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He was the father of eleven children : Rebecca, born in 1725; Jabez, born April 16, 1727, died in 1757; Lois, born January 25, 1729, died in 1812; Eunice, born February 25, 1731, died in 1734; Eliphaz, see next paragraph; Syl- vanus, born June 13, 1735, died in 1738; Eunice, born December 15, 1736, married Michael Louden ; Sylvanus, born February 3, 1739, died at Martinique, October 6, 1762; Benjamin, born October 23, 1740; Ezra, born in 1743, died in 1756; and Joseph, twin brother of Ezra.
Eliphaz Prior, second son and fifth child of Benjamin and Deborah (Weston) Prior, was born in Duxbury, September 11, 1733. He resided in his native town, where he married Hannah Howard, daughter of Josiah Howard, and she died May 31, 1776. Their children were: Sylvanus, who will be again referred to; Sarah, who married Benjamin Prior (probably a relative) in 1783 ; and Hannah.
Sylvanus Prior, eldest child of Eliphaz and Hannah (Howard) Prior, was born in Duxbury, August 3, 1764. For a number of years he followed the tanner's trade, but relin- quished it in order to engage in farming, and he owned a farm of considerable area located near the present Duxbury town hall. In poli- tics he was a Whig. He attended the Con- gregational church. January 31, 1793, he married Christiana Chandler, of Duxbury, born February 20, 1770, and they had a family of nine children: Eliphaz, born February 13, 1794, died at sea ; Charles, born February II, 1796; Lucy Chandler, born November 23, 1801, married Hosea Windsor ; Sylvanus, born January 1, 1805; George, born February 6, 1807, married Caroline Windsor, of Duxbury, and had a daughter, Gertrude, who became the wife of John Hollis; Henry, born October 16, 1808; Hannah, born March 22, 18II; Allen, the date of whose birth is given else- where; and Christiana, who became the wife of Zenas Faunce, of Duxbury.
Allen Prior, eighth child and youngest son of Sylvanus and Christiana (Chandler ) Prior, was born in Duxbury, October 5, 1813. He was a ship carpenter, and followed that occu- pation in Duxbury when the shipbuilding industry was extensively carried on in that town. About 1858 he engaged in the flour and grain trade, establishing a profitable busi- ness and eventually admitting his son to part- nership under the firm name of Allen Prior & Son. He finally retired from business and spent his declining years at his home in Dux- bury, where he died in February, 1890. In his
younger days he served in the local militia company. At his majority he allied himself with the Whigs, but joined the Republican party at its formation in. 1856, and though not an aspirant for public office he rendered able services to the town as a justice of the peace. He was a leading member and a liberal supporter of the Congregational church, sing- ing bass and directing the choir for many years, and he also officiated as superintendent of the Sunday-school. He married Sophia Ann Peterson of Duxbury, who bore him one son, Eliphaz.
Eliphaz Prior, only child of Allen and Sophia A. (Peterson) Prior, was born in Dux- bury, February 16, 1838. His studies in the public schools were supplemented with a course at Patridge Academy, Duxbury, and in his seventeenth year he began an apprentice- ship at the wheelwright's trade with Thomas Turner, in Hanover, Massachusetts. After remaining there for a time he returned to Duxbury, where he resumed his apprentice- ship in the carriage-making establishment of Nelson Stetson, and upon its completion he purchased the business, taking the former pro- prietor into his employ. Three years later he sold the business back to Mr. Stetson, in order to enter the employ of his father in the flour and grain business, and was subsequently admitted to partnership as previously stated. The firm of Allen Prior & Son continued in business for nine years, and at the expiration of that time Eliphaz engaged in general mer- cantile business at Plymouth. Selling his busi- ness there some eighteen months later he returned to Duxbury, and forming a partner- ship with Henry Sheldon under the firm name of Prior & Sheldon, he carried on the coal and lumber business for two years, when he sold his interest to John S. Loring. In 1879 Mr. Prior removed to Woburn, where he pur- chased the grocery business of F. H. Tarbell, which he carried on for six months and then sold to George H. Mann. He next opened a department store, which he conducted suc- cessfully for a number of years, at the same time transacting a brokerage business in Bos- ton, and he finally closed out his department store. In 1882 he turned his attention to the auctioneering business, which he has followed sticcessfully ever since, and from 1902 to the present time he has conducted a general real estate, insurance and auctioneering business in Woburn, occupying office quarters in Johnson Block, on Main street, and having a numerous clientele. For a period of twelve years, 1890
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to 1902, Mr. Prior served as a member of the Woburn board of assessors, and was its chair- man for eighteen months. Politically he is a Republican, and has attended as a delegate various party conventions. His church affil- iations are with the Congregationalists. He was made a Mason in Corner Stone Lodge, Duxbury, and is a past officer of that body.
Mr. Prior was first married, in Duxbury, to - Miss Sarah Jane Tisdale, a native of that town, and a daughter of William R. Tisdale. She died, leaving one son, William Allen, who is mentioned at greater length in the succeed- ing paragraph. His second wife, whom he married at Marshall, Massachusetts, was Miss Esther Jane Sears, of Dennis, Massachusetts, daughter of Joshua Sears. Her death occurred in Woburn, September 23, 1902, at the age of fifty years ten months and eighteen days. The children of this union are: Mary Davis, born in Plymouth, and Frederick Weston, born in Woburn.
William Allen Prior, only child of Eliphaz Prior, by his first marriage, was born in Dux- bury, October 31, 1863. He was graduated from the Partridge Academy at the age of sixteen years, and during the latter part of his attendance there he resided with his grand- father, his father having removed to Wo- burn. After the completion of his studies he rejoined his father in Woburn and. subse- quently obtained a position with H. E. Boyn- ton & Company, a wholesale shoe house at the corner of Pearl and Franklin streets, Boston. Four years later he entered the employ of the S. B. Thing Company, in the same line of trade, being when twenty-one years old placed in charge of their wholesale branch house in Troy, New York, and was afterwards ad- mitted to the firm. Selling his interest in 1896, he became associated with his brother Fred- erick W. in the shoe trade at 26 Lincoln street, under the firm name of Prior Brothers, and becoming sole proprietor of this business in 1899 he conducted it for about five years. He then became associated with William F. Mayo & Company, and for a period of eighteen months took charge of their shoe department. After severing his connection with the last- named concern in 1906, he established the W. A. Prior Company, at 146 Lincoln street, and has built up an extensive trade, handling rub- ber footwear exclusively, and occupying the entire second floor of the building.
Mr. Prior resides in Woburn, and is a direc- tor of the Co-operative Bank in that city. He has been chosen a delegate to several Repub-
lican conventions, was for three years one of the overseers of the poor, and has served up- on the board of health. A Congregationalist in his religious faith, he is a leading member of the First Church, and also has served on the parish committee, and has been assistant superintendent of its Sunday school. He is a member of the Towanda Club.
October 22, 1888, Mr. Prior married Miss Clara Matilda Ames, born in Woburn, Feb- ruary 26, 1864, daughter of Erskine and Sarah (Farrington) Ames, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Prior have two children-Allen Ames, born November 19, 1890, and Ruth Tis- dale, born March 23, 1894.
The surname Parmenter PARMENTER is a trade name meaning tailor, akin to the class of surnames adopted in the twelfth century- such as Smith, Carpenter, Mason, Farmer, Fuller, Weaver. Though the name is obso- lete now as a trade-name, it is a common sur- name in England. It is a Norman-French word. Among the medieval forms are Geof- frey le Parmunter, Saher le Parmentier, Wil- liam le Parmeter, Richard le Parmuter. The Hundred Rolls give us the same sobriquet in a Latin dress as William Parmuntarius. (See "Our English Surnames," by Beardsley). The present spelling in England is Parmenter, Par- miter and the old French Permentier. (See "Patronymic Britannica," by Lower). Fair- bairn gives the crest of this family as: An eagle displayed ppr.
In the early American records the name is spelled in a multitude of ways. In the Massa- chusetts Revolutionary Rolls alone we find the following variations, mostly due probably to the simple spelling of the clerks and keepers of records: Palmenter, Palmentor, Palmer- ter, Palmeter, Palmiter, Palster, Palmuter, Pamarter, Pamener, Pamenter, Pamerter, Pamertor, Pameter, Parmanter, Parmater, Parmenetr, Parmentar, Parmente, Parmento, Parmentor, Parmentr, Parmerter, Parmeter, Parmether, Parmetor, Parmetr, Parmetur, Parmmetur, Parminter, Parmiter, Parmitter, Parmorter, Parmortr, Parmntr, Parmtr,
Parmnter, Parmter, Parnenter, Pearmnter, Pelmater, Pelmeter, Pemertor, Pemerton, Pemetor, Permenter, Permento, Permertor, Permertor, Permeter, Perminter, Permiter, Permitter and Prmentr. Before 1650 three of this name came from England-John Par- menter, mentioned below ; Benjamin of Salem,
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born 1609, proprietor in 1637 ; and Robert Par- menter of Braintree, admitted freeman May 22, 1650, resident of Braintree, deacon of the church, and prominent citizen.
(I) John Parmenter, the immigrant ances- tor of this family in America, was born in England in 1588, and died May I, 1671, aged eighty-three. He settled first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he resided for some time, then removed to Sudbury, Massachu- setts, with the first settlers. Later he return- ed to Roxbury. He was the second deacon of the Sudbury church; was one of the com- mittee to lay out lands appointed September 4, 1639; and was a proprietor in that year. He was selectman, and in 1640 commissioner to end small causes, and also held other posi- tions of trust. He was in Watertown in 1638,. but did not remain there for a long time. His wife Bridget and son John came with him to this country. She died April 6, 1660, and he married second, at Roxbury, August 9, 1660, Annis Dane, widow of John Dane, and for- merly also of William Chandler. His will is dated March 25, 1671, and proved July 25, following. He bequeathed to his grandson John Parmenter ; to wife Annis; to daughter Woods, to son-in-law John Woods, of Marl- borough; to cousin Cheever, shoemaker in Boston, one of the executors; to cousin John Stebbins, one of the overseers. The widow's will, dated November 1, 1672, proved No- vember 15, 1683, bequeathed to her son John Chandler the estate left her by her husband Dane, he to pay John Dane and her sons Thomas and William Chandler certain sums ; to her daughters Hannah Abbot and Sarah Cleaves; cousin Elizabeth Denison, Anna Stebbins and sister Wise, to aid in the divis- ion of her estate. Children of John Parmen- ter: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married John Woods. Perhaps others who remained in England.
(II) John Parmenter, son of John Parmen- ter (I), was born in England, and died April 12, 1666. He was a proprietor of Sudbury ; was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643; in 1676 signed a petition for relief from taxes. He kept a hotel called the Parmenter Tavern, at which the committee of the colonial court and ecclesiastical council for settlement of difficulties in Sudbury in 1655 were entertain- ed. The hotel was situated on the south street of the settlement of Wayland, on a house lot assigned in general allottment in 1639. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century a hotel was conducted at the same iii-31
spot, which was a little westerly of the house late of Dana Parmenter. He married Amy -, who died 1681. , Children: I. John, born about 1639; made executor of his grand- father's will. 2. Joseph, born March 12, 1642. 3. Mary, born June 10, 1644; married Rich- ard Burk. 4. George, married Hannah John- son, daughter of Solomon Johnson, and resid- ed at Sudbury and Framingham; died 1727. 5. Benjamin, mentioned ยท below. 6. Lydia, born October 16, 1655; married June 5, 1681, Thomas Pratt, Jr.
(III) Benjamin Parmenter, son of John Parmenter (2), died May 1, 1737. He mar- ried, in 1680, Thamazin Rice. who survived. him and died April 15, 1748. Children: I. Lydea, born September 29, 1681. 2. Benja- min, born January 21, 1682-83 ; married, De- cember 16, 1708, Mary Adams, at Sudbury. 3. David, born April 12, 1685, mentioned be- low. 4. Mercy, born December 8, 1687. 5. Mary, born September 7, 1691. 6. Thankful, married, May II, 1727, Ebenezer Hayden. 7. Jonathan, born January 15, 1702-03.
(IV) David Parmenter, son of Benjamin Parmenter (3), was born April 12, 1685, and died March 6, 1742-43. He married, February 12, 1712-13, Abigail Brewer, who died June 6, 1758. Children, born at Sudbury: I. James, born May 4, 1719. 2. Samuel, born May II, 1722; mentioned below.
(V) Samuel Parmenter, son of David Par- menter (4), was born in Sudbury, Massachu- setts, May II, 1722. He married, November 14, 1751, Mary Tower, in Concord, Massa- chusetts. Children: I. Rufus, born July 4, 1752. 2. Persis, born November 17, 1753. 3. Jonas, born "October 8, 1757. 4. Ezra, born June 26, 1760; mentioned below. 5. Eliza- beth, born May' 7, 1762. 6. Abigail, born September 28, 1764; died young. 7. Mary, born January 28, 1767. 8. Abigail, born July 2, 1771. 9. David, born February 13, 1775.
(VI) Ezra Parmenter, son of Samuel Par- menter (5), was born at Sudbury, June 26, 1760, and died at Boston, April 14, 1808. In his youth he learned the trade of blacksmith, and when seventeen years old he went to Boston and worked at his trade. Dur- ing the Revolution he worked as a member of the army in a workshop situated on or near the old burial ground on Boylston street, Boston. His return papers were signed by Thomas Chase, D. Q. M. G. of wagoners, artificers, etc., serving in his de- partment. Parmenter appears among "black- smiths enlisted" stationed in Boston. He was
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also in Captain Asahel Wheeler's company, Colonel John Robinson's regiment, for one month and twenty-eight days. Afterward he carried on a blacksmith shop with Peter Mack- intosh for several years, but on February 13, 1797, the firm of Mackintosh & Parmenter was dissolved, and Mr. Parmenter carried on the business the rest of his life. He was em- ployed by most of the leading merchants of his day, and shortly before his death did the iron work for the enlargement of Faneuil Hall.
Mr. Parmenter was a patriotic citizen and a man of strong intellect. He was fond of music, and sang in the choir of the New South Church on Summer street. He was the author of the once popular psalm tune called "Com- plaint," which was sung in the churches of New England for many years. His house which he occupied on Lincoln street is de- scribed as a convenient and well-furnished dwelling, three stories high, two rooms on a floor, kitchen and large yard, woodhouse and well.
Ezra Parmenter was an original member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association, and was a personal friend of Paul Revere, who was one of the officers of that organization. He was a man six feet tall, large and muscular. He married, January 21, 1781, Mary Ellison, born December 3, 1762, and died June 10, 1807, daughter of William and Mary (Bishop) Ellison. Her father was a mason by trade, and was born October I, 174I, and died May 15, 1816. Her mother was born April 25, 1740, and died February 23, 1817. Children : I. Mary, born May 16, 1783 ; died October 2, 1811 ; married, Thomas Drayton, and had Thomas A. Drayton, and other children who died in infancy. 2. Bet- sey, born December 19, 1784; married Colonel Gardiner Thompson, and resided at New- burgh, New York; children: i. Ezra Parmen- ter Thompson; ii. Catherine Greenleaf Thompson, married Eliphalet Bootman; iii. Gardiner Greenleaf Thompson; iv. Mary Eliz- abeth Thompson, married Charles Peck; v. William Parmenter Thompson. vi. Nancy Parmenter Thompson, married Fletcher Smith; vii. Maria T. Thompson, married Ed- ward Phillips ; viii. Helen Frances Thompson, married F. Hathaway; ix. Susan Parmenter Thompson, married Rev. Andrew Bell; x. Charles Francis Thompson; xi. George J. Thompson. xii. Julia Thompson. 3. Sally, born September 4, 1786; died September 30, 1802. 4. William, born March 30, 1789; mentioned below. 5. Samuel, born March
2, 1791 ; was surveyor, auctioneer and musi- cian; married Eliza Crane, of Newton, and resided at Newburgh, New York; died June 29, 1841; children: i. Charles J. Parmenter, died young; ii. Susan E. C. Parmenter ; iii. Stephen C. Parmenter. 6. Nancy, born March 12, 1793; died October 19, 1794. 7. James, born July 21, 1795, died April 27, 1826; print- er and publisher; married Maria Haskell Thayer ; children: i. Ann Elizabeth, married Rev. William Martin, and had Wisner Martin, Joseph Martin, who had a son Joseph Henry Thayer Martin and several daughters, and James Parmenter Martin, who had Wisner Bell Martin and William Parmenter Martin; ii. Harriet Mary, married Sovereign Ander- son, and had several children. 8. Nancy, born August 31, 1797; died October 3, 1831 ; mar- ried Caleb French. Their children were: i. Caroline Elizabeth French; ii. Jane Bates French; iii. Maria Haskell Thayer French, who married Dr. Jonah Franklin Dyer; iv. Granville Ellis French; v. Cynthia Brown French, who married Joseph Prescott Wil- liams, and had children-Harriet Josephine Williams, Charles French Williams, William Parmenter Williams and Horace Dutton Wil- liams ; vi. Ann Elizabeth Williams.
(VII) William Parmenter, son of Ezra Parmenter (6), was born March, 30, 1789. He attended the public schools and the Boston Latin school, where he received the Franklin medal. He completed his mercantile educa- tion with Pratt & Andrews, merchants of Bos- ton, and then was in trade a few years. Dur- ing the war of 1812 and for some years after- ward he was chief clerk under Amos Binney, navy agent. While there he acquired a knowl- edge of the navy and made the acquaintance of the leading naval officers, and wrote arti- cles on naval topics for the press, which were extensively copied. In 1824 he removed to East Cambridge as agent and manager of the New England Crown Glass Company, a corporation established at that place for the manufacture of window glass, and he con- tinued in this business until 1836 with marked success.
Mr. Parmenter was active in public life and was honored by his fellow-citizens in many positions of trust and responsibility. He was for a time selectman of Cambridge. He served his district as representative to the gen- eral court, where he achieved distinction, and later was elected to the state senate. In 1836 he was elected to congress from his district, and was re-elected at each subsequent elec-
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tion for four terms, retiring finally in March, 1845. He was an influential member of the Democratic party, and during the greater part of his public service was the only Democratic member of the house from Massachusetts. He was associated with many distinguished leaders of the opposing parties, Democrats and Whigs-President John Quincy Adams, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Leverett Saltonstall, and Hon. Caleb Cushing. He sometimes departed from the policy of his party-for instance, in the tariff question, standing for protection of the home industries by tariff regulation. He was alluded to in a speech by Daniel Web- ster in Faneuil Hall as having by .his vote se- cured the passage of the tariff act in 1842. He served chiefly on the committee on naval affairs, of which he was a member for several terms, and when his party was dominant he was chairman. For this duty his experience had given him special qualifications. He un- derstood the needs of the business men and of the country. He was a ready and practiced speaker and held his own in debate on the floor of congress. He was tactful and efficient in the work of the committees. In that part of the duty of a congressman, which includes attention to the individual interests of consti- tuents, he had occasion to do more than serve his own district. Owing to the nearness of his residence to Boston and to his prominence as a manufacturer himself, he was identified with the business men of Boston, and his correspondence with them- was as extensive as with his own constituents, and in many ways he represented them directly in Congress as conscientiously as his own district. When he left Washington in 1845 he accepted the appointment of naval officer of the port of Boston, and held that office four years. He then retired to his home in Cambridge and was not in business or office afterward, except in the official supervision of some of the county institutions. He was occupied until his death, February 23, 1866, with his private affairs. The outbreak of the civil war in his advanced years seriously affected his health and spirits. While he grieved over the war, he was loyal to the government at Washington, and out- spoken in its support throughout the rebellion.
Mr. Parmenter was of fine presence and impressive manner, of superior intellectual en- dowment and wide information, conservative in his opinions and cautious in his judgments, of sterling common sense and unusual force of character. He was at times called upon to preside as moderator at large and excited
town meetings in Cambridge, before the city charter was granted, and he displayed a pecul- iar parliamentary skill and control over these assemblies.
He married, August 13, 1815, Mary Parker, born February 27, 1793, died October 5, 1866, daughter of Thomas and Abigail Hart (Park- man) Parker. Her father, Thomas Parker Jr., was born November 1, 1743, and died Oc- tober 12, 1807, son of Thomas Parker; was prominent in Boston, and said to have taken part in the Boston Tea Party; children: i. Mary Parker, born February 27, 1793, above mentioned; ii. Martha Parker; iii. Thomas Parker; iv. George Parker; v. Abigail Hart Parker, born 1804, died January 15, 1880; vi. Charles Parker. Her mother, Abigail Hart (Parkman) Parker, was born June 19, 1773, daughter of Elias Parkman, born December 9, 1747, at Boston, and Abigail (Treat) Park- man, (daughter of John and Abigail Treat), born December 9, 1747; they were married, April 25, 1771 ; children : i. Abigail Hart Park- man, born June 19, 1773, above mentioned ; ii. Polly Chandler Parkman, born March 9, 1775; iii. Elias Parkman, Jr., born December 29, 1779; iv. Sally Parkman, born June 5, 1783; v. Elizabeth Parkman, born June 6, 1785.
In 1784 Thomas Parker bought the estate in Boston, at the corner of Middle and Rich- mond street, now the corner of Hanover and Parmenter streets. After his death it came into the possession of his daughter Mary and her husband William Parmenter, and is now owned by their descendants. The old house was taken down in 1870 when Parmenter street was widened, and on the site is now a dwell- ing, under which in recent years is an apothe- cary shop, kept by a grandson, George W. Parmenter, from 1842 until his death in 1887. Thomas Parker purchased this house from an old lady who sold it because it stood opposite the Second or "Cockerel" church, which had a steeple, and she was afraid that the steeple would fall on the house. This steeple was taken down, and another one put up and, strange to say, this second steeple did fall, but did not damage the house.
Children of William and Mary (Parker ) Parmenter : I. William Ellison, born March 12, 1816; mentioned below. 2. Mary, born August 4, 1817; died unmarried, December 30, 1906. 3. George Washington, born Janu- ary 15, 1819; died April 17, 1886; married, May 12, 1853, Elizabeth Hannah Bent, and had Elizabeth Frances, born May 23, 1854.
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4. Martha Parker, born February 26, 1820; died unmarried, August 8, 1849. 5. Elizabeth Thompson, born May 24, 1821; died Febru- ary 13, 1902 ; married, October 13, 1853, Free- man Hunt, of Brooklyn, New York, editor of Hunt's Merchants Magasine, who died March 2, 1858; children : i. Freeman Hunt, Jr., born September 4, 1855, married, June 8, 1887, Ab- bie Ellen Brooks, of Cambridge, and had Edith Brooks Hunt, born March 5, 1891, and William Parmenter Hunt, born May 27, 1896. 6. Dr. Ezra, born March 20, 1823; died un- married, January 31, 1838; was mayor of Cambridge, representative to the general court, 1872-73, and state senator, 1874-75. 7. Anna Maria, born December 19, 1824'; died unmar- ried, November 8, 1841. 8. Abigail Hart Parker, born July 17, 1826; died unmarried, March 18, 1849.
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