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(III) Jesse Marshall, son of Simeon M. and Jeannette L. (Berry) Marshall, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts. He was a stone mason by trade. He married Dorcas Co- burn, of Dracut, Massachusetts, and their children were: Abner Hall, Horatio, Edward, Sarah, Charles, Jessie and Dorcas, twins.
(IV) Abner Hall Marshall, son of Jesse and Dorcas (Coburn) Marshall, was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, March 16, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Dracut and learned the trade of blacksmith, which avocation in some of its branches he con- tinued during his entire life. He was em- ployed during the Civil war as an expert tool sharpener at Fort Constitution in Boston harbor, and he was for twenty-four years em- ployed by the Lowell Gas Light Company. He also was connected with the Runels Clough Company of Lowell, stone cutters, as tool sharpener for twelve years. Mr. Mar- shall is a Republican in national politics but is in no respect a politician, being content to vote with his party on national issues and choosing his men at local elections from both parties. He affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Wantucket Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men.
Mr. Marshall married in 1857, Martha J. Calkins, of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, and their children were: Alvin A., born in Lowell, Massachusetts, was educated in the public schools of his native city, and engaged in business as a blacksmith in Lowell. Effie I., born in Lowell, Massachusetts, was educated in the public schools of Lowell and married Albert S. Parks, of Lowell. The Marshalls were members of the Congregational church in Lowell.
FARMER The famous genealogist, John Farmer, who may be justly considered the father of mod- ern American genealogy, published in 1828 a genealogical memoir of the family by the name of Farmer who settled at Billerica, Massachusetts. This work was printed at Hingham by the firm of Farmer & Brown in the above mentioned year. Mr. John Farm- er claimed that this surname was of consid- erable antiquity, and a name derived from men's occupations, and he even traced it to a Saxon derivation. In the reign of Edward IV they were seated in Northamptonshire, where they remained until John Farmer's day. They appear to have spread from Northamptonshire over several of the con-
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tiguous counties before the middle of the six- teenth century. John Farmer also gives many facts relating to their former respecta- bility as a race, and his work on this subject displays the same skill which is found in his collections of a genealogical nature in this country.
The common ancestor of the Farmer fam- ily was John, of Ansley, whose 'wife was Isa- bella Barbage. Ansley is a small village about ten miles from the city of Coventry. He owned houses and land which passed to his posterity through several generations. John died before the year 1669, and Isabella, his widow, came with some of her children to New England. She married for her sec- ond husband Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Cam- bridge Village, now Newton, who died De- cember 6, 1683. She died at Billerica, May 21, 1686, at an advanced age. For further particulars regarding these ancestors and their children see "Memoirs of John Farmer, M. A.," and the genealogy appeared in vol- ume I, No. I, of the "New England Histori- cal and Genealogical Register," January, 1847. Their son,
(I) Edward Farmer, of Billerica, Massa- chusetts, died there May 27, 1727, aged about eighty-seven years. His wife Mary died there March 26, 1719, aged seventy-sev- en years. He arrived in New England be- tween 1670 and 1671, and fixed his residence at Billerica; he afterwards lived a year or two at Woburn. In Billerica he was chosen to several of the most important town offices, and was employed in public service until quite advanced in life. He gave the farm on which he resided to his youngest son Oliver. On this farm to 1828 had resided six succes- sive generations of his descendants. His house, which stood until after 1728, was forti- fied as a garrison. About 1692 the hostile Indians meditated an attack upon it. In the forenoon of a summer day his wife and daughter went into the field to gather vege- tables for dinner. Their guard was several of her sons, then young lads. She soon dis- covered a number of Indians concealed be- hind the fences and so near that she might almost reach them. With admirable presence of mind she kept her discovery to herself, and said in a loud voice "Boys, guard. us well to the garrison, and then you may come back and hunt Indians." The enemy remained in their hiding places, and the other party left the field for the garrison, which they reached safely. An alarm was given, the people gath- ered, and the Indians fled. The Indians, when
peace returned, declared that had it not been for that "one white squaw" they would have effected their purpose of surprising and cap- turing the garrison. Children: I. Sarah, married, November, 1692, Thomas Pollard, of Billerica. 2. John, born at Billerica, Au- gust 19, 1671 ; married Abigail Shed. 3. Ed- ward, born March 22, 1673-4; married Mary Richardson. 4. Mary, born November 3,
1675; married John Dean, of Woburn. 5. Barbary, born at Woburn, January 26, 1677- 8, died at Billerica, February 1, 1681-2. 6. Elizabeth, born May 17, 1680; married, May 7. 29, 1707, William Green, of Malden. Thomas, born June 8, 1683; married Sarah Hunt; removed to Hollis, New Hampshire. 8. Oliver, born February 2, 1686; see for- ward.
(II) Oliver Farmer, son of Edward Farm- er (I), born at Billerica, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 2, 1686, died February 23, 1761; mar- ried, January 24, 1716-17, Abigail Johnson, born June 13, 1697, daughter of Sergeant Ebenezer and Sarah (Winn) Johnson, of Woburn. She married (second), May 27, 1766, Captain James Lane, of Bedford, Massachusetts, and died February 25, 1773, aged seventy-five years. Children: I. Abi- gail, born December 22, 1717, died January II, 1718. 2. Abigail, born January 14, 1718; married February 14, 1740, Jonathan Rich- ardson, of Billerica. 3. Mary, born August 26, 1721; married September 23, 1741, Wil- liam Baldwin, of Billerica. 4. Sarah, born December 14, 1723; married, 1741, Edward Jewett, of Rowley, Massachusetts. 5. Betty, born May 31, 1726; married, April II, 1751, Zebediah Rogers, of Billerica. 6. Rebecca, born May 31, 1726; married, April 18, 1751, Samuel Rogers, of Billerica. 7. Oliver, born July 31, 1728; married (first), April 5, 1757, Rachel Shed, and married (second) July 3, 1766, Hannah Abbott. 8. Peter, birth not recorded, see forward. 9. Isabella, born March 2, 1731-2; married January 10, 1754, Benjamin Warren, of Chelmsford, Massachu- setts. 10. Edward, born February 24, 1733- 4; married November 29, 1759, Sarah Brown. II. John, born December 7, 1737, married (first) June 5, 1764, Hannah Davis; married (second), March 18, 1789, Mrs. Sar- ah (Russell) Adams.
(III) Peter Farmer, son of Oliver Farmer (2), born at Billerica, Massachusetts, 1730, died at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, January 24, 1813, aged eighty-four years, gravestone there : married Edna -, who died July 15, 1811, seventy-eight years, gravestone at
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Tewksbury. Peter Farmer was a soldier in the Colonial service in 1755, serving in the expedition against Crown Point; also a pri- vate in Captain Thomas Flint's company, Colonel Eleazer Tyng's regiment, which marched for the relief of Fort William Hen- ry, August, 1757. He also served in the Rev- olutionary war, as appears by the following entry on the Tewksbury town records: "Sep- tember 25, 1778, order to Peter Farmer, it being for part of a shirt which he found for the Continental soldiers and for service done in the war time past £13.5.6.0." Children: I. Ednah, born March 9, 1759. 2. Eliphalet, born March 21, 1761 ; see forward. 3. Dolly, born April 14, 1763. 4. Peter, born July 19, 1765. 5. Silas, born October 27, 1767 ; married Jan- uary 10, 1796, Rhoda Griffin. 6. Sarah, born March 31, 1770. 7. Dorcas, born May 23, 1772. 8. Sibil, born December 9, 1774; mar- ried, October 20, 1797, Henry Gray. 9. Oli- ver, born December 13, 1777.
(IV) Captain Eliphalet Farmer, son of Pe- ter Framer (3), born at Tewksbury, Massa- chusetts, March 21, 1761; married (first) May 29, 1787, Abigail Needham, born December 3, 1757, died December 21, 1819, aged sixty- three years (gravestone at Tewksbury) daughter of John and Prudence (Stearns) Needham; married (second), Sarah , who died January 15, 1853, aged eighty-two years, gravestone at Tewksbury. Mr. Farm- er was a private in Captain John Moore's- company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's (first) regiment of Guards; enlisted April 1, 1778; joined April 2, 1778; service to July 3, 1778, three months two days at Cambridge, guard- ing troops of convention, (Massachusetts Archives). Children: I. Eliphalet, born June 8, 1788. 2. Kimball, born September II, 1790, see forward. 3. Peter, born No- vember 4, 1792. 4. Abigail, born November 28, 1794. 5. Prudence, born January, 1796. 6. Judith, born April 1, 1798. 7. Jefferson, born December 29, 1799.
(V) Kimball Farmer, son of Captain Eliphalet Farmer (4), born at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, September II, 1790, died at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 9, 1841, aged fifty-one years; married, June 24, 1818, Rhoda Cutter, born March 31, 1797, died March 6, 1866, daughter of Aaron and Polly (Putnam) Cutter, of West Cambridge. He was a person of means and highly re- spected. He was honored by his fellow cit- izens with a number of town offices in his adopted town of West Cambridge, now Arl- ington, and besides these he was a member
of the fire department, which he helped by his subscription to purchase fire apparatus for the town. Besides farming he also bought and sold grain which he ground in his mill near his house and carried it to the Boston market. Children: I. Elbridge, born June 23, 1819, see forward. 2. Maria Cut- ter, born January 25, 1822, died 1891; mar- ried, May 13, 1845, Eli Robbins, of Brook- lyn, New. York, born at West Cambridge, now Arlington, September 22, 1821, died at Brooklyn, New York, June 21, 1883, in his sixty-second year, son of Nathan and Rebecca . (Prentice) Robbins. Children: i. Warren (Robbins), born September 21, 1846, died No- vember 12, 1869. ii. Clinton (Robbins), born December 27, 1848, died April 26, 1864. Her magnificent gift of a public library building to the town of Arlington is mentioned in the sketch of her brother, Elbridge Farmer.
(VI) Elbridge Farmer, son of Kimball Farmer (5), born at West Cambridge, now Arlington, Massachusetts, June 23, 1819, died at Arlington, February 4, 1894; married (first) May 7, 1848, Dorcas Wade Smith, of Lexington, Massachusetts, born September 5, 1824, died October 31, 1862, aged thirty-eight years, daughter of Ebenezer and Annie (Un- derwood) Smith; Mrs. Farmer's untimely death, which occurred in the prime of her ca- reer, was a great bereavement to her family and friends; "she was a woman possessed of many fine qualities of both mind and heart," and was greatly missed by those who knew her best in life; married (second), February 22, 1868, Mrs. Nellie Maria (Baldwin) But- ler, of Windham, New Hampshire, born May 27, 1845, daughter of Artemas and Betsey (Travis) Baldwin. Mrs. Nellie M. Farmer's first marriage was with D. Rockwood Butler, of Pelham, New Hampshire, April 11, 1862, and of this union was born one child : Ida F. Butler, born March 8, 1865. She was reared and educated in the home of her foster father, of whom she grew very fond, and the mutual attachment between them was sincere as pa- rent and child. Ida F. (Butler) Farmer was an apt scholar; at the age of fourteen years she had graduated from the Arlington gram- mar school, and at the time of her death she was a member of an advanced class at the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she had given marked promise of a talented artist ; she died at Arlington Heights, July 1I, 1880, and a wide circle of friends mourned the loss of so young and brilliant a career.
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the early settlers of Billerica, Massachusetts. Her great-grandfather, Joshua Baldwin, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was captain of a company in the war of the Revolution. Her grandfather, Davis Baldwin, also of Tewks- bury, was reared to agricultural pursuits and followed these through life. The maiden name of his wife was Susanna Stickney, and he was known to the community as an honorable up- right man. Artemas Baldwin, the father of Mrs. Farmer, was born at Tewksbury, Febru- ary 2, 1806, and in early life removed to Wind- ham, New Hampshire, and followed the occu- pation of a farmer. He died January 8, 1877, at the age of seventy-one, at the home of his daughter in Arlington, Massachusetts. Betsey Travis, the wife of Artemas Baldwin, was a native of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and daughter of William and Lucy (Sargent) Travis. She died at Windham, New Hamp- shire, May 6, 1850. Mrs. Farmer resides at No. 53 Appleton street, Arlington, Massachu- setts. She is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution:
Elbridge Farmer spent his life in his native town, his principal occupation being market gardening. This he carried on on the old homestead where his son Edwin S. Farmer later lived. He was a hard working, industrious man, sparing no pains in conducting his busi- ness, using the most scientific methods and giving his personal attention to every detail. He was prominent in town affairs, generous, and public-spirited. He gave an endowment of fifty thousand dollars to the Public Library in Arlington, with the broad view of amply supplementing the endowments which had been made by others, and Mrs. Eli Robbins' (his sister) magnificent gift of the library building. This admirable building is built of Ohio sandstone, and the interior is a marvel of architectural beauty and exquisite finish. It also claims the honor of being the first free public library in Massachusetts, dating its in- ception as far back in the past as the year 1835. The homestead which he inherited was built by his father' in 1826. After retiring from business in favor of his son, Mr. Farmer bought the house now occupied by John Bry- ant, No. 6 Appleton street. He lived here un- til he erected an elegant new residence at No. 53 Appleton street. This was a source of much pleasure and interest to him. In his lifetime, having the means, he made a number of pri- vate gifts to various individuals and institu- tions, and enlisted his sympathy in their wel- fare. Among others was a generous gift to the Universalist church of Brooklyn, New
York, a society with which his sister, Mrs. Maria C. (Farmer) Robbins, was connected. Soon after death he endowed the Robbins Free Public Library with fifty thousand dol- lars, as above stated.
Mrs. Robbins's legacy is represented in the above building, which was erected and given to her native town as a memorial of her hus- band, Eli Robbins, also a native of the same town. She died before her intention of en- dowing the library was carried out, and her brother Elbridge Farmer, to honor her wishes, made the liberal gift which we have described. The fund is to be held by trustees who shall invest and pay over the income to the library trustees for the time being for its support. By the generous act Mr. Farmer has set an example worthy of imitation by others under similar circumstances. The present commit- tee for trustees of this fund include such prominent men as ex-Governor J. Q .. A. Brackett, William G. Peck, Edwin S. Farmer, William E. Wood, Henry Hornblower, and Hon. John H. Hardy.
Mr. Farmer was a Republican in politics, a Universalist in religious belief, and was one of the original members of Bethel Lodge No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Children: I. Edwin Smith, born August 31, 1850, see forward. Children by second wife: 2. Elbridge, died in early life. 3. Child died in early life. 4. Ernest Baldwin, born Au- gust 21, 1875, died July 21, 1876. 5. Walter Baldwin, born April 5, 1876; married June 9, 1897, Gertrude Saunders Jones, born De- cember 17, 1876, daughter of George S. and Carrie Jones of Leominster, Massachusetts." Children : i. Beatrice, born March 12, 190I. ii. Gwendolyn, born November 21, 1903.
(VII) Edwin Smith- Farmer, son of El- bridge Farmer (6), born at West Cambridge, now Arlington, August 31, 1850; married, December 25, 1876, Abbie Francena Locke, born at Winchester, Massachusetts, June 18, 1854, daughter of Josiah and Harriet Priscil- la (Symmes) Locke. He was educated in the public schools of Arlington and at Farming- ton Academy, Maine, and completed his course at the Arlington high school. He early began his duties as an assistant to his father on the farm, and when he was of suf- ficient age he drove his father's market pro- duce into Boston. When twenty-one years old he entered the employ of Varnum Frost, a market gardener at Belmont, where he re- mained four years. Later he worked at the same business for George Hill, of Arlington. After his stay with Mr. Hill he returned to
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his father's farm and began work on his own account, his father having retired. He con- ducted the farm with success until about three years ago, when he retired from active work. His farm of sixty acres connected with his present homestead is situated on Massachusetts avenue, in the western part of Arlington. He has generously given the use of his entire land to one of his fellow towns- men who conducts a prosperous business from its products. Mr. Farmer is a very will- ing disciple of Isaac Walton, and one of his greatest pleasures is with the rod during the season, and in the hunting of big game in the woods of Maine. Many beautiful specimens of the hunt adorn the walls of his home.
Mr. Farmer, while of the Universalist faith, is an attendant of the Baptist church. He is a Republican in political belief, and has served his party in the various county and representative conventions. He held the of- fice of selectman of Arlington from 1895 to 1904, and was chairman of that board seven years. He is a trustee of the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, a director of the Arling- ton First National Bank, a trustee of the El- bridge Farmer Memorial fund to the Rob- bins Library Building, a member of Bethel Lodge No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Arlington, a member of the Arl- ington Boat Club and the Bay State Auto- mobile Association. He served in the Mas- sachusetts volunteer militia, being a member of Company E (Lawrence Light Guard, of Medford) Fifth Regiment, for five years. Child : Chester Edward, born March 23, 1878, died in early life.
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(I) Edmund Littlefield, LITTLEFIELD the immigrant ancestor, was born in Exeter, England, in 1591, and came from Tichfield, England, in 1637, with Francis Littlefield, his eldest son. He settled first in Exeter, New Hampshire, and was a supporter of Rev. John Wheelwright, who came to Exeter from Boston on account of disagreement over doctrines with the Puritan authorities. The wife of Edmund Littlefield, Annis (Ag- nes), came over in 1638, sailing in May in the ship "Bevis," with six younger children and servants John Knight and Hugh Durdal. Littlefield built probably the first house in Exeter, and had a saw mill and grist mill there. He went with Wheelwright from Exeter to Wells, Maine, when religious dif- ferences again arose. Some accounts state
that his son Francis, preceded him, but both were early settlers there. The fact that Ed- mund had two sons named Francis needs no , explanation. Similar cases are frequently found in English families of that period. Lit- tlefield kept an inn at Wells, and was licensed to sell liquor under great restrictions. To Indians the court allowed inn-holders to sell but one pint at a time, and many anecdotes are told of the unpleasant results of this law when the redskins wanted more fire-water. He was for many years a citizen of distinc- tion and large influence, and his descendants in Wells, and in fact through all New Eng- land, have in every generation since been prominent and quite numerous. Edmund was called in later years "Old Edmund," to distinguish him from his grandson bearing the same name. He died at Wells, Decem- ber II, 1661. His will was proved in 1661. Children: I. Francis, Sr., mentioned below. 2. Anthony, married Mary Page, daughter of Thomas Page, of Saco; died 1662, leaving a widow and only son Edmund, who was bound out to his Uncle Francis, Sr. 3. Eliza- beth, married John Wakefield. 4. John, had a grant of land with his brother-in-law, John Wakefield, in 1641 from John Cleaves at the mouth of the Mousam river and probably lived there. 5. Thomas. 6. Mary, married John Barrett, of Cape Porpoise. 7. Hannah. 8. Francis, Jr.
(II) Francis Littlefield, Sr., son of Ed- mund Littlefield (I), was born in England at Tichfield, and died at Wells, Maine. He re- moved to Kennebunk, Maine, soon after his father's death. He lived in Woburn in 1646, and his daughter was born there and wife Jane died there December 20, 1646. He mar- ried (first) Jane Hill, daughter of Ralph Hill, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married (second) Rebecca Children : I. Ed- mund, of Wells. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Mary, born December 14, 1646. Child of the second wife: 4. Dependence, born 1671, selectman, farmer, miller, tavern keeper.
(III) Joseph Littlefield, son of Francis Lit- tlefield (2), was born in Wells, Maine, about 1645. He and his brother Edmund had a grant of land from the town of Cape Porpoise in 1681 of a hundred acres at the upper falls near the Indian planting ground and the privi- lege of the upper falls and of cutting timber for a mill there for a yearly rental of fifty shillings. The brothers in return agreed to build a grist mill for the convenience of the neighborhood, provided no other mills were allowed in the vicinity. They had to build
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their mill finally farther up the river and their right to cut timber was the cause of a lawsuit later.
(IV) Joseph Littlefield, son of Joseph Lit- tlefield (3), was born about 1680 in Wells, Maine. He was clerk of the propriety from 1715 to 1760. He and Samuel Littlefield seem to have succeeded to the mill of his father. He was on a committee with Joseph Hill and Samuel Stewart to receive and lend the six thousand dollars in bills of credit re- ceived from the province in 1728. There were ten heads of families of this surname in Wells in 1726, David, Dependence, Francis, James, Joseph, Samuel, John, Jonathan, Samuel, Jr., and Nathaniel. The older citizens are shown by the list of 1716 when Jonathan, Daniel, Dependence, David and Joseph were proprie- tors. Joseph had a grant of land in 1699 of ten acres of meadow.
(V) Joseph Littlefield, grandson probably of Joseph Littlefield (4), was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain James Hubbard's com- pany, of Kennebunk, with Jotham and Abra- ham Littlefield. Other Revolutionary soldiers from Wells from this family were Lieutenant Jedediah Littlefield, Major John Littlefield and Lieutenant Daniel Littlefield, all officers of distinction. He was assigned a seat in the gallery of the church at Wells in 1769 among the young men.
(VI) Joseph Littlefield, son of Joseph Lit- tlefield (5), was born in Wells, Maine, about 1785. He was called Joseph Wells, fifth, there being at one time four others of the name living in Wells, two of whom were doubtless his father and grandfather. He married Mary Among their children was Eleazer, born September 5, 1814.
(VII) Eleazer Littlefield, son of Joseph Littlefield "the fifth ". (6), was born at Wells, Maine, September 5, 1814. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of blacksmith. He followed this trade and farm- ing all his active life. He married twice. Children : 1. Oliver Barron, born in Wells, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, married William Wakefield. 3. Mary, married Ladd. (VIII) Oliver Barron Littlefield, son of Eleazer Littlefield (7), was born in Wells, 1843, and died in February, 1874. He was connected with the Maine Central Railroad for many years. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Unitarian church. He resided in Portland, Maine.
He married Helena E. Storer, born in Ken- nebunk Maine, daughter of William and
Susan (Kimball) Storer. Child: Howard E., born May 8, 1869, mentioned below.
(IX) Howard E. Littlefield, son of Oliver Barron Littlefield (8), was born in Portland, Maine, May 8, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of Portland. He is associated with the American Agricultural Chemical Company of Boston and makes his home in Malden, Massachusetts. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Em- manuel Protestant Episcopal Church of Bos- ton, and especially prominent in the musical affairs of that church. He is well known in musical circles as a singer of talent and train- ing.
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