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(VII) Charles Franklin Beard, son of George Beard (6), was born at. Dunbarton, New Hampshire, October 9, 1845. At the age of two years he removed with his parents to Pembroke, New Hampshire, subsequently living in Biddeford, Maine, and Dover, New Hampshire. He entered the public schools in Dover, and continued until 1854 when he came to Natick with his parents and gradu- ated from the Natick high school. Between school terms he pegged shoes, after the cus- tom of the day, from the age of twelve to six- teen. He went to work in the card room of the Saxonville mills at the age of sixteen. At the age of eighteen he entered Allen's school at West Newton, and studied there for two years. He worked four years afterward in South Framingham, pressing straw in the shops of Franklin Manson and Curtis Bar- ber. Then he studied dentistry in the offices of Dr. Alonzo Sylvester, Dr. Chandler and Dr. Battles. He was also in the offices of Dr. James Bartlett at Hotel Pelham for about a year. In 1872 he opened his office in the Nobscot Block, South Framingham, which was destroyed by fire February, 1904. Dr. Beard opened his present office in the Smith Block, April, 1904. He has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, being particularly suc- cessful with crown and bridge work. He built his residence at No. 5 Walnut street in 1885. He was formerly steward of the Meth-
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odist church at South Framingham, but is at present a member of Grace Congregational Church. He is a Republican in politics; a member of following Masonic bodies: Meri- dian Lodge, Parker Royal Arch Chapter, and Natick Commandery, Knights Templar; and a charter member of Garfield Council, Royal Arcanum, of which he is past regent and rep- resentative to the grand council. He was for a number of years a member of Company A, National Lancers, Boston. He married, March 20, 1867, Fannie Augusta Morey, born September 26, 1845, daughter of William and Mary (Ames) Morey, the former of whom was master mechanic in the shipyards, Ban- gor, Maine, died April, 1872, and the latter was born in 1810, died October 20, 1862. The only child of Dr. Charles F. and Fannie A. (Morey) Beard is George Franklin, see for- ward.
(VIII) Dr. George F. Beard, son of Dr. Charles F. Beard (7), was born in Natick, Massachusetts, July 6, 1868. He removed with his parents while young to South Fram- ingham, Massachusetts, where he received his education in the public schools up to the fourth grade, followed by a course of private instruction, when he entered the high school. He studied until 1892, when he went into the post office as clerk for a few months, then re- ceiving an appointment as railway mail clerk from Boston to Springfield. After two years he entered the Boston Dental College, and graduated in 1890 with a degree of D. D. S. He then established himself in South Fram- ingham, with dental offices in Nobscot Block, where he now makes a specialty of fine oper- ating and bridge work. Dr. Beard's practice is very extended, and he has a fine class of patients. He resides in the old Beard home- stead in West Natick. He is a member of Grace Congregational Church at South Framingham, Massachusetts. He is a Re- publican and has served as precinct officer. He was formerly a member of the Framing- ham Club. He is a member of the Silver Gray Club, and of the Massachusetts Dental Society. He was a member of Company E, Sixth regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Mi- litia for five years from 1892. He, was ap- pointed in 1903 first class sergeant, and at present is connected with the signal corps of the state.
He married, July 10, 1890, Edith Francis Henderson, born at Campbello, Massachu- setts, April 28, 1869, daughter of John A. and Eliza M. (Holmes) Henderson of South Framingham, Massachusetts. They have one
child. Ralph Henderson, born February 28, 1897.
Alexander McCauley, immi-
MCCAULEY grant ancestor of this fam-
ily, was born in Ulster prov- ince, north of Ireland, in 1707. He was of genuine Scotch stock, the seat of the family being in Dunbarton, Scotland. He and his brother James McCauley came to America to- gether, locating first near Boston, then came to Hillsboro, New Hampshire. The descend- ants of James mostly spell the name McColley and McCalley. Alexander married Mary Pinkerton, who was born in Ireland in 1712, and died in Merrimac, New Hampshire, January 20, 1791. Alexander also died
was at Merrimac. Mary Pinkerton a cousin of John Pinkerton, of Londonderry. Children : I. James of Dunbarton ; mentioned below. 2. Robert, born 1733; married Abigail Smith, of Dunbarton, July II, 1774; left An- trim about 1794; wife was niece of General John Stark and his adopted daughter; Robert died in Crown Point, New York, in 1826, aged ninety-three years ; he was a tailor, and Revo- lutionary soldier ; children : i. John, settled in Potsdam, New York; married Polly Moody ; ii. Alexander, born August 25, 1780, died young ; iii. James, born May 2, 1783 ; settled at Ashtabula, Ohio, married Charlotte Hancock ; iv. Isabel Pinkerton, born January 25, 1785; died at Mendon, Michigan, October, 1846; married Jesse Everett ; v. Thomas, born March I, 1787; settled at Ashtabula, Ohio, married Mary Town; vi. Smith, born March 9, 1789; died at Crown Point, Indiana ; married Dorcas Dawley, of Mt. Holly, Vermont; vii. Moody, born November 15, 1792; removed 1792 to Ashtabula ; married Hannah Hill of Walpole, New Hampshire ; viii. Charles, married Rachel Barrett. 3. Sarah, married Captain Thomas Stuart, of Antrim. 4. Alexander, Jr., had a son David who inherited the property of his uncle Captain Thomas Stuart, at Antrim ; Al- exander lived at Merrimac; had also two daughters, Mrs. Betsey, wife of Thomas Mc- Coy, and Mrs. Sally S .; married, 1808, Suth- eric Weston.
(II) James McCauley, son of Alexander McCauley (I), was born in 1746; settled in Merrimac and Dunbarton, New Hampshire, where he died January 24, 1812. He is called by the town history "a well known agent in promoting the progress of the town of Dun- barton." He was a soldier in the Revolution, in Captain McLaughlin's company, Colonel Stark's regiment. He was "a worthy man and
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an uncompromising Democratic Republican in politics." He married Isabel Jameson. His early education was somewhat meagre. He attended the brief terms of the district school, and studied at night by the light of the blazing pineknot. He followed farming on the home- stead at Dunbarton, situate in the easterly part of the town, where in later years the father of James Waite lived. Children, born at Dun- barton, except perhaps the two last mentioned, who may be the eldest : I. Mary, born July 20, 1777. 2. Alexander, born January 27, 1782. 3. Thomas, born July 29, 1784. 4. Charles, born November 25, 1786. 5. James, born No- vember 30, 1790 ; mentioned below. 6. Hugh, born August 29, 1798. 7. Isabel. 8. John.
(III) James McCauley, son of James Mc- Cauley (2), was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire, November 30, 1790. He worked on his father's farm, and attended the district schools at Dunbarton in youth. He remained with his father until he married, when he worked for a time for his wife's father. Later he became the driver of the stage carrying the mails from Concord to Keene, New Hamp- shire, a position that he held for a number of years. Afterward he settled on a small farm that he bought in Dunbarton. His place was in the eastern part of the town. He made a specialty of raising hops. He attended the Orthodox church ; was a Democrat in politics, and served the town on the boards of select- men, assessors and school committee. He was a Free Mason, and held to the principles of that order very religiously. He belonged to the Lebanon military company in his youth.
He married Betsey Bailey, daughter of Oli- ver Bailey. Children : I. Celenda. 2. Belinda, born July 16, 1817; died October 15, 1897 ; married B. F. Marshall, of Concord, New Hampshire; children : i. Ellen Marshall; ii. Augusta Marshall; iii. Charles Marshall; iv. Wendell Marshall. 3. Eliza Ann, born No- vember 27, 1820; mentioned below. 4. James Oliver.
(IV) Eliza Ann McCauley, daughter of James McCauley (3), was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire, November 27, 1820; married at Concord, New Hampshire, November 14, 1844, Dr. George Beard, born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, July 5, 1821 ; died at Natick, August 14, 1883. (See Beard sketch).
John Cutler, the immigrant CUTLER ancestor, was originally from Sprowston, now Sprauston, two miles north of Norwich and about eight miles south of Hingham, county Norfolk,
England. This is proved from Daniel Cush- ing's manuscript records of settlers from Nor- folk. He first appears in American records among the persecuted adherents of Rev. Rob- ert Peck, A. M., of Hingham, who "sold their possessions for half their value, and named the place of their settlment after their natal town." He embarked, it is belived, in the ship "Rose" of Yarmouth, William Andrews, Jr., master, which sailed on or about April 18, 1637, and Cutler was in Hingham by June IO, of that year with his wife, Mary, seven children and one servant. He died, however, in 1637-38, before he had an opportunity fair- ly to become established in the colony. He was assigned a home lot of five acres on the south side of the town street, two "planting lots" of six and seven acres bounded on one side by the "World's End" and twenty acres on the plain for a "great lot." He was granted June 10, 1637, an acre and a half of salt marsh in Weymouth meadow and two lots of one and two acres of fresh meadow. The widow must have been in difficult circumstances, and it seems that the sons were cared for by Dea- con Robert Cutler, of Charlestown. The wid- ow married (second) Thomas Hewett, of Hingham, whose first wife died May 22, 1649. He died May 24, 1670. A power of attorney to Samuel Cutler, one of the sons, was given February 14, 1761, by Thomas Cutler, then of Charlestown, and Nathaniel Cutler, then of Reading, to represent their interests in the father's estate. The children: I. Henry, died before 1670. 2. John, born about 1625 in England, settled in Reading, Massachusetts; married Olive Thompson; (second) 'Mary Browne, daughter of Abraham Browne, of Watertown. 3. Samuel, born 1629, men- tioned below. 4. Nathaniel, born 1630, died in 1724, aged ninety-four years. 5. Thomas, born about 1633-35, died December 7, 1683; settled in Charlestown; married, March 19, 1659, Mary Giles, daughter of Edward and Bridget Giles. 6. Hannah, married, Novem- ber 6, 1654, Onesiferous Marsh, who was born in 1630; removed about 1674 from Hingham to Haverhill, Massachusetts, and built a house which their descendants have owned and occupied to the present time; married (second) Elizabeth Worcester.
(II) Samuel Cutler, son of John Cutler (I), was born in England in 1629, and was of Mar- blehead, Massachusetts, in 1654, of Salem in 1655, of Topsfield and Hingham in 1671 and of Gloucester in 1693. He married (first) Elizabeth who died at Gloucester, March 17, 1693. He was again of Salem
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when, July 7, 1698, he married (second) Sar- ah Church. In 1671 he, as heir and attorney for his brothers and sisters, united with his mother, Mary (Cutler) Hewett, in the sale of the patrimonial estate at Hingham. He was often employed to settle and appraise estates. Just before his death in 1700 his deposition was taken, in which he stated that before 1652 he worked with William Flint in the town of Salem. He was then seventy-one years old. Children: I. Hannah, born De- cember 6, 1645, married John Putnam, son of Nathaniel Putnam. 2. Abigail, born No- vember 7, 1650, died August 25, 1660. 3. Sarah, born October 23, 1658. 4. Samuel, born 1661, died at Salem, 1733. 5. Ebenezer, born 1664, mentioned below.
(III) Ebenezer Cutler, son of Samuel Cut- ler (2), was born at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1664. Married, March II, 1689, Mary Marsh, daughter of Zachery and Mary Marsh, sister of Zachery Marsh, Jr., who settled at Killing- ly, Connecticut, born December 8, 1666. Mr. Cutler died about 1729 at Salem, intestate. His widow Mary, died at Salem in 1734, the sale of the homestead there followed soon and the family left town. Children, born at Salem: I. Mary, born March 19, 1691,
married Sibly, of Salem. 2. Eliza- beth, born June 26, 1693, married Samuel Chamberlain, of Killingly, Connecticut. 3. Ebenezer, born October 1, 1695, mentioned below. 4. Zachariah, born February 5, 1695, died in Sutton, 1779. 4. Zachariah, born Feb- ruary 5, 1698-99, died July 18, 1784. 5. Eze- kiel, born November 4, 1700, died about 1756. 6. Amos, born October 4, 1703; in 1734 he was a fisherman at Salem.
(IV) Ebenezer Cutler, Jr., son of Ebenezer Cutler (3), was born October 1, 1695, and died in Sutton, Massachusetts, 1779. He married Mary Stockwell, daughter of Wil- liam Stockwell, October 16, 1732. He inher- ited the farm at Sutton which was purchased by his father of William Stockwell, and he settled there before 1728. It is said that three of his sons resided on this farm at one time, each occupying a separate house. His will proved April 3, 1779, mentions wife Mary. Their children: 1. Mary, born at Sutton, bap- tized April 7, 1734; married, November 27, 1731, Jeremiah Stockwell. 2. Jonathan, bap- tized at Sutton, October 3, 1737, mentioned below. 3. Amos, born 1738, died March 6, 1823, aged eighty-five. 4. Sarah, baptized April 17, 1743, married Jonathan Jacobs, May 2, 1759. 5. Stephen, baptized June 23, 1751, married Anna Davidson, of Sutton,
February 2, 1773; removed from Oxford, Massachusetts, to Montpelier, Vermont. 6. Ebenezer. 7. Zacheus.
(V) Jonathan Cutler, son of Ebenezer Cut- ler (4), was born at Sutton where he was bap- tized October 3, 1737. He married Elizabeth Holman, daughter of Stephen Holman, of Sutton, October 20, 1757, and settled in Roy- alston, Massachusetts, about two miles north of the village center. He died in August, 1826, and his wife Elizabeth died in January, 1817. He and his son Ebenezer were sol- diers in the Revolution. Children: I. Mary, born December 28, 1758, in Sutton, married Nathan Thompson; settled at Buffalo or Ro- chester, New York. 2. Ebenezer, born Sep- tember 9, 1760, in Sutton, died at Hunting- ton, Vermont, 1843. 3. Elizabeth, born Oc- tober 26, 1762, in Sutton, married Isaac Gale, of Royalston. 4. Jonathan, born October 6, 1764, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born April 25, 1768, (twin) in Royalston, married Judah Stockwell, of Royalston. 6. Hannah, born April 25, 1768 (twin), died May 12, 1768. 7. Tarrant, born September 10, 1770, died 1841. 8. Hannah, born February II, 1774, died August 6, 1778. 9. Mehitable, born July I, 1776, in Royalston, married Moses Nichols, of Royalston.
(VI) Jonathan Cutler, son of Jonathan Cut- ler (5), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, October 6, 1764, died July 9, 1842. He mar- ried Lydia Waldron, daughter of James Wal- dron, of Dighton, Massachusetts, who was born December 13, 1766, and died July 13, 1823. He married (second) Fanny Tower Butler, of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where she was born December 9, 1787, and died April 1I, 1860, aged seventy-three years. He bought a farm at Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- shire, about 1790 ; sold it about 1799 and set- tled in Newfane, now Brookline, Vermont, where he died July 9, 1842. He was one of the founders and the first deacon of the Baptist church at Brookline. Children of Jonathan and Lydia Cutler : I. Jonathan, born January 2, 1789, in Royalston. 2. David, born January 2, 1789, was ordained at Brookline, 1827, and preached two years; was settled six years at New Berlin, Chenango county, New York, and in various other towns of Central New York. 3. Dr. James, born March 5, 1791, in Fitzwilliam, practiced medicine at Painted Post, New York ; married (first) Mary Kim- ball and (second) Emily Hoisington, and died 1870. 4. Isaac, born at Fitzwilliam, July 20, 1793, married Mary Willard and Sally Hill; was a hatter by trade, residing in Carthage,
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New York. 5. Samuel, born August 13, 1796, in Fitzwilliam, mentioned below. 6. Ira, born August 17, 1798, at Fitzwilliam, a substantial farmer on the old homestead at Brookline, Vermont ; usually holding some town office ; married, October 19, 1823, Eleanor Rounds, daughter of Josiah ; she died October 30, 1863, he died February 16, 1867. 7. Lydia, born April 14, 1801, in Newfane, married John Thomas and lived in New York. 8. Melinda, born April 12, 1804, in Newfane, married Jacob Rounds; residence, Freedom, New York. Children of Jonathan and Fanny Cut- ler : 9. Laurinda, born March II, 1827, in Brookline, married Albert Milton White: resi- dence, Waterbury, Connecticut. IO. Calista, born June 19, 1828, in Brookline, died April 3, 1829. II. Fanny, born April 28, 1830, in Brookline, married Joseph Bent, residing in Thompson, Connecticut, and has two sons.
(VII) Samuel Cutler, son of Jonathan Cut- ler (6), was born August 13, 1796, at Fitz- william, New Hampshire. He married, Feb- ruary 17, 1817, Ruth Phillips, daughter of John Phillips, of Easton, Massachusetts. She was born April 2, 1798, and died January 8, 1833, aged thirty-five years. He married (second), June 5, 1834, Sally Phillips, who was born November 7, 1807, and died June 9, 1867. Mr. Cutler was a carpenter and farmer, residing most of his life in Brookline and Townsend, Vermont ; he was a representative in the Vermont legislature; died at Brattle- boro, Vermont, August 3, 1866. Children : Luther, born August 28, 1820, died January 13, 1821. 2. Jonathan, born June 16, 1822, died May 30, 1867; married Loretta E. Ab- bott, September 27, 1848; he died May 30, 1867, in Brattleboro; widow married
Starkey ; children : i. Mary E., born April 16, 1853, died August 25, 1856; ii. Ellen G., born July 19, 1855, died July 12, 1873; iii. Freder- ick A., born September 18, 1858, resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 3. Samuel, born Au- gust 27, 1825, mentioned below. 4. Ruth Phil- lips, born August I, 1828, died August 25, 1856. 5. Albert S., born January 8, 1833, re- sided in St. Charles and Rochester, Minnesota, and subsequently in Tracy, Lyons county, Minnesota, where he died February 24, 1883. 6. John Henry, born August 12, 1835, farmer at Tracy, Minnesota.
(VIII) Samuel Cutler, son of Samuel Cut- ler (7), was born in Townsend, Vermont, Au- gust 27, 1825. Married Sarah Jane Bennett, daughter of Samuel Bennett, of Putney, Ver- mont, May 13, 1851. He settled in Boston and became one of the most prominent busi-
ness men of that city. He settled in Somer- ville in 1856. He was president of the Bay State Belting Company of Boston and a mem- ber of the firm of Hill & Cutler, dealers in cotton waste, Boston. He was a Republican in politics ; he was more or less prominent for over forty-nine years, especially in connection with the Perkins Street Baptist Church and the East Somerville Baptist Church, in both of which he was deacon. He was a representative from ward one
in the general court in 1887-88. He died July 12, 1905. Mrs. Samuel Cutler died April 26, 1899. Children : I. Samuel Newton, born January 25, 1855, mentioned below. 2. Clarence Henry, born July 14, 1856, died Au- gust 25 following. 3. Frank Ernest, born February 7, 1863. 4. Ella Florence, born April 22, 1866. 5. Jane Ruth, born February 16, I868.
(IX) Samuel Newton Cutler, son of Sam- uel Cutler (8), was born at East Boston, Mas- sachusetts, January 25, 1855. He removed to Somerville with his parents when he was one year old and since then has resided there. He graduated at the Prescott school in 1869, from the high school in 1873 and from Harvard College in 1877, taking the degree of A. B. cum laude. He won several prizes for scholar- ship in college and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa before graduation. After a brief ex- perience in teaching school and in western life, he entered the employ of his father's firm, Hill & Cutler, Boston, exporters and dealers in cot- ton and wool stock, in 1880. He was admitted to partnership in 1892 and has since then been active in the management of the concern. He has continued his interest in education, and from 1886 to 1903, inclusive, represented ward one of Somerville in the school board, being chairman of that board from September, 1900, . to January, 1904. He also represented that ward (Middlesex Sixth Representative Dis- trict) in the legislature during 1904-05, serv- ing on the committees on education, taxation and labor. He united with the Perkins street Baptist Church, Somerville, in March, 1871, and was one of the constituent members of the East Somerville Baptist Church, organized in March, 1890. Of this latter church he was chosen deacon in April, 1904, and he is teacher of a Bible class in its Sunday school. He is a life member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, the Bostonian So- ciety, the Somerville Historical Society and the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth. He is a member of the Vermont Association of Boston, Boston Baptist Social Union, Young Men's
S. Newton latter
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Baptist Social Union, life member of the Har- vard Union, member of Excelsior Council, Royal Arcanum, of Somerville, and trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank, the Somerville Hospital and of the New England Baptist Hospital. He resides at 28 Flint street, Som- erville.
He married, November 9, 1882, Ella Fran- ces Stearns, who was born August 6, 1854, daughter of Hiram Newell Stearns. Her father married, July 4, 1850, Charlotte A. Chipman, daughter of Samuel and Edith (Guilford) Chipman, of Marlborough. He was born July 15, 1828, the son of Captain Freeborn and Clarissa (Demary) Stearns, of Rindge, New Hampshire; he was a Boston merchant. Captain Freeborn Stearns was born November 24, 1784, the son of Bartholomew and Mary (Raymond) Stearns, of Winchen- don, Massachusetts ; was a blacksmith by trade ; was captain of the militia company ; married, February 14, 1809, Clarissa, daughter of Eze- kiel Demary, of Dublin, New Hampshire ; they had fourteen children; she died August 31, 1865. Bartholomew Stearns, born August 4, 1742, was the son of Jotham and Mary (Flagg) Stearns, of Worcester; settled in Winchendon ; married, February 25, 1767, at Holden, Mary Raymond, who was born May IO, 1745; had ten children. Jotham Stearns was baptized June 22, 1718, in Watertown, Massachusetts, son of Captain John and De- liverance (Bigelow) Stearns, of Lexington, Massachusetts ; married, 1741, Mary Flagg, daughter of Bartholomew Flagg. Captain John Stearns, born 1692, son of John and Ju- dith (Lawrence) Stearns, married, August 10, 1715, Deliverance Bigelow, who was born September 22, 1695, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow, of Watertown; he was a blacksmith and settled in Worcester as early as 1722; was captain of the Rangers of Worcester in Indian campaigns. John Stearns, born January 24, 1657, son of Charles and Re- becca (Gibson) Stearns, of Cambridge, house- wright by trade, married, 1681, Judith Law- rence, who was born May 12, 1660, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Crispe) Lawrence ; married (second), April 2, 1713, Mary Nor- cross, who was born July 10, 1663, daughter of Richard and Mary (Brooks) Norcross. Charles Stearns, the immigrant, was admitted freeman May 6, 1646, and drew land at Water- town, Massachusetts ; he was a town officer, removed to Lynn about 1681 ; his first wife Hannah died June 30, 1651, and he married (second), June 22, 1654, Rebecca Gibson,
daughter of John and Rebecca Gibson. Mr and Mrs. Cutler have no children.
Some authorities tell us
CONVERSE that the origin of the Con- verse family was in Na- varre, France, from whence Roger de Coig- niers emigrated to England near the end of the reign of William the Conqueror, and to whom the Bishop of Durham gave the con- stableship of Durham. William G. Hill in the "Family Record of Deacons James W. and Elisha S. Converse" traces the lineage to this Roger de Coigniers. Recent research has established the fact that this lineage is not correct as to the immediate ancestors of the American immigrant, Edward Converse of Malden, Massachusetts. The name is spelled Combers in some of the old registers and records, but Convers was the correct spelling as early as 1430. Robert Converse was in Westham before 1430, and the family was numerous at Westham and Navestock, county Essex, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There is every reason to believe that the fam- ily is descended from the Le Convers family of France. Roger Convers was of London in 1258. John, son of this Roger, was in the service of the king in 1277; Nicholas le Con- vers, who died 1304-5, may have been another son, and Roger le Convers a third. The lat- ter married Agnes, who married second Miles de Mountney prior to 1318. Roger and Agnes had a son Roger. Richard Converse is mentioned as of Navestock in 1389, and on a roll nine years earlier are found the names of Roger Confers and of Matilda Confers, both of that place. This Richard is presum- ably the progenitor of the Navestock family mentioned below.
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