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He married, June 1, 1865, Sarah Jane Thompson, born October 24, 1844, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Drake) Thompson, of St. John, New Brunswick. Her father was a merchant there. Children : I. David Coolidge, born February 22, 1866, died Au- gust 1, 1866. 2. Josephine Harrison, born May 29, 1868, married, May 28, 1891, Rev. Clarence Eli Tullar; children: i. Frederick Harrison Tullar, born December 31, 1893; ii. Joseph Brainard Tullar, born April 14, 1896, died young. 3. Grace Elizabeth, born June 27, 1871, married, March 28, 1894, William Austin Jepson ; (see Jepson). 4. William Harrison, born November 18, 1873, died Oc- tober 8, 1874. 5. Isabelle Nichols, born Au- gust 31, 1875, died January 25, 1880.
(IX) Walter Coolidge Stone, son of Joshua
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Coolidge Stone (8), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, December 14, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school in 1889. He took a course of a year of private tuition with Dr. Anton Marquardt, of Watertown, and entered Harvard University, graduating in 1894 with the degree of A. B. He took special courses in history, economics and con- stitutional law. During the last year at col- lege he took the first year course in the Har- vard Law School, and graduated in 1896, be- ing admitted to the bar in Suffolk county Oc- tober 2, 1896. He began practice at 10 Tre-
mont street, Hemenway Building, Boston, with F. E. Crawford and H. T. Richardson, remaining in that office until 1897. He was then associated with William M. Noble in an office at State street, the Exchange building. In 1907 a partnership was formed, consisting of William M. Noble, Arthur S. Davis and Mr. Stone, under the firm name of Noble, Davis & Stone. They are in general practice. Mr. Stone is executor of his father's estate. He is a member of the Baptist church at Watertown. In politics he is a Republican, and has served his party at the various nom- inating conventions. He has been selectman since March, 1907, is clerk of the board, and assigned on the committee to attend to the police, street lighting, interest of town debt, sealer of weights and measures, inspector of buildings, milk and provisions, legal services, printing and fuel. He is a member of the board of health and was clerk of the board three years. He is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 31, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Windsor Club of Watertown; Mid- dlesex Club of Boston; Republican Club of Watertown; Unitarian Club and the Baptist Club. He married, at Christ Church, Cam- bridge, June 4, 1902, Lao Beatrice Potter, born March 15, 1875, daughter of Henry Montague and Emma Frances (Romme) Pot- ter, of Cambridge. Her father is a tailor in Boston. Children : I. Pauline, born March 6, 1904. 2. Beatrice, born April 21, 1905.
(IX) Joshua Winthrop Stone, son of Joshua Coolidge Stone (8), was born at Watertown, July 26, 1873. He was educat- ed in the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1892. He entered Harvard University and graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1896. He took special courses in political science. After graduating he was employed by the town of Watertown as book- keeper of the street and sewer department. He subsequently went to Mount Ida, Arkansas,
and taught in the high school department of the Normal Academy. He soon came east again and was engaged as principal of the high school at North Berwick, Maine, where he remained three years. Returning to his native town, he worked with his father at mar- ket gardening, and in the later years of his father's life took entire charge of the farm. At the death of his father, Mr. Stone leased the farm of the heirs and continued the busi- ness. He has recently purchased the Calvin Hoar estate of five acres, where he has erected two fine greenhouses and boiler house. The greenhouses have an area of forty-five by two hundred and fifteen feet. He has also erected on the homestead three new green- houses forty-two by two hundred feet, and two houses one hundred and fifty by twenty feet. In all he has about fifteen acres under cultivation. He raises fine market produce and has five crops a year. His specialties are let- tuce, cucumbers, radishes, early corn, beans and beets. During the busy season he em- ploys eighteen or twenty men, and in the win- ter twelve. He sells to the Boston market, and much of his produce goes to New York City. He resides in a beautiful home which he built at 165 Grove street. He is a member of the Phillips Congregational (Orthodox) Church at Watertown. In politics he is a Re- publican, but has had no time to give to pub- lic office. He is a member of the Phillips Congregational Club and of the Boston Mar- ket Gardeners' Association. He married, Oc- tober 25, 1889, Agnes Jessie Mayell, born Jan- uary 8, 1877, daughter of Alfred Edward and Mary (Ferris) Mayell, of Watertown. Her father is descended from an old and celebrated English family; he is engineer of the Aetna Mills at Watertown. Children: I. Esther Mayell, born September 24, 1900. 2. Winthrop Ernest, born May 8, 1902.
The Jepson family is doubtless JEPSON of Scandinavian origin. The name is not uncommon to-day in Sweden, and a family of this name resides in Worcester, Massachusetts, descended from an ancient family of Nalmo Higanas, Sweden. John Jeppson is superintendent of the Nor- ton Emery Wheel Company of Worcester; son of Gudmand and Bengta (Person) Jepp- son, of Nalmo Higanas, of an ancient and re- spected family. The family has been of Eng- land many centuries and may have come with one of the early Scandinavian invasions. There were two or three immigrants to New
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England about 1630, probably related in some degree. Roger Jepson died in Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1680. In the Pilgrim Church at Leyden, whence came the immigrants of the "Mayflower" first, we find Edmund, Wil- liam and Henry Jepson. Henry Jepson was in Leyden, January 15, 1626; William was there December 13, 1629. The name of some branches of the family were spelt Jephson, corrupted to Jefferson, but in the Boston fam- ily given below the name has descended for at least three centuries unchanged in the spell- ing, Jepson, though sometimes misspelled Jipson, Gipson, Jypson, Gypson, Jephson and perhaps Gibson.
(I) John Jepson, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England about 1618-20. The early records of him are meagre. We know that he was in Boston before 1639, and that he probably had a wife and one child at that time. Of the wife no record is found. The Boston records certainly show that July 2, 1639, John Jepson, a shoemaker by trade, was granted "a great lot" at the Mount (Wollaston, later Braintree) for three heads at the rate of three shillings an acre "upon the entrance of the platforme or bounders there- of, after surveying of it, and that to be at the next townes meeting thereunto." (See Book of Possessions, page 41). He lived in Bos- ton, however, all his life. In 1670 and 1671 he was sealer of leather; in 1676 on a com- mittee appointed by the general court to see that the law restricting the drinking of liquor be enforced. He was fined with others for giving employment to John Everson, a man that the colony had blacklisted. He died in 1688. He married in Boston, May 7, 1656, Emma Coddington, widow of John Codding- ton. Children: I. John, born March 1, 1657, died July 19, 1657. 2. Emma, born June 2, 1658. 3. Richard, born June 14, 1660. 4. John, born May 8, 1661, mentioned below. 5. Thomas, born November 5, 1663; married, November 12, 1708, Eliza Talbot; settled in Boston, soldier in Captain Allen's company in 1698; died 1722; son Richard born April I, 1692. 6. Sarah, married Samuel Rolfe. 7. James, baptized in the First Church, Boston, of which the parents were members, Septem- ber 21, 1673.
(II) John Jepson, son of John Jepson (I), was born in Boston, May 8, 1661, died there in 1721. He was a shoemaker like his father and brothers. He was sealer of leather in 1719; tithingman in 1699 and 1700. He mar- ried (first) Ruth Gardner, daughter of Rich- ard Gardner, of Woburn. She died October
17, 1695. He married (second) Apphia Rolfe, born March 8, 1667, daughter of Benjamin Rolfe, whose son Samuel married his sister, Sarah Jepson. Rev. Benjamin Rolfe, born September 13, 1662, graduate of Harvard College in 1684, a brother, was minister at Haverhill and chaplain of the Colonial troops at Falmouth in 1689; whose wife and two children were killed by the Indians, August 29, 1708. Among the descendants of Ben- jamin Rolfe, father of Mrs. Jepson, was Gov- ernor Samuel Adams, and John L. Motley, the historian. Benjamin was born about 1642, son of Benjamin Rolfe (2) and his wife, Ap- phia Hale, born 1642 at Newbury, Massachu- setts. Benjamin died August, 1710, and his wife Apphia, December 24, 1708. Benjamin Rolfe (2) was son of the immigrant, Thomas Rolfe, of Newbury, the son of William Rolfe, of Kings Walden, Hertfordshire, England, and was born there May 15, 1606; settled in Haverhill in 1645, and died in Newbury, De. cember 21, 1682; his wife Thomasin died there January 30, 1682-83. He removed to Newbury in 1652; to Salem in 1657 and back to Newbury in 1661, where he lived the re- mainder of his days; a man of activity and public spirit, a glover by trade; was a com- missioner and constable. John Jepson mar- ried (third) Mercy Daniels, February 24, 1714. Children of John and Ruth (Gardner) Jepson: 1. John, born August 24, 1687, died February 7, 1693. 2. Ruth, born June 7, 1689, died young. 3. Ruth, born June 28, 1690. 4. John, born August 15, 1692. 5. Anna, born April 9, 1694. Children of John and Apphia (Rolfe) Jepson: 6. Apphia, born January I, 1697-98. 7. Abigail, born Febru- ary 17, 1699. 8. John, born March 26, 1701. 9. William, born 1703, guardian appointed in 1721; mentioned below. 10. Benjamin, born March 21, 1705, guardian appointed in 1721, married, November 26, 1730, Sarah Crosby and has son William, born April 12, 1733, in Boston. II. Eliza, born August 17, 1708. 12. Mary, born March 17, 1710. Child of John and Mercy (Mary) (Daniels) Jepson: 13. Michael, born August 21, 1716.
(III) William Jepson, son of John Jepson (2), was born in 1703 in Boston. He had a . guardian appointed at the time of his father's death in 1721. He made his will in 1746, the year of his death. He married, May 19, 1726, Margaret Sumner. A widow Margaret was living in 1796 with Benjamin Jepson, her son, on Sheafe street, Boston. Another William Jepson, son of Richard Jepson (2) or Thomas Jepson (2), married, March 16, 1726, Mary
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Barger, and he died in 1747. Children: I. William, born in Boston, January 2, 1727, died young. 2. John, born February 8, 1728, was a tailor; his house and shop on State street, then King street, were burned in the Great Fire of 1760; later he lived on Sheafe street, 1789; was a soldier in the Revolution. 3. Margaret, born February 9, 1730. 4. Will- iam, born January 2, 1732, soldier in the Revolution; resided on Charter street in 1789; tailor by trade. 5. Benjamin, born De- cember 31, 1734, died 1811; burned out in the Great Fire of 1760; was collector of taxes and man of prominence. 6. Samuel, born Janu- ary I, 1736, mentioned below. 7. Henry, born February 5, 1738, soldier in Revolu- tion.
(IV) Samuel Jepson, son of William Jep- son (3), was born in Boston, January 1, 1736. In 1789 and 1796 directories he is given as a hair-dresser living on Temple street. He was on the tax list in 1788 and 1794. He married Lydia -. Children, born in Bos- ton: I. Samuel, born August 25, 1769, died 1829. 2. William, born October 20, 1770, mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born January 31, 1773. 4. Joseph, born January 12, 1781.
(V) William Jepson, son of Samuel Jepson (4), was born in Boston, October 20, 1770, died 1820. He married in Boston, January 17, 1797, Mary Call. Child, William, men- tioned below.
(VI) William Jepson, son of William Jep- son (5), was born in Boston, about 1800. He married Ruth Child, George Edwin, born 1844, mentioned below.
(VII) George Edwin Jepson, son of Will- iam Jepson (6), was born in Boston in 1844. He received his early education in the public and high schools of his native city. He was a young man when the Civil war broke out; he enlisted and served creditably for three years in Company A, Thirteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He has al- ways voted the Republican ticket and sup- ported the candidates of that party. He is past commander of Isaac Patten Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Watertown, where he lived for some years. He also resided in
Detroit City, Minnesota. He is now retired and lives in Newton. He married Emma Fitch, daughter of Austin G. Fitch, of Hollis- ton. Children: I. William Austin, born 1872, mentioned below. Florence Maria, 1873; Emma, 1875; Charlotte, 1877; George M., 1879; Paul Revere, 1881.
(VIII) William Austin Jepson, son of George Edwin Jepson (7), was born in De-
troit City, Minnesota, 1872. He was educat- ed in the public day and evening schools of Boston. He began to work at the age of twelve in the coal business, and has been in the coal business ever since. At present he has a large wholesale business. His office is at 141 Milk street, Boston. He is treasurer and general manager of the Carbon Coal and Coke Company, and a director of the Liberty Trust Company, of Boston. Mr. Jepson re- sides in Melrose, and is a prominent citizen. He is an active and influential Republican. He is a prominent member of the First Bap- tist Church of Melrose, and has been for eleven years its clerk. He is interested also in the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was for five years president.
He married at Watertown, March 28, 1894, Grace E. Stone, daughter of Joseph H. and Sarah Stone. Children: I. Dorothy Jepson, born December 20, 1894, died January I, 1896. 2. William Donald Jepson, born No- vember 2, 1897. 3. Chauncey Le Baron Jep- son, born March 24, 1907.
Jonathan Heald (I), the immi- . HEALD grant ancestor of the Heald family, came, according to tra- dition, from Berwick-on-the-Tweed, on the border line between England and Scotland, and settling in Concord, Massachusetts, about the year 1635, was admitted a freeman there in 1641. He died May 24, 1662. The Chris- tian name of his wife, whom he married in England, was Dorothy. She survived him, and her name appears in the Concord assess- ment rolls of 1666. They were the parents of eight children, the eldest of whom, and per- haps one or two others, were born in the old country. Their names were: John, Timo- thy, Hannah, Dorcas, Gershom, Dorothy, Amos and Israel.
(II) Sergeant John Heald, eldest son of John and Dorothy Heald, probably came to America with his parents when young, and grew to manhood in Concord. He was taxed there in 1666, and his death occurred June 17, 1689. He was married June 10, 1661, to Sarah Dean, daughter of Thomas and Eliza- beth Dean, and she survived her husband but one month, dying July 17, 1689. Their chil- dren were: John, Gershom, Elizabeth and Sarah.
(III) Lieutenant John Heald, eldest child of Sergeant John and Sarah (Dean) Heald, was born in Concord, September 19, 1666, and died there November 25, 1721: From
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17II to 1715 he was a member of the board of selectmen. December 18, 1690, he mar- ried Mary Chandler, born in Concord, March 3, 1672, daughter of Roger and Mary (Sim- ons) Chandler. She died August 14, 1759, having been the mother of nine children: Mary, Deacon John, Timothy, Josiah, Eliza- beth, Samuel, Amos, Ephraim and Dorcas.
(IV) Deacon John Heald, eldest son of Lieutenant John and Mary (Chandler) Heald, was born in Concord, August 18, 1693. He settled at Acton, Massachusetts, and in 1738 was with Joseph Fletcher, chosen a deacon of the church. He died in Acton, May 16, 1775. In 1715 he married his cousin, Mary Heald, born April 28, 1697, died September 1, 1758, and had a family of five children: John, Jo- seph, Oliver, Israel and Asa.
(V) Lieutenant John Heald, eldest son of Deacon John and Mary (Heald) Heald, was born February 14, 1721. He became an in- dustrious farmer, and when past middle life abandoned his plow to espouse the cause of American independence. His Revolutionary war record is as follows: "Lieutenant in Capt. John Hayword's Co. of minute men, Col. Abijah Pierce's regt .; marched on alarm April 19, 1775, 5 days." Also "list of men serving on picket guard under Major Baldwin, dated May 23, 1775; reported detailed under Cap- tain Jonas Hubbard." Also "Lieutenant in Captain William Smith's Co. list of officers of Col. John Nixon's regt. Resolved in Com- mittee of safety at Cambridge June 5, 1775, that said officers be approved and recom- mended to Congress for commissions; or- dered in Provincial Congress June 5, 1775, that commissions be delivered said officers." Also "Ist. Lieutenant in Capt. Smith's Co., Col. Nixon's regt., muster roll dated August I, 1775; Engaged April 24, 1775, services 3 m-15 d." Also "company returns dated Sep- tember 30, 1775." Also "2d. Lieutenant Capt. Israel Heald's Co. Col. Ebenezer Brook's regt. service 6 d Company marched from Ac- ton to Roxbury March 4, 1776." Also "Ist. Lieutenant Captain Simon Hunt's 5th. Co. Middlesex Co. Regt. of militia list of officers commissioned Mar. 7, 1776." Also "Lieut. Capt. Josiah Parker's Co., Col. Jonathan Reed's Regt., rations allowed from July II, 1776, to Nov. 30, 1776, credited 143 days allowance." "September 22, 1777, he was one of a volunteer company of 63 men, from Concord and Acton, command- ed by Col. John Buttrick, he being lieutenant under Colonel Reed, leaving Con- cord October 4, passing through Rutland,
Northampton, etc .; arriving at Saratoga on the 10th., encamping two days. On the 13th they went to Fort Edward and on the 14th and 15th on scout duty. The 16th they brought in fifty-three Indians and several Tories (one of whom had 100 guineas), and some women. On the 17th the company went to Saratoga where they witnessed the sur- render of Burgoyne's army. They then guarded the prisoners to Cambridge. $206.00 were subscribed to encourage these men, be- sides the bounty specified in the table." "March 7, 1780, he was first lieutenant of a company in 3rd. Regiment."
Lieutenant Heald died November 26, 1810. He was married July 18, 1745, to Elizabeth Barrett, born February 16, 1727, died Octo- ber 13, 1823, daughter of Jonathan (4) and Lydia Barrett, and a descendant of Thomas (I) Barrett, the immigrant, through John (2) and Jonathan (3). A list of the children of this union is not at hand.
(VI) Jonathan Heald, son of Lieutenant John and Elizabeth (Barrett) Heald, was born August 8, 1757, in that part of Acton which was incorporated as Carlisle in 1780. Prior to his majority he enlisted for service in the Revolutionary war, and the following record of his military services is copied from "Mas- sachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution," page 654: "Jonathan Heald, Acton. Private, Captain David Wheeler's Co., Colonel John Robinson's Reg .; enlisted June 7, 1777, served 5 mos. 28 days at Rhode Island." Upon leaving the army he resumed agriculture in Carlisle, and became the owner of quite an extensive farm. He was town clerk for the years 1804 and '05, and acted as a justice of the peace. He attended the Congregational church. His death occurred December 28, 1816. He was first married, May 12, 1781, to Sarah Brown, who died July 12, 1788, and on April 2 of the following year he married for his second wife, Hannah French, and she died August 3, 1859. His first wife bore him one son, Jonathan, and of his second union there was one daughter, Hannah.
(VII) Jonathan Heald, only child of Jona- than and Sarah (Brown) Heald, was born in Carlisle, October 7, 1782. He pursued the usual elementary branches taught in the dis- trict schools, but possessing a natural capac- ity for study he acquired a good practical education through his own efforts, and was an excellent penman. He was a progressive farmer, owning fifty acres of land adjoining his father's property and bordering on the
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Concord line, and he was actively engaged in tilling the soil until about 1850, when he became incapacitated by rheumatism. In po- litics he acted with the Whig party, and was prominent in local public affairs, serving as selectman, as town clerk for the years 1813- 14-19-20, as representative to the legislature in 1816, and was a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Congregational church. When a young man he was a lieutenant in the state militia. He died in Carlisle, October 13, 1858. He married Betsey Andrews, born in Carlisle, January 18, 1788, daughter of Issachar and Rebecca Andrews. She died February 7, 1855. She was the mother of fifteen children: Eliza and Lydia, twins, born May 24, 1807, Eliza died September of that year, and Lydia, who became the wife of Addison Bates, of Ludlow, Vermont, died May 14, 1876, having had four children: Abby S. M., Elizabeth, George W. and Mar- tha. Marshall, born November 13, 1808, died May 18, 1849. Shubael, born July 16, 1810. Rebecca, born November 14, 1811, died June 1, 1855. Moses, born November 12, 1814, died at Roseville, California, June 14, 1878. Hannah, born December 1, 1815, became the wife of John Drury, of Wendell, Massachusetts, and died May 4, 1880. Merriam, born December 30, 1817, died De- cember 30, 1868. Abigail, born July 26, 1819, died February 1, 1875; became the wife of Daniel Brooks of Windsor, Vermont, and had three children: Anna E., Henry and Frank A. Elizabeth, born February 26, 1821, married Samuel P. Stevens, of Carlisle, and died November 12, 1886, leaving one son, Charles A., and a daughter. Emily. Jona- than Bradford, who will be again referred to. Ellen, born March 14, 1826, died February 16, 1889. Issachar, born October 4, 1828, married Mary Amelia Pardy, and has four children : Susanna E., Adelaide M., Celestia E. and Ephigenia A. Martha, born Novem- ber 15, 1830, is now the wife of David B. Tay- lor, of the Province of Quebec, and has had six children: Francis E. (deceased), George A. (deceased), Frederick A., Nellie G., Charles P. and Alice H. (also deceased). Ern- ily, born in October, 1833; is now the wife of Horace L. Barton of Ludlow, Vermont, and has had six children: Herbert (deceased), Ralph, Susie, Hugh, Linda (also deceased) and Harry. Anna Brooks is the wife of Ben- jamin F. Chadbourne, of Lawrence, Massa- chusetts. Frank A. Brooks married Belle Arnold, of Nevada, and their children are: Florence A., Clarence and Belle. Charles S.
Stevens married Jennie D. Fisher, of Wen- dell, and their children are: Elizabeth J., Car- rie E., who is the wife of Fred A. Lewis, of Winchester, Massachusetts, and has one son, Stevens A. Lewis. Adelaide M. Pardy is the wife of Talbert. Frederick A. Tay- lor, married Ruth Dow, of Maine. His sister Nellie G. is a teacher in Lowell, Massachu- setts, and their brother, Charles P. Tay- lor, married Charlotte Drake, of Michi- gan, and has two children: Frederick Will- iam and Muriel Gray. Ralph Barton married Bernice Allen. Harry Barton married Mary Greenleaf, of Hartford, Connecticut.
(VIII) Jonathan Bradford Heald, fourth son and eleventh child of Jonathan and Bet- sey (Andrews) Heald, was born in Carlisle, March 31, 1823. He attended the district school during the winter season, assisting his father in farming the remainder of the year, and resided at home until his marriage. Prior to that event he purchased a farm of seventy- five acres adjoining the homestead, erected a new residence, and immediately after the ceremony took possession of it. He resided in Carlisle until 1864, when he removed to Wendell, and having purchased the Reynold's farm of one hundred and fifty acres he con- ducted it for two years, raising the usual pro- ducts and cutting considerable timber. Dis- posing of that property in 1866, he leased the Bacon farm in Belmont, Massachusetts, but three years later moved to another farm in the same town, and in 1871 he bought the Parker farm on Cambridge street, Woburn, compris- ing twenty-two acres of excellent tillage land. Here he resided for the rest of his life, carry- ing on general farming and making a speci- alty of market gardening. He was exceed- ingly industrious, devoting his time exclu- sively to his agricultural interests, and he stood high in the estimation of his fellow- townsmen as an honest, upright man and a useful citizen. In politics he acted with the Republican party, and in his religious belief he was a Congregationalist. His death oc- curred in Woburn October 1, 1886.
On January 1, 1850, Mr. Heald married Maria Lee, who was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, January 24, 1828, daughter of Will- iam and Dorcas (Wheeler) Lee. Maria Lee is a lineal descendant in the seventh genera- tion of John (1) Lee or Leigh, the immigrant, through Joseph (2), Woodis (3), Woodis (4), Isaac (5) and William (6). John Lee, the im- migrant, born about the year 1600 was an ancient and honorable family of London, and tradition says that the name was written
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