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Benjamin Russell, Esq., 1772.
George F. Howland, 1871-79. Job S. Gidley, 1880-83.
Military Record, 1861-65 .- Names of volunteer soldiers in the late war on the quota of Dartmouth :
Company F, Third Regiment (nine months) .- Alvah M. Chase, Henry E. Clark, Solomon Cornell, George A. Bessey, Charles W. Gammons, Thomas Gibbons, Joseph B. Holmes, Levi K. Gifford, Richard D. Kay, Joseph M. Lawton, Alden T. MeComber, Lyman A. McCom- ber, William B. Peck, John B. Peckham, John II. Ricketson, David Rider, William H. Stevens, James H. Williams, Andrew L. Wordell, William I. Wady, George H. Wood.
Company G, Third Regiment (nine months) .- William Davidson Croy, Reuben A. Garlick, George F. Packard, John Frazer.
Forty-seventh Regiment (nine months) .- William Blake, Oliver S. Brock, Chandler H. Calkins, William R. Chase, John O'Connell, William Carter, Charles W. Drody, John Dougherty, Abraham F. Green, William Hunt, William H. Knox, Michael Miskill, William II. Macomber, Gideon Reed, Robert II. Ricketson, William R. Samp- son, Charles G. Sanford, James Summers, Calvin Thomas, Jr., George W. Tripp, John Ward, Peter C. Reynolds, David Fish, Savory C. Braley, Martin V. B. Hammond.
Other Nine Months' Men .- William M. Tillinghast, Jonathan Soule; Levi A. Baker, Russell Eaton, Isaiah B. Leonard, 45th Regt. ; Timothy Ryan, J. R. Parks, Thomas French, George W. Peabody, Henry G. Kenner, Daniel Harrington, William G. Hall, Thomas Lynch, Daniel 0. Foster, Michael Farrel; Charles Brand, Michael Morrison, John Doyle, Joseph Grant, William Sheridan, John Sullivan, Charles L. Sullivan, Co. C, 4th Regt.
Company D, Twenty-third Regiment (three years) .- Albert W. Ashley. Thirty-third Regiment (three years) .- Thomas S. Howland, Willian H. Deming.
Thirty-eighth Regiment (three years) .- Thomas E. Bliffins, Peter C. Brooks, Samuel E. Dean, Shubael Eldridge, Jr., Patrick IIonan, Benjamin Jenks, Orrin D. Perry, Nathan J. Pierce, George W. Pierce, Joshua Rotch, Luther P. Williams.
Eighteenth Regiment (three years) .- Joseph Ifead, George R. Reed, Fred- erick A. Smith.
Fifth Massachusetts Battery (three years) .- James T. Rose, Albert J. Win- ters, Henry M. Gifford,
1 Compiled by Job S. Gidley, Esq.
2 Chosen to fill vacancy occasioned by the death of his father at the annual election.
Fifty-eighth Regiment .- Lewis Storm or Strom, George A. Brown, John Ramsay, Edwin C. Tripp, James J. Cronin, Albert F. Snow, Alex- ander Oliver, Bradford Little, Thomas J. Downs, William Kelley, Stephen Griffith, Joseph Sterace, John Thompson, John Lynch, Michael Donald, George Brown, Peter M. W. Baldwin, George F. Reed, John Gorham, Timothy E. Long, Edwin Tripp.
Twentieth Regiment .- William Squires.
Third Cavalry .- James Lee, David McCarty.
Three Years' Men, Regiment Unknown .- John Hayes, William Hart, Wil- liam II. Edwards, Lyman B. Morey, Frederick Mowbray.
Others, Term of Enlistment not known .- Charles A. Nute, Thomas Telen, Robert HI. Dunham, Charles Kreppel, James Sullivan, Charles E. Ryder, Jeremiah Moynehan.
Navy Credits .- James Taylor, Joseph B. Barker, William HI. Potter, with others whose names do not appear upon the town records.
Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry .- John McCall.
Fifteenth Massachusetts Battery .- John R. Pollock, Matther Woods. Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry .- Manuel Erera, Thomas Williams. Fourth Massachusetts Battery .- Charles Talbot, James Aster. Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, Co. I .- Solomon L. Winters. Second Massachusetts Cavalry .- Augustus Roberts, David Marsh.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
WILLIAM ALMY.
William Almy, the subject of our sketch, was a lineal descendant from William Almy (or Almond, as the name was sometimes spelled), who was born in England in 1601, married Andrey -, who was born in 1603. William 1 Almy, the emigrant, was at Lynn, Mass., as early as 1631, went back to England, and returned with his wife in the ship "Abigail" in 1635.
They had a daughter Annie, aged eight, and a son Christopher, aged three, who came with them. The family was in Sandwich probably in 1637, and certainly he was a freeman in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1655. His will names his children Christopher, John, Job, Ann or Annie (wife of John Green), and Cathe- rine (wife of a Mr. West).
Christopher 2 Almy, son of William, was born in England about 1627, came to America in ship " Abi- gail" with his parents in 1635, and lived where they died at Lynn and at Sandwich, Mass., and finally at Portsmouth, R. I. He was an assistant there in 1690. Job2 Almy, son of William1, was born in either Lynn or Sandwich, Mass., resided with his parents, and finally settled in Portsmouth, R. I. He married Mary, daughter of Christopher Unthank, of Warwick, and had children William and Chris- topher (twins), Susannah, Andrey, Deborah, Cathe- rine, and Mary, all perhaps minors when he died in 1684.
John Almy was probably the John referred to in William's1 will. He was at Plymouth in 1643, but finally settled at Portsmouth, R. I. He married Mary, daughter of James Cole. He was a captain in King Philip's war in 1675, but died in 1676.
It will be observed that the only grandsons men- tioned in the above account are William and Chris- topher (twins), sons of Job, William3 being named
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for his grandfather, William1 Almy, and Christopher3 named for his maternal grandfather, Christopher Un- thank. From all the information the writer can gather he thinks the line of descent from William the emi- grant to William7, the subject of our notice, is through Christopher3 Almy. The line is as follows : William1, Job2, Christopher3, Job4, Christopher5, Thomas6, and William7. Job4 Almy died July 27, 1877, aged eighty-one. His wife, Lydia, died Dec. 30, 1774, aged seventy-four. They are both buried on the farm of the late William Almy. Christopher5 Almy was born in 1735, and died in 1812, aged seventy-seven years. His wife, Naomi, died in May, 1817, aged seventy- nine years. Their son, Thomas6, was born in Dart- mouth, Mass., April 22, 1775, and died Nov. 23, 1868, in his ninety-fourth year. He married Sarah, daugh- ter of William and Patience Gifford.1 Sarah (Gifford) Almy was born in Dartmouth, June 10, 1779, and died June 13, 1848. Their children were William Silence, born Oct. 9, 1801, and died Nov. 10, 1872; Frederick 2 and Henry, who died at eight. Thomas 6 Almy was one of the most remarkable men physically that ever lived in old Dartmouth. In his youth he was a carpenter by trade, subsequently a merchant at Russell's Mills, but finally a farmer, and the farm he owned, and where his children were born, is now owned by his grandsons, John P. and William F. Almy, of Boston.
Mr. Almy was a man possessed of good common sense, sound judgment, keen foresight, and withał, a happy disposition. He had much to do with town affairs, and took great pride in the annual gatherings and drills of the State militia. He took pride in a good horse, and was always seen on horseback, which recreation he continued till within a short time of his death. He was a birthright member of the So- ciety of Friends, and lived and died in that faith. He retained his faculties till within a short time of his death, and his name is still held in grateful re- membrance not only by the grandchildren, but by those who knew him in New Bedford and Dart- month.
William7 Almy, son of Thomas and Sarah (Gif- ford) Almy, was born on the old Almy farm in Dart- mouth, Mass., Oct. 10, 1798, and died in Boston, Dec. 25, 1881. His youth was spent on his father's farm, and he received such advantages for an educa- tion as the district schools of his time afforded. From the New Bedford Mercury, of Dec. 28, 1881, we clip the following notice :
" He early determined to become a merchant, and at the age of thirteen he walked from his home near Horse Neck, carrying his shoes in his hand as a mat- ter of economy, to Russell's Mills, where he began his career in the store of the late Abraham Barker. In a few years he removed to this city, and was employed
as book-keeper in the store of William H. Allen and the late Gideon Allen, and in the counting-room of the late John Avery Parker. Graduating there, he went to Boston, and found employment in the best school possible for a merchant, the counting-room of the late A. & A. Lawrence. Soon after attaining his majority, and doubtless under the kind auspices of his employers, he formed a partnership with a fellow clerk, named Dexter, establishing the business (im- porting and jobbing of white-goods), which under the firm-names of Dexter & Almy, Almy, Blake & Co., Almy, Patterson & Co., Almy, Hobart & Co., and Almy & Co., he successfully pursued for nearly fifty years. Cool, clear-headed, and sagacious, no man stood higher in the confidence and esteem of his fel- lows than William Almy. He achieved a handsome fortune for his time, but secured something far better, a reputation for spotless integrity and unblemished honor."
For many years he was a director in the Eagle Bank, Boston, and for a number of years his firm was selling agents for various cotton and woolen-mills, among which we mention that of the well-known Wamsutta Mills of New Bedford. Politically, he was a Whig and Republican. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Deborah Brayton, of Nan- tucket, in Novenber, 1828. She was born June 19, 1803, and died May 11, 1879.
Of their ten children-
(1) Sarah, died in infancy.
(2) Robert B.
(3) Sarah H., born Dec. 16, 1832, died Feb. 26, 1869.
(4) Matilda H., died in infancy.
(5) Henry, born Aug. 22, 1836, and died April 6, 1879. He was associated with his father and others in business.
(6) Catherine G., died young.
(7) and (8) John P. and William F. (twins), now doing business in Boston.
(9) Alice B., born April 14, 1843, who died Jan. 5, 1871. She was wife of Frederick Grinnell, of New Bedford, and had one daughter,-Alice A.
(10) Thomas R., a clerk in New Bedford.
About 1830, Mr. Almy purchased a part of the old Almy farm, near Horse Neck, in Dartmouth, a de- lightful summer residence, which he greatly improved and beautified. But soon a gradual failure of sight obliged him to give up in a measure his business care, and in company with one of his daughters he went to Europe to seek the cure of his threatened blindness. He, however, received no benefit from the advice and treatment of the most eminent foreign oculists, and in a short time (1858) he became totally blind,-a ter- rible affliction for a man so self-reliant and independ- ent as he had been, so full of activity and so fond of social life. In 1868 he retired from business. He bore his trouble with something better than a stoic's resignation, and keeping up his interest in affairs, sought to minister as well as be ministered unto.
1 See ancestral history of the Giffords in Westport.
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Dying at a good old age, he left an honored name and the memory of an active and useful life.
WILLIAM BARKER, JR.
William Barker, Jr., son of William and Susannah (Potter) Barker, was born in Dartmonth, Mass., Dec. 25, 1820. He comes of a family long settled in the old town of Dartmouth. Lemuel was son of Jabez, married Maria Tripp, was a farmer and lumberman, and died in 1818, aged fifty-five years. His father, William Barker, was son of Lemuel, and one of a family of six children, and was born in 1794. He was twice married, first to Susannah, daughter of Ab- ner and Sarah (Wood) Potter. By her he had five children,-Abner (died an infant), William, Eliza- beth (Mrs. Charles W. Potter), Abner P., and Charles O. He next married Rebecca Potter, sister of his first wife. Their children were Susan (Mrs. David Sisson), Sarah (Mrs. Henry C. Baker), Ann M. (Mrs. Lemuel M. Potter), Abby R. (Mrs. Edward Hicks), George F. (deceased), Caroline (Mrs. H. Damon), Henry H., Emma F., Avis H. (Mrs. Fenner Brownell), and Warren S. He lived between Russell's Mills and Smith's Mills ; was a member of the Friends' Society. He was a man of integrity and justice, was univer- sally esteemed, served his town as selectman and assessor several years, and brought up his large family of children well. He died in 1863.
William Barker, Jr., was educated at the Friends' School at Providence, R. I., where he remained four years. When fifteen years old he was put to learn the trade of tanner and currier with his uncle, Lutham Potter. He spent four years in acquiring his trade, and, after eighteen months' work at his trade for his uncle after his trade was learned, he established him- self in business at Smith's Mills, and continued in this for ten years. From about this time Mr. Barker commenced attending to public business, and such was the satisfaction he gave that his services were so occupied as to cause him to relinquish private busi- ness and attend altogether to that coming to him from outside. In 1851 he was chosen clerk, treasurer, and collector of taxes of Dartmouth, and held those posi- tions for sixteen consecutive years. From about 1852 he held the office of deputy sheriff, with only one year's interruption till 1876. He was about the same time commissioned justice of the peace, and still holds that office. He represented Dartmouth in the Lower House of the State Legislature in 1868, 1870, 1871. He was elected State senator in 1881. He is Repub- lican in politics. In all the varied and multitndinous duties of his years of office Mr. Barker has been quick, accurate, and courteous. He has been called to administer on many estates, and in all capacities has well discharged his trusts. Plain and unpretend- ing in personal appearance, he accomplishes business with a conciseness and brevity of detail which shows
how completely he is at home in its transaction, and has a large following of personal friends.
He married Mary Slade, daughter of Caleb and Hannah (Davis) Slade, of Dartmouth, Sept. 22, 1842. They have only one child, Mary Elizabeth.
WILLIAM A. GORDON, M.D.
Among the leading successful and representative physicians of Bristol County who began active prac- tice more than half a century ago, and.to-day are liv- ing in unimpaired vigor of mind and comfortable physical health, must be mentioned Dr. William A. Gordon. Coming of vigorous Scotch ancestry, he in- herited much of the vitality of that hardy Caledonian race. He was son of Dr. William Gordon and Helen | Gilchrist, his wife, and is a lineal descendant of Alex- ander Gordon, a scion of the loyal Gordon family in the Highlands of Scotland. This young Alexander (first generation) was a soldier in the Royalist army of Charles II. when but eighteen. He was captured by Cromwell, confined for a time in Tuthill Fields, London, and sent to America in 1651 as a prisoner of war. He was held at Watertown, Mass., until 1654, when he was released. He afterwards went to Exeter, N. H., where, in 1663, he married the daughter of Nich- olas Lysson. The next year the town voted him a grant of twenty acres of land, and he became a per- manent resident. The locality where he settled still retains the name of "Gordon's Hill." He had eight children, of whom Thomas (second generation), born 1678, married Elizabeth Harriman, settled in Haver- hill, Mass., was father of eleven children, and died in 1762. His son Timothy (third generation) had a son Timothy (fourth generation), who was grandfather to Dr. William A. Gordon. This last-mentioned Tim- othy was a farmer and a Revolutionary soldier of bravery in the battles of Bunker Hill, Bennington, Saratoga, etc. He married Lydia Whitmore, lived in Newbury, Mass., and had a family of eight children, of whom William (fifth generation) was oldest. William, born about 1783, was educated at Phillips' Exeter Academy, studied medicine with Dr. Kitt- ridge, in Andover, Mass., and began practice as a physician in Schoodic, Me., afterwards settling in Hingham, Mass., where he lived many years, and finally settled in Taunton (taking his son's practice after he went to New Bedford), and was in practice there at the time of his death, June 17, 1851. His wife Helen was daughter of Gordon and Mary (Good- will) Gilchrist, who were natives of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and residents of St. Andrews, New Bruns- wick, where she was born about 1786. She died, aged eighty-six, in 1872. This worthy couple had seven children, William Alexander, Charles (de- ceased), Helen (widow of George A. Crocker, of Taunton), Joseph R., Edwin, Ann B. (wife of Adolph Kielbock, of Boston), and Timothy.
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Dr. William A. Gordon (sixth generation ) was born in Newburyport, Mass., March 17, 1808. His parents moved to Hingham when he was but two months old. He was prepared for College at Derby Academy, in Hingham, and was graduated at Harvard, class of 1826, when but cighteen years old. He at once con- menced the study of medicine with his father, and was graduated at Harvard Medical School in 1829. Being in poor health, he went with his father to the home of his grandfather, in St. Andrews, and by the solicitation of friends began practice in Robbinstown, Me., where he remained four months. Going then to St. Stephens, he stayed there four months, and then settled permanently in Taunton, Mass., July, 1830. From that time he has been identified with, and taken a highi stand among, the best and most successful physicians of this county. He remained in Taunton eight years and a half, when, yielding his practice to his father, who was worked too hard at Hingham, he, in December, 1839, moved to New Bedford, where he was in active practice until 1877, when he removed to his pleasant seaside home in Dartmouth, and has since resided there.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, in which he has held the office of counselor ; is also a member of South Bristol Medical Society, has been its president and for years its treasurer. By request of this society a communication, prepared by him and read before the society, on " Puerperal Tetanus," was published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Republican in politics, he has not sought political honors, but, soon after moving to New Bedford, was elected overseer of the poor, which position he held for seventeen consecutive years. He is liberal in religious belief, and an attendant of the Unitarian Church. He married, in October, 1833, Maria, daughter of Hon. John M. Williams, of Taun- ton. She died July 11, 1875, aged sixty-one. They had eight children. Their second daughter, Anne M., married Henry Johnson, M.D., of New Bedford. She had three children who survived her,-Holman Gordon, Theodora, and Elizabeth Gordon. Their four surviving children are Elizabeth, William Gil- christ (now in charge of a private school in Burling- ton, Iowa. He has three children,-Mabel, Helen, and William Alexander), Helen, and Emily, wife of Professor Thomas E. Pope, of State Agricultural Col- lege, Iowa. (She has two children,-Mary R. and Ethel.)
WILLIAM R. SLOCUM.
The family of Slocum has been from its settlement prominently connected with the town of Dartmouth. The history of the town will show the name among the first proprietors and settlers. Holder Slocum was of the stock of the original settlers, and from him, in the fifth generation, is William R. Slocum, now a resident of Dartmouth. Peleg Slocum, his son, born in Dartmouthi, was twice married, his second wife
being a sister of John and James Howland, of New Bedford. He had four sons, Peleg, Holder, Chris- topher, and Cook, and two daughters, Alice and Amy. He, like his immediate ancestors, was of the Society of Friends, a quiet person of influence in the community, and a large land-owner, and he attained the patriarchal age of ninety years. His son Peleg, born 1763, was a farmer, succeeding to a generous share of the paternal acres. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Ricketson, and had children,- Ricketson, Otis, William, Amy, Rebecca, Eliza. He lived to be ninety-three. He was an energetic man, of positive nature, a representative farmer, standing high in the esteem of the community, and successful in business. He was much interested in polities, and was prominent in the councils of the Whig party. He died in 1856. His memory reached back distinctly to the events of the Revolution. His son Ricketson, born April, 1790, succeeded to one of his father's farms on Slocum's Neck, of about two or three hun- dred acres. He married Jemima, daughter of John and Mercy Wing (see biography of B. F. Wing), when but a young man. He was an energetic man, taught school in his youth, and in various ways im- pressed himself upon his generation. He was two years selectman, was representative to the General Court, and was highly esteemed as a good citizen and a man of excellent judgment and worth. He died July 11, 1854, aged sixty-four years and two months. Mrs. Slocum was an energetic, robust woman, with a strong " will of her own," and a fit mate for her hus- band. She was a kind mother, bringing up a large family to honor her memory. Many of her children died in infancy. The following attained maturity : William R .; Frederick (deceased) ; Charles; Almy, married Howland Holder; Lydia, married Israel Brightman; Joseph W .; Frederick (2d), deceased ; Mary A., married Giles F. Allen ; Elizabeth, married W. W. Allen.
William Ricketson Slocum, eldest son of Ricketson and Jemima (Wing) Slocum, was born in Dartmouth, Mass., June 14, 1811. From very early life he has led the laborious life of a practical New England farmer, following the teachings of Poor Richard's maxim, " Whoever by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive." With limited common school advantages, he acquired sufficient education to successfully teach nine consecutive winter terms of school, beginning at his nineteenth year. These were all taught in his native town, and five in his home district. In this avocation he acquired quite a repu- tation as a disciplinarian. He received little property from inheritance, and marrying, May 22, 1834, Eliz- abeth, daughter of Pardon and Lydia Cornell (who was born May 29, 1811, in Dartmouth), commenced housekeeping on Naushon Island, and lived there nine years, the first three as a hired man on a farm. In 1843, in company with his brother-in-law, E. Browning, he purchased a farm, on which they gave
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a mortgage for three thousand dollars, the purchase money, for six years. Hard work and economy were faithfully persisted in, and a satisfactory evidence given that agriculture on a New England farm can be made a very remunerative business. Every pay- ment was made promptly on time, the mortgage lifted when due, and after nine years had passed Mr. Slocum sold his half-interest for five thousand dollars, and the partners then had in addition eleven hundred dollars in cash, and eleven hundred dollars in land that they had bought.
Mr. Slocum then (1852) purchased the farm of about two hundred acres where he now resides. By the continuation of the same industry and thrift he has attained to the possession of a handsome prop- erty, and stands high in financial as well as social circles. Republican in politics, he has served his town acceptably three times as selectman. He is a stockholder of the "yarn-mill" of New Bedford, and of Boston and Albany and other railroads. He has one daughter, Cornelia R., born June 12, 1842. She married John W. Howland, June 12, 1868, and has five children,-William R., born July 14, 1869; Rodolphus W., born Nov. 3, 1870 ; Elizabeth T., born May 10, 1872; Margaret E., born Dec. 20, 1873; Alma S., born April 5, 1879. Pardon Cornell was a farmer in Dartmouth, had eight children,-Phebe P., Godfrey, Joseph W., Mercy A., Elizabeth, Lydia W., Gideon, and Alfred. He died in his eighty-fourth year, June 1, 1859. Lydia, his wife, died April 9, 1863, aged eighty-two. They were Friends. The father of Pardon Cornell was Gideon, who was son of William. Gideon was a farmer, married a Dilly Gifford, who lived to be very old, and is remembered by Mrs. Slocum. Gideon also died at an advanced age.
CAPT. BENJAMIN F. WING.
John Wing was the original progenitor of nearly all who bear the name in America, so far as they are known to the writer. Nothing is known of him before his arrival at Boston in June, 1630, and his residence at Sangus (Lynn), Mass., except that he had married Deborah, the second daughter of Rev. Stephen Bach- iler, the first minister to Lynn, as early as 1632. (For an extended history of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, we would refer the reader to our history of Hampton, Rockingham Co., N. H.) It appears from the records that Mr. Wing was a man of limited circumstances, hence left Lynn, Mass., for cheaper lands, and was probably one of Rev. Mr. Bachiler's party, who made a journey in the dead of winter from Lynn, or Ipswich, to "Mattucheese," about 1634 or 1635, and though that enterprise failed, he then perhaps became ac- quainted with the region afterwards known as the peninsula of Cape Cod. As early as April, 1637, the General Court at Plymouth gave to Edward Free- man and nine others the right to form a plantation, and they in turn had the right to receive as many
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