Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 74

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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married, November 7, 1863, at Anoka, Min- nesota, Sarah F. Smith, born June 21, 1846, at Hallowell, Maine. 8. Mary Ann, born Feb- ruary 22, 1825, at Warner, New Hampshire, died April 25, 1854, in Warner, unmarried. 9. Paine, born July 7, 1827, at Warner, New Hampshire, died November 10, 1889; mar- ried, February 17, 1858, in Warner, New Hampshire, Esther Babcock, of Alexander, Maine, born November 27, 1835. 10. George Hardy, born September II, 1833, at Warner, New Hampshire, married (first), November 4, 1858, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Car- oline M. Collins, born October 29, 1835, in Enfield, New Hampshire, died November 15, 1863, at Concord, New Hampshire; married (second), November 23, 1864, in Bradford, New Hampshire, Martha Jane Dunbar, born April 1, 1838, at Springfield.


(VII) Nathaniel A. Davis, son of Alpheus Davis (6), was born in Warner, New Hamp- shire, July 5, 1818, died July 29, 1899, at Lowell, Massachusetts. He received his edu- cation in the district schools of Warner, New Hampshire, and worked until he came of age on his father's farm in that town. He left home at the age of twenty-one and located in 1839 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and followed his trade of granite cutting. In 1851 he went into business as a contractor on his own ac- count and built up a large and prosperous business. He soon became one of the fore -. most men in his line of business in Lowell and vicinity. He had the stone work in the old postoffice building, Appleton block, Low- ell jail, and hundreds of other buildings of Lowell. He had the government contract for the cut granite work for the Cape Ann Light- houses at Thatchers Island. In 1851 Mr. Davis formed a co-partnership with Samuel Sweatt and Stillman Clough. In 1852 Ex- Mayor Runels also became a partner, and the firm name then became Runels, Clough & Company, remaining for a period of about twenty years. This firm furnished the cut stone for the Masonic Temple, for St. James Hotel and many other buildings in Boston. This concern furnished the cut granite for the Worcester (Massachusetts) Union station, which is soon to be torn down to make way for a change of grade through the city. This firm had the stone contract for Booth's Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City. In 1890 Mr. Davis retired from business on account of ill health.


He married, at Lowell, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 28, 1847, Julia A. Woods, of Dun- stable, Massachusetts. Children : I. Fred


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H., born May I, 1848, at Warner, New Hamp- shire, died August 1, 1868, at Lowell, Massa- chusetts. 2. Abby F., born August 3, 1849, at Warner, New Hampshire, died February 26, 1907, at Boston, Massachusetts. 3: Nat. A. 4. Juliette B., born July 31, 1863, at Low- ell, Massachusetts, married, September 29, 1886, at Lowell, Massachusetts, Silas Hib- bard Ayer, of Boston, Massachusetts, born January 15, 1861. 5. Flora A., born May 4, 1868, at Lowell, Massachusetts, died February 4, 1869, at Lowell, Massachusetts.


BARRY The surname Barry or Berry is of ancient English origin. The best authority gives the deriva- tion of the name as from the word "Bury," or "Borough," (originally meaning a place of safety or defense), and the spelling of the sur- name Bury instead of Berry or Barry has been common in England. The manorial resi- dence in many parts of England is the "Bury" from which the surnames Berry, Barry, Ber- riman, Burroughs and Barrows are derived. The name Adam de la Bury is cited as an in- stance of the name in the earliest history of surnames in England. There have been fam- ilies of title bearing this surname in England, Scotland and Ireland for many centuries, the name being especially common in Devonshire. Some of the family seats were at Teddington, County Bedford; Molland, County Devon ; Berry Narborn, East Leigh, Lobb, etc., in Devon ; also in Oxfordshire, Lancashire, Bed- fordshire and Norfolkshire.


A number of immigrants of this name came to New England before 1650. William Berry was one of the first settlers at Dover, New Hampshire, and his descendants are numerous in that state and Maine. Ambrose Berry, one of the first at Saco, is said to have had many descendants in the same section. Richard Berry was the progenitor of a family on Cape Cod. John Berry was in Boston in 1644; ap- prenticed to Edward Keyley for seven years March 30, 1646. William Berry, of Boston in 1647, seems to have returned to England. Thomas and Grace Berry of Boston had a son John, born March 3, 1664, and a daughter Grace, born June I', 1669. Thaddeus and Hannah Berry of Boston had children: I. Elizabeth, born December 2, 1665; married Joseph Townsend. 2. Samuel, born June 20, 1667. 3. Hannah, born August 12, 1668. 4. Thomas, born September 20, 1670. Thomas and Margaret Berry, of Boston, had Margaret, born June 26, 1692 and Thomas born March


19, 1694. Oliver and Gartright Berry, of Boston were probably ancestors of the Salem family; children : Sarah, born January 28, 1678; Abigail, May 16, 1688 ; Oliver, February 26, 1693; John, February 4, 1696. Besides these Barry or Berry families we find an Ed- ward Barry, of Salem, who had a son Ed- ward, born in England; John Barry, of Ips- wich, married January 17, 1671, Hannah Hodges, and second Mary Chapman, January 24, following.


(I) John Barry (or Berry), an early set- tler in Wenham, Massachusetts, born about 1660-70, may have been son of Thomas and Grace Barry, of Boston. The names of his children resemble those of the family of Thad- deus of Boston, doubtless a brother of Thomas. It should be noted also that a Bare or Beare family lived at Wenham about the same time, and the father was also John. A deed of John Berry, of Wenham, to Thomas Barry, of Rum- ney Marsh, Boston, (now Chelsea) December 14, 1720, practically establishes the identity of this John Barry (I) as son of Thomas Barry the immigrant of Boston. John and Rachel Berry of Wenham sold land there in 1722 to John Herrick. Children : I. John, married


Katherine ; perhaps ancestor of the Andover line. 2. Sarah, died June 4, 1695. 3. Hannah, born at Wenham, November 24, 1696. 4. Samuel, born 1699. 5. Ebenezer, born October I, 1703; settled in Middleton, Massachusetts ; died 1761; owned lands at Andover and Middleton; children: Ebenezer Jr .; William; Phebe Eliot ; Elizabeth; Susan- na; all mentioned in will, February 6, 1761. 6. Joseph, mentioned below. 7. Benjamin, born October 23, 1709.


(II) Joseph Barry, son of John Barry (I), was an early settler in Middleton, as were his brothers Ebenezer and Samuel, shown in pro- bate records and deeds. He married Sarah ; and second Rebecca He died 1758. Children, born in Middleton; were all mentioned in his will except Joseph Jr., and the first John. viz: I. John, born September 12,' 1721, recorded at Middleton, baptism at Wen- ham, September 24, 1721. 2. Sarah, born at Middleton, September 4, 1726; married


Parker. 3. Joseph, born March 27, 172 -. 4. Hannah, married Foster .. 5. Abigail, born July 26, 1733. 6. Bartholomew, born November 3, 1734, bequeathed land at And- over and Middleton by father. 7. Mary, born May 24, 1737. 8. John, mentioned below.


(III) John Barry, son of Joseph Barry (2), was born in Middleton, Massachusetts, April 23, 1743. From his time the spelling of the


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name Barry has prevailed most of the time, though in every generation both spellings have been in use to some extent, down to the pres- ent time. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Haverhill, Massachusetts, a corporal in Captain James Sawyer's company in April, 1775, and later in same year was a private in Captain Jeremiah Gilman's company, Colonel John Nixon's regiment (Fifth). He was also in 1778 in the Haverhill company of Captain Jonathan Foster, in Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment. Another John Barry was of Salem, and a John Barry, of Andover, also served in the Revolution.


(IV) John Barry, son of John Barry (3), only son known of John Barry, of Haverhill, was born about 1775, probably in Haverhill. He married, July 9, 1810, Susannah Silver, daughter of Daniel and (Huntington) Silver, of Haverhill, one of the prominent families of that section, residing on Silver Hill. Children : Daniel, Darius, mentioned below ; John, William H., Franklin, Mary, Jane and Pamelia.


(V) Darius Barry, son of John Barry (4), was born in Haverhill, December 12, 1812. In his youth he learned the trade of morocco dresser, and in 1841 engaged in the business of manufacturing morocco leather in Lynn, and continued until a few years before his death, 1879. He taught many of the manufac- turers of the present generation, and the mor- occo industry in this section owes much to his ability and judgment, and he was widely known in the trade for his skill. He was deeply interested in literature, especially in poetry, and was the author of many poems of high merit. In politics he was a Democrat of the old school. He married, June 15, 1842, Jane Hatch Clark, born in Wells, Maine, March 4, 1825, daughter of Moses Clark, Esq., who married a daughter of James Hobbs, who with his wife, (Storer) Hobbs, were of English descent. Nathan Clark and wife, (Gilpatrick). Clark, grandparents of Moses Clark, came from Scotland and settled in Wells, Maine. Mrs. Barry survives her husband, and is living at a ripe old age at her home in Lynn. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Barry: I. Eugene, born in Lynn, mentioned below. 2. Sylvia C., born Lynn, August 8, 1845. 3. Orestes A., born Lynn, December 6. 1847, died June, 1851. 4. Abbie J., born in Lynn, February 28, 1850. 5. Emma F., born Lynn, June 15, 1851, married William H. Pinkham, of Lynn, and died April 29, 1881, without children. 6. Charles H., born Tilton, New Hampshire, February 5, 1855. 7. George


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F., born Lynn, August 15, 1860, died July 22, 1883. 8. Florence S., born Lynn, May 7, 1862, married Oscar Dressel, one child, Mil- dred. 9. Helen E., born Lynn, June 9, 1865. (VI) Eugene Barry, son of Darius Barry (5), was born at Lynn, October 12, 1843. He was educated in the public and high schools of Lynn, graduating in 1861. He learned the morocco business in his father's factory, and in 1869 became an associate with his uncle, Charles G. Clark, manufacturing morocco at Lynn. In 1872 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Barry established a similar business on his own account at Lynn, continuing until 1898, when he removed to Milwaukee, Wis- consin. Preferring Massachusetts, he returned in 1902 and established his plant at Ayer, where he has continued with great success to the present time. Besides being a business man of high standing and integrity, Mr. Barry also finds time to devote to literature. He is especially fond of the poets, and for himself published a volume of his own verses that has been highly commended by the critics. Mr. Barry was formerly a Democrat, but has been a Republican for a number of years. He served on the school committee of Lynn, was president of the Oxford Club, and for ten years a director of the First National Bank of Lynn. He is a member of the Unitarian church of Ayer. He belongs to no orders, clubs or secret societies, choosing to devote his time to his business, home and books. He married, September 29, 1870, Lucy A. Wy- man, born at Sebec, Maine, daughter of Theo- dore and Caroline (Ford) Wyman. Her father was born at Skowhegan, Maine, but lived most of his life in Sebec, where he con- ducted the principal general store and was postmaster for more than thirty years. Her mother was born at Sebec. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Barry: Frederick, Theodore Wy- man, and Eugene Silver, all mentioned below.


(VII) Frederick Barry, son of Eugene Barry (6), was born in Lynn, February 13, 1876. He attended the public schools of his native city, and was graduated from Harvard College, 1901. He engaged in teaching, and became an instructor in Detroit University, Detroit, Michigan. In 1907-08 he is a student in the graduate advanced chemical department of Harvard University, candidate for a higher degree. He has made a special study of music, and has achieved distinction as a composer. His opera, "The Alcade," was presented with great success in Chicago in 1906.


(VII) Theodore Wyman Barry, son of Eu- gene Barry (6), was born in Lynn, September


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13, 1877. He received his education in the public schools, graduating from the Lynn high school. He began his business career as clerk in a shoe factory, but after a short time went to work in his father's factory to learn the business of manufacturing morocco leather. When his father located at Ayer he went with him and was admitted to partnership. Since then the business has been conducted under the firm name of Eugene Barry & Son. In politics Mr. Barry is an independent. He is a member of Caleb Butler Lodge of Free Ma- sons, and of the Unitarian church of Ayer. He married, October 3, 1905, Sarah Barter Did- ham, born at St. Johns, Newfoundland, May 13, 1877, and removed with her family to Lynn, Massachusetts, when she was very young. She is the daughter of John Carberry Didham, who was born in England, came to America when a young man, was a shoemaker by trade and was for many years superin- tendent of various boot and shoe factories in Lynn. Her mother, Sarah Ann (Pike) Did- ham, was a native of Newfoundland. Mr. and Mrs. Barry have one son, Theodore, born June 22, 1906.


(VII) Eugene Silver Barry, son of Eugene Barry (6), was born in Lynn, August II, 1879. He attended the Lynn public schools, and after graduating from the Lynn high school accompanied his father to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the time Mr. Barry located his business in that city. He learned the business and was associated with his father. After the business was removed to Ayer, Massachusetts, he and his brother were admitted to partner- ship, and he continued in the business until. 1906 when he accepted an offer to become su- perintendent of a leather manufacturing com- pany at Detroit, Michigan. In March, 1907, he resigned to become superintendent of the large leather factory of the American Hide and Leather Company at Danvers, Massachusetts.


Henry Newsam comes of an NEWSAM ancient Welsh or English family. Among his children born at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, were: I. Samuel, a retired civil engineer, living in Leeds, England ; child, Florence. 2. William, clergyman. 3. Joseph, postmaster at St. John, New Brunswick. 4. Frederick, civil engineer ; became mayor of Capetown, South Africa. 5. Thomas Henry, mentioned below. .


(II) Thomas Henry Newsam, son of Henry Newsam (I), born at Leeds, England, was a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons ;


was a volunteer in the Crimean war, and served in the hospital at Scutari in Turkey, in the hospital made famous by the work of Florence Nightingale during this war, 1854- 1856. Dr. Newsam worked side by side with Miss Nightingale and always expressed the highest admiration for her self-sacrifice and. devotion. At the close of the war he practiced in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He was a Wesleyan Methodist in religion. His first wife died in 1876, aged forty-eight years. He married second, Frances Davies. Children by first marriage : I. William, a druggist, retired, living at Stoke Ferry, Lincolnshire, England. 2. James, resides at Montreal, Canada ; a ma- chinist by trade. Children of Thomas Henry and Frances Newsam: 3. Alfred Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Kate Elizabeth. 5. Emily. 6. Charles. 7. Margaret M. 8. Edith.


(III) Alfred Thomas Newsam, son of Thomas Henry Newsam (2), was born at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Eng- land, September 23, 1864. He attended a private grammar school at Bristol, England. He came to this country when a young man and entered the railroad business, became a locomotive engineer, and was for twenty years driver of a Boston & Maine engine. He is at present treasurer of the L. W. Davis Cut Sole Company, incorporated, of which Mr. Davis is the president. This concern began business November 1, 1906, at 7 Sherman street, Charlestown, with about a dozen hands, and has established already a prosperous and grow- ing business, manufacturing cut soles, heels, top lifts, taps, lifts, women's slip-taps and everything pertaining to this line of business ; also horse-shoe pads. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and of the Boston & Maine Relief Association. He is an Episcopalian in religion, and a Republi- can in politics. His home is at 38 Pearl street, Somerville. He married, November II, 1891, Nellie Fostina Fletcher; daughter of George S. and Martha M. (Harvey) Fletcher of Spof- ford, New Hampshire. (See Fletcher fam- ily).


(I) Robert Fletcher, (See FLETCHER other Fletcher sketches) im- migrant ancestor, was born in England in 1592. According to family tra- dition his birthplace was in Yorkshire, where the name is still common. Rev. Elijah Fletch- er, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, (born 1747, died 1786) the first to make a genealogi-


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cal study and collection of data of the family believed that Robert Fletcher was from York- shire, and his account was compiled when Robert's great-grandchildren were living. Robert Fletcher settled at Concord, Massa- chusetts, in 1630, with his sons, Luke and Wil- liam, and probably his wife and daughter. Five years later Concord was incorporated, and Fletcher's name appears in the earliest records of that town. In the court files of Massachusetts his name frequently occurs as petitioner for bridges, etc. He was a wealthy and influential man. He died at Concord, April 3, 1677, aged eighty-five. He was appointed by the general court constable for Concord. He removed to Chelmsford, and joined with his brother William and others in 1654 in inviting Mr. John Fiske and the Wenham church to remove to Concord. He made his will Febru- ary 4, 1672, aged about fourscore years, and committed his wife to the care of his son Francis ; bequeathed to sons Francis. William and Samuel. The inventory is dated May 12, 1677. Their children: I. Luke, born in England; died in Concord, May. 21, 1665, probably unmarried. 2. William, born in England 1622; married October 7, 1645, Lydia Bates ; in 1653 settled in Chelms- ford ; his tract of land embraced what is now the city of Lowell and part of his land was lately and is probably still owned by a lineal descendant. 3. Cary, married a Kebby. 4. Samuel, born in Concord, 1632; admitted a freeman March 21, 1689-90; settled in west part of 'Chelmsford, now Westford; married October 14, 1659, Margaret Hailston. 5. Francis, mentioned below.


(II) Francis Fletcher, son of Robert Fletch- er (I), born in Concord, 1636; married Au- gust 1, 1656, Elizabeth, daughter of George and Katherine Wheeler. He remained with his father in Concord, and became like his two older brothers, who settled in the adjoining town, a great land owner. He was reported "in full communion with ye church at Con- cord in 1677," and admitted freeman the same year. In 1666, when the records of deeds were revised, he owned lot No. 17 in the east quar- ter of the town, 437 acres. His wife Elizabeth died June 14, 1704. Children : I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born April 15, 1661 ; married June 17, 1688, Mary Dudley. 3. Elizabeth, born August 24, 1663, married Au- gust 28, 1683. 4. John, born February 28, 1665; married February 18, 1690. 5. Sarah, born February. 24, 1668. 6. Hezekiah, born April 6, 1672; married Mary Wood, May II, 1703. 7. Hannah, born October 24, 1674. 8. iv-32


Benjamin, born December 1, 1677; died about I704.


(III) Samuel Fletcher, son of Francis Fletcher (2), born at Concord, August 6, 1657 ; married April 15, 1682, Elizabeth Wheeler. He was selectman of Concord in 1705-06-09- 13; town clerk 1705 to 1713. He died Octo- ber 23, 1744, and his, wife three days later. Children, all born at Concord: I. Samuel, died young. 2. Joseph, born March 26, 1686; married December 20, 1704, Elizabeth Carter ; second, July II, 17II, Hepsibah Jones ; prob- ably lived on the spot of the immigrant Rob- ert Fletcher's first farm in what was set off as Acton and incorporated in 1735. 3. Eliza- beth, born April 2, 1688. 4. Sarah, born May 19, 1690. 5. John, born in Concord August 26, 1692; married Mary -. 6. Hannah,


born December 1, 1694. 7. Ruth, born March 2, 1696 ; died June 20, 1700. 8. Rebecca, born June 2, 1699. 9. Samuel, born April 27, 1701 ; married Rebecca -, who died Feb- ruary 3, 1785 ; he died July 4, 1772. 10. Ben- jamin, born April 29, 1703, lived nineteen days. II. Timothy, mentioned below.


(IV) Timothy Fletcher, son of Samuel Fletcher (3), born at Concord, August 28, 1704 ; married Elizabeth. - -. He is men- tioned in the Massachusetts documents as be- ing in Concord about 1767. He was in the. French and Indian war, and was a great hunt- er. His powder horn has been preserved and was lately owned by Luther J. Fletcher, who wrote of him: "I have the powder horn which hung at his side while he hunted and fought. He with a Captain Church, at one time entered the camp of the Indian chief Annawan, ascer- tained the strength of the warrior's forces, and then guided our troops that surprised and routed them. In another battle a French gen- eral fell dead by a ball from his musket." Chil- dren, born at Concord : I. Elizabeth, born March 23, 1776; married George ; died in Amherst, New Hampshire. 2. Timothy, born .November 2, 1728; married June 26, 1755, in Sudbury, Rebecca Stearns ; second, December 21, 1764, Sarah Brewer; he died May, 1779. 3. Sarah, born August 16, 1730. 4. John, born September 7, 1732; settled in New Ipswich, New Hampshire; married Elizabeth Foster. 5. James, mentioned be- low. 6. Joseph, born August 1736; settled in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and Croyden, New Hampshire ; married second, Mrs. Mary (Hop- kins) Crosby. 7. Benjamin, born June 27, 1738, died in the army of the revolution., 8. Ephraim (twin), born February 5, 1740; mar- ried Sarah Davenport; resided in Brimfield,


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Massachusetts, and died at Newport, New Hampshire,' January 1, 1836. 9. Lydia (twin), born February 5, 1740; resided at Sturbridge. IO. Joel, born March 18, 1743; was in the army in the Indian war, from Westford. II. Samuel, born in Acton, formerly Concord, Au- gust 12, 1747 ; married Sybil Caldwell; Bap- tist clergyman at Billerica and Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and Salem, New Hampshire ; his widow married Abner Woodman.


(V) James Fletcher, son of Timothy Fletch- er (4), was born in Acton, Massachusetts, September 23, 1734. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, a private in Captain Osgood's company in the Nova Scotia expedi- tion of 1755, and appears to have settled in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, about the same time that his brother John went to New Ips- wich. Children : 1. Samuel, born in Chester- field, about 1750 ; married Elizabeth Whitney, May 2, 1772; soldier in Revolution ; settled at Waterford, Vermont; married second, Mary ( Ames) Billings ; he died 1831, in East Mont- pelier, Vermont. 2. Ebenezer, born in Ches- terfield, about 1754; married Mary Calder. 3. Hannah, married Bowker; resided at Lunenburg. Vermont. 4. James, born in Chesterfield, February 28, 1757 ; married 1779, Catherine Russell ; settled at Woodstock, Ver- mont. 5. Abel, mentioned below. 6. Joel, born in Chesterfield, November 26, 1763; mar- ried Lucy Hubbard ; settled on a tract of wild land in Lyndon, Vermont, and became a lead- ing citizen ; captain of military company or- ganized for protection in the war of 1812.


(VI) Abel Fletcher, son of James Fletcher (5), born in Chesterfield, about 1760, married, January 18, 1784. He resided at Chester- field. Children: I. Samuel, born October 29, 1783. 2. Levi, born May 10, 1785. 3. Silas, June 29, 1787. 4. Daniel, August 8, 1789. 5. Luna, September 29, 1791. 6. Joel, February 2, 1794. 7. Alpheus, born and died 1796. 8. Phebe, born February 1, 1798. 9. David Stoddard (twin), born August 1, 1800; mentioned below. IO. Arad Hunt, (twin), born August 1, 1800 ; married Bethany children : i. Arad H., born May 20, 1823 ; ii. Rodney, December 18, 1825; iii. Henry, Oc- tober 3, 1826; iv. Elmira, October 13, 1828.


(VII) David Stoddard Fletcher, son of Abel Fletcher (6), was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, August 1, 1800. He settled in that section of Chesterfield or Hinsdale that became Spofford, New Hampshire. He mar- ried Mary Brown. Their children: George Stoddard, mentioned below; Charles, Melvin, Jolın, Julia, Cordelia, Mary.


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(VIII) George Stoddard Fletcher, son of David Stoddard Fletcher (7), was born at Spofford, New Hampshire, March 20, 1831 ; was a lumber dealer, later a drover, and still later a wool buyer. He died November 13, 1903; married Martha M. Harvey, who was also born at Spofford, March, 1838, and died July 8, 1870. Their only child, Nellie Fostina, born December 6, 1869, married November II, 1891, Alfred Thomas Newsam. She was ed- ucated in the public and high schools of Keene, New Hampshire. (See Newsam).


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