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(VI) John Merry, son of Samuel Merry (5), was born April 9, 1803, and died June, 1876. He married Sarah Ann Glidden, who was born in Nobleboro, Maine. They settled in Edgecomb, where their children were born: I. Sarah Ann, born September, 1827. 2. Charles Glidden, born February 25, 1829. 3. Helen Marr, born about 1834. 4. Mary, born March 23, 1837. 5. John Fairfield, born March 5, 1839; see forward. 6. Louis, born March 17, 1847.
(VII) Rear Admiral John Fairfield Merry, U. S. N., retired, son of John Merry (6), was born in Edgecomb, Maine, March 5, 1839. He received his education in the public schools of his native town, and during his youth work- ed on the farm for his father. At the age of seventeen he went to sea and was in the mer- chant marine service for six and a half years, and was first officer during three years of this time. His naval career began during the civil war, he being appointed ensign in the United States navy October 15, 1862, and his first service was aboard the historic old frigate "Macedonian," famous for its capture from the British by Decatur, with the "Constitu- tion," and its subsequent splendid career un- der the American flag. He served in various vessels of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, and participated in the assault on Fort Powhatan, in the James river, at White- head's Landing, and various other engage- ments. He was in the "Osceola," in the at- tack on Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865, and in the memorable shore assault led the assault- ing party from his ship, and received three severe wounds, one in the leg, and which necessitated the use of crutches for one year, and caused him to suffer lameness for twelve years. His gallantry upon this occasion won for him promotion to the grade of junior lieu- tenant. About the close of the war he was assigned to duty in the receiving ship "Ohio," at the Charlestown navy yard. In 1868 he re- ceived his appointment as ensign in the regu- lar naval service, and the same year went on duty with the Asiatic fleet, in Chinese waters, serving in several vessels, the greater part of the time in the flagship "Delaware." March 21, 1870, while on this service, he was pro- moted to lieutenant. Ordered home from the east, he was ordered to duty at the Ports- mouth navy yard, later served a year in the sloop-of-war "Juniata," and for two years afterward was in charge of the recruiting office at the Charlestown navy yard. From 1875 to 1877 he was in command of the re- ceiving ship "Relief." He was on special hydrographic service from 1876 to 1879, in the Mediterranean, as executive officer of the "Gettysburg." From 1879 to 1881 he was on duty in Florida, inspecting naval timber lands. He was next dispatched to St. Johns, Newfoundland, where he selected and char- tered the "Proteus" for the Greely Arctic ex- pedition. In 1881 he served in the department of torpedo instruction at Newport. He was next assigned to the command of the "Talla- poosa," in which he served from 1881 to 1884.
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Lieutenant Merry was promoted to lieutenant- commander in December, 1883, and served as executive officer of the flagship "Marion" on. the Asiatic station until 1887. From 1888 to 1889 he was executive officer of the "Michi- gan," on the Great Lakes. From 1889 to No- vember, 1892, he was executive officer of the receiving ship "Wabash," at the Charlestown navy yard. He was then (1893) promoted to commander, and assigned to the command of the nautical school-ship "Enterprise," and was so engaged until December, 1895, when he was placed on special duty as president of the naval inspection board at the New York navy yard. He was then ordered to duty with the naval war college at Newport, Rhode Isl- and, and on the completion of this duty was made inspector of ordnance at the Washing- ton navy yard. In 1897 he was ordered to the command of the "Machias," and joined the ship in Corea, and a year later brought his vessel to Key West, Florida, (April 11, 1898), in time to take part in the opening scenes of the Spanish-American war. April 21, 1898, he left Key West, and as senior officer pres- ent rendered service off the north coast of Cuba, and about Havana, being in charge of the "Machias" and "Arethusa" at the time of the surrender of Havana. November 17, 1899, he was appointed commandant of the naval station at Honolulu, and during his tour of duty here was ordered to Guam to make a survey of the island and harbor of San Luis d'Apra, with a view to fortifying and building a naval and coaling station. He was on special duty to the Samoan Islands while on this sta- tion. He was promoted to the rank of cap- tain December 29, 1899, and early in 1902 to that of rear admiral, being retired with that rank March 5, 1902. He was however re- tained in active service some months after retirement, flying his rear admiral's flag.
In whatever rank or station Admiral Merry served his country, he proved faithful, efficient and competent. He became skillful in his pro- fession, and rose to his rank through his own merit and sailorlike qualities. He ever enjoy- ed the esteem and respect of subordinates, and the confidence and admiration of his su- periors in rank, throughout his entire pro- fessional career. His services to the govern- ment were of conspicuous usefulness. He bore himself gallantly during the civil war period, and in times of peace his labors re- flected credit upon himself, and honor upon his country. Of his fifty years passed in the naval establishment, twenty-eight were in for- eign service, and his reports of surveys of
foreign waters and strategic points were of permanent value. The most recent recognition of his abilities and achievements came to him April Ist, 1907, when the Massachusetts Com- mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion elected him commander. The signifi- cance of this high compliment lies in the fact that this distinguished body numbers some nine hundred men, all of whom performed honorable and meritorious service as commis- sioned officers in the army or navy during the civil war, and the election of Admiral Merry to the position of commander is one of the very few instances in which the naval branch of the service has been thus honored.
Since his retirement, Admiral Merry has made his home in Somerville, Massachusetts, at 142 Highland avenue. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, as before stated, of the Army and Navy Club of Washington, the Union .Club of Boston, and the Central Club of Somerville. He married, August 11, 1862, Nancy J. Winslow, of Damariscotta, Maine. Afterward he married Mrs. Etta C. Reynolds. No children were born of either marriage.
Bacon is the name of an ancient BACON seigniory in Normandy, and from this place the Norman an- cestors in England took their name nearly a thousand years ago. According to the gen- ealogy of the great Suffolk family of Bacon, one Grimbald or Grimaldus, a relative of the Norman chieftain William de Warenne, came to England at the time of the Conquest and settled near Holt, in Suffolk. His great- grandson took the surname. Bacon, or rather resumed the use of the place-name as a sur- name. In the north of France the surname Bacon is still in use. William Bacon in 1082 endowed the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen. The surname Bacon is found in the Battle Rolls in England in the eleventh century and in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth. There are occasional variations in spelling, such as Bacun and Bachun, and in some instances the surname Bacon may have been corrupted from Beacon. From their connection with Bayeux the Bacons were sometimes Latinized De Bajocis. Sir William Bacon, of the knights bearing banners in the reign of Philip III in France, bore arms-a beech tree.
Grimaldus, mentioned above, had three sons : I. Radulph. 2. Edmund, took the name of his abode for his surname. 3. Ranulph, or Ralph, was known as Ralph de Baconsthorp (thorp means village) ; his son, Roger de
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Baconsthorp was father of Robert Bacon, who assumed the name without the particle implying location, and the name has continued in various lines of descent. George, son of Ralph de Baconsthorp, was father of Roger Bacon, who released to his sister Agnes lands belonging to the family in Normandy, and from him for many generations descended the Bacons of Drinkstone and Hessett, in county Suffolk. The lineage to Nathaniel Bacon, of Virginia, the famous "Rebel" of early co- lonial days, has been traced. The Bacon fam- ily at Hessett bears these arms : Argent on a fesse engrailed between three escutcheons gules three millets or. Richard Bacon (7) whose lineage is Reginald (6) ; Robert (5); Roger (4); George (3); Ralph (2) ; Grimal- dus (I) was the first to bear the arms of his family: Gules on a chief argent two mullets sable.
The original seat of the family was in Suf- folk, near Ipswich, perhaps Barham, but fam- ilies of importance of this name have lived and been numerous in Durham, Hampshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Yorkshire and other coun- ties. George Bacon, Esq., of the Nottingham family, living at Sutton Bomington, had arms : Vert a cross engraved ermine a chief argent thereon a ducal coronet gules between three mullets sable. Crest-A mount vert thereon a boar argent bristled and tusked or semee of mullets sable in the mouth a ragged staff vert. Motto: Mediocria firma.
(I) George Bacon, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Suffolk, England, in 1592, and re- moved to Ireland. He came in the ship "In- crease," in April, 1635, and settled at Hing- ham, Massachusetts, where he was one of the town proprietors in September, 1635. His name on the ship roll was originally written Mason, crossed out and rewritten as Bacon. Perhaps the error was mere carelessness on the part of a clerk, but often the Puritans found it necessary to take assumed names or adopt similar tricks to obtain permission to emigrate. One child was baptized in Hing- ham, and several were probably born there ; Samuel, Susan and John were recorded as with their father in the "Increase." He died in May, 1642, and was buried May 3. The administration of his estate was not granted until March 28, 1684-85, when Captain John Smith and Captain John Jacob were appoint- ed on petition of Peter Bacon, son of George, who had maintained his aged mother until her death, and had purchased the rights of his brothers and sisters in the estate. Children: I. Samuel, born 1623. 2. Susan, born 1625.
3. John, born 1627. 4. Peter, ancestor of Hingham family. 5. James, settled in Rox- bury. 6. Thomas, mentioned below.
(II) Thomas Bacon, the sixth child of George Bacon (I), was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, about 1640, died at Rox- bury, October 25, 1701. He settled in Rox- bury as early as 1665. Children : I. Thomas, Jr. 2. Joseph, born January I, 1666, men- tioned below. 3. George, born September 12, 1671, died aged two years (probably named for his grandfather).
(III) Joseph Bacon, son of Thomas Bacon (2), was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 1, 1666. He was one of the thirteen pioneers who left Roxbury, April 1, 1686, to make the survey and preliminary settlement of New Roxbury (now Woodstock, Con- necticut). He and his brother Joseph had a grant of thirty acres in the north end of the town, on the west side of Plaine Hill, abutting on the east and north on highways, in 1686. A school-house was built in 1710, near Joseph Bacon's house. Jacob Bacon, of Voluntown, in 1721, John Bacon, of Canterbury, before 1740, and Ezekiel Bacon, of Pomfret, were probably related, these towns being settled largely by Woodstock families. He married Rebecca Children of Thomas and Rebecca, born at Woodstock: I. Rebecca, born August 7, 1689. 2. Experience, born February 2, 1691-92. Joseph, mentioned be- low. Probably several others.
(IV) Joseph Bacon, son of Thomas Bacon (3), was born in Woodstock, about 1700, and died there in 1746. Of his children these were minors at the time of his death: Joseph, Re- becca, Simeon, mentioned below.
(V) Simeon Bacon, son of Joseph Bacon (4), was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, about 1730. He was the Simeon Bacon who served in the revolution from Ware, Massa- chusetts, and vicinity, and his son Simeon was a private in Captain Aaron Grave's company, Colonel David Leonard's regiment, from May 8 to July 8, 1777. He settled finally with his family at Vershire, Vermont. Children of Simeon and Esther (she died at Ware, March 4, 1818) : I. Esther, born December 9, 1753. 2. Simeon, born August 26, 1756, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born October 7, 1761. 4. Thomas, born June 25, 1764. 5. Benjamin, born January 24, 1767. 6. Penuel, born De- cember 12, 1772.
(VI) Captain Simeon Bacon, son of Simeon (5), was born in Ware, Massachu- setts, August 26, 1756. He was an early set- tler in Vershire, Vermont, with his father. He
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cleared his farm in what was then a wilder- ness. He became a leading citizen, was well read, and for his day and surroundings well educated. He was the local magistrate many years, conveyancer and transacted the neces- sary law business of his neighbors, settling their estates as well as making their deeds and wills, contracts and leases. His farm of five hundred acres was near the center of the town, and he was well-to-do. He built a two-story brick house, an ambitious under- taking at that time. He was very fond of hunting and similar sports. He served his town several years in the state legislature. He was active in the militia, and was at the bat- tle of Plattsburg in the war of 1812.
He married three times. His third wife was Judith Huse, who died March 5, 1851, aged sixty-two years. His children: I. Lemira; married Ezra T. West, father of Charles T. West, of Lexington, Massachusetts. 2. Susan, married Ira Adams. 3. Reuben, born 1803; mentioned below. 4. Emeline; married Al- bro Perkins, of Pomfret, Vermont. 5. Hiram. 6. Horace. 7. Milo; married Lovell. 8. Simeon Jr. 9. Albert. 10. Azro. II. Still- man. 12. Louisa, married Pierce West. 13. Ermina, married George Earle.
(VII) Reuben Bacon, son of Captain Simeon Bacon (6), was born at Vershire, in 1803, and died at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 7, 1866. He had a common school education, and worked on his father's farm when a boy. Then he learned the trade of mason, which as journeyman and contractor he followed at Bellows Falls, Vermont, at Walpole and Keene, New Hampshire, and at Boston. He and his brother Hiram were associated in busi- ness as contractors. They built the buildings at South Boston of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. He had the contract for the mason work in the United States Hotel in Boston. He made his . home at Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1851. After following his trade for a time he engaged in the fishing in- dustry on the Mystic river, having a grant of the right. At that time the alewives were very numerous, and he used to ship his catch to Boston by the hogshead, and business flour- ished. During his last years he and his wife lived near their son Jesse, on Mystic street, Arlington. He died June 7, 1866. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Before the formation of the Republican party he was a Democrat, but he voted for Lincoln for president. He lived during the anti- Masonic movement, and was always opposed
to Masonry and other secret organizations. He married, February 8, 1826, Sarah Wood, who was born at Strafford, New Hampshire, daughter of Jesse and Judith (Tewksbury) Wood, of Weare, New Hampshire. Children : I. Jesse, born March 31, 1827; died January 22, 1889; mentioned below. 2. Alvah, born November 15, 1828; married Ettanette Miller, of Nova Scotia; no children. 3. Henry James, born May 12, 1830; died February 9, 1877; married November 25, 1858, Sarah A. Ford; second, May 5, 1867, Esther E. Rus- sell, born November 29, 1836, died April 17, 1875 ; married third, November 28, 1875, Isa- bella Graham Harrington, born November 7, 1833; children : i. Cora Lelia, born May 25, 1864, died April 8, 18 -; ii. William Henry, February 14, 1869; iii. Georgietta, June II, 1873; iv. Mary Esther, April 13, 1875; died May 21, 1875. 4. Harvey H., born Septem- ber 28, 1832; died February 22, 1900; mar- ried May 23, 1852, Elizabeth C. Rich, of Ox- ford, Maine; died June 23, 1886; children : i. George Henry, born May 9, 1853; married November 30, 1876, Charlotte E. Nelson; ii. Albert, born March 5, 1856; married Char- lotte Walters, of England; iii. Harvey Anna, born June 23, 1859, married Somers Howard, of Brockton, Massachusetts ; iv. Minerva Ev- eline, born January 26, 1862; married Frank Fowler, of Boston; v. Major J., born Novem- ber 5, 1864, married Flora Moulton, of Ar- lington; vi. Lettie Anna, born July 7, 1869, died in infancy; vii. Sarah Lizzie, born Au- gust II, 1872, married Leonard Riggs, of Gloucester, Massachusetts. 5. Judith, born April 8, 1834; married Albert Cotton, of Dor- chester, Massachusetts; children: i. Herbert Walter Cotton; ii. James Cotton; iii. Albert Eugene Cotton ; born July 9, 1859. 6. Abner, born April 1, 1837, died May 3, 1847. 7. Otis, born October 14, 1839, died February 28, 1846. 8. Mary Morse, born April 14, 1842; married September 7, 1869, Joseph F. S. Le- Baron, of Woburn, Massachusetts ; children : i. Reuben W. LeBaron, born August 20, 1870; ii. Mary Esther LeBaron, born October 2, 1874; iii. Josie Emily LeBaron, born August 14, 1876, died June 27, 1902; iv. Francis Henry LeBaron, born April 12, 1879. 9. Major, born May II, 1844; married Decem- ber 25, 1866, Abbie R. Wood, of Strafford, Vermont ; children : i. Cora Belle, born Au- gust 21, 1867; ii. Reuben P., born Febru- ary 26, 1869; died August 23, 1869 ; iii. Harris P., born April 13, 1871, died October 17, 1871 ; iv. Henry C., born March 15, 1877, died March 21, 1878; v. Beatrice Eleanor, born
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August 30, 1878; vi. Carrie Amelia, born July 24, 1882.
(VIII) Jesse Palmer Bacon, son of Reuben Bacon (7), was born at Bellows Falls, Ver- mont, March 31, 1827. He received his early education in the public schools. He learned the trade of mason under his father, and for a number of years was associated with him. He removed to South Boston and was em- ployed by his father. Then he engaged in business as a mason and contractor at Wo- burn for a time. He located finally at Arling- ton and formed a copartnership with his brother, Henry J. Bacon, under the firm name of J. & H. J. Bacon. For about ten years they carried on a prosperous business as masons and contractors in Arlington: After the firm was dissolved, each brother continued in busi- ness for himself under his own name. Jesse remained in business to the time of his death, January 22, 1889. Some years after coming to Arlington he built the residence in which he lived during his last years, located on Mys- tic street. In religion Mr. Bacon was a Uni- tarian ; in politics a Democrat. He was select- man of the town of Arlington, and superin- tendent of buildings there. He was also rep- resentative to the general court from his dis- trict, and served on several important com- mittees. He was upright, honest and capable, of excellent judgment, high purposes, highly respected by all classes of people. He was generous to those in need and gave liberally to various charities. He formed many close friendships, both in social and business life.
He married, February 19,' 1852, Altena Bell, born at Harpersfield, New York, April 14. 1833, died at Arlington, December 30, 1866, the daughter of Joseph and Candace (Gaylord) Bell. Children: I. Melissa Hor- ton, born July 7, 1853, died March 12, 1881 ; married August 26, 1872, George P. Winn, of Arlington ; children : i. George Albert Winn, born February 22, 1873, married Mabel Hart- well, of Arlington; ii. Edith Lillian Winn; iii. Arthur Horton Winn, born November 6, 1875, died May 7, 1893 ;. iv. Nina Louise Winn, born April 8, 1877. 2. Clara Emily, born October 23, 1855, died March 3, 1856. 3. Jessie Caroline, born February 2, 1857, died March 14, 1903: married, December 6, 1882, Warren A. Peirce, of Arlington ; children : i. Warren Appleton Peirce, born October 22, 1887 ; ii. Horace Winslow Peirce, born Sep- tember 22, 1889; iii. Arthur Bacon Peirce, born November 2, 1891. 4. Edith Iola, born April 21, 1860: died December 1, 1860. 5. Louisa Belle, born October 4, 1861 ; died
March II, 1862. 6. Mary Alice, born Octo- ber 4, 1861, married April 5, 1882, Frank Peabody, of Arlington ; child : Charles Arthur Peabody, born March 30, 1886. 7. Elizabeth Waite, born August 15, 1863; married first, November 29, 1882, Frank W. Potter; chil- dren : i. Frank A. Potter, born October 9, 1883; ii. Alice Louise Potter, born October 28, 1884, married August 25, 1906, Herbert W. White, of Alliston, Massachusetts (Bos- ton), and have Howard Samuel White, born April 21, 1907; Elizabeth Waite married sec- ond, August 22, 1877, Richard Hittinger, of Belmont, Massachusetts; child: iii. Richard Waldorf Hittinger, born April 22, 1899. 8. Arthur Linden, born March 30, 1865; men- tioned below. 9. Altena Belle, born Septem- ber 23, 1866; married, August, 1895, Charles A. Hardy, of Arlington; children: i. Anna Hawley Hardy, born January 14, 1896; ii. Helen Willard Hardy, March 2, 1897; 111. Elizabeth Hardy, September 29, 1898.
(IX) Arthur Linden Bacon, son of Jesse Palmer Bacon (8), was born at Arlington, March 30, 1865. He attended the public schools of Arlington, and then learned the mason's trade under his father. But after working a year he went to work in the Hinck- ley locomotive works, Albany street, Boston, and learned the machinist's trade, working for a year for one of the company's contractors on boxes and shafting. He returned to Ar- lington, and was associated with his father in business as mason and contractor until his father's death in 1889. He conducted the business afterward for the estate until 1891, when he became the owner and he has con- tinued in the business with much success ever since. He has a large business in Arlington and vicinity where much building has been done in recent years.
In religion Mr. Bacon is a Unitarian, and is a Republican in politics. He was made a member of Hiram Lodge of Free Masons of Arlington, December 10, 1891 ; of Menotomy Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, June 20, 1893; of Cambridge Commandery, Knights Templar, June 3. 1904. He is a member of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Boston. He is past noble grand of Bethel Lodge, No. 12, Odd Fellows, and was formerly a mem- ber of the Order of Red Men. He belongs to the Arlington Boat Club, the Master Masons' Association, and the Master Plasterers' As- sociation. He was a private in Company B, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in 1886. 1887 and 1888.
He married, November 30, 1892, Margaret
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Isadore Nickerson, born July 25, 1871, daugh- ter of Captain James Samuel and Cornelia I. (Hunt) Nickerson. Her father was a sea captain. Their only child was Dorothy, born September 24, 1893, at Arlington. Margaret Isadore (Nickerson) Bacon died July 19, 1907. She was a lady possessed of many fine qualities of mind and heart, and was held in high esteem by all who knew her.
DAVIS Francis Davis, the immigrant an- cestor, according to the family history, was born in England; came over in the ship "Confidence" in 1638; married, about 1650, Gertrude Emerson at Salisbury, Massachusetts. The History of Amesbury is in doubt as to his name, calling it Francis or Philip, while the History of Warner, New Hampshire, (page 452) says he was a native of Wales, and his christian name Willi or William; he came over in 1640, and was admitted a freeman at Amesbury in 1645 and that his sons, Francis and Samuel Davis, with a large number of the sons of other first settlers took the oath of fidelity and alle- giance December 2, 1677. Still another rec- ord states that Francis was the son of Philip Davis, and was born in Southampton, Eng- land, in 1620, and had a brother Gideon, born 1615, and Philip, born 1617; all three of them coming in the ship "Confidence," 1638.
(II) Francis Davis, son of Francis Davis (I), was born according to family records June I, 1655, and died April 12, 1710. He married, January 20, 1673-74, Mary Taylor, daughter of Walter Taylor, and resided at Amesbury and Salisbury. He took the oath of fidelity and allegiance at Amesbury, De- cember 20, 1677, and was a member of the Train Band in 1680. Another record gives as his wife Mary Wells, whom he married October 20, 1680. She was apparently his second wife. (See vol. II Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury). It is said that she was born in Newfoundland, June 12, 1658, and died at Amesbury, May 21, 1733. Fran- cis's estate was administered in 1710; inven- tory filed May II, 1710. , Children : I. John, born September 2, 1674, resided in Ames- bury, administered his father's estate. 2. Ger- trude, born November 13, 1676, probably married (published November 2, 1700) Jacob Sargent. 3. Thomas. 4. Francis, born Sep- tember 29, 1687, mentioned below. 5. Sam- tel. 6. Philip, not mentioned in settlement of estate. 7. Ephraim, not found in public records.
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