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10. DANIEL, S. of John (4), m. Abigail Cooksey 13 Nov. 1701, and had Abi- gail, b. 9 and d. 27 Aug. 1702; Walter, b. 24 Mar. 1703-4, and d. in Hardwiek 6 July 1792; Abigail, bap. 19 May 1706; Daniel, b. 8 Jan. 1708-9; Sarah, bap. 9 May 1714. DANIEL the f. was a blacksmith, and his house and shop were at the easterly corner of Brattle and Mason streets. He removed to Marlborough before 6 June 1722, when he sold his Camb. homestead to Dr. Samuel Wheat of Needham; he was residing in Sudbury 1727, in Oxford 1732, after which he rem. to Hardwick, where he d. 25 Jan. 1755.
11. JONATHAN, S. of Jonathan (5), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Cot- ton of Newton, 30 Oet. 1750, and had Jonathan, b. 2 Aug. 1751; Walter, b. 25 Sept. 1752; John, b. 23 Mar. 1754; Rebecca, b. 16 Sept. 1758, d. unm. 20 Sept. 1846. JONATHAN the f. grad. H. C. 1730, was Justice of the Peace and Steward of Harvard College. In 1742 he purchased the estate on the east- erly side of Holmes Place (afterwards owned by Rev. Dr. Holmes and his family), which was theneeforth his residenee. He was an ardent patriot in the War of the Revolution, and his house, the same which is now standing, was the head-quarters of Gen. Ward in the early part of 1775. From this house, the last probably which he ever entered, Gen. Joseph Warren departed, on the morning of 17 June 1775, to the field of glory and of death. Mr. Hast- ings d. 16 Feb. 1783; his w. Elizabeth d. 10 July 1782, a. 60.
12. SAMUEL, s. of Jonathan (5), m. Mary, dau. of Deae. Samuel Whitte- more (pub. 7 Nov. 1746), and had Sarah, bap. 22 Nov. 1747, d. young; Sarah, b. 18 Oet. 1749, m. James Hill 29 Jan. 1791, and d. in the following Marelı. SAMUEL the f. was a glazier, res. on the easterly side of North Avenue, near Mellen Street, and d. 16 July 1785.
13. SAMUEL, s. of Stephen (7), m. Hepzibah, dau. of Daniel Dana, 8 May 1735, and had in Camb., Hepzibah, bap. 11 Ap. 1736, d. young; and in Newton, Hepzibah, b. 1 Ap. 1737, m. Alexander Sampson 1754; Samuel, b. 1 Aug. 1738; Hannah, b. 20 July 1740, m. Caleb Aspinwall 1763, and Stephen Winchester; Mary, b. 1 Dec. 1742, in. - Howard; Joseph Stacy, b. 9 Feb. 1745, grad. H. C. 1762, was ordained at Northampton, N. H., 11 Feb. 1767, removed to Boston about 1774, and d. at Middlebury, Vt., 30 June 1807;
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Stephen, b. 29 Jan. 1747; Daniel, b. 12 May 1749 ; Thomas, b. 12 July 1751; Aaron, b. 2 May 1754, grad. H. C. 1780, and was a physician; John, b. 28 July 1756. SAMUEL the f. was a tanner, rem. to Newton about 1737, and d. in 1776.
14. THOMAS, s. of Stephen (7), in. Lydia Shed of Chs. (pnb. 24 Nov. 1744), and had Lydia, b. 14 Dec. 1745, d. unm. 12 Ap. 1804; Hannah, bap. 20 Nov. 1748, non comp. and an inmate of the almshouse 1804; Abigail, bap. 14 Oct. 1750, d. young; Thomas, bap. 30 Aug. 1752, d. young; Thomas, bap. 6 Oct. 1754, was a cordwainer, and d. Nov. 1789; Stephen, bap. 6 Nov. 1757, was a cordwainer, represented non comp. 1805, d. in the almshouse 6 June 1815; Ebenezer, bap. 6 Ap. 1760; Abigail, bap. 6 Feb. 1763, d. nnın. 11 Nov. 1803; Elizabeth, bap. 21 July 1765, d. unm. 26 Sept. 1803; Samuel, bap. 21 Feb. 1768, living in 1789, when he sold his share of his father's estate. THOMAS the f. was a currier, and inherited, the homestead. He appears to have possessed considerable property in early life ; but his family was large, and many of the children imbecile, so that little estate remained after his death. He d. 22 Jan. 1787; his w. Lydia and several of the children sold the homestead to James Winthrop, Esq., and removed into a small honse on the S. E. corner of Dunster and South streets ; she d. 30 Aug. 1804, a. 82.
15. JONATHAN, s. of Jonathan (11), m. Christina Wainwright 24 Nov. 1780, and had Eliza, b. 11 Dec. 1781 ; Caroline, b. 26 Jan. 1783 ; John Winthrop, b. 12 June 1787, d. 28 Nov. 1787; Maria Wainwright, b. 14 Ap. 1789, d. 21 July 1792; Christina Newton, b. 4 Ap. 1790, d. 24 July 1792; Frederick, b. 3 Oct. 1791, d. 19 Aug. 1794. JONATHAN the f. grad. H. C. 1768, was appointed Postmaster on the resignation of James Winthrop 1775; afterwards rem. to Boston, and d. 8 Mar. 1831; his w. Christina d. 26 Oct. 1815, a. 64.
16. WALTER, S. of Jonathan (11), mn. Lucretia Bridge of Chelmsford 23 Nov. 1777, and had Walter, b. 26 Dec. 1778, grad. H. C. 1799, a lawyer at Townsend, d. 6 June 1821; Jonathan Cotton, b. 2 Feb. 1782, a broker, d. in Boston 4 Ap. 1837. WALTER the f. grad. H. C. 1771, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army, afterwards practised medicine in Chelmsford, and d. 29 Nov. 1782 ; his w. Lucretia d. here, and was buried 2 Mar. 1834, a. 77.
17. JOHN, S. of Jonathan (11), mn. Lydia, dau. of Richard Dana, and sister to Chief Justice Dana, 7 Dec. 1783, and had Harriet, b. 20 Sept. 1784, d. unmn. 25 Jan. 1817; Amelia, b. 13 Mar. 1786, d. unin. at Medf. 17 July 1872; Eliz- abeth Cotton, b. 8 Oct. 1787, m. Moses S. Judkins of Castine 6 Mar. 1808, and Charles P. Phelps of Hadley 5 Aug. 1833; Edmund Trowbridge, b. 15 May 1789 ; a son, b. and d. 9 Mar. 1791; Frances Marion, b. 2 Oct. 1792, m. Thomas Gibson of Leominster 28 Mar. 1815; Elmira, b. 3 June 1794, in .. Reuben Parker, and d. 10 Oct. 1857; Mary Augusta, b. 21 Oct. 1798, d. unın. at Medf. 13 Mar. 1869. JOHN the f. grad. H. C. 1772, was an officer in the Revolutionary Army, attained the rank of Major, res. for a time in Medf. but returned here, and d. 16 Feb. 1839; his w. Lydia d. at Woburn 2 May 1808, and was buried here.
18. DANIEL, s. of Samuel (13), m. Mary Morse, 1772, and had Rebecca, b. 25 Mar. 1774; Daniel, b. 1 Ap. 1775, merchant in Boston ; Mary, b. 15 Ap. 1777 ; Henry, b. 10 Sept. 1780 ; Nathan, b. 20 Aug. 1782; Deborah, b. 8 Ap. 1785 ; Joseph Stacey, b. 25 June 1789, merchant, a member of the first board of Aldermen in Camb. 1846, and d. at Hoboken, N. J., 18 Dec. 1872; Nancy, b. 15 May 1791 ; George, b. 18 Nov. 1792, d. 1817; Lewis, b. 20 Nov. 1795; Elizabeth, b. 20 May 1800. DANIEL the f. was a gravestone cutter, and res. in Newton.
19. THOMAS, s. of Samuel (13), m. Elizabeth Morse 1777, and had Thomas, b. 12 June 1778; Elizabeth, b. 2 Mar. 1780, m. Jonathan Baleh 1800; Hepzi- bah, b. 1 Sept. 1782, m. James IIyde; Charles, b. 10 Sept. 1783; Joseph S., b. 2 Dec. 1784; Malinda, b. 2 Mar. 1789; Fanny, b. 20 July 1793. He m. 2d Betsey Jackson, and 3d Mehetabel, dau. of Jacob Watson and wid. of Adino Hastings, and had Morse Curtis Watson, b. 17 July 1803, supposed to be the same who was known and respected in Camb. by the name of " Watson Hast- ings " and who d. here 5 May 1849, a. 45; Jonathan Balch, b. 28 Jan. 1805;
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Joseph Warren, b. - Ap. 1806. THOMAS the f. was a grocer in Newton and afterwards a brewer in Camb. His will, dated 31 Dec. 1806, was proved 19 Feb. 1808; his w. Mehetabel d. 7 Jan. 1850, a. 84.
20. EDMUND TROWBRIDGE, s. of John (17), m. Elizabeth Spring of Bos- ton 1 June 1815, and had Edmund Trowbridge, b. 3 Mar. 1816; Harriet Elizabeth, b. 3 Aug. 1818, m. John B. Hatch 5 Oet. 1841; John Walter, b. 27 Nov. 1819, m. Sarah E., dau. of Rev. Thomas B. Gannett, 4 Sept. 1850; Lydia Dana, b. 29 Sept. 1821, d. Dec. 1821; Horace, b. 16 Sept. 1822, d. 3 Nov. 1826; a son, b. and d. 7 Feb. 1824; Mary Augusta, b. 6 Dec. 1824, d. 14 Dee. 1824; a son, b. and d. 15 Jan. 1827. EDMUND TROWBRIDGE the f. was a merchant and res. on the westerly side of Prospect Street, between Main and Austin Streets; about 1840 he rem. to Medford, where he d. 13 May 1861.
21. JOHN, by w. Mary, had Moses, b. -; Mary, b. 24 Jan. 1716-17; Anna, b. 22 Dec. 1718, m. Jacob Caldwell ; Zebulun, b. 2 Oet. 1720; Seth, b. 22 Aug. 1722; Enoch, b. 31 Aug. 1724, d. young; Elisha, b. 10 Jan. 1726-7; Asher, b. 9 Nov. 1728, d. 1731 ; Sarah, b. 4 Feb. 1730-31, d. 1731 ; Elizabeth, b. 27 Oct. 1732 ; Sarah, bap. 21 Sept. 1735. JOHN the f. was a cordwainer, and res. near the old cemetery in Wat. from 1718 until 1738, when he ex- changed his homestead for an estate opposite to the northeasterly corner of Mount Auburn Cemetery, extending from Mount Auburn Strect, where the old house remains standing, to Fresh Pond. His son Seth and son-in-law Jacob Caldwell were appointed administrators of liis estate 6 Oct. 1746. His parentage is not satisfactorily ascertained. Dr. Bond conjectured that he was son of John (4) of Cambridge. (Hist. Wat., p. 293.) On further investigation, he assigned him a place among the grandchildren of Deac. Thomas Hastings of Watertown. (Ibid., p. 791.) The latter supposition is certainly the more probable ; but I have been unable to find absolute proof of its correctness.
22. SETH, S. of John (21), m. Hannalı dau. of Thomas Soden 30 Dee. 1747, and had Mary, b. 9 Oct. 1750, m. Josiah Moore 19 Sept. 1768, and d. 9 May 1781 ; Thomas, b. 15 Nov. 1753, d. 4 Feb. 1823; John, b. 13 Sept. 1759 ; Seth, b. 5 Ap. 1762, grad. H. C. 1782, lawyer in Mendon, Senator 1810, 1811, Member of Congress 1801-1807, Judge C. C. P. 1819, and d. 1831 (his son William Soden, H. C. 1817, was also Member of Congress, and d. 1842); William Soden, b. 6 Nov. 1764, d. unm. 24 Jan. 1792 ; Robert, b. 18 Mar. 1767, d. 5 Oct. 1775. SETH the f. res. on the homestead, and d. 15 Oct. 1775. His w. Hannah m. William How in 1779, and d. 28 Aug. 1817, a. 90.
23. JOHN, s. of Seth (22), m. Elizabeth Prentice 30 Ap. 1780, and had Lucretia, bap. 18 Mar. 1781, m. William Richardson 10 Ap. 1803 ; Robert, bap. 6 Ap. 1783; Mary, b. - , m. Franklin Sawyer 20 Feb. 1806. JOHN the f. d. 17 July 1797 ; his w. Elizabeth m. Josiah Learned 28 Ap. 1799.
24. SAMUEL, a descendant from Deac. Thomas Hastings of Wat., m. Lydia Tidd 16 Jan. 1755, and had nine chil. among whom were Samuel, b. 11 July 1757, and Hepzibah, b. 3 July 1762, m. John Swan of Waltham, 1781 ; he d. and she m. Jonas Wyeth of Camb. and d. in 1789. SAMUEL the f. res. in Lex. and d. 8 Feb. 1820, a. nearly 99 ; his w. Lydia d. 10 Nov. 1802, a. 71.
25. SAMUEL, s. of Samuel (24), m. Lydia Nelson of Lincoln 1 Oet. 1778, and had Lydia, b. 20 Feb. 1780, m. Nehemiah I. Ingraham of Boston; Samuel, b. 15 Dec. 1781, d. - Sept. 1798; Jonathan, b. 17 Aug. 1783; Dorcas, b. 27 June 1786, m. Rev. Daniel Marrett of Standish, Me., in 1810, and was mother of Lorenzo Marrett, Esq., of Camb .; Thomas, b. 22 May 1787, a mer- chant at East Cambridge, d. 14 Aug. 1865; Polly, b. 10 Ap. 1789, m. Benja- min O. Wellington 20 May 1811; Oliver, b. 16 May 1791, a retired merchant, now residing in Camb .; Hepzibah, b. 24 May 1793, m. Peter Wellington 24 May 1813; Harriet, b. 12 July 1795, m. Elias Smith 8 Aug. 1819; James, b. 5 Oct. 1797. SAMUEL the f. res. in Lincoln, near Lex., and d. 8 Jan. 1834; his w. Lydia d. 5 Ap. 1829, a. 71.
26. EDWARD, parentage not ascertained, had Lydia, b. about 1767, d. 24 Ap. 1804, a. 37; John, bap. 6 Jan. 1771, prob. d. 16 May 1804 ; Esther, bap. 1 Nov. 1772, d. 12 Mar. 1800.
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27. REUBEN, parentage not ascertained, m. Grace -; she d. 21 July 1805, a. 35, and he in. Deborah Park 1806. He had Susanna Jackson and Sarah Dana, twins, b. 20 JJuly 1796. REUBEN the f. res. in Brighton, and d. 4 Mar. 1835, a. 71 ; his widow d. at Worcester 29 June 1869, a. 90.
28. ADINO, parentage not ascertained, m. Mehetabel, dau. of Jacob Wat- son, 21 June 1795, and had James, b. 19 Mar. 1797. ADINO the f. d. 8 Jan. 1798; his w. Mehetabel m. Thomas Hastings 3 Oct. 1802, and d. 7 Jan. 1850.
29. SAMUEL, parentage not ascertained, m. Susanna Lanc of Bedford, and had Samuel Emery, b. 1806, d. 21 July 1870; Susanna, b. 13 Oct. 1808, m. George W. Hubbard 4 Mar. 1827, d. 21 July 1852; Mary Adeline, b. 17 Feb. 1811, m. Gilbert Cutting 25 Nov. 1832; Isaac H., b. 23 Ap. 1813 ; Amittai, b. 3 Oct. 1815, m. Daniel Davis 1834; Sylvana, b. 3 Mar. 1818, in. Rufus Cox 2 Ap. 1846; James P., b. - , d. 12 Sept. 1874, a. 51; Abby, b. -; Andrew Jackson, b. - , res. here. SAMUEL the f. res. in Cambridgeport, and d. 19 Jan. 1857, a. 74; his w. Susanna d. 28 Ap. 1872, a. 86.
HAUGH, ATHERTON (otherwise written Hough and Ilought), was one of the Assistants in 1635, and owned a house and farm embracing the whole of the upland in East Cambridge, and in 1642 he had added so much to his farm that it contained two hundred and sixty-seven aeres. He early removed to Boston, and resided at the southerly corner of Washington and School streets, where he died 11 Sept. 1650. His son Samuel was pastor of the Church at Reading, and d. 30 Mar. 1662, leaving a son Samuel, who d. before 15 Oct. 1679, leaving wid. Anna and sons Samuel, a goldsmith, and Atherton, a tailor, who both resided in Boston, and sold the farin in 1699, to John Langdon, who sold the same in 1706 to Spencer Phips, Esq., for £1273. Atherton H. Stev- ens, Esq., who d. at East Cambridge 8 Ap. 1875, aged nearly 88 years, was a lineal descendant from the first Atherton Haugh of Cambridge, and for many years resided on a part of the original homestead.
HAYNES, JOHN, " came to N. Eng. 1633, from Copford Hall in Essex, in company with Rev. Thomas Hooker, was admitted freeman in 1634, elected an Assistant in 1634 and 1636, and Governor in 1635. He rem. to Connecti- eut in 1637, settled at Hartford, was elected the first governor of that Colony in April 1639, and every second year afterwards, until his death in 1654. By two wives he had eight children, Robert, Hezekiah, John, Roger, Mary, Joseph, Ruth, and Mabel, the last three by the second wife." (Farmer.) This second wife was Mabel, sister of Roger Harlakenden. While in Camb. he res. on the westerly side of Winthrop Square (then called the Market Place), his lot extending from Mt. Auburn St. to Winthrop St. Of his children, Robert, d. at Copford Hall " in August 1657, of a siekness so infectious that it killed all the persons employed in putting him into his leaden coffin. On his decease Hezekiah became possessed of this estate. He was much employed in the civil wars, and a Major-general." (Morant's Hist. Essex, ii. 195.) " John and Roger, who came into this country with their father, sometime before his death, returned to England. Roger d. on his passage, or soon after his ar- rival. John [grad. H. C. 1656] settled in the ministry at or near Colchester in the county of Essex in England, where he left issuc. Joseph [grad. H. C. 1658] was ordained pastor of the first church in Hartford; [d. 24 May 1679]. Mary, m. Mr. Joseph Cook in England; Ruth, Mr. Samuel Wyllys of Hart- ford; and Mabel, Mr. James Russell of Charlestown in Mass .; and all had issue." (Trumbull's Hist. Conn., i. 224.) Rev. Joseph Haynes of Hartford had one son John who " was a gentleman of importance in the Colony, and for a time was a magistrate and judge ;- and the name became extinet in the Col- ony in this generation." Hinman.
HEALY, WILLIAM, an early inhabitant of Lynn, rem. to Roxbury, and thenee to Camb. He appears to have had at least five wives, and children by four of them. In Rox. he " had Hannah, bap. 7 July 1644; Samuel, b. 14 Feb. 1645, d. at eleven months; Elizabeth, b. 14 Nov. 1647. His w. died 8 Nov. 1649, in childbirth." (Savage's Gen. Dict.) By 2d w. he had Sarah, bap. 2 Feb. 1650-51, d. here 10 Oct. 1653; William, bap. 11 July 1652; his 2d w. d. and
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he m. in Camb. Grace Butterice 14 Oct. 1653, and had Grace, b. about 1654; Mary; b. 4 and d. 27 Nov. 1657 ; Nathaniel, bap. 6 Feb. 1658-9; Martha, bap. 9 Sept. 1660; his w. Grace d. and he m. Phebe, dau. of Bartholomew Green, 15 Aug. 1661, and had Samuel, b. 14 Sept. 1662 ; Paul, bap. 3 Ap. 1664 ; Mary, bap. 29 Oet. 1665, m. Jacob Watson 12 Nov. 1702, d. 16 Sept. 1728; his w. Phebe d. and he in. widow Sarah Brown 29 Nov. 1677, as certified by her son James in a deposition dated 28 Feb. 1682. WILLIAM the f. was prison keeper as early as 1674, which office he held until 29 Dec. 1682, when he was removed for gross misconduct, " sentenced to be severely whipped 20 stripes," and became an inmate of the prison. He d. 28 Nov. 1683, a. 70.
2. WILLIAM, s. of William (1), is said to have resided at Hampton, N. H., and to have d. in 1689. " He was convicted with eight others of the ridicu- lous crime of high treason in 1683, by the tyrannical government of Cranfield, and pardoned by advice of the crown." Savage's Gen. Dict.
3. NATHANIEL, s. of William (1), by w. Rebecca, had Nathaniel, b. 28 Sept. 1686; Mary, b. 25 Nov. 1688, m. - Morse; Samuel, b. 9 May 1690; Ebenezer, b. 14 Nov. 1691 ; Martha, b. 25 Sept. 1694, m. - Badcock; Wil- liam, b. - ; Lydia, b. 16 Feb. 1697, m. Avery ; John, b. 8 Jan. 1699; Joshua, b. -; Rebecca, b. - , m. - Thwing; Abigail, b. - , m. Brackett; Hannah, b. - , m. - Young. NATHANIEL the f. after 1686 res. near Brook Farm in Newton, and d. 2 June 1734; his w. Rebecca d. 7 Jan. 1735.
4. NATHANIEL, s. of Nathaniel (3), was " under the command of Capt. Josiah Parker at Groton on the 21st day of July 1706, and was slain and his gun carried away by the enemy, who waylaid him and others as they were going to meeting on the Sabbath day." Mass. Arch., Ixxi. 345.
HEATE, THOMAS (otherwise written Hitte), in 1635 owned an estate on the northeasterly corner of Dunster and Mount Auburn streets, which he sold about 1638 to Thomas Marrett; after which I find no trace of him here.
HERRING, JAMES, in 1639, sold, with other lands, a house and land on the northerly side of South Street, near if not bordering on Holyoke Street.
HICKS, ZECHARIAH (otherwise written Hicke, and Hiekes), res. on the easterly side of Brighton Street, his estate extending from Winthrop Street to Mount Auburn Street. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Sill, 28 Oct. 1652, and had Elizabeth, b. 28 Ap. 1654, m. John Needham 10 Oct. 1679, d. 4 Feb. 1690-91; Zechariah, b. 27 Sept. 1657 ; John, b. 10 Ap., d. 4 June 1660 ; Jo- seph, bap. 12 Jan. 1661-2; Thomas, bap. 3 July 1664, d. young; Hannah, bap. 4 Mar. 1665-6, m. Thomas Stacy, 20 June 1683; Margaret, b. 3 July 1668, n. John Fuller 11 Oct. 1714; he d. 1720, and she m. John Weld of Roxbury, and was living in 1727; Thomas and John, twins, b. 15, and d. 27 and 25 Sept. 1676. ZECHARIAH the f. d. 5 Aug. 1702, a. 73 ; his w. Elizabeth d. 12 Sept. 1730, a. 93.
2. ZECHARIAH, s. of Zechariah (1), m. Ruth, dau. of John Green, and granddaughter of Edward Mitchelson, 18 Nov. 1685; she d. and he mn. Seeth, wid. of William Andrew, 26 June 1704. His chil. were Ruth, b. 11 Aug. 1686, d. 17 July 1687; Zechariah, b. 11 Feb. 1688-9, d. young ; Elizabeth, b. about 1692, m. Ebenezer Fisher of Boston 19 Oct. 1716; Margaret, b. about 1694, m. Deac. Samuel Whittemore 13 Oct. 1715; John, bap. 14 Feb. 1696-7; Ruth, bap. 26 Feb. 1698-9, m. Joseph Bradford of Boston; Thomas, bap. 10 June 1705, prob. d. young ; Zechariah, bap. 2 May 1708, grad. H. C. 1724, was an eminent schoolmaster in Boston, where he d 21 July 1761, leaving an only son Timothy Prout Hicks. ZECHARIAH the f. was a carpenter, res. on the home- stead, and d. 27 Jan. 1752, a. 94.
3. JOSEPH, s. of Zechariah (1), m. Bethia, dau. of John Green, and grand- daughter of Edward Mitchelson, about 1693; she d. 12 Ap. 1708, a. 35, and he m. Rebecca, dau. of Jolin Palfrey, 29 Nov. 1716. His chiil. were Joseph, b. about 1694, who was living at East Hampton, N. Y., in 1751 ; Bethia, bap. 20 Dec. 1696; Elizabeth, bap. 19 June 1698; Mary, bap. 20 May 1700, m. Samuel Larkin of Chs. 3 Mar. 1723-4; Zechariah, bap. 1701-2, d. in Boston 1744, leaving w. Lydia and two sons, Thomas Daggett and Mitchelson; there
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are reasons for supposing that he grad. II. C. 1729, though he was styled " Mariner " in the settlement of his estate ; Hannah, bap. 13 Feb. 1703-4; Mercy, bap. 27 Jan. 1705-6 ; Samuel, bap. 28 Mar. 1708. JOSEPH the f. was a carpenter, res. on the homestead, and d. at the age of about 85; his son-in- law Samuel Larkin, was appointed administrator 9 Ap. 1747.
4. JOHN, s. of Zechariah (2), m. Rebeeea Champney 8 May 1721, and had Rebecca, b. 17 Feb. 1721-2; Ruth, b. 19 Sept. 1723; John, b. 23 May 1725; Zechariah, b. 25 Jan. 1727-8; Samuel, b. 28 Jan. 1728-9. Joux the f. was a carpenter, and purchased, 1727, the northerly half of his grandfather's homestead, which until that time had been held in common by the heirs. IIe rem. to Sutton before 29 July 1731, at which date he sold his estate to Deae. Samuel Whittemore, his brother-in-law, who in December of the same year bought the remainder of the old homestead.
5. JOHN, s. of John (4), m. Elizabeth Nutting 26 Ap. 1748, and had Eliza- beth, b. 12 Dee. 1748, d. unm. 1841 or 1842 ; John, b. 16 Oct. 1750; Jonathan, b. 16 Nov. 1752, grad. H. C. 1770, a physician, regimental surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and d. in Demarara 15 Feb. 1826; Zechariak, b. 28 Feb. 1755, a saddler, res. in Boston, d. 10 May 1842; Sarah, b. 20 Ang. 1757, m. Timothy Flagg 1780, and d. 25 May 1830 (she was mother of Sarah, b. 9 Dee. 1789, in. William Saunders 8 June 1815, d. 6 Nov. 1871; also, of Eliza- beth N., b. 19 Jan. 1797, m. Jonas Wyeth 8 Feb. 1820); Samuel, b. 17 Mar. 1760; Rebecca, b. 17 Sept. 1762, m. - Hunt, d. 1852 ; James, b. 7 May 1765, was a saddler in Bennington, Vt., where he d. -; he is said also to have been a Judge; William, b. 11 Feb. 1767, d. in Canada 1834; Mary, b. 28 Sept. 1771, m. - - Sawyer, and d. in Camb. 16 Dee. 1855 (she was mother of Susan H., who m. William Bates, and d. 6 June 1875). JOIN the f. in 1760 bought the estate on the southerly side of Winthrop Street, extend- ing from Dunster Street to Holyoke Street, which passed into the hands of John Foxeroft in 1773. He was one of the earliest martyrs to American liberty ; he was slain near the junetion of North Avenue and Spruee Street, by the retreating British troops, on the 19th of April 1775; his w. Elizabeth d. here and was buried 22 Dec. 1825, a. 99.
6. JOHN, s. of John (5), was a printer in Boston, and was regarded for a time as a whig; but in 1773 he entered into partnership with Nathaniel Mills in the publication of the tory Post Boy. The saerifiee of his father's life did not induee him to forsake the British ; he went with the army to Halifax, thence to England, to New York, and to Halifax again; after the close of the war, he bought a good estate at Newton, and d. there s. p. 1794, making generous provision in his will for his relatives, especially for his aged mother and his unm. sister Elizabeth.
HILDRETH, RICHARD (otherwise written Hildred) ; his w. Sarah d. 15 June 1644; by 2d w. Elizabeth, he had Elizabeth, b. 21 Sept. 1646; Sarah, b. 8 Aug. 1648, m. David Stone 31 Dee. 1674. RICHARD the f. removed to Chelmsford, where he d. about 1693, leaving w. Elizabeth, and children James, Ephraim, and others.
HILL, ABRAHAM, was an early inhabitant of that part of Charlestown which is now Malden. By w. Sarah, he had Ruth, b. 2 June, 1640; Isaac, b. 29 Oet. 1641 ; Abraham, b. 1 Oct. 1643; Sarah, b. and d. Oet. 1649; Mary, b. May 1652 ; Jacob, b. Mar. 1656-7; and probably others. ABRAHAM the f. d. at Malden 13 Feb. 1669-70.
2. ISAAC, s. of Abraham (1), mn. Hannah Hayward 1666, and was prob. the same who had, in Camb., Sarah, b. 5 Feb. 1677-8; His w. Hannah d. 25 Ap. 1679, and he m. Sarah Bieknall 12 Jan. 1679-80, by whom he had Moses, b. 27 Sept. 1680. ISAAC the f. prob. returned to Malden, where Isaae and Sa- ralı Hill had Abraham, b. 22 Mar. 1687-8.
3. ABRAHAM, S. of Abrahan) (1), m. Hannah Stowe, Oet. 1666, and had, in Malden, Abraham, b. Aug. 1670; Hannah, who m. - Jefts, and is named in her father's will; and in Camb., Mary, b. 10 Dec. 1678; Sarah, b. 25 July 1681, m. Samuel Jones 15 Mar. 1704; Samuel, b. 10 Sept. 1683; Deborah, b. 26 Nov. 1685; Prudence, b. 24 Feb. 1687-8; and perhaps others. ABRAHAM, he f. d. 1713 ; his wid. Hannah survived.
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4. JACOB, s. of Abraham (1), m. Sarah, dau. of Elder John Stone, and had Jacob ; Tabitha, m. William Warland 3 Feb. 1701-2; John, b. 25 Sept. 1684 ; they had also, Nathaniel and Abraham; some or all of whom were perhaps b. in Malden, where he sold an estate in 1683. All the children before named were living in 1711, and named in a conveyance of land. JACOB the f. d. 12 Dec. 1690, a. nearly 34. The date on his gravestone is 1689, but probably wrong; for his Inventory is dated 20 Mar. 1690-1, and his wid. Sarah was appointed administratrix 7 Ap. 1691.
5. ABRAHAM, s. of Abraham (3), by w. Sarah, had Abraham, b. about 1694, bap. 18 June 1697; Deborah, b. 25 Feb. 1696-7, bap. 18 June 1697; Martha, bap. 29 May 1698; Zechariah, b. 26 Ap. 1708; and perhaps others. ABRAHAM the f. res. a few years in Chs. He d. 9 Mar. 1746, a. 75; his w. Sarah d. 30 Mar. 1752, a. 79.
6. JACOB, s. of Jacob (4), m. Susanna Hancock 29 Sept. 1714, and had Sarah, bap. 17 Aug. 1715, m. Henry Prentice 3d, 19 Aug. 1735, and d. 8 July 1736; Elizabeth, bap. 8 Mar. 1718-19; Mary, bap. 4 Feb. 1721-2, m. Abraham Snow, Chs., 25 Mar. 1746, and d. before 1768; Margaret, bap. 15 Mar. 1723-4; Elizabeth, bap. 16 July 1727; Sarah, bap. 25 Aug. 1734, m. Nathaniel Kingsbury 4 Sept. 1755. JACOB the f. d. Jan. 1768; his w. Susanna survived and was living in 1770. None of the children are named, as living, in the father's will, 5 Jan. 1768, and only two grandchildren, Mary and Sarah, children of his deceased dau. Mary Snow.
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