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23. Sewall Hill, son of Otis, 21, b. 1843, Aug. 20; m. Mary S. Cutler, who d. 1874, May 29. Ch. Herbert Franklin, b. 1869, July 16.
24. William Bowman, son of Charles, 22, b. 1832. Aug. 14; m. 1858, Nov. 20, Olivia Antoinette Convers. Ch. Bessie Albertine, b. 1869, Nov. 15. William Arthur. b. 1877, July 14.
25. Albert, son of Charles, 22, b. 1835, Jan. 19; m. 1854, Nov. 29. Calista Amanda Brown. Ch. George Edwin. b. 1860. Aug. 6.
STEPHENS, Joseph. His wife Elizabeth d. 1713-4. Feb. 6. and he n. Elizabeth Sherman. Ch. Jonathan, b. 1714-5. Jan. 28. Joseph d. 1716-7. Feb. 25. Esther. b. 1718, Nov. 27. Joseph, b. 1720, Oct. 17. Ephraim, b. 1720. Nov. 20.
STEVENS, Josiah, came from Dunstable about 1801, and kept a tavern at the 'Corner.' He was b. 1769, July 20; m. 1795, July 19, Betsey Frost. who d. 1800, July 28. He m. 1801, Nov. 15. Abigail Richardson, dau. of Thomas, 21. He d. 1840, Jan. 20, and she d. 1847, June 10. Ch .. Betsey. b. 1796, Jan. 3; m. 1814, May 5. Joseph Butterfield. Catherine, b. 1797. Aug. 6; m. 1831, June 7, Alpheus Richardson, of Groton. Sally, b 1799, July 2; m. 1823. Aug. 28, William Adams, of Tyngsboro'. Abigail, b. 1804, Aug. 7; m. 1827, Sept. 23, John A. Savels, of Boston. Mary Ann. b. 1806, May 16; m. Josiah B. French (see 28). John. b. 1808. Jan. 7; m. 1832, Oct. 30, Eliza Barnes ; d. 1854, June 13. Harriet, b. 1809, Feb. 9; d. 1826. Feb. 15. Hannah. b. 1810, Oct. 4; m. 1836, March 22, Charles Saunderson, of Lowell. Josiah, b. 1812, Nov. 16; d. 1814, April 4. Thomas Lawrence,. b. 1815, March 23; m. 1845, Nov. 27, Hesta B. Kemmel. Fitz Henry, b. 1817, May 18; m. Charlotte Kendall. Judith Frances. b. 1819, Oct. 10; in. 1844. Oct. 1. Grenville Remick.
STICKNEY. 1. Abraham, b. in Bradford, 1703, Oet. 16. was son of Samuel, whose father Samuel was son of William, of Rowley, the emigrant ancestor. He m. 1727-8. Feb. 20, Abigail Hall, of Dracut. and settled in the north part of Billerica; was deacon of the church in Tewksbury. The birth of only two of his children is recorded in Billerica. He d. 1783. Aug. 23. Ch. Abigail, b. 1731, July 12; m. James Kittredge (see 10). Abraham, b. 1733. Nov. 28; m. Sarah Kittredge, dau. of James. 10; had 10 children, and d. in Tewksbury, 1803. Benjamin. b. 1737, Dec. 1; settled in Townsend, Me., and d. 1835. James, b. 1742. Aug. 6; settled in Newburgh. N. Y .; had 8 children, and d. 1823. Samuel, b. about 1743; lived in New Boston. N. II .; had 7 children, and d. 1826. Elizabeth died young. William, b. about 1747; was a loyalist, and d. 1781; had one son, William.
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2. William, cousin of Abraham, was son of William, of Bradford, b. 1704-5, Oct. 14. His mother, Anna Hazeltine, m. 2d. Samuel Hunt, 1. He m. 1729, June, Anna Whiting, dau. of Oliver. 3, who d. 1749, March 26, and he m. 1749, Nov. 23, Mrs. Hannah Abbot, widow of Jeremiah, 5. He bore a leading part in town affairs during the Revolution, as member of the Committee of Safety and of the Provincial Congress. Was town clerk and selectman many years. He d. 1781, Aug. 27; his widow d. 1789, Feb. 17, aged 75. Ch. William. b. 1729-30, March 2, and d. 1732. April 17. Samuel. b. 1731, Dec. 21, and d. 1748, Aug. 28. William, b. 1733, Aug. 27, and d. 1734, May 2. Anna. b. 1734-5, March 3, and d. 1738. April 1. Elizabeth, b. 1737, July 23; m. Job Lane, of Bedford. and died there a widow. 1815, June. Benjamin, b. 1738-9, March 3; d. 1749, Nov. 27. Eleazer, 4, b. 1740, Aug. 30. William, 5, b. 1743, April 3. . Anna, b. 1745-6, March 9, and d. 1749. Nov. 20. John. b. 1748, March 29, and d. 1749. Nov. 17. Anna b. 1751, May 17; d. 1844, Aug. 31. Benjamin, b. 1752, Oct. 28, and d. Nov. 11. Sarah. b. 1754. March 31; m. 1784. Oct. 3, Ezra Trask Foster. of Ipswich. Joseph, b. 1756, Feb. 29, and d. March.
3. Daniel, brother of William 2, b. in Bradford, 1706-7, Feb. 6; m. 1730, Dec. 15, Mary Hill, daughter of Jonathan, 9. He was captain of a troop of horse which marched to the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757. Aug., but went only as far as Marlboro', N. H. He d. 1788, April 25; his widow d. 1798. June 28. Ch. Jonathan, b. 1730-1, Jan. 2, and d. Jan. 21. David, 6, b. 1732-3, Jan. 5. Jonathan, 7, b. 1736, Aug. 17. Mary, b. 1738-9, Jan. 11; m. James Goss. Jeremiah. b. 1741. May 12. and d. 1749. July 15. Sarah, b. 1743, Aug. 15, and d. 1749, July 25. Rachel, b. 1746. April 1; m. Oliver Crosby (24).
4. Eleazer, son of William, 2, b. 1740, Aug. 30; m. 1763, Jan. 25. Martha Brown, dau. of Samuel. 7. She d. 1818, May 21. He was in Colonel Bridges' regiment at Bunker Hill; lived in Tewksbury; d. 1824, Jan. 5. Ch. Martha, b. 1763, April 19; m. Ebenezer Sanders, 12. Mary, b. 1764, Oct. 28; m. Benjamin Sanders, 13. Samuel, b. 1766, Feb. 7; lived in Fitzwilliam, N. H., Leicester, Vt., and in Sandy Hill, N. Y .; had 9 ch. Anna, b. 1767, Oct. 14, and d. Oct. 17. Anna, b. 1768, Oct. 29; m. Thomas Patch, and had 9 ch. Joshua, b. 1770, July 26, and d. 1813. Feb. 7. Benjamin, b. 1772, April 4, and d. April 22. Rhoda, b. 1773, May 17, and d. 1775, Sept. 9. Benjamin, b. 1775, July 3; m. and lived in New York City ; had 15 ch. and d. about 1855. Rhoda, b. 1777. June 15, and d. 1778, Feb. 4. Rhode. b. 1779. Jan. 10; m. Robert Fuller, of Dedham. Jeremiah, b. 1781, April 9, and d. 1810, Aug. 6. William, b. 1783, June 22; lived in Boston and Charlestown; had 9 ch. and d. 1868. Jan. 12. His son William 1. is a Universalist clergyman in Conn .. and Charles L. is a publisher in New York. Rizpah. b. and d. 1785, Sept. 28.
5. William, son of William, 2, b. 1743, April 3; m. 1768, March 10, Abigail Walker, dau. of Robert, 11. He declined the appointment of deacon after his father's death. Was at Bunker Hill and in the Rhode Island service. Removed to Townshend, Vt., 1784, and d. there 1831. Oct. 26. His wife d. 1818, April 17. Ch. William, b. 1768, June 16; lived in Grafton, Vt. ; had 10 ch. and d. 1860, Feb. 21. Abigail, b. 1770, March 6; m. Abijah Beard (see 13). Elizabeth. b. 1772. May 31; m. JJohn Eastman, and d. 1856, May 15. Anna, b. 1774. May 3; m. David Walker, and d. 1826. Sarah, b. 1776, July 30; m. Francis Blanchard. 13. John, b. 1778. Aug. 30; lived in Plymouth, Vt .; 3 ch .; d. 1846. Benjamin, b. 1780. Dec. 27; lived in Grafton, Vt .; 10 ch. ; d. in Burton, Ohio. 1824. Isaac. b. 1782, Oct. 12; d. in Boston. 1809. Nov. ; and, b. in Grafton : Polly, b. 1784. Sept. 23; m. George W. Walker. Silence, b. 1786. Dec. 1; m. Jared Farmer. Josiah, b. 1789, Jan. 6; a well-known and honored business man of Boston; banker; Director of the Western, Boston & Albany. and Passumpsie Railroads; Director and President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He has 7 ch. of whom Josiah Henry is a veterinary surgeon in Boston.
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6. David, son of Daniel, 3, b. 1732-3, Jan. 5; m. 1765, Jan. 3, Kezia Shed. widow of Benjamin, 13. He went trumpeter in the troop of which his father was captain. About 1781 he removed to Grafton, Vt., and d. there 1807, Sept. 17. Ch. Daniel, b. 1765, Oct. 7; a pioneer in Putnam, Ohio; had 10 ch. and d. there 1822, Sept. 17. Mary, b. 1767, Jan. 3; m. Ziba Howard. Hannah. b. 1768. Dec. 28; m. Peter Pettengill, and d. 1842. May 21. David, b. 1770, Nov. 19; lived in Grafton, Vt. and Holland Purchase, N. Y .; had 8 ch; d. in Illinois, 1854, Oct. 1. Ann, b. 1772, June 18; m. - Dilno, of Northampton, and d. 1801, Nov. 25. Jonathan, b. 1775, July 29; d. 1794, Sept. 3.
7. Jonathan, son of Daniel, 3, b. 1736, Aug. 17; m. Silence -. He enlisted for the invasion of Canada, 1759; was at Bunker Hill and in other Revolutionary service; and, in 1785, as Major, he led the Billerica Artillery in a snow-storm to Cambridge to guard the Supreme Judicial Court during Shays' rebellion; d. 1802, April 30, and his widow 1807. March 23, aged 69. Ch. Silence, b. 1758. Aug. 13; m. Benjamin Bowers, 7. SUMSETT, Saul, and Lydia York m. 1777. April 24.
TALBOT. 1. Charles and Phebe White were in. in Ireland, 1802. Dec. 28, and soon came to America. He lived in New York City and in Cambridge, N. Y., where he engaged in woolen manufacturing. In 1819, he removed to Danby, Vt. and d. there 1823, March 13. and his widow d. in Michigan, 1841, Feb. 13. Ch. John Walpole, b. 1805. April 25; lived in Centerville, Michigan. Charles Potts, 2, b. 1807. May 19. Edward Haskett. b. 1810, Aug. 7: d. 1837. Sept. 11. Elizabeth Lucinda. b. 1812. Aug. 5: d. 1843. Joseph White. b. 1814. Aug. 24. Richard Ela. b. 1816. June 17; these two brothers live in Georgetown, Texas. Thomas, 3, b. 1818, Sept. 7. Elias William, b. 1820, July 27; died in Texas, 1876. Eleanor, b. 1822. July 23; d. 1823, Oct. 8.
2. Charles Potts, son of Charles, 1, b. 1807, May 19; m. 1835. May 3, Harriet E. Rogers. of Lempster, N. H. He came to Billerica in 1839. having previously been engaged in the manufacture of broadeloths in Williamsburg. He now lives in Lowell. Of his three ch., Julian was born in Billerica, 1842, May 27.
3. Thomas, son of Charles, 1, b. 1818, Sept. 7. A good portrait of this gentlemen is given as the appropriate frontispiece of this volume. He is the first citizen of the town who has been honored by an election to the Chief Magistracy of the Commonwealth, and while notice of him as a Billerica manufacturer belongs to the chapter on that subject. some account of his more public relations may properly be given here.
Mr. Talbot's widowed mother was a woman of character and energy. In 1825 she removed to Northampton, Mass., seeking employment for her large family in the woolen mills of that beautiful town. But opportunity to attend the public schools was carefully secured to her children, and the future governor was fortunate enough to spend two winter terms in Cum- mington Academy, 1838 and 1839. He had previously been in the mill of his brothers at Williamsburg, and in the spring of 1839 he was employed as finisher of broadcloth in the Pontoosuc Mills at Pittsfield. But his brother Charles who came to Billerica in 1839, December, invited Thomas to join him, and the brothers soon united as C. P. Talbot & Co., a firm still pursuing a most honorable and successful career. Mr. Talbot was chosen Representative in 1851, and the next year he was a member of the Conven- tion chosen to revise the Constitution, and in both positions showed the sagacity and firmness which have always distinguished him. From 1864 to 1869 he was a member of the Executive Council and made his.mark as a practical and wise counsellor on public matters. In 1872 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor, and was reëleçted in 1873. On the death of Senator Sumner in March, 1874. Governor Washburn was elected to the vacancy in the United States Senate, and Mr. Talbot became acting-governor. To the duties of this position he came with broad views and firm convictions, but no partisan or personal narrowness. This was illustrated in his action on
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two important public measures. The Legislature passed a bill repealing the law prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors, and great pressure was brought to bear on the governor to give the bill his approval. The leaders of the republican party urged that it would be impolitie to commit the executive to the prohibitory platform. against the action of the legisla- ture, and would endanger their chances of success at the polls. But Mr. Talbot had always been the foe of the rum traffic, and a prohibitionist on principle before he was governor, and such motives of policy did not move him. His ringing veto message was the utterance of a straight-forward man, and became at once a most important contribution to the literature of the temperance cause. On the other hand, when a bill enacting the ten- hour law was presented to him for signature. the manufacturing interests of the state, with which he was so intimately allied, urged and counted confidently upon his veto, and his approval exposed him to an active oppo- sition. These influences united with a reaction in national polities by which the republican party lost its majority in the House of Representatives ; and, although receiving the almost unanimous renomination of his party, Mr. Talbot failed by a few votes of reelection. In 1875 he declined, though strongly urged, to be again a candidate, and Hon. Alexander H. Rice was chosen. He held the office three years, and in 1878 Mr. Talbot received the unanimous nomination of the Republican Convention again for the place. The campaign of that year took an unusual and exciting cast from the independent candidacy of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Lowell. long a democrat and later a republican, but on a very full vote Mr. Talbot was elected. His message on assuming the office again was a very practical · state paper, and significant in giving voice to the popular demand for retrenchment in the public expenditures. His administration commended itself to the popular judgment by its manly and business qualities, and he would have been renominated and reelected if he had not early announced that he would not be a candidate. Mr. Talbot has never been an office- seeker, but office and honor have sought him as a man who could be trusted. He has been Director and President of the Boston & Lowell Railroad; State Director of the Boston & Albany Railroad, and the care of trust funds has often been committed to his hands. He is a Trustee of the Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes at Northampton. and of the Howe School. He is a member of the Historical Committee, under whose charge this volume has been prepared, and has taken active and helpful interest in it. Mr. Talbot m. 1848, Jan. 20, Mary Howe Rogers, dau. of Calvin, 21. She d. 1851, Sept. 9, and he m. 1855, Oct. 18. Isabella W. Hayden, dau. of Hon. Joel Hayden, of Haydenville, in Williamsburg. Ch. Hayden, b. 1856, Dec. 29; d. 1857, April 30. Isabella White, b. 1858, Nov. 22. Charles Hayden, b. 1862, JJan. 4; d. 1863, Dec. 22. Thomas, b. 1865, May 13; d. July 9. Thomas, b. 1866, Sept. 18. Grace, b. 1869, Oct. 31. Le Roy Herrick. b. 1875. Feb. 25.
TARBELL. 1. John, settled in Billerica probably near 1730. His father John lived in Salem Village and was probably son of Thomas of Watertown and Groton. He m. 1678, Mary Nurse, dau. of Francis and that unfortunate Rebecca who was hung in Salem for witchcraft. They had other ch .: Mary; Cornelius; Jonathan; Elizabeth and Sarah. John was b. 1680. Aug. 9; m. Hannah -. He d. 1757, Feb. 5, and his widow d. 1779, Dec. 14, aged 94. Ch. William. 2. John. Thomas. Anna, b. 1717, July 17; m. Samuel Parker, 12. Elizabeth, b. 1719, Oct. 14; m. John Hosley, 3. Mary. b. 1722, May, in Lynnfield. Jonathan and David, b. 1726, Sept. 25, in Lynnfield. David was in the Louisburg Expedition of 1745, and m. 1751, Aug. 1, Hannah Fitch. dau. of Benjamin, 3.
2. William, son of John, 1, m. 1735-6. Feb. 19, Ruth Richardson, dau. of Thomas, 3. She d. 1764, Oct. 14. and he m. 1765, Oct. 31. Elizabeth Walker, widow of Joseph, 6. His will was proved 1800, Feb. Ch. William b. 1736, May 26; d. 1748, March 22. John, b. 1738, Nov. 19. Ruth. b. 1739, June 25; d. 1748, March 16. Abigail, b. 1741. April 23; m. Samuel
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Walker, 10. Hannah, b. 1743, May 23. Sarah, b. 1744-5, Feb. 15; d. 1748, March 21. Thomas. b. 1746. Oct. 1; d. 1748. March 8. William, 3, b. 1752. Oct. 3.
3. William, son of William, 2, b. 1752, Oct. 3; m. 1776, March 2. Elizabeth French. dau. of Samuel, 15. Ch. William, 4, b. 1777. Feb. 3. Benjamin, b. 1778. Oct. 2. Elizabeth. b. 1780, Nov. 9. Samuel, b. 1782, Oct. 31. Rath. b. 1786. April 12; d. 1787, May 16. Sarah, b. 1790, Jan. 27. Ira, b. 1799. Aug. 9.
4. William, son of William, 3, b. 1777. Feb. 3; m. 1802, Dec. 12, Abigail Allen, dau. of Thomas, 3. She d. 1845, May 17. Ch. Abigail, m. John Richardson, 31.
5. Jonathan, and Betty Levistone m. 1802, Feb. 21.
TAY. 1. William was granted " a ten-acre lot or one single share," 1656, November. The first location of a part of this grant was made 1658. December. as follows: " fifty and six acres" (or one-half of his upland) ·· be it more or less, his house standing upon part of the same, bounded by · ye country road on ye East; by the comons (partly East) and South; and North, partly by ye comons, partly by willm Chamberline and willm French, partly by henery Jeiffs, and on ye West and North-West partly by comons and partly by Henery Jeiff's; also what meadow lyeth in ye said land is granted to him for one acre and a quarter, in part of his first division of meadow." This place was west of Bare Hill, and was near if not exactly where Dr. Noyes lives. Mr. Tay was in Boston as early as 1643. a dis- tiller there. He was town clerk, 1664. As his name does not appear on the garrison-list of 1675, it seems probable that he fled to Boston before the Indian alarms of that year, and never returned, as he died there. I am indebted to Sucage for his family record. He m. 1644. Sept. 14. Grace Newell, of Roxbury. His will was proved 1683. April 12, and gives his age 72. His widow d. in Roxbury 1712, April 11, aged 91. Ch. Grace, b. 1645. Aug. 23; m. Thomas Willice. 2. John. b. 1647. Nov. 16, and d. before his father. leaving dau. Elizabeth. Isaiah, b. 1650-1. March 4; was in King Philip's War, and lived in Boston; a Representative in 1700, and often after. Abiel, b. 1653-4, Jan. 21. Nathaniel, 2, b. 1655-6. Feb. 23. Jeremiah, b. 1657. JJuly 18; lived in Boston. Elizabeth. b. 1660, June 25.
2. Nathaniel, son of William, 1, b. 1655-6. Feb. 23; m. 1677, May 30, Barshaba, dau. of John Wyman, of Woburn. He sold his homestead 1691, April 8. to Simon, Crosby, and removed prob. to Woburn. Ch. Nathaniel, b. 1678. June 17. Sarah. b. 1680. April 15. Barshaba, b. 1682, March 30. Elizabeth, b. 1683-4. March 15. Grace, b. 1686, April 20. Mary, b. 1688-9. March 16; d. 1694-5, Jan. 9.
3. Archelaus, of Woburn, married Sarah Cook, daughter of Paul, 1. Ch. Susanna, m. Benjamin Pollard, 9. Phebe, m. John S. Center, 21.
TAYLOR. 1. Abigail, of Concord; m. Benjamin Bacon, 5.
2. , Rebecca, m. Joseph Bacon, 6.
3. Michael, m. 1790, Nov. 29, Abial Thistle. She m. 2d Walter Carr. TEMPLE, Benjamin, of Tewksbury, m. Sarah Sanders, daughter of James. 3.
TENNEY, Benjamin, of Dorchester. m. 1806, March 23. Patty Rich- ardson, dau. of Oliver, 22. Hle d. young. Ch. Martha, b. 1808. March 29; m. 1825. Dec. 13, Enoch Foster, of Tewksbury, and 2d - Shed.
THOMPSON, John, of Boston, m. 1814, Oct. 20, Ann Richardson, dau. of Thomas, 21. His son, John Henry, spent his last years in town, and d. 1878, June 15, aged 60. The useful well in the Fox Hill cemetery was bored at his expense, and he left to the town a legacy of. $1000 for the care of that cemetery.
TOMPSON. 1. Joseph was from Braintree, son of Rev. William Tompson, pastor of the church there; b. 1640, May 1. Ilis elder brother, William, a student at Harvard College with Mr. Whiting, was a few years missionary among the Pequot Indians at New London, and died early. Mr. Tompson lived in the southeast part of the village. His house-lot is
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described, 1660, "twenty and seaven acres, be it more or lesse, lying near the most easterly part (eastward of it) of Mr. Dudley's farme, being the west side of hogrooten lot, bounded by Si crosbee upon the west, seaventy- six pole and a half, and N. by the farme line forty and nine pole; and by William Hamlet South, seaventy-five pole, and by Peter Bracket on the East. * * his East line runes about ye middle of ash Swamp." This is now Mr. Tufts' place, and Tufts' lane is a fragment of the ancient line of the Dudley farm which bounded Mr. Tompson on the north. The son and brother of ministers, his education was better than that of his neighbors; and he was chosen 1679-80, Jan. 19, the first schoolmaster in town. It was many years before he had a successor. He was deacon of the church, and succeeded Danforth as town clerk; and his fine but not very distinct writing is often found in the archives of the county and state as well as the town. He was Captain of the military company, and Representative sey- eral years. He m. 1662, July 22, Mary Bracket, dau. of Dea. Richard, 1. She d. 1678-9, March 23, and he m. 1680-1, March 17, Mary, dau. of Edward Denison, of Roxbury. He d. 1732, Oct. 13, and she d. 1743. Oct. 9, aged 90. Ch. Mary, b. 1663, Nov. 18. Joseph. b. 1666, April 8. Abigail, b. 1668, April 16; m. 1701, Dec. 16, John Watkins. of Charlestown. William, b. 1670, Oct. 3; d. 1694, Dec. 22. Deborah, b. 1676, Sept. 29. Edward, b. 1683-1, Jan. 18. Benjamin, 2, b. 1685-6, Feb. 7. Elizabeth, b. 1688, June 29, and d. 1712, Aug. 24. Mary. b. 1691, Nov. 17; m. 1710, Ephraim Man- ning. 5.
2. Benjamin, son of Joseph. 1, b. 1685-6, Feb. 7; m. 1715, Nov. 9, Alice Kidder, dau. of Ephraim, 3. He d. 1753, Oct. 28. She d. 1785, Oct. 19, aged 92. Ch. Elizabeth, b. 1716, June 1; m. William Bowers, 2. Mary, b. 1718, June 28. Joseph, b. 1719-20, March 24. Abigail, b. 1722, Aug. 29; m. Josiah Bowers, 3. William. 3, b. 1724, Sept. 16. Rachel, b. 1726-7. March 7. Benjamin. b. 1729. May 24, and d. June 16. Alice, b. 1730. Oct. 27; m. David Parker, 13. Dorothy, b. 1736, May 18; m. Solomon Kidder, 12. And prob. Richard, who m. 1772, Sept. 1, Rebecca Eaton, of Reading.
3. William, son of Benjamin, 2, b. 1724, Sept. 16; m. 1757, Oct. 27, Sarah. dau. of William White, of Haverhill, and sister of Rev. John Chandler's wife, and 1768, Jan. 12, Mary Baldwin, probably widow of William, 6. Mr. Tompson was one of the foremost citizens in all the debates and measures of the period of the Revolution. and his memory should be honored. His will was entered for probate 1806, Oct. Ch. Sarah. b. 1758, Jan. 11; m. Isaac Hurd, 1. Elizabeth, b. 1759, Jan. 18, and died May 12.
"Titus and Phillis, servant of Ebenezer JJones, of Wilmington," m. 1768, Nov. 24.
TOTMAN. 1. John appears on the tax-list, 1752. He was, perhaps. brother of Alice, who m. John Wilson, 6; prob. father of Rebecca, who m. Jeremiah Baldwin (see 12), and of
2. John, who m. 1773, Oct. 15, Sarah Dickason. He d. 1782, May 1, and she m. Isaac Manning (see 8). Ch. James. b. 1773. Dec. 8. Rhoda. b. 1775, Dec. 8. Asa. b. 1778, May 13. Sally, b. 1780, June 5; m. 1804, Feb. 12, Luther Penniman. William, b. 1782, Oct. 14.
TOOTHAKER. 1. Roger came in the ship Hopewell. Thomas Babb, master, 1635, Sept. 16; age 1 year. His father Roger, aged 23, died after the birth of a daughter, Martha, who m. Ralph Hill, 2, and his mother Margaret, aged 28, m. 1638, Ralph Hill, sen. Ile had "leave to abyde in" Charlestown, 1654. and "6. 9mo. 1660. The town of Billerica have granted unto Roger Toothaker lyberty to live in ye Towne, and to settle upon and Improve yt lot which his father Ralph Hill, sen., gave him, which lyeth in the great comon feild on ye East side of Concord River, below ye great bridge; also the Towne do grant him comonage and herbage, wood and timber, for his use." Here he had his home, which was prob., when built, the extreme northern house in town. It is said to be still standing as the
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. ell' of the Rogers house at the place where the canal leaves the river. In 1664, he exchanged about five acres which lay west of the road for twelve acres "lying on both sides, and taking in that long spang of meadow upo the pine plaine. on this side the comon feild, on the East side of it." This exchange was doubtless made to secure to the town the mill privilege for future use. He seems to have practised medicine, and was called 'doctor' at Salem. but our Records do not give the title. In 1682-3, March 12. at a Selectmen's meeting. " Roger Toothaker. being sent for and spoken unto concerning many things amiss in his family, he desired they would exercise a little more patience towards him, and he promised amendment." But the amendment was not thorough; and 1684, Dec. 15, the Selectmen wrote a letter to him. prob. at Salem, where he seems to have gone, "to come for his wife ye midle of next week, and that they would help away with his family-in case of need and help fit them out." There was "need" enough, but he did not heed it. His wife received charitable aid. and two of his children were put out by the Selectmen to Joseph Walker and Edward Farmer. When the witcheraft trials came, in which his wife's sister, Martha Carrier, suffered, he appears as a ready witness. Abatement of his tax as "deceased" was made 1694, July. He m. 1665, June 9, Mary, dau. of Andrew Allen, of Andover, and she was killed by the Indians 1695. Aug. 5. Ch. Nathaniel, b. 1666, April 27; d. 1683, May 18. Martha, b. 1668. July 23. Allin. b. 1670, July 17. Roger, 2, b. 1672. Nov. 27. Mary, b. 1675, June 7, and d. Oct. 14. Mary, b. 1676, Sept. 28, and d. 1683, Dec. 5. Andrew, b. 1679, Oct. 4. Margaret, b. 1682-3, Jan. 31; taken captive when her mother was killed.
2. Roger, doctor, son of Roger, 1, b. 1672, Nov. 27; m. 1703, July 20, Sarah Rogers. prob. dau. of John, 2. She d. 1717-8, March 8. and he m. 1718, Aug. 7, Phebe Baldwin, dau. of John, 1. She d. 1736, Sept. 19, and he d. 1745-6. March 9, leaving a widow Mary. Ch. Margaret, b. 1703-4, Jan. 9; m. 1733-4, Jan. 28, Ebenezer Felch. of Reading. Mary, b. 1705, Oct. 26; in. John Rogers, 8, and 2d Dr. Benjamin Atherton. Grace, b. 1708, July 3. Sarah, b. 1710, April 4; m. John Levestone (see 2). Roger, 3, b. 1712, July 28. Martha, b. 1717, Sept. 27.
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