, 1690; mar- ried April 7, 1715, Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua and Mehitable (Smith) Abel, of Nor- wich. They settled on Meeting House Hill, West Farms parish of Norwich, now Frank- lin, Connecticut. He and his wife united with the church at West Farms in 1720. He was prominent in church and town. Letters of ad- ministration were granted his widow May 5, 1752. In the division of the estate November 14, 1752, the heirs named are : the widow and the children Zebulon, John second, Azubah, Bethia, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Ann and Rhoda. Children : I. Zebulon, born January 10, 1717; mentioned below. 2. Azubah, born March 3, 1718-9; died April 23, 1719. 3. Azubah, born June 18, 1720; married December 2, 1755, Abijah Fitch. 4. Bethia, born in Bozrah, July 26, 1723 ; married, 1743, Joseph Sanford ; died 1808. 5. Elizabeth, born in Norwich, May 26, 1726; married, 1743, John Packer. 6. Re- becca, born December 15, 1728; married Abial Squire. 7. Sarah, born September 23, 1731 ; died April 17, 1744. 8. Anna, born March 23, 1734; married November 17, 1754, Elijah Abel; died December 15, 1764. 9. Rhoda, born June 2, 1740; married May 28, 1760, Eli Hyde ; died February 19, 1821. 10. John, born in Norwich ; married Lydia Hyde; died Octo- ber 8, 1803. II. Azel, married Elizabeth Hyde.
(VIII) Zebulon Lathrop, son of John Lathrop, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, January 10, 1717. He married, September 4, 1740, Lois Rogers, born July 22, 1721, died September 21, 1777, daughter of Dr. Theop- hilus and Elizabeth (Hyde) Rogers, of Nor- wich. He died January 13, 1781. They were both buried in the Franklin cemetery. Chil- dren: I. Zebulon, born November 29, 1744; mentioned below. 2. Uriah, born April 30. 1750; married, December 30, 1784. Lois Hinckley; settled in Bozrah. 3. Elizabeth, born 1753; died in Coventry, Connecticut, De- cember 4. 1806. 4. Lois, born April 22, 1742 : married, December 31, 1761, Samuel Lathrop ; died July 18, 1813.
(IX) Zebulon Lathrop, son of Zebulon Lathrop (8), was born in Norwich, November 29, 1744. He married Alice Edgerton, who died in Lebanon, Connecticut, February 3,
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1794, aged forty-nine. He removed to Tol- land, Connecticut, where he purchased a farm of Samuel Tilden in the southeast part of Tol- land, March 26, 1800. He died in Tolland, March 29, 1814. Children: I. Asa, died 1780. 2. John, born 1771 ; married Polly Kin- ney ; died March 17, 1837. 3. Uriah, born 1774 ; married Betsey Hartshorn, of Lebanon ; died April 17, 1814. 4. Varanus, mentioned below. 5. William, born 1779; married, March 22, 1803, Amelia Paulk ; died June 14, 1807. 6. Sarah, born December I, 1782; married, May 7, 1801, Captain Daniel Edger- ton. 7. Anna, born June 24, 1785; married, March 23, 1803, Reuben Edgerton.
(X) Varanus Lathrop, son of Zebulon Lathrop (9), married in Franklin, 1797, Lucy Edgerton, born July 8, 1779, died June 14, 1854, daughter of Hezekiah Edgerton, of Tol- land. He removed from Lebanon, Connecti- cut, to Hyde Park, Vermont, and still later to Cambridge, Vermont. Children : I. Alice, born at Lebanon, February 17, 1798; married Thomas Ellenwood. 2. Horatio Nelson, born April 19, 1800; died February 24, 1874; mar- ried, July, 1825, Sarah, daughter of Jesse Whitney, of Cambridge, Vermont. 3. Lucius, born at Lebanon, July 26, 1802; married Sarah Keyes, daughter of Solomon. 4. Lu- cretia Edgerton, born at Hyde Parke, Ver- mont, November 26, 1808; married Burrell S. Miner, M. D .; resided at Cambridge, Ver- mont. 5. William, born Hyde Park, Decem- ber 29, 1809 ; married Adaline Perkins, daugh- ter of Thomas ; second, Maria L., daughter of Dr. Gershom Newton; resided at Manston, Wisconsin. 6. Charles, born at Hyde Park, June 8, 1813, died young. 7. Charles Taintor, mentioned below. 8. Uriah, born at Hyde Park, September 18, 1818; married Ann Holmes; resided several years at Cambridge, Vermont, and removed to Waterville, Ver- mont. 9. Elias, born at Cambridge, August 8, 1820 ; married Louisa Wilder, sister of Ma- tilda mentioned above; resided at Lawrence, Massachusetts.
(XI) Charles Taintor Lathrop, son of Varanus Lathrop (10), was born in Johnson, Vermont, May 18, 1814. He was educated in the public schools and learned the trade of wheelwright and blacksmith. He settled in Cambridge, Vermont, and established himself in the business of carriage building and man- ufacturing axes and edge tools. He was a prominent citizen and capable business man. He married Matilda B. Wilder, born at Ash- burnham, Massachusetts, eldest daughter of
Caleb and Matilda Wilder, of Ashburnham and Newport, New Hampshire. Children: I. Addison Barbour, born April 13, 1838; mar- ried Lucie A. King. 2. William Locke, born June 2, 1840; mentioned below. 3. Lucius, born April 22, 1842. 4. Adelia Jane, born January I, 1844. 5. Alonzo Wetherbee, born June 18, 1847; died November 12, 1850. 6. Charles Wilder, born April 6, 1850. 7. Fred Daniel, born October 18, 1852; married Jennie G. Munyun, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 8. Ada Louise, born April 15, 1855; died July 2, 1863.
(XII) William Locke Lathrop, son of Charles Taintor Lathrop (II), was born June 2, 1840, at Cambridge, Vermont. He received his education in the public schools, leaving home at the age of fourteen and beginning his business career in the employ of B. P. Clark & Company, wholesale confectioners, at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. He was with this firm for fourteen years, advancing from place to place and in the latter years of his connection with the house was a travelling salesman. He left this firm to establish his own business as a cigar and tobacco dealer in Boston. He con- tinued in business with marked success for a period of thirty years, when he retired. He has continued to reside in Cambridge from the first. Mr. Lathrop became a member of Ami- cable Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cambridge, in 1864. He is a member of Cam- bridge Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; of Boston Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Boston Commandery, Knights Templar; and has attained the thirty-second degree in Ma- sonry. Mr. Lathrop is of the strictest integ- rity, possessing the confidence and esteem of all his townsmen and business associates.
He married, September 3, 1863, Adeline Emerson, of Waltham, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Charles and Adeline Emerson, and niece of Mrs. B. P. Clark, wife of the head of the firm for which Mr. Lathrop worked fourteen years. Children: I. Carrie Adelia, born Sep- tember 25, 1865 ; married Victor M. Cupples, of the firm of Cupples & Leon, book publish- ers, New York. 2. Arthur William, born August 28, 1871 ; died September 7, 1899. 3. Alice E., born July 31, 1873 ; married Lanius D. Evans, employed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge ; resides with her parents.
FAY The immigrant ancestor of Wilton Burgess Fay, of Medford, was John Fay (I), born in England, about 1648. He embarked May 30, 1656, at
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Gravesend, on board ship, "Speedwell," Rob- ert Locke, master, and arrived in Boston on the 27th of June. Several of the passengers, including John Fay, went to Sudbury. With some others he removed to a new grant that had been made, which was incorporated as the town of Marlboro. His name is found on the Marlboro records as early as 1669, when he was made a freeman. He had a wife and one child at that time. In 1671 he and three or four others petitioned the general court for a place westward of the Connecticut river, but nothing seems to have come from it. In 1675 he appears as one of the proprietors of Worcester, and he had a lot of fifty acres as- signed him lying west of the county road to Boston. The King Philip war was breaking out then, and the organization of Worcester did not come until later. He continued to reside in Marlboro until the Indians became so active in their efforts to exterminate the white settlers that he and many others of the peo- ple of Marlboro left the settlement and took their families to places of greater safety. He located in Watertown, and while there his wife and one of his children died. At the close of the war he returned to Marlboro and settled in the northerly part, on a lot now included in the town of Southboro. John Fay seems to have been a man of character and standing in the community, and was favorably known in the county, as shown from that the fact that he was appointed one of a committee to lay out highways connecting Sudbury, Marlboro, Sherburn, Framingham and other towns. He was a large landholder and bequeathed ex- tensive tracts to his sons. His first wife, who died in 1676, was Mary Brigham, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hurd) Brigham, of Watertown, and later of Cambridge. By her he had four children. His second wife, to whom he was married July 15, 1678, was Sus- anna Shattuck, daughter of William Shattuck, of Watertown, and widow of Joseph Morse. She outlived him and was married a third time to Thomas Brigham, a brother of Mr. Fay's first wife. To her were born, besides seven children by her first husband, four chil- dren by Mr. Fay. Children: John, born No- vember 30, 1669, married Elizabeth Welling- ton. 2. David, born October 15, 1671, died young. 3. Samuel, born October II, 1673, married Tabitha Ward. 4. Mary, born Feb- ruary 10, 1675, married Jonathan Brigham. 5. David, born April 23, 1679, married Sarah Larkin. 6. Gershom, born October 19, 1681, married Mary Brigham. 7. Ruth, born July
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