Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 10

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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(III) Joseph Ludlam, son of Joseph Ludlam (2), was born about 1710 at Cape May, and settled at Dennisville on the north side of the creek while his brother Anthony had the south side of the creek. Jeremiah signed a petition in 1763 and was with Joseph on a committee of safety in 1775. Both were active patriots. Joseph Ludlam and Abraham Bennett were appointed inspectors of gunpowder October 4, 1776. Joseph took the oath of allegiance to the new government May 27, 1778. Children : I. Henry, mentioned below.

(IV) Captain Henry Ludlam, son of Joseph Ludlam (3), was born at Dennisville, Cape May county, New Jersey, May 15, 1752. He died there November 30, 1837. He was the most prominent man of his day in that section. He was elected lieutenant of his company in the Revolution, June 7, 1777, and his commis- sion dated June 17, 1777, signed by Governor Livingston, is in the possession of the family of Joseph S. Ludlam, Lowell, Massachusetts, who had also the original warrant granting his commission as judge of the court of inferior pleas, and a deed granting freedom to his

slaves, Moses and Mary Jackson, signed by himself and wife Patience. Henry Ludlam was first lieutenant of the company of Captain Henry Townsend (Fourth Company), regi- ment of Major Enoch Stilwell. Christopher Ludlam, brother or cousin, was lieutenant of the same company. He was an active and efficient officer. Henry Ludlam inherited large estates and built vessels on Dennis creek and had extensive shipping interests in West In- dies ; he was reputed one of the wealthiest men of southern New Jersey. He was made judge and justice of the peace January 28, 1797. Christopher Ludlam was also appointed judge.

He married, 1772, Hannah 'Somers, daugh- ter of Richard and Hannah Somers, of South Atlantic county, New Jersey, of a leading Philadelphia family. Children : I. Joseph, born about 1775. 2. James (?).

(V) Joseph Ludlam, son of Judge Henry Ludlam (4), was born in Dennisville, New Jersey, about 1775. He was a prominent citi- zen in civil and military life at Cape May. He was first lieutenant of the Artillery Company, October 2, 1813, and commissioned captain May 20, 1816. He married . Children : I. Richard Smith, born 1792; in 1832 built the second large hotel at Cape May, the first "lath- ed and plastered" hotel, the famous old Man- sion House where he had Henry Clay as his guest in 1847; had a general store and wood business ; was instrumental in securing the in- corporation of Cape Island as a borough while he was in the legislature in 1846-47; was on the board of freeholders in 1853-55-62; was ensign of his company March 12, 1814, and lieutenant April 9, 1816; died at Cape May City, June 15, 1881. 2. Lewis, born about 1800, became one of the most successful hotel keepers in Richmond, Virginia. 3. Joseph, born May, 1807, mentioned below.

(VI) Joseph Ludlam, son of Joseph Lud- lam (5), was born in Cape May county, New Jersey, May, 1807, died in New York City in 1851. He married Child : Joseph Smith, born September 16, 1837, mentioned below.

(VII) Joseph Smith Ludlam, son of Joseph Ludlam (6), was born in Cape May county, New Jersey, September 16, 1837. He passed his boyhood and youth in his native town and New York City, receiving his education in the public schools of Cape May and a private school in New York City. The life of the sea- faring man had great attractions for him. He was naturally venturesome and as a young man went to sea, making voyages to nearly every country in the world. In the regular

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line of promotion he became mate and then captain of large vessels engaged in the East India trade. After long and able service as a mariner he became a pilot in the employ of the Chinese government.

From this position Mr. Ludlam became a commander of Chinese troops during the Tai Ping Rebellion, and it was at this time he en- tered upon the most eventful period of his career. In this service he saw much of mili- tary life and became the intimate friend of Chinese Gordon, with whom he held close re- lations for a number of years. Sixteen years of his life Mr. Ludlam devoted to this cause and the life at sea, and the Chinese government conferred upon him marked honors in appre- ciation of his conduct. In 1872 he left China and traveled through Europe. During these wanderings he sought a commission in the Turkish army, but the conditions of the service were so harsh that he determined to return to America and this he did in 1874. Before ar- rival in this country he secured employment in the Lake Superior mining region as superin- tendent of a copper mine. There he remained until he came to Lowell in 1875 and there he lived the last twenty-one years of his life.

And the coming to Lowell shows the re- markable ability of Mr. Ludlam to grasp the details of a new business and demonstrated again his remarkable powers of observation. It was this power that made him successful in his sea and army life and it was this power again that so impressed the officials of the Merrimack that here was a man who could take that mill in charge and manage it with profit to its owners. Mr. Ludlam in a visit to the mill so successfully comprehended the whole scope of the plant and its innumerable details that he was offered the position of agent. He accepted the position and from that time to his death filled the office with con- spicuous ability and success. His home was on Andover street, and the house there was always a delight to the visitor interested in the collection of curios collected in his life in foreign lands. The house was burned in 1894 and with it many of the valuable souvenirs it contained. Mr. Ludlam rebuilt the house in which he and his family have since lived.

Mr. Ludlam was a Republican in politics, and during the campaign when James C. Ab- bott was elected mayor was very active. He did not seek political honors for himself, how- ever. He was a member of the Yorick Club of Lowell and of the Somerset Club of Boston. He was a man of splendid physique. He at- tended closely to the duties of his position as

the head of a great industrial business and he spent most of his time when not in his office at his home. But those privileged to know him well knew him as a charming personality. Few men have had wider range of experience in life and few could find in their ow :: lives more to talk about of interest 10 others. Some one has said that to the stranger and to others who were associated with him during the hours of business Mr. Ludlam was apparently brusque, as is usually the case with virile men. He under- stood men, his long life spent with hundreds of them in his charge giving him a fine insight into the character of those he controlled.

He married, January 22, 1878, Annabelle Elizabeth Grant, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Donaldson) Grant, of St. Johns, New Brunswick. She came of a long and distin- guished lineage traced to the year A. D., 800, when a prince named Woodine from Asia set- tled in Norway. This Grant family has an an- cient coat-of-arms and crest.

Children : 1. Emily Josephine, born Decem- ber 3, 1873. 2. Edward Gordon, born May 27, 1875. 3. Elizabeth G., born December 21, 1878.

Samuel Goddard, grand- GODDARD father of Samuel John God- dard, of Framingham, Mas- sachusetts, was born at Child Okeford, Dorset- shire, England, in 1815. He received a good education in the schools there. He served an apprenticeship from fifteen to twenty-one at the carpenter's trade, and became a well known and successful builder and contractor, employing a large force of men. When he was about thirty-five years old he took the superintendency of the saw mills of Lord Port- man, cutting and sawing the timber on his es- tates, remaining in that position for a period of forty years, after which he was retired, in 1890, by Lord Portman. He died January 10, 1892. He was a member of the Church of England. He married, July 4, 1837, Mary Ann Phillips, who was born in 1816, daughter of John and Sarah Phillips, the former a min- ister of the Church of England. Children : John, Ann, Edward, mentioned below ; Joseph.

(II) Edward Goddard, son of Samuel God- dard (I), was born at Child Okeford, Dorset- shire, England, September 24, 1844. He was educated in the schools there, and at the age of fourteen began to learn the trade of car- penter as his father's apprentice. Two years later he entered the employ of Lord Portman

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where he continued five years as gardener. Subsequently he engaged in business on his own account in Hampshire, England, where he has resided since 1890, working on the various estates in the vicinity. He is a mem- ber of the Church of England. He married, December 25, 1868, Elizabeth Watts, born April 29, 1847, daughter of William and Eme- line (Stephens) Watts, of Child Okeford. William Watts was a shoemaker or cordwain- er. Children : I. Samuel John, mentioned be- low. 2. Elizabeth Emeline, born June 9, 1873, married Philip Melhursh, of Bournemouth, England.

(III) Samuel John Goddard, son of Ed- ward Goddard (2), was born at Child Oke- ford, Dorsetshire, England, October, October 14, 1869. He was five years old when the family moved to Bournemouth, Hampshire, and he attended school there until his fifteenth year. He served an apprenticeship under Enoch White, florist, at Bournemouth, subse- quently entering the employ of George Watts & Sons, florists, as journeyman. After eigh- teen months in this position he entered the employ of Edwin Morrell, at Shrewsbury, in 1889. He then became foreman propagator for the entire plant of Hewett & Company, florists, Birmingham, England, which position he left in 1891, the year of his emigration to the United States. He finally settled in Fram- ingham, Massachusetts, where he served as foreman for William Nicholson, florist. In 1898 he engaged in business on his own ac- count, erecting greenhouses on Main street, and has been very successful in building up a large and prosperous trade. He has an area of twenty-six thousand square feet of glass and four acres of land. He produces general floral products, but has made a specialty of carnations, originating the Helen Goddard. Mr. Goddard attends Plymouth Congregation- al Church, Framingham. In politics he is a Republican ; he served as delegate to the Re- publican councilor conventions of 1904-05. He is a member of Middlesex Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Framingham; Concord Royal Arch Chapter, Natick Commandery, Knights Templar, Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfection ; Pericles Lodge, No. 4, Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor ; Fram- ingham Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; American Carnation Society ; Boston Garden- er's and Florist's Club; Rhode Island Horti- cultural Society, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Mr. Goddard married, July 23, 1896, Han- nah Jane Brown, born June 30, 1869, daughter

of Thomas and Mary (Jones) Brown, of Framingham. Her father was a gardener and is now retired. They have one child, Helen Brown, born January 12, 1898.

CARNEY John Carney was born in Ire- land of ancient Irish family. He married there Mary Quig-

ley, who also was born in Ireland. Among their children was John Carney, mentioned be- low.

(II) John Carney, son of John Carney (1), was born in Ireland. He married Elizabeth Sullivan, who was also born in Ireland, she being the second wife. They came to America and made their home in Chelsea, Orange coun- ty, Vermont, where their son William Joseph, mentioned below, was born.

(III) William Joseph Carney, son of John Carney (2), was born in Chelsea, Vermont, September 23, 1852. He received his early education in the public schools in Vermont, but left home at the age of twelve to enlist in the Union army. He lacked five months of being thirteen when he became a private in Company K, Fourteenth New Jersey Volun- teer Infantry, and served until 1865, when he was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He re-enlisted in the Second United States Cavalry, May 9, 1866, in Troop M, and served in the Indian campaign on the western frontier for eight years. He remained in the government service seven years more as a scout, messenger, etc. During the Indian ris- ings he was wounded several times and to the day of his death carried a scar on his face caused by an Indian arrow. He had a taste for literature, and devoted himself for many years afterward in writing stories of frontier life for newspapers and magazines. He had a rich and extensive personal experience from which to draw his material, and he had ac- quired a graphic and popular style of telling his tales. He was very successful in a material way in his literary work. He continued a rather remarkable career as an author until 1899, when he engaged in business, building up a flourishing trade in dispensing a cure for the drug habit. He took up his residence in Melrose in 1900, and was popular and highly esteemed in that city, where he had a large circle of personal friends. He belonged to Melrose Lodge, No. 157, Odd Fellows; to Advance Lodge, No. 37, Goffstown, New Hampshire; Knights of Pythias and to U. S. Grant Post, No. 4, Grand Army of the Repub- lic. He was and his family are members of

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was a Democrat, but non-partisan in municipal elections. His family belongs to the Roman Catholic church at Melrose.

Mr. Carney married, February 9, 1885, Mary Winne, born December 17, 1867, daugh- ter of Patrick and Mary (Eagan) Winne, of West Randolph, Vermont. Children: I. Mar- garet, born January 21, 1888. 2. Mary, born December 25, 1889. 3. Josephine, born No- vember 10, 1890, deceased. 4. William J., Jr., born December 19, 1894, deceased. 5. Bar- bara H., born November 18, 1896, deceased. 6. Barbara H., born September 18, 1897. 7. John, born June, 1899, deceased. Two other children died in infancy. Mr. Carney died September 20, 1907 ; his interment was in Wy- oming cemetery, Melrose, Massachusetts.

PIERCE Abraham Pierce or Peirce, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He first appears in this country in 1623 when he was a taxpayer at Plymouth. He took part in a division of cat- tle in 1627; sold land January 20, 1627, to Thomas Clark; was admitted a freeman in 1633; juror in 1636; was a soldier in 1643 in Captain Myles Standish's company. He had many grants of land and bought and sold vari- ous parcels in Plymouth ; was one of the orig- inal purchasers of ancient Bridgewater, Mas- sachusetts ; was brought before the court un- der charge of neglecting to attend church, and acquitted. He married Rebecca He died about 1673, intestate, and administration was granted to his son Abraham June 3, 1673. The son was allowed to take the residue after paying portions to his brother Isaac and sisters Rebecca Wills and Alice Baker. Children : I. Abraham, born January, 1638, married Han- nah Glass, of Duxbury. 2. Rebecca, married Wills and died March 30, 1724, at Marshfield. 3. Mary, married Baker.

Alice, baptized July 21, 1859, married 4. Baker and died in Duxbury, 1673. 5. Isaac, mentioned below.

(II) Isaac Pierce or Peirce, son of Abraham Pierce or Peirce (I), was born about 1661 in Plymouth. He was a soldier in King Philip's war and for his services received a grant of land. He died suddenly at Middleboro, Massachusetts, now Lakeville, February 28, 1732. His will was dated 1722, bequeathing his real estate to sons Isaac and Thomas ; de- vising also to daughters Mary, Lydia, Mercy, Sarah and Rebecca, five pounds each. The land granted for his Narraganset service was in

township No. 4, in New Hampshire ; exchang- ed later for land at Quabbin, where the grant being deficient in quantity, an additional grant was made in Chesterfield or Goshen, Massa- chusetts. Quabbin is now Greenwich, Massa- chusetts. It was 1763, or eighty-five years after the war before the grant was finally con- cluded. Isaac died before the original grant was made in 1733. Tradition says that he mar- ried Alice Chartley, a Scotch girl, whose pass- age he paid as one of the conditions of making her his wife. No records are found to sub- stantiate the story. Children of Isaac and Alice Pierce : I. Isaac, married Judith Booth, daughter of John, of Scituate; he died Janu- ary 17, 1757. 2. Thomas, mentioned below. 3. Mary, married Saunders. 4. Lydia, married (first), July 3, 1706, John Heyford ; (second), January 12, 1725, Aaron Seekel. 5. Mercy, married, May 15, 1707, Joseph Trou- ant. 6. Sarah, married Macomber. 7. Rebecca, married Samuel Hoar, of Middlebor- ough ; she died July 12, 1765.

(III) Thomas Pierce or Peirce, son of Isaac Pierce or Peirce (2), was born about 1690. Married, April 16, 1714, Naomi Booth, of Mid- dleborough, daughter of John Booth, of Scitu- ate, sister of Isaac Pierce's wife. The family historian says of Naomi: "Like the creaking wheel of the fable Naomi was always complain- ing; sick, sick, always sick, too feeble to at- tend to a housekeeper's legitimate cares ; too feeble to cook a meal and indeed too feeble to get out of bed till it was cooked and fully pre- pared for eating. But though destitute of a proper sense of shame she lacked nothing in that of smell. And as the savory odor of tempt- ing viands reached her olfactories, a surprising change quickly came over the spirit of her sluggish dreams, when crawling from her bed, she came to the table to astonish all beholders with her surfeit and gluttony. The mulish Isaac Pierce, Jr., was probably as innocent of instituting the means which conspired, by and through the assistance of his model wife, to make his life a success, as was his more intel- ligent brother Thomas incapable of resisting the downward and destructive tendency in his, encumbered and ever discouraged as he was by this burden like a millstone about his neck." That appears to be an overdrawn attack on an invalid wife and mother. And we are told nothing further about Thomas except that he was an Anabaptist as early as 1737. He lived in Middleborough. Children, born there: I. Thomas, married Rebecca Jones. 2. Shad- rach, born July 8, 1717, married, August 16,

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1737, Abigail Hoskins, settled in Spencer, Massachusetts. 3. Naomi, born October I, 1719, married, April 22, 1747, Josiah Jones, died in the military service November, 1762. 4. Jonathan, born March 23, 1723. 5. Rich- ard, born April 15, 1725, mentioned below. 6. Hilkiah, born October 19, 1727, married Hannah Briggs ; he was sergeant in the French and Indian war; was also in Revolutionary war.

(IV) Richard Pierce or Peirce, son of Thomas Pierce or Peirce (3), was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, April 15, 1725. Married, December 12, 1745, Mary Simmons, born October 9, 1723, daughter of Abraham and Ann (Lee) Simmons, granddaughter of John Simmons, of Freetown; great-grand- daughter of Moses Simmons, Jr., the son of Moses, the immigrant, who came over in 1621. He married (second) Lois De Moranville, his first wife being separated from him. Richard Pierce was elected a deer ward in 1752. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a sergeant in Captain Abiel Peirce's company (Second Mid- dleborough) of militia, which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, to Marsh- field, Massachusetts. He was corporal in Cap- tain Levi Rounsevel's company, Colonel David Brewer's regiment (9th), at Roxbury, in the summer of 1775 ; also private in Captain Elisha Haskell's company, Colonel Benjamin Hawes's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign of 1778. His son, Richard, Jr., was also a soldier, serving three years in the Continental army.

Children of Richard and Mary Pierce : I. Zilpah, born June 9, 1746, married, October 30, 1770, Michael Mosher, a soldier in the Revolution. 2. Jesse, born July 12, 1747. 3. Richard, Jr., married, August 29, 1776, Lydia Booth, of Middleborough, and (second), No- vember 28, 1789, Sarah Booth. Children of Richard and Lois (De Moranville) Pierce : 4. Abner, born April 2, 1778, married Lydia Chase. 5. Naomi, born January 19, 1782, married, August 16, 1798, Lewis de Moran- ville, of New Bedford. 6. Russell, born June 25, 1784, married Sybil Chase, of Freetown; she died May 24, 1855, aged seventy-one years, nine months ; he lived at Long Plain, Roches- ter, Massachusetts. 7. Thomas, born March I, 1787, married, 1818, Phebe Strange, daugh- ter of Lot Strange, of Freetown, Thomas died April 24, 1850, and was buried in Freetown. 8. Eli, born January 23, 1789. 9. Levi, born May 25, 1792, died young. IO. Preserved, born March 14, 1794, married -- Webster. II. Zadoc, born April 19, 1796. 12. Phillip

P., born January 30, 1798, mentioned below. 13. Lois, married Dunham. 14. Lem- uel, married Rebecca C. Glover. (See Peirce Genealogy by Ebenezer W. Peirce, page 88.) (V) Philip Paddleford Pierce, son of Rich- ard Pierce or Peirce (4), was born in Middle- borough, January 30, 1798, and was educated in the common schools there. He was a ship carpenter by trade, but in his youth went on a whaling voyage, as most young men of that section did. He was an old-line Democrat in politics, and a Christian Baptist in religion. He resided at Fall River, New Bedford and finally in Boston, where he died September 25, 1840, in a drowning accident while at work at his trade. He married, at Assonet, Mary Strange Keith, born 1801 in Wareham, Mas- sachusetts, and was a school teacher before marriage, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Strange) Keith. Her mother was a daugh- ter of Lot Strange, of Assonet, Massachusetts. Children : Mary, married George Newhall. Caroline, married Thomas Heath. Adeline, resides in Charlestown, Massachusetts. George W., born August 5, 1835, mentioned below. Philip, resides in Chicago.

(VI) George Washington Pierce, son of Philip P. Pierce (5), was born in New Bed- ford, Massachusetts, August 5, 1835. His father died when he was less than five years old, leaving his mother with four children, and another born six months later. The mother had a hard time to support herself and family, and at the end of ten years of hard work she too died. Mary, the eldest daughter, was sixteen years old when her father died and for four years she helped her mother, then she married and the mother upon the advice of her brother in Fall River moved to that city. The two elder daughters at home, Adeline and Caroline, worked in the mills to support the little family.

After the death of the mother George resid- ed for a time with his sisters who had mar- ried. He had a common school education. In 1852, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the American navy. He served at one time on the famous old "Cumberland." After his term expired he re-enlisted, and his second term expired before the Civil war broke out. He enlisted in the army and served through the Civil war and remained in the regular army afterward until 1876. He became a temperance lecturer of some prominence and was finally ordained as a minister. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Fall River in his youth. Mr. Pierce is now residing at: Sycamore street, Somerville.

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John Cochrane, father of COCHRANE John Cochrane, of Malden, Massachusetts, was born in Neilston Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 18II, the son of Hugh and Margaret (Coch- rane) Cochrane, and grandson of Hugh and Bethia (Douglas) Cochrane, of Gladerstone. He married Sarah, daughter of Robert and Mary (Robinson) Melville, of the same parish. He was educated in Scotland and Belfast, Ireland, and was a printer and dyer of silk and cotton goods. He came to America with his family in 1844 and became manager for William Simpson & Co., of Phil- adelphia. In 1847, he established himself in business in Malden, Massachusetts, for silk handkerchief dyeing and printing. He died in Malden in 1895.

(II) John Cochrane, son of John and Sarah (Melville) Cochrane, was born in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He came to this country with his parents, attended school in Malden and returned to Scotland in 1851 to complete his education. On returning, in 1854' he became manager of the silk works in Lynn, Massachusetts, of Daniel K. Chase, a Boston merchant. In 1857 he established business for himself in South Reading (Wakefield), Mas- sachusetts, finally locating in Malden, having purchased the Odiorne Mill property where he continues business in connection with his car- pet mills in Dedham and cotton mills in Daniel- son, Connecticut, under the name of Cochrane Manufacturing Company.

He married Pauline, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Pratt) Tufts, a descendant of Peter Tufts, the founder of the family in Mid- dlesex county. Peter Tufts came from Eng- land about 1617 and located in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he was one of the larg- est land owners. He died in Malden in 1700. Charles Tufts, the founder of Tufts College, was a descendant in the sixth generation.

Hycent Purcell, son of Michael PURCELL and Elizabeth (Clark) Pur- cell, was born in county Clare, Ireland, and came to America in 1852, when he was about eighteen years of age. He had received a common school training in Ireland and had also learned the habits of industry and hard work that fell to the lot of so many of the Irish peasantry on account of the heavy land laws to which they were subjected. On arriv- ing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he found his first, and the only work he did as an em- ployee, in the cement works of Jacob Nutt, iv-11

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 10

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912