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(II) John Hall, son of Edward Hall (I), was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 18, 1650-51, and died 1721. He was a soldier in King Philip's war and took part in the Swamp Fight in 1675; was also in the Narragansett Expedition of 1689 and ad- vanced sixteen pounds to sustain the war. His will mentions as legatees wife Martha, children Edward, Mary, Esther and Hannah; younger children not named. He married at Rehoboth, November 18, 1688, Mary Newell, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Children, born in Rehoboth: I. John, born October 13, 1685, died 1686. 2. Jeremiah, born March II, 1687. 3. John, born March II, 1691 (?). 4. Mary. 5. Martha. 6. Edward, born March 10, 1694, died 1760; widow Rebecca; bequeathed to John, son of his brother John, and Ephraim, son of brother Ephraim. 7. Esther, born Feb- ruary 28, 1696. 8. John, born March 27, 1697-98, mentioned below. 9. Priscilla, born March 27, 1700, died March 28, 1703. 10. Hannah, probably married November 7, 1727, Samuel Sabin, of Rehoboth. II. Ephraim, born July 26, 1704.
(III) Lieutenant John Hall, son of John Hall (2), was born in Rehoboth, March 27, 1697-98. By agreement in the probate office he was to have his sisters' shares on payment of sixty pounds. He is mentioned in the will of his brother Edward. He bought the rights of his brother Edward and his sisters in 172I. He was then living in Taunton, Massachu- setts. He sold his house in Rehoboth in 1722, and was in Braintree as early as 1763. He died at Braintree, September 27, 1780, aged eighty-three years. His wife Sarah died at Braintree, February 23, 1766, aged sixty years. The graves of both at Braintree are marked. Sarah was probably his second wife. His only child, as far as is known, was John, mentioned below.
(IV) Captain John Hall, son of Lieutenant
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John Hall (3), was born about 1740; married Elizabeth He was a soldier in the Revolution, captain of a Braintree company of minute men in the north parish, Colonel Ben- jamin Lincoln's regiment, on the Lexington Alarm ; also captain in Colonel Palmer's regi- ment in 1776. He was captain under the Crown before the war and at the request of the town, November 14, 1774, resigned his commission to continue his service as captain under- Provincial authority. He lived in that part of Braintree which was set off as Quincy, and signed the petition to the general court for the division of the town in 1792; was selectman and assessor of Braintree in 1792 and held various offices in Quincy later. In 1808 he was on the committee which raised a fund and bought of the Vesey family its right of herbage and pasturage in the cemetery. In 184I his grandson James, a wealthy bachelor, gave a thousand dollars to fence the grave- yard now known as the Hall cemetery. Chil- dren, born in Braintree: I. John, born No- vember 16, 1764, established a hat factory on Adams street, where the old Cherry Tavern stood; was succeeded by his son James. 2. Lydia, born January 2, 1767. 3. Edward, born December 21, 1771, mentioned below. 4. James. 5. Charles. 6. Ann.
(V) Edward Hall, son of Captain John Hall (4), was born in Braintree, Massachu- setts, December 21, 1771. He succeeded to his father's farm. From his farm was taken the granite used in building the Bunker Hill Monument. He married (first) Hard- wick, and (second) Child, Edward, born about 1800, mentioned below.
(VI) Edward Hall, son of Edward Hall (5), was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, about 1800. He was engaged in the manufac- ture of hats at Quincy until he retired in 1848, when he removed to Bolton, Massachusetts, and followed farming the remainder of his life. He married Abigail S. Brown, of Bol- ton. Children: 1. Mary E., married John Wesley Martin, of Milton, Massachusetts. 2. Abby Ann, married (first) Rufus C. Nourse, of Bolton, Massachusetts, and they resided there until his death; four sons were the issue of this marriage, three of whom are living at the present time (1907). She mar- ried (second) Eliphas Heyward, of Braintree, where her death occurred several years later. 3. Sarah M., married Falderick J. Fuller, of Quincy. 4. Harriet L., twin, born January 25, 1836, married Eliphas Haywood, resides
in Quincy. 5. Charles Edward, twin, born January 25, 1836, mentioned below.
(VII) Charles Edward Hall, son of Ed- ward Hall (6), was born at Quincy, Massa- chusetts, January 25, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of Quincy and Bolton and in the Bolton high school. He learned the trade of harness maker, and at the age of twenty-one engaged in business on his own account, with a shop at Braintree, Massachu- setts. A year later he returned to Quincy and worked there at his trade two years. He es- tablished his business at Hudson, Massachu- setts, in March, 1860, and was prosperous and successful in the making of harness and dealing in harness and similar goods. After a period of forty-six years, he retired June 24, 1906, and is now devoting his time to the care of his property and enjoying a well-earned rest. Mr. Hall was for eleven years treasurer of the Hudson Co-operative Bank. He is a charter member of the Doric Lodge of Free Masons, charter member of Trinity Com- mandery, No. 32, Knights Templar. He mar- ried, December 30, 1860, Nancy M. Pope, born January 24, 1834, at Quincy, daughter of O. M. Pope, of Quincy, Massachusetts. She died September II, 1903.
HALL Isaac Hall, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England, about 1700. He was a baker by trade, and he lived first in this country on King street, now State street, Boston, where he fol- lowed his trade. The births of two of his children are recorded in Boston. About 1737 he removed to Harpswell, or New Meadows, Maine. A list of the settlers in that town in 1738 includes the names of Isaac Hall and of his three minor sons-Isaac, Jr., John and Nathaniel. Their home was on Merriconeag Neck. He married Abigail Children : I. Isaac, Jr., born in Bos- ton, January 31, 1724; mentioned below. 2. Joseph, mentioned in the "History of Rock- land, Maine." 3. Nathaniel, born in Boston, October 16, 1727 ; was a soldier in the Revolu- tion under .Captain Larrabee ; also served on a privateer. 4. John, resided on the Neck at Harpswell.
(II) Isaac Hall, son of Isaac Hall (I), was born in Boston, January 31, 1724. He married Coombs, of Harpswell. He resided at first in old Thomaston, Maine, but finally settled and died at St. Georges. He was a soldier in the Louisburg expedition.
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Children: I. Caleb, born about 1755; men- tioned below. 2. Rev. Isaac; married Sarah Saywood, pastor of the Baptist Church at Knox, Maine. 3. Rev. Ephraim, married Polly Swan; Baptist minister at St. Georges; he died October 5, 1809. 4. Deacon Peter, married Polly Pierson; lived and died at St. Georges. 5. Lewis, born February 28, 1764; married Anne Dyer ; he died November 4, 1845. 6. Elijah, Esq., married first Betsey Robinson ; second Rebecca (Mann) Coombs, (published May I) 1828. 7. Mehitable, mar- ried - Stober ; lived and died at St. Georges. 8. Joanna, married John Curtis; lived and died at St. Georges. Revolutionary service is credited to Isaac Hall, of Harps- well. He was in Captain Richard Mayberry's company. Colonel Ebenezer Francis's regi- ment, in 1776; private in Captain John Snow's company in 177 -; served in the militia raised to protect Harpswell in 1778; corporal in Captain Abraham Tyler's company, Colo- nel Poor's regiment, from May 30, 1778, to January 29, 1779, and was at North River and elsewhere in the campaign in New York.
(III) Caleb Hall, son of Isaac Hall (2), was born in Harpswell, Maine, about 1755. He was a soldier in the Revolution, drummer in Captain Nathaniel Larrabee's company for six months on seacoast duty; private 1775; sergeant in Captain George Rogers's company, Colonel Nathaniel Jordan's regiment at Fal- mouth, in 1779. He married Hannah Snow, and they resided at St. Georges, Maine, whith- er his father went to live. He died there Feb- ruary 8, 1814. Children, born at St. Georges, near Thomaston, Maine: I. Isaac, married Anna Anderson, of Warren, Maine; resided at St. Georges. 2. Elijah, born January 18, 1777; mentioned below. 3. Ephraim. 4. Elisha, had two or more children. 5. Lewis, had a large family. 6. Caleb, Jr. 7. Rebecca ; married Michael Fountain; resided at St. Georges. 8. Samuel. 9. Jeremiah.
(IV) Elijah Hall, son of Caleb Hall (3), was born in St. Georges, January 18, 1777 .; married there, Betsey (Buckland) Dunning. He married second, Mary Wheeler. His home was at South Thomaston, Maine, where he carried on a farm on what is now or was lately called the Dunning lot. Children, born at South Thomaston: I. George, born Janu- ary 29, 1802; married (published January 27), 1831, Ardea Monk, of Winthrop, Maine. 2. Ephraim, born August 6, 1806; mentioned be- low. 3. Sylvia, born February 6, 1810. 4. Mary, born December 25, 1815. 5. Harriet,
born December 26, 1821. 6. Caroline, born March 12, 1823. 7. Nathan B., born October 16, 1825; mariner, resided at South Thomas- ton. 8. Isaac S., born October 17, 1827; farmer at South Thomaston. 9. Elijah, born January 16, 1829. 10. Sarah, born June 9, 1831; died December 4, 1846. II. Albion K. P., born October 17, 1835.
(V) Ephraim Hall, son of Elijah Hall (4), was born in South Thomaston, Maine, Aug- ust 6, '1806. He settled in Rockland, where he bought a farm .. He was a well-to-do farm- er, and a citizen of wide influence. He mar- ried, October 3, 1830, Catharine A. Spear, born in Rockland, daughter of Captain John Spear. Children: I. John S., born 1843; druggist; was a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, in a regiment of sharpshoot- ers. 2. George M., see forward.
(VI) George M. Hall was born June 19, 1851. He was educated in the public schools of Rockland, but at the early age of fourteen struck out for himself. He had a varied ex- perience in many lines of work, from clerking in a grocery to learning in the druggist busi- ness. In 1871 he came to Melrose, Massachu- setts, to work for Seth E. Benson, dealer in coal and wood. He worked his way by con- stant application to business, by a thorough knowledge of all its details and the utmost faithfulness, to a position of large responsi- bility, and finally became a partner of his em- ployer in 1891, and continued until the death of Mr. Benson in 1903. Since then Mr. Hall has been the sole proprietor of the business, which has grown to large proportions. Mr. Hall is a member of the local lodge of Free Masons ; of the United Workmen, and a char- ter member of the Boston Lodge of the Heptasophs. He is a Republican in politics, and a Universalist in religion. He married, October, 1881, Addie Temple, daughter of Charles Temple, of Saco, Maine. Children : I. Bessie T., born May 15, 1883; married Frank Flower, who is in the United States navy; their home is at Rockport, Maine. 2. George L., born February 2, 1894. 3. Son, died young.
John Wilson was born in Eng- WILSON land and came to this country in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was a tailor by trade. He was in business in Boston. He was war- den of Christ Church, Boston, where all his children were baptized. He married twice.
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By his second wife his children were: I. William. 2. Harriet, married Major William Cook, of Plymouth, Massachusetts; (second) Samuel Cary, of Illyria, Ohio. 3. John, left no issue. 4. George Washington, born in Boston, July 4, 1816, mentioned below. 5. Frances, married David Merrill, of Boston; married (second) William Cary, of Boston.
(II) George Washington Wilson, son of John Wilson (I), was born in Boston, Mass- achusetts, July 4, 1816. He received his edu- cation in the public schools of Boston and in the Protestant Episcopal School at Wickford, Rhode Island. After he came of age he was associated in the tailoring business in Boston with his father and after a few years was ad- mitted to partnership. He was in business for himself for some years. About 1852 he removed to Malden and established a nursery that soon developed into a very extensive and prosperous business. He made a specialty of fine fruits and roses, and imported much of his fancy stock. He remained in business until shortly before his death in 1892. One of the reasons that led him to remove to Mal- den was a disastrous fire in his Boston home, in Crescent place, in which the family had a narrow escape. Mr. Wilson carried his daughter down a ladder and his wife followed when escape by the stairway had become im- possible. His home in Malden was the par- sonage of the parish, and it had been occu- pied by Rev. Joseph Emerson, progenitor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, during a pastorate of forty-six years. Authority from the general court was necessary before Mr. Wilson could secure a title to the property from the church, the First Parish of Malden. Mr. Wilson was a loyal and staunch Republican from the date of that party's organization. He was an in- tense anti-slavery man and earnest in advo- cating women's suffrage. He was active in various reform movements and attended the meetings of Wendell Phillips in Boston and served on many local committees connected with the abolition movement and anti-slavery agitation. He was a member of no secret society. His interest in town and political affairs was strong. Although never in public office he was influential in town affairs and particularly active and prominent in securing a municipal water supply for Malden. In his honor Wilson avenue was named by the city. In his day he was a leading citizen in more senses than one. He commanded the esteem and confidence of his townsmen and exerted himself at every opportunity to advance the
interests of the town. Of strict integrity and irreproachable character, he was essentially a just man. He sympathized with the poor and oppressed, and sought to improve evil con- ditions in politics and society as far as his efforts and influence, could reach.
He married Marie Christina Plamboecht, of Boston, daughter of John and Katherine (Lindt) Plamboecht. Her great-grandfather Lindt was a native of Germany; learned the trade of making cut-glass and was the first artisan to make cut-glass in the United States. Tradition connects the Lindt family in some way with Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Children of George Washington and Marie Christina Wilson: I. George Lindt, born at Malden in 1847, educated in the Malden public schools; married Ada Cummings and had one child, Christine C. Wilson, who re- sides in Malden; he married (second ) Morrill, of Boston. 2. Marie Plamboecht, born in Boston, educated in the public schools of Malden and at the Misses Hodges' private school, Boston, and Professor Agassiz's school in Cambridge; is greatly interested in the Woman Suffrage movement and is president of the Malden Woman Suffrage Club and direc- tor of the New England Woman's Club; she has traveled extensively at home and abroad.
Richard Foster, of an ancient FOSTER Scotch family, was born at Call- hame, county Donegal, Ireland. His family came some three centuries ago, according to the best authorities, from England, and settled in the Protestant section of the north of Ireland. He received the simple education given to the youth of his day. He worked on his father's farm for some years, followed the sea when a young man, and finally settled down in his native town and became a pros- perous farmer. In later years he came to America and lived for a time in Charlestown and Woburn, Massachusetts, returning near the end of his life to Callhame, where he lived until his death with his son, Patrick Foster. He belonged to the Established Church (of England) in his native parish.
(II) Patrick Foster, son of Richard Foster (I), was born at Callhame, county Donegal, Ireland, educated there in the schools of the parish, and worked during his youth on his father's farm. He left home at the time of his marriage, but when his father died the farm became his. It was centrally located and when the government re-established the
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squares his property was taken for the pur- pose. With the compensation that he received he bought a farm of ten acres in the north part of Callhame and built a house in which he lived the remainder of his days. He raised abundant crops of oats and flax, and had fine herds of cattle and sheep. Industrious, honest, upright and unassuming, very domestic in his tastes, Mr. Foster was a good citizen in every walk of life. He was a devout and faithful member of the Episcopal church. He was a member of the organization known as the Loyal Orangemen. He married Margaret Baskin, daughter of Adam and Katie ( Alcorn) Baskin, of Glen Cove, county Donegal, Ire- land. Her father, Adam, was a farmer. Chil- dren of Patrick and Margaret Foster: I. Ellen. 2. Richard, unmarried. 3. Adam, born April 19, 1872, mentioned below. 4. William James, unmarried; served in the Spanish- American war, enlisting from Woburn; at present is in South Africa. 5. George, mar- ried, November 30, 1896, Margaret Baskin; children : i. William J., born May 19, 1899. ii. Ethel, April 13, 1900; iii. George Baskin, November, 1902. 6. Mary, twin of George, married Robert Foster, of Woburn, Massa- chusetts, and has four children. 7. Margaret, married James McKay, and had three chil- dren.
(III) Adam Foster, son of Patrick Foster (2), was born at Callhame, county Donegal, Ireland, April 19, 1872, and was educated in the schools of his native town and worked on the paternal homestead. At the age of eighteen he left home and sought his fortune in Amer- ica. He landed in New York City in August, 1890, and secured employment at once in Eliz- abethport, New Jersey, in the foundry of Moore Brothers. After eight months in this place, he returned to New York City and for a time was a hostler in a private stable. He removed thence to Woburn, Massachusetts, and entered the employ of Levi Teel and later of Frank Flagg, Pleasant street, Woburn, where he worked for two years during the summer seasons, being employed in the winters in the morocco shop of Sears & Company. Then for some three years and a half he was employed by Heald Brothers in market gardening. He was teamster for J. R. Carter and subsequently became motorman on the electric road in Woburn. In 1901 he purchased his present farm and engaged in the business of florist and market gardening in Woburn. He has erected three large greenhouses, containing sixteen thousand square feet of cultivating space and
occupies at the present time about twenty acres of land. He makes a specialty of cucum- bers and violets for which he finds a conve- nient market in Boston. He has built up one of the most extensive and prosperous busi- nesses in his line in this section. His suc- cess has demonstrated his ability as a grower and his shrewdness in business. He is a mem- ber of the Woburn Protestant Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Loyal Orange Institution and formerly belonged to True Blue Lodge, No. 119, of Woburn.
He married, August 30, 1893, Ellen Boyd, who was born June 24, 1873, at Carrickama- hill, county Donegal, Ireland, daughter of James and Mary Ann (Lamond) Boyd, of that place. Her father was a gardener by oc- cupation. Children: I. Mabel Gertrude, born June 15, 1894. 2. William James, March 27, 1896. 3. Robert Boyd, May 15, 1897.
The first American ancestor MAYNARD of George A. Maynard, a resident of Somerville, was Sir John Maynard, a native of Cambridge, England, who came to New England in 1638 and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, being one of the original proprietors of that town at the organization, September 4, 1639, and made up the new plantation at Con- cord, to which was added land granted May 13, 1640, and May 2, 1649, and the boundary between Sudbury and Watertown established May 13, 1651. The descendants of Sir John Maynard included: Hon. Horace Maynard (1814-1882), of the sixth generation, member of United States house of representatives from Tennessee, 1857-63, and 1866-75, United States minister to Turkey, 1875-80, and post- master-general, 1880-81. Edward Maynard (1831-1891), inventor of the Maynard rifle adopted by the United States government, and for which he received honors from Prussia and Sweden. George Willoughby Maynard, son of Edward Maynard, just mentioned, born 1843, member of the National Academy of Designs, Society of American Artists, Amer- ican Water Color Society, and mural artist ; his work is exhibited in numerous public build- ings throughout the United States. Charles Johnson Maynard, born 1845, president of the Newton Natural History Society, vice-presi- dent of the Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge, editor and author. Samuel Tay- lor Maynard, born 1844, botanist and horolo-
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gist of Massachusetts State Board of Agri- culture. Washburn Maynard, born 1844, rear admiral of United State navy, retired.
Antipas Maynard, father of George A. May- nard, and son of Antipas Maynard and his wife, whose maiden name was Rice, was born December 31, 1801, died November 18, 1882. He married, December 3, 1822, Almira Samp- son, born October 13, 1806, died July 29, 1886. Their children were: I. Nancy, born Octo- ber 27, 1823. 2. George A., born March 3, 1826, of whom later. 3. Lambert M., born March 26, 1828. 4. Sarah A., born August II, 1830. 5. Caroline E., born May '23, 1833. 6. Jane A., born March 27, 1836. 7. Elliot A., born October 14, 1839. 8. Susan H., born March 8, 1841. 9. Mary I., born July 20, 1843. 10. Charles W., born October 20, 1845. II. Emma, born November 7, 1848. 12. Infant.
George A. Maynard, eldest son of Antipas and Almira (Sampson) Maynard, was born in Keene, New Hampshire, March 3, 1826. He removed with his parents to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, where he was a pupil in the public school. March 17, 1843, when seven- teen years of age, he went to Boston and en- tered the baking business of his uncle, Jesse Maynard, and in 1849 engaged in the bakery business on his own account. In 1871 he withdrew from the baking business and en- gaged in the produce commission business, which he conducted for twenty-two years, re- tiring in 1893. He was for fifty years a dea- con in the Spring Hill Baptist Church, Som- erville, founded in 1852, and for forty-six years was a teacher in the Sunday-school. He was a Republican in political faith ; he was not an active political worker, but on occasions of national or state feud came to the aid of the party with both voice and purse.
George A. Maynard married, September 25, 1848, Sarah Ann, daughter of Captain John and Sarah (Glidden) Merry. Their children were: I. Everett A., born in Boston, Febru- ary 14, 1850; married Agnes Woodbury, one child, Wesley A. 2. Alfred S., born March 23, 1852 ; married Caroline Wood ; no children. 3. George H., died at the age of nine months. 4. Ida May, born September 8, 1854; married Frank Dadman; two children: infant, who died young ; Mabel, married Charles Bunker. 5. Charles M., born in Chelsea, November 8, 1860; married, and lived in Iowa. 6. Eva G., born in Somerville, January 30, 1863; mar- ried Arthur Willard, and had two children. 7. Fred L., born in Somerville, May 23, 1865 ; married Minnie Lord, two children: Kennith
and Alva. Mrs. Sarah Ann (Merry) May- nard died September 2, 1870. Mr. Maynard married (second), October 12, 1871, Mary E. McLeane. Their children were: I. G. Arthur, born in Somerville, May 30, 1877, died at the age of six years. 2. Erville H., born in Som- erville, October 13, 1880. 3. Clarence D., born in Somerville, August 31, 1886.
The name of Webster is of
WEBSTER great antiquity, and the fact that it is derived from the Saxon word "webbstre," meaning a female weaver, is conclusive of its Anglo-Saxon ori- gin. The following lines relative to the name, which may have been written in Chaucer's time, or perhaps earlier, would imply a differ- ence between the webster and the weaver :
"Bakers and Brewsters, and brochiers many,
Woolen webbersters and weavers of Lynen."
The most important English family of the name of Webster claims descent from John Webster, who was a resident in Bolsover, Derbyshire, in the reign of Henry IV, and whose descendants were settled in Essex, in which county as well as in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, that monarch granted to John Webster large estates, about A. D. 1400.
The Scotch family of Webster, presumably descendants of this same John Webster, set- tled in Edinburghshire, Scotland, before 1700, probably not long before that date. There is no other family of the surname in Scotland bearing arms, though descendants are now found in other sections of the country. The armorial bearings of the Webster family of Edinburg are: "Argent a fesse gules between three crosses crosslet fitchee azure. Crest : The sun rising out of the sea ppr. Motto: Emergo."
The Hay family which intermarried with the Websters in Edinburg is one of the most numerous, distinguished and widely scattered of the ancient Scotch families. No less than forty-eight coats-of-arms, most of them of obviously independent origin, are in use in Scotland, or recently have been. The family is reputed of Norman origin, but before A. D. 1300 is found in Perthshire, Fifeshire, Banff- shire and Wigtonshire. The family has the marquisate of Tweedale; the earldoms of Errol, Gifford, Kinnoul and Kilmarnock (and of Carlisle in England) the viscountcies of Dupplin and Walden; and the lordships of Hay and Kinfauns.
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