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Abraham was admitted a freeman in 1673 and held various town offices, and was ser- geant in the military company of Mendon. He probably returned to Weymouth during King Philip's war, and he was among the first to re- turn and build a new house on the ruins of his former residence. He was one of the commit- tee who engaged the first minister, Rev. Jo- seph Emerson; was on the committee to select a site for a new bridge across Muddy brook and to lay out the road to the grist mill; to take a draft out of the town book of all records which are conflicting. He was selectman. His homestead remained in the possession of his children and grandchildren down to the close of the eighteenth century, a period of one hundred and forty years. In 1685 a tract bordering on Little pond in the south part of the town was set off to him and more adjoining it to his estate after his death, and that farm has been held in the family to the present time, passing to Abraham, his grand- son, his son Abraham, another son Nahor, his son Abraham, his son Linus Staples and his heirs. Abraham resided in Taunton from 1697 to about 1700. He died October 20, 1703. His will was dated November 22, 1698. The graves of Abraham and Mary, his wife, are the only graves of original settlers of Mendon marked by stones bearing inscriptions and hence are the only ones now certainly known. A monument was erected by some of his descendants at Mendon in 1877, and dedicated October 31, 1877; with addresses by Rev. Carlton A. Staples and Hon. Hamil- ton B. Staples, two prominent descendants.
Children : I. Abraham, born in Mendon, June 14, 1663, married Mehitable Hayward, daughter of Samuel Hayward. 2. Ebenezer, born about 1665, was a blacksmith, lived on the homestead. 3. John, an invalid. 4. Jacob, mentioned below. 5. Ephraim, born in Men- don in 1678, married in Taunton
Webster. 6. Mary, born 1680. 7. Benjamin, born 1682, died young. 8. Hannah, married, 1708, John Darling.
(III) Jacob Staples, son of Abraham Staples (2), was born about 1676, before the family's absence from Mendon. He married in 1690 at Mendon, Abigail Winter. He re- moved to Taunton in 1697 and is the ances- tor of many of the Staples families of that town. He married (second), 1696, Mary Briggs. Children of Jacob and Abigail: I.
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Abigail, died young. 2. Hannah. Child of Jacob and Mary Staples : 3. Jacob, Jr., men- tioned below.
(IV) Jacob Staples, son of Jacob Staples (3), was born in Taunton about 1697. He settled in the Staples homestead at Taunton and was a farmer. He married Sarah Bren- non, of Taunton.
Child, Nathaniel, born about 1718, mention- ed below.
(V) Nathaniel Staples, son of Jacob Staples, Jr. (4), was born about 1718-19 in Taunton. He settled in that town and mar- ried in 1740 Susannah Paull, of an old Taun- ton family. He was a farmer. Children: I. George, born November 5, 1740, in Taunton ; married, 1765, Phebe Paull. He died No- vember 5, 1822. He was a soldier in the Revolution ; sergeant in Captain Josiah King's company, Colonel George Williams's regiment, in 1776, in the Rhode Island campaign ; also in Captain Josiah King's company, Colonel Mitchell's regiment, Brigadier-General God- frey's brigade in 1780. At the time of his death the Taunton people made the following comment : "He lived with his wife the unusual period of fifty-seven years, during which time he had children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren, and, what is worthy of remark, till now not a death has ever occurred in the family or any of the descendants." Child, Paul, born 1786, mentioned below.
(VII) Paul Staples, son of George (6), was born in Taunton in 1786. He settled in that town and married Hannah Thompson. Child, Nathaniel T., born September 21, 1815, mentioned below.
(VIII) Nathaniel T. Staples, son of Paul Staples (7), was born in Taunton, September 21, 1815. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of carpenter in his native place. In 1835 he came to the growing town of Lowell, Massachusetts, and engaged in the building business. He be- came one of the leading builders and con- tractors of that section. In 1868 he took his two sons into partnership under the firm name of N. T. Staples & Sons and the firm has done a large business ever since. The senior mem- ber retired in 1880, but the firm continued with his sons, Robert H. Staples and William H. Staples, as partners. Mr. Staples was one of the original members of the Worthen Street Baptist Church. Among the important con- tracts executed by Mr. Staples and his firm were : Church edifices at Augusta, Maine, at Fitchburg and Winchester, Massachusetts ; mill buildings at Leominster, Lawrence, May-
nard, an entire plant at Manchaug, Massa- chusetts, and what was at that time (1872) the largest cotton mill in the United States, at Grosvenordale, Connecticut .. In Lowell he and his firm built from one to a dozen build- ings for almost every mill corporation in the city. The Staples firm built the Hildreth and Mansur buildings, the Odd Fellows block, the Railroad Bank building and the Federal Post Office building.
He married, December 6, 1838, Elizabeth Sarah Hoyt, who was born in July, 1818, and died April 25, 1873, aged fifty-five years and five months. Children: . I. Robert Hoyt, born September 26, 1839, mentioned below. 2. William Henry, born April 26, 1843, men- tioned below. 3. Arthur, born March 2, 1847, married Olive Edna Wiggin of Lowell, Au- gust 13, 1873; child: Blanche Wiggin, born June 4, 1877. 4. George Albert, born June 14, 1859, married Ella Frances Seavey, of Laconia, New Hampshire, November 21, .1883 ; child : William Henry, born January 2, 1887.
(IX) Robert Hoyt Staples, son of Nathan- iel T. Staples (8), was born in Lowell, Mas- sachusetts, September 26, 1839. He was edu- cated in . the public. schools and learned his father's trade of carpentering. In 1868 he was admitted to partnership by his father, and since then he has been actively connect- ed with the extensive business of N. T. Sta- ples & Sons, and is reckoned among the most prominent business men of the city. Since the death of his brother in 1900 he has con- tinued in business alone.
He married Annabelle Leach, of Lowell, January 2, 1870. Children : I. Carrie Gert- rude, born July 10, 1873. 2. George Her- bert, born July 12, 1875. 3. Kate May, born March 15, 1879. 4. Etta Mildred, born Jan- uary 7, 1882. 5. Annabelle Hoyt, born March 9, 1886. 6. Ruth Elizabeth, born Oc- tober 7, 1889.
(IX) William Henry Staples, son of Na- thaniel T. Staples (8), was born in Lowell, April 26, 1843, and died in Lowell, 1900. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive city. He learned the trade of carpenter and in 1868 was admitted to partnership in the firm of N. T. Staples & Sons, contractors and builders, and had much to do with the great success of the business. He became one of the leading citizens of Lowell and was highly esteemed by his townsmen in all the walks of life. In politics he was a Republi- can. He was a member of the order of Knights of Pythias and of the Odd Fellows of
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Lowell. He married, February 17, 1865, Belle Mackey. Children: I. Robert Henry, born May 20, 1867. 2. Edward Franklin, born July 9, 1869. 3. Aimee Edna, born January 9, 1874. 4. Winnifred Bernice, born June 28, I878. 5. Arthur Wiggin, born December 31, 1880. 6. Edith Louise, born November 14, 1886.
Joseph Hittinger was
HITTINGER born in Holland, of an ancient Dutch family. Upon his emigration to this country he set- tled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, from whence he came to Charlestown, same state, and sub- sequently returned to the fatherland. He was a skillful currier and morocco dresser, and engaged in the latter line of work during his residence in this country. Family tradi- tion states that he died abroad in 1816. He married a lady of English extraction, who bore him children: I. Eliza, married and had a daughter who married a Mr. Walton and re- moved to Cairo, Illinois, where they settled. 2. Mary Ann, married a Mr. Baldwin, and had a son and daughter; the son migrated west and in many years has not been heard of. 3. Michael, married. a lady from Maine, had sons George and James, the former now a resident of Somerville, Massachusetts; and daughters Hattie and Louise, who married, respectively, into the Hunt and Hillis fami- lies. 4. Jacob H., see forward.
(II) Jacob H. Hittinger, son of Joseph Hittinger, was born in Roxbury, Massachu- setts, March 10, 18II. He was educated in the public schools of Charlestown. In 1825 he entered the employ of George Pierce as a gardener, and five years later engaged in the produce business in Boston with William E. Otis & Company. For several years he was a member of the firm, and at the same time was actively interested in the firm of Hill & Hittinger, the business of which was the cut- ting and shipping of ice from Spy pond and Fresh pond. The firm of. Hill & Hittinger was dissolved in 1841 and was succeeded by Gage, Hittinger & Company, of which Hon. T. T. Sawyer, of Charlestown, was a partner. It was to this firm, conjointly with John Hill, former partner of Mr. Hittinger, that the merchants of Boston were indebted for the notable enterprise in 1844 when, the harbor being frozen over, a passage was cut from the wharf at East Boston through which the Cun- ard line steamer sailed on the day appointed. It was thought that a failure to sail on time
would seriously affect the future of Boston as a port of commerce. Mr. Hittinger sold his interests in the firm of Gage, Hittinger & Company a few years later, but he continued to furnish ice to his successors, Gage, Saw- yer & Company, and was interested in ship- ping ice to the Barbadoes through the firm of Lombard & Whitmore, and in the last years of his life carried on this export trade under his own name.
In 1846 Mr. Hittinger purchased a large tract of land adjoining the old Cushing estate, within the limits of the present town of Bel- mont, and with the exception of a few months spent in Charlestown resided there until the end of his life. His intelligent management redeemed from the marshes all that part of the estate occupied later by his three sons as one of the largest market gardens in the vi- cinity of Boston. Pecuniary difficulties aris- ing in the critical years of 1873-74 caused the loss of his fortune, and though he never became wealthy again, he could look with pride on the careers of his stalwart sons whose filial attention ministered to the com- fort and happiness of his last days. He was a man of unusual abilities and force of char- acter, a leader in business and public affairs. For four years in succession he led the fight for the separate incorporation of the town of Belmont. He gave freely of his money and time to effect this purpose, and must be counted as the principal founder of the town. He was a member of the first board of select- men after the town was organized, elected in 1859, and re-elected in 1860-61. He was a Jeffersonian Democrat in politics, and always an influential factor in his party. He never lost his interest in the development and wel- fare of the town of Belmont. His was a long and busy life, and he won the esteem and con- fidence of all his townsmen and friends by his integrity, uprightness and high character. He died at Belmont, April 4, 1880.
Jacob H. Hittinger married (first) Mary Wilson, born in 1811, died at Charlestown, August 19, 1844. Married second, April 30, 1846, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Far- rington King, born in 1798, in New York, died at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 13, 1839, aged forty-one years, leaving three sons and three daughters ; he was a Uni- versalist clergyman. She was a sister of Rev. Thomas Starr King, a well known Unitarian minister of Boston, formerly of Hollis Street Church. Child of Jacob H. and Mary (Wil- son) Hittinger; I. Sarah Anderson, born at Charlestown, March 24, 1836; married, Octo-
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ber, 1856, Charles Willis Davenport ; sons liv- ing: i. Edward Augustus Davenport, born November 15, 1859, married, November 15, 1880, at San Francisco, Sarah Little; ii. Charles Willis Davenport, born in San Fran- cisco, 1869; iii. Howard Hittinger Davenport, born at San Francisco, June 17, 1872. Chil- dren of Jacob H. and Mary Elizabeth (King) Hittinger : 2. Thomas Starr, born at Water- town, . Massachusetts, January II, 1847, died at Belmont, October 26, 1904; married Car- olyn Hapgood, no issue. He was superintend- ent of the Fresh Pond Ice Company. 3. Jacob H., Jr., born at Watertown, November, 1848, married Annette Trull, no issue. 4. Edward King, born at Watertown, May 28, 1850, un- married. 5. Daniel Webster, born at Water- town, October 19, 1852, died unmarried at Belmont, October 28, 1875. 6. Charles Fred- erick, born at Watertown, July 15, 1854, mar- ried, October 29, 1886, Myra Woods, born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, daughter of Isaac P. and Elmira (Hall) Woods ; children : Mar- shall Woods, deceased; Arthur W. Woods, broker, Boston. 7. Richard, born at Water- town, September 26, 1856, mentioned below. 8. Harry, born at Belmont, December 14, 1861, married a Miss McGregor; they have one daughter.
(III) Richard Hittinger, son of Jacob H. and Mary E. (King) Hittinger was born in Watertown, now Belmont, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 26, 1856. His educational training was acquired in the public schools of his na- tive town, and after completing a three years' course in the high school turned his attention to gaining a thorough knowledge of the rou- tine work of his father's farm. He remained under the parental roof until nineteen years of age. In 1875 he entered the office of Putnam & Tilden, architects; of Boston, where he re- mained about one year. He next entered the employ of a Mr. Rawson, who was engaged in contracting and building in Boston, remaining about six months. He later fol- lowed carpentering and building and in 1876, with his brother, Charles F. Hittinger, en -. gaged in the market gardening business on the old Hittinger homestead which his father had for many years successfully conducted. The firm became known as Hittinger Brothers, and under their careful management the enterprise has been developed to one of the largest in the neighborhood. In 1884 the brothers erected' their first greenhouse, and since that time have yearly increased their plant until at present (1908) they have nineteen modern green- houses, each covering a space of forty by one
hundred feet. The plant is equipped with a modern boiler house and wash houses, having all the facilities and accessories necessary to conduct the business in a successful manner. They have a convenient, modern office build- ing attached to the plant. On January 1, 1898, the business was incorporated under the Mas- sachusetts laws under the name of the Hittin- ger Fruit Company, with Henry, Endicott, president ; Charles F. Hittinger, secretary and treasurer ; Richard Hittinger, one of the board of directors. This company makes a specialty of raising lettuce in winter, and produce from three to four crops during the season. They also raise large crops of cucumbers during the early spring and summer months. They find a ready market for all their products in Boston at Faneuil Hall market. Richard Hittinger devotes his entire time and attention to the cultivation of the various crops, and Charles F. Hittinger attends to the business and financiering of the company. The selling agent for the company is Frank Rose. The Hittinger Fruit Company have over thirty-six acres of thrifty fruit trees and an area of about four acres covered with glass.
Richard Hittinger erected his residence on School street, Belmont, opposite the office and plant of the company, in 1897. He has served the town of Belmont as selectman for three years. He is a member of the Boston Market Gardeners' Association, and is a member of the Fruit Growers' Association at Boston. He is an attendant at the Unitarian church, where his family also worship. He formerly gave his political allegiance to the Democratic party, but in recent years has been independent, cast- ing his vote for the party who in his estimation is best qualified for office.
Richard Hittinger married, August 21, 1897, Mrs. Elizabeth Waite (Bacon) Potter, born at Arlington, Massachusetts, August 15, 1863, daughter of Jesse Palmer and Altena (Bell) Bacon, of Arlington, Massachusetts. Jesse P. Bacon was a successful mason and contractor of Arlington. He served as se- lectman of the town, and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. (See Bacon family). Mr. and Mrs. Hittinger are the par- ents of one child, Richard Waldorf, born April 22 1899.
(For early generations see Ebenezer Allen 4,)
(V) Elnathan Allen, cousin ALLEN of Ethan Allen, grandson of Samuel Allen (3), and son of Ebenezer Allen (4), was born in 1752 in Litch- field, or Woodbury, Connecticut. The record
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in the family Bible of Captain Roswell Allen, his eldest son, states that his wife Sarah died August 29, 1827, and that he died October 21, 1827. It is recorded on the tombstone in the Dana burying ground at Pomfret, Vermont, that Elnathan died at the age of seventy-five and his wife at the age of seventy-four, mak- ing their birth dates respectively 1752 and 1753. Elnathan Allen was a soldier in the Revolution in the Tenth Company from East Windsor, Connecticut, enlisting first May . 17, 1775, in Hezekiah Parson's company, and was at the siege of Boston in Colonel Hun- man's regiment. This regiment was largely from Litchfield county. They reached Ticon- deroga and remained from June to December, 1776. Captain Parsons was of Enfield, Connecticut. Allen settled at Pomfret, Vermont, at the close of the Revolution. He settled, lived and died on the farm occupied afterward by his son Cap- tain Roswell Allen, under Pinnacle Hill. He married Sarah Gibbs, who was born March 20, 1753, daughter of Giles (4) and descended from Samuel (3); Samuel (2) ; Giles Gibbs (I). Her brother Seth enlisted in the same company with Allen, May 16, 1775. Children: I. Captain Roswell, born March 7, 1777 ; died November 9, 1857; married Be- linda Pratt ; children: i. Fanny, born Septem- ber 15, 1803; ii. Sarah, born September 23, 1804; iii. Roswell Jr., born April 7, 1807, died January 5, 1879; iv. Adin, born April 25, 1808, died October 6, 1844; v. James Mad- ison, born November 28, 1809; vi. Belinda, born June 16, 1813, died June 28, 1862, at West Farmington, Ohio; vii. George, born January 27, 1815 ; viii. Jeremiah, born December 5, 1818. 2. Nathan, born February 19, 1780; married Theda Nobles, of Royalton, Vermont, in 1784; children : i. Henry, born October 16, 1803; ii. Nathan, born March 16, 1805; iii. Benjamin Franklin, born February 6, 1807; iv. Mary, born January 1, 1809, died Septem- ber 1, 1809; v. Orrilla, born May 10, 18II ; vi. William, born February 23, 1812; vii. Charlotte, born July 19, 1814; viii. Calvin, born October 6, 1816; ix. Elijah Durfee, born April 30, 1819; x. Clarissa Belknap, born June, 1825 ; xi. Elizabeth Lydia, born March, 1827, died January 20, 1873. 3. Sarah, born August II, 1783; died April 28, 1851 ; mar- ried, February 8, 1807, Jeremiah Janes ; chil- dren: i. Alice, born April 1, 1808; ii. Levi, born June 5, 1810; iii. Ira, born June 16, 1812, died December II, 1876; iv. Anna Eme- line, born February 17, 1815, died April 22, 1836; v. Henry Harrison, born March 25,
1818; vi. Alonzo Judson, born October 7, 1827, died December 27, 1853. 4. Gil- bert, born September 20, 1786, mentioned be- low. 5. Levi, born May 9, 1788, died August 14, 1844; married, February 9, 1815, Peggy Winchell; children: i. Sarah Lurania, born April 30, 1819; ii. Levi Harrison, born June 2, 1821; iii. Hartwell, born June 26, 1830; iv. Gilbert Lafayette, born May 15, 1834. 6. Ira 7. Henry.
(VI) Gilbert Allen, son of Elnathan Allen (5), was born September 20, 1786, at Pom- fret, Vermont, and died there April II, 1870. He was brought up on his father's farm and received the education afforded by the dis- trict schools of his native town. He removed to East Barnard, Vermont, where he had a general store, dealing also in horses. He was a natural salesman, and prospered in busi- ness. He sold calf-skins on commission, car- ried on a general merchandise store, and did some teaming and conducted a two hundred acre farm at the same time. In his later years he had the misfortune to lose most of his property, and after he gave up business he lived with his children. He was a shrewd business man, of a social and jovial disposi- tion, enjoying the respect and friendship of all his townspeople. He was a justice of the peace, a Universalist in religion, a Whig and later Free Soiler in politics, believing firmly in abolition. In his later years he was a staunch Republican. He served in the militia.
He married, April 26, 1807, Lucy Winchell, a native of Turkey Hill, Connecticut, (now East Granby, Massachusetts), in 1788, and she died May 3, 1862, at Pomfret, Vermont, daughter of Dan and Lurania (Miner) Win- chell. Children: I. John, born June 5, 1808, mentioned below. 2. Alonzo Giles, born Sep- tember 2, 1811, died October 8, 1872; married September 5, 1836, Sarah Emerson of Wood- stock, Vermont; children: i. William Henry, born October 12, 1837; ii. Adelia Anna, born May 30, 1840; iii. Lucy Elmina, born March 30, 1842; iv. William Flavius, born Decem- ber 10, 1843; v. Alonzo Marcellus, born Oc- tober 26, 1846; vi. Sarah Maria, born Febru- ary 3, 1856. 3. Harry, born May 13, 1814; died May 31, 1901; married, May 23, 1839, Jane Whitman, of Pomfret, Vermont; chil- dren: i. Miner William, born October 29, 1840, died January 12, 1887; ii. Oscar Fay- ette, born January 20, 1843; iii. Thirza Lucy, born February 17, 1846; iv. Clarissa Jane, born February 2, 1849, died June 17, 1905; v. Selden Harry, born May 2, 1851. 4. Selden Miner, born January 21, 1817, died 1868;
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married Eliza Miranda Leonard; children: i. Selden Miner, Jr .; ii. Rosaltha Sarah, born January 14, 1841 ; iii. Savillion Selden, born March 27, 1842; iv. Joseph Rix, born No- vember 10, 1843; v. Augusta Eliza, born Au- gust 28, 1845; vi. Ethan; vii. Kezia Leonard, born November 14, 1850; viii. Grace Miran- da; ix. Lucy Winchell; x. Cynthia Bugbee. 5. Maria Lucy, born June 18, 1821; married June 18, 1840, Cyrus Alonzo Keith, of Pom- fret; children: i. Josephine Narcissa, born May 19, 1841, died January 29, 1843; ii. Jo- sephine Narcissa, born January 6, 1844; iii. Evangeline Loira, born May 20, 1854; while she was named as before mentioned, from a child she has called herself Evangeline Ira; iv. Dr. Halbert Lynn, born April 7, 1860; v. Avis Muna, born October 16, 1864. 6. Gil- bert Daniel, born March 2, 1825, died March 3, 1887; married, June 4, 1847, Amity A. Leonard, of Pomfret; children: i. Ethan Warrington, born October II, 1847, died Jan- uary 16, 1890; ii. Laura Malvina, born Au- gust 20, 1849.
(VII) John Allen, son of Gilbert Allen (6), was born at Royalton, Vermont, June 5, 1808, and removed 1812 with his parents to Pom- fret, Vermont, where he attended the district school, but he was self-educated for the most part. In 1830 he left his father's farm and be- gan on his own account on a farm he bought. He was a typical Vermont farmer, raising cattle, horses and sheep, and making some- thing of a specialty of maple sugar. He was large and powerful frame and much force of character, sometimes rather brusque of speech, but always upright and straightfor- ward in all his dealings. He was a justice of the peace, and transacted much of the legal business of the community. He was a Uni- versalist in religion, and a Democrat in poli- tics. He died May 22, 1893. He married, March 4, 1830, at Pomfret, Eliza Fuller, born at Sharon, May 28, 1807, died April 29, 1861, at Pomfret, daughter of Joseph Fuller. Chil- dren: I. Edwin, born February 23, 1831, died December 16, 1832. 2. Edwin, born De- cember 16, 1832, mentioned below. 3. Edgar John, born August 21, 1835, died August 7, 1905; married (first), October 10, 1858, Ro- sina Moore; married .(second), November 10, 1883, Alice Barrows, of Bridgewater, Ver- mont. Children of first wife: i. Eliza Chloe, born October 15, 1859; ii. Rose Marion, born December 18, 1869; iii. Fred Edgar, born April 14, 1878; child of the second wife; iv. Truman. 4. Henry Charles, born March 7, 1838; married Anna E. Colvin, of Illinois;
child: Byron, died in 1883, aged thirteen. 5. Rev. Truman Follett, born June 18, 1840; married, August 1, 1864, Hattie A. Coates, of Omro, Wisconsin; children: i. Mantie Helen, born December 12, 1868; ii. Myrtie Louise, born May 2, 1870; iii. Flora Evangeline, born November 4, 1871. 6. James Monroe, born September 28, 1848. James Monroe Allen is a well educated man; married, and has three very promising boys, the eldest, Warren, be- ing a piano and organ player and a music teacher of note. The family live in Berkeley, California, 2738 Regent street, and are an in- teresting family. John Allen married for his second wife Mrs. Ruth Childs (Leonard) Perry.
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