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He .married, December 9, 1891, Daisy Adella Conant, born May 31, 1872, daughter of Benjamin and Clara Maria (Newhall) Con- ant, of Arlington, Massachusetts. Her father is a member of the firm of Conant & Newhall, of Boston. Children: I. Helen Edith, born September 14, 1892. 2. Phyllis Newhall, born November 13, 1893. 3. Ruth, born December 9, 1897. 4. Evelyn, born March 28, 1903.
The immigrant ancestor of Wil- CROSBY liam E. Crosby, of Medford, was (I) Simon Crosby, who came to New England in the ship "Susan and Ellen," Edward Payne, master, sailing from London in May, 1635, there being ninety-four passen- gers in all. He was twenty-six years old, his wife, Ann, twenty-five, and their son Thomas, eight months old. He settled in Cambridge and was admitted a freeman March 3, 1636, and on the 7th of November the same year he was elected selectman and served as such again in 1638. His house stood at the corner of Brattle street and Brattle square. He died in 1639, at the early age of thirty. His wife Ann was left with three children-Thomas, born in England, Simon, born in Cambridge in 1637, and Joseph, born in Cambridge in 1639. She married in 1646 of 1647, the Rev. William Thomson, of Braintree, but was again left a widow a few years later and died October 8, 1675. Mr. Thomson was the first minister of the church in Braintree, was a graduate of Oxford and was a man of distinction. He prepared his son William and his step-son Thomas Crosby for college and they both en- tered Harvard and graduated there in the class of 1653. Thomas Crosby, like the most of the Harvard graduates, of that time, became a clergyman and was the minister at Eastham ·from 1658 to 1670, when he left the ministry for business life and became a successful man of affairs. Nearly all by the name of Crosby on Cape Cod are his descendants.
(II) Simon Crosby, son of Simon and Ann Crosby, born 1637, married Rachel Brackett, daughter of Captain Richard Brackett, of Braintree. Captain Brackett was a deacon of the church and a leading citizen of the town. Simon Crosby settled in Billerica and became a large landholder in that newly organized town and took an important and leading part in town affairs. He died January 26, 1725-26. Children : I. Rachel, born August 20, 1660, married Ephraim Kidder. 2. Simon, born in 1663. 3. Thomas, born March 10, 1665-66.
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4. Joseph, born July 5, 1669. 5. Hannah, born in 1672, married Samuel Danforth. 6. Nathan, born February 9, 1674-75. 7. Josiah, born November 1, 1677. 8. Mary, born November 23, 1680, married John Blanchard. 9. Sarah, born July 27, 1684, married William Rawson, of Braintree.
(III) Josiah Crosby, son of Simon and Ra- chel (Brackett) Crosby, born November II, 1677, married, November 1I, 1703, Mary Manning, daughter of Samuel Manning. He was a farmer and his residence in Billerica was on the road leading to Woburn between the village and Bare hill. Children : I.
Josiah, born August 5, 1704. 2. Eliphalet, born August 6, 1705. 3. Elizabeth, born Aug- ust 7, 1706, died 1709. 4. Anna, born April 29, 1708, married John Bowers, of Dracut. 5-6. Isaac and Ephraim (twins), born No- vember 7, 1709, died November 10, 1709. 7. Mary, born August 24, 1712, married Roger Toothaker. 8. Elizabeth, born December I, 1713, died young. 9. Jane, born June 14, 1716. IO. Joanna, born July 16, 1718. II. Jona- than, born August 1, 1719. 12. Esther, born July 16, 1721, died 1722.
(IV) Josiah Crosby, eldest child of Josiah and Mary (Manning) Crosby, born 1704, died about 1743, and tradition says that he was kill- ed by Indians. He was a farmer and lived in Billerica. He married Elizabeth, daughter .of Deacon William French, of Billerica. Chil- dren: I. Josiah, born November 24, 1729, married Sarah Fitch. 2. William, born Feb- ruary 16, 1732-33. 3. Elizabeth, born Janu- ary 9, 1734-35, died 1836. 4. Esther, born September 17, 1736, married Isaac Manning. 5. Alpheus, born April 22, 1739.
(V) Josiah Crosby, eldest child of Josiah and Elizabeth (French) Crosby, born Novem- ber 24, 1729. He was a farmer and lived in Milford, New Hampshire, on the road to Wil- ton, and about a mile from the town house ; the property has remained in the family, and is owned by his great-grandson, Matthias F. Crosby. He was an active and influential cit- izen. In 1747 he was in the military service at the Connecticut river, and at Bunker Hill was a captain in Colonel Reed's regiment. Four of his sons were in the Revolutionary war. He married, November 24, 1750, Sarah Grimes, of Bedford. Children : I. Josiah, born in Bedford, October 18, 1751. 2. Joseph, born in Milford, October 15, 1753, was a farmer, and lived in Amherst; married Esther Lane. 3. Sarah, born in Milford, 1756, mar- ried Allen . Goodrich, of Mont Vernon. 4.
William, born January 29, 1758. 5. Elizabeth, born June 27, 1760, married William Low, of Amherst. 6. Alpheus, born November 16, 1762, married, November 18, 1788, Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Gilmore, of Jaffrey. 7. Asa, born July 15, 1765, married Betsey Hoyt, daughter of Nathan and Polly (Page) Hoyt, of Sandwich, New Hampshire. He was a physician, at Sandwich and Hanover, New Hampshire, and was very successful in his profession. Several of his sons also dis- tinguished themselves. Dr. Dixi Crosby was professor of surgery in the medical depart- ment of Dartmouth College for more than thirty years. Alpheus Crosby was professor of Greek in Dartmouth College for nearly twenty years, and the author of Crosby's Greek Grammar, and other books that were widely used. Hon. Nathan Crosby was judge of the municipal court of Lowell, and Dr. Josiah Crosby and Dr. Thomas R. Crosby were successful physicians at Manchester and Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Asa Crosby died at Hanover in 1836. 8. John, `born in Milford, New Hampshire, April 10, 1768, married Priscilla, daughter of Augustus and Bridget (Lovewell) Blanchard, of Milford. 9. Esther, born February 3, 1771, at Milford, married Augustus Blanchard, of that place. 10. Fitch, born in Milford, July 14, 1773, married Rebecca Davis, of New Ips- wich. When the father of this family (Josiah Crosby) died, in 1793, all his ten children were married, and he is said to have had eighty- five grandchildren.
(VI) Josiah Crosby, eldest child of Josiah and Sarah (Grimes) Crosby, born October 15, 175I, was a farmer, and lived in Milford, New Hampshire. He married, 1772, Eliza- beth Littlehale. Children: I. Josiah, born June 22, 1773. 2. Joseph, born October 19, I774, see forward. 3. Abraham, born June 22, 1776, married Mary Tibbets, of Belgrade, Maine. 4. Sally, born April 8, 1778, married David Woolson. 5. William, born January 12, 1780, married Polly Creasey. 6. Alpheus, born March II, 1782, married Deborah G. Turner. 7. Jotham, born December 19, 1783, married Margaret Beeth. 8. Betsey, born Jan- uary 16, 1786, married John Steele. 9. Othni, born September 1, 1787, married Anna Davis. IO. Porter, born April 14, 1791, married Sus- anna Hopkins, of Providence. II. Polly, born March 25, 1793, married William Crosby, of Merrimack.
(VII) Joseph Crosby, second son and child . of Josiah and Elizabeth (Littlehale) Crosby,
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born October 19, 1774, died May 23, 1838. He was a farmer, and lived in Milford. He married, January 6, 1801, Anna, daughter of Benjamin and Lucy (Hopkins) Conant; she died in 1843. Children, born in Milford : I. Nancy, September 27, 1801, married Asa Burns, of Milford. 2. Harriet, October 20, 1802, married Freeman Crosby, of Milford. 3. Lucy, August 29, 1804, married Jabez Bills, of Amherst. 4. Joseph, born March 3, 1806. 5. Benjamin, October 1, 1807. 6. Josiah Dixi, November 12, 1809. 7. Betsey, February 26, 1812, married Abram Fifield, of Lowell. 8. Rachel Orinda, August 12, 1813, married Rev. Samuel K. Snead, of New Al- bany, Indiana. 9. Abel Conant, November 28, 1815. IO. Mary, October 12, 1817, married John L. Minot. II. Deborah Gutterson, De- cember 8, 1819, married, February 19, 1840,' Joseph Lund, of Merrimack.
(VIII) Josiah Dixi Crosby, sixth child and second son of Joseph and Anna (Conant) Crosby, born November 12, 1809, lived in Milford, district No. 5, and was a shoemaker ; he died in Brashear City, Louisiana, May 10, 1863, while serving his country in the civil war. He married, March 18, 1833, Almira L., daughter of William and Sally (Fessenden) Lovejoy. Children: 1. Dixi Josiah, born July 23, 1834, was a farmer ; married Martha, daughter of Lyman and Sarah (Blackmer) Fairbanks, of Chicopee. 2. Mary, born April 20, 1836, married, November 7, 1860, Jason E. Hutchinson. 3. Susan Ellen, born April 23, 1838, married Henry Baker, of Goffstown, New Hampshire. 4. George Edwin, born De- cember 5, 1839, see forward. 5. Adaline Al- mira, born May 12, 1842, married Thomas B. Hall. 6. Charles Henry, born January 22, 1844, married, November 12, 1865, Mary F. White, of Manchester; he was a machinist, and resided there. 7. Lydia Ann, born March 31, 1845, married Jason E. Hutchinson. 8. John Frank, born January 31, 1847, married Etta M. Little. 9. Walter Joseph, born July 23, 1849, married Ida, daughter of George W. and Mary E. (Crouch) Robinson, of Bos- ton, Massachusetts ; residence Manchester. 10. Clara Jennette, born May 15, 1851, died Octo- ber 28, 1851. II. Clara Cornelia, born June 8, 1856.
(IX) George Edwin Crosby, fourth child and second son of Josiah Dixi and Almira L. (Lovejoy) Crosby, was born in Milford, De- cember 5, 1839. He lived in Cambridge for several years, and removed to Medford in 1876, and where he still resides. He is a sen-
ior partner in the firm of the George E. Cros- by Company, printers, 234 Congress street, Boston. He married, June 3, 1865, Augusta R. Hill, daughter of William H. Hill, of Bid- deford, Maine. He and Mrs. Crosby took a very active part in organizing the West Med- ford Baptist church, and he has been one of the deacons from the beginning. Mrs. Crosby was a member of the Medford school com- mittee for several years, and did much to pro- mote the success of the schools. She was a very active member of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union. Mr. Crosby mar- ried (second) Sophronia Fairfield, February 6, 1901. Children, all by first wife: I. Archer Guy, born in Cambridge, November 1, 1869, married Mary Isabelle Simonds. 2. William Edgar, born in Cambridge, June 1, 1871, see forward. 3. Cora Nell, born October II, 1873, married Rev. Pharaoh Lee Cobb, June 27, 1900. 4. Amy Leah, born January 7, 1876, in Cambridge, married John Cotton Clapp, September 4, 1906. 5. Mabel Eliza- beth, born December 10, 1880, in West Med- ford, married Ralph Amos Moody, October 22, 1906. 6. Ruth Susan, born September 14, 1882, in West Medford, is a teacher in high school, Dover, New Hampshire. 7. George Edwin, born May 19, 1884, in West Medford, married Jean Lloyd Glover, June 15, 1904. The above named children were all educated in the public schools of Medford. In addition, Archer took a course in Worcester (Massa- chusetts) Academy; William gave special attention to music; Cora and Ruth graduated at Wellesley College, taking the degree of A. B. ; Mabel took a special course at Cornell ; and George attended for some time the Rindge Manual Training School in Cambridge.
(X) William Edgar Crosby, second son and child of George Edwin and Augusta R. (Hill) Crosby, was born in Cambridge, June I, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of Medford, and later took an extended course in music, devoting himself to the study of the organ and theory of music. He passed the examination of the College of Musicians, New York, and received the degree of Asso- ciate and Fellow. He has been musical direc- tor and organist of the First Baptist Church of Medford for fifteen years, a position he still holds. He is a member of the Neighbor- hood Club of West Medford, and a charter member of the Medford Boat Club, and its treasurer for seven years. He is affiliated with Mt. Hermon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Medford Chapter, Royal Arch
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Masons; Medford Council, Royal and Select Masters; and Warren Lodge, Ancient Order United Workmen. He has been an active and influential member of the board of aldermen of the city of Medford for the last three years, but declined a re-election. He is a member of the well known printing firm of George E. Crosby Company, 234 Congress street, Bos- ton. He is a member of the Baptist church of West Medford. He resides on Allston street, West Medford. He married Grace Geneva, daughter of Rev. Roscoe L. and Ella (Wilson) Greene. Children, born in West Medford: I. William Edgar, Jr., March 25, 1902. 2. Helen, December 8, 1903. 3. Henry Greene, March 2, 1905.
Grace Geneva Greene, wife of William Ed- gar Crosby, is a lineal descendant of Gover- nor Thomas Dudley, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was born in Northampton- shire, England, 1576, came to New England in 1630, sailing from Yarmouth, April 8, 1630, in the ship "Arbella," three hundred and fifty tons, carrying twenty-eight guns and fifty-two
men, and arriving in Salem on June 12, 1630. He was deputy governor thirteen years, gover- nor in 1640-45-50, and assistant five years. He served four years as major-general, under appointment by the general court in 1644. As member of a special committee he favored es- tablishing a college at Cambridge, and as gov- ernor signed the charter of Harvard College. He was one of the principal founders of the First Church of Boston. He died in Roxbury, July 31, 1653, aged seventy-seven years, hav- ing served the colony with great ability. He married (first), Dorothy Yorke, in England, about 1609; she died December 27, 1643. He married (second), Mrs. Catherine Hackburn (family name Dighton), widow of Samuel Hackburn. Children of Governor Dudley: I. Rev. Samuel, born about 1610, in England. 2. Anne, born about 1612, married Governor Si- mon Bradstreet. She is distinguished as one of the earliest poets of New England. Among her descendants who have become eminent were Wendell Phillips, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. 3. Patience, born about 1615, married Major-General David Denison. 4. Sarah, born July 23, 1620, in England, died at Roxbury, 1659; married Major Benjamin Keaine. 5. Mercy, born September 27, 1621, in England, died July 1, 1691, at Newbury, Massachusetts; married Rev. John Wood- bridge, of Newbury. By his second wife Governor Dudley had three children: 6. De- borah, born February 27, 1645, died November
I, 1683 ; married Jonathan Wade, of Medford. 7. Joseph, born September 23, 1647, at Rox- bury, died there April 2, 1770; married Re- becca, daughter of Judge Edward Tyng. 8. Paul, born September 8, 1650, died December I, 1681 ; married Mary, daughter of Gover- nor Leverett.
Mrs. Catherine Dudley, widow of Governor Dudley, married (third) Rev. John Allin, of Dedham, November 8, 1653, and he proved an excellent stepfather to Governor Dudley's young children. Joseph Dudley was sent to college, and graduated at Harvard in 1665, at the age of eighteen. It was expected he would be a clergyman, but he preferred political life. He was in King Philip's war, serving on Gen- eral Josiah Winslow's staff, and acting as chaplain. Later he was president of the Mass- achusetts council, chief justice of the supreme court, and later governor of the colony, in the interests of which he went to England three times. While there in 1693 he received from King William a commission as lieutenant-gov- ernor of the Isle of Wight, where he continued eight years, and served in the house of com- mons in the last parliament of William III.
(II) Rev. Samuel Dudley; eldest child of Governor Thomas Dudley, born in England about 1610, came to America with his father when he was about twenty years old. In 1632 he married Mary, daughter of Governor John Winthrop. They first settled in Newtown (Cambridge), living in what is now Dunster street. He soon removed to Ipswich, and in 1638 went to help settle Salisbury, and remain- ed there about twelve years. His wife died April 17, 1643, at Salisbury, and he married Mary Byley, of that place. He was a repre- sentative from Salisbury to the general court, 1641-45; chairman of the board of selectmen several years; March, 1648, was appointed associate judge to hold court from year to year in Salisbury ; and was made commissioner to settle boundaries of towns, etc., in great dis- pute. To this time he had been a farmer and magistrate, and owned over two hundred acres of land. He acted as lieutenant in a military company while in Cambridge. May 13, 1650, he agreed with the people of Exeter, New Hampshire, that he would be their minis- ter, the town to pay him forty pounds and give him use of a house and land. In 1652 he and John Legat were permitted to erect a saw mill, and have timber for the mill on the commons. In 1655 he asked to have his salary lowered, and declined a call to Portsmouth at double the salary. He was sent as agent
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to the general court at Boston before any deputy was elected, and was often engaged in the public business. He was a large landowner, and was much interested in agricultural as well as spiritual and intellectual affairs. Chil- dren: I. Thomas, baptized at Boston, March 9, 1634, graduated at Harvard, 1651, and was a fellow; died 1655. 2. John, baptized at Boston, June 28, 1635, died young. 3. Mar- garet, baptized, Boston, died young. 4. Sam- uel, baptized, Boston, August 2, 1639, died April 17, 1643, in Salisbury. 5. Ann, born October 16, 1641, married Edward Hilton, of Exeter. 6. Theophilus, born October 31, 1644, at Salisbury, died at Exeter, 1713. 7. Mary, born April 21, 1646, at Salisbury, died December 28, same year. 8. Byley, born Sep- tember 27, 1647, at Salisbury, married Eliz- abeth Gilman. 9. Mary, born January 6, 1648-49, married Dr. Samuel Hardy. Rev. Samuel Dudley married (third) Elizabeth , by whom he had: 10. Elizabeth, born 1652, married Hon. Kinsley Hall, September 25, 1674. II. Stephen, see forward. 12. Thomas, born in Exeter, married Mary 13. James, born 1663, a shipmaster and merchant, married Elizabeth Leavitt. 14. Timothy, died before 1702. 15. Abigail, mar- ried Jonathan Watson. 16. Dorothy, married Moses Leavitt. 17. Rebecca, married Francis Lyford. . 18. Samuel, married Hannah Thyng, and died in Exeter, 1732.
(III) Stephen Dudley, son of Rev. Sam- uel Dudley, was born in Exeter. He was a large landowner and leading citizen there. He married, December 24, 1684, Sarah, daughter of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter. Children : I. Samuel, born at Exeter, December 19, 1685, died February 16, 1718; married Han- nah, daughter of Samuel and Mary Colcord. 2. Stephen, born March 10, 1688, married Sarah Davidson, of Newbury. 3. James, see forward. 4. John, born October 4, 1692, kill- ed by Indians, June 23, 1710. 5. Nicholas, born August 27, 1694, died 1766, at Brent- wood, formerly a part of Exeter. 6. Joanna, born May 3, 1697, married Nicholas Perry- man. 7. Trueworthy, born 1700, married Hannah, daughter of John Gilman ; died 1745. 8. Joseph, born 1702, married Maria, daugh- ter of Joshua Gilman. 9. Abigail, married a Lyford, of Exeter. 10. Sarah, born 1706, married Major Ezekiel Gilman. II. Eliza- beth, married Simon Gilman.
(IV) Lieutenant James Dudley, third son and child of Stephen and Sarah (Gilman) Dudley, was born at Exeter, June 1I, 1690,
died 1746. He was a cooper and farmer. He was an officer in the regiment of New Hamp- shire troops commanded by Colonel William Moore, raised for the reduction of Louisburg in 1644, and which was accomplished in 1645. He married Mercy, daughter of Deacon John Folsom. Children : I. James, born 1715, died 1761; married Deborah Bean. 2. Abi- gail, born October 31, 1716, married Aaron Young, of Kingston. 3. Samuel, born at Ex- eter, 1720, married Miss Ladd. 4. Hon. John, born April 9, 1725, married Elizabeth Gilman, and removed to Raymond, New Hampshire. He was a farmer, and in the lumber business. From 1775 to 1784 he was in the legislature, and speaker of the house, and one of the com- mittee of safety during the Revolution, and judge of the superior court until he resigned, I797. 5. Joseph, see forward. 6. Joanna, married Captain David Ladd, of Deerfield. 7. Mercy, married Mr. Emerson. 8. Sarah. (V) Joseph Dudley, fifth child and fourth son of Lieutenant James and Mercy (Folsom) Dudley, was born in Exeter, 1728, died 1792. When sixteen years old he accompanied. his father to Cape Breton, and took part in the siege of Louisburg. At thirty he embraced the doctrine of non-resistance, similar to the principles of the Friends, or Quakers, and be- came an enthusiast in matters pertaining to religion. The latter part of his life he lived in Raymond, New Hampshire, and was a farmer, and built a mill, and was also a cooper. He would never accept public office, but did not refuse to act as arbitrator or surveyor of lands. He left an estate of about one thous- and pounds. He married Susanna Lord, who died in 1802. Children, born in Exeter: I. Joseph, born February 15, 1750, married De- borah Bean. 2. Benjamin, born 1753, died 1795, Mt. Vernon, Maine. 3. Thomas, born November 18, 1766, died 1839, Chelsea, New Hampshire. 4. Daniel ; see forward. 5. Eliz- abeth, married Samuel Gilman, of Kingston, New Hampshire. 6. Joanna, married Reuben Bean, of Candia. 7. Mary, married Nathaniel Wells, of Gilmanton. 8. Hannah, married Nathan Robie, of Raymond. 9. Susannah, married Jonathan Gilman.
(VI). Daniel Dudley, fourth child.and son of Joseph and Susanna (Lord) Dudley, born in Exeter, 1768, settled in Mt. Vernon, Maine. He married Susan, daughter of John Glidden, and sister of Nancy Glidden, wife of his cousin, Moses Dudley, Esq. Children: I. Joseph ; see forward. 2. Ann, born 1796, married Isaac Ball, of Corinth, Maine. 3.
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Susannah, born 1799. 4. Benjamin, married Cynthia Whittier. 5. Thomas, born 1804, married Miranda Dascomb.
(VII) Joseph Dudley, eldest child of Dan- iel and Susan (Glidden) Dudley, born in Mt. Vernon, Maine, 1794, died in Bangor, Maine, 1874. He married, June 23, 1822, Ruth Davis. Children : I. Mary Jane, born March 10, 1823, at Auburn, Maine, married Leonard B. Green, of that place. 2. Susanna, born December 26, 1824. 3. Juliette, born February 17, 1828. 4. Albion W., born January 4, 1830, married Elizabeth A. Jordan. 5. Octavia A., born Oc- tober 30, 1833, in New Sharon, married John F. Jordan.
Leonard B. Greene, who married Mary Jane Dudley, daughter of Joseph Dudley (7), 1846, went to California in 1850, and, instead of engaging in gold hunting, as did most of the emigrants, he embarked in the lumber Busi- ness. Returning home four years later, he went into the lumber business in Bangor, Maine. . He was also a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, preaching from time to time in different towns. His children, born in Bangor: I. Roscoe Leonard; see forward 2. Juliette Augusta, born June 16, 1648, married Dana B. Holmes. 3. Melvin Leslie, born June 20, 1850, married Florence Upham. 4. Edith May, born April 16, 1864, married Charles W. Talpey.
Rev. Roscoe Leonard Greene, son of Leon- ard B. and Mary Jane (Dudley) Greene, was born in Bangor, Maine, December 26, 1846. He attended the public schools of his native city, and prepared for college at Kents Hill, Maine, graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and studied theol- ogy there. He is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is pastor of Emanuel Church, Waltham. He has held some im- portant pastorates, among them the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lynn, the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Charlestown, St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church of Boston, and the People's Church, Boston. On March 12, 1864, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted as a drummer in the Civil war, remained to the end of the war, and be- came an orderly. He married, July 25, 1876, Ella, daughter of Hubbard and Elizabeth (Allen) Wilson. Children: I. Grace Geneva, born June 4, 1877, married William E. Cros- by. 2. Henry Torsey, born December 14, 1878, at Lewiston, Maine, died September 29, 1904. 3. Edgar Wilson, born February 22, 1882, at Somersworth, New Hampshire, mar-
ried Maude Estelle Case, of Lynn, April 10, 1907.
Among the distinguished descendants of Gov- ernor Thomas Dudley were: Joseph Dudley, previously mentioned ; Paul Dudley, chief jus- tice of the supreme court, Massachusetts, and fellow of the Royal Society of London; John Dudley, member of New Hampshire legisla- ture and speaker of the house several years during the Revolution, member of committee of safety, a judge of the highest court of New Hampshire during and after the Revolution, until he resigned; Ann Dudley Bradstreet, the first poet of New England; and Richard H. Dana, Sr., the poet.
EAMES-AMES Eames like other names comprised of four or five letters is subject to many different spellings and also in the lapse of time to being confounded with other names ; this Amee is Amey, not Ames, as sometimes interpreted-Amey of the Colonial period in New England being an altogether différent family as well as name. In England families. entitled to a place in the general armory are found bearing the name of Hame, Ham and Hames; also Hamey, with different shields, from which may be derived the name of Amey. Owing to the well known peculiarity of the English pronunciation Hames could readily become Ames, and Eames readily become Ames. We will not further attempt to present the variants of Eames and Ames in this coun- try. The two names are still pronounced E-ames and Ames (Aimes) in this country. There appears to be no other way of approach for them to families of the higher classes in the mother country, except through the name of Hames, already mentioned. In the early settlement of New England several individual heads of families appeared on these shores. For example Anthony, of Charles- town and Hingham, Gershom of Marlborough, Thomas of Dedham, Henry of Boston, Rob- ert of Woburn, Robert of Andover, Robert of Chelmsford or Dracut, and Richard of Row- ley, besides the Ameses of Dedham, Duxbury, Braintree and Cambridge, and others. All these came to New England between the years 1630 and 1700.
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