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(II) John Chaffin, son of Robert Chaffin (I), was born in Littleton about 1722. He settled in Acton, and died in 1771. His wife Eleanor was administratrix of his estate. He was living in 1762 on the homestead on the road from Nashoba to the gravel pit. Chil- dren, all born in Acton, and all minors at the time of his death : I. John, inherited the home- stead. 2. David, mentioned below. 3. Jona- than. 4. Molly. 5. Stephen.
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(II) Samuel Chaffin, son of Robert Chaffin (I), was born in 1732 and settled in Holden, Massachusetts, where he bought land in 1763. He was in the Revolution, a sergeant in Major Paul Raymond's company in 1775. He died November 20, 1810. He married (first), January 3, 1760, Sarah Hubbard, daughter of Samuel Hubbard, of Holden. She died September 28, 1767, aged twenty- eight; he married (second) Lucy , who died February 14, 1822, aged eighty-five. Children of the first wife: I. Samuel, born December 1, 1760, married, December 9, 1780, Abigail Heminway. 2. Tilla, born May 14, 1762, married, December 15, 1785, Han- nah Myrick. 3. Nathan, born 1764, died Oc- tober 16, 1847, aged eighty-three years, six months, four days. 4. Loel, born January 13, 1766, died November 21, 1843; married, January 20, 1791, Olive Stickney. Children of the second wife: 5. Sarah, born September 8, 1769. 6. Lucy, born April 8, 1772, married, August 30, 1792, Jeduthan Eaton. 7. John, born July 1, 1774, married, September 23, 1801, Betsey Myrick. 8. Jonas, born July 29, 1776, died September 26, 1848; married, Au- gust 2, 1801, Jerusha Dodge.
(III) David Chaffin, son of John Chaffin (2), was born in Acton about 1757. He was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain David Wheeler's company, Colonel Nixon's regi- ment in 1775 and 1776; also in Captain Ben- jamin Edgell's company, Colonel John Ja- cob's regiment in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778. His cousin, David Chaffin, of Ash- burnham, was also in the service, and also David Chaffin, of Leominster. He deeded his land in Acton and Littleton and his rights in the estate to Joseph Brown. He had a son Leonard, mentioned below, and prob- ably other children.
(IV) Leonard Chaffin, son of David Chaf- fin (3), was born about 1780, died in 1826. He married, November 28, 1805, Betsey Rice, daughter of Solomon and Mary Rice. She died September 28, 1826. Children, born in Princeton: I. Leonard Rice, born Decem- ber 3, 1806, married Sarah M. Mayfield, wid- ow. 2. Moses Albert, born June 20, 1809, died in Princeton, October 22, 1848. 3. Sar- win, born June 13, 1811, died at Boston, July 17, 1844, unmarried. 4. Edwin, born Sep- tember 18, 1813, mentioned below. 5. Mary, born January 18, 1816, married, 1840, George W. West, of Louisville, Kentucky, and resid- ed at Booneville, Missouri. 6. Adelia, born June 4, 1818. 7. Dorcas Maria, born Octo- ber 18, 1820. 8. John Crowninshield, born
April 17, 1823, resided at Newton and gave a room in the public library and a fund to the city of Newton, for poor boys; married, Au- gust 20, 1847, Mary Elizabeth Cole, of Wat- ertown. 9. Elizabeth, born March 2, 1826.
(V) Edwin Chaffin, son of Leonard Chaffin (4), was born in Princeton, September 18, 1813. He married at St. Louis, Missouri, June 4, 1844, Caroline A. Gore. (See sketch of Gore family herewith). He resided in St. Louis until about 1850, when they re- . moved to Newton, Massachusetts, where the last two children were born. Children: I. Mary A. 2. Caroline A. 3. Charles E., born March 7, 1849, started in business in the men's furnishing goods store of his uncle, John C. Chaffin, at Newton; was interested in the business for about twenty-one years, retiring in 1883 on account of poor health, and lived on a farm in Sherborn until 1898; removed to Worcester where he now resides; married Emma C. Grant, of Portland, Maine; children: i. Edwin Grant, born September 14, 1879; ii. Sarah Gordon, April 14, 1882; iii. Emma Marie, October 22, 1885. 4. Fannie M. 5. George A., born September 13, 1854, mentioned below.
(VI) George A. Chaffin, son of Edwin Chaffin (5), was born in Newton, September 13, 1854. He was educated in the common and high school at Newton and then went to New York and engaged in the men's furnish- ing business. After fourteen years of suc- cessful business he came to New England again and travelled for a firm in Boston. In religion he is a Congregationalist, and is in- dependent in politics. He is a member of the Kernwood Club of Malden, where he re- sides. He married, June 5, 1878, in Boston, Catherine Ruffe, born in Boston, daughter of John Thomas and Mary (Fay) Ruffe, of Lon- don, England. Her mother was a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Children: I. Louise Gore, born in Waltham, May 9, 1879, mar- ried, October 30, 1901, Captain W. R. Smed- bury, Fourteenth Cavalry, United States Ar- tillery, now stationed in San Francisco; chil- dren : i. William Smedbury, born at Fort Grant, Arizona, September 28, 1902; ii. Con- verse Smedbury, born at Jolo, Philippine Isl- ands, January II, 1903. 2. Edwin, born in Princeton, died June 4, 1884.
The surname Gore is an ancient GORE English surname. The spelling varies considerably in the early records, Goore and Goare being frequently used, but the present spelling is universally
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Gore. There were two immigrants of this name in New England early. Richard Gore, aged eighteen, probably related to John, mentioned below, came at the age of seven- teen in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," in April, 1635, and settled in Roxbury with John. He was admitted a freeman May 29, 1644; died September 29, 1683; married, November 30, 1639, Phebe Hewes. Chil- dren: I. Hannah, born June, 1641. 2. John, baptized with Hannah July 1, 1643. 3. Mary, born June 23, 1644. 4. Phebe, born March 12, 1645-46. 5. Joseph, born September 21, 1647. 6. Sarah, baptized March 25, 1649. 7. Joseph, born April 8, 1651. 8. Lydia, born February 20, 1652. 9. Benjamin, born and died 1654.
(1) John Gore, the immigrant ancestor, son of Richard Gore, was born in England, doubtless at Southampton, for he sent a pow- er of attorney December 23, 1644, to Joseph Browne, of Southampton, malster, to prove the will of his father, Richard Gore, and to execute it for him. His will dated 1643, was proved January 3, 1644, bequeathing to his pastor, friends, servants, leaves living at Bad- desley to son Thomas, and son John residu- ary legatee and sole executrix. He was ad- mitted a freeman April 18, 1637. He was for many years a leading citizen; was clerk of the writs, a position requiring a good education and some legal knowledge. His homestead consisted of four acres west of the Stony river, bounded on the way leading to the landing place and tide mill. The house was just beyond the present railroad crossing at Roxbury on the southwest side. The old house was taken down in 1876 and the site is now occupied by a brick building. The piaz- za which made the house so distinguished in appearance was added by its last owner in the Gore family, Watson Gore. John Gore bought land at Salisbury, the deed of which was made to his widow Rhoda August 20, 1658. His wife deposed May 19, 1655, that she was forty-five years of age. Gore died June 4, 1657. His will was proved July 30, 1657, bequeathing to wife Rhoda, children John, Samuel, Abigail, and Hannah Gore, and Mary Mylam. The widow married (sec- ond) John Remington, conveying lands of her first husband March 22, 1662. She married (third) Edward Potter. Children, except Mary Mylam and John, born in Roxbury : I. Mary, born in England, married a Mylam. 2. John, born in England, May 23, 1634, mentioned below. 3. Obadiah, born June 27, 1636, died May 7, 1646. 4. Abigail, born iv-40
August 5, 1641, died April 30, 1642. 5. Abi- gail, baptized May 7, 1643. 6. Hannah, bap- tized May 18, 1645. 7. Obadiah, baptized March 25, 1648. 8 and 9. Twins died June II, 1651. 10. Samuel, carpenter, selectman; had a son Obadiah whose son John was the father of Governor Christopher Gore, the donor of Gore Hall Library building at Har- vard College.
(II) John Gore, son of John Gore (I), was born in England, May 23, 1634, died June 26, 1704-05. He was a student at Harvard Col- lege from 1651 to 1654, was a mas- ter mariner, deposing in 1665 as mas- ter of the "Mayflower," retired on his
marriage, and became a skillful
sur- veyor of land and civil engineer. He re- sided in Roxbury and was selectman, 1687-88, and town clerk from 1688 until his death. About 1674 he leased the Bell homestead in Roxbury for twenty-one years, agreeing either to teach the free school, to provide a substitute teacher or to pay twelve pounds yearly in corn or cattle. This was the pres- ent Roxbury Latin School. He was a mem- ber of the military company from Roxbury that assisted in the hazardous and revolution- ary overthrow of the royal governor, Sir Ed- mund Andros. He married, March 31, 1683, Sarah Gardner. He was then fifty years old and yet he had a large family. Children, born in Roxbury: I. John, February 27, 1684. 2. Sarah, August 24, 1685. 3. Han- nah, February 14, 1687-88. 4. Ebenezer, No- vember 17, 1689, ancestor through Ebenezer (4), Ebenezer (5), Christopher (6), Theodore A. (7), Theodore W. (8), who is the family geneologist and has kindly revised this sketch and added many names and dates. 5. Abigail, February 15, 1691-92. 6. Abigail, August 26, 1693. 7. Samuel, September II, 1695, died young. 8. Samuel, May 15, 1697, died young. 9. Samuel, September II, 1699, mentioned be- low.
(III) Samuel Gore, son of John Gore, Jr. (2), was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, September II, 1699, died November 29, 1757, when some of his children were minors. The estate was partitioned February 3, 1773. He married, February 23, 1726-27, Mary Wil- liams. He deeded land to sons Joseph Gore, victualler, and Samuel Gore, Jr., tanner. Chil- dren, born in Roxbury: 1. Samuel, born Jan- uary 30, 1727-28, died January 30, 1730. 2. Joseph, born November I4, 1729. 3.
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Bass. 6. Sarah, born January 25, 1740, married Daniel Bugbee, Jr .; (second) Penniman. 7. Abigail, born September 29, 1743, married Daniel Leeds, of Dorchester. 8. Stephen, born July II, 1745, died young. 9. Stephen, born January II, 1747, second lieutenant in Captain Gustavus Fellows com- pany (of Ward 12, Boston) under Colonel Henry Brownfield; died July 5, 1811, at Bos- ton, without issue. Married (April 21, 1774) Zebiah May. His estate was distributed, April 26, 1813, among his brothers and sis- ters, the same who had shared in the estate of their father in 1773. In 1778 Stephen Gore and thirteen others had a grant of land on both sides of Washington street, Boston, and south side of Dover street, ending on the site of the Catholic cathedral on condition that they erect barriers to keep off the sea. An- other grant or confirmation of this grant is dated June 25, 1785. This land was divided by a lengthy deed of partition among the owners March 1, 1788. Gore received lot No. 8, about one hundred by one hundred and thirty-six feet on the south side of Wash- ington street. This land was divided among his brothers and sisters at his death. IO. Hannah, born May 7, 1749, married Jesse Brown. II. Elizabeth, born May 31, 1751, married (first) John Hannon and (second) William Walker.
(IV) Jeremiah Gore, son of Samuel Gore (3), was born in Roxbury, December 26, 1734, died July 9, 1813. He was a member of the Roxbury fire company in 1789. He deeded land to his sister's husband, Benja- min Bass, a passage way to West street, Boston, December 5, 1811. He deeded to his son Stephen more of his land on Washington street. He married (first) Mary Watson; (second), January 7, 1768, -; (third), February 18, 1773, Hannah Richards. He had fifteen children, of whom the second, Jere- miah, Jr., is mentioned below; Stephen was the ninth.
(V) Jeremiah Gore, Jr., son of Jeremiah Gore (4), was born in Boston, January 12, 1763. He was a merchant in Boston, part- ner of the firm of Gore & Harris. The partners in this firm were Jeremiah Gore, John S. Harris and Stephen Gore, Jr., later Henry Smith, Watson Gore and Jeremiah Gore, Jr., of Portland, Maine. (See inden- ture at Suffolk Deeds dated June 15, 1829), He married August 3, 1789, Thankful Harris. Children, born in Boston: I. Stephen, Jr., mentioned below. 2. Jeremiah, born April I, 1791. 3. Watson, born March 18, 1793, mar-
ried, December 8, 1818, Catherine Gates Willard. 4. Zebiah May. 5. Caroline, born October 18, 1796. 6. Thankful Harris. 7. Elias, born March 5, 1800. 8. John Harris, died young. 9. Mary Watson, died young. IO. Eleanor, died young. II. Sarah Harris, born July 19, 1806. 12. Augusta, born Au- gust 7, 1807. 13. Mary Watson, born May 3, 1809. 14. John Harris, died young. 15. Samuel, born March 23, 1813.
(VI) Stephen Gore, son of Jeremiah Gore, Jr. (5), was born August 29, 1790. He was a merchant interested in the firm of Gores & Harris. He sold property on Washington street, Boston, and pews in several churches June 18, 1829. He removed to St. Louis in 1836, and died crossing the prairies from the effects of a sunstroke, September 16, 1845, aged fifty-six years. Guardians were ap- pointed for the children July 23, 1839. He was called Stephen Gore, "the younger," in the probate records, a trader by occupation. He married Mary Ann Hyde, daughter of Gershom and Catherine (Wilson) Hyde, Jan- uary I, 1815. His home was on Newton place off Beach street, Boston. Children: I. Ste- phen Harris, born October 19, 1815, died aged one year. 2. Stephen Decatur, born May 4, 1817, died January 1, 1900. 3. Mary Ann, born December 18, 1819, died March 24, 1890. 4. William, born June 10, 1821, died in infancy. 5. John Harris, born May 8, 1822, died December 14, 1822. 6. William Henry, born January 10, 1824, died May 16, 1872. 7. Caroline Augusta, born January 25, 1826, died October 9, 1892; married, June 4, 1844, Edwin Chaffin. (See sketch of the Chaffin family herewith). 8. George Wash- ington, born April 9, 1827, died May 5, 1892. 9. Abijah Fisk, born May 19, 1831, died Oc- tober 7, 1906. 10. Catherine Wilson, born May 26, 1835, resides at Webster Groves, Missouri. Married, June 21, 1855, George Livermore, from whom she was divorced and resumed her maiden name by permission of the court.
The family of Shaw that settled SHAW in Palmer, Brimfield and Wales, Massachusetts, came from Queenstown, Ireland, in 1720, at the time of the Scotch-Irish emigration, and was doubt- less of staunch Protestant stock, either Scotch or English. Deacon Samuel Shaw and William Shaw located in the Elbows (Palmer) on farms nearly joining each other. William lived but a few years. David Shaw removed to Palmer from Brimfield in 1745.
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Seth Shaw removed from Brimfield to the Elbows as early as 1736.
There is a tradition that there were four brothers. We have the ages of the older set- tlers. The four oldest were: I. Samuel Sr., born 1672, died June 1, 1767, aged ninety- two years. 2. William, was a petitioner in 1732, and proprietor of a hundred-acre home lot at the Elbows; son William Jr. men- tioned as town officer 1752. 3. Joshua, born 1687. 4. David, born 1691. Also Samuel, born 1704, aged sixteen in 1720, when he em- igrated, and Seth, born 1707, aged thirteen, in 1720. David Shaw located at first in Brimfield, and was on a committee to attend general court to petition for incorporation of the town, and afterward he served on a similar committee for the town of Palmer. David married Mary Blackwood, whose mother died at Palmer, January 18, 1775, aged nine- ty-eight years. She died June 4, 1782, aged eighty-five. Deacon David, Samuel and Seth were active in the church and public af- fairs, men of prominence.
John Shaw, progenitor of a large number of residents in Wales, Massachusetts, came from Grafton, Massachusetts, in 1752, and settled what was afterward known as the Sewell Shaw place. He was doubtless of the same family.
(I) Deacon Seth Shaw, immigrant ancestor, born in Queenstown, Ireland, 1707, died at Wales, Massachusetts, March 29, 1798, aged ninety-one years. He was closely related to the other immigrants mentioned above, be- ing brother or nephew. Samuel Sr. was the only one of the pioneers old enough to be his father. Joshua was doubtless his brother, for Seth and Joshua held title to a large tract lying upon both sides of the present bound- ary line between Wales and Brimfield, three- quarters of a mile east of the northwest cor- ner of the town of Wales. Joshua settled on the Brimfield side of this tract, and Seth on the Wales side, in 1731, upon the premises now or lately owned by Eli Gardner. In 1736 Seth sold his farm in Wales to Humph- rey Gardner, exchanging it for Gardner's farm in Palmer. Tradition has it that Seth built the first frame house in Palmer, in 1734, in the Ware River valley, not far from Tackel's bridge. Shaw was a surveyor of land in Palmer in 1734. He became deacon of the church and a leading citizen. He married, June 17, 1731, Jane, daughter of John Erwin, who came over in the same vessel and settled at Brimfield, Massachusetts. They had three children born at Brimfield, then removed to
the Elbows, where eleven more were born. His eldest son George returned to Brimfield (from which the town of Wales was taken later) and is the ancestor of most of the Shaws of that town. Children: I. George, men- tioned below. 2. Mary, born May 1, 1734; married Joseph Lamberton. 3. Sarah, born July 27, 1736; married Robert Brown. 4. David, born November 5, 1838; married Peg- gy Quinton. 5. Seth Jr., born October 23, 1840; married Lettie Rogers. 6. Elizabeth, born March 10, 1843. 7. Margaret, born July 23, 1845; married Captain John Quinton. 8. Daniel, born February 4, 1748; married Lemon. 9. John born July 6, 1750. IO. Erwin, born December 29, 1752; married Anna Gardner. II. Jane, born April 14, 1754; married Levi Stevens.
(II) George Shaw, son of Seth Shaw (I), born July 20, 1732, died April 4, 1819; mar- ried, December 29, 1757, Catherine Shaw. He resided in South Brimfield, which was made a district of Brimfield in 1762 and a town in 1775, the name being changed to its present form (Wales) in 1828. Children, born in South Brimfield (Wales): I. Ann, born June 26, 1760; married Thomas Lumbard. 2. John, born June 7, 1762; married April 28, 1791, Mary King. 3. Eunice, born May 13, 1764. 4. Daniel, mentioned below. 5. Jane, born May 8, 1768; married Reuben Under- wood. 6. Mary, born December 3, 1771. George Shaw, of Brimfield, the only one of this name, was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain James Sherman's com- pany, Colonel Pynchon's regiment, April 19, I775.
(III) Daniel Shaw, son of George Shaw (2), born at Brimfield (Wales), March 16, 1766, died April 12, 1841; married June 13, 1793, Eunice Brown, who died September 6, 1851. Children, born at South Brimfield: I. Joshua, April 9, 1795. 2. Mary, May 8, 1797; married March 31, 1822, Joel Rogers. 3. Darius, March II, 1799. 4. Catherine, February 4, 1801; married April 25, 1819, Asa Fiske. 5. Daniel, mentioned below. 6. George, August 9, 1806. 7. Olivet, August 30, 1808. 8. Cheney Rogers.
(IV) Daniel Shaw, son of Daniel Shaw (3), was born January 26, 1803, at Wales, Mas- sachusetts. He was educated in his native town in the public schools. He was a farm- er, and also engaged in the lumber business in Wales. He married, June 8, 1825, Roxy Green. Children, born in Wales: I. Jose- phine, June 3. 1827. 2. Gardner B., Novem- ber 5, 1829; mentioned below. 3. Sarah A.,
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(V) Gardner Brown Shaw, son of Daniel Shaw (4), was born in Wales, November 5, 1829. He was educated there in the public schools. Children, born
at Wales: I. Charles Gardner, mentioned below. 2. Wil- liam Albert. 3. Albert A.
(VI) Charles Gardner Shaw, son of Gard- ner Brown Shaw (5), was born in Wales, November 21, 1855. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated from the Hitchcock high school. He engaged in the machinist business, after learning the trade, and continued for a period of twenty-five years. He was a member of Palmer Council, Royal Arcanum. He married, 1878, Mary Jane Harris, born at East Woodstock, Conn- ecticut, daughter of Loren P. Harris, of Becket, Massachusetts. Her grandfather Eliah Harris, of Becket, was sheriff for a number of years. Children: I. Walter A., mentioned below. 2. Eva Belle, born De- cember 19, 1885, died young.
(VII) Dr. Walter A. Shaw, son of Charles Gardner Shaw (6), was born at Wales, June I, 1879. He attended the public and high schools of his native town. He began to study medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia. After two years he changed to the Baltimore Medical College, where he was graduated in 1906. He was house physician at the Clinton, Massachu- setts) hospital for one year, and for eighteen months on the staff of the Mercy Hospital of Springfield, Massachusetts. He engaged in general practice August 1, 1907, with an of- fice at Southborough, Massachusetts. Dr. Shaw is a member of the Delta Mu fraternity of Baltimore Medical College.
CHISOM The family of Chisholm, or Chisom, is of Scottish origin. In Berwickshire, Inverness- shire, Perthshire and Roxburghshire, the family was established before the year 1300. Among the ancient highland chiefs was Alexander Chisholm of that Ilk and Strath- glass-Ross, in 1385.
The first settler of the name coming to New England, however, was from England. Before 1653 Thomas Chisholme was in New England. Susan Blakiston, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, gave a power of attorney August 27, 1653, to collect money due her from three settlers in New England: Andrew Stevenson, cobbler; John Trumble, cooper; and Thomas Chisholme, tailor. Perhaps he
returned home, as no traces of descendants have been found.
Two prominent British officers served in the French and Indian war. Major James Chisholm, in 1756, and Captain John Chis- holm in 1756 and 1766. Probably they re- turned with their regiments. We know nothing to the contrary. Several of the fam- ily settled in Boston and vicinity before the Revolution, however. Alexander Chisom, who married February 6, 1777, at Boston, Esther Weyman, was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, a matross in Captain Donnelly's com- pany, Colonel John Crane's regiment, in 1775. William Chisom, who resided in or near Boston, was in Captain Edmund Long- ley's company, Colonel Cogswell's regiment, in 1778. Some of this family resided at Chelmsford, and possibly it is the same as the Maine family mentioned below.
There remains to mention the Chisholms of South Carolina, from whom many distin- guished southern families are descended. Alexander Chisholm, the progenitor, came with other Scotchmen after the defeat of Cul- loden in 1746. He was born about 1725. The chief of his clan, it is said, was killed at Culloden. His son, Alexander Robert Chis- olm, of Chisolm's Island, owned one of the largest estates in South Carolina or Georgia; his houses were burned during the Revolu- tion by the British; married Sarah Glaze; died February 10, 1815, and is buried at Shel- don Church. A decendant of this Alexander and his son Alexander Robert was Colonel Alexander Robert Chisolm, born at Beau- fort, South Carolina, November 19, 1834, served under General Beauregard in the Confederate army.
Many of the name settled after 1773 with- in a few years in Nova Scotia. In the Gaelic county of Glengarry, Ontario, there were in 1852, according to the census, one hundred and thirty-three Chisolms.
(I) William Chisolm (Chisom or Chism) was the first of the name in the Kennebec country, Maine. He signed the petition April 22, 1755, with the other residents on both sides of the Kennebec river, granted to the late colony of New Plymouth and after- wards by that colony to Antipas Boys and others, praying for certain relief and assist- ance of the general court during the French war. The counties of Cumberland and Lin- coln (of Maine) were incorporated by the general court of Massachusetts, July 21, 1760. Many of the residents and proprietors were Scotch. There were names like Jacob
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Wendell, from Boston; Gershom Flagg, of the Watertown family, Nathaniel Larrabee, of an early Maine family, and James Bow- doin. These settlers believed that they would grow to become "a barrier against the Indians and French." Children: I. John, born July 2, 1753; died February 9, 1831. The Boston Chisholms may have been his sons also.
(II) John Chisom, son of William Chisom (I), born in Maine, perhaps Georgetown, July 2, 1753, died February 9, 1831. He mar- ried Catherine, daughter of Timothy Rear- don, of Georgetown. Like the Chisoms, Reardon was probably from the north of Ire- land, and came with the Scotch-Irish. The name is spelled Radden and Reirdan. Eliza- beth Reardon was appointed administrator of the estate of Timothy, June 16, 1796. The probate papers mention sons John Reardon, deceased; David and James P. Reardon; daughters Mrs. Robert Clary, Mrs. Allen Clary, Catherine, who married John Chis- holm; Mrs. William Sullivan; Mrs. David Poor and Mrs Benjamin Mckinley. The daughters all seemed to have married Scotch- men, or rather Scotch-Irish.
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