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Children: I. Josiah, born March 20, 1754, married, April 13, 1780, Abigail Belknap, of
Woburn. 2. John, born November 10, 1756, married, October 18, 1780, Lois Richardson, of Woburn. 3. Mary, born October 9, 1761, married (first), May 9, 1781, Luke Richard- son, of Woburn, who died September, 1783, and married (second), May 12, 1785, Dr. Syl- vanus Plympton, of Woburn, and died Novem- ber 1, 1835. 4. William, see forward. 5. Margery, born October 6, 1767, married, May 26, 1791, as his second wife, Colonel Loammi Baldwin, of Woburn. She was a cousin of her husband's first wife Mary Fowle, who was a daughter of James Fowle, a brother of her father, by his wife, Mary Reed.
(VI) William' Fowle, son of Josiah Fowle (5), born at Woburn, April 25, 1763, died there, July 27, 1850, aged eighty-seven years. Married, November 7, 1782, Sarah Richard- son, born January 29, 1767, died December 30, 1847, aged eighty years and eleven months, daughter of Deacon Jeduthun and Mary (Wright) Richardson, of Woburn. He was a farmer and occupied the estate of his father on present Montvale avenue, Woburn. He was one of the last of Woburn's Revolutionary soldiers, and enlisted for three months in 1780 in a company commanded by Captain William Green, of Reading, for service at Rhode Island. He removed with his family to Mar- blehead about 1790, where he remained for several years and about 1798 returned to Wo- burn.
Children: I. William, born March 3, 1783, married, April 6, 1814, Nancy or Ann Hilton, of Dorchester. 2. Sarah, born November 22, 1784, married, September 17, 1806, Jonas Hale, of Woburn. 3. Susan, born February 4, 1787, died December 17, 1788. 4. Susan, born January 2, 1789, unmarried, died November 18, 1850. 5. Josiah, born January 4, 1791, married at Scarborough, North Carolina, Mary Carr. 6. Mary, born April 21, 1793, married, February 21, 1815, Benjamin Fowle, of Woburn. 7. Fanny, born March 10, 1795, married, October 27, 1814, Ezra Wyman Reed, of Woburn. 8. Samuel R., born February 10, 1797, married (first) at North Carolina, 1822, Martha Marsh, married (second), November, 1847, Ann Marsh, a sister of his first wife. 9. James, born April 19, 1799, died June I, 1818. IO. Luther, born March 17, 1801, died June 16, 1822. II. Luke, see forward. 12. Jonathan, born December 21, 1804, married, December 9, 1828, Louisa Locke, of Woburn. 13. Edward, born May 30, 1807, married (first), September 16, 1828, Mary Locke, married (second), March, 1835, Deborah
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Parker, married (third), May 24, 1858, Han- nah Cannon, married (fourth), March 8, 1865, Nancy Harwood, of Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire. 14. Abigail, born March 28, 1809, married Caleb McIntire, of Reading.
(VII) Luke Fowle, son of William Fowle (6), born at Woburn, December 15, 1802, died December 19, 1872. Married (first), May 16, 1826, Rhoda Clark, born May 18, 1800, died April 22, 1839, aged thirty-nine years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Rogers) Clark, of Tewksbury; married (second), Au- gust 21, 1845, Eliza Richardson, born July 17, 1808, died October 8, 1893, daughter of Dea- con Calvin and Sarah (Steele) Richardson, of Woburn. He was a schoolmaster in early life and taught in Woburn and neighboring towns. Afterwards he began farming with his father. At the death of his father he inherited the farm of one hundred acres sit- uated on the east side of Woburn which ex- tended from Montvale avenue to beyond Fowle street. He was an honest hardworking man and of strong temperance principles. He was an attendant of the First Congregational Church of Woburn and served on the parish committee. He belonged to the Masonic fra- ternity, being a member of Freedom Lodge.
Children by his first wife: I. William Clark, born April 8, 1827, died August 23, 1827. 2. Rhoda Clark, born February 15, 1829, died August 1, 1904; married, Septem- ber 24, 1848, Horatio Symmes, Junior, resided at Winchester, children: i. Alice Maria (Symmes), born January 28, 1850, died April 17, 1903 ; married Howard Malcolm Stover, of Cape Neddick, Maine, and had : William Mat- thew (Stover), born August 3, 1872; Flora Alice (Stover), December II, 1878; Charles (Stover), November 6, 1884. ii. Carrie Bald- win (Symmes), born April 2, 1852, married, April 8, 1890, Myron Robinson Abell, of Leb- anon, Connecticut. iii. Helen Clark (Symmes), born January 31, 1860, died May 6, 1905. 3. Sarah Richardson, born March 20, 1831, died April 9, 1888; married, March 21, 1850, Leon- ard Houghton Allen, of Woburn, children: i. Ella Frances (Allen), born March 3, 1851, married, August 21, 1872, Joseph R. Green, and have: Susan Allen Green, born February 26, 1880. ii. Frank Houghton (Allen), born July 17, 1852, married, May 10, 1883, Harriet Bickford, of Woburn, and have Harold Bick- ford (Allen), born May 20, 1884, of Flushing, Long Island ; married Mable Anderson ; Lam- son, born June 2, 1855, married, October 15, 1884, Martha Ruth Wyman, of Woburn. 4.
Mary Rogers, born November 8, 1832, mar- ried, December 1, 1859, Lewis S. Rowe, of Stoneham, and have: i. William (Rowe). 5. Abigail Parker, born December 5, 1833, died September 24, 1834. 6. Martha Matilda, born November 5, 1836, married, August 13, 1863, Frank C. Eastman, of Chelsea. Children: i. Albert Goodhue (Eastman), born July 1, 1866, married, February 20, 1895, Carrie Augusta Fowle, and have: Marjorie Fowle (East- man), born February 7, 1897; Frederick Goodhue (Eastman), born March, 1902; ii. Frederick Warren, born September 29, 1867, died February 3, 1888. 7. Luke War- ren, see forward. Children by his second wife: 8. Eliza Maria, born July 9, 1846, mar- ried, September 12, 1871, Benjamin F. Bel- lows, of Woburn, and have: i. Mary Frances (Bellows), born July 22, 1872, died Novem- ber 20, 1893. ii. Harriet Louisa (Bellows), born April 30, 1874, married, July 19, 1896, Joseph J. North, of Ozona, Texas, and have : Mary Frances (North), born June 30, 1898; Nora Elizabeth (North), born April 12, 1900, died September 14, 1901; Joseph Warren (North), born April 1, 1902; Gertrude Emma (North), born February 16, 1906. iii. Warren Dexter (Bellows), born July 5, 1878, died May 22, 1879; iv. Albert Frederick (Bellows), born September 6, 1880, married, January 7, 1904, Emma Josephine Boyd, and have: Jose- phine May (Bellows), born December 24, 1904; Benjamin Frederick (Bellows), born November 28, 1906. 9. James Luther, born December 29, 1847, married at Auburndale, August 28, 1878, Carrie P. Farnsworth, of Cesarea, Turkey, and have: i. Mary Caroline, born April 23, 1881 ; ii. Charles Warren, April 9, 1882; iii. Theodore Wilson, January I, 1885; iv. Luther Richardson, July .30, 1886; v. Herbert William, June 16, 1888; vi. Eleanor Frances, February 27, 1892 ; vii. Wilson Farns- worth, December 25,
I896. IO. Emma Frances, born May 20, 1851.
(VIII) Luke Warren Fowle, son of L'uke Fowle (7), born at Woburn, January 25, 1838, married, November 17, 1861, Emma Louise Eastman, born at Derry, New Hampshire, February 27, 1837, daughter of Timothy and Abigail (Hall) Eastman. He was educated in the common schools and at the Warren Academy. At the age of nineteen he entered the employment of Chamberlain, Kimball & Doe, Quincy market, Boston, as a clerk, where he remained for three years. In June, 1860, he with D. Milton Cochran as a partner entered the produce business under the firm
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name of Cochran, Fowle & Company, having their store on South Market street, Boston. In 1866 the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Fowle with Mr. Salmon P. Hibbard formed a new partnership under the firm name of Fowle, Hibbard & Company, and carried on the line of business at 9 and II Commercial street, Boston. Here the concern had a large trade and later they removed to 174-176 State street. On June 1, 1871, John W. White was admitted as a partner and on August 1, 1866, Edwin J. Whitman was admitted. Mr. Hib- bard died December 18, 1900. The firm name of Fowle, Hibbard & Company remained un- changed. This concern have an extensive trade in New England, and are large buyers of beans, from New York, Michigan and Cal- ifornia, butter from Vermont, New York and the west, and eggs from the west.
Mr. Fowle is a member of the First Congre- gational Church of Woburn, has been on the parish committee, and has been a member of the Congregational Club of Boston. He is a Republican in politics and has served his party as delegate to state conventions. He is a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Fruit and Produce Exchange, Boston, and is a trustee of the Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank, also a member of its board of invest- ment. He is a man of high principles and is a firm believer in temperance. Mr. Fowle re- sides at 51 Fowle street, Woburn. Children : I. Angie Warren, born February 9, 1866. 2. Frank Windsor, born October 3, 1870.
William Simonds, the immi- SIMONDS grant ancestor of this family, was born in England. He was an early . settler at Concord, Massachusetts, where his wife Sarah died and was buried April 3, 1641. He removed to the adjacent town of Woburn, Massachusetts, about 1644, and his posterity has been very numerous in that town even to the present time. His farm was in a section still known by the name of Dry Brook, and he was taxed in Woburn on real estate in 1645. He held various town offices, and was a man of prominence there. He was born in 1611, according to his deposi- tion giving his age as forty-seven in December, 1658. He married second, January 18, 1643- 44, Judith Hayward, widow of James. She was a fellow-passenger on the ship "Planter" from London in 1635, with her first husband and in the service of the same man. Her maiden name was Phippen. She died Janu-
ary 3, 1689-90. He died June 17, 1672, and administration was granted to his widow Judith and sons Caleb and William. The lat- ter died in 1672, and his estate was divided among his ten brothers and sisters, and grand- children of widow Judith Simonds. Joseph, Benjamin and James Simonds were minors at the time. Children, born at Woburn: I. Sarah, born July 28, 1644. 2. Judith, born December 9, 1647. 3. Mary, born December 9, 1647. 4. Caleb, born August 16, 1649; mentioned below. 5. William, born April 15, 1651. 6. Joseph, born October 18, 1652. 7. Benjamin, born March 18, 1654. 8. Tabitha, born July 20, died August 20, 1655. 9. Joshua, born 1657, died July 16, 1657. IO. James, born November 1, 1658; married, De- cember 29, 1685, Susanna Blodgett. II.
Bethia, born May 9, 1659; married, August 13, 1696, John Walker Sr. 12. Huldah, born November 26, 1660; married Samuel Blodget. (II) Caleb Simonds, son of William Sim- onds (I), was born August 16, 1649, died No- vember 4, 1702, at Woburn. He married, September 25, 1677, Sarah Bacon, who died April II, 1727. Children, born at Woburn : I. Samuel, born June 30, 1678 ; mentioned be- low. 2. James, born January 15, 1683-84. 3. Sarah, born November II, died November 16, 1687.
(III) Samuel Simonds, son of Caleb Simonds (2), was born in Woburn, June 30, 1678. He died at Lexington, June 2, 1764. He married Hannah -, who died Octo- ber II, 174I. Children, born at Woburn: I. William, born November 23, 1700; mention- ed below. 2. Josiah, born March 21, 1703; married December 9, 1730, Elizabeth Con- verse. 3. Hannah, born August 2, 1704 ; died September 23, 1725.
(IV) William Simonds, son of Samuel Simonds (3), was born at Woburn, Novem- ber 23, 1700. He married Elizabeth
He settled in Lexington, where several branches of this family lived. Children : I. Child died at Lexington, November 23, 1723. 2. William, born January 15, 1724-25; men- tioned below. Perhaps others not recorded in Lexington.
(V) William Simonds, son of William Simonds (4), was born in Lexington, January 15, 1724-25, and baptized two days later. With several other Woburn families he re- moved to Township No. 4, in New Hampshire -Charlestown. Other Simonds families re- lated to him came afterward. Elijah and Jehazel Simonds came before the Revolution. Wil-
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liam was in Charlestown before 1752, when his first child was born there, and for about five years was one of the most prominent of the settlers in that town. In 1757 or soon afterward he became one of the pioneer set- tlers of Rockingham, Vermont. A number of the grantees of Rockingham were citizens of Charlestown, but not more than three or four of the fifty-nine to whom the township of Rockingham was granted, December 26, 1752, ever became actual residents of the town. Most of them accepted the grants in a specu- lative spirit and sold their rights soon after- ward. Of the few who came, however, none was more prominent in public affairs or more influential among his townsmen than William Simonds. He was in Rockingham soon after 1757, and certainly as early as 1761, for at the first town meeting on the last Wednesday of March, 1761, he was elected constable, hog- reeve and highway surveyor for the ensuing year. From that time until his death in 1817, hardly a record of a town meeting appears without mention of him as an officer of the town. He was town clerk from 1769 to 1784. He was a member of the committee of safety and correspondence during the Revolution in 1776. He was commissioned captain in Colo- nel Bradley's regiment, as shown by an old pay-roll printed on page 608 of the Vermont Revolutionary Rolls, and was in active ser- vice in October, 1782. His company was ordered to assist the sheriff at Guilford, Ver- mont, at that time. His son, Gardner Simonds, was in this company. After the war he was always known as Captain William Simonds. The records of the governor and council show that at various times he was a member of the Cumberland county committee of safety ; 'a committee to arm and organize min- ute men; a committee to appraise the grand list; and he was appointed as arbitrator of disputes for this committee. Captain Simonds evidently became a wealthy man for his day, as the town records show that he held title to large tracts of land in the town. His home- stead, on which he lived at Rockingham, was on the hill above the Jonas Aldrich place, a mile or more from Rockingham village, and the cellar hole there still marks the site of his home. There the town clerk's office was located while he held the office and much of the town business transacted.
The Bellows Falls Times of April 20, 1905, contains a sketch of Captain Simonds by L. S. Hayes, in which he says: "All tradition, as well as town and other records, indicates
Captain Simonds to have been of strong, independent and sturdy character, honest and aggressive in carrying out his ideas of what was justice and right. As an instance of his liberal and yet independent nature, the town records show upon page 409 of volume I, in his own handwriting, the following cutting denunciation of what he evidently considered as an injustice to him in the action of the town of Rockingham :
The Accompt Services Done for the Town by Wm. Simonds, first, registered all the proceedings of the town for 22 years and Sacreficed Considerable paper for which has brought No Charge against the town. Charge for my service on County Business at Westminster and Brattleboro :
31 days at 4s pr day 6 pounds 4S
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In the year '62 Laying out Road 4 days
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In the year '70 Laying out Roads two Days 8
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making Rates 5 Days I
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"the above accompt has bin adjusted by the Committee and valued Good. I perposed to the town that they allow me one shilling and sixpence as Expense money for all my ser- vices Done at Westminster and Brattleboro & and to allow me my highway work this year and that to cancel the whole. the same has bin laid before the Town who has thrown the whool of the above out-Never to be called in Question again. * * * also I have with three more bought the Ground where the meeting house stands with the Burying Yeard thr same was made a present to the Town by us Namely William Simonds, Charles Richards, Nath'll Davis and Mr. Divoll-all to settle peace and good harmony. Now consider Ye and See whether justice Reigns or Not and Speak Your minds. Your Faithful Servant WILLIAM SIMONDS."
"After the lapse of one hundred and twenty years it would seem as if the captain was right, and the action of the town narrow and un- just."
In receiving title to his first land in the town he is described as William Simonds, cooper, but his occupation is usually given as yeo- man. It was stated at the time of his death that he planted the first orchard in the town. The homestead remained in the family for several generations, and until a recent date was owned by a descendant. Captain Simonds and his wife Susannah were buried in the old cemetery that he helped buy for the town.
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The inscriptions on their gravestones read : "Capt. Wm. Simonds Died June 2, 1817 In the 94th year of his age." "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith." His wife's epitaph: "In memory of Mrs. Susannah Symonds (as the name was formerly spelled often) Wife of Capt. Wm. Simonds who died Dec. 12, 1812 in the 83rd year of his age." "As I am now so you must be, from death's arrest no man is free." The maiden name of Susanna is be- lieved to be Gardner. Children : I. Susannah, born at Charlestown, New Hampshire, July 31, 1752. 2. Gardner, born at Charlestown, January 8, 1755; was a soldier in the Revo- lution, in his father's company, Colonel Brad- ley's regiment, in 1782 ; also in Captain Jona- than Holton's company, Colonel Ebenezer Woods's regiment; settled in Elizabethtown, New York, and became a skillful hunter and shrewd trader with the Indians; he killed an Indian at Pittsford, Vermont, discovering him prowling about with the purpose of kill- ing his friend, Abel Stevens, against whom the Indian had a grudge; Gardner married, Feb- ruary 26, 1776, Nancy Titus at Rockingham. 3. Hannah, born at Charlestown, June 14, 1757. 4. Lynds, born November 16, 1772, at Rockingham; mentioned below. 5. Mary, baptized October 26, 1783, at Rockingham.
(VI) Lynds Simonds, son of Captain Wil- liam Simonds (5), was born in Rockingham, Vermont, November 16, 1772. He was named for an old family of Woburn and Charlestown, Massachusetts, descended from Thomas Lynds, who came from Bedford, England, be- fore 1634, to Charlestown. Lynds Simonds was a farmer at Rockingham all his active life. He married, February 6, 1792, at Rock- ingham, Mary Albee, born February 7, 1774, died April 12, 1847. Children, born at Rock- ingham: I. Hannah, born April I, 1793; died January 25, 1796. 2. Lynds, born Jan- uary 30, 1795 ; died March 3, 1795. 3. Maria, born June 25, 1796; married Jedediah Davis and lived at Rockingham. 4. Betsey, born July 15, 1798; died April 5, 1812. 5. Laura, born December II, 1800; married . John Roundy; her daughter, Mrs. Laura Gowing, resides at North Charlestown, New Hamp- shire. 6. Jehial, born April 4, 1803; died No- vember 7, 1857 ; married, April 5, 1822, Betsey Minard, born March 12, 1800; died April 7, 1858; children: i. Mary M., born January 6, 1824; married John Veazey; ii. Lynds W., born August 28, 1826, died April 8, 1889; iii. Betsey H., born June 2, 1828, married John
Dorand; iv. Jehial, born April 12, 1831, living at Ludlow, Vermont; v. Lucy, born April 20, 1836, never married; vi. Martha P., born Jan- uary 8, 1840, married, January 23, 1865, John Barrett, lives at Ludlow, Vermont; vii. John V., born August 28, 1844. 7. Willard W., mentioned below.
(VII) Willard W. Simonds, son of Lynds Simonds (6), was born in Rockingham, April I, 1806, and died in 1856. He was a machin- ist there all his life. He married Mary George, born 1808, who died in 1858. He was a natur- at mechanic, became a skillful machinist, and was employed in structural work such as ships, buildings, bridges, etc., in which metal was used. Children : I. Katherine, born 1831, died April, 1905; married George D. Phelps, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; children, born in Northfield, Massachusetts: i. Willard Phelps ; ii. Charles Phelps. 2. Angeline, born November 7, 1836; married, 1863, Abram A. Perley ; no children. 3. Frances, born March, 1838; married Henry F. Billings ; children : Fred Billings, Olie Billings. 4. Daniel, died, aged ten years. 5. Josephine, born 1848, in November, 1900, married Julius McCoy, died 1901 ; one child, died. 6. John, born June 14, 1854, died September, 1899; married Jean McArthur; children: i. Harry W .; ii. John G., married Ella Fails, has two children: i. Jean, born February 22, 1897; ii. Larmond F., born November 23, 1902. 7. Mary Almerine, died July, 1898; married Henry Stimpson, of Montague, Massachusetts; son Perley, and one died in infancy. 8. Laura, born April II, 1854; never married; died June, 1903. 9. Adaline E., born April 26, 1855; mentioned below. 10. Lydia P., born October 3, 1858; married G. A. Lewis; child: Charles, mar- ried Ellen Fisk, and had one child, Helen Lewis. II. Susan, born March 22, 1860; mar- ried first Henry Long; second, David Long ; daughter, Susannah Long, born December 29, 1896.
(VIII) Adaline E. Simonds, daughter of Willard W. Simonds (7), was born in Wind- ham, Windham county, Vermont, April 26, 1855. She married, April 18, 1879, as his second wife, Joseph P. Childs, who was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, September. 18, 1823, died November 5, 1890. Mr. Childs married first, Araminta Rosinda Wright, and had one son, George H. Childs, who married Beatrice Corey, and have no children. There were no children by the second marriage, but Mr. and Mrs. Childs have an adopted daugh- ter, Pauline, born October 1, 1893. Mrs.
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Childs resides at the homestead, 199 Wilder street, Lowell, Massachusetts,
IRWIN The Irvine, Irving, or Irwin family, of Scotland, Ireland, and England, is descended from William de Irwin, whom Robert Bruce made armor bearer, and on whom he conferred a grant of land comprising the forest of Drum. His own device or arms, when Earl of Car- rick, was the three holly leaves now found in the coats-of-arms of all the Irwins, Irvines and Irvings, of this family, his descendants. From the Irvines of Drum, county Aberdeen, we find the late chief Alexander Irvine, the Irvines of Lenturk, Hilltown, Kingcausie, Fortrie, Murthill, Cutts, etc., all are descend- ants. Some branches of the family in Ireland retain the old spelling, Irwin; others use the more common Irvine. Sir Gerard Irvine was created a baronet (29 Charles II) of Castle Irvine, county Fermanagh. Burke says of the Irwin family in Ireland: "The Irwins of Tauragoe have maintained a position of great respectability amongst the gentry of the coun- ty of Sligo since their settlement in Ireland, but from which branch of the Scottish Irvines or Irvings they descend has not been ascer- tained. The peculiar name of Crinus, borne by members of the family, is traditionally de- rived from Krynin Abethnae, second husband of the mother of Duncan, King of Scotland, to whom and his descendants that monarch granted the privilege of bearing the thistle as a crest. John Irwin, who married a daughter of Colonel Lewis Jones, of Ardna-glass, held a commission in the parliamentary army, in which his father-in-law also served, and accompanying Cromwell to Ireland, settled at Sligo.
Alexander Irwin, son of John Irwin, lived at Sligo; married a sister of Griffiths, Esq., of Ballincar, and aunt of Colonel Grif- fiths, who was father of Anne, Countess of Harrington, and of Lady Rich. Of their six sons all died without issue except the eldest, John, mentioned below.
Colonel John Irwin, son of Alexander, was born in 1680, in Sligo; died in 1752; married first, Lady Mary Dilkes, widow, of county Cork, and had no children. He married second, Susanna Cadden, of an ancient Cavan family and had children : I. Lewis Francis, mentioned below. 2. Letitia, married Captain Thomas Webber, of the Fourth Horse, had a son and daughter. 3. Margaret, married Rob-
ert Browne, Esq., of Fortland, county Sligo.
Lewis Francis Irwin, son of Colonel John Irwin, resided at Tauragoe, county Sligo, Ire- land, where he was born in 1728 and died in 1785. He married, in 1766, Elizabeth Harri- son, only sister of the late John Harrison, Esq., of Norton Place, Lincolnshire, England. She died in 1815, aged eighty-two. Children : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Crinus, took holy orders and became archdeacon of Assoy ; married in 1807, Amy, eldest daughter of Mr. Justice Chamberlain, judge of the King's Bench in Ireland; two sons, John Lewis and Lewis Chamberlain. 3. Elizabeth, died in 1822; married Robert Jones, of Fortland. 4. Mary, married Rev. Schuckhurgh Rupton, of Templeton family. 5. Beatrice Susanna, mar- ried Benjamin Agar, Esq., of Brockfield, York- shire.
John Irwin, son of Lewis Francis Irwin, was born about 1770; succeeded his father at Tauragoe, Calloony. He was colonel and high sheriff in 1822.
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