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CURTIS
The American progenitor of this family was Henry Curtis (I), of Marblehead, Massachu-
setts.
(II) Theophilus Curtis, son of Henry, set- tled in Braintree, Massachusetts, and Octo- ber 30, 1663, he married Hannah Payne.
(III) Moses Curtis, son of Theophilus, was born in Braintree, November 28, 1678. He settled in Stoughton, Massachusetts. He was married March 1, 1703, to Dorothy Ash- ley. Among his children were two sons, Ashley and William.
(IV) William Curtis, son of Moses and Dorothy (Ashley) Curtis, was born in Stough- ton, August 22, 1715, died November 3, 1807. In 1751 he married Deborah Wales, who was born in Braintree, March 27, 1731, died April 8. 1776. Their children were: I. William, who will be again referred to. 2. Thomas, born February 14 or 19, 1757. 3. Joanna, born February 26, 1759. 4. Daniel, born March 20, 1761. 5. Dorothy, born October 7, 1767. 6. Sarah, born December 22, 1769. 7. Moses, born in 1771. 8. Samuel, born January 19, 1775.
(V) William (2) Curtis, eldest child of Wil- liam and Deborah (Wales) Curtis, was born n Stoughton, Massachusetts, March 3, 1753.
He was reared upon a farm, and followed agriculture during the major part of his life, though not exclusively, as he engaged in mer- cantile pursuits and also speculated in real èstate. Going to Penobscot county, Maine, when that section was in the early stages of its development, he settled temporarily at Bangor, where through the medium of trade and the judicious handling of real estate he acquired considerable wealth, and is said to have owned at one time a greater portion of the land upon which the present city of Ban- gor now stands. His permanent residence, however, was in East Stoughton, Massachu- setts, at what was known as Curtis Corner, and he died there August 5, 1844. He was noted for his untiring activity, superior men- tal capacity and outspoken opinions in politi- cal matters, which latter he courageously de- fended in the face of much opposition, and during the revolutionary war he suffered im- prisonment for having openly expressed his sympathy for the Tories. In his religious be- lief he was a Congregationalist. March 10, 1780, he married Hannah Limfield, of Ran- dolph, Massachusetts, born October 13, 1757, died April 18, 1849, and had a family of nine children : I. William, born June 12, 178-, married Submit Keith, and died May 3, 1860. 2. David; see forward. 3. John, born De- cember 16, 1784, died young. 4. Hannah, born September 22, 1786, married Jesse Wentworth, of Canton, Massachusetts. 5. John, born August 27, 1788, married Orpha Loring, of Plympton, Massachusetts, in 1813, and died September 1I, 1860. 6. Ephraim, born August 22, 1790, married Eliza Wales, in 1817, and died April 8, 1860. 7. Deborah, born November 22, 1792, became the wife of Samuel Page, of Stoughton. 8. Betsey, born June 4, 1795, died February 2, 1879, the wife of George Winchester, of Stoughton. 9. Dolly, born April 22, 1800, died July 23, 1863; married Stephen Holbrook of Stoughton.
·(VI) David Curtis, second child of William and Hannah (Linfield) Curtis, was born in Stoughton, February 17, 1783. His early ed- ucational advantages were confined to the limited district school system of his day, but a taste and capacity for the acquisition of learn- ing caused him to delve into the archives of knowledge, and through his own individual efforts he obtained an excellent education, be- coming in after life noted for his intellectual attainments. Deserting the farm when a young man, he learned the hatter's trade, which he followed for a number of years, and at one time was engaged in manufacturing
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hats at Providence, Rhode Island, by a pat- ented process of his own invention. - This patent proved exceedingly valuable financial- ly, and for many years was the source of a good income to him. But Mr. Curtis's life work lay in a direction far removed from the field of arts and crafts. A profound interest in religion and an earnest desire to enter that sphere of usefulness led him to make a special study of the Bible, and finding himself in a position to gratify this ambition he withdrew from business to become a lay preacher of the gospel according to the Baptist faith. Al- though settled for a while over a church in South Abington, Massachusetts, he was for the greater part of his subsequent life an itin- erant preacher, going about from place to place as occasion called, and striving diligent- ly to raise to a higher standard the moral and religious aspect of the various communities in ' which he labored. He also taught school to some extent, was regarded as an able instruc- tor, and among those who were cognizant of his intellecual ability and sincerity of pur- pose his influence was far-reaching in its ef- fect. His manner of dress was always agree- able with his calling; he invariably wore a silk hat, and he acquired the sobriquet of "Priest David." In politics he was a Whig. Mr. Curtis died in Avon. He married Rhoda Keach, of Providence. They had nine chil- dren: Augustus; Susan; James; David; Ma- ria, became the wife of Amasa Tourtellotte, of Providence; Eliza, married George Rich- ardson, of Avon, Massachusetts; Abby, mar- ried - Cross; Julia, married George W. Littlefield, of Avon; and William Henry.
(VII) William Henry Curtis, youngest child of David and Rhoda (Keach) Curtis, was born in East Stoughton (now Avon). After concluding his attendance at the public schools he learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for a number of years, tak- ing out stock from the factory and doing the work at his own shop, as was then the cus- tom. Relinquishing his trade. he became bookkeeper for his brother-in-law, George W. Littlefield, a boot and shoe manufacturer of Avon, and continued in that capacity until a short time prior to his death, which oc- curred in 1857, aged twenty-seven years. He was thoroughly imbued with the lofty princi- ples of Christianity, being highly respected by his fellow-townsmen as an honest, upright man and a useful citizen, and he was a mem- ber of the Baptist church. During the excit- ing political agitation which culminated in the civil war, he acted with the Free-Soil party.
October 24, 1853, he married Ardelia A. Monk, who was born July 17, 1835, died Au- gust 23, 1906, daughter of George and Sarah . (Capen) Monk, of Stoughton, the former of whom was a shoe manufacturer, and also a hotel keeper in Troy, New York. Of this
union there is one son. Mrs. William Henry Curtis married (second) Amzi Augustus
Lamb, of Middleborough, Massachusetts, who died January 1I, 1908. There were two sons of this marriage: Naham Augustus, whose death occurred in 1875, and Francis Mortimer, born in 1865, is an artist of some note, and resides at Stoughton, Massachu- setts.
(VIII) William Hamlin Curtis, only child of William H. and Ardelia A. (Monk) Curtis, was born in Avon, August 24, 1854. From the public schools of Avon he went to the Stoughton high school, and at the age of seventeen entered mercantile business as a clerk in a grocery store. In 1872 he began to learn the drug business in Westboro, Massa- chusetts, remaining there a year, and after spending a like period in Middleboro, Massa- chusetts, he went to Woburn in 1874 as phar- macist in the drug store of Fosdick & Buss. In 1876 he engaged in business for himself, giving his attention exclusively to the drug trade for five years, when he purchased the James Keith variety store and carried on both establishments. In 1886 he still further en- larged his business by adding a stock of groc- eries, at the same time admitting to partner- ship Edward Tripp, but two years later pur- chased his partner's interest and continued the business alone. These mercantile enter- prises he discontinued in 1892, owing to the disastrous effects of the labor troubles which occurred in Woburn that year. He subse- quently engaged in the milk business, but he had the misfortune of being burned out, and he next entered the real estate business in Bos- ton, with Edward T. Harrington & Co. In 1900 he purchased the mop manufactory of Nason, Snow & Company, on Bual Place, Woburn, and re-establishing the business as the Bay State Mop Company, of which he is sole proprietor he has succeeded in building up an extensive foreign and domestic trade, supplying the Boston market with his pro- ducts and shipping them throughout the United States as well as to Canada, Manila and other parts of the world. For over thirty years Mr. Curtis has resided in Woburn. He is quite active in local public affairs, having served three years as assistant assessor in Ward 6 as a Republican, and has attended as
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a delegate various party conventions. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and attends the Congregational church.
On April 30, 1877, Mr. Curtis married La- vinia Louise Hart, who was born July 1I, 1854, daughter of David Dexter and Ruth Richardson (Wood) Hart, of Woburn: David D. Hart, who at one time occupied the posi- tion of ticket agent of the Boston & Lowell railroad, and was later in the express busi- ness, served as a selectman under the old town government, and represented Woburn in the state legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have one daughter-Blanche Hart, born Jan- uary 20, 1878. She is now the wife of Homer W. Danforth, of North Woburn, and has had two children-Florence, born April 17, 1904, died May 8, same year; and Warner Curtis Danforth, born April 7, 1905.
CARLEY No name has been more vari- ously spelled in the early rec- ords and by different branches ' of the same family than that of this family. We find Carley, Carly, Carlie, Corley, Corly, Corlie, Curly, Curley, Kerley, Carlile, Kerly. Carsley and others. It seems that the immi- grant's name was really Carlisle, or Carlyle, as now spelled, an ancient English surname.
(I) William Carley, or Kerley, immigrant ancestor, born in England, was an early set- tler and one of the first planters at Hull, Mas- sachusetts, May 20, 1642. He had land on Pedock's Island in 1642, was in Hingham as early as 1637, and about 1642-3 bought land in Sudbury and settled there; was admitted a freeman May 26, 1647 ; was one of the found- ers of Lancaster, 1653; became a proprietor of Marlborough 1657, and shared in the first division of land there. He lived in Marlbor- ough, and for several years was one of the selectmen ; was appointed by the general court to lay out a tract of land between Concord, Lancaster and Groton. He died about July, 1670. His will, dated July 26, 1669, and the inventory July 19, 1670, bequeaths to sons William and Henry Kerley and John Devall. Certain goods which came to him by his last wife were appraised by Nathaniel Joslin. He married at Sudbury, October 6, 1646, Hannah King, who died March 12, 1658. He mar- ried second, May 31, 1659, Bridget, widow of Thomas Rowlandson. June 14, 1662, he mar- ried third, Rebecca, widow of Thomas Joslin. Children : 1. William, mentioned below. 2.
Mary, married October 6, 1647, Richard Smith. 3. Henry, mentioned below.
(II) William Carley, or Kerley, Jr., son of William Carley (I), born in England, came with his uncle Edmund Kerley from South- ampton in the ship Confidence, in 1638, called of Ashmore, England. He lived at Marlbor- ough; was admitted a freeman in 1666, and became a prominent citizen. He was of Cam- bridge in 1683. He died at Marlborough, January II, 1689. His will, dated 1683, proved 1684, mentions wife Anna, daughter of Thomas King; brother Henry, brother-in- law Nathaniel Joslin, and father-in-law Thomas King. He gave to his brother Henry his sword belts and military books. He was ensign of the Marlborough company, and a proprietor of Lancaster. He married first, Jane -, who was mother of his children : I. Mary, born at Sudbury, May 4, 1667. 2. Sarah, January 23, 1669. 3. Hannah, Jan- uary 8, 1671.
(II) Henry Kerley, or Carley, son of Wil- liam Carley (I), born about 1632, came with his father to Hingham; married, November, 1654, Elizabeth, daughter of John White. His wife, sister of the famous Mary Rowlandson, wife of the minister, was killed, with two chil- dren, William and Joseph, in King Philip's war, February 10, 1676, at the massacre at Lancaster, when Mrs. Rowlandson was taken captive. He married, second, April 18, 1676, Elizabeth How, of Charlestown; went to Marlborough, and there spent the rest of his days; was captain of his com- pany; was active against Governor An- dros's tyranny. (See N. E. Justif. 35).
(Willard's y of Lancaster," 27,
28, and 38). His widow died April 26, 1710; he died December 18, 1713. Children : I.
Henry, born 1658. 2. William, born January, 1659 ; killed 1676. 3. Bartholomew, mentioned. below. 4. Hannah, born July, 1663. 5. Mary, born May 4, 1667, at Sudbury. 6. Sarah, January 23, 1668. 7. Joseph, born March, 1669, killed 1676. 8. Hannah, born at Sud- bury, January 8, 1670. 9. Martha, born De- cember, 1672. Children of second wife . IO. Hannah, born 1678; married March 23, 1798, Zerubbabel Eager. 11. Mercy, born May 2, 1681, married November 10, 1708, Jo- seph Rice.
(III) Bartholomew Carley, son of Henry Carley (2), born about 1660, settled in Sud- bury, and seems to have spelled his name Car- lile, or had it spelled by the town clerk thus for him. He was a proprietor of Leicester,
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but there is no record of his moving there. He married Hannah - Children, born in Sudbury : I. James, May 24, 1686. 2. Han- nah, December 25, 1687. 3. Peter, mentioned below. 4. Joseph. Probably others.
(IV) Peter Carley, son of Bartholomew Carley (3), was born about 1690 in Sudbury or Stow, or vicinity. In a deed dated Octo- ber 27, 1736, from Peter Carley, of Leices- ter, to William Brown, Jr., of Leicester, a tract of land is conveyed that Peter states "was laid out to me upon ye acct. of a part of division upon right granted my father Bar- tholomew Carly in Leicester." This land, probably his homestead, was northerly of land laid out to Lieutenant Thomas Newell, on Boble's Brook, bounded by land of Edmund Taylor and by common lands, some sixty acres in the tract. Peter was called a laborer. He died in 1746, intestate, his son Joseph administra- tor. The date of appraisal was August, 1746. The estate was nominal, having no real estate. Ichabod Stratton, of Hardwick, was surety of Joseph Carley's bond. A branch of the Marl- borough family settled at Bolton, Massachu- setts, and James Carley, of Bolton, died while a soldier at Cape Breton.
(V) Joseph Carley, son of Peter Carley (4), born in Leicester, Massachusetts, February, 1718; died at advanced age, March 10, 1810. He married, February 7, 1750, Sarah, sister of Colonel Seth and Elijah Washburn, Sr., of Natick. She was born September 14, 1722; died January 6, 1816. Her lineage: Sarah (5); Joseph (4); Joseph (3); John (2); John (I).
John Washburn (I) was in Duxbury as early as 1632, coming from Evesham, Wor- cestershire, England, an ancient town situate on the river Avon; was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, Massachusetts ; died before 1690. John Washburn (2) came " in the schooner "Elizabeth Ann," from Lon- don, 1635 ; was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater; married, 1645, Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Experience. Joseph Washburn (3) probably lived in Bridgewater. Joseph Washburn (4) was a blacksmith; set- tled in Bridgewater ; removed to Kingston, or Plympton, Massachusetts, as early as 1728; to Middletown, Connecticut, 1739-40, and final- ly to Leicester, Massachusetts, 1745; ancestor of the Washburns of Leicester, Natick and Worcester.
Joseph Carley lived at Leicester and Spen- cer, Massachusetts. His children: I. Joseph, born December 7, 1751, at Leicester. 2. Han- nah, born May 26, 1753, at Leicester. 3.
Sarah, born April 3, 1754, at Leicester. 4. Peter, born about 1756; married July 9, 1778, Rebecca Dana, of Natick; settled in Natick; removed to Hancock, 1789 or 1790; children. 5. Cyrus, born November 7, 1758. 6. Jonathan, born March 16, 1760, at Spencer ; mentioned below. 7. Phebe, born April 17, 1762. 8. Mary, born May 23, 1764. 8. Ebenezer, born February 12, 1767. 9. Elijah, born at Spen- cer, May 21, 1771, the youngest son ; removed to Hancock at the same time as his brother Peter ; married September 3, 1795, Agnes Grimes, daughter of Hugh; removed to Dub- lin, New Hampshire, thence to Chelsea, Ver- mont; children: i. Sally W., born May 18, 1796, married Edward Newton ; ii. Rev. Hugh G., born November 27, 1797; married Anna Young; was a Free Will Baptist minister ; died in 1885. iii. Mark, born August 24, 1799; married April, 1830, Abigail W. Stevens; re- moved to Claremont, Ohio, thence to Urbana, and finally to Champaign, Illinois, where he became prominent and wealthy. iv. Mary A., born November 22, 1801; married March 3, 1825, Rev. Daniel L. Fletcher, a Methodist Episcopal minister. v. Elijah, born in Dub- lin, August 22, 1803; married April 7, 1835, Margaret Wiley. vi. Agnes G., born in Dub- lin, February 3, 1805; married October 3, 1826, Hosea Kendall. vii. Lyman, born May 16, 1807 ; married July 29, 1842, Harriet Fill- ingim. viii. Dr. Alvin, born April 8, 1809; married in Felicity, Ohio, May 15, 1837, Eva Altman. ix. Louisa, born in Chelsea, Ver- mont, February 2, 1812; married May 13, 1832, Leonidas Moreau Lawson, M. D .; she died November 20, 1846, at Lexington, Ken- tucky. x. Ashley H., born in Chelsea, May 12, 1814; resided in Alabama.
(VI) Jonathan Carley, son of Joseph Car- ley (5), was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, .March 16, 1760. Some of his father's family removed with their parents during the revolu- tion or shortly before it, to Hoosick, New York. In 1776 or 1777, when but sixteen years old, Jonathan enlisted in the revolution- ary army. He was a member of an artillery company, and served faithfully, as shown by his discharge, signed by Washington himself, for a period of six years two months nineteen days. The discharge, which has been pre- served by his descendants, was dated June 9, 1783, and was with honors for faithful ser- vice. He was in several of the most severe bat- tles of the war-White Plains, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown and others. At York- town he fixed the fuse to the shells that final- ly caused Cornwallis to surrender. At the
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battle of Monmouth he stood by his cannon, loading and firing until he suffered a sunstroke and fell at his post, blood starting from his ears. At the close of the war, in 1783, he re- turned to his father's house in Hoosick, and worked on the homestead until his marriage two years later, when he removed to Pownal, Bennington county; Vermont. In 1788 he re- moved to Whitingham, Vermont, where he and his descendants have since lived. He was a farmer ; lieutenant in the militia company after the revolution; and was always known as Lieutenant Carley. He married, 1785, Elizabeth Kentfield. Children: I. Polly, died aged twenty months. 2. Rufus ; mentioned below. 3. Washburn, resided in Whitingham. 4. Jonathan. 5. Betsey, born 1787, at Pow- nal: married Thomas Shumway; lived in Readsborough. 6. Joseph, prominent citizen of Whitingham. 7. Polly, married David Jillson, father of Clark Jillson, former mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, author of the history of Whitingham.
(VII) Rufus Carley, son of Lieutenant Jonathan Carley (6), born about 1789; mar- ried October 14, 1810, Sarah Hosley. They lived at Whitingham, Vermont. Children: I. Sarah. 2. Gracie. 3. Laura. 4. Jonathan, mentioned below. 5. Amanda. 6. Sophia. 7. David. 8. Abigail. 9. Rufus H. 10. Betsey. II. Hannah. 12. Mary Jane.
(VIII) Jonathan Carley, son of Rufus Car- ley (7), was born at Whitingham April 21, 1816. He settled when a young man in Searsburg, Vermont. He had much musical talent. and became the county teacher of sing- ing. having classes in music at Whitingham, Searsburg and other towns of the vicinity. He was a well-to-do-farmer. He married, Sep- tember 5, 1837, Polly Green, born in Whiting- ham, Vermont, February 2, 1819. After his death she married Luther Gale. Alfred Green, father of Polly, bought a portion of his father's original purchase and established his · home in Whitingham, "where he and his wife spent their long and useful lives and where they both died." Mr. Green was one of the most notable men of Whitingham; died there July 19, 1873. His wife died June 21, 1868. He was born November II, 1783: married Clarissa Smith of Halifax, Vermont ; was one of the eleven children of Nathan Green. Nathan Green was born in Wales, Massachu- setts. March 28. 1756; married May 10, 1780, Sarah Shields and removed to Whitingham, Vermont, where his brother Amos also set- tled. They had to travel on foot or horseback through the unbroken wilderness then extend-
ing to Greenfield, Massachusetts. Robert Green, father of Nathan, settled in Hampden county, Massachusetts, in 1743; married Oc- tober II, 1744, Sarah Rogers, and made his home in the western part of the town of Wales, the present town line between Wales and Munson passing through his old farm. Children of Jonathan and Polly (Green) Car- ley : I. Rufus, born July 26, 1840. 2. Hattie, February 28, 1842. 3. Alfred Gree, January 14, 1847. 4. Herbert Henry, February 18, 1850. 5. Amanda Clara, December 4, 1853. 6. Eli Winthrop; see forward.
(IX) Eli Winthrop Carley, son of Jona- than Carley (8), was born at Searsburg, Ver- mont, May 24, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and worked with his father at farming on the homestead until he was twenty years of age. He then went to Illinois, where during the next five years he was employed on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. He returned home and was employed on the Fitchburg railroad, residing for a time at Fitchburg, and later removing to Ayer, Massachusetts, where he was freight cashier of the Fitchburg railroad until he resigned in 1898. Mr. Car- ley engaged in business on his own account after leaving the railroad company, in the manufacture of ice cream. He has built up a large and flourishing business in Ayer and vicinity. He is a Republican in politics, but has never been active in party affairs. He at- tends the Congregational church at Ayer. He is a well known and highly respected citi- zen. He married, July 20, 1886, May Arabel- la Ward, of Galesburg, Illinois, daughter of Henry Clay Ward, a prominent carpenter and builder of Galesburg, and his wife Mary (Watson) Ward, a native of New York state. Children : I. Arthur Ward, born March 16, 1890. 2. Pearl May, January 4, 1895.
SMITH
John Smith, the immigrant an- cestor, is generally known as "John Smith, the Miller," to dis-
tinguish him from others of the same name. He settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, but soon was banished and removed to Rhode Island. It was ordered by the general court September 3, 1635 "that John Smith shall be sent within these six weeks out of this juris- diction, for divers dangerous opinions which he holdeth and divulged, if in the meantime he removes not himself out of this planta- tion." In 1636 he came with Roger Williams and four others, in early spring or summer,
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and made the first settlement of white men in what is now Rhode Island. Roger Williams declared November 17, 1677; "I consented to John Smith, Miller, at Dorchester (banished also) to go with me." Smith became the town clerk in 1641. It was agreed by the town at a monthly court meeting, March 1, 1646, that Smith should have the valley wherein his house stands in case he set up a mill, as also excepting sufficient highways and the town agreed to permit no other mill to be erected. His will was on the Moshausick river. In 1649, after his death, his widow Alice and son John made a formal agreement with the town as to the operation of the mill; one-sixteenth part to be allowed for grinding corn; no oth- er mill allowed as long as this mill is main- tained; grant of one hundred and fifty acres of land. The widow Alice died after 1650. The children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Eliz- abeth ; married Shadrack Manton, son of Ed- ward Manton; he died January 27, 1714.
(II) John Smith, son of John Smith (I), was born in England, died in Providence in 1682. Married Sarah Whipple, born in 1642, died about 1687, daughter of John and Sarah Whipple. He was also a miller, succeeding his father. He was ensign of the military company November 6, 1654. He bought of Hugh Bewitt two shares of land in Provi- dence, April 27, 1655 : served on a jury Febru- ary 18, 1661; deputy to the general court from 1666 to 1672; town clerk from 1672 to 1676; had sundry lots of land confirmed to him as in the lawful right of his father, May 24, 1673. His house was burned by the In- dians, as were many others in the town, March 30, 1676. His will was dated February 22, 1682, and was proved June 2, 1682. His wife Sarah and son John were executors. He bequeathed to his children, mentioned below. The real estate was partitioned May 21, 1709, before which the sons Israel and Daniel had died. Children : I. John, died April 20, 1737; was also miller and left the corn mill, etc., to his son, Philip Smith. 2. Sarah, died October 14, 1725; married Richard Clemence, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Clemence. 3. Alice, born 1665, died February 19, 1736; married, February 16, 1718, John Dexter; married (second), February 3, 1727, Joseph Jenckes. 4. Mary, married Arthur Fenner. 5. Joseph, died January 13, 1750 ; married, April 4, 1689, Lydia Gardner. 6. Benjamin, born 1672, died April 23, 1751; married, April 12, 1693, Mercy Angell; (second), June II, 1730, Mercy Waterman. 7. Israel, died about 1683. 8. Daniel, died about 1683. 9. Elisha, born
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