Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 70

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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(VII) James Wood, son of Daniel Wood (6), born in Concord, March 17, 1792, died September 18, 1879. He was a farmer and dealer in live stock. He married, December 13, 1821, Rispah Farmer, born at Billerica, Sep- tember 26, 1797, died at Concord, October 20, 1866, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Brown) Farmer. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. Ezra Ripley. Children: I. . Daniel Heald, born at Concord, January 8, 1823, now deceased; married, January 1, 1851, Lydia Hosmer, daughter of Cyrus and Lydia Parkman (Wheeler) Hosmer; she was born at Northfield, November 17, 1833, and re- sides at Montclair, New Jersey ; children : i. Cyrus Hosmer, born April 24, 1862; ii. Fran- ces, September 23, 1863; iii. Frederick Har- low, born October 2, , died September 2, 1897; iv. Bessie, born August 27,

died February 24, 1875. 2. James Barrett, born September 23, 1824, mentioned below. 3. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 24, 1827, mar- ried, May 1. 1852, John Quincy Adams Grif- fin, of Pelham, New Hampshire, a brilliant lawyer, lived at Charlestown, and died there in 1866, aged thirty-six years; children: i. Frances Elizabeth, born March 23, 1853; ii. Frederick Wood, February 2, 1855, married at St. Louis, Missouri, May 7, 1884, Theresa Lippman, daughter of Morris I. and Guida (Hoen) Lippman; they reside in Kansas City, where he is a lawyer; iii. Edith Florence, April 29, 1857, died April 20, 1866; iv. John Quincy Adams, March 19, 1859, died March

31, 1887; v. Helen, March 13, 1861, died May . 26, 1861; vi. Helen Louise, September I, 1862, died December 22, 1862; vii. Arthur Lincoln, April 16, 1865, manager of the Bow- doin Square Theatre, Boston. 4. Albert Ed- ward, born March 13, 1830, mentioned be- low. 5. Margaret Farmer, born September 24, 1832, married September 9, 1858, Isaac Jones Cutter, born in Jaffrey, New Hamp- shire, in 1830, son of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter; they live in Concord; children: i. Rose Margaret, . born at Boston, May 20, 1860; ii. Frank Edward, born at Concord, August 20, 1861. 6. Mary Heald, born May 8, 1835, married, June 1I, 1890, George Henry Witherle, son of William and Sally (Bryant) Witherle, of Castine, Maine. 7. John Farmer, born October 2, 1838, married February 22, 1866, Ella Louisa Skinner, daughter of John F. Skinner; one son, Fred- erick James; married (second), November I, 1884, Alice Cora Soule, born at Province- town, March 20, 1858, daughter of Reuben G. and Sarah J. (Sparks) Soule; they reside at 237 West Canton street, Boston; treasurer of corporations. Frederick James, son of John Farmer and Ella L. (Skinner) Wood, born in London, England, March 3, 1867, is a civil engineer at Shaw's Falls, Maine; married March 29, 1893, Susan Elvira Bowley, daugh- ter of Gideon and Laurana Bowley; one child, Ella Louise, born at Shaw's Falls, April I, 1894.

(VIII) James Barrett Wood, son of James Wood (7), was born in Concord, September 23, 1824, died January 17, 1903. He was edu- cated in the public schools and the academy of Concord. He remained on his father's farm during the summer months, and during the winter months cleared up tracts of woodland of which he was the owner. He engaged in the same occupations at East Dorset, Vermont, for several years, and in 1850 embarked in the retail lumber, coal and wood business in com- pany with Colonel George S. Prescott, who was later colonel of the Thirty-second Massa- chusetts Regiment and was killed at Peters- burg. In 1853 he removed to East Dorset, Vermont, where he purchased several thou- sand acres of timber land which he cleared and from which he manufactured lumber which was shipped to Troy and Albany, New York. His mill was two and a half miles from the railroad station, on the summit of the Green Mountains, and he constructed a large spout, and the waste water from the mill carried the lumber to the vicinity of the railroad station, from where it was shipped to

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the market. He carried on an extensive lum- ber business until 1869, when he returned to Concord, which he had left seventeen years previous, and continued in the same line of business until his death. He was one of the most substantial and respected citizens of Concord, a man of wealth and influence in the church and community. In politics he was a Republican. He served as chairman of the board of selectmen of Concord five years. He was an early and loyal member of the So- cial Circle, in which he took a great interest, this being formerly the old Concord Com- mittee of Safety founded in the days of the Revolutionary war. In early life he entered the Concord artillery as a private, and rose through the various grades to the command of his company, serving as captain until his resignation upon removing to Vermont. At the breaking out of the civil war he raised a company of the First Vermont Cavalry, which he recruited and drilled, and he re- ceived the appointment of major of the Eighth Vermont Regiment. For twenty-six years he served in the capacity of treasurer of the Unitarian First Parish Church.

He married, June 28, 1856, Ellen Smith Oldham, born in Pembrook, Massachusetts, November 16, 1836, daughter of General Au- rora W. and Jane Muller (Smith) Oldham. General Oldham served as brigadier-general in the state militia; he was a native of Pem- brook, a son of David Oldham, who was in turn a son of John Oldham. Mrs. Wood is a charter member of the Concord Female Char- itable Society for the Aged, charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution Society, and the Massachusetts Bible Society. She is a direct descendant of the Rev. Peter Bulkley; the first settled minister of Concord in 1635. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Wood. I. Caroline Prescott, born at East Dorset, Vermont, October 2, 1860, married, June 2. 1886, Sherman Hoar, son of Judge Ebenezer Rockwood and Caroline Downes (Brooks) Hoar; (see sketch of Hoar family) she died August 24, 1891; children: i. Roger Sher- man, born in Waltham, April 8, 1887; ii. Son, born and died December 24, 1889; iii. Ellen, born at Waltham, August 13, 1891. 2. George Miller, born at East Dorset, August 17, 1862, died October 20, 1863. 3. Julia Smith, born at East Dorset, September 19, 1864, married, September 21, 1887, Herbert Wheeler Blanchard, son of Walter Scott and Helen (Wheeler) Blanchard; resides in Con- cord: children: i. Marjory, born at Concord, August 29, 1889; ii. Wells, born at Concord,

May 13, 1893; iii. Walter Scott. 4. Richard Farmer, born at Concord, June 6, 1870, men- tioned below. 5. Isabel Rispah, born April I, 1872, died July 10, 1873. 6. Winthrop Barrett, born at Concord, November 7, 1875, a civil engineer, with office in Providence.

(VIII) Albert Edward Wood, son of James Wood (7), was born March 13, 1830. He was educated in the Concord public schools, and afterwards taught school for a time. He then took up the profession of civil engineer- ing, and in company with his eldest brother, Daniel Heald Wood, had charge of the con- struction of railroads in central Vermont, in the west and south, and at the time of the civil war was in the Carolinas. Being a northerner he was looked upon with suspicion, and had difficulty in reaching home in safety. For many years after his marriage Mr. Wood con- ducted his father's farm at Concord, his health not permitting him to follow his profession, though he always did much surveying for cli- ents in Concord and vicinity, and doubtless had a better knowledge of the topography and estates of that section than any other man of his time. He has in his possession many maps covering a large part of the area of the town. Mr. Wood has always been held in the great- est respect by his townsmen, serving on the · school committee for many years and as as- sessor for a long period of time. He is inter- ested in local history and antiquities, and has been a prominent member of the Concord An- tiquarian Society, for which he wrote and be- fore which he read a number of papers, includ- ing "The Plantation of Musketaquid," and "How our Great-grandfathers Lived," which have been published in pamphlet form. Mr. Wood was made a Mason in Corinthian Lodge of Concord, October 4, 1859.

He married, March 13, 1862, Ellen Mary, daughter of Hon. Daniel and Sarah (Ed- monds) Shattuck, and niece of Lemuel Shat- tuck, author of the "History of Concord." Children : 1. Walter Shattuck, born January 22, 1863, married Ruth Hill Odione, five chil- dren : i. Robert, born August 6, 1889 ; ii. Nor- man Shattuck, April 30, 1893; iii. Ruth H., August 20, 1899; iv. Walter Albert, Decem- ber 13, 1904; v. Donald, April 6, 1905. 2. Grace Edwards, born February 7, 1864, grad- uated from the Concord high school in 1880, worked as bookkeeper for the Union Stone Company of Boston ; married, June II, 1889, Charlie Goddard Kent, a sketch of whom ap- pears elsewhere in this work. Children: i. Bertha Bigelow, born September 9, 1890; ii. Samuel Goddard, February 6, 1895. 3. Bessie

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Farmer, born August 10, 1865, married Her- bert M. Barrett, four children: i. Millicent Sophia, born January 5, 1885; ii. Elizabeth Wood, September 19, 1886; iii. Herbert Mc- Clellan, July 29, 1893; iv. Prescott Farmer, May 13, 1905. 4. James Albert, born Sep- tember 15, 1867, married, January 6, 1893, Maud Potter, of Cortland, New York. 5. Herbert Edward, born March 31, 1875, died September 1, 1875. 6. Gertrude Barrett, born November 17, 1876, died' April 4, 1887.

(IX) Richard Farmer Wood, son of James Barrett Wood (8), was born at Concord, June 6, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Concord, and the select schools of Freder- ick Knapp, of Plymouth, Mr. M. C. Mitchell, of Billerica, and Messrs. Hager & Demerit, of Boston. He was associated with his father in business as a dealer in lumber, coal and wood, in Concord, to which business he succeeded at the death of his father. He is a member of Corinthian Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, Concord, and Concord Lodge, No. 212, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Concord. He is a Unitarian in religion, and a Republi- can in politics. He married, April 8, 1896, Victoria Phelan, born December 19, 1875, daughter of Edmund and Mary A. (Thomas) Phelan, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chil- dren : I. James Barrett, born at Brookline, Oc- . tober 25, 1899. 2. Edmund Phelan, born May *23, 1901, died the same day. 3. Richard Farm- er, Jr., born September 9, 1904. 4. Harold Thomas, born March 9, 1906.

VEAZIE The spelling of this surname varies in an unusual degree even at present in various branches of the family. The Vazie family in England has an ancient history, the seat being at Chamney, Oxfordshire, and the arms ; Ermine on a fesse sable five martletts or. Crest-an arm couped at the shoulder lying fesseways, and em- bowed at the elbow, habited gules cuff ermine grasping a bunch of laurel vert.

(I) George Veasey (Veazie or Vesey), im- migrant ancestor, born about 1635, in Eng- land, settled first at Dover, New Hampshire, where he was a taxpayer as early as 1659. He married, in Exeter, January 23, 1654, Mary Wiggin, of Exeter, and lived there ten years or more. He was in Cocheco (Dover) 1670. Children : I. George, born at Exeter, October 20, 1665; settled in Stratham, New Hamp- shire; was called Captain when he signed a protest with others against an illegal town meeting July 26, 1744. 2. Edward, born April 27, 1667. 3. Thomas, mentioned below.

(II) Thomas Veazie, son of George Veazie (I), was born at Stratham, New Hampshire, about 1670. He lived and died there August 7, 1750. He was called "Old Thomas Veazie." His wife died January 30, 1743, at Stratham. He signed a petition of New Hampshire set- tlers to Massachusetts in 1743. Children: I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, resided at Stratham. 3. John.

(III) Thomas Veazie, son of Thomas Veazie (2), was born about 1700 in Stratham or vicinity. He signed the protest July 26, 1744, and in 1765 a petition for the appoint- ment of Paul Wingate as justice of the peace. On the same paper were the names of his son Thomas and grandson Thomas, who was call- ed "3d." His child died November 14, 1743, at Stratham, and his wife November 15, 1743. His second wife died September, 22, 1748. He died at Stratham, November 28, 1763. The following soldiers named Veasey or Veazie, all of this family, several of them sons of Thomas Veazie (3), were all of this name who served. in New Hampshire in the war; Eliphalet, John, Jonathan, Simon, Ebenezer, Samuel and Thomas. Children: I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, settled in Brentwood, New Hampshire, where he took the oaths of various persons making affidavits from 1758 to 1765, showing that he was a magistrate.

(IV) Thomas Veazie, son of Thomas Veazie (3), born about 1725, at Stratham, New Hampshire; married Annie Neil. One of their children died June 4, 1771. They lived at Stratham. A New York Tory, Jona- than Owen, was quartered at his house by the government during the Revolution. Children : I. Nancy. 2. Joshua, born December 23, 1753. He was a soldier in the Revolution ; settled in Deerfield, New Hampshire. 3. Simon, born June 8, 1758; removed to Deerfield when young; was in the Revolution ; married Su- sanna Ham, born August 15, 1752, daughter of Captain Joseph Ham. 4. Thomas. 5. Olive. 6. Child died June 4, 1771, at Stratham.

(V) Thomas Veazie, son of Thomas Veazie (4), born about 1755, at Stratham, settled in Brentwood ; was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain Samuel Gilman's company, Colonel Enoch Poor's regiment, 1775 ; also in Captain Jonathan Robinson's company, Colonel 'Wil- liam Whipple's regiment, 1776; also in Cap- tain Timothy Clement's company, Colonel Pierce Long's regiment, 1777. ' He gave his residence in 1777 as Fryeburg. He signed a protest against the election of Captain Na- thaniel Rawlings during the Revolution.

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(VI) Thomas Veazie, son of Thomas Veazie (5), born at Brentwood, August 22, 1787, married Margaret Wiggin, of Green- land, New Hampshire, born July 26, 1792. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his widow had a pension on account of this ser- vice. Children : I. Charles, born September 20, 1815. 2. Elizabeth, April 14, 1819. 3. Ann Maria, May 21, 1821. 4. James, Sep- tember 21, 1823. 5. Daniel, March 8, 1827. 6. William, mentioned below. 7. Margaret. August 13, 1833.

(VII) William Veazie, son of Thomas Veazie (6), was born July II, 1829. He mar- . ried Mary Annette. Children: William Al- bert, born October 10, 1856; died 1866; An- nette E., born March 7, 1858; Adelaide L., mentioned below ; Eva Margaret and Edith Maria, twins, born May 6, 1870.

(VIII) Adelaide L. Veazie, daughter of William Veazie (7), was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, June 1, 1867. She was edu- cated in the public schools and Bradford Academy. She married October 18, 1893, El- bridge Ward Newton, born at Wilmington, Vermont, March 9, 1863. He attended the district schools of his native town and the Goddard Seminary at Barre, Vermont, enter- ing Tufts College, Massachusetts, graduating in 1890 with the degree of A. B. He has charge of the musical department of the pub- lishing firm of Ginn & Co., Boston. He is the only son of William W. and Martha O. (White) Newton. (See White family). Wil- liam W. Newton enlisted in the Union army in 1862 and served until October 3, 1864; he had been with Admiral Perry in 1853-4 in the medical department on his famous visit to Japan. Children of Elbridge W. and Adelaide L. Newton : I. William Veazie, born May 20, 1896. 2. Carl Elbridge, August 22, 1898. 3. Robert White, November 4, 1900.

(I) William White, immigrant ancestor, came in the "Mayflower." He had been in Holland a number of years, going thence from London, England, and by many genealogists believed to be the son of Bishop John White, of London. He was a wool carder by trade. He married at Leyden, Holland, January 27, 1612 (by Rev. John Robinson) Anna or Su- sanna Fuller. He brought with him his wife, his son Resolved, and two men servants, Wil- liam Holbeck and Edward Thomson, both of whom died soon after landing. Samuel Fuller. another "Mayflower" passenger, was a brother of Mrs. White. White was one of the leaders of the company, helped draw the Compact and was the sixth to sign it, and was an edu-

cated man. He died February 21, 1621-2, and his widow married second, Edward Winslow, who became governor of the colony, May 12, 1621. She died October, 1680. The famous "Breeches Bible" of William White has been preserved. It was printed in London in 1588, and is filled with records of the White and Brewster families. According to these records the book was owned by William White in England in 1608, and was brought over in the "Mayflower." It has a record of the birth of Peregrine, the first child of English parents born in this country-"Sonne born to Susan- na Whit. dec. 19, 1620, yt six o'clock morn- ing." There are some childish pictures and scribbling in the book, including a caricature of Peregrine, a sketch of a meeting house, and an Indian drawing his bow. The book was owned in 1895 by S. W. Cowles, of Hart- ford, Connecticut. Children: I. Resolved, born, according to his own statement, in Ley- den, 1615; married Judith, daughter of Wil- liam Vassall, married second Abigail Lord, widow of William Lord of Salem. 2. Pere- grine, mentioned below ..

(II) Peregrine White, son of William White (I), was born on board the "May- flower," in Plymouth Harbor, December, 1620, given December 19, 1620, in the old Bible. The name signifies that he was born during a journey. He was brought up in the family of Governor Edward Winslow, whom his mother married shortly after his father's death. He removed to Green Harbor with the Winslows after 1632; married, about 1647, Sarah, daughter of William and Elizabeth Bassett,. who came in the ship "Fortune," November 10, 1621. Peregrine settled on an estate given him by his father-in-law, lying between the North and South rivers, not far from their outlet into the ocean. William Bassett was a large landholder; resided in Duxbury and Bridgewater, where he died in i667. He was captain of the military company and a man of prominence during his long life. He was an assessor 1651-1655; deputy to general court from Marshfield 1659; grand juryman 1660; selectman 1661-65 and in 1672. He was a sol- dier in the Pequot War in 1637 ; on a commit- tee to lay out highways, 1667; member of the council of war 1673. He was ensign under Cap- tain Myles Standish, 1642; lieutenant in 1637, in Pequot war; admitted a freeman. June 3, 1652, but was not admitted to the Marshfield church until in his seventy-eighth year, but must have been a church member to be a free- man. In the Boston Weekly News Letter of July 31, 1704. the fifteenth number of the first

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newspaper printed in New England, appeared this notice of his death: "Marshfield July 20, Capt. Peregrine White of this town died here the 20th inst. aged 83 years and 8 months. He was vigorous and of comely aspect to the last." His wife Sarah died January 20, 17II. Children : I. Daniel, born in Marshfield, 1649; married Hannah Hunt. 2. Sarah, born in Marshfield, October, 1663; married Thomas Young. 3. Mercy, born in Marshfield; mar- ried February 3, 1697, William Sherman. 4. Jonathan, born in Marshfield, June 4, 1658; married February 2, 1682, Esther Nickerson. 5. Peregrine, Jr., mentioned below. 6. Sil- vanus, died 1688.

(III) Peregrine White Jr., son of Pere- grine White (2), was born in 1660, in Marsh- field. He removed from Weymouth to Mid- dleborough, Massachusetts, from there went to Boston, where he worked at his trade as a blacksmith. In 1710 he bought a farm at Concord of Obadiah Wheeler, who married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Resolved White. Pergerine lived in Concord about three years, then sold his land with one-half a pew in the Concord church, and returned to Boston, where in 1724 he was baptized at the age of sixty-four years. He died 1727. His will, dated October 7, 1727, leaves all his property to his widow. He married first, Susanna - , of Weymouth, and second, Mary Children: I. Benoni, born in Weymouth, January 26, 1686; descendants at Douglas, Massachusetts. 2. Mark, see for- ward. 3. Peregrine, clockmaker. 4. Eliza- beth.

(IV) Mark White, son of Peregrine White Jr .. (3), born in Middleborough, Massachu- setts, 1689; married, November 13, 1712, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Dorothy (Hilt) Mousall. She was born in Charles- town, March 16, 1693. He removed to Con- cord from Charlestown in 1719, and was in Westford in 1732. He died in Acton, Octo- ber 5, 1758; his wife Elizabeth, May 23, 1765. Children, born in Charlestown: I. John, June 6, 1714. 2. Mark, Jr., mentioned be- low. 3. Elizabeth, 1717, baptized Decem- ber I, 1717. 4. Mary, born February 10, 1719. 5. Thomas, April 21, 1722. 6. Anne, April 24, 1724. 7. Samuel, July 15, 1726; married June 27, 1765, Lydia Billings. 8. Dorothy, January 16, 1730.

(V) Deacon Mark White, son of Mark White (4), as born in Charlestown, April 12, 1716; married first, May 14, 1742, Anna Chamberlain, of Westford, born there in 1719. She died at Acton, December 15, 1755,

and he married second, December I, 1757, Mrs. Mary Reed, of Acton, who died 1819. Mr. White died at Westford, July 24, 1798, and was buried at Acton. Children: I. Ste- phen, born in Acton, and died March 7, 1743. 2. Samuel, born in Acton, February 5, 1744; married Hepsibah Barret, of Concord, May 23, 1755; died at Cavendish, Vermont, March 15, 1823. 3. Ana, born at Acton, June 26, 1745. 4. John, born at Acton, October 12, 1746; died at Acton, June 4, 1747. 5. Mary, born March 20, 1748; died December 15, 1755. 6. John, born August 23, 1749; mar- ried Esther Kettell, and second, Deborah Haywood, of Braintree. 7. Ebenezer, born January 10, 1751; married Mary 8. Rebecca, born September 24, 1752. 9. Icha- bod, born September 24, 1754; died October 8, 1754. IO. Marah, born December 15, 1755; died November 8, 1794. Children of Mark and Mary (Reed) White: II. Ruth, born at Acton, September 3, 1758; married Samuel Adams, of Rockingham, Vermont. 12. Daniel, born April 10, 1760; married Mary Hunt. 13. Sarah, born March 27, 1762; married Timothy Proctor. 14. Obadiah, born April 21, 1764; died at Charlestown, Massa- chusetts. 15. Abel, born September 26, 1766; married Ruth Prescott. 16. Rhoda, born September 19, 1769; married Asa Spaulding of Cavendish. 17. Aaron, men- tioned below. 18. Miriam, born April 17, 1776; married Willard Reed.

(VI) Aaron White, son of Deacon Mark White (5), born at Acton, November 10, 1772; married, 1799, Sally Griffin. He died at Springfield, Vermont, August 27, 1837, and his wife January 9, 1867. Children: I. Sally, born April 2, 1801; married May 28, 1820, Gilbert Parker. 2. Aaron Jr., mentioned be- low. 3. Otis, born March 3, 1805; died March 22, 1829. 4. Mary, born June 15, 1807; mar- ried April 26, 1829, John Harris Jr. 5. George, born July 22, 1810; married, 1837, Julia A. Holt. 6. Prudence Sophia, born September 24, 1812; married, 1830, John Britton. 7. Stillman, born March 14, 1815; married May 13, 1841, Lucy Holt. 8. Al- pheus, born March 19, 1818; died October 27, I821.

(VII) Aaron White, son of Aaron White (6), was born at Acton, September 9, 1802. He married, in Acton, June 19, 1826, Sophia E. L. Kendall. Aaron White died January 27, 1865; his wife September 8, 1840. Chil- dren: I. Augusta S., born in Acton, June 28, 1827; married November 7, 1843, Mason A. Davis. 2. Eliza A., born December 19, 1829,

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at Acton; married, 1847, Charles Cummings. 3. Elbridge T., born in Shrewsbury, Ver- mont, December 12, 1831; married Septem- ber 15, 1853, Mary A. Goldsmith; he died in Wilmington, .Vermont, April 6, 1862. 4. Charlotte J., born in Ludlow, Vermont, No- vember. 9, 1833; married, November 24, 1853, G. Frank Dodge. 5. George F., born in Ludlow, November 10, 1835; married No- vember 24, 1853, Mrs. Mary A. White. 6. Stillman C., born in Mount Holly, Vermont, February 19, 1837; married January 4, 1866, Mary E. Rowley. 7. Martha O., mentioned below.

(VIII) Martha O. White, daughter of Aaron White (7), was born in Weston, Ver- mont, April 12, 1839; married, 1860, Wil- lard W. Newton. For sketch of their son, El- bridge Ward Newton, married Adelaide L. Veazie.

John Stockbridge, im-

STOCKBRIDGE migrant ancestor of

this family, born in England, 1608, he came to America in the ship "Blessing" in June, 1635, with his wife Ann and his son Charles, aged one year. He settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, and his wife joined the church there July 16, 1637. He took the oath of allegiance there Febru- ary 1, 1638, and was one of the Conihasset partners in 1646. His dwelling house was near that of John Hollett, perhaps a few rods southwest of Jesse Dunbar's, and he had also a tract of land, bought of Abraham Sutcliffe, near Stockbridge's mill pond on the north and east. In 1656 he bought one-half of the mill privilege of George Russell, with the saw mill which Isaac Stedman had erected there ten years before, and in partnership with Russell built a grist mill. The "History of Scituate" says he built the Stockbridge mansion house in 1656, which is now or was lately standing, one of the oldest in New England. It was used in King Philip's war as a garrison house. Stockbridge held var- ious town offices and was a prominent citizen. His wife Ann died, and he married (second), October 9, 1643, Elizabeth Sone (sic), of Scit- uate. He married (third) Mary He died October 13, 1657. His will, dated Sep- tember 4, 1657, proved April 8, 1658, left house and household goods at Boston, near what is now Milk street, to his wife, and the mill, house, grounds and orchard at Scituate to his son Charles, who was to pay ten pounds to his sister Elizabeth. The youngest son

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 70

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912