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He married, May 20, 1668, at Watertown, Massachusetts, Mary, daughter of Captain Hugh Mason, the Indian fighter, and his wife, Esther Mason. His wife was born December 18, 1640. Children: I. Joseph, born at Con- cord, May 6, 1669. 2. Benjamin, born Feb- ruary 24, 1670-71, graduate of Harvard, 1690; first minister at Lexington, installed October 16, 1696; died July 22, 1697; married Abi- gail Willard, who married (second), after his death, Rev. Samuel Treat; she had two chil- dren by the first and three by her second hus- band, of whom one was Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, at- torney general and justice of the supreme court. 3. Mary, born at Concord, October 28, 1672, married, April 30, 1700, Jonathan Green. 4. Samuel, born at Concord, June 7, 1674, graduate of Harvard in 1696; taught the grammar school at Concord, 1706-10, and as- sisted his father in the ministry ; was ordained June 13, 17II, as the first pastor of Canter- bury, Connecticut, where he served until his death, June 26, 1727 ; married, March 3, 1713, Rebecca Hobart (Hubbard), daughter of Rev. Nehemiah Hobart, of Newton, Massachusetts. 5. Daniel, mentioned below. 6. Ann, born December 30, 1677, married, January 26, 1709, Joshua Haynes, of Sudbury.
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(II) Daniel Estabrook, son of Rev. Joseph Estabrook (I), born in Sudbury, February IO, 1676 ; married at Concord, November 21, 1701, Abigail Flint, born January II, 1675, daugh- ter of John and Mary (Oakes) Flint, of Con- necticut. He settled first at Lexington, Mas- sachusetts, where six of his children were born and later at Weston, where May 15, 1704, he bought of Ebenezer Page seventy-six acres of land. He and his wife were admitted to the Weston church in 1715. He afterwards removed to Sudbury, where he died January 7, 1735, and where both he and his wife are buried. She died there November, 1770, aged ninety-five years. His will was probated at Cambridge. His family Bible states : "Mrs. Abigail Estabrook at the age of seventy-eight years had had six children, forty-three grand- children and twenty-three great-grandchildren, which makes in all seventy-two." Children, all born in Lexington: I. Abigail, born Sep- tember 25, 1702, died 1790; married John Clapp. 2. Cornet Daniel, mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, born May 7, 1708, died September 12, 1787. 4. Samuel, born August 18, 1710, had land near his brother's in Rutland, re- moved to Princeton. 5. Mary, born Novem- ber 2, 1712. 6. Anne, born November 13, 1714.
(III) Cornet Daniel Estabrook, son of Dan- iel Estabrook (2), born in Lexington, Mas- sachusetts, June 14, 1705, was baptized June 21, 1705 ; married Hannah -, born 1713, died August 5, 1775. He removed with his parents from Sudbury, to Rutland, Massachu- setts, August 20, 1710. He bought land there "laid out in the early settlement of Rutland, on Worcester meadow hill in 1723 for Sam- uel Goodnow to his right of house lot No. 46." He cleared his farm, and used to have to take his gun to the fields to protect himself against bears and wolves as well as hostile Indians. "Mr. Estabrook and his wife," says the history of Rutland," were respectable and industrious people, and for many years their offspring have possessed the soil; a grand- son aged sixty-seven (1885) is its present owner." He died at Rutland, August 21, 1799, aged ninety-four, and was buried there. He received a hundred pounds by his father's will. He was an officer of the Rutland com- pany, and called Cornet in the records. Chil- dren, all born in Rutland: I. Daniel, born July 26, 1737, died September 21, 1740. 2. Thaddeus, born May 22, 1739, died September II, 1740. 3. Hannah, born June 22, 1741, married, June 5, 1760, Jesse Davis. 4. Daniel, mentioned below. 5. Abigail, born February
19, 1745, married Simon Phelps. '6. Thad- deus, born March 2, 1747-48, married Sarah Wyman; (second), March 16, 1779, Deliver- ance Hunt. 7. Benjamin, born May 4, 1750, married, October 12, 1787, Alice Burgess. 8. John, born March 22, 1752. 9. Anne, born December 30, 1754; married, January 29, 1778, Joseph Hunt, of Paxton. IO. Eliza -- beth, born 1758.
(IV) Daniel Estabrook, son of Cornet Dan- iel Estabrook (3), born in 1743, at Rutland, married, April 16, 1766, Persis Newton, who died December 25, 1828, aged eighty-six years, daughter of Hezekiah Newton, of Paxton. He died at Rutland, August 21, 1797. He was a soldier in the· Revolution, sergeant in Captain David Bent's company, Colonel Nathan Spar- hawk's reginient, and marched from Rutland to Bennington, Vermont, to reinforce the northern army. His brothers Benjamin and Thaddeus were in the same regiment. Chil- dren, born in Rutland: I. Daniel, born No- vember 15, 1767, married, May 1, 1800, Isa- bella Kelly; he died at Rutland, September II, 1816. 2. Jedidiah or Jadadiah, born De- cember 17, 1768, married, April 18, 1792, Elizabeth Chaffin; (second), December 23, 1824, Mrs. Nabby Read. 3. Jonah, born January 25, 1770, mentioned below. 4. Sam- uel, born August II, 1772, died March 14, 1776. 5. Silas, born June 26, 1774. 6. Persis, born September 26, 1776, married, December 5: 1799, Samuel King, of Rutland. 7. Sophia, born September 26, 1776 (twin), married, August 31, 1819, Eliphalet How. 8. Samuel, born June 10, 1779, married, December 2, 1804, Hannah Robinson (see below).
(V) Jonah Estabrook, son of Daniel Esta- brook (4), was born in Rutland, January 25, 1770. Married (published March 15, 1794) Elizabeth Foster, of Paxton, who died about 1807; (second) Sally Child of first wife: I. Elizabeth, born at Paxton, April, 14, 1802. Child of second wife: 2. Daniel, born at Paxton, April 5, 1807, married, May 17, 1831, Nancy Jennison, of Paxton, who died there May 28, 1838; only child, George Drury, born at Paxton, October 8, 1833, mar- ried, December 21, 1861, Fanny E. Stratton ; their adopted son, Herbert W. Estabrook, is one of the proprietors of the C. T. Sherer de- partment store of Worcester, Massachusetts. (V) Samuel Estabrook, son of Daniel Esta- brook (4), was born in Rutland, June IO, 1779. Married, December 2, 1804, Hannah Robinson, born April 24, 1783, and died Feb- ruary 8, 1871, daughter of Samuel and Eliza- beth (More) Robinson. They resided in Rut-
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land, Massachusetts, where he died October 12, 1863. Children: I. Harriet, born August IO, 1805, married Lewis Carlton, of Bucks- port, Maine. 2. Sophia, born February 26, 1807, died at Boston, May 31, 1875, unmar- ried. 3. Samuel Robinson, born February 10, 1809, married, April 28, 1834, Mary G. Nichols. 4. Hannah More, born March 29, 1813, died unmarried January 29, 1866. 5. Rufus, born June 14, 1815, mentioned below. 6. William, born December 4, 1817, married, May 17, 1848, Harriet W. Read, of Rutland ; he died at Worcester, June 13, 1889; engaged in the livery stable business, Thomas street, and in grocery business, Myrtle street, Wor- cester. 7. Charles, born October . 27, 1819, married, May 29, 1844, Caroline Wild, at Bos- ton ; he died at Randolph, Massachusetts, July 26, 1872. 8. Benjamin, born June 20, 1822, married, November 30, 1854, Sarah E. Wild, born September 21, 1826, daughter of Joseph Wild, of Concord, New Hampshire; member of the firm of Estabrook & Eaton, cigar im- porters and dealers, Boston, Massachusetts ; he died July 13, 1891, at Hingham, Massa- chusetts. 9. Sarah Elizabeth, born August 5, 1825, married, June 5, 1845, Edmund Muzzy, of Rutland : he died there August 6, 1855.
(VI) Rufus Estabrook, son of Samuel Es- tabrook (5), was born June 14, 1815, at Rut- land. Married there January 18, 1847, Eliza Muzzy, born at Spencer, December 1I, 1815. He was a real estate dealer at 226 Washington street, Boston, to which business he admitted his son, George L. Children, all born at Rut- land: I. Edward Loring, born September 26, 1847. 2. George Lane, born March 29, 1850, mentioned below. 3. Emily Eliza, born Oc- tober 1, 1853. 4. Sarah Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 15, 1856. 5. Franklin, born February 25, 1858, married at Boston, August 16, 1883, Lizzie S. Tourgee, born at Newport, Rhode Island, September 8, 1858; children : Rufus, born February 18, 1885, at Boston, and Lee, born 1895, at Auburndale.
(VII) George Lane Estabrook, son of Rufus Estabrook (6), was born at Rutland, Massachusetts, March 29, 1850. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and was associated with his father in the real estate business at 228 Washington street, Boston, and continued in it very successfully until his death. He was also owner of a foundry at South Boston, and considerable real estate in both Cambridge and Boston. He was liberal in religious be- lief, but a member of no church. He devoted his time exclusively to his home and business, belonging to no clubs or secret orders. He
was in politics a Republican. He married, De- cember 15, 1884, Georgianna Dolliver, at West Trenton, Maine, where she was born July 18, 1852, daughter of Captain Amos and his first wife Lorinda (Anderson) Dolliver. Her father was a sea captain and used to take his children on voyages, even on such as that from New York to the West Indies, at times as long as fifty-four days out of sight of land. Mrs. Estabrook had a brother Amos, born 1870, unmarried, and a sister Azelia, born 1857, married George Green, of South Sud- bury, a veteran of the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Estabrook had no children. They adopted a daughter, Marguerite, born April II, 1890, who resides with Mrs. Estabrook at her home, 131 Bacon street, Natick. Mr. Es- tabrook died very suddenly at his home in Natick, December 25, 1905.
Walter Allen, immigrant an- ALLEN cestor, was born in England about 1615. He was a hatter by trade. As early as 1640 he came to Massa- chusetts and settled in Newbury, and in 1652 removed to Charlestown. He was a proprie- tor of Watertown; was on the coroner's jury there July 19, 1683. He married (first) Re- becca second, November 29, 1678, Abigail Rogers. He and his wife Rebecca sold their house and land at Watertown to Simon Coolidge, June 7, 1665, and he bought a farm of sixty acres of John Knapp in Watertown Farms (Lexington) lying toward Concord bounds. He bought a parcel of two hundred acres of land for forty pounds, formerly owned by Thomas Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard. He gave land to his sons Daniel and Joseph, deeds dated October 1, 1673. He is called haberdasher of hats in some of these deeds. He died July 8, 1681. His will dated Febru- ary 19, 1679-80, proved August 10, 1681, be- queathed to wife Abigail, sons John of Sud- bury, Daniel and Joseph. The inventory, amounting to 312 pounds, included the May- hew farm near Sudbury, another farm of sev- enty-five acres with house in Charlestown, and and a farm in Haverhill. Children: I. Abi- gail, born October I, 1641. 2. Benjamin, born at Newbury, 1647; died at Charlestown June 27, 1679, aged twenty-five. 3. Daniel, men- tioned below. 4. Joseph, married, October II, 1667, Ann Brazier. 5. John, resided in Sud- bury, Massachusetts.
(II) Daniel Allen, son of Walter Allen (1), born about 1649, died at Sudbury, 1706. He resided successively in Charlestown,
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Watertown, Lancaster and Sudbury, Massa- chusetts. He married, about 1658, Mary Sherman, of Watertown, daughter of Rev. John Sherman, third minister of Watertown. Rev. Mr. Sherman was born in Durham, Eng- land, December 26, 1613; graduated at Trin- ity College, Cambridge, in 1629, (A. M. 1833) ; settled in Watertown, removed to New Haven, and was a magistrate there, returned to Wat- ertown and became the minister; was ad- mitted freeman May 19, 1669; died August 8, 1685; married (first) Abigail and (second) Mary Launce. The Sherman lin- eage in England is given thus: Rev. John; Edward; Edward; Henry. Mr. Sherman had two daughters named Mary, one by each wife. Allen married the younger. The elder Mary, born March 5, 1656-7, married, May 27, 1679, Ellis Barron Jr., of Watertown. Children of Daniel and Mary (Sherman) Allen : I. Daniel (or David), born July 1, 1659; served in the Phipps expedition, 1690; died October 17, 17II. 2. Rebecca, born January 15, 1661, recorded in Watertown and Charlestown. 3. Mary, born 1662. 4. Samuel, born in Lan- caster, April 17, 1664. 5. Elnathan, men- tioned below. 6. Abigail, married Moses Palmer, at Stonington. 7. Thomas, born 1670; died in Watertown 1671. 8. Ebenezer, born December 26, 1674, in Watertown. 9. Eliza- beth, married Joseph Fletcher. 10. Lydia.
(III) Elnathan Allen, son of Daniel Allen (2), born February. II, 1666, in Lancaster, died in Shrewsbury, 1734, from injuries re- ceived in falling from a load of hay. He re- sided in Watertown, Sudbury, Hopkinton and Shrewsbury. He was a member of the Hop- kinton church, and October II, 1730, was ad- mitted to the Shrewsbury church by letter. He married Mary Rice. Children: I. Obadiah. 2. Israel, born December 20, 1695, died young. 3. Elizabeth, married Edward New- ton. 4. Anna, born 1702, in Sudbury ; mar- ried 1722, Amos Pratt. 5. Israel born in Sudbury, 1705; married, February 14, 1728, Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Samuel Wheel- ock. 7. Mary, born July 4, 1711, died un- married. 8. Thankful, born December I, 1713 ; married Daniel Whitney.
(IV) Obadiah Allen, son of Elnathan Allen (3), born in Watertown, January 19, 1694-5, died at an advanced age. He married Susan- na
-, and came to Shrewsbury with his father from Hopkinton, joining the Shrews- bury church October 11, 1730. He had lived in Framingham, being a member of the church there at one time. His wife died Feb- ruary 16, 1740. He married (second) May
19, 1741, Jemima, daughter of Isaac Tomlin, of Westborough. She was admitted to the Marlborough church in 1746. Children of first wife, all recorded at Shrewsbury: I. Daniel, born April 8, 1721. 2. Obadiah, born May 6, 1723, at Framingham. 3. Jonathan, born June 10, 1725. 4. Lucy, born August 4, 1728. 5. Miriam, born November 4, 1730. 6. Persis, born August 4, 1735. Children of second wife: 7. Silas, born March II, 1742. 8. Israel, mentioned below. 9. Susannah, born May 20, 1747 ; died April 25, 1752.
(V) Israel Allen, son of Obadiah Allen (4), born April 24, 1745, at Shrewsbury, died July 17, 1833, aged eighty-eight years. He mar- ried first, 1768, Thankful Greenwood, of Framingham, who died October 25, 1806, aged sixty years. He married second, 1807, Sarah Bennett, who died in 1818. He lived in Shrewsbury until the close of the Revolution. In 1783 he settled on lot 13, the only unim- proved lot in Spencer at that time, and made his farm there from the wilderness. He built a house and barn, and later a saw and grist mill. This farm was occupied later by his grandson Pliny Allen. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. Children, all born at Shrews- bury : I. Silas, born December 24, 1768; married, October 20, 1791, Betsey Cunning- ham. 2. Ivory, mentioned below. 3. Jemi- ma, born May 22, 1773. 5. Junius, born Au- gust 24, 1775; married, October 10, 1804, Lucy Newton. 5. Ashbel, born July 30, 1778; married 1799, Nelly Mixer, of Hardwick. 6. Otis, born January 21, 1781, baptized May 25, 1781. 7. Alvan, born January I, 1787, at Spencer.
(VI) Ivory Allen, son of Israel Allen (5), born in Shrewsbury, December 27, 1770, died at Spencer, July 26, 1836, aged sixty-six. He inherited the homestead at Spencer, and was a farmer and miller. He married there, No- vember II, 1800, Susannah Cunningham, who died January 7, 1832, aged fifty-six. Children, born at Spencer: I. Pliny, mentioned below. 2. Wilbur, born October 17, 1805. 3. Darius, born July 30, 1807. 4. Thankful.
(VII) Pliny Allen, son of Ivory Allen (6), born in Spencer, October 14, 1802; married, 1828, Sarah Barnes. He inherited the home- stead of his father and grandfather, and was a farmer in Spencer. Children, born in Spen- cer : I. Mary Alvira, December 13, 1829. 2. John Hayden, January II, 1832. 3. Clemen- tine, December 29, 1833. 4. David Barnes, May 22, 1836. 5. Theodore, May 23, 1838. 6. Sarah, June 17, 1839; married Brainerd
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Prouty. (See Prouty family and Herbert W. Estabrook). 7. George Elvira, June 13, 1844. 8. Sarah Ann, October 13, 1847.
Richard Prouty, immigrant
PROUTY ancestor, was born in Eng- land probably. He settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, about 1667. His farm was on the northeast part of Hooppole Hill, and his house was, near the causeway over the swamp, known since 1680 as Prouty's Dam. He married Elizabeth Howe. Children: I. James. 2. Edward. 3. Jona- than. 4. Isaac, mentioned below. 6. Mar- garet. 7. William, resided in Scituate and Hanover, Massachusetts.
(II) Isaac Prouty, son of Richard Prouty (1), born in Scituate, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 18, 1689; married there October II, 17II, Elizabeth Merritt. Their six sons and one daughter all settled in that part of Leicester, now the town of Spencer, Massachusetts. Their children, Jacob, David, John, Adam, Isaac, Caleb and Job were baptized in the Second Church of Scituate April 21, 1723. Children: I. Isaac, born 1711; died young. 2. Elizabeth, born 1713. 3. Jacob, mentioned below. 4. David, born 1716; married Eliza- beth Smith. 5. John, born 1718; married Abigail, daughter of Captain Benjamin John- son; their son Eli married Rebecca Bemis, and had Liberty Prouty, a prominent citizen. 6. Caleb, born 1720. 7. Adam, born 1721; married January 15, 1751, Dorothy Howe of Rutland. 8. Job, born 1723. 9. Elizabeth, 1724. 10. Ruth, 1728. II. James, 1730; mar- ried June 26, 1765, Mary Dinsmore. 12. Isaac, born 1732; married Priscilla Rams- dell; ancestor of Hon. Charles N. Prouty of Spencer.
(V) Dwight Prouty, son of Nathan Prouty (4), was born June 11, 1804, at Spencer. He married Harriet Blanchard, born at Brook- field, Massachusetts, daughter of Parley and Levey (White) Blanchard. He manufactured boxes at Spencer, and furnished lumber from the old homestead to build the Methodist church in Spencer. He was a contractor- (III) Jacob Prouty, son of Isaac Prouty (2), born in Scituate, May 14, 1715; married,. December 8, 1741, Ann Capen. In 1740 he came with his brothers to Spencer, and bought lot 23 in the northeast part of the town, and built his house about half a mile east from the present house of the late Eli foreman in the shoe factory of Isaac Prouty. Children: I. William Brainard, mentioned below. 2. Francis N., born June 27, 1835, at Spencer. 3. Celina, born at Northboro, Sep- tember, 1839. 4. Eliza M., born October 22, 1843, at Marlborough, Vermont; married Henry Knowlton; resides at Spencer. 5. Prouty. The cellar-hole of the old house , Reuben D., born at Spencer, June 23, 1851; was discernible lately. The descendants of , married E. J. Pickett. 6. Frederick, born November 15, 1854.
Prouty and also his brothers multiplied, and the name became for many generations the most numerous of the inhabitants of Spencer and many of the Prouty family have achieved 'distinction and honor in various walks of life. Children of Jacob and Ann Prouty: I. Deborah, born October 19, 1742; married, May 10, 1764, John Bisco. 2.
Phebe, born July 23, 1744; married, May 25, 1763, Major John Harwood. 3. Lydia, born June 4, 1747; married, June 29, 1765, Silas Stevens. 4. Anna, born November 22, 1748; married, December 1, 1768, Amos Munroe. 5. Samuel, born January 19, 1750. 6. Jacob,. born April II, 1752; married, September 29, 1774. 7. Hannah, born August 15, 1754. 8. Caleb, born September 7, 1756. 9. Joshua, born May 18, 1759. 10. Nathan, mentioned below. II. Mercy, born September 14, 1763; married April 12, 1775, Buckminster White. (IV) Nathan Prouty, son of Jacob Prouty (3), was born in Spencer, October 22, 1761. He married, in 1784, Patience Converse, daughter of Luke Converse. Children, all born at Spencer: I. Lydia, born December 2, 1784; married, November 9, 1809, Abel Prouty of Marlborough, Vermont. 2. Deb- by, born August 28, 1787; married, July 7, 1805, Isaac Tomblin; she died December 23, 1839, aged fifty-two. 3. Jacob, born No- vember 5, 1789. 4. Judith, born December 14, 1791; died March 28, 1807. 5. Asaph, born March 5, 1793. 6. Anna, born February 23, 1795; married, May 4, 1817, Ezra Dunn. 7. Nathan, born November 18, 1796. 8. Var- ney, born September 1, 1798. 9. Harvey, born April 20, 1800. 10. Luke, born May 8, 1802. II. Dwight, born June II, 1804; men- tioned below. 12. Royal, born November 27, 1805. 13. Clarissa, born September 7, 1807. 14. Elias, born April 17, 1809.
(VI) William Brainard Prouty, son of Dwight Prouty (5), born in Spencer, April 29, 1833; died April 3, 1908. He married at Spencer, Sarah Allen, of Hillsville, Spencer, daughter of Pliny Allen (7). (See Allen fam- ily.). He was a miller and shoemaker by trade. For many years he was a leather cut-
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ter in the Isaac Prouty factory at Spencer. He was a Republican. He was a faithful member and earnest worker in the Methodist church and of exemplary character. Children, born at Spencer: I. Sarah Elnora, born July 28, 1861; married Rev. Austin H. Herrick, pastor of Methodist Episcopal Church at Chicopee; children: i. Asbury Herrick; ii. Cyril Herrick ; iii. Ilgar Elaine Herrick. 2. Walter A., July 5, 1866 ; married Belle Children: i. Fred; ii. Leslie. 3. Herbert Wil- liam Prouty (adopted name Estabrook) ; men- tioned below.
(VII) Herbert William Estabrook, son of William Brainard Prouty (6), was born May 9, 1874. He was adopted in infancy on the death of his mother, by a friend of the family, George Drury Estabrook, of Natick and Paxton. Massachusetts, who married Fran- ces Stratton, a native of Montpelier, Ver- mont, daughter of Samuel E. Stratton, of Paxton, Massachusetts. Daniel Estabrook, father of George Drury Estabrook, was a boot and shoe manufacturer and farmer. (See Estabrook family.) Herbert W. Esta- brook spent his youth in Natick, Massachu- setts, attending the public schools of that town and graduating from the high school in 1892. After a post-graduate course in the high school he entered the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, leaving at the end of a year to engage in the dry goods business in Fall River, in the store of Charles T. Sherer. When Mr. Sherer bought the Hamilton store and began business in Worcester, April 13, 1901, Mr. Estabrook came to Worcester and filled an important and responsible posi- tion in the management of the house. After the business was incorporated Mr. Estabrook and his brother-in-law, Joseph F. Sherer, be- came the principal owners and managers, Charles T. Sherer, the .father, devoting his time to other business interests and to his farm at Enfield, Massachusetts. The Sherer store has achieved a rather remarkable suc- cess in Worcester. By judicious and whole- sale advertising, by appealing to the common people and seeking their patronage, this de- partment store was soon placed on a secure foundation and has prospered since. The store occupies one large five story building on Front street opposite the Common ; one-half of an adjoining eight story and a seven story building in the rear on Commercial street. It is second in size of the four department stores of Worcester. Mr. Estabrook is a member of Spencer Lodge of Free Masons, of which his grandfather and uncle were past masters.
He is a Republican in politics and àn Episco- palian in religion. He married, January 17, 1900, at Fall River, Alice Miriam Sherer, born January 30, 1870. They have one child, Miriam Wesson, born April 8, 1907.
William Hunt was the immigrant
HUNT ancestor of the Hunt family in America. The parish register of Halifax, Yorkshire, says that William, son of Robert Hunt, was born about 1605, and was baptized January 27, 1604 or 1605. He came to New England in 1635, and settled in Con- cord, Masachusetts. He was admitted a freeman June 2, 1641. He was witness to the will of a neighbor in Concord, William Bowstred, October 23, 1642. He was a farm- er. He married first Elizabeth Best, who died in 1661. He married second Mercy (Hurd) Rice, widow of Edmund Rice, in 1664. He removed to Marlborough, where he died October, 1667. He made his will October 23, 1667, leaving an estate valued at five hundred and ninety-six pounds. He be- queathed to his wife Mary, sons Samuel, Ne- hemiah and Isaac, and daughter Elizabeth Barnes. Children: I. Nehemiah, mentioned below. 2. Isaac, born 1647; married May 14, 1667, Mary Stone, 3. William. 4. Elizabeth, married Barnes. 5. Hannah. 6. Samuel.
(II) Nehemiah Hunt, son of William Hunt (1), born 1631; married June 1, 1663, Mary Toll, and settled in Concord. Children: I. Mary, born September 28, 1664; married Davis. 2 .. John, born April 16, 1666; died May 19, 1666. 3. John, born May 30, 1667; died June 10, 1669. 4. Nehemiah, born September 29, 1669; died October 27, 1718. 5. William died young, July 15, 1673. 6. John, born January 12, 1673; died May 3, 1765. 7. Mercy, born November 29, 1676; married Whitaker. 8. William, men-
tioned below. 9. Hannah, born March 24, 1681-2; married - Robbins. 10. Simon, born March 7, 1682-3; died October 8, 1702. II. Elizabeth, married - - Hopkinson. 12. Rebecca, married Bateman.
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