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4-5 PERLEY GODDARD, (Josiah, Benjamin, Benjamin, William), b. Aug. 28, 1770, m. Nov. 8, 1795, Lucy Harrington (H), b. July 13, 1773, d. sud- denly in a fit of apoplexy, Dec. 14, 1815; m. 2nd, 1818, Widow Priscilla Chase, of Barre, who d. 1867. He d. 1856. Children,
1. POLLY, b. Aug. 3, 1796, d. Nov. 13, 1798.
2. LUCY H., b. Sept. 16, 1798, m. Vernon Stiles, and rev. to Thomp- son, Conn.
5 3. CHARLES, b. Nov. 5, 1800, m, Susan Heald.
4. NANCY, b. May 5, 1804, m. Henry Mills, of Millbury.
5. MARY P., b. June 3, 1812, m. Rev. Silas Bailey, D. D., LL. D.
He died in Paris, France, June 11, 1874, where he was buried. He was born in Sterling, Mass., and was for some time principal of the Worcester Academy, and afterwards president of Denison University, and of Franklin College. Subsequently he was professor of theology, at Kalamazoo, Mich. He was an able man, and made his influence strongly felt in educational interests.
She was a rare woman. At her death she had become endeared to a wide circle of friends in LaFayette, Ind., where she had resided some time. She died Feb. 23, 1873.
5-3 CHARLES GODDARD, (Perley, Josiah, Benjamin, Benjamin, William), b. Nov. 5, 1800, m. Dec. 2, 1824, Susan Heald, b. Apr. 5, 1804. He d. July 14, 1865. Children,
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1. SUSAN A., b. Jan. 20, 1826, d. Aug. 27, 1828.
2. JOSIAH, b. Ang. 14. 1827, d. Sept. 10, 1828.
3. ESTHER, b. Nov. 26. 1828, m. George Benson. Res. Northbridge.
4. CHARLES, b. July 31, 1830, m. Sarah Moore. Res. Westborough.
5. LUCY, b. Dec. 17, 1832, d. May 20, 1849.
6 |6. PERLEY, b. Aug. 6, 1834, m. Ellen A. Dudley.
7. JOSIAH A., b. Sept. 20, 1836, m. Susan M. Pratt and Leona W. Fisk. 8. HARRIET B., b. Nov. 3, 1838. . 9. JOHN H., b. Sept. 20, 1842.
LEVI GODDARD, (Edward, Hon. Edward, William), b. July 25, 1772, m. May 16, 1799, Mary Goddard (1-2=4). Children,
1. BENJAMIN, b. Mar. 14, 1800.
2. SALLY, b. Nov. 29, 180], m. John H. Merriam (M).
3. JOHN F., b. Dec., 1803, rev. to Brookfield.
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4. HULDAH C., b. May 1, 1805, m. Charles I. Warren (W).
5. LEVI, b. May 2, 1807.
6. MARY E., b. Apr. 10, 1809, m. Hollis Chamberlin.
7. LOUISA, b. Apr. 10, 1811. 8. CLARINDA, b. Feb. 24, 1813.
9. MARTHA E., b. July 4, 1817. 10. SUSAN Z., b. Oet. 3, 1820.
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JOSIAH A. GODDARD, (Charles, Perley, Josiah, Benjamin, Benjamin, William), b. Sept. 20, 1836, m. Apr. 3, 1862, Susan M. Pratt, b. Sept. 5, 1836, d. Dec., 1863; m. 2nd, Apr. 3, 1865, Leona W. Fisk, b. Jan. 31, 1842. Deacon of the Baptist Church, and an extensive farmer. Chil- dren,
1. MARIA A., b. Feb. 10, 1866. 2. SILAS B., b. Feb. 2, 1868.
3. ARTHUR F., b. Aug. 26, 1869. 4. HERBERT A., b. Mar. 24, 1871.
5. ALBERT H., b. Mar. 21, 1875.
PERLEY GODDARD, (Charles, Perley, Josiah, Benjamin, Benjamin, William), b. Aug. 6, 1834, m. Feb. 28, 1864, Ellen A. Dudley, b. Feb. 28, 1838.
He served in a Grafton company during the war of the late Rebellion, and is now an extensive farmer, residing on and owning the " Hassa- namiseo Farm." Children,
1. EMMA J., b. Dec. 21, 1864. 2. NELLIE A., b. Oct. 28, 1866.
3. JOSEPH D., b. Apr. 28, 1868. 4. LILLIE M., b. Mar. 14, 1870.
5. EDWIN P., b. Feb. 27, 1872. 6. ELLA F., b. Nov. 4, 1874.
7. BRIGHAM L., b. Dec. 30, 1878.
GOODALE.
ROBERT GOODALE embarked at Ipswich, England, with Katherine, his wife, April, 1634. He was b. 1603. She was b. 1605.
JOSEPH GOODALE, by wife Elizabeth, had,
1. JOSEPH, b. June 18, 1735. 2. ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 21, 1736.
3. AZUBAH, b. Apr. 22, 1738, m. 1765, William Thomas, Jr. Ch.,
Robert B. Thomas, b. Apr. 24, 1766.
William Thomas, Sr., was a native of Wales, England, and born there of an opulent family, and received a liberal edneation at Christ's College, Cambridge. It seems he emigrated to this country somewhere about the year 1718. Tradition says he, with other brothers, came first to Stonington, Conn. It is well known that he came to Marlborough, . Mass., sometime about the year 1720, and married Lydia Eager, a daughter of a respectable farmer of Shrewsbury, and resided in Marl- borough until he died, in 1733; two years after which, in 1735, his wife died. He had two sons and four daughters. The eldest, William, Jr., was born in Marlborough. in March, 1725. After his mother's death he went to Shrewsbury to live with his grandmother Eager, where, and at Jonas Morse's, in Marlborough, he resided some years. He attended the town sehool in the winter, the limited time it kept. Being of a studious turn of mind, and fond of reading, he purchased many books, and soon became quite a scholar for those days. In the year 1744 he began keeping school in Brookfield, at the age of nineteen years, which he followed winters, more or less, for upward of forty years. The same year began in Hardwiek, being the first schoolmaster of the town. In April, 1747, he left this country for Englaud, to obtain a
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patrimony, justly belonging to his father, in Wales. And on the 8th of -
May, in going north was taken by a French privateer out of Dun- kirk, and stripped of all. Afterwards was ransomed, and arrived at Boston in October. In Angust, 1749, he made another voyage to London, where he staid some time, and visited Wales, with the expec- tation of obtaining his right of inheritance, but was unsuccessful, on account of the lapse of time since his father left Wales. During the next fourteen years he received a lieutenant's commission in the army ; not pleased with a soldier's life he left the army, and followed his former vocation at intervals, of school-keeping, and as an assistant in a store, and finally went into a small way of trade himself, until the year 1764, when he bought a small farm situated in the North Parish of Shrews- bury. In 1765 he married Azubah Goodale, daughter of Joseph Goodale, born April 22, 1738.
Her father was a respectable farmer of Grafton, at whose house Robert B. was born .* He removed with his parents, while quite young, from Grafton to the farm in Shrewsbury North Parish, now West Boylston. The farm was situated in that district then locally known by the name of Shrewsbury leg.t He resided in four incorporated towns, and two distinct parishes, and one precinct, yet never moved from the same farm. His mother died in 1781. He studied arithmetic under the inspection of his father, who was well versed in this science. In 1786 he taught school in Grafton, in the Fairbank District, so called : subse- quently returning to his father's, he worked on his farm. He attended school in Boston, in Merchants' Row, and while here he made all the calculations for an almanac for the year 1793, being his first number. This almanac has been published since this time by him, until his death. Charles L. Flint, Esq., of Boston, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, is the present editor and compiler.
4. JOHN, b. Feb. 9, 1740. 5. THANKFUL, b. Sept. 12, 1741.
6. SOLOMON, b. Aug. 11, 1743. 7. SARAH, b. Oct. 28, 1745.
8. MARY, b. Jan. 13, 1747, m. Jonathan Pierce (P).
9. TIMOTHY, b. Sept. 24, 1749. 10. NATHAN, b. May 7, 1751.
11. HANNAH, b. Mar. 25, 1753.
SAMUEL GOODALE, m. July 25, 1734, Thankful Robbins.
GOULDING.
This is an English name, and pronounced Goolding in distinction from Golding, a name common to the Celtic Irish. It was originally local, and borrowed from Goulding on the borders of Wales, anciently Gouldingham, derived fromn goal (a bound), and ham (a hamlet or town), but relieved of the last syllable before the first publication of a catalogue of English towns.
PETER GOULDING was of Boston, in 1665. He acted as an attorney in the Court of Sessions. He was prosecuted aud fined for charges
* See Thomas' Old Farmer's Almanac, 1833 and '34.
t This strip of land was united to Lancaster Second Parish, by an act of incorporation, February, 1768. In 1781 this parish was incorporated into a town, by the name of Sterling. In 1796 certain inhabitants of Boylston, Sterling and Holden, formed themselves together into a precinct, and in 1808 they obtained an act of incorporation by the name of West Boylston.
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that -he had divulged against the Court and clerk of Suffolk County. The oeeurrence not improbably disgusted him into a resolve to remove from Boston. A second attempt to settle Quinsigamond (Worcester), was undertaken in 1683. Besides his town right, which he purchased of Thomas Hall, he owned 3,020 aeres in Hassanamesit, which were valued at only £4. In 1694, when the settlement of Worcester was broken up, he removed to Sudbury, and died there in 1703.
COL. JOHN GOULDING, (Capt. Palmer, Peter), b. Oet. 3, 1726, m. Feh. 22, 1753, Lucy Brooks, of Concord, b. Sept. 30, 1733, d. Nov. 22, 1771. He d. Nov. 22, 1791.
Col. John Gonlding was the son of Capt. Palmer Goulding, originally of Sudbury. and afterwards a prominent citizen of Worcester, and the grandson of Peter Goulding. The latter is the earliest lineal ancestor who can be certainly traced. Peter Goulding and his son Palmer were men of strong character, and evidently took a conspicuous part in the communities in which they lived. The name occurs frequently in the annals of the colonies, and is not without some distinction in English history. The death of Captain Goulding, commander of the ship Diamond, on board which he was killed April 10th, 1665, in a victorious engagement with the Duteh, qualified the joy felt at the victory in the frivolous court of Charles the Second. (apt. Roger Goulding, of Rhode Island, master of a vessel, rendered such cininent services in Philip's war as to receive recognition and substantial reward from the authorities of Plymouth Colony.
In 1665, William Goulding, with others, purchased of the representa- tive of James, Duke of York, a large part of the territory now com- prising the State of New Jersey.
Capt. Palmer Goulding, the father of the founder of the Grafton family, commanded a company from Worcester County at the capture of Louisburg, in 1745.
Col. John Goulding was born October 3, 1726. He engaged in the business of tanning, which his father prosecuted extensively at Worces- ter. In early lite he settled in the northeasterly part of Grafton, In the midst of a wilderness, and there cleared up and cultivated the farm which his descendants oceupied down to the present generation. He established a tannery there, and carrying on that business during his life was succeeded in it by his son. He was married to Lucy Brooks, of Concord, who bore him ten children, and died at the early age of thirty-eight. He survived her exactly twenty years, and died Novem- ber 22, 1791. He was a man of very large frame, and towards the close of life became exceedingly corpulent. He inherited a share of the energy and ability that distinguished his ancestors, and by a life devoted to quiet industry he achieved high suecess; that is, he made himself useful to the generation in which he lived, and won the esteem and respect of all who knew him. No record of his daily life and obscure labors is left, and if there were it would be but a repetition of that of many thousands of others who bore the privations and hardships of frontier life, to redeem for a happier posterity the fair and smiling land whose beauties and bounties we are permitted to enjoy. Children,
1. JONAH, b. Nov. 25, 1753, m. Apr., 1777, Grace Knowlton and Mrs. Sarah Leland.
2. LUCY, b. Dec. 22, 1756, m. Abraham Brown, Jr. Res. Alstead, N. H.
3. JOHN, b. July 23, 1760, m. Ruth Chamberlin. Res. Hopkinton.
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14. MOLLY, b. May 3, 1762, m. Aaron Kimball (K).
5. JOSHUA, b. Sept. 4, 1763. Res. South.
6. EPHRAIM, b. Sept. 4, 1765, m. Susanna Brigham.
7. PHEBE, b. May 22, 1767, m. William Wood. Res. Hopkinton.
8. JOSEPH, b. Mar. 6, 1769, d. young.
9. ISRAEL, b. Sept. 25, 1770, m. Aug. 8, 1793, Lucy Drury. Res. Marl- borough.
10. PATTY, b. - , m. Joseph Pratt, of Shrewsbury.
She is the grandmother of Judge Calvin E. Pratt, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
1-6 CAPT. EPHRAIM GOULDING, (Col. John, Capt. Palmer, Peter), b. Sept. 4, 1765, m. Mar. 6, 1792, Susanna Brigham (B), b. Nov. 27, 1770, d. Sept. 9, 1850. He d. Jan. 14, 1838.
He continued the business of tanning upon the old place, and added to the farm, left to him by his father, much of the adjacent territory. He married Susanna, daughter of William Brigham, and grand- daughter of Solomon Prentice, the first minister of Grafton. He was somewhat prominent In town affairs, and possessed the confidence and esteein of his townsmen, as the records of the town will show. He was a resolute, self-reliant and capable man, and when, late in life, some reverses of fortune overtook him, although his health was seriously im- paired, he took up the task of restoring his losses and preserving his estate with a vigor and energy rarely exhibited by the young and healthful. He was a man of excellent understanding, with a keen sense of the ludicrous, and a prevailing humor which displayed itself in the queer and apt terms and epithets he was wont to make use of to ex- press the odd and whimsical resemblances he detected in men and things.
He had cleven children, nine of whom survived him. Children,
1. SUSANNA, b. Mar. 25, 1793, m. Ezekiel Brigham (B).
2. SALLY, b. Jan. 24, 1795, unm. Res. "Farms."
3. JOHN, b. Jan. 19, 1797, m. Caroline Marshall.
Graduated Yale College, 1821; attended a course of lectures at the Yale Medical School, and received his diploma in 1824. He settled in Stratford, Conn., where he followed his profession; his practice was large and extensive. He died January 10, 1860, very much respected and beloved by all who knew him. At his death the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a prominent member, adopted a set of resolutions, which were sent to his widow. She now resides in Birmingham, Conn.
4. EPHRAIM, b. Feb. 25, 1799, d. June 25, 1800.
5. EPHRAIM, b. July 11, 1801, m. Eunice Dunsmore and Emily Carter. Res. Millbury.
6. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 22, 1804, m. Adah Jewett, and d. in New York city.
2 7. SOLOMON E., and 8, LUCY E., twins, b. Nov. 28, 1807. He m. Lucy A. Nichols and Nancy P. Robinson; she m. Harvey J. Pratt.
3 9. PALMER, b. Oct. 11, 1809, m. Fanny W. Maynard and Ann Cutting.
10. CHARLES, b. Nov. 15, 1812, m. Emily A. Miles, and res. Mobile, Ala.
2-7 SOLOMON E. GOULDING, (Capt. Ephraim, Col. John, Capt. Palmer, Peter), b. Nov. 28, 1807, m. Lucy A. Nichols, b. 1818, d. Sept. 2, 1841 ; m. 2nd, 1843, Nancy P. Robinson. Children,
1. ABBY A., b. Dec. 14, 1838. 2. WALTER C., b. Apr. 17, 1844.
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3-9 | PALMER GOULDING, (Capt. Ephraim, Col. John, Capt. Palmer, Peter), b. Oct. 11, 1809, m. Fanny W. Maynard, b. 1815, d. Aug. 9, 1839 ; m. 2nd, June, 1842, Ann Cutting. He d. Mar. 22, 1849.
He lived in Grafton, Northfield, Ware, Holden and Worcester, at different times, and died in Grafton. He was by trade a watchmaker. He had a great deal of mechanical ingenuity, and easily adapted him- self to anything requiring mechanical skill. For several years he worked at the business of a machinist, taking charge of the repairs in factories in Holden and Worcester. Children,
1. JOHN C., b. - 24, 1832, d. Aug. 19, 1839.
2. SUSAN E., b. Feb. 4, 1835.
3. FRANCIS P., b. July 2, 1837.
Frank Palmer Goulding was born in Grafton, July 2, 1837. Hls mother having died when he was two years old, he lived with his col- lateral relatives on the old Goulding homestead, to the age of seven years, when, upon his father's second marriage, he went to live with him, and continued to do so in 'Holden, Worcester and Grafton, until the spring of 1849, when his father dying he was apprenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade. He lived about four years in the famlly of Mr. Charles Mitchell, familiarly known as " The Doctor." In the spring of 1853 he removed to Worcester, and worked at his trade till 1857. His education, up to this time, had consisted of a few terms at the common schools of Holden and Grafton, and one term at the Grafton High School, tanght at that time by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, The public libra- ries of Worcester, then every way inferior to those of to-day, had afforded him an opportunity to gratify a natural love of reading and study. In the fall of 1857 he went to Thetford, Vt., and in the Academy there situated fitted for college. Entering Dartmouth Col- lege in 1859, he pursued the regular course, and was graduated in the class of 1863. In September of that year he began the study of law in the office of Hon: George F. Hoar, and continued there, excepting one year spent at the'Dane Law School of Harvard University, till the April term of the Supreme Judicial Court, at Worcester, 1866, when he was admitted to practice. In the fall of the same year he went into co- partnership with the Hon. F. H. Dewey, then in large practice; and Mr. Dewey shortly after leaving the country for a year's tour abroad, Mr. Goulding was immediately afforded the opportunities, and burdened with the responsibilities, of an extensive practice in all the courts. In 1869, Mr. Dewey was appointed a judge of the Superior Court, and Mr. Goulding formed a co-partnership with Hamilton B. Staples, and con- tinues the practice of law. In 1877 and 1878 he represented the Twenty- third Worcester District in the House of Representatives. In March, 1870, he married Abbie B. Miles, of Fitchburg, and they have two chil- dren.
4. FANNY A., b. May 4, 1843 ..
GREENWOOD.
ENOCH GREENWOOD, m. Mariam Forbes, of Westborough. Chil- dren,
1. JONAS, m. Elizabeth W. Warren.
2. HOLLAND, b. July 3, 1792, m. Susan Knowlton.
3. PERSIS, b. June 12, 1798, m. Nathaniel Adams (A), and Dea. John Gaston, rev. to Stockbridge, N. Y., where she d. June 19, 1843.
She reinoved to the State of New York in the year 1826, where she spent the most of the remainder of her life. In 1840 she united with
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the Stockbridge Congregational Chureh, and was a prominent member to the time of her death.
4. POLLY, m. - Woodward. 5. ESTHIER, d. unm.
6. MIRIAM, m. Eastman Bolster. 7. HAMMOND.
1-1 JONAS GREENWOOD, (Euoch), mn. Elizabeth W. Warren (W), b. 1793, d. Nov. 3, 1831. Children,
1. ELIZABETH W., b. July 9, 1818, m. Luke F. Allen (A).
2. JONAS E., b. Mar. 4, 1825, m. Mary Beales. Res. Kansas.
2-2 HOLLAND GREENWOOD, (Enoch), b. July 3, 1792, m. Apr. 15, 1822, Susan Knowlton, b. Oct. 5, 1799. He d. July 10, 1852.
" With Deacon Greenwood, religion was the chief concern, the service of God his highest joy. Few were more ready in self-denying activity in every good work. He was in his element in the conference and prayer meeting. There was little, if anything, in his daily deportmient, which even the enemies of religion could condemn as inconsistent with his Christian profession. All who ever heard him pray would feel con- vinced that he was a man of prayer. There was an unction that showed that his heart accompanied his words. In the later years of his life he seemed to stand on Pisgah's top, and see the promised land. As a deacon, ' he purchased to himself a good degree, and great boldness in the faith.'"-Rev. Thomas C. Biscoe. Children,
1. MERRILL, b. Apr. 9, 1823, m. Alma Grosvenor. Res. Kansas.
3 2. HORATIO C., b. Dec. 21, 1824, m. Emeline Ingraham.
3. ELIZA A., b. Apr. 13, 1827, m. Nathaniel Brown. Res. Buffalo, N. Y. 4. SUSAN M., h. Jan. 4, 1830, d. Mar. 11, 1832.
5. SUSAN A., b. May 13, 1833, d. Jan. 24, 1842.
3-2 HORATIO C. GREENWOOD, (Holland, Jonas), b. Dec. 26, 1825, m. Ang. 28, 1849, Emeline Ingraham, b. Nov. 25, 1825.
He was educated in the common and High schools of his native town. In 1856 he began the mannfucture of boots and shoes, which business he continued for about twenty years. He was selectman for two years. Children,
1. FANNIE H., b. Feb., 1853, m. Frank P. Macomber. Res. Worcester. 2. CHARLES P., and 3, WILLIAM C., b. Apr. 15, 1856. Twins.
4. ESTELLE L., b. July 9, 1859.
GROUT.
CAPT. JOHN GROUT, the ancestor of this family, came to this country in his youth. Of the arrival in New England no record is presumed to exist. John was of Watertown, in 1640. A tradition has descended in the line of John's descendants, with a copy of his will, through Jona- than his executor, and an uninterrupted suceession of five Jouathans, all men of intelligence and respectability, that a father by the name of Grout, with two sons, fled to this country from Wales, ou the breaking out of the plague, and died soon afterwards, leaving his sons in their minority, with claims to an estate that were never prosecuted. Capt. John was styled "chirurgeon."
DANIEL GROUT, (Joseph, Joseph, Capt. John), b. Mar. 30, 1736, m. Elizabeth Adams (A), h. Mar. 18, 1744, d. Aug. 15, 1822. He rev. to Acworth, N. H., where he d. July 15, 1809. Children,
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1 | 1. DANIEL, b. Feb. 29, 1763, m. Azuhah Rockwood.
2. ANDREW, b. Oct. 24, 1764, m. Huldah Keyes, and res. Acworth.
3. ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 23, 1766, m. Thomas Dodge, of Acworth.
4. MOLLY, b. Aug. 26, 1768, m. Amos Keyes, of Acworth.
5. LUCY, b. Aug. 3, 1770, m. Edward Slader, of Acworth.
6. ALEXANDER, b. June 6, 1772, m. Esther Fisher, of Springfield, Vt.
7. NATHANIEL, b. July 1, 1774, m. Lucinda Slader and Mary Davis. He d. without issue, Feb. 14, 1844.
8. SALLY, b. Aug. 9, 1776, m. Hon. Gowen Gilmore, of Acworth. They had five other children b. in Acworth.
1-1 DANIEL GROUT, (Daniel, Joseph, Joseph, Capt. John), b. Feb. 29, 1763, m. Feb. 1, 1789, Azubah Rockwood. He was a physician, and d. Oct. 2, 1802. Ch.,
1. NANCY, m. Dr. Theodore Barrett, of Chester, Vt.
JOSEPH GROUT, (Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Capt. John), b. Dec. 3, 1755, m. 1781, Phebe Puffer, d. Nov. 28, 1839.
He was a physician, and res. in this town until 1794, in the house now owned and occupied by Jeremiah Flagg, when he rev. to Monson. Children,
1. NAHUM, b. Apr. 4, 1782, m. Sally Carpenter, and res. in Leon, N. Y.
2. POLLY, b. Sept. 24, 1783, d. Sept. 24, 1783.
3. JOSEPH, b. May 19, 1785, m. Nancy Cotton, and res. in Monson.
4. PILEBE, b. July 7, 1787, m. Col. John Hoar, of Monson.
5. BENJAMIN, b. Oct. 21, 1789, d. 1790.
6. CHLOE, b. Mar. 31, 1792, m. Charles Gardner.
HENRY T. GROUT, m. May 18, 1836, Catherine Kimball.
HALL.
ANDREW HALL, the ancestor, married first Susannah, daughter of Dea. John and Susannah (Barsham) Capen, of Dorchester, born Sept. 16, 1664. His ancestry has not been traced. He came into Newton about 1695, was a weaver, and cultivated a farm near Oak IIill, between that and Charles river, which remained in possession of his descendants for several generations. He had JOHN, b. Jan. 11, 1695; SUSANNAH, b. Jan. 1, 1697; SARAH, b. Dec. 11, 1699 ; DOROTHY, EDWARD, ANDREW and HANNAH. Susannah m. 1719, Elizur Stoddard; Sarah m. Samuel Gay, of Dedham; Dorothy m. Eliphalet Gay, of Dedham ; Hannah m. Woodcock, of Bridgewater; Edward m. May 21, 1730, Mary Miller, and lived in Newton; Andrew, Jr., m. Dec. 5, 1723, Dorcas Courtney, and lived in Boston, and was ancestor of the late Andrew T. Hall, of Bos- ton. Wife Susannah d. Aug. 18, 1736, and Andrew, Sr., m. 2nd, Oct. 12, 1737, Mary Bennett. He d. 1756, and his will is on file at the Pro- bate Office. Though his parentage hitherto is not traced. there exists an engraved coat-of-arms among his descendants apparently very old, and having the birth of his great-grandson Edward, of Boston, b. Nov. 12, 1766, recorded under it. It is very similar to the one used by the Halls of Medford.
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JOHN HALL, (Andrew), m. Oct. 17, 1722, in Dorchester, HopestlII Ockington, of Dedham, and had in Newton, JOSIAH, Aug. 26, 1723; NEHEMIAH, Mar. 29, 1725; THOMAS, Nov. 22, 1727; DAVID, Dec. 24, 1732;
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JOHN, May 31, 1736; REBECCA, Aug. 1, 1729. Wife Hopestill, d. 1738. He m. 2nd, Dec. 27, 1739, Abigail Hall. He d. 1791, aged 96.
Rev. Jonathan Homer, in his History of Newton, in speaking of Rev. N. Hobart, says : "An aged father, Mr. John Hall, has repeatedly mentioned to me his serious and winning manner of address," &c.
JOSIAH HALL, (John, Andrew), m. May 28, 1747, Abigail, dau. of Thomas and Abigail (Cheney) Brown, of Newton, and had SUSANNA, Apr. 30, 1749 ; ABIGAIL, Sept. 27, 1751; MARY, Mar. 3, 1753; SAMUEL, Jan. 3, 1755 ; HANNAH, May 6, 1760; SARAH, Nov. 22, 1763. Susanna m. John Rogers, of Newton, who also m. her sister Sarah; Hannah m. 1782, Ezra Dana, of Cambridge; Abigail m. 1772, Royal Wood, and rev. to Utica, N. Y.
·First wife, Abigail, d. May 20, 1775, and Josiah m. 2nd, Elizabeth Brown, of Cambridge, Feb. 8, 1776. He d. Aug. 23, 1786, aged 63. Both he and his only son, Samuel, served in the army of the Revolu- tion, and he loaned the town of Newton, in 1777, £24 to pay the sol- diers. He held one slave.
SAMUEL HALL, (Josiah, John, Andrew), m. Sept. 18, 1782, Sarah, dau. of Ensign Timothy and Sarah (Prentice) Cheney, of Newton, a. descendant of the stout old trooper, Capt. Thomas Prentice. They had,
1. WILLIAM, b. May 10, 1783. 2. SALLY, b. Feb. 24, 1785, d. 1802.
3. SAMUEL, b. May 7, 1787. 4. ISAAC, b. July 2], 1789, d. Dec. 8, 1840. 5. PRENTICE, h. Oct. 9, 1791, d., s. p., Jan. 10, 1839.
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