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2. Marion G., born April 2, 1888; died April 14, 1952; married January 23, 1908, Walter A. Briggs. Children (surname Briggs):
a. Kendall W., born August 11, 1909; married July 11, 1936, Evelyn Rendell; lives in Seattle, Washington. Children: 1. Howard A., born October 2, 1937; 2. Lawrence A., born July 7, 1940; 3. Stuart M., born January 23, 1942.
b. Priscilla M., born December 2, 1910; married June 23, 1935, lives in Groveton, New Hamp- shire. Child: . Annabelle J., born July 9, 1945.
c. Eleanor W., born December 23, 1912; married Francis S. Carpenter; resides in Mobile, Ala- bama; no children.
d. Clayton W., born April 2, 1916; married February 22, 1940, Dora Havemaker; chil- dren: 1. Thomas J., born August 15, 1943; 2. Kathryn J., born July 3, 1949.
e. Melvin H., born May 8, 1923; married Sep- tember 8, 1951, Barbara Peck; no children.
iii. ISABELLE W., born October 12, 1867; married July 3, 1884, FRANK WILBUR.
Child (surname Wilbur):
1. Ray Abner, born in 1898; married, is a retired naval officer, residing in Huntington, California. Child: a. Gladys Anna, married Dewey M. Knode; re- sides in Melrose, Mass .; no children.
iv. MARIA C., born November 3, 1876; married at Green- field, October 21, 1899, HALBERT V. MORSE; both are living (1953) in Athol; no children.
The name of this family has disappeared from our present inhabitants, and few who claim descent from this branch are in our township. The Bragg family are descendants, the most active member of the family, E. Kendall Bragg, now deceased, having been the most well-known of them. The writer has been advised that the Kendalls residing in the northerly part of Phillip- ston are descendants, but he has never pursued the investigation.
The Lee Family
John Leigh of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, the head of this branch of the Lee family is first named on the
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records of Ipswich in 1640, at which time the hay upon Che- bacco Way, near Labor-in-Vain Creek, was granted to him. He died July 8, 1671, but his age is unknown. Various author- ities give it from 73 to 87 years. His will, dated June 12, 1671, and proved September 26, 1671, mentions his two sons, John and Joseph, whom he appointed executors, and his wife Anne. It also mentions one "Sarah Hungerfoot", who lived in the family. His wife Anne died September 28, 1691. Family tra- ditions says "he left four daughters, one of whom was a Patch, another a Hunkins, another a Tuttle, and one named Ann lived single," but I can find no trace of them; it is singular that they are not mentioned in his will.
The following is from a manuscript of the last Dr. Joseph Lee of Concord:
"John Leigh was a younger son of an Ancient & Honorable Family of Boston Street, London. He was a person of good natural and acquired abilities; was well educated by pious parents in the principles of the Christian religion; was a high spirited man and possessed a handsome person. It seems that in the troublesome times of the reign of Charles I the family were adherents of that monarch and that John exhibited a tendency to espouse the opposite cause. To prevent this his friends induced him to come to New England which he reached, it is said, in the year 1635. He settled at Agawano, now Ip- swich, and took up land about Heartbreak Hill in the South part of the town. His friends in London furnished him with plenty of necessaries to begin a new plantation."
"It is said that his two sons agreed to write their name Lee about the year 1677."
Children (born at Ipswich): i. JOHN2, born about 1639; married Johannah 2. ii. JOSEPH, born in November, 1643.
2. JOSEPH2 LEE, (John1), born in November, 1654; died November 4, 1716, aged 73; married (1) MARY WOOD- HOUSE, oldest daughter of Henry and Eleanor (Hopkinson) Woodhouse (now contracted into Woodis) of Concord; married (2) November 15. 1697, MARY (MILES) WRIGLEY, daughter of John Miles and widow of Edmund Wrigley, who died Novem- ber 25, 1708; married (3) January 28, 1712-3, Widow MARY FOX. After Joseph Lee's death his wife, Mary, married Daniel Hoar. nephew of Leonard Hoar. at that time President of Har- vard College. Joseph Lee was brought up a husbandman, and lived in Ipswich. In 1691 he moved to Concord, and took possession of the farm of his father-in-law Woodhouse, which was held by his descendants until 1815.
Children (born at Ipswich).
WOODIS3, born October 17, 1679; died November 28, 1679.
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ii. JOSEPH, born October 16, 1680. He was ancestor of Dr. Joseph Lee of Concord, Rev. Joseph Lee of Royalston, Hon. Silas Lee, judge of Probate in Wiscasset, Maine, Captain Samuel Lee of Templeton, Thomas D. and Joseph A. Lee, cashiers of the Calais Bank, Calais, Maine, and most of the Lees of Concord, Mass., and Augusta and Calais, Maine.
iii. MARY, born July 14, 1682; married JOHN WOOD of Concord.
iv. ANN, born May 17, 1684; died 1728, probably un- married.
v. HENRY, born May 16, 1686. He was ancestor of Abner Lee, one of the proprietors of Athol, Captain Benjamin Lee, General Samuel Lee, and Captain David Lee of Barre, Hon. Gideon Lee, M. C. and Mayor of New York, Hon. William Lee, Consul to Bordeaux, France, and his son, William, in the War Department, General John Lee of Albion, New York, Hon. Artemas Lee of Templeton, and Charles Lee of Barre, lost on the Lexington in 1940.
vi. JOHN, born September 10, 1688; died December 16, 1688.
3. vii. WOODIS, born December 18, 1689.
viii. HANNAH, born April 10, 1691; died in May, 1691.
3. WOODIS® LEE (Joseph", John1), born December 18, 1869; died December 13, 1761, aged 72; married August 4, 1715, ELIZABETH WOOD, who died February 26, 1781, aged 88, daughter of Isaac and Mary Wood of Concord.
Children:
4. i. WOODIS4, (Woodis3, Joseph“, John1), born May 24, 1719.
ii. BATHSHEBA, died in infancy.
iii. BATHSHEBA, born about 1721; died unmarried in 1791, aged 70.
iv. SETH, married MOLLY CONANT; moved to Connecticut; no children.
v. ELIZABETH, died unmarried at an advanced age in Con- cord.
vi. THAMER, died in infancy.
4. WOODIS' LEE (Woodis3, Joseph“, John1), born March 24, 1719; died September 6, 1796, aged 77; married (1) De- cember 20, 1744, RUTH WARREN, born March 30, 1723, died December 7, 1745, aged 23, daughter of Captain Daniel Warren of Waltham; married (2) February 4, 1748, MARY WHITE, daughter of Joseph and Hannah White of Lexington. Although a "seakly woman," she brought up ten children.
Child by first wife (born at Weston): i. RUTH5, born October 25, 1745; married SAMUEL PIERCE, Jr., of Waltham.
Children by second wife (first two born at Weston, last eight at Lincoln):
ii. MARY, born December 23, 1748; married BENJAMIN SMITH of Lexington.
iii. HANNAH, born December 8, 1751; married TIMOTHY BROUN of Lincoln.
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iv. LUCY, born September 20, 1754; married Thomas Fes- senden of Lexington.
v. SARAH, born April 20, 1757; married REDIT JONES of Concord.
5. vi. JONATHAN, born January 26, 1759.
vii. ELIZABETH, born October 26, 17 -; married JOHN HAYWARD of Concord.
viii. ISAAC, born April 14, 1764; married LUCY STEARNS of Waltham.
ix. NATHAN, born August 19, 1700; married REBECCA PUFFER of Sudbury.
x. MITTIE, born September 12, 1769; married WILLIAM WHEELER of Sudbury.
xi. WOODIS, born August 19, 1772; married MARY FOSTER of Lincoln.
5. JONATHAN® LEE (Woodis', Woodis3, Joseph", John1), born January 26, 1759; died at Athol April 19, 1833, aged 74; married (1) in 1783 SARAH HAYWARD of Concord, who died March 1, 1804; married (2) in 1807 SYBIL BUTTERFIELD of Pepperell. He lived in Sudbury and Marlboro, Mass., New Ipswich, and Hancock, New Hampshire.
Children by first wife: i. SALLY", born in Sudbury April 17, 1784; married IONA DAVID of Hancock, New Hampshire.
6. ii. HENRY, born in Marlboro, June 11, 1786.
7. iii. WILLIAM DEXTER, born in Marlboro, March 6, 1788.
iv. DENNIS, born in New Ipswich, N. H., January 15, 1790; went south and was never heard from.
v. JONATHAN, born in New Ipswich, February 15, 1792; married and went to New York State.
6. HENRY LEE (Jonathan5, Woodis', Woodisa, Joseph“, John1), born in Marlboro June 11, 1786; died in Worcester, July 29, 1845, aged 59; married June 21, 1821, NANCY (FISH) FELTON, daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Kingsbury) Fish of Athol and widow of David Felton of Athol. Henry Lee was Town Treasurer for twenty years.
Children:
8. i. JOSEPH7, born June 23, 1822. ii. DENNIS, born September 19, 1823; unmarried.
iii. HENRY, born May 28, 1825; died September 12, 1925. iv. NANCY, born August 13, 1826; married November 13, 1853, CHARLES H. ORCUTT, born February 10, 1828, son of David and Lucretia (Baldwin) Orcutt of Phillipston; lived in Springfield.
Children (surname Orcutt): 1. HENRY LEE, born December 22, 1854. 2. ALICE LOUISE, born December 21, 1868.
9. v. HENRY, born September 3, 1828. vi. SAMUEL, born November 28, 1832; died May 1, 1834. 10. vii. SAMUEL, born February 10, 1834.
7. WILLIAM DEXTER® LEE (Jonathan", Woodis4, Woodisa, Joseph?, John1), born in Marlboro March 6, 1788; married Jan-
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uary 5, 1812, LYDIA HILL WETHERBY, born April 12, 1792,- daughter of Joseph and Lydia Wetherby of Harvard.
Children (all born in Athol):
i. WILLIAM DEXTER™, born March 8, 1813; died September 2, 1815.
ii. GEORGE HENRY, born October 23, 1914; died December 20, 1836; unmarried.
11. iii. WILLIAM DEXTER, born August 7, 1816.
iv. HARRIET MARIA, born March 25, 1818; died October 15, 1820.
v. ANGELINE MARIA, born December 27, 1820; died Au- gust 27, 1856, aged 36; married April 7, 1842, JOHN M. TWICHELL of Athol.
12. vi. JAMES MONROE, born March 2, 1822.
13. vii. MERRITT LAFAYETTE, born March 22, 1825.
14. viii. CHARLES MILTON, born May 23, 1828.
ix. HARRIET CHASTINE, born May 27, 1830; died July 1, 1835.
15. x. JOHN HOWARD, born August 15, 1834.
16. xi. SOLON WETHERBEE, born July 11, 1836.
xii. HENRIETTA CHASTINE, born August 17, 1839; died unmarried.
8. JOSEPH LEE (Henry", Jonathan5, Woodis4, Woodis3 .. Joseph?, John1), born June 23, 1822; married (1) June 21, 1851, SARAH ADELL HALL of Marcellus, New York, who. died October 27, 1854; married (2)
Child by first wife:
i. WILSON HORATIO', born May 3, 1852; died in Orange, Conn., May 9, 1948; married ORINDA LEWIS, who died in Orange a few years before her husband.
Child (adopted): 1. PRUDENCE, died in April, 1949; married John Demerest, who died probably in October, 1949; no children.
9. HENRY LEE (Henry", Jonathan5, Woodis4, Woodis3, Josephª, John1), born September 3, 1828; married May 1, 1853, HELEN S. HAMILTON, born in 1833, daughter of John and Amelia Hamilton of Syracuse, New York.
Child: i. JESSIE HAMILTON*, born September 23, 1857.
10. SAMUEL LEE (Henry", Jonathan5, Woodis4, Woodis3, Joseph2, John1), born February 10, 1834; died in Athol June 30, 1916; married May 1, 1861, HATTIE L. NOURSE, born November 28, 1838, daughter of Timothy and Lucretia (Flint) Nourse of Wallingford, Vermont. He lived in Athol, where he was postmaster for four years and town treasurer for several years; operated a hardware store.
Child:
i. FREDERICK H$., born Mar. 30, 1867, died June 14, 1951; twice married; no children. He served for a long time on · the school board in Athol.
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11. WILLIAM DEXTER™ (William Dexter", Jonathan", Woodis', Woodis®, Joseph2, John1), born August 7, 1816; mar- ried June 7, 1841, SARAH H. MUNSELL, born December 8, 1818, daughter of Elisha and Polly (Hurd) Munsell of Win- chester, New Hampshire. For some time he was engaged in the manufacture of women's and children's shoes with John S. Lewis at the upper village; he was also in the lumber business in Warwick, was for a number of years associated with Samuel Lee in a general country store known as Lee & Co., and was also an extensive dealer in real estate. He died October 13, 1871.
Children:
i. GEORGE HENRY*, born February 23, 1842; died April 25, 1845.
ii. CHARLES SEYMOUR, born December 28, 1845; died December 22, 1851.
iii. CLARA ANGELINE, born June 17, 1851; died Dec. 17, 1906; married in 1868 OTHELLO A. FAY. See Fay genealogy.
Child (surname Fay): 1. Lulu Dot, married Charles W. Pratt. See Fay gene- alogy.
iv. SARAH DELIA, born June 30, 1852; died June 3, 1854. v. ANNA, married ELMER MERRIAM.
12. JAMES MONROE LEE (William Dexter“, Jonathan5, Woodis', Woodis3, Joseph“, John1), born March 2, 1822; died November 10, 1893; married April 4, 1847, RACHEL DEX- TER, daughter of Ebenezer W. and Cynthia (Walker) Dexter of Royalston. The only one of the Lee brothers not in the shoe business, James Monroe kept a livery stable and was an ex- tensive dealer in horses; he also invested largely in real estate. He was a trustee of the Athol Savings Bank and a member of its investment committee, and also a director of the Athol National Bank, assessor, and road surveyor in Athol.
Children:
i. WARREN DEXTER*, born April 13, 1849; died June 10, 1924; married December 11, 1875, ETTA J. FROST; no children. He was engaged in several enterprises in and about Athol.
17. ii. MABEL, born May 27, 1860.
13. MERRITT LAFAYETTE' LEE (William Dexter", Jona- than", Woodis', Woodis®, Joseph", John1), born March 22, 1825; died October 23, 1904; married May 25, 1852, ELLEN ELIZABETH FESSENDEN, born November 29, 1831, daughter of Arad and Fanny (Davenport) (Yaw) Fessenden of Guilford, Vermont. He was employed for a number of years in the shoe shop of Jones & Baker at the Upper Village. and in 1861 with his brothers established the firm of M. L. Lee & Co., for the
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manufacture of men's, youths' and boys' hip boots, brogans and plow shoes, this business being carried on for 35 years, until his retirement in 1896.
Children:
i. WALTER MERRITTS, born January 10, 1859; married Nov. 21, 1887, Mary P. (Thomas) Gage, mother of Leon Gage.
Child: 1. Florence", married Victor Bragg of Athol.
ii. GEORGE HOWARD, born December 23, 1860; married Florence E. Ball, December 10, 1889.
Children:
1. Priscilla, born May 18, 1901; married July 1, 1922, Nathaniel Hastings Twichell, a selectman of Athol, who served in World War II and is still in military service; had two daughters: Priscilla Ann and Sallee.
2. Elizabeth, married (1) Harold Mott, who died - married (2) Ronald A. Waite; had two daughters by first husband: Elizabeth, unmarried; Florence E., who married Herman E. MacDonald, December 31, 1940.
3. MARGARET, married Edward L. Schmidt, November 11, 1945; lives in Athol.
ili. WILLIAM D., born June 8, 1868; died April 18, 1935 in Marlboro and was buried in Highland Cemetery in Athol. He began his business career as a shoe manufacturer in the Union Block, later removing to Marlboro, where he carried on business for many years. No children.
iv. ELLEN FESSENDEN, born Sept. 13, 1873; died unmarried March 1, 1925. She was for many years a merchant selling ladies' furnishings in Athol, and built a home on Ridge Avenue in which she died.
14. CHARLES MILTON LEE (William Dexter®, Jonathan5, Woodis4, Woodis3, Joseph2, John1), born May 23, 1828; died June 29, 1896; married (1) October 29, 1851, AMANDA B. SIMMONS, born October 16, 1827, died in 1870, daughter of John and Martha (Heston) Simmons of Lyme, New Hampshire; married (2) MINNIE HOWE of Post Mills, Vermont, who died August 8, 1912.
Children by first wife:
i. GEORGE MARSHALL៛, born August 29, 1852; died in Boston in 1916.
ii. EVERETT DEXTER, born November 10, -853; died in Athol, Sept. 1877.
iii. WELLINGTON STAR, born July 13, 1856; married Nellie Ward; died in Athol September 25, 1918; he left a large estate; his adopted son, Earl Lee, is living in Rockingham, New Hampshire.
iv. ANGELINE MARIA, born December 3, 1857; died July 15, 1884.
v. AUBURN WARE, born October 18, 1859; died October 8, 1907; married May 23, 1887, IDA DEONE, stepdaughter of Joseph T. Pero; separated before his death; no children.
vi. BAYARD B., born September 14, 1862; died September 2, 1883.
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vii. CARRIE MAE, born May 1, 1866; died January 8, 1845; married CHARLES H. BROWN of Rumney, New Hamp -. shire. Mr. Brown was an earnest worker in the Athol Bap- tist Church, of which his brother, Rev. Horace F. Brown, was pastor, serving for a time as clerk of the church.
Children by second wife:
viii. MARION, born November 1, 1878; married June 26, 1909, ARTHUR J. BERRY of 180 Main Street, who died in November, 1928; she still resides in Athol.
Child (surname Berry):
1. LEE, born in Athol, May 6, 1910; married Mary Elizabeth Walton of Butler, Missouri. He is Assistant Treasurer of the Pullman Company in Chicago. Chil- dren, born in Evanston, III .: i. Arthur Walton, born September 4, 1941; ii. Sanford Lee, born January 10, 1948.
ix. MINNIE, born July 27, 1884; married 1910 Robert Mc- Wade, Jr., who died January 19, 1938.
Children (surname Wade):
1. ROBERT III, born July 16, 1911; unmarried.
2. CHARLES LEE, born May, 1913 is married and has two children.
15. JOHN HOWARD LEE (William Dexter", Jonathan5, Woodis', Woodis“, Joseph“, John1), born August 15, 1834; died in 1908; married (1) January 4, 1858, ABBIE MARIA LAMB, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Lamb of Athol, who died October 31, 1859; married (2) October 9, 1862,. SARAH E. EMMONS of Boston, born February 21, 1841; died August, 1895.
Children (by second wife):
18. i. CARLTON HOWARD*, born December 7, 1864.
19. ii. EVELYN, born October 23, 1866.
iii. BERTHA, born November 13, 1869; died in Royalston, August 24, 1944; unmarried. iv. JOHN HOWARD, died in infancy.
v. ROBERT EMMONS, born March 20, 1878; died Novem- ber 27, 1925; married December 24, 1903, FLORENCE ARMSTRONG: no children.
16. SOLON WETHERBEE LEE (William Dexter", Jonathan5, Woodis4, Woodis“, Joseph2, John1), born July 11, 1836; married April 1, 1860, MARTHA A. COVELL, born April 25, 1837, daughter of Ephraim and Sarah (Howes) Covell of Petersham. He worked with his brothers. Charles M. and J. Howard Lee, in the shoe manufacturing business until 1883, when he en- tered the lumber business.
Children: i. ALMIRA COVELL8, born March 21, 1861; died in 1894. ii CORA H., born January 10, 1865; married August 15, 1883, FRANK E. DEXTER.
Children (surname Dexter): 1. EDITH LEE, born December 20, 1883; married Norton; now divorced; lives in Lynn, Mass.
2. ROBERT LEE, born April 16, 1887; married October 9, 1912, Barbara Bates, daughter of George D. and Abbie (Sheldon) Bates. He was graduated from. Cornell University, was with Union Twist Drill Co. in.
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Athol, later with Bates Bros. Co., and is Treasurer of the Athol Savings Bank. Child: i. Jane, born De- cember 11, 1913; married J. Weston Abar.
iii. MARY H., married January 1, 1891, CHRISTOPHER J. KRATT.
Children (surname Kratt):
1. BEATRICE, born July 29, 1891; married June 1, 1909, Philip E. Wilder.
2. HILDA C., born December 18, 1897.
3. DOROTHY A., born July 18, 1900.
4. LLOYD L., born July 17, 1908.
5. ARTHUR D., born January 20, 1912.
17. MABELS LEE (James Monroe™, William Dexter®, Jona- than", Woodis4, Woodis", Joseph?, John1), born March 27, 1860; married December 8, 1890, GEORGE S. BREWER, who died August 2, 1940. In later life Mrs. Brewer was actively en- gaged with her husband in the Brewer & Carlson Co., Ford dealers, continuing in the business after his death.
Child (surname Brewer):
i. HELEN LEE, born October 4, 1891; married CARL S. CARLSON, and died June 29, 1918.
Children (surname Carlson): 1. CARL M., born March 25, 1914; died in infancy.
2. PHYLLIS LEE, born September 29, 1915; married September 30, 1939, Ernest W. Haskins, Jr.
3. ROBERT LORING, born June 22, 1918; married December 8, 1945, Geraldine W. MacKnight. Chil- dren: i. Robert Loring, born December 2, 1946; ii. Dexter James, born September 14, 1919; ili. Severn Carl, born October 19, 1951.
18. CARLTON HOWARD LEE (John Howard, William Dexter", Jonathan", Woodis4, Woodis3, Joseph?, John1), born December 7, 1864; died April 17, 1948; married LOTTIE LEATHE, born January 20, 1872; died May 15, 1948.
Children:
i. GLADYS", born October 6, 1893; married February 25, 1913, ARTHUR COOMBS.
Children (surname Coombs):
1. PHOEBE, born May 11, 1914.
2. VIRGINIA, born February 9, 1916.
3. LEE HOWARD, born December 1, 1917.
4. IRVING BELCHER, born March 31, 1920.
5. DAVID BARTLETT, born February 4, 1930.
ii. BEATRICE, born October 5, 1894; married February 14, 1917, ALBERT HUNTRESS HAYWARD.
Children (surname Hayward):
1. CARLTON LEE, born December 6, 1917.
2. GAIL, born August, 1927; died March, 1930. 3. JUNE, born March, 1931.
19. EVELYN® LEE (John Howard, William Dexter®, Jon- athan", Woodis4, Woodis" Joseph2, John1), born October 23, 1866; died June 12, 1946; married January 15, 1889, FRANK B. CONVERSE, born March 5, 1857; died November 29, 1936.
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Children (surname Converse):
i. FRANK LEE, born May 9, 1890; married June 26, 1916, ALICE L. SIGOURNEY; no children.
ii. EVELYN, born October 18, 1891; married September 29, 1917, THEODORE MITCHELL PRUDDEN, born February- 1, 1891.
Children (surname Prudden):
1. PETER, born April 10, 1919; married May 27, 1943, Constance Thurber. Children: i. Joanna, born October 19, 1944; ii. Penelope, born May 6, 1947; iii. Peter, born July 19, 1948; iv. Deborah, born 1952.
2. CONVERSE, born January 20, 1922; married June. 10, 1948, Ann G. Folsom. Child: Stephen Brooks.
3. JOHN, born October 19, 1925.
iii. HOWARD BROOKS, born August 17, 1895; married Sep- tember 28, 1921, HELEN KNIGHT.
Children:
1. ANN, born November 11, 1922; married October 16, 1952, Chapin Wallour.
2. PENELOPE, born November 24, 1924; married January 24, 1953, Bertrand T. Cross.
iv. MADELINE, born July 3, 1897; married September 17, 1921, VICTOR D. VICKERY.
Children (surname Vickery):
1. JOAN, born March, 1929.
2. SARAH, born April, 1931.
The Lord Family
The first member of the Lord family in America was the Widow Katherine Lord, who sailed from England and landed at Ipswich in 1631. With her came, according to traditions. three sons, one of whom was
ROBERT LORD, died in 1638; married MARY WAITE. He was a freeman in 1636 and a representative in 1638; had eight children, one of whom was
THOMAS" LORD, born in Ipswich in 1633; married ALICE RAND, born in 1633/4; died in 1721; settled in Charlestown; had eight children, one of whom was
JOSEPH3 LORD, born in Charlestown June 30, 1672; died June 6, 1748; married (1) June 3, 1698, ABIGAIL HINCKLEY, who died December 14, 1725, daughter of Thomas Hinckley, the last Governor of the Plymouth Colony before its consoli- dation with the Bay Colony; married (2) November 16, 1743, BETHIAH SMITH, twice a widow.
Joseph Lord was graduated from Harvard College in 1691, and in 1695 was ordained as a gospel minister by the church at Dorchester, by which he was sent as a missionary to South
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Carolina. After about 20 years' residence in and near Charles- ton, South Carolina, he returned to Massachusetts and was in- stalled as pastor of the church at Chatham, holding this position until his death.
The Athol Lords are descended from this Joseph Lord. Some of his children did not return from South Carolina, and their descendents are still living there.
Joseph and Abigail (Hinckley) Lord had eight children, among whom were
4. i. JOSEPH'
ii. ABIGAIL
twins, born September 27, 1704
4. JOSEPH+ LORD (Joseph®, Thomas2, Robert1), born Sep- tember 27. 1704; died December 7, 1788; married April 20, 1728, SARAH RAND, died October 13, 1798. Both are buried in the old cemetery at Westmoreland. New Hampshire.
Following his graduation from Harvard College in 1726, Joseph Lord practiced medicine for a time in Sunderland, Mass., being the first resident physician in that town. He was one of the first five settlers of Athol, coming here on Septem- ber 17, 1735, and locating on the east side of Pleasant Street just north of Ellinwood Country Club. For more than a score of years he was the leading and dominating individual in this outpost of civilization. being the first doctor, preacher, magis- trate, treasurer, tax collector, and surveyor. Not only did he as a physician minister to his neighbors' physical needs. but as Proprietors' Clerk he was in charge of the records showing the various allotments of land. and it was he who penned the various petitions and complaints filed with the Great and Gen- eral Court.
After the organization of the First Church, of which he does not appear ever to have been a member, and the Rev. Mr. Humphrey was settled here, Dr. Lord was for some years the supply pastor in Templeton, journeying there on horseback whenever the call came for his services.
In 1758 he summarily left Pequoig, following a disagree- ment with the Proprietors, going to Putney, Vermont where he lived for about 30 years, holding high and responsible posi- tions. Although in 1772 he desired to retire from public office, he was prevailed upon to continue in limited service, which he did until the Crown of Great Britain was no longer recog- nized as having authority. In that momentous upheaval Dr. Lord, like most men who had held positions of honor under the Colonial Government, remained loyal to the King, but no
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