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uncles and settled near Thomas. At various times their sister sent from England boxes of shoes, clothing and articles that could not be procured in the colonies, and it is through her letters long preserved but now lost, that knowledge of the Devonshire family was pre- served. Children: I. Jonathan, died in Eng- land, 1635-6. 2. Thomas, born in England; mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, married Sir John Calcliffe, of Belstone. 4. George, born 1591; died August 31, 1667; settled at Lynn and Sandwich, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island; left one son John. 5. Mary or Polly.
(II) Thomas Bliss, son of Thomas Bliss (I), was born at Belstone, Devonshire, England, about 1585. He married, in England, about 1612-5, Margaret It is believed that her name was Margaret Lawrence, and that she was born about 1594. She was a good- looking woman, with a square chin that indi- cated strength of character. After the death of her husband, which took place about the close .of 1639, she managed the affairs of the family with great prudence and judgment. Her eldest daughter Ann married Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, Connecticut, April .29, 1642, and settled in Saybrook, where Thomas Bliss, Jr., also settled, removing in 1659 to Norwich. In 1643 Margaret and her other children removed to Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, fearing the malarial fevers preva- lent in Connecticut. She sold her property in Hartford, and purchased a tract of land in Springfield a mile square, situated in the south part of the town on what is now Main street, on the Connecticut river. One of the streets laid out on this tract is called for her Margaret street; another is Bliss street, on which has been built a Congregational church. Margaret died August 28, 1684, forty years after the death of her husband and fifty after her emigration. She was an energetic, efficient woman, capable of transacting most kinds of business, and was long remembered in Springfield as a woman of great intellectual ability. Her will, dated September, 1683. Children: I. Ann, born in England; married, April 29, 1642, Robert Chapman, of Say- brook, Connecticut. 2. Mary, born in Eng- land; married, November 26, 1646, Joseph Parsons, one of the most prominent pioneers of the town; she was tried on a charge of witchcraft and acquitted. 3. Thomas, died April 15, 1688. 4. Nathaniel, died Novem- ber 8, 1654. 5. Lawrence, died 1676. 6. Samuel, born 1624, in England; mentioned below. 7. Sarah, born at Boston, about 1635;
married, at Springfield, July 20, 1659, John Scott. 8. Elizabeth, born about 1637, at Bos- ton; married, February 15, 1669-70, Miles Morgan, one of the founders of Springfield. 9. Hannah, born at Hartford, 1639; died un- married, January 25, 1662. 10. John, born in Hartford, 1640; died September 10, 1702.
(III) Samuel Bliss, son of Thomas Bliss (2), was born in 1624, in England. He re- moved with his father to America in 1635; married November 10, 1664-5, Mary Leon- ard, daughter of John and Sarah (Heath) Leonard, of Springfield. She was born Sep- tember 14, 1647, and died in 1724. He died March 23, 1720, aged ninety-six years. Chil- dren: I. Hannah, born December 20, 1666; married John Haley and Simeon Smith. 2. Thomas, born February 8, 1668; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born August 4, 1670; mar- ried, 1687, Philip Smith. 4. Jonathan, born January 5, 1672; died about 1740. 5. Mar- tha, born June 1, 1674; married November 10, 1697, Samuel Ely. 6. Sarah, born April I, 1679; died April 7, 1717. 7. Mercy, born July 18, 1680; married John Ely. 8. Eben- ezer, born July 29, 1683, died September 7, 1717. 9. Margaret, born September II, 1684; married January 16, 1707, Samuel Col- ton. IO. Esther, born April 2, 1688; mar- ried May 10, 1716, Henry Chapin.
(IV) Thomas Bliss, son of Samuel Bliss (3), was born in Springfield, February 8, 1668 ; married Hannah Cadwell. He died No- vember 10, 1733. Children, born at Spring- field : I. Hannah, born August 12, 1699; mar- ried December 1, 1724, Samuel Hubbard. 2. Samuel, born March 5, 1701; died February 21, 1771. 3. Martha, born January 8, 1703; married Benjamin Parsons. 4. Thomas, born April 20, 1704, died September 10, 1750. 5. Ichabod, born December 19, 1705; mentioned below. 6. Rachel, born September 8, 1707; married Nathan Sikes. 7. Abel, born Febru- ary 18, 1707-8; died April 30, 1862. 8. Mary, born October 21, 1710; married Jonathan Sikes. 9. Timothy, born March 2, 1713; died August 18, 1769. 'IO. Daniel, born January or June 21, 1715. II. Aaron (?) born 1717. 12. Edward, born June 27, 1719. 13. Eliza- beth, born November, 1722; married Nathan Flagg.
(V) Ichabod Bliss, son of Thomas Bliss (4), was born in Springfield, December 19, 1705; married January 15, 1734, Mehitable Stebbins, born 1709, died April 4, 1790, daugh- ter of Thomas and Sarah (Strong) Stebbins. He lived at Springfield and Brimfield, Massa- chusetts, where he died August 16, 1766.
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Children : I. Sarah, born June 21, 1736; mar- ried John Moore, of Union, Connecticut. 2. Mehitable, born January, 1738; married Janu- ary 6, 1760, Thomas Moore, of Union. 4. Thomas, born October 26, 1742; died August 15, 1806. 5. Eunice, born May 6, 1745; died September 5, 1747. 6. John, mentioned be- low.
(VI) John Bliss, son of Ichabod Bliss (5), was born at Springfield, July 26, 1747; mar- ried November 25, 1774, Esther Wales, of Union, Connecticut. He was a soldier in the Revolution ; private in Captain Joseph Thomp- son's company, Colonel Timothy Danielson's regiment, April 19, 1775. He settled at Brim- field, Massachusetts. His wife died October 24, 1781. He died July 15-18, 1782, from in- juries received from the upsetting of a load of hay. His only child was John, mentioned below.
(VII) John Bliss, son of John Bliss (6), was born at Brimfield, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 8, 1775; married, September, 1800, Ruby Porter, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Porter, of Coventry, Connecticut. He was wounded in the breast by the handle of a plow while at work in the same field in which his father was killed, and died of the wound June 28, 1804. His widow married second, May, 1805, Royal Wales Esq., of Wales, Massa- chusetts, and had children Royal Jr. and Ho- ratio Wales. She died March 14, 1812. The only child of John and Ruby Bliss was John Wales.
(VIII) John Wales Bliss, son of John, Bliss (7), was born at Brimfield, July 20, 1802, and removed to Springfield about 1852. He married, May 4, 1826, Eliza C., daughter ot Charles and Ann (Edda) Bond, of Brim- field. She was born May 12, 1809. He rep- resented the town of Brimfield in the general court, 1838; town clerk 1841; assessor 1849. He died July 29, 1876. Children, born in Brimfield : I. John Porter, born February 25, 1829; see forward. 2. Ann Elizabeth, born August 6, 1834; deceased; married, May 22, 1856, Joseph C. Bridgman, bookseller, Spring- field, son of Sylvester Bridgman, of North- ampton, Massachusetts, where he was born 1831-2. 3. Charles, born December 11, 1839. 4. Frank, born October 21, 1846, clerk in Chicago, Illinois; died of consumption, De- cember 27, 1870, unmarried.
(IX) John Porter Bliss, son of John Wales Bliss (8), was born in Brimfield, February 25, 1829; married, December 28, 1851, Ann El- iza Mecum, born in Boston, January 24, 1832, daughter of George and Ann Elizabeth Me-
cum. Bliss died at Malden, where he lived for some years, November 3, 1877. Children: I. John Webster, born April 23, 1853, died 1872, aged nineteen years. 2. George Edward, born December 15, 1855; is in business in Malden; married, July 20, 1889, Sarah A. Taylor, born November 14, 1858, died October 13, 1907, daughter of Calvin M. and Sarah Jane (Pulsifer) Taylor, of Wells, Maine; children : Marie W., born July 19, 1890; Chester T., born October 17, 1895. 3. Alvin Evarts, born in Brookline, September 16, 1858; see forward. 4. William Stanley, born in Brookline, June 10, 1861, died May 13, 1901 ; married, May 4, 1887, Marie Antoinette Raisbeck ; four children : Alice Raisbeck, Be- atrice Evans, Stanley Mitchell, Antoinette, deceased.
(X) Alvin Evarts Bliss, son of John Porter Bliss (9), was born in Brookline, Massachu- setts, September 16, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of Brookline and Malden, and attended Malden high school. He entered the employ of Farley, Harvey & Company, 61 Chauncey street, Boston, wholesale dealers in dry goods, and was connected with that house for five years. He engaged in the re- tail dry goods business in Malden in 1881, in partnership with Harvey L. Thompson, under the firm name of Bliss & Thompson. In 1884 Mr. Bliss bought out his partner and continued alone until 1886, when he disposed of his store. In the meantime he had become interested in the electric lighting business. In 1885 he organized the Malden Electric Light Company, and established the electric light plant in Malden. He was manager of the company until 1888, when the present corpor- ation purchased the property, and incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts as the Mal- den Electric Company, with Mr. Bliss as su- perintendent and general manager. Mr. Bliss created a large and flourishing business, and kept his plant thoroughly efficient and in keep- ing with all modern improvements. The com- pany serves not only the city of Malden, but also Medford, Melrose and Everett. In 1905 Mr. Bliss became the general superintendent of a consolidation including the Malden Elec- tric Company, the Malden and Melrose Gas- light Company, the Suburban Gas and Elec- tric Company, and the Haverhill Electric Com- pany, and is at present filling this responsible position. He has been active in public affairs, and is a very earnest and faithful Republican. He served in the Malden common council in 1887 and 1888. He is prominent in Masonry, affiliated with Converse Lodge; Tabernacle
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Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Melrose Coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters ; Beauseant Com- mandery, Knights Templar ; he is also a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Middlesex Lodge No. 17, and Middlesex En- campment No. 9, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; department commander of the Pa- triarchs Militant of Massachusetts, of the same order; and is president of the Odd Fel- lows' Hall Association. He is also a member of F. E. Converse Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; Malden Lodge No. 965, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks; Mystic Side Council, Royal Arcanum; the Kenwood Club, Melrose Athletic Club, Malden Club, Melrose Club, and Malden Automobile Club, and is presi- dent of that last named. He served in the state militia for three years as a private, and later was for five years a member of the staff of the commander of the Naval Brigade. He is a member of the First Congregational Church.
Mr. Bliss married, November 24, 1881, Nel- lie S. Holden, who was born May 27, 1861, and graduated from the Malden high school. Her father, Dana Holden, was city almoner of Malden; he served through the civil war. Her mother was Ellen S. Pond. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss have one child, Harold Holden Bliss, born in Malden, December 6, 1884, educated in the Malden grammar and high schools, and is now associated with his father in the man- agement of the Malden and Melrose Gaslight and Electric Company.
FLINT Thomas Flint, immigrant ances- tor, was born in England in 1603. His brother, Rev. Henry Flint, came to New England in 1635, and was ad- mitted to the Boston church November 15, 1635, and made a freeman May 25, 1636; was dismissed to Braintree August II, 1639, and was ordained teacher in company with Mr. William Thompson, pastor; married Margery, daughter of Charles Hoar Jr., of Gloucester, England; died April 27, 1668.
Thomas Flint, called by the title "Mr." in the early records, was hardly less prominent. Johnson calls him "a sincere servant of Christ, who had a fair yearly revenue in England, but having improved it for Christ by casting it into the common treasury, he waits on the Lord for doubling his talent, if it shall seem good unto him so to do and the meantime spending his person and the good of his people in the office of magistrate." And :
"At Christ's command thou leav'st thy lands and native habitation ;
His folke to aid in desert straid for gospel's exaltation. Flint, hardy thou, will not allow the undermining fox
With subtill skill Christ's owls to spoil; thy sword shall give them knocks.
Yet thou base dust and all thou hast is Christ's and by him thou
Art made to be such as we see; hold fast, forever, now."
The verse tells us that Flint was among the foremost and most self-sacrificing of the Puritan pioneers. He came about 1637 from his home in Matlock, Derbyshire, England, after his brother, and also settled in Boston. He was admitted a freeman there March 1637-8; removed in 1637 or 1638 to the ad- jacent town of Concord, and there expended four thousand pounds in improving the town. He was deputy to the general court 1637-38- 39-40 ; lieutenant-governor many years prior to his death, and one of the leading men of the colony, a man of wealth, talent and high char- acter. He received a grant of seven hundred and fifty acres of land extending from Flint's Pond to Beaver Pond and the town line, now of Lincoln, Massachusetts, one of the largest single grants made in his day. He died at Concord, October 8, 1653, aged fifty years. His will was dated December 21, 1651. He left his children to the care of his wife, with the counsel of Rev. Mr. Bulkeley, teacher of the church at Concord. The will mentions his brother Henry, teacher of the church at Brain- tree ; also Captain Simon Willard, founder of Lancaster ; also his uncle, William Wood of Concord. His widow died December 18, 1689, aged eighty-two years. Flint's will is the first on the Middlesex probate records at Cambridge. Children : I. Colonel John, men- tioned below. 2. Ephraim, born January 14, 1641-2; married March 20, 1683, Jane Bulke- ley, of Concord ; he died August 3, 1723.
(II) Colonel John Flint, son of Thomas Flint (I), was born about 1640, and died De- cember 5, 1686. He was called lieutenant and later colonel on the records; was deputy to general court 1677 to 1687; town clerk 1680 to 1686. He married Mary, sister of Presi- dent Uriah Oakes, of Harvard College, No- vember 12, 1667, daughter of Edward and Jane Oakes. She died in 1690. Children : I. Mary, born October 26, 1668; died May 31, 1675. 2. Thomas, born December 12, 1670; died May 31, 1675. 3. John, born March 31, 1673; died June 6, 1675. 4. Abigail, born January II, 1674-5; married November 2, 1701, Captain Daniel Estabrook. 5. John, born July 18, 1677; mentioned below. 6. Mary, born August 1I, 1680; died May 24, 1748; married Timothy Green. 7. Thomas,
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born January 16, 1682-3. 8. Edward, born July 6, 1685; died November 15, 1754; mar- ried Love (Minott) Adams.
(III) John Flint, son of Colonel John Flint (2), was born in Concord, July 18, 1677, and died October 25, 1746. He lived at Concord. He married May 7, 1713, Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Blood) Buttrick, born November 21, 1687, died October 7, 1746, grand-daughter of William and Sarah (Bate- man) Buttrick. He was a lieutenant in the Concord Company. Children, born at Con- cord: I. Ephraim, born March 4, 1713-4; mentioned below. 2. Abigail, bern February 24, 1715-6; died 1762. 3. Mary born De- cember 17, 1717 ; died May 20, 1719. 4. Sarah, born May 3, 1720. 5. John, born May 12, 1722; died January 20, 1792. 6. Hannah, born September 23, 1724; died 1792. 7. Jane, born April 23, 1727; died 1786.
(IV) Ephraim Flint, son of Lieutenant John Flint (3), born in Concord, March 4, 1713-4; married there March 31, 1743, Ruth Wheeler. Children born at Concord : I. Ephraim Jr., mentioned below. 2. Mary, born March 22, 1747. Perhaps others.
(V) Ephraim Flint, son of Ephraim Flint (4), was born in Concord, January 1, 1744. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain John Hartwell's company, Colonel Eleazer Brooks's regiment, serving at the time Wash- ington fortified Dorchester Heights and forced the British to evacuate the city of Bos- ton. He lived in that part of Concord set off as Lincoln, which was incorporated in 1754 as a town. He married Katherine Fox, July 2, 1772 ; she died October 18, 1785, in Lincoln. Children of Ephraim and Katherine (Fox) Flint: 1. Catherine, born April 2, 1773. 2. Mary, born June 3, 1775, married, May 12, 1801, Ebenezer Edwards, died January 15, 1839. 3. Hannah, born November 6, 1777, married Timothy Fox. 4. Ruth, born May 18, 1780, married General James Miller (who said "I'll try, sir.") 5. Ephraim, born Janu- ary 23, 1782, married Susanna Bemis ; he died October 9, 1871 ; she died May 15, 1878; chil- dren : i. Caroline Bemis, born March 28, 1823, married May 24, 1848, Nathan Moss- mon, died 1878; their children : Edward Flint Mossman, born March 13, 1852, died August 21, 1858; Walter Bemis Mossman, married Theodora Hyde, and their children are : Helen Hyde Mossman, Cornelia Hull Mossman, and Alexander Mossman, Susan Goodale Mossman born March 22, 1861, and Mary Caroline Mossman, born April 18, 1863. ii. Susan, married January 26, 1845, J. H. Shedd; he
died March 18, 1865; iii. Mary, born January 24, 1827, died September 7, 1846; iv. Eph- raim, born November 29, 1828, married, March 7, 1857, Orilla J. Hager, who died in January 11, 1900, without children. He was a graduate and a trustee of Williams College, taught in the high schools, and became a Con- gregational clergyman. He was pastor of a church in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, where he died December 28, 1882. v. George, born No- vember 27, 1830, married, November 22, 1858, Caroline A. Rice; she died March 18, 1890; their children: Mary Caroline Flint, married Ansel Richards, of Reading, Massachusetts ; their children are: Homer and Hawthorne Howe Richards.
Rev. George Henry Flint, a Congregational minister at Dorchester, married Mary P. Storm, of Hinsdale, Massachusetts. Children : Caroline Emily and Philip Ephraim.
Clara Louise Flint, married George L. Cha- pin, of Lincoln. Children: Arthur Flint Cha- pin, Louisa Bemis Chapin, Marion Chapin, Bertha Loring Chapin.
Edward Francis Flint, was born in Lincoln, and resides on the homestead; he is unmar- ried.
Ephraim Bemis Flint married Edith Whit- ney, of Weston, Massachusetts. Children: Edward Whitney, one daughter died in in- fancy, and George Bemis.
(VIII) Francis Flint, son of Ephraim Flint (7), was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts, August 10, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. At the age of nineteen he left home and went to work as clerk in a store in Boston. Later he entered the employ of a wholesale grocery house and was afterward admitted to the firm of Nash, Spaulding & Co., and subsequently engaged in business as a member of the firm of Flint, Boardman & Nash, importers of tea, Broad street, Boston. He is a member of the First Church (Congregational) Cambridge, of which Rev. Dr. Alexander McKenzie is pas- tor, and he has been a deacon there since 1873. He is a well known citizen of Cambridge, and a man of public spirit and large influence. He was formerly a member of the school board. He married Celestia F., daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Locke) Barnes (see Barnes). Children: I. Helen Bemis, deceased. 2. Alice Curtis. 3. Howard Barnes. 4. Francis Stanley, deceased. 5. Herbert Lincoln, a graduate of Harvard. 6. Bertha Winthrop, married Charles Lane Hanson, of Cambridge ; one son, Paul Hanson. 7. Ethel May, died young. 8. Roger, graduate of Harvard.
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Elder William Hatch, the im-
HATCH migrant ancestor of this family, was born in Sandwich, county Kent, England, where he was a merchant, and whence he came to Scituate, Massachusetts, before 1633. In the course of a year or two he went back to England for his family, and re- turning in March, 1635, brought his wife Jane, five children and six servants, in the ship "Her- cules," of Sandwich, John Witherly, master. He was a merchant of ability, and the first rul- ing elder of the second church of Scituate, founded in 1644, and was lieutenant of the mil- itary company. He had a brother, Thomas Hatch, who was in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1634, and soon afterward in Scituate, where he died 1646, leaving five children; Jonathan, William, Thomas, Alice and Hannah. The home of Elder William was on Kent street, first lot south of Greenfield Lane. His widow Jane married Elder Thomas King, in 1653. Children of William and Jane Hatch : I. Jane, married John Lovell. 2. Anne, married, 1643, Lieutenant James Torrey. 3. Walter, born about 1625, mentioned below. 4. Hannah, married Samuel Utley, 1658. 5. William, died in Virginia, about 1646; married Abigail Hewes, and had one child, Phebe. 6. Jeremiah, died in 1713; married, 1657, Mary Hewes ; settled near his brother Walter, with whom he was engaged in ship-building for many years ; often deputy to the general court, se- lectman, of great usefulness as a citizen ; sons : Jeremiah, John, Israel, Joseph, Thomas, James. (II) Walter Hatch, son of William Hatch (I), was born in England, about 1625, and died in Scituate, in March, 1701. He was a shipwright by trade. He and his brother Wal- ter bought land of John Hanmer, in what is now Hanover, Massachusetts, on Center street, near the residence now or lately of Albert White, about 1680. This was a portion of what is called Hanmer's Hook. Jeremiah, Isaac and Deacon James Hatch were living in Hanover in 1727 in the westerly part of the town. James Hatch owned a sawmill near Teague's Bridge, then called Hatch's Bridge, and which stood on the site of the mill of Cobb & Cushing, burned in 1852. The Hatch estate, improved as a farm, on which was a family burying ground, was sold about 1743 to Cor- nelius White, then of Marshfield, and a de- scendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in Plymouth. The "History of Hanover" states that none of the Hatches there in the present generation were descended from Jeremiah. Therefore most, if not all, are de- scendants of Walter. Walter married first, May 6, 1650, Elizabeth Holbrook, of Wey-
mouth ; and second, August 5, 1674, Mary , at Marshfield. He had no children by the second wife. Children of Walter and Elizabeth Hatch, all born in Scituate: I. Han- nah, born March 13, 1651. 2. Samuel, born December 22, 1653. 3. Samuel, born Decem- ber 22, 1653; descendants in Rochester, Mas- sachusetts. 4. Jane, born March 7, 1656. 5. Antipas, born October 26, 1658; died unmar- ried, December 7, 1705. 6. Bethia, born March 31, 1661 ; married, 1683, Michael Ford. 7. John, born July 8, 1664 ; died August, 1737. 8. Israel, born March 25, 1667, mentioned be- low. 9. Joseph, born December 9, 1669.
(III) Israel Hatch, son of Walter Hatch (2), was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, March 25, 1667, and died about October, 1740. He had a son, Israel, Jr., mentioned below.
(IV) Israel Hatch, Jr., son of Israel Hatch (3), was born at Scituate, about 1700. His daughter Jane was baptized July II, 1732, in the Second Church of Scituate (now Nor- well), Massachusetts. According to the "His- tory of Hanover" he resided at Marshfield, and had sons Thomas and Captain John, men- tioned below.
(V) Captain John Hatch, son of Israel Hatch (4), was born in Marshfield, Massa- chusetts, May, 1739; married, 1760, Barsha- way Turner, and settled in Hanover, Massa- chusetts, where he built the house on Main street in which his son John lately lived. He was a soldier in the Revolution, first lieutenant in Captain Lemuel Curtis's company, Colonel Anthony Thomas's regiment (Plymouth coun- ty), 1776; also first lieutenant in Captain Jo- seph Soper's company (first Hanover), Sec- ond Plymouth county regiment, commissioned May 10, 1776; also in the same company, on the Rhode Island alarm in 1776; also lieuten- ant in Captain Francis Cushing's company in 1778, Colonel John Cushing's regiment ; also lieutenant in Captain Soper's company in 1781, in the Rhode Island expedition. After the war he was known as Captain Hatch. He died May I, 1809, and his widow in 1824. Chil- dren: I. Barshaway, born May 30, 1761; married Snow Curtis. 2. John, born July 28, 1762 ; died April 27, 1774. 3. Ezekiel Turner, born June 14, 1764; died February I, 1797; married May 8, 1788, Hannah Bailey. 4. Mel- zar, born May 8, 1766. 5. Ruth, born October 15, 1768, died March 7, 1775. 6. Sibyl, born September 7, 1770. 7. Lucy, born March 12, 1772, married Ezra Beal, April 15, 1790. 8. Rachel, born March 1, 1774; married Joshua Dwelley, March 16, 1797. 9. John, born April 27, 1776, mentioned below. IO. Gamaliel, born February 14, 1778; married Mary Wiler,
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and second, Ann Bowker. II. Ruth, born January 5, 1780, married October 27, 1816, Stephen Bailey.
(VI) John Hatch, Jr., son of Captain John Hatch (5), was born April 27, 1776; married Nancy Cleaves, of Beverly. He lived at Han- over, Massachusetts, on the homestead. Chil- dren : I. Lucy, married William E. Smith. 2. Sibyl, married Daniel Dill, of Hull. 3. John, lived in Hanover; married Elizabeth E. Stet- son, August 25, 1836. 4. Benjamin C., lives in Taunton. 5. Ezekiel T. 6. Ruth.
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