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(VII) Ezekiel Hatch, son or nephew of John Hatch (6), was born about 1800; mar- ried Lucy Rich. Their daughter, Lucy Rich Hatch, married James W. Roberts, in Charles- town, Massachusetts. She was born in Jack- son, Maine.
(I) James W. Roberts, grandfather of John A. Roberts, of Reading, Massachusetts, was a soldier in the war of 1812.
(II) James W. Roberts, son of James W. Roberts (I), was born in Lyman, Maine, June 12, 1825, and died November 17, 1889. He was 'a wholesale provision dealer in Boston, Massachusetts, and lived in Charlestown, where he was a member of the board of alder- men before that city was annexed to Boston. Children : 1. Martha H., born May 13, 1850. 2. John A., born May 12, 1855, mentioned be- low. 3. James W. (twin), born May 31, 1873. 4. Willard S., born May 31, 1873; married Luella Crockett, of Rockland, Maine.
(III) John A. Roberts, son of James A. Roberts (2), was born in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, May 12, 1855. He was educated in the public schools and at Chauncy Hall in Bos- ton. He succeeded his father in the wholesale flour and provision business, and enjoyed a large and flourishing trade until 1902, when he retired from active business. Since then he has lived quietly at his handsome home in Reading, Massachusetts. In politics Mr. Rob- erts is a Republican. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Boston. His family belong to the Reading Baptist church. He married, November 8, 1886, Mary A. Freeman, born August 24, 1864, in Lowell, Massachu- setts, daughter of Charles I. and Roxanna W. (Chase) Freeman. They have one daughter, Paulina, born September 6, 1894.
Gustave Wilson, carpenter and WILSON builder, was born in Coulstadt, Sweden, June 15, 1854. He was educated in the schools of his native town and learned the trade of carpenter there. In
1873 he went to sea as ship's carpenter, and after eight years of life on board ship landed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881, and worked as a house carpenter in Cambridge, Massachu- setts. His first employer was John Quin, car- penter and builder, of Cambridge. In 1884 he began business on his own account and trade came to him rapidly and extended to Somer- ville, Belmont and other towns adjacent to Cambridge and to Boston, in all of which places he built many residences as well as business buildings and churches. On settling in Cam- bridge he became a member of the Swedish Congregational church then just organized, and of which he was made a trustee. He be- came active in church work and was instru- mental in helping to raise funds to build not only a church edifice for the Swedish Congre- gational church, but for others in the vicinity of Cambridge, where in 1902 the Swedish pop- ulation had grown to two thousand and that of the vicinity to seven thousand. The church of which he was a member and active worker had a membership of over two hundred, with a Sunday school attendance of over two hundred and fifty scholars, and over one hundred in the Somerville Sunday school. The Swedish Con- gregational church of Cambridge at that time had church property worth $12,000 on which there was a debt of only $2,000, and this prop- erty had been accumulated in less than ten years and without help outside their own de- nomination. The Swedes had also in Cam- bridge a Lutheran church building, a Baptist church and headquarters for a Swedish branch of the Salvation Army and all built since 1892.
He was married in Cambridge, September 7, 1884, to Mathilda Crossburg, of Sweden, and their six children were: Esther, Albert, Hilda, Axel, Oscar and Edith, and their home was at 302 Columbia street, Cambridge. Their son Albert attended the public schools of Cam- bridge and Burdett's Business College in Bos- ton, graduating when fifteen years of age. He then worked for his father and subsequently attended the Manual Training School. He is now a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, where he is studying for the profession of mechanical engineer.
WEBER Wolfert Weber, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Amster- dam, Holland, about 1600, and came to New Amsterdam, now New York City, about 1633, with Dutch Governor Van Twiller. His original grant was that section of the city between Duane and Warren
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streets, on Broadway, amounting to sixty-two acres, now worth countless millions of dollars. A generation ago an attempt was made by some of his heirs to claim this property, the original lease having expired. At the same time claims were made that the Weber or Webber heirs of Wolfert Weber were entitled to
a share in the estate' of Wolfert's parents, Wolfert and Sarah Weber, of Amsterdam. It was said that under the will of the elder Wolf- ert the estate was placed in trust in 1645 for the heirs of the third generation and had never been distributed. Nothing came of the claims, however. It may have been one of the cases made plausible on its face by some ingenious claim attorney. Lamb's history of New York states that Anneke Jans, wife of Roelof Jans or Jansen, was an aunt of Wolfert Weber, Jr .; that she married (second) Everardus Bogard- us. Wolfert Weber (page 182) kept a small tavern near the Fresh Water pond on Manhat- tan Island, then New Amsterdam.
(I) James Webber, the first ancestor in New England, was very likely grandson of Wolfert, the immigrant to New Amsterdam. He was born probably in New Netherlands in 1665, and died in Medford, Massachu- setts, March 19, 1729. His name was spelled Weber on the Medford records. The history of Bedford says he was of Scotch descent, but Webber and Weber are not Scotch names. Possibly some maternal lineage of the Bedford family was Scotch. Little can be learned of the history of James Webber. He had four sons : Jonathan, James, Benjamin, mentioned below ; Nathan.
(II) Benjamin Webber, son of James Web- ber or Weber (I), was born in New York City about 1698, and died at Bedford, Massa- chusetts, July 27, 1732, aged thirty-four years. He spent his early life in Medford, but settled in Bedford about the time of his marriage. He married at Medford, September 6, 1727, Sus- anna Whitmore, daughter of John and Mary (Lane) Whitmore, of Medford. She married (second) Christopher Page, of Bedford, and she died July 20, 1792. Children of Benjamin and Susanna Webber, born at Bedford: I. Susanna, born March 21, 1728, died April 2, 1743. 2. Martha, born August 2, 1729, mar- ried John Hosmer and both lived and died at Bedford. 3. Benjamin, born February 14, 1731, settled at or near Pomfret, Connecticut. 4. John, born November 25, 1732, mentioned below.
(III) Captain John Webber, son of Ben- jamin Webber (2), was born November 25, 1732. at Bedford, and died there April 29, 1808.
He married, April, 1760, Sarah Fassett, daugh- ter of Joseph and Amittai Fassett. She died May 9, 1782, having had twelve children, eleven of whom lived to maturity and their ages aggregating seven hundred and eighty- one years, an average age of seventy-one; the average of the sons being seventy-six years. Captain John Webber married (second), No- vember 21, 1786, Susanna Simonds, daughter of Benjamin Simonds, of Woburn, and widow of Ebenezer Page, of Bedford. She died Feb- ruary 5, 1825. Captain Webber was a man of strong mind and great energy. In early life he followed the sea and rose to the command of his vessel. He was twenty-eight years old when he married and settled down. He was a farmer in his later years. He lived some years at East Bedford, Massachusetts, before he bought his farm. He bought it April, 1773, of Samuel Danforth (Kenrick's). He held many positions of trust and honor ; was on the committee of safety and correspondence in 1774. He kept a hotel and his son John, Jr., succeeded him as tavern keeper in Bedford. He was town clerk, collector of taxes, town treasurer, delegate to Provincial conventions during the Revolution and deputy to the gen- eral court. His descendants are entitled to be- long to the Sons and Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution on account of his patriotic service. Children of Captain John and Sarah Webber: I. John, Jr., born December 31, 1764. 2. Sarah, born March 18, 1766, died February 8, 1849; married Roger Reed. 3. Job, born May 16, 1769, mentioned below. 4. Benjamin, born December 21, 1770. 5. James, born October 16, 1772. 6. Susanna, born January 28, 1774, died June 8, 1774. 7. Asa, born June 20, 1775. 8. Thomas, born De- cember 27, 1777, married Bacon ; died August 6, 1846. 9. Lydia (twin) born Octo- ber 27, 1780, died June 27, 1813; married Samuel Fletcher, of Littleton. 10. Lucy (twin), born October 27, 1780, died September 20, 1837; married Elijah Putnam, of Amherst, New Hampshire.
(IV) Job Webber, son of Captain John Webber (3), was born in Bedford, May 16, 1769, and died there October 10, 1838. He married at Bedford, June 21, 1796, Sarah Davis, who died January 31, 1861. At the close of the Revolution he and his brother Asa enlisted for the war with the Indians on the frontier. Children, born at Bedford: I. John, born April 25, 1797, died September 24, 1879. 2. Sally (twin), born June 9, 1798, died De- cember 27, 1857; married James Park. 3. Nancy (twin), born June 9, 1798, died March
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6, 1879. 4. Artemas, born May 31, 1800. 5. Job, Jr., born November 23, 1801, died Febru- ary 19, 1875. 6. Eliza Farley, born June 12, 1805, died January 21, 1839. 7. Benjamin Newton, born August 24, 1812. Some of the children were born in Littleton whither the parents removed.
(V) Benjamin Newton Webber, son of Job Webber (4), was born at Littleton, Massachu- setts, August 24, 1812. He received his edu- cation in the district schools of Littleton and East Chelmsford, now Lowell, whither he came to live when he was thirteen years old. He began work when very young in the mill of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, but left after a short time to attend the Pinker- ton Academy at Derry, New Hampshire, from which he graduated, and afterward became a teacher in the public schools of Derry. In 1833 he returned to Lowell and entered the employ of Atherton & Buttrick as clerk in their grocery store, then located in the old city hall building on Merrimack street. In the meantime his family had returned to Bedford to live. Web- ber became a valuable asset in the business of his employers, and in 1850 was admitted to partnership in the firm and the name changed to Buttrick & Company. The store was lo- cated later on Market street. Mr. Webber was eminently successful in his business ; he knew the grocery trade thoroughly. At the time of his death he had been in the grocery business longer than any other man in the city and was undoubtedly the best known man in the busi- ness in Lowell. In all he was in this business for fifty-eight years. In all lines of business and in all walks of life his name stood for the best qualities of manhood; for justice, honor and integrity in business relations ; kindness, benevolence and uprightness in private life. He was especially beloved by the friends who knew him well. He took but little interest in social or public affairs ; he was devoted to his domestic and business concerns. He was pro- nounced and firm in his religious convictions, and for many years was a faithful member of Shattuck Street Universalist Church of Lowell. He was active in the support of its charities and in attendance upon its services. He died at his home in Lowell, January 9, 1892.
He married, September 5, 1837, Ann Urie, of Bedford (see Bedford history.) She was born in Scotland in 1816, of good old Scotch- Presbyterian stock, and died at Lowell in 1883. Their only surviving child was Annie Cora, who resides in Lowell in the house built by her father. Three other children died in infancy. .
Early ancestors of the Clapps CLAPP were closely identified with the settlement of Boston, Dorchester, Northampton and other places in Massachu- setts. The first of the name to arrive in New England was Captain Roger Clapp, who was chosen military commander at Boston with headquarters at the Castle. A favorable re- port sent by him to England induced his cous- ins, Nicholas and John, sons of Richard Clapp, to seek a home in the newly organized colony, the former arriving in 1633, and the latter shortly afterwards.
Nicholas Clapp, born in England in 1612, settled in Dorchester, where he became prom- inent in public affairs and was deacon of the church. That he was regarded as a man of sound judgment is attested by the fact of his being selected to serve upon a jury at a special court to settle certain disputes relating to the Lynn Iron Works, in 1653. He died Novem- ber 24, 1679. He resided in the northerly part of Dorchester, on the west side of what is now Columbia road, just south of Edward Ev- erett square, a locality long known as the Five Corners. For his first wife he married his cousin, Sarah Clapp, a sister of Captain Roger Clapp, previously mentioned, and his second wife was Abigail Sharp, widow of Robert Sharp, of Brookline. The children of his first union were: Sarah, Nathaniel, Ebenezer and Hannah. His second wife bore him one son, Noah.
Nathaniel Clapp, second child and eldest son of Nicholas and Sarah (Clapp) Clapp, was born in Dorchester, September 15, 1640. Joint- ly with his brother Ebenezer he was appointed administrator of his father's estate, and he ac- cumulated considerable property in addition to his inheritance. He was one of the two con- stables in Dorchester for the year 1671, and fully merited the esteem and confidence ac- corded him by his fellow-townsmen. His death occurred May 16, 1707. March 31, 1668, he married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Law- rence Smith, and she died September 19, 1722. Their children were: Nathaniel, an early graduate of Harvard College : John, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Ebenezer and Mehitable.
Ebenezer Clapp, fourth son and fifth child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Smith) Clapp, was born in Dorchester, October 25, 1678. He resided at the Five Corners and died May 20, 1750, leaving a large estate. He married Han- nah Clapp, who was born in Dorchester in 1681, daughter of Elder Samuel Clapp, and a granddaughter of Captain Roger Clapp. She died August 9, 1647. They were the parents
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of eight children: Ebenezer, Hannah, John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Elizabeth, Roger and Mary.
Ebenezer Clapp, eldest child of Ebenezer and Hannah (Clapp) Clapp, was born in Dor- chester, October 4, 1705. He was an active, energetic man, carrying on a tannery in con- nection with his farm, and he died in the prime of life, January 10, 1752, aged forty-six years. He was married February 21, 1727-8, when twenty-two years old, to Hannah Pierce, who was then nineteen. She was a daughter of John and Abigail Pierce, of Dorchester, and her death occurred November 24, 1757, in the forty-ninth year of her age. She was the mother of eleven children : Abigail, Ann, Eb- enezer, Daniel, Lemuel, Hannah, John, Eliza- beth (who died in infancy), Elizabeth, Elisha and William.
William Clapp, youngest child of Ebenezer and Hannah ( Pierce) Clapp, was born in Dor- chester, August 8, 1745. He was a carpenter, and resided in Boston where he plied his call- ing with energy, but his activities were sud- denly terminated by his untimely death, which occurred March 8, 1778, at the age of thirty- two years. He was married December 1, 1768, to Sarah Tileston, of Boston, daughter of Oneisphorus Tileston, whose residence was on Purchase street, opposite his wharf. She bore him three children : William Tileston, John and Mary.
William Tileston Clapp, eldest child of Wil- liam and Sarah (Tileston) Clapp, was born either in Dorchester or Boston, September 4, 1770. He became a bookseller in Boston, hav- ing in 1795 a store at the corner of Proctor's lane (now Richmond street), and in 1799 was located on Fisk (now North) street. In 1807 he issued a new edition of "The Memoirs of Captain Roger Clapp," at that time nearly out of print. He subsequently removed to Cincin- nati, Ohio, and died September 13, 1818, while on his way from that city to New Orleans. September 14, 1794, he married Lucretia Hewes, born April 1, 1775, daughter of Shu- bael Hewes, and they became the parents of eleven children : Martha Hewes, William John, Sarah Tileston, Ann Lucretia, Charles, Shubael Hewes, Lucretia Hewes, Joseph Hewes, Abi- gail Seaver Hewes, Charlotte Ann Hewes and Lydia Carver. (N. B. Some of these children must have died young, for, had they been con- temporaneous with each other, the similarity of their names would have been rather per- plexing.) Mr. Clapp's widow, accompanied by her children, returned to Boston, where she resided for many years with two or three of her daughters, and she died April 4, 1857.
Joseph Hewes Clapp, eighth child and youngest son of William Tileston and Lucretia (Hewes) Clapp, was born in Boston, Novem- ber 7, 1806. He learned the watch-maker's. and jeweller's trade, and for a number of years was established in that business at Augusta, Maine. He died 1890. September 8, 1835, he married Caroline Allen, of Boston, who died in Roxbury, December 15, 1839, aged twenty- seven years, leaving one son, Joseph Willett, who will be again referred to. He was married a second time in Portland, Maine, September 24, 1841, to Julia Octavia Chandler, of Au- gusta, born December 13, 1821. She became the mother of seven children: George Allen and Julia Chandler (twins), born July 18, 1843, died December 10, 1844. John Alphonzo, born September 1, 1844. Julia Maria, born September 6, 1846. Ella Louise, born February 13, 1848. Samuel Hewes, born November 16, 1850. William Tileston Clapp, born January II, 1853.
Joseph Willett Clapp, only child of Joseph Hewes and Caroline (Allen) Clapp, was born in Marlboro, New Hampshire, July 19, 1838. From the public schools of Boston he entered those of Augusta, where his studies were con- cluded, and while still young he obtained a po- sition in the service of the Portland and Ken- nebec Railroad, which is now a part of the Maine Central system. He worked his way forward to a responsible position in the treas- urer's department, and was finally appointed general ticket agent, in which capacity he con- tinued for some time, but was finally com- pelled by impaired health to seek a more in- vigorating occupation, after having been con- nected with the railway service for twenty- one years. About the year 1895 he removed to Ashland, Massachusetts, where he engaged in farming, and he resided there for the re- mainder of his life, which terminated August 17, 1907.
In politics Mr. Clapp was a Republican, and while residing in Augusta participated quite actively in public affairs, serving with ability in both branches of the city government. He was made a Master Mason in Augusta and passed upward through the chapter and coun- cil to the commandery in that city. His re- ligious affiliations were with the Universalists. He was married November 8, 1860, to Eliza Jane Downe, born in Bangor, Maine, April 18, 1833, daughter of Joseph N. and Caroline M. (Taylor) Downe. Mrs. Clapp's father was a native of Boston and her mother was born in Castine, Maine. Of this union there is one son, Walter Allen Clapp, born in Augusta,
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April 18, 1865. The latter acquired his early business training in the rubber stores of C. M. Clapp, in Boston, but later became travelling representative of the Hodgman Rubber Com- pany, and is now in the employ of a cutlery concern. He is unmarried and resides with his mother in Ashland.
TRIPP It is the general belief that the Tripp family of Maine was found- ed on this side of the ocean by an immigrant from the county of Kent, England, who settled in Wells, that state. This immi- grant was Samuel Tripp, the date of whose arrival is somewhat uncertain, but it was prob- ably quite early in the eighteenth century. He cleared a farm from the wilderness, was in various other ways instrumental in developing the natural resources of southwestern Maine, and he reared a family of five children. Ben- jamin Tripp, a shipbuilder, probably went from York county to Waldo county very early in the last century, and locating at Prospect, or that part of it which is now Searsport, he constructed the first vessel ever launched in that town. He also engaged in farming. His death occurred in November, 1840. The rec- ords examined fail to give the maiden name of his wife, whom he married in York county, perhaps Alfred, but they state that Jessie, Ly- dia, Samuel, Mary and Benjamin were his children.
Samuel Tripp, son of Benjamin Tripp, Sr., was born at Alfred in 1800. He was an in- dustrious farmer of Prospect, and died Decem- ber 30, 1870. He married Lucy Bean, of Al- fred, and reared a family of eleven children : Albion K., Mrs. Sarah A. White, Jefferson J., Mrs. Adeline P. Hopkins, George Addison, Nathaniel G., Martin V., Mrs. Annie Horton, Frances A. and Flavilla A. (twins), and Mrs. Abbie J. Courant. The mother of these chil- dren died 1886.
George Addison Tripp, third son and fifth child of Samuel and Lucy (Bean) Tripp, was born in Prospect (Searsport), September 23, 1833. After concluding his attendance at the public schools he served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, which he followed as a journeyman for some years, and in 1860 lo- cated in Hudson, Massachusetts. Relinquishing his trade he spent three years as an operative in a shoe factory, and in 1864 engaged in the manufacture of shoe boxes, establishing the firm of Tripp Brothers. This concern also engaged in the ice business, which they carried on some ten years, but in 1874 Mr. George A.
Tripp sold his box manufacturing interests, re- taining his interest in the ice business and con- ducting it successfully for the succeeding twelve years. He was one of the organizers of the Hudson Electric Light Company, of which he acted as superintendent for eleven years, and at the present time is devoting a consider- able portion of his time to the banking interests of that town. For nearly thirty years he has been a director of the Hudson National Bank, has for a number of years served as one of the auditors and also upon the investment com- mittee of the Hudson Co-operative Bank, and is also serving in the last-named capacity for the Hudson Savings Bank. In addition to rendering able service to the town as a select- man he was for fifteen years a member of the board of assessors, was for two years overseer of the poor and previously connected with the fire department. Politically he acts with the Republican party, having voted with that party since its organization. He is well advanced in the Masonic Order, being a member of Doric (Blue) Lodge, and is a charter member of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar.
In 1867 Mr. Tripp was united in marriage with Fanny S. Kidder, of Sterling, Massachu- setts. They have had three children: Charles A., born November 7, 1870, is an electrical and mechanical engineer, located in Indianapolis, Indiana ; married (first) Nancy Brown, one child died in infancy ; married (second) Maud Elizabeth Wright. Lucy, born 1871, died in 1872. Mabel K., born June 24, 1876.
Anthony Ludlam, the im- LUDLAM migrant ancestor, was born, it is said in the parish of Mar- loch, Derbyshire, England, and came with his brother William to America. Originally the name Ludlam and Ludlow were the same. Possibly James Luddam or Ludden, of Brain- tree, Massachusetts, was of the same family. Another authority says that Anthony Ludlam was from Yorkshire, England. He came to America before 1640 and settled in that year at Southampton, Long Island. His brother Wil- liam also settled there. Anthony was on the list of taxpayers in 1657. His family removed to Bridge Hampton. The family of William Ludlam removed to Watermill. According to the history of Southampton the children of Anthony were: I. Anthony, Jr., born 1652. died 1682. 2. Joseph, removed to Oyster Bay. mentioned below. 3. Isaac. 4. Henry.
(II) Joseph Ludlam, son of Anthony Lud- lam (1), was born at Southampton, Long
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Island, New York, in 1675. He removed to Oyster Bay, Long Island, and thence to Cape May, New Jersey, where he purchased a tract of land at what has since been known as Lud- lam's Run or Debby Hands Run, on the di- vision line between Dennis and the upper town- the Pythian Sisters of Melrose. In politics he ship on the Seashore Road. It is about twenty miles northeast of Cape May Point. He also bought Ludlam's Beach, named for him. He raised cattle extensively and was also inter- ested in whaling vessels. He bought Dennis Neck, lying between Dennis creek and Sluice creek, in 1719, for one hundred and sixty- three pounds. He divided this lot between his sons Anthony and Jeremiah. Anthony divided his Dennis Neck property between his sons Anthony, Reuben and Providence, bequeath- ing his saw mill to his son Providence. The history of Cape May county says that Ludlam came to Cape May with an emigration of whalers from Long Island in 1692; purchased beaches and upland on which he raised cattle. He was the founder of the Cape May family ; a prominent citizen and often held public of- fices. The registered "ear-marks" of his cat- tle was "And El" "under the left Eare," re- corded by the phonographic clerk March 13, 1696-97. This mark subsequently became that of his son Anthony. He died at Cumberland, New Jersey, in 1761. Children of Joseph: I. Anthony, was also prominent at Cape May. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Jeremiah.
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