History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 64

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1818


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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


WESTON EARLE.


Ralph Earle emigrated from England probably be- tween the years 1633 and 1638. There is a tradition presumed from the directness of its descent to be au-


thentic that he came from Exeter. Of this. however, we have obtained no positive proof. No efforts have been made to trace his family prior to his arrival in this country.


From the records of the Colonial Court it appears that Ralph Earle, with nineteen other residents of Portsmouth, R. I., petitioned the king, under date of April 30, 1638, for "permission to form themselves into a body politic." Upon the records of the town of Portsmouth, R. I., under date of first of eighth month, O.S. (October) 1638, there is " A Catalogue of such (persons) who by the Genrall consent of the com- pany were admitted to the Inhabytants of the Island now called Aqueedneck, having submitted themselves to the Government that is, or shall be, established according to the word of God therein." This cata- logue contains fifty-nine names, of which that of Ralph Earle is one. Again, under date of " April ye 30th 1639," his name, with twenty-eight others, is ap- pended to the following declaration of allegiance : " We whose names are under [written doe acknow]- edge1] ourselves the legell subjects of [his majestie] King Charles, and in his name [doe hereby binde] ourzelves into a civil body politieke unto his lawes according to matters of justice."


March 21, 1640, Ralph Earle conveyed "parcells of upland and meadow," to William Baulston.


At a town-meeting, June 2, 1649, Ralph was "chosen treasurer for this next year ensuing, and also overseer for the poor," and at another town-meeting, April 29, 1650, he, with five others, was chosen " for the commit- tee for the General Assembly at Newport in May next." At a town-meeting in 1647 he had been " chosen to keep an Inn, to sell beer and wine, and to entertain strangers," but at a similar meeting, Nov. 12, 1650, with a species of hair-splitting worthy of the meta- physicians, it was " voated and granted that Ralph Erl's house wherein he now dwelleth be recorded an Inn, in ye room of ye former vote that he was an Inn- keeper." It would appear that he was an inn-keeper by compulsion rather than choice. Jan. 16, 1651, he was " chosen to oversee the work of the Prison," etc. May 5, 1655, with two others, he was chosen as jury- man " for the Generall Court of tryals to be held in Providence." In 1667, he joined a " troope of horse," which had been ordered to be raised, and on the 10th of August signed, with eighteen others, a paper ap- proving "the choyce of our captaine and Lieftenant to the full." It appears that Ralph was afterwards captain of this troop. April 28, 1669, he was placed on the Grand Jury ; and June 7, 1671, he and eleven others of Portsmouth, R. I., and several residents of Newport, were appointed by the General Assembly of the colony as a Special Court, to sit on the 15th of the same month, to try "two Indians now imprisoned upon criminall charge."


1 The words in brackets are modern interpolations in places where the original record is torn off.


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Several decds of real estate from Ralph to other persons are upon the records of Portsmouth. In the "New England Genealogical and Antiquarian Reg- ister," vol. vi. p. 369, it is stated that Ralph claimed the lands of the Dutch "House of Good Hope," now Hartford, Conn., and commenced a lawsuit therefor against Richard Lord and James Richards, of Hart- ford, possessors of the Dutch land about 1667. Earle affirmed that he purchased the land of Underhill in August, 1653, and paid him twenty pounds sterling for it, but Underhill protested against Earle's claim. "It is not improbable," continues the writer in the " Register," " that there was some foundation for this claim." There are many papers on the subject in the archives of Connecticut. We have no record of the date of Ralph's decease, but his " Will was Entered and Recorded the 14th day of the 11th month (O.S.), 1677, as Atest John Anthony, Town Clarke," of Ports- mouth.


Thomas Earle, of Portsmouth, was received a free- man of the colony in 1764. No other record of his name has been found. He was probably a son of Ralph, and died not long after the year just men- tioned.


Ralph1 Earle married Ionc -; settled in Ports- mouth, R. I., in 1638. His children were Ralph, William2, Mary, Martha, and Surah. William2 died in 1715. His children were William, Ralph, Thomas3, John, and Prudence. Thomas3 lived in Warwick, R. I. He died in 1727. His children were William, Thomas, Mary, Oliver4, Sarah, Lydia, and Rebecca. Oliver+ married Rebecca Sherman, and lived in Swan- sea, Mass. He died in 1766. His children were Joshua, Caleb5, Thomas, and Mary. Caleb5 was born in 1729, and died in 1812. He lived in Swansea, Mass. He was twice married, first to Sarah Buffin- ton, in 1745. They had six children,-Elizabeth, Weston6, Caleb, Benjamin, Joshna, and David. His second wife was Hannah Chase. They were married in 1769. Their children were Mary, Jonathan, Re- becca, Daniel, Sarah, Oliver, and William. Weston6 was born in Swansea in 1750, and died Sept. 5, 1838. He married three times, first Hepsibeth Terry. Their children were Caleb, Sarah, Hepsibeth. His second wife was Sarah Slade. (See Slade biography, in Som- erset.) Their children were John7, Slade, Edward S. His third wife was Martha Smith. They had one son, Thomas G. John was born May 24, 1790. At the age of sixteen he began teaching, and continued in this em- ployment during the winter months for thirty-seven years. In addition to the common school studies he taught navigation and the higher branches. He was also a successful farmer, was for several years a mem- ber of the General Court, and for two years occupied a seat in the State Senate. He held many responsible positions in the town, where his value was recognized, was a justice of the peace, and was often called upon to administer estates. He died in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He married Roby, daughter of Asa


Cornell and his wife, Martha Mason. She was born in Swansea in 1789, and died in her eighty-third ycar.


Their children were Weston8; Sarah, born in 1811, married Philip Simmons in 1835; John M., born in 1819; Elizabeth M., born in 1822, married, in 1857, F. A. Boomer, of Fall River, Mass. (See biography in history of Fall River.)


Weston8 Earle was born Feb. 19, 1810, in Swansea, where he continued to reside, working on his father's farm until he was twenty-one. He then went to Rochester for three years, when he returned to Swan- sea, where he worked on a farm until he was twenty- eight. In 1837 he purchased his present farm, where he has lived since 1838. He is a firm supporter of the Republican party. He was for many years one of the selectmen of Dighton. He is a descendant in the eighth generation from Ralph Earle, who came from England, and was one of the first purchasers and settlers of the island of Rhode Island (in 1638). His wife's name was Ione, and the subject of this sketch has a grandson and granddaughter named after the original Ralph and Ione Earle.


Mr. Earle married Content (daughter of Benjamin Slade and Elizabeth Robinson), born Feb. 8, 1798, at Swansea. She was the youngest of eight children, who all lived to an advanced age.


Children of Weston Earle : John W., born July 6, 1838, and Elizabeth S., born May 1, 1841.


John W. married Caroline E. Searle, of Scituate, R. I. Their children are Ralph, Howard Weston (deceased), Ione and one not named (twins).


CHARLES H. GOODING.


Charles H. Gooding was born in Dighton, Mass., Feb. 5, 1812. He is the fifth generation of the Good- ings who have resided on the ancestral farm settled by George Gooding in 1684. He had emigrated from Somersetshire, England, and purchased the place be- fore King Philip's war. George Gooding had four children, three daughters and one son, viz. : Matthew, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. His grandfather and father both bore the name of Joseph, the latter born in 1772. His mother was Betsey Austin, daughter of Seth Austin, Sr., of Digh- ton, and he is the youngest of a family of six children, of whom he and his sister Betsey, widow of the late Samuel L. Thaxter, are the only survivors.


Mr. Gooding was well educated in the branches taught at the common schools of his native town, and received additional advantages at a grammar school in Fall River, where his father resided and carried on the clock- and watch-making business and a general jeweler's store. Charles learned of his father the trade of a clock- and watch-maker, though he did not continue to follow that pursuit. He served as deputy postmaster at Fall River about one year, and in 1834 went to the city of New York, and was about ten


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years engaged there as a book-keeper for his brother, Albert Gooding, who was a merchant in the Spanish West India trade. In 1844 he settled on the home- stead in Dighton. Under the administration of Presidents Taylor and Fillmore he was inspector of customs at Dighton, a branch of the Fall River office being then kept at that place. He has carried on the homestead farm since his return there in 1844.


Mr. Gooding was married, Feb. 5, 1857, to Mary Almy, daughter of Capt. Abraham Briggs, of Digh- ton, and widow of Mr. Gilbert L. Talbot. She was a native of Providence, R. I. They had no children. She died Sept. 24, 1880, aged sixty-six years and two months.


A Whig and a Republican in politics, he is yet an Independent, and believes more in principles and men . than in party. In religious faith and worship his affiliations are with the Unitarian Church, and he is a supporter of the church of this order in Dighton.


We append to this brief sketch the following arti- cle, recently published in the Taunton Gazette, re- specting the occupation pursued by several members of this family :


" THE GOODING FAMILY OF CLOCKMAKERS .- A recent notice of the death of a member of the Gooding family, the last of the brothers, natives of Dighton, suggested the grouping of a brief genealog- ical reminiscence relative to the history, mechanical skill, and occupation of this family of clock and watchmakers. Probably no similar instance can be cited in this country where so many of one family followed that ingenious business, to whom may be added nearly a dozen descendants pursuing the same occupations, nearly all citizens of this State.


" The old homestead where they were born stands upon the estate of their late pilgrim ancestor, George Gooding,1 who died Jan. 1, 1712, in his eightieth year. His son Matthew inherited the estate; Joseph was the third, Joseph (2d) the fourth, in lineal descent, and the eldest of the five brothers, and three sisters- Rebecca (Mrs. Reed), Deborah (Mrs. Standish), and Elizabeth (Mrs. Perry)-comprised the family of the fourth generation.


" Joseph (4th ) was born in 1772, and at an early age developed a remarkable mechanical genius and a pe- culiar aptitude for clock and watch machinery. When about sixteen years of age his father sent him as an apprentice to an English Quaker, an ingenious watch and cloekmaker in Hanover, where he remained a few years, until he was as expert as his master in the business. He returned to Dighton, and commenced the manufacture of brass clocks before he was twenty- one years of age, in a little room in the old home- stead. He afterwards, in 1797, built a store near the Upper Four Corners, and enlarged the business, with


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two of his brothers as apprentices, in making the tall, mahogany-cased clocks, after the English style, recently imported from London at great expense. These clocks, besides the time-dial, noted the day of the month and the moon's phases, some of which may be found in old family residences at the present day. All the delicate brass-work was executed by his own hands and those of his brother apprentices. Not a cog-wheel or pinion was turned out by ma- chinery, as done by the million at present. None of those grand mahogany-cased time-keepers are now made, yet many are still keeping note of the time and the phases of the moon as correctly as they did nearly a century ago. Those who hold them in pos- session as family heirlooms are loth to part with their venerable Gooding clocks for any consideration, which have proved such reliant time-keepers. At the manufacture of these famous clocks the younger brothers, as they left the humble school and patri- monial farm, served apprenticeship with their senior brother, Joseph.


"In 1826, Joseph removed his business to Troy (now Fall River), then having a population of less than three thousand, and followed watchmaking, at which he was an adept; also a designer, engraver, and die-cutter, and skillful at all. After remaining a dozen years he returned to his homestead in Dighton in 1838, and resumed the repairing of clocks and watches until his death, in 1853, at the age of eighty years and eight months. He married . Austin, and they had two daughters and four sons. The two eldest, Joseph and Albert, followed their father's business, and went to Bogota, South America. Wil- liam also removed there in the shell-comb manufac- ture. Albert and William died some years ago, and Joseph died recently. Charles H., who cultivated the ancient family estate of nearly two centuries, also repairs clocks for diversion. continuing the family occupation.


"Josiah, the second brother, after finishing his trade, settled in Bristol, R. I., and followed the clock and watch business until his death, in 1864, at the age of eighty-eight years. He left four sons, two of whom, James and Josiah, continued the same busi- ness. One remains in the father's store.


" John, the third brother, went into business in Plymouth, remaining there until his death, some eight years ago, at the age of ninety, leaving three sons. Benjamin succeeded his father, and James is one of the prominent members of the Waltham Watch Manufactory, and aided in building np that enter- prising establishment to its present vast proportions and wide reputation.


" Alanson, after leaving his apprenticeship, settled in New Bedford, and followed the business until 1840, when he retired. He made a trip to Europe several years ago. He died Nov. 18, 1877.


" Henry, after partially serving with Joseph, com- pleted his trade with Josiah at Bristol, and com-


1 Joanna, a daughter of George Gooding (3d), married John Godfrey, Esq., and was the mother of Brig .- Gen. Godfrey, men of note during the last century in this county.


Alfred M. Paul


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menced the clock and watch business in Duxbury, where he married and remained a few years. He subsequently removed to Boston, and continued the favorite business in Dock Square, Washington and State Streets, until age caused him to retire about a dozen years ago. He died on the 10th of December at the age of ninety-two years and six months, leav- ing five daughters and a son, but none to continue the business of the father.


" The five brothers averaged over half a century in devotion to that business, and they sustained the re- markable aggregate age of nearly four hundred and forty years. Their sister, Mrs. John Reed (mother of Henry Gooding Reed, of Taunton), died in Jan- mary, 1872, at the venerable age of ninety, making the aggregate of the five brothers and sister over five hundred and thirty years. All lived remarkably temperate and even-tenored lives, worthy representa- tives of their sturdy pilgrim ancestry and lineage, as well as their successors and descendants, who follow them in the ingenious line of occupation. It is a rare record of a family, hence it may be of readable in- terest to the relatives, friends, and others who may not have heard of the Gooding clock and watch- makers."


ALFRED W. PAUL.


Alfred W. Paul is of Scotch descent, and is lineally connected with one of the oldest families in Taunton. Two brothers, Richard and William Paul, came to this country from Scotland at an early day, the former on board of the ship " Castle" in 1636-37. He was born in 1615, and Nov. 7, 1638, married Margary Turner, of Taunton, Mass. The same year he took an in- ventory of the estate of John Bryant, of Taunton. He was licensed to keep a victualing-house Aug. 3, 1640; was subject to military duty 1643; was on a jury of inquest September, 1650, and again July 23, 1653; June 7, 1652, he was surveyor of highways, and died at the age of about thirty-nine in 1654, his " widow" being mentioned in the will of Elizabeth Pool, dated March 17th of that year.


That William was not a son but a younger brother of Richard is evident from the fact that he "was born in Scotland in 1624." The lineage of the subject of this sketch is traceable directly back to this ancestor, William. He was a weaver by trade, and married Mary, daughter of John Richmond, of Taunton. He sold a dwelling-house to his sons, John and Edward, Feb. 27, 1687 ; gave five acres of land towards the payment of Rev. Mr. Danforth, the Taunton minis- ter, Feb. 27, 1688; was a large land-owner in the "Taunton South Purchase," containing the present town of Dighton, which was bought of the Indian " King Philip" in 1672 by a company in Taunton, of which William Paul was a member. In two different divisions of the purchase he received lots Nos. 3, 28, 45, and 85, the last division having been made March 18, 1683-84. The dates of the deaths of William and


his wife, taken from their tombstones, are as follows: William, died Nov. 9, 1704, aged eighty years ; Mary, his wife, died Oct. 3, 1715, aged seventy-six.


James Paul, the eldest son of William and Mary, was born April 7, 1657 ; it is not known into what family he married, but his wife's name was Mary. He was one of the twenty-six proprietors of the South Purchase (or Dighton), and owned three shares March 25, 1715. He died before Jan. 14, 1724-25, aged about sixty-seven years. James Paul, of the third generation, also married a wife Mary, and had a son William (fourth generation), born date un- known. This William married Mary (family un- known), died about 1735; their son James (fifth gen- eration) was born in Dighton, date unknown. He married Sarah White, and moved thence to Putney, Vt., about 1795, where he died. John, the second son of James, above mentioned, was in the Revolutionary war, and was one of the party of twelve men who captured the British commander, Gen. Prescott, with- in the British lines in Rhode Island, while John was serving in the command of Gen. Barton. He was the first man picked by Gen. Barton for the danger- ons service, and was selected to throttle and secure the British sentinel on guard at night, which he did. Subsequently to the Revolution he removed to Ver- mont, where he died.


Peter White Paul, son of James, of the fifth gen- eration, was the grandfather of our subject, Alfred W. Paul. He first married Silence Briggs, who died May 7, 1795, and he subsequently married a second wife, whose name was Hannah. He lived in Dighton; his death was caused by a fall from a load of wood Jan. 15, 1814. He left children by each wife; among the former was Peter Paul, father of our subject, born March 20, 1787. He married Dilly Phillips, who died Sept. 14, 1819, and he afterwards married Eunice Edson. He died Oct. 27, 1851. The children by the first wife were Peter W. and Nancy; by the second wife Alfred W., Elisha K. (of Dighton), Lucy F. (twins), and Eunice.


Alfred W. Paul was born in Dighton, Mass., Aug. 5, 1822. He was brought up on the ancestral farm and educated at the common schools, evincing in early life an aptitude for study, which, notwithstand- ing a lack of opportunity for classical instruction, has enabled him to acquire large knowledge on general subjects and to become exceptionally well informed on the special subject to which his life has been chiefly devoted, viz., that of agriculture, embracing also hor- ticultural studies and pursuits. A portion of his early life was devoted to teaching in the common schools, for which he was in part prepared by one term spent at the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Mass., in 1844.


On Nov. 26, 1846, he was united in marriage to Deborah Palmer Briggs, daughter of Silas P. Briggs, of Dighton. Her ancestors were among the early settlers in this portion of New England. The fruit


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of this union was one son, Silas Alfred Paul, who died in infancy.


Mr. Paul is a self-made man, and in every respect the architect of his own fortune, having by his own unaided exertions made his way from poverty to com- parative competence. His honor and integrity as a man have also been preserved unsullied through his struggles for worldly suceess, and he has attained a high place in the respeet and esteem of his fellow- citizens. One instance may be mentioned illustrative of his energy and self-reliance. When he purchased the farm where he now resides in 1847 he had not a dollar in his possession, and bought the place wholly upon credit. Of course he did not fail to meet his obligations, and it is mentioned as a fact that he suc- ceeded in entirely paying for the place in about eight years, besides carrying on the expenses of living and other interests.


He has given special attention to farming and gardening, illustrating on his own land the kind of tillage and erops which yield the largest percentage of profit per acre. He is a member of the Bristol County Agricultural Society, and of the Massachu- setts Horticultural Society ; has been active in the meetings of these societies, and has written some articles on the subject of agriculture, notably "My Farming Experience," an address delivered before the county meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture in December, 1878. This article was published in the Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture for 1878-79. It attracted con- siderable attention, and he received letters on the subjeet from many portions of the United States.


Mr. Paul has been a Republican in his political principles since the inception of that party, and voted for its first Presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856. His standing in relation to polit- ical questions has never been equivocal or doubtful, for he has decided opinions. He has served many years as justice of the peace, and as probate judge has settled many estates to the general satisfaction of those interested, and has held several offices in his town.


While managing his home land in a manner to se- cure the largest returns for the acres cultivated in 1882 he purchased four farms, with buildings and improvements thereon, in New Hampshire, which he still owns.


He and Mrs. Paul are members of the Congrega- tional Church in Dighton.


THOMAS D. STANDISHI.


Thomas D. Standish, whose portrait appears on another page, is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Capt. Miles Standish, who came over in the " Mayflower." The latter belonged to a family of some consequence in England, who had been long established, with landed possessions, in Duxbury, a


town of the parish of Standish, in Lancashire, where he was born. The family settled in Duxbury, now in Plymouth County, Mass. Alexander, Miles, Josiah, Charles, and Lora Standish were children of Capt. Miles Standish, by his wife, Barbara.


Alexander, of Duxbury, eldest son of Capt. Miles Standish, married Sarah, daughter of John Alden. They had sons, Miles, Ebenezer, and David, and daughters, Lora, Lydia, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Alex- ander, by his second wife, had Thomas, born 1687, Desire, born 1689, and Ichabod.


Josiah, of Duxbury, brother of Alexander, married Mary Dingly, Dee. 19, 1654. They had children, Miles, Josiah, Samuel, Israel, Mary, and Lois.


Miles, son of Capt. Miles Standish, lived in Boston, where he married Sarah, a daughter of John Wins- low, July 19. 1660.


It is probable that Thomas D. Standish is descended from Alexander, of Duxbury, as the names in that branch would indicate, although the records are not sufficient to establish the fact.


David, one of the sons of Alexander, was of the third generation from the original Miles Standish. The line of descent was probably through Comfort, Lemuel, and David, the father of our subject. From an imperfect record torn from an old family Bible once in the possession of David Standish, it appears that his grandfather, Comfort, died Jan. 4, 1795, aged seventy years. This would make his birth to have occurred in 1725. He married Rachel Magoon. The record of their children is as follows :


Lemuel, born June 25, 1746.


Olive, born May 29, 1748.


Hannah, born Sept. 1, 1751.


Lucy, born March 6, 1754.


Priscilla, born April 24, 1756.


David, born Sept. 19, 1758.


The grandfather of our subject was the Lemuel Standish above mentioned. His wife's name was Hannah, and her death is recorded as having occurred Aug. 23, 1803, aged seventy-four years. David, son of Lemuel and Hannah Standish, was born in Hanover, Mass. His children were :




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