History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1890, Part 86

Author: Deyo, Simeon L., ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: New York : Blake
Number of Pages: 1292

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Josiah L. Cole, son of Ephraim and Mehitabel (Linnell) Cole, was born in 1834. From 1846 until 1873 he followed the sea, after which he was on the Orleans United States life saving station fourteen win- ters. He married Celistia M., daughter of Joseph and Sally (Ward) Weekes, of Harwich, she being the ninth generation from George Weekes, the pioneer. They have four children: Idella W., Everett A., Mabel D. and Lettice.

Winthrop M. Crosby, born in 1840, is a son of Joshua, grandson of Joshua, and great-grandson of Joshua Crosby. He has been a marble and granite worker at Orleans since 1860. He has been a member of the board of selectmen since 1882. He married Etta F., daughter of Jabez C. Ryder. They have one son, Orville W.

Joseph H. Cummings, born in 1840, is a son of Joseph and Hannah H. (Knowles) Cummings, and grandson of Daniel and Lydia (Spar- row) Cummings. Mr. Cummings has been a merchant at Orleans since 1861. He married Helen C. Linnell, and has six children: Eb- enezer L., Henry K., Francis C., Helen J., Mary C. and George.

Beriah Doane, son of Beriah and Elizabeth (Cole) Doane, and grand- son of Timothy Doane, was born in 1829. . He is a farmer, and owns and occupies the homestead of his father. He married Ruth E., daughter of Joseph K. and Betsey (Sears) Mayo, and has one son, Beriah W.

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HON. JOHN DOANE .- This lawyer, mentioned at page 210, died in Orleans March 23, 1881. He was the sixth child of Timothy and Jedidah (Higgins) Doane. He was not in the habit of pleading his cases in court, but when there was occasion secured the services of Nymphas Marston or some other person. He was especially known and consulted as a conveyancer and counsellor. He was noted for his good judgment, honesty and an earnest desire for the welfare of the community. He was familiarly known all over the Cape as "Squire Doane," and was universally respected and loved. He was a friend to young men, helping them to obtain an education, his own opportunities in that direction having been limited. He was an "academy builder," being deeply interested in general education and having eight children of his own to educate. He was one of the earli- est, if not the very first, to engage in arboriculture in the country, and planted many acres of old lands to pines and oaks.

November 23, 1820, he was married to Polly, daughter of Barnabas and Zipporah Eldridge. She was born July 28, 1796, and died Janu- ary 3, 1875. They had eight children: Thomas, born September 20, 1821, a civil engineer, prominently identified with the work on the Hoosac Tunnel, and now living in Charlestown. His first wife, mar- ried November 5, 1850, was Sophia Dennison Clark. She died Decem- ber 5, 1868, and he was married to Louisa A. Barber November 19, 1870. Caroline, born August 14, 1823, married Captain A. H. Knowles April 4, 1849, and died December 30, 1882: John, jr., born April 28, 1825, married Almira C. Starkweather January 1, 1853, died August 25, 1873; Martha, born September 13, 1827: Mary, born August 17, 1829, married Captain Seth Doane, who died February 16, 1877: Lucy, born September 13, 1831, died November 22, 1849; Henry, born Janu- ary 22, 1834, a law graduate of Harvard, served one year as captain in the war of the rebellion, and died September 2, 1865, of disease contracted in the service; and Charles Watson Doane, born July 9, 1840, married Mary Appleton Doane June 13, 1877, living in Crete, Neb.

Hon. John Doane was a descendant in the sixth generation from Dea. John of Plymouth, who settled in Eastham in 1644. It is be- lieved that the ancestors of the family were Northmen and went over from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror. The Doane crest is made up of five arrows, indicating that they might have been the king's foresters; and their motto is " Omnia mihi dona Dei"- "All my gifts are from God." Dea. John Doane was assistant to Gov- ernor Thomas Prence in 1633. Hon. John Doane, a few years before his death, set up a granite post by the side of the cellar hole of the house in which Dea. John Doane once lived, with the inscription, " John Doane here in 1644." He also found stone posts with the in-

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itials I Dand a large rock on the Nauset beach with the same initials, marking the boundaries of Dea. John's estate. John Doane. jr., a son of Dea. John, by wife Abigail. was born about 1634, and married Hannah Bangs. Their son, Samuel, born March 2, 1673, married Martha Hamblen December 30, 1696. Dea. Simeon Doane. son of Samuel and Martha, was born in 1708 and married Apphia Higgins in 1730. Their son, (Deacon) John, born about 1739, married Betty Snow about 1761. and their son, Timothy, born May 13, 1762. was the father of the subject of this sketch. Timothy Doane married Jedidah Higgins March 7.1781. They had twelve children, one of whom died in infancy. Timothy Doane died January 19, 1822, and his wife died March 4, 1847.

OLIVER DOANE .- A prominent figure in the early history of this part of Cape Cod was John Doane, of Eastham, who settled there in 1644. He bore the title of deacon. that insignia of Puritan import- ance, and is known in history by this title; and has been referred to in Pratt's History of Eastham as dying in that town at the advanced age of 106 years. He and Governor Prince were the only ones of the seven first settlers of Nauset whom the records dignify with the title of Mr. He came to New England early, but not in the ship Fortune, as Rev. Pratt stated, neither did he come in either of the first three vessels. The tradition also regarding his remarkable age has been widely copied, and very generally accepted as true. The fact is, he died February 21, 1686. His will was made May 18, 1678, in which he declared his age as "SS or thereabouts." This will was admitted to probate June 2, 1686.

The male line of descent from the deacon to the subject of this sketch, inclusive, is John, John, Samuel, Deacon Simeon, John, Tım- othy, Lewis and Oliver. Timothy, the grandfather of Oliver, was born in 1762, and in Orleans reared eleven children: Beriah, Lewis, Timothy, John, Isaac, Nancy, Abigail, Hetty, Betsey, Sally and Me- linda. These became heads of families, and, excepting Melinda, died in Orleans.

Lewis Doane was born September 24, 1787, on the site now occu- pied by his son, Oliver, the old home having been removed and the present one built early in the present century. He owned and was interested in many thousand feet of salt works along the farm shore. He married Tamzen, daughter of Dea. Abner Freeman, on the 19th of March, 1812. Their eight children were: Captain Truman, born December 28, 1812; Lewis, jr., born February 28, 1815; Freeman, De- cember 23, 1816, who died young; Freeman, April 7, 1819; Julia A., September 1, 1821; Tamzen, May 10, 1825; Benjamin, July 3, 1827; and Oliver, born December 10, 1831.

Truman, the eldest of these, adopted a sea-faring life, and arose to

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prominence as a master. On his retirement from sea. during the years he remained in the town, he served two terms in the legislature and several years as selectman. Soon after the close of the rebellion he removed to Florida, purchased a cotton plantation, and there died in 1SS1, leaving six children: Captain Alfred, Adelia, Victoria, Thank- ful, Leander and Tamzen.

Lewis, jr., the second son, was a merchant and farmer of note, who subsequently removed to Florida; but returned to Marblehead, where he died, leaving a son-Elisha C. Doane.

Freeman was a merchant in Orleans, filling the office of represent- ative two terms, and that of selectman for fourteen years, acting as chairman the greater part of the time, and which office he held at his death. He died at Orleans, leaving two daughters-Olive and Ella- and Alliston, a son.

Julia A. married Leander Crosby, of Orleans, on the ninth of May, 1844, and has since resided in the town. Mr. Crosby served in the general court as representative, and was a delegate to the convention for the revision of the constitution. He died March 1, 1872, leaving a daughter-Mary Celia Crosby.

Tamzen married Clarington Mayo, of Victor, N. Y.,-a former resi- dent of the Cape- on the 17th of January, 1871, and was left a widow March 6, 1873. She subsequently removed to Orleans, and now re- sides with her sister, Mrs. Crosby.

Benjamin died when a young man, and unmarried.

Oliver, the youngest of the children, was educated at Orleans and Harwich, remaining with his father on the homestead. He was mar- ried March 11, 1873, to Sarah C. Harding, daughter of Prince S., and granddaughter of Ephraim, who was direct in the line from Joseph, who came from Eastham in 1644 with Dea. John Doane, his uncle.

Mr. Doane still occupies the ancestral estate in that quiet, social manner peculiar to him, unmolested by the cares of office or business beyond that of his farm and dairy, of which he has made a success. The emoluments of office have no charm for him, and knowing therc are others equally as capable, as well as willing, to administer the affairs of the town, he declines. In his political preferences he firmly supports the cause of the republican party, and to the Methodist Epis- copal church he renders material aid. In his meridian, surrounded by the refinements of the present day, and in the companionship of an excellent wife, this worthy representative of that ancient family is passing the afternoon of his life in that home so dear.

Gilbert A. Dodge, of Orleans, Mass., was born in Farmington, Me., in 1839. His father was William, son of Benjamin Dodge. Gilbert A. was in the late war nine months with Company I., Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and since his discharge from the service

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his occupation has been railroad repairs and constructions. He has lived in Orleans since 1865, was married in 1866, to Sarah W. Gould and has one daughter, Carrie Gould Dodge. His wife was a daughter of Captain Nathaniel Gould, who was lost at sea in 1856 on a foreign voyage. He was one of the ablest men of the town. His wife was Hannah K. Crosby, by whom he had five children-two sons and three daughters. Joshua was a veteran in the late war in Company F., Twenty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, from 1862 to the time of his death, which occurred April 4, 1864, at United States Gen- eral Hospital, New York. Captain Nathaniel followed the sea and was master of the ships Agener and Conqueror for years, and is now a resident of Petaluma, Cal .. where he is general manager and owner of a steamboat line from Petaluma to San Francisco. Nancy B. is married to Cyrus J. Littlefield of Natick, where they now reside. and Theresa M. to Eldonis A. Hopkins of East Orleans.

Richard S. Freeman, son of James and Mercy (Sparrow) Freeman, and grandson of John Freeman, was born in 1831. He began going to sea at the age of fourteen, continuing until 1872, having been in command of a fishing vessel about twelve years, and is now a farmer. He is a member of the Congregational church. He married Olive G., daughter of Sylvanus and Olive (Linnell) Snow. Their children are: Albert A., Julietta W. and Olive M.

Nehemiah S. Harding, son of Henry and Almira (Smith) Harding, and grandson of Ephraim Harding, was born in 1842, and has followed the sea since 1857. He married Ellen A., daughter of Clarington and Effie (Rogers) Smith, and granddaughter of Asa Smith. Mrs. Harding is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Benjamin Higgins, son of Benjamin and Tamesin (Rogers) Hig- gins, grandson of Moses Higgins, and great-grandson of Elnathan Higgins, was born in 1827, and has worked at the shoemaker's trade since 1847. He married Azubah S., daughter of Dean S. Nickerson.

Eli S. Higgins, son of Judah and Betsey (Small) Higgins, and grandson of Samuel Higgins, was born in 1824. He is a farmer and engaged in shipping clams to Boston. He was several years a mem- ber of the school committee. He married Laura A. Nickerson, who died, as did also her only son. He married for his second wife, Mehitabel, daughter of Adnah Rogers. She died, leaving four child- ren: Enos O. (deceased), Charles E., Josiah F. and Laura M.

Freeman Higgins, 2d, only surviving child of Eliakim and Rebecca F. (Kingman) Higgins, grandson of Eliakim, and great-grandson of Eliakim Higgins, was born in 1832. He was a carriage maker and cabinet maker from 1851 until 1885, and since that time he has been a farmer, owning and occupying the homestead of his father, grand- father and great-grandfather. He married Bathiah B. Warren, who died leaving one daughter, Alice H.

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Joseph L. Higgins is a son of Jabez and Alice (Linnell) Higgins, and grandson of Moses Higgins. He married Eliza D., daughter of David and Polly (Doane) Snow, and granddaughter of Stephen Snow. Their only child, Washington S., was born in 1844. He followed the fishing business for twenty years, and for the last six years has been a farmer.

Lot Higgins, born in 1809, is a son of Lot and Mercy (Sparrow) Higgins, and grandson of Lot Higgins. He began going to sea at the age of eleven years, attained to master of a fisherman at the age of twenty-one, continuing at sea until 1854. After being a grain mer- chant for eight years he began keeping a general store at East Orleans, where he has also been postmaster since 1862. He was representative to the legislature in 1872 and 1873. He married Sevillie, daughter of Isaac Snow. They have two children living-Mercy and Sparrow; three having died-Lot S., and two in infancy.

Thomas W. Higgins, son of Thomas and Susan (Snow) Higgins, and grandson of Thomas Higgins, was born in 1842. At the age of fourteen he began going to sea, and since 1870 has been master of coasting vessels. He is a member of the Orleans Congregational church. He married Deborah C., daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Snow) Sparrow, and grand-daughter of Samuel Sparrow. They had one daughter, Ellen J., who died at the age of twelve years.

Francis Hopkins, son of Davis and Thankful (Myrick) Hopkins, grandson of Elkanah, and great-grandson of Joshua Hopkins, was born in 1834. He followed the sea in early life, and has been super- intendent of government works in Boston harbor since 1871. He married Abigailº, daughter of Joshua® and Dorinda (Cole) Sparrow, granddaughter of Joshua', (Richard6, Isaac5, Richard', Richard', Jona- than", Richard Sparrow'). They have two sons-Francis W. and Charles W.

Warren H. Hopkins, son of Edward and Mary A. (Doane) Hop- kins, and grandson of Moses Hopkins, was born in 1845, in Brewster, and came to Orleans in 1868, where he has carried on a wagon, paint, and blacksmith shop since that time. He married Hannah R., daugh- ter of Joshua Nickerson. Their children are: Abel I., Mary M. and Warren M.

Davis Hurd, son of Zenas and Salome (Higgins) Hurd, and grand- son of Joseph Hurd, was born in 1815. He was a sea captain from 1836 to 1842, and from that time until his death in 1881 he kept a variety store and livery stable at Orleans. He married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas, and granddaughter of Joshua Gould. Their children are: Emma F., D. A. and Flora E.

Edward S. Hurd, son of Luther and Olive (Linnell) Hurd, was born in 1827. He followed the sea from 1836 until 1868, when he went to

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Tiverton, R. I., where he was engaged in the oil business for eighteen years. He married Paulina, daughter of Sears Rogers. Their two. children are: Paulina S. and Edward E.

ALFRED KENRICK .- By the earliest records of Boston it is found that four brothers, ancestors of the Kenricks in America, came in 1633 from York, England, to this continent. John, the eldest, settled at Roxbury, Mass., afterward removing to Newton, where have been reared many notable descendants; another settled in New Hampshire, from whom descended divines and literary men well known in north- ern New England and the Middle states; another went south, from whom the Kenricks, of Georgia, and other southern states descended; and Edward, the youngest, came to Cape Cod about 1640, settling on the spot a little west of where Luther Hurd lived, removing later to the old Kenrick place in South Orleans, then a portion of Harwich. He was a wealthy trader and on this homestead, which was once occu- pied by the subject of this sketch, and still is in part, by other de- scendants, he reared three sons: Thomas, Solomon and Jonathan. Of these, Thomas and Solomon settled in Harwich, but the latter subse- quently sold to Thomas and moved to Nova Scotia. The Kenricks of Harwich are descendants of Thomas. Of Solomon's two sons -- John and Solomon-the elder attained an enviable position in the command of a privateer during the revolutionary war, and was the first Ameri- can who circumnavigated the globe. He discovered the Columbia river, which he named from his ship, the Columbia, of which he was master.

Jonathan, the youngest son of Edward, was educated at Cambridge, and became an eminent physician. He married Tabitha Eldridge, of Chatham, and died at the age of thirty-six, leaving three sons: Samuel, Warren A. and Jonathan, whose mother subsequently married The- ophilus Hopkins. Samuel, the eldest son of Doctor Jonathan, studied medicine with Doctor Breed and became eminent in the practice in Orleans. He had three sons and three daughters. Jonathan, the eldest of the sons of Doctor Samuel, married Betsey Rogers of Har- wich, and of their twelve children eleven lived to an adult age, set- tling in various sections, with various occupations.

Alfred Kenrick, the eighth of these, was born at Orleans May 30, 1800. His own record of his school days is the best: " I remember that at the age of six I was sent to a private school kept in a little porch connected with the house of Dea. Judah Rogers where I was taught by a maiden lady-the deacon's daughter. The seats were constructed of unplaned boards resting on. blocks of wood. The length of the term depended on the amount of money subscribed, and although the teacher's wages only averaged eighty cents per week, the term seldom exceeded ten or twelve weeks. About two years

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later I attended the public school, having its winter term taught by a male teacher-a term usually of ten weeks. Then followed the em- bargo act with its effect to cut off all trade; then the war of 1812, which filled up the measure of depression, then I decided to work in Almey, Brown & Slater's cotton factory, in Smithfield, R. I., where I continued until the peace. In the spring of 1815, I went to Providence and shipped on board the schooner Joseph, as one of her crew, com- mencing my occupation of a seafaring life."

He sailed in eight vessels as a common sailor, in three as second officer and in six brigs and ships as first officer, attaining the com- mand of the new ship Courser when he was twenty-seven years old, after which he was in command of and owner in ten other vessels: Eugene, Margaret, Bramin, Brookline, Boston, Tencdos, Plymouth, Norman, Stamboul and Osmanli. In the last named vessel he circumnavigated the globe, passing Cape of Good Hope to Melbourne, thence to Callao, around Cape Horn to New Orleans and to Boston, where he arrived June 18, 1854. He had then crossed the Atlantic 108 times, besides his many voyages to the West Indies, Brazil and other parts of South America, and to the Cape Verde, Madeira, Azores and Western islands. As boy and man the captain must have traversed more miles of ocean, within about two score years, than usually falls to the lot of an individual. He then turned agriculturist, which he continued through the remainder of his active life.

He was early commissioned a justice of the peace, which office he held many years, but in 1862, when he received his last commission from Governor Andrews, he was informed that the law had been made that before the person could swear in he must pay five dollars into the state treasury, whereupon he tore the commission into frag- ments, as he "never bought or paid for office." He was selectman several years and chairman of the board; was many years on the school board, but when acting with a large committee to hire teachers he found each member had a neice, aunt, daughter or sister who must teach, then he resigned. In 1856 he was elected senator, which office he satisfactorily filled one term. He never sought office, and so tenacious was he of what he thought right that unless he was allowed to act up to his own convictions a resignation followed. When he was appointed deputy sheriff, under David Bursley, he soon found that serving writs of attachment upon the property of poor people did not just accord with his feelings, and he resigned. He has acted upon committees for building school houses, churches and other public buildings, the last being the Snow library building in 1877.

The captain was married January 4, 1825, to Almina, daughter of David Taylor, and of their seven children those who lived to man- hood and womanhood are noticed in the four following paragraphs.

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Alfred Kenrick, jr., born in October, 1825, married Sarah B. Glea- son. He built up a very large business in Brookline, Mass., where he died in 1885, leaving his business to his two sons: Alfred E. and Moses F. He was much respected in that city, and his loss was deeply de plored. He also left another son, George R , and a daughter, Mary E.

David T. was born in 1830, and married Amanda Gibbs. They have one son, David A., who has a wife and two children, all living in Brookline.

Mary T., born in 1841, married George H. Moss, and died in 1871. She left two children: Fred H. and Mary A. Moss.

Eliza F., born in 1844, married Asa Smith of Orleans, who is a ship captain now residing in Boston.

Captain Kenrick's first wife died January 11, 1879, and in Febru- ary of the following year he married Mrs. Adaline B. Walker, who died November 27, 1889, leaving two daughters of her first marriage, who kindly care for Captain Kenrick at his home.

In giving this brief history of this worthy old gentleman it is plain to see that the full details of his voyages and even an epitome of his many noble acts would fill a volume. He has stood firm and upright in the religious, civil and private relations of life, and at the age of ninety is as firm and consistent as ever. He has always acted in politics with the democratic party, and was among the first to put pen to paper in 1825 for the call of a meeting to organize the Uni- versalist society of Orleans, which fact indicates his religious views. Where he was then in his views he is to-day. Hume, in his history of England, speaks of the Kenricks in the sixth century, and like his ancestor, Alfred of England, no circumstances could deflect Captain Alfred of the present time from a straightforward and upright course.

John Kenrick .- The ancestry of this citizen of South Orleans is along the line to the Saxon Edward Kenrick, mentioned in the biography of Captain Alfred Kenrick. The Jonathan who settled at South Orleans married Hannah Cole and reared, among others, a son John, born May 18, 1781, who married Rebecca Sparrow on the seventh of December, 1804. He was a prominent man, filling various town trusts, representing his town in the legislature, and was instrumental in saving his town from the heavy exactions of the British cruisers of 1812. This John reared three children-Sophia, who married Elisha Cobb: Reuben, who married M. F. Anderson, and John, the postmaster and merchant of South Orleans, who resides on the ances- tral estate, where he was born August 19, 1819. In early life he taught school, and for forty years has constantly filled offices in his town. He was sent to the legislature in 1852 and 1853 by the unani- mous vote of his townsmen. In commissions for the preservation of harbors and forests he has been prominent, filling with honor. more

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places of trust than usually are credited to his townsmen. He married Thankful Crosby July 30, 1843, and their deceased children are Sophia, Emma, Eva and Alice T .; the surviving ones being Clara, Rebecca and John Kenrick, jr., the latter assisting his father in his business affairs.

CAPTAIN SETH K. KINGMAN, whose engraved likeness is presented on the opposite page, is a retired shipmaster, and a highly respected citizen of Orleans, in which town he was born March 9, 1822. He com- menced his seafaring life at the age of ten years on board of a fishing vessel, like most of the boys of that period, and for ten successive years made a trip to the Grand Bank. Disliking this branch of sea- faring business, at the age of twenty years he entered the merchant service " before the mast." It was not long, however, before he be- came a chief officer, visiting the principal seaports of the world. In 1851, while first officer of the barque Stamboul, of which his brother, Simeon, was master, the first cargo of ice from Boston to Egypt was delivered at Alexandria, it having been purchased by the govern- ment. In 1856, after having made two voyages in the barque Kate Hastings, in the employ of H. Hastings & Co., in the India trade, as chief officer, he was given the command, and went to the west coast of South America, and upon returning to Boston the vessel was char- tered by the government to carry stores to Hong Kong. From Hong Kong he took a cargo for Shanghai, and from that place, with a cargo of tea, he returned to New York in 1858.

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History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1890, Part 86

Author: Deyo, Simeon L., ed Publication date: 1890 Publisher: New York : Blake Number of Pages: 1292

Author: Deyo, Simeon L., ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: New York : Blake
Number of Pages: 1292