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(VII) Sewall Diggins Samson, son of John Samson (6), was born in Lunenburg, Octo- ber 4, 1831. He was left fatherless at the age of eleven years, and was thereafter employed upon the farm of James Tweed in Lunenburg, attending school during the winter terms for several years. When he was sixteen years old he entered the employ of Amos Shattuck, of Woburn, and worked on his farm for a year, then became an apprentice in Mr. Shat- tuck's sash, door and blind factory. After spending two years and a half in learning this trade, he went to work as a journeyman for Theodore Collamore and Collamore Brothers. From Woburn he went to Medford where he was employed until 1862 by Waterman Litch- field. In 1862 he began work as casemaker in the piano factory of Mason & Hamlin, Boston, becoming in time foreman of the cabinet de- partment. He also had charge of the con- struction of various parts of the piano and organ cases. He was with this concern for more than thirty years, the last ten being en- gaged in contract work for the company. He retired in 1893 to devote himself to the care of an invalid wife, a duty he faithfully per- formed until her death. From 1898 to the present time he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business, with offices at 50 Central street, Montvale. He is a justice of the peace and conveyancer also. In 1855 Mr. Samson purchased of Stephen Swan, of Ar- lington, the estate at 280 Montvale avenue, Woburn, formerly known as the Goodyear place, once the home of the inventor, Charles Goodyear, who revolutionized the manufac-
ture of shoes with his patent for vulcanizing rubber.
In politics Mr. Samson is non-partisan, though always interested in public affairs. He was selectman for several years under the Woburn town government; assistant assessor three years; assistant engineer of the fire de- partment and was at one time a police officer. He was formerly active in the Democratic party and served it as 'delegate to various state and county conventions. He is a member of Mount Horeb Lodge of Free Masons ; of Wo- burn Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, since Feb- ruary 26, 1881. He is a member and past re- gent of Baldwin Council, No. 125, Royal Ar- canum, and is at present an officer of that or- ganization. In religion he is a Unitarian, though formerly a Congregationalist.
He married, May 9, 1853, at Medford, Mas- sachusetts, Hannah Shirley Bucknam, born in Stoneham, in 1826, died in Woburn, March 26, 1898, daughter of Asahel and Hannah (Shirley) Bucknam. He was a prominent Free Mason. They have one daughter, Helen Josephine, born June 11, 1855, married Albert Dexter Carter, of Woburn, and they have one child, Carl Carter, born August 13, 1882.
William Richardson
RICHARDSON lived in Birkenhead, England, and was a weaver by trade. He married Ann -
(II) Edward Richardson, son of William Richardson (I), was baptized in the Birken- head church in 1823. He married Eunice Edge, daughter of William Edge, in 1850. He was gifted with musical talent and became one of the most prominent composers of his day in England. His wife died soon after the birth of their son George, and he died in the prime of life shortly after his wife's death. Of their seven children, three are living in 1908. Children : 1. Edward, resides in York, England. 2. Thomas, resides in Chelsea, Massachusetts. 3. George, mentioned below.
(III) George Richardson, son of Edward Richardson (2), was born July 13, 1852, in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Left an orphan at a tender age and the youngest of a family of seven children, he was reared by his- mother's sister, Mrs. Sarah (Edge) Sander- son. In 1864 he came to America with his aunt's family and settled in Boston, Massa- chusetts, where he was educated in the public schools. He engaged in the furniture business after leaving school, and learned the business thoroughly. Eventually he embarked in busi- ness as manufacturers' agent for furniture,.
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having large sales rooms in Boston. He is well known in the furniture trade throughout New England. He has resided for many years at Malden, Massachusetts, and is a mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal church of that city. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, July 1, 1890, Carrie Maria Hooper, daughter of Nathaniel Mackintire and Emily (Goldsmith) Hooper. (See sketch of the Hooper family herewith). She was educated in the public schools of her native city of Salem and was graduated at the Salem Normal school in 1887. They have no chil- dren.
HOOPER There were three immigrants of the surname Hooper in New England before 1650, and all the evidence indicates that they were related, perhaps brothers. Richard Hooper was a pioneer at Hampton, New Hampshire, and Watertown, Massachusetts. William Hooper, born in England in 1617, came in the ship "James" in July, 1635, and settled in Reading Massachusetts, in 1644; was admitted a free- man May 10, 1648; married Elizabeth
who was also a member of the Reading church; died December 5, 1678. Children : I. Mary, born November, 1647. 2. James, born and died 1649. 3. Sarah, born Decem- ber 7, 1650. 4. Ruth, born April 15, 1652, died April 15, 1653. 5. William, born No- vember 3, 1658 (resided in Reading and could not be the William of Manchester) 6. Han- nah, born March 31, 1662. 7. Elizabeth, born August 20, 1665. 8. Thomas, born April 2, 1668. 9. John, born July 5, 1670.
(I) Robert Hooper, the third of these ini- migrant ancestors, came from England and located at Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was born in 1607. He or his son of the same name bought a house there in 1663, other land in 1665 and sold them in 1681. He married Elizabeth Children: I. John, men- tioned below. 2. Robert, Jr., married Ann Greenfield. 3. Henry. 4. George, of Bos- ton ( ?).
(II) John Hooper, son of Robert Hooper (I), was born about 1640. He lived in Mar- blehead and doubtless followed the sea. We know little of these first two generations, ow- ing in some measure to loss of public records. Christian Hooper, wife of John, according to the best evidence at hand, and unquestionably the wife of one of the sons of Robert (I) named above, joined the Marblehead church, and her seven children were baptized August iv-39
23, 1685, in the Marblehead church under her right as a member, not mentioning her hus- band's name, a proof that he was not a member. None of the births of their eight children are known. Children, baptized Au- gust 23, 1685: John, Christian, Benjamin, Elizabeth, William, mentioned below; Joseph, Samuel, married in Boston, February 16, 1694, Mary White; Deliverance, baptized July 21, 1689. The order of birth is not known.
(III) William Hooper, son of John and Christian Hooper (2), was born in Marble- head in 1674, baptized August 23, 1685. He married, at Marblehead, December 9, 1697, Abigail Mansfield. An Abigail Hooper, wid- ow of William, died at Marblehead, Decem- ber 9, 1697, Abigail Mansfield. An Abigail Hooper, widow of William, died at Marble- head or was buried there in 1740, aged sev- enty-two. A widow, Abigail, died at Man- chester where the family lived, October 9, 1769, aged eighty-seven years. Another date, in the records also, October 12, 1768, is given for this death. William died at Manchester, January 20, 1755, aged eighty-one, at Man- chester. Abigail of Manchester may have been his second wife, (Abigail Gail?). He settled in Manchester, then Jeffry's Creek, now Manchester, originally Salem, Massa- chusetts. At least one account states William came from England after King Philip's war, whereas he must have moved from the ad- jacent town of Marblehead. if the above ac- count is correct. This authority gives the wife of William as Abigail Allen, and the par- ents of William as William and Abigail (Gail) but the date of death (1678) shows apparently some confusion with William of Reading, whose wife was not Abigail. From this point the lineage is definitely traced from the public records of Manchester where the family has lived to the present time. Children: I. Wil- liam, Jr., resided at Manchester. 2. Andrew, mentioned below. Perhaps daughters.
(IV) Andrew Hooper, son of William Hooper (3), was born in 1705 in Manchester, died there September 3 or 4, 1779, aged sev- enty-three. He married, at Manchester, No- vember 4, 1729, Miriam Allen, who died June 25, 1798, aged eighty-one years. Children, born at Manchester: I. Andrew, Jr., born August 4, 1730. 2. Mary, born October 18, 1732. 3. Edward, mentioned below. 4. Rachel, born March 3, 1737-38. 5. William, baptized November 2, 1740. 6. William, born October 22, 1742. 7. Daniel, baptized June 23, 1745. 8. David, born May 28, 1745. 9-
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Miriam, born November 16, 1747. IO. Enos, baptized November 4, 1750, died November 23, 1756.
(V) Edward Hooper, son of Andrew Hooper (4), was born October 25, 1735, at Manchester, and always lived in that town. He was a soldier in the Revolution in Cap- tain Joseph Whipple's company, defending the seacoast at Manchester and Gloucester in 1775 ; also in Captain William Pearson's com- pany (third) in 1776 at Gloucester; also in Captain Gardner's company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment (fifth); also in Captain Benjamin Bates's company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment, enlisting for three years and serving his term faithfully. He married, at Manchester, December II, 1759. Children, born at Manchester : I. Edward, Jr., born November 21, 1759. 2. Andrew, born De- cember 27, 1761. 3. Patty, born March 27, 1764. 4. Molly, born April 10, 1766. 5. Na- thaniel, mentioned below. 6. Israel, born Sep- tember 14, 1770. 7. Abigail, born August 30, 1772. 8. Daniel, baptized February 12, 1775. (VI) Nathaniel Hooper, son of Edward Hooper (5), was born at Manchester, April 20, 1768. He resided at Manchester, and mar- ried, December 1, 1791, at Gloucester, Polly Greenleaf, who lived to the advanced age of ninety-five years, eight months. He was a sea-faring man, like most of his ancestors, and was lost at sea off the coast of France. Children, born at Manchester. I. Edward, born September 7, 1792. 2. Nathaniel, men- tioned below. 3. Polly, born October II, 1797.
(VII) Nathaniel Hooper, son of Nathaniel Hooper (6), was born in Manchester, January 7, 1796. He married Lydia Mackintire. He was a shoe manufacturer at Salem, Massa- chusetts. Children : I. Nathaniel Mackin- tire, born September 10, 1818. 2. Lydia Ann, married (first) Willard Munroe and (second) John Ashby; child by first husband, Elmira Munroe, died young ; child of second marriage Williard Ashby, married Jennie Wassall, and had Herbert Ashby, who died unmarried in Arabia, Asia. 3. Mary Elizabeth, married Henry Morgan, of Beverly, Massachusetts ; no children. 4. John M., married Ellen Brown, who lived in California ; died at Salem in March, 1907 ; no children. 5. Hannah El- len, died aged five years. 6. Kathrine H., died unmarried. 7. Hannah Ellen, died un- married in Boston. 8. Margaret Eliza, born December 24, 1835, married, April 12, 1860, William Keith Leach, born March 18, 1818, in East Charlemont, Massachusetts, and died
October 3, 1886. Mr. Leach married (first) Sarah Ann Corey and had children: i. Eliza Maria Leach, died aged fourteen; ii. William Edwin Leach, married Rosa Putnam, and had Edith Leach and Warren Leach; iii. Frank Albert Leach, died aged four years ; iv. Sarah Leach, died in infancy; v. Arthur Everett Leach, died June, 1906, unmarried ; Children of William K. and Margaret Eliza Leach : vi. Horace Irving Leach, born at Boston, Febru- ary, 1861, died in infancy ; vii. Walter Hooper Leach, born March 16, 1863, married Estella Felton, of Charlestown, and had daughter Dor- othy : viii. Alice Gertrude Leach, born July 6, 1866, married Samuel Felton, brother of Estella, and had daughter Ruth; ix. Nathaniel Leach, died in infancy ; x. Sarah Ellen Leach, born July 8, 1872, living in Malden. 9. Sarah Caroline, died January, 1899, unmarried.
(VIII) Nathaniel Mackintire Hooper, son of Nathaniel Hooper (7), was born in Salem, .September 10, 1818. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and worked at the shoemaker's trade in his youth in the employ of his father. He left the shoe busi- ness to take a position in the United States custom house at Salem. He is a member of the Unitarian church. In politics he is a Re- publican. He joined the Salem Cadets when a young man and has continued a member to the present time. In 1908 he was living with his daughter, Mrs. George Richardson, in Malden, Massachusetts, of remarkable vigor and health for his years. He married Emily Goldsmith, who died February 23, 1907, at Malden, daughter of Nathan and Abigail Goldsmith, of Ossipee, New Hampshire. Chil- dren of Nathaniel M. and Emily Hooper : I. Anna, born September, 1849, married Wil- liam H. Nichols, of Salem. 2. Emma, born July 23, 1853, died October 13, 1892. 3. Grace, born September 10, 1857, married C. H. Den- man, of Westfield, New Jersey. 4. Carrie M., born May 27, 1862, married George Richard- son. (See his sketch).
The surname Deihl is of Dutch DEAL origin. In some branches of the family in this country the spelling has been anglicized to Diel and Deal. An im- portant branch of this family, spelling the name Deihl, settled in Virginia. In 1784 Sam- uel, Philip and George Deihl of this Virginia family removed to Pennsylvania and settled in Colerain. Philip and George have no de- scendants, but the descendants of Samuel Deihl are very numerous and prominent in Pennsylvania and neighboring states.
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(I) Henry Deihl, born about 1700, was one of the earliest settlers in the Mohawk Valley, New York, and was one of the sturdy Dutch pioneers who braved the terrors of the wilder- ness to settle at Schenectady. It may be that two or three generations of his family had lived in New Amsterdam before this new set- tlement in the Mohawk, but if so, the tracing of them is impossible because of the lack of surnames. The Dutch for several generations followed their custom of nomenclature in the old country without the use of surnames in most of the records. The fact that Deihl mar- ried the daughter of a Swiss-German to- gether with the absence of the name Deihl in the New Amsterdam records and the records of other Dutch towns in New York and New Jersey points to the probability that Deihl was also an immigrant. He married Elizabeth Frey, daughter of Heinrich Frey, Jr. Hein- rich Frey, Sr., was the first settler of the Mo- hawk Valley with the little colony of 1689. The stone house of the Frey family built in 1739 on the original homestead is still stand- ing. Heinrich Frey, Jr., died at the age of forty years, leaving three sons and three daughters, one of whom, Elizabeth, married a Deihl. (Frontiersman of New York p. 97). Heinrich Frey, Sr. was a native of Zurich, Switzerland, of ancient Dutch ancestry. Chil- dren: I. Henry, Jr., settled in Canada and fought with the French against the English, and is said to have been present during the Cherry Valley massacre. 2. Bastian or Se- bastian, mentioned below. 3. William, mar- ried at Albany, Caty McGahary, and had daughter Jane, July II, 1778, mentioned in city records in 1785; a Mary Deal died at Albany, October 30, 1865, aged one hundred and three. Perhaps daughters.
(II) Bastian or Sebastian Deal or Diel, son of Henry Deihl (I), was born in Schenectady, about 1730. He married into a prominent Dutch family of Albany, Catherina Ruyter. The first family of this name at Albany was that of Frederic Ruyter, who married Eggeltie Vander Werken, February 6, 1738, at Albany. Children : i. Frederic, Jr., buried May 19, 1746; ii. Margaret Ruyter, born May 29, 1739; iii. Elisabeth Ruyter, born October 5, 1740; iv. Hendrick Ruyter, born September 26, 1742; v. Johannes, born February 26, 1744; vi. Catharina, born January 10, 1746. Deal's wife was probably sister of Frederic Ruyter, Sr. Sebastian Deal lived in Albany until about 1762. He was there in October, 1761, when his daughter was baptized. He settled finally in the territory in the Hoosic
Valley in what is now Vermont, then claimed by New York province. Dutch families had squatted as early as 1724 along the Hoosic river without legal title to their lands. Who they were is not known. About the time that Deal settled in Pownal the families of Gregor, Van Norman, Anderson, Westen- house, Forsburg, and Voss appear in connec- tion with lands subsequently claimed under patents originating in New York, extending into Pownal about three miles on its western part. These early settlers were pioneers of the first quality, and if their hearts in most cases did not sympathize with the Republicans of 1776, it was because they were satisfied through their strong, conservative prejudices to continue in their old habits of thought. They saw old ideas which they had cherished rejected, kings whom they adored insulted and despised. These Dutch were loyalists during the Revolution.
The Forsburgs settled on lands now known as the Green Brimmer place. Hogle and Se- bastian Deal occupied lands lately owned by Mrs. Bovie and Nathan Bullock. Hogle was killed by the Indians and left a widow and son. Deal married (second) Widow Hogle, and succeeded to the farm. In 1764 John Horsford and Isaac Charles held titles to the same lands that Voss and Deal possessed, hav- ing their grants from New Hampshire prov- ince. Sheriff Ashley tried to eject Voss and Deal, but was interruptel by the sheriff of Al- bany who appeared and arrested Ashley and others. The litigation over these counter claims was not settled until after 1800. Deal and his neighbors took no active part in the Revolution until 1777. Then they expressed their hostility to the popular cause by joining the British before Saratoga. Deal, Hogle and Forsburg took their places behind the breast- works of the British. It appears that Fors- burg for some cause was late and did not ar- rive until the battle had begun. He proceeded to take his place at the side of Deal and was about to greet him with a handshake when Deal, indignant and angry at the delay of his neighbor, struck at him with a knife, beginning a feud that lasted until death. Young Hogle was killed in this battle. In 1790, when the federal census was taken, there were but two families of this name in Vermont, that of Se- bastian and of his son Peter. Sebastian, or Bastian, as his name is misspelled, had one son under sixteen and two females, probably wife and daughter, in his family. The son may have been a step-son, the name not being given. Children, born at Albany: I. Petrus
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(III) Peter Deal, son of Bastian or Se- bastian Deal (2), was baptized in Albany, New York, April 8, 1757. He removed with his father to what was later Pownal, Vermont, when a young child. According to the census of 1790 Peter was then married and had two daughters (three females in his family). Be- sides these daughters he had a son, John Peter, mentioned below.
(IV) John Peter Deal, son of Peter Deal (3), was born in Pownal, Vermont. He re- sided at Highgate, Vermont, and Almond, Canada East. He married, April 3, 1830, Rox- anna Brigham, who was born at Petersham, Massachusetts, June 22, 1794, died in St. Al- mond, Canada, April 16, 1881, daughter of Edward and Beulah (Hawes) Brigham. (See Brigham sketch). Children: I. Edward F., born at Highgate, October, 1833, mentioned below. 2. Evelin M., resides on the Deal homestead at Highgate, is unmarried. 3. Hi- ram B., resides unmarried at St. Almond, Canada. 4. Daughter.
(V) Edward F. Deal, son of John P. Deal (4), was born in Highgate, Franklin county, Vermont, October 1833. He married Alma Knox, born 1841, daughter of Levi Knox. He had a common school education. In 1856 he came to embarked in
Boston and the wholesale and retail grocery business in a store on Blackstone street. Child: Edward Elvin, mentioned below. Alma (Knox) Deal is descended from William Knox, who came from Eustatius, West Indies, to Boston, Mas- sachusetts, before the middle of the eighteenth century, and was a shipmaster and wharf own- er in that city. He married Mary Campbell, and their seventh of ten sons was Henry Knox (1750-1802), the distinguished book seller in Boston, and Revolutionary soldier, who for his services received promotion to major-general ; was the founder of the Order of the Cincin- nati, and its first secretary ; and served as sec- retary of war by appointment of the United States congress before the inauguration of President Washington and was retained in the first cabinet at Washington from September 12, 1789, to January 2, 1795, when he retired to his large farm near Thomaston, Maine, which place demanded his care in order to provide for his children, his compensation as secretary of war being entirely inadequate for that purpose.
(VI) Dr. Edward Elvin Deal, son of Ed- ward F. Deal (5), was born in East Boston, Massachusetts, June 5, 1864, and was fitted
for college in the public and high schools of that city. He entered Harvard College with the class of 1886, but left the regular course to take up the study of medicine and received his degree of M. D. in 1890. He then took a postgraduate course in the Maternity Hos- pital and Hospital for Children's Diseases at Dublin, Ireland. In 1891 he returned to this country and established himself in the prac- tice of his profession at Malden, making the practice of obstetrics and of children's diseases a specialty. He is a member of the District Medical Society and of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
He married, September 20, 1895, at Mal- den, Hannah Jane Parks, born at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, daughter of Alden W. and Mary Parks. Her parents removed to Malden. Their only child is Elvin P. Deal, born in Malden, July 23, 1902.
The Howes were among the no- HOWE ble families of England many generations prior to the settle- ment of New England, and the name first ap- pears in the records during the reign of Henry VII. They owned estates in Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Nottingham and in Ireland. Two sturdy Puritans of this name- John and Abraham Howe, arrived in Massa- chusetts shortly after the settlement of Boston. They were probably relatives, perhaps broth- ers, but whether or not they came over to- gether cannot be definitely determined. Both were residing in Marlboro, Massachusetts, at the time of its incorporation (1666).
(I) John Howe, the American progenitor of Archibald M. Howe, came from Warwick- shire and was a son of John Howe, of Lan- caster, England. After remaining at Water- town for a time he went to Sudbury, going there as early as 1637, and he was admitted a freeman in 1640. There are reasons for be- lieving that he was the original white settler in Marlboro, whither he went first in 1639, and in 1663 was instrumental in building the first meeting-house, he and another early set- tler named John Ruddocke having purchased land of the Indians for that purpose. He died at Marlboro in 1687. The christian name of his wife was Mary, and his children were: John, Samuel, Sarah, Mary (who died young), Isaac, Mary, Josiah, Mary, Thomas, Daniel, Alexander and Eleazer. Several of John Howe's descendants were noted tavernkeepers.
(II) Samuel Howe, second son and child of John and. Mary Howe, was born in Sud- bury, October 20, 1642. He did not accom-
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pany his parents to Marlboro when they went to reside there permanently, but remained in Sudbury and followed the carpenter's trade. His death occurred in Sudbury, April 13, 1713. June 5, 1663, he married for his first wife Martha Bent, who was born in Sudbury about 1642, daughter of John and Martha Bent. John Bent was born at Penton, Graf- ton, England, in November, 1596, and with his wife and five small children came over in the "Confidence" sailing from Southampton in April, 1638, and having as a fellow-pas- senger Thomas Whittier, the poet. John Bent died in Sudbury, September 27, 1672, and his wife died there May 15, 1679. Samuel Howe's first wife died August 29, 1680, and on September 18, 1685, he married for his second wife Mrs. Sarah (Leavitt) Clapp, wid- ow of Nehemiah Clapp, of Hingham. The children of his first union were: John, Mary, Samuel, Martha, David and Hannah., Those of his second marriage were: Lydia, Elisha, Nehemiah, Ebenezer, Micajah and Moses. David Howe, son of Samuel, became proprie- tor of the Red Horse Tavern, Sudbury, made famous by the poet Longfellow in "Tales of the Wayside Inn," and at his death in 1759 was succeeded by his youngest son, Colonel Ezekiel Howe, who, during the Revolution- ary war commanded the Fourth Regiment, Middlesex Militia. The latter's son Adam was the next proprietor and Adam was suc- ceeded by Squire Lyman Howe, a bachelor, at whose death in 1861 the ancient hostelry passed out of the family and was closed to the public. In 1897 it was again opened as a place of public entertainment. Notable among the other tavern-keepers of this name were John Howe, eldest son of the emigrant, who opened the first public house in Marlboro ; Daniel, son of Samuel, kept the first tavern in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; and during the Revolutionary war, when Captain Cyprian Howe and Munning Sawin were rival inn- keepers in Marlboro, the following rhyme was current :
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