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GEORGE SMITH, m. Lavinia -, aud had,
1. LAVINIA M., b. Feb. 2, 1842.
GEORGE W. SMITH, m. Mary A. - -, and had children,
1. SARAH M., b. Sept. 16, 1833. 2. GEORGE H., h. Sept. 20, 1835.
3. JAMES M., b. July 22, 1838. 4. HORACE B., b. Sept. 24, 1841. 5. ALFRED C., b. Mar. 11, 1844.
ASA F. SMITH, from Newton, by wife Betsey S. W. - , had,
1. SARAH E., b. Oct. 10, 1833. 2. LUCIAN B., b. Apr. 9, 1838.
3. CHARLES H., b. Oct. 9, 1839. 4. EDWARD R., b. Apr. 9, 1842. 5. CHARLOTTE L., b. Dec. 20, 1843.
MARRIAGES.
George Smith m. Polly Axtell, May 8, 1786.
Martin Smith, of Shrewsbury, m. Polly Harrington, June 29, 1794.
Samuel D. Smith, m. Rinda A. Wheelock, May 26, 1830.
Henry Smith, m. Louisa Stone, Sept. 1, 1824.
Ephraim Smith, m. Sarab Bigelow, June 8, 1767.
REV. PHILIP Y. SMITH, the present chairman of the Grafton Board of Education, and pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, of Sutton, has been a resident of this town since April, 1869, and pastor of his congregation since 1865. Mr. Smith was sent by the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, to supply in the presbytery of Boston for six months, and was assigned by the Rev. John P. Robb, of Providence, R. I., to occupy the pulpit of his present charge, October 1, 1865, and has continued from that time until the present year, 1879, making a pastorate of about fourteen years.
Mr. Smith was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and educated in the University of Glasgow, and studied Hebrew and Theology in the city of New York, and was licensed to preach the gospel by the Second Presbytery of the above city, September 15, 1863. His life-work until the time of his licensure was employed in teaching. He was the prin- cipal of the Collingwood public school, Ontario, and also master of the Fraser free school, Hastings-upon-Hudson, N. Y. Some of his pupils have been admitted into the Universities of Columbia, N. Y., New
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Wilmington, Pa. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland; Toronto, Ontario; and to West Point, N. Y.
Loyall Farragut, son of Rear Admiral Farragut, was the student who successfully entered West Point after a six months drill in mathematics. Since coming to this town he has been three times sent as the princi- pal delegate to represent his Presbytery in the General Assembly and also as the Commissioner on the General Board of Home Missions. He has also been invited in connection with his own church to occupy churches in Providnce, R. I., Lawrence, and Boston, and also in New York City, at a higher salary than his present charge offers but chooses to contiune on from year to year in his first and only charge. He was ordained Feb. 28, 1866, by the Presbytery of Boston, Rev. William Mc- Laren, D. D., of Fall River, Mass., preaching the ordination and instal- lation sermon, and the Rev. Alexander Blaikie, D. D., of Boston, lead- ing in the ordination prayer. The members of the session are Messrs. William Gould, Andrew Kerr and Jaines Young. The treasurer is George Woodburn; trustees, Messrs. Gould, Woodburn, Barr, Johnson, Wilson, Boyd, Dreghorn, Moore, Fullerton and Forsythe.
SOUTHWICK.
ISAAC SOUTHWICK, (Jacob of Smithfield, R. I.), b. May 1, 1785, m. Tabitha Roberts, b. Aug. 8, 1788, d. Jan. 7, 1879. Hle rev. to Provi- dence, R. 1., and d. May 23, 1872. Children,
1. TABITHA L., b. 1809, m. Henry Prentice (P).
1 2. ISAAC I1., b., Aug. 14, 1811, mn. Clarissa A. Keith.
3. LUCY E., b. 1813, m. Moses Forbes.
4. JOSEPH E., b. 1815, m. Miranda Chamberlin.
5. CLARISSA M., b. 1823, d. 1829. 6. JOHN R., b. 1831.
1-2 HON. ISAAC H. SOUTHWICK, (Isaac, Jacob), b. Aug. 14, 1811, m. Aug. 8, 1837, Clarissa A. Keith (K), b. May 13, 1812.
He was born in 1811, and his father being a shoe manufacturer, he early learned that trade and continued to work at it until he was twenty- one years of age.
In the autumn of 1832, he went to New Orleans as a clerk In a mer- cantile house, remaining there through the following winter and spring. He returned home in the summer of 1833, and for a year and a half was engaged in the manufacture of shoes.
In December, 1834, he entered the service of Wood, Kimball & Co., in Grafton, who were then very largely engaged in the shoe, leather and other business. He continued with them one year. In December, 1835, he again went to New Orleans. After remaining there several months he went up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to Madison, Indiana. While there he was engaged in business several years which did not prove a success. He remained in the west nine years, and spent one entire summer in traveling through the northern portions of Illinois and Iowa, then very sparsely settled.
In the summer of 1845, he returned to Grafton, and on the completion of the Providence and Worcester railroad iu 1847, took charge of the Saundersville station. In 1848 he was transferred to Worcester as the agent there.
In January, 1850, he was appointed general superintendent of the road, removed to Providence and continued in that position tive years, when he resigned and accepted a like position on the Central Ohio rail- road, a road leading from the Ohio River near Wheeling, to Columbus.
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Here he remained one year, and in the spring of 1856, became inter- ested in the line of steamers plying between I'rovidence and New York, and took the position of agent of the line in Boston. He continued there until 1863, when he became the general manager and treasurer of the company.
He continued in these offices two years when having disposed of all his interest in the company, retired from it. Upon the organization of a new company in 1866, he was again appointed to the office of manager and treasurer, which he held for about two years.
Since 1868, he has not been active in transportation or any other kind of business. He was for twelve years from 1858 to 1871 a director in the Providence and Worcester railroad company, and in 1874, a mem- ber of the General Assembly of Rhode Island.
Children,
1. HENRY K., b. Oct. 11, 1838, m. Snsan J. Fiske.
2. CLARISSA M., b. April 11, 1840, m. Joshua Buffum.
3. SARAH E., b. March 12, 1843, d. 1846.
4. ROYAL K., b. Feb. 22, 1845, m. Mary E. Metcalf.
5. JOSEPH H., b. March 8, 1847. 6. ANNIE R., b. Aug. 22, 1849.
7. ISAAC H., Jr., h. June 28, 1854.
STEARNS. (Stearnes).
CHARLES STEARNS, the ancestor, came from England, and settled in Watertown, where he was admitted freeman May 6, 1646. Nov. 15, 1647, be purchased of Edward Lamb, of Watertown, a house and eight acres of upland. He had seven children.
WILLIAM STEARNES, (Capt. John, John, Charles), m. Mary. m. 2nd, (pub. ) Dec. 27, 1766, Mary Willard.
BEZALEEL STEARNES, (Capt. John, Jolin, Charles), m. (pub.) Oct., 1749, Thankful Davis, both of Grafton. His house in " the Gore " was burned July 10, 1784.
SAMUEL STEARNES, (Capt. John, John, Charles), m. Aug. 19, 1752, Jemima Hoyt, of Monadnock; m. 2nd, (pub. ) Nov. 27, 1762, Sarah Grover. The record says Sarah, tradition says Ann, probably Sarah Ann. He d. March 17, 1776. She d. April 9, 1777. He had two children by his first wife, Samuel, who settled in Claremont, N. H., and Daniel, of Newport, N. H. The father, Samuel, was of Grafton, of Capt. Samuel Warren's Co., in 1757 .- Bond's Watertown, p. 949.
Children,
1. SOLOMON, m. Jemima Clark, rev. to Highgate, Vt.
2. SHADRACH. 3. BENJAMIN,
4. MOSES, m. Susan Clark, rev. to Warsaw, Tenn.
5. BETSEY. 6. PHEBE.
STONE.
There were two early settlers by the name of Stone, from whom most of the very numerous families of that name, in New England, are descended, viz., Simon, and his younger brother Gregory. The latter moved from Watertown to Cambridge, probably about 1637. His name is on the list of " townsmen then inhabiting " Watertown, to whom grants of land were made iu 1636. Gregory was the ancestor of the families in this town.
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NAHUM STONE, b. 1753, m. Hannah Haven, d. Aug. 30, 1803. He d. Sept. 7, 1821.
Children,
1. GREGORY, b. July 11, 1776, m. Prudence Leland (L).
2. DAVID, b. Jan. 18, 1778, d. Sept. 22, 1778.
3. ALBERT, b. Ang. 5, 1779, m. Sally B. Kimball (K).
4. DANIEL, b. Dec. 4, 1781, m. Sally Williams, rev. to Cambridge.
5. JOSIAH H., b. June 28, 1783, m. Betsey Bent.
1-1 GREGORY . STONE, (Nahum), b. July 11, 1776, m. 1799, Prudence Leland (L), b. 1778. He d. 1810. He was very much respected. He had a good common school education, and was employed in teaching school during the winter season, for several years. Soon after he settled in Weathersfield, Vt., he was elected a captain in the militia, and in a short time a major. He was for a series of years a representa- tive from the town of Weathersfield, to the Vermont Legislature. He was a truly pious man and an examplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death was caused by drowning. He was stand- ing on a bridge, over a stream near his residence, which was very much swollen, by the unusual rains, a mill-dam just above the bridge was washed down and striking the bridge it was carried away. His death caused deep lamentation in his family and among his townspeople. He had three ch. b. in Weathersfield. the oldest GREGORY D., gr. at Union College, N. Y., studied law and was for a number of years Judge of the Orphan's Court for Franklin County, Ala.
2-3 ALBERT STONE, (Nahum), b. Aug. 5, 1779, m. Sally B. Kimball (K).
"He was a man of sound judgment, stern integrity with a liberal turn of mind. Hc was much interested in town affairs and always looked for the welfare and prosperity of the town. He beld many town offices, such as selectman, overseer of the poor, assessor, collector of taxes, and was representative for two years; he also served on various town com- mittees of importance. In early life he was a clothier by trade; the building where he dyed, pressed and dressed his cloths, stood perhaps eight or ten rods south by west of the Baptist Church in New England Village. He had a fulling-mill that stood where the middle privilege now is; here about 1812, he built a two-story building for machinery for carding wool for farmers, who made their own clothes, as every- thing was high during the war. In 1818 or 19 he sold to Legge & Taft; they conducted the business a few years and put in looms for weaving satinet ; they sold to Lewis Thayer who run it until the fall of 1825, when a company from Boston bought out all the inhabitants of what is now the central part of New England Village, together with Thayer's interest. This purchase included Hovey's dam."
" Dea. Albert Stone was a man of consistent but unostentatious piety, with strong confidence in God ; of sound and clear judgment, with great decision of character; and an inflexible supporter of what he deemed to be right. At the time when the Evangelical Church separated from the old parish, that they might enjoy the ministrations of an Evangelical pastor, Dea. Stone was one of the prime movers in the measures adopted. And the strong attachment which he then mani- fested for the great doctrines of the gospel as held by this church, he continued to evince through the nearly twenty years of my acquaint- ance with him. He was eminently wise in counsel, and his suggestions in reference to all our church affairs I always highly prized. Never
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shall I forget his recommendation to the brethren when the first occa- sion for church discipline that arose after my settlement was under dis- cussion in the examining committee. I believe the adoption of his recommendation then, and its continued practice by the brethren to the present time, has had an important bearing upon the permanency of my ministry here. The pastor was nominated to be one of the committee that should take the gospel steps with the offending member. Deacon Stone objected, on the ground that the prosecution of church discipline was very liable to create prejudices against the parties engaged in it, especially if they failed of the desired result. And as it was all-im- portant that the pastor's influence for good over all the people should, if possible, be maintained unimpaired, it was better that the brethren should incur these prejudices than the pastor."-Rev. T. C. Biscoe. He d. Feb. 22, 1858. Children,
1. HANNAH, b. May 23, 1804, m. Benjamin Kingsbury (K).
2. MARY, b. Sept. 3, 1806, m. Lincoln Wood.
3. LORANA, b. Ang. 19, 1808, m. Elijah L. Case (C).
4. SALLY, b. Ang. 27, 1810, m. William C. Tidd.
5. MARTHA H., b. Oct. 21, 1812, m. Leander S. Pratt (P).
6. ALBERT G., b. Nov. 17, 1814, d. Mar. 7, 1818.
7. JAMES S., b. July 4, 1816, m. Mary L. Phinney. Res. Boston.
8. ELBRIDGE K., b. Aug. 23, 1818, m. Jane E. Brown.
9. LUCY E., b. June 26, 1821, m. William J. Eaton.
OLIVER STONE, m. Lois M. Children,
1. ABRAHAM A., b. Aug. 28, 1836. 2. LEWIS L., b. Nov. 16, 1838. 3. FANNY A., b. Dec. 16, 1840.
MARRIAGES.
Lieut. Jonathan Stone, of Ward, m. Sally Hall, June 23, 1792. Dea. Isaac Stone, of Ward, m. Lydia Brigham, May 20, 1811.
STOW.
JOHN STOW, with his wife Elizabeth and six children, came to New England in one of Winthrop's companies, and settled in Roxbury. He arrived here the seventh of the third month, 1634. He was made free- man, 1634; member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1638 ; and representative, 1639. He was probably the father of Thomas, of Concord, and of Middletown, Conn. Elizabeth, wife of John, died 1638. Stow was a very ancient name In England, particularly in Mid- dlesex and Lincolnshire.
ABNER STOW, (Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Nov. 29, 1705, m. Mary - . He d. Dec. 8, 1783. Children,
1. MARY, b. July 10, 1734, m. Jonathan Hall (H).
2. SARAH, b. Sept. 27, 1738, m. Elijah Drury (D).
3. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 4, 1740, m. Elizabeth
4. ABNER, b. Sept. 5, 1743, m. Elizabeth and Eunice Goldsbury.
5. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 24, 1746, d. Nov. 12, 1751.
6. LYDIA, b. Mar. 12, 1748, d. Aug. 28, 1751.
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1-3 JONATHAN STOW, (Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Feb. 4, 1740, m. Elizabeth - Children,
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1. ELIZABETH, b. July 29, 1766. 2. LUCY, b. Nov. 23, 1771.
3. SARAH, b. Mar. 11, 1776.
4. JONATHAN, b. May 22, 1779, m. Elizabeth
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2-4 ABNER STOW, (Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Sept. 5, 1743, m. Elizabeth -, d. July 6, 1766; m. 2nd, July 2, 1778, Eunice Guldsbury. Children,
1. SAMUEL, b. Oct. 26, 1768, d. July 9, 1776.
2. JOSEPH. b. Feb. 23, 1771, d. May 24, 1776.
3. LYDIA, b. Dec. 13, 1772, d. July 2, 1776.
4. DANIEL, b. Mar. 11, 1775. 5. BETSEY, b. Oct. 31, 1779.
6. CRISTOPHER G., b. Aug. 2, 1782. 7. SAMUEL, b. Jan. 22, 1784.
8. JOHN, b. Mar. 22, 1785.
4 9. ABNER, b. Jan. 10, 1787, m. Sarah Brooks.
10. JOSEPH, b. Nov. 11, 1793.
3-4 JONATHAN STOW, (Jonathan, Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. May 22, 1779, m. Elizabeth He d. Feb. 17, 1836. Children,
5 1. JONATHAN W., b. Nov. 25, 1810, m. Mary Hunt.
2. SUMNER E., b. Jan. 24, 1812, m. Apr. 3, 1834, Nancy L. Fay.
3. IRENE E., b. Jan. 15, 1814, m. Charles J. Fay.
4. SILAS N., b. Jan. 16, 1816. Rev. to Uxbridge.
5. FREDERICK A., b. Feb. 28, 1818.
He was born on George Hill. His father died when he was twelve years of age, and his guardian, Mr. Silas Forbush, sent him to Temple- ton to school, where he remained about one year. From there he went to the Gates Academy, Marlborough, where he remained about two years, and from there he went to the Wilbraham Academy, where he remained two years. From Wilbraham he went to Troy, N. Y., in August, 1839, and commenced the manufacture of boots and shoes, being the first one who ever manufactured boots and shoes, to any extent, in that State. He soon succeeded, by manufacturing a class of goods adapted to the wants of the trade, in building up quite a large trade, employing at one time as many as two hundred men, which for that day was a very large number. He afterwards bought a large sole leather tannery, and carried on the two branches up to 1865, when, having accumulated a comfortable fortune, he gave up active business, bought a large farm in the south part of the city, where he has spent his time since in improving the farm and taking care of his real estate.
6. ANN M., b. Mar. 25, 1820, m. Lawson Munyau.
7. CHARLES I., b. June 26, 1822. Res. New York city.
8. JOHN A., b. June 29, 1824. Rev. to New York State.
9. MARY A., b. Oct. 21, 1826, m. Otis Fay.
10. MOSES P., b. Dec. 3, 1828, unm.
4-9 ABNER STOW, (Abner, Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Jan. 10, 1787, m. Sarah Brooks (B). Children,
1. SARAH B., b. Apr. 15, 1817. 2. EUNICE G., b. Dec. 6, 1818. 3. MILO, b. Nov. 7, 1820. 4. ELIZABETH A., b. Mar. 25, 1823.
5. CAROLINE A., b. Jan. 17, 1825.
5-1 | JONATHAN W. STOW, (Jonathan, Jonathan, Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Nov. 25, 1810, m. Mary Hunt, b. Mar. 9, 1809. He d. Mar. 13, 1866. She d. Mar. 5, 1868. Children,
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1. JONATHAN P., b. July 26, 1832, d from wound in battle of Antietam.
6 2. SILAS E., b. Oct. 10, 1833, m. Lucy A. Gary.
3. ELLIOT M., b. May 15, 1835, d. Aug. 14, 1843.
4. HORACE W., b. Aug 28, 1837. Res. San Francisco, Cal.
5. LOUISA A., b. Nov. 17, 1841, d. Apr. 20. 1865, unm.
7 6. LEWIS A., b. Nov. 17, 1841, m. Mary S. Leland (L). Twins.
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SILAS E. STOW, (Jonathan W., Jonathan, Jonathan, Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Oct. 10, 1833, m. Oct. . 14, 1857, Lucy A. Gary, b. Mar. 7, 1835, d. Nov. 11, 1874.
He is one of the most extensive farmers in this town, having an ex- celleut farm and the best farm-house in the County. He has held many positions of trust and honor in his native town. Children,
1. MARY E., b. Jan. 1, 1859. 2. LUCY J., b. Sept. 17, 1860.
3. JONATHAN W., b. Aug. 30. 1867. 4. ANNA LOUISA, b. June 20, 1869. 5. ROSA A., b. Aug. 5, 1871. 6. HARRIS G., b. Nov. 4, 1873.
7. SILAS M., b. Nov. 11, 1876.
7-6 LEWIS A. STOW, (Jonathan W., Jonathan, Jonathan, Abner, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Nov. 17, 1841, m. Nov. 25, 1868, Mary S. Leland (L). Children,
1. LOLA M., b. Dec. 16, 1869. 2. FRED, b. Oct. 21, 1871.
3. WALTER, b. Feb. 3, 1874. 4. FRANK, b. Dec. 19, 1876.
SOLOMON STOW, (Samuel. Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Oct. 10, 1714, in. Elizabeth - He d. Nov. 4, 1763. Children,
1. MERCY, b. Sept. 16, 1743. 2. ELIZABETH, b. May 26, 1745.
8 3. JONAH, b. Mar. 31, 1746, m. Lydia -.
9 4. SHECLOMITH, b. Nov. 19, 1749, m Elizabeth
5. BEULAH, b. June 27, 1754. 6. SOLOMON, b. May 30, 1758.
7. WILLIAM T., b. Apr. 15, 1761.
8-3 JONAH STOW, (Solomon, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, Jobn), b. Mar. 31, 1746, m. Lydia --. Ch., 1. JUDITH, b. Nov. 25, 1769.
9-4 CAPT. SHELOMITH STOW, (Solomon, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas, John), b. Nov. 19, 1749, in. Elizabeth He d. Dec. 4, 1799. Ch., 1. ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 4, 1777.
THOMAS STOW, m. Anne --; m. 2nd, June 2, 1748, Silence Hunt. He d. June 8, 1750. Children,
1. JOSEPH, b. May 14, 1734. 2. DAVID, b. May 10, 1736.
3. NATHANIEL, b. Sept. 28, 1739. 4. SAMUEL, b. Apr. 17, 1742.
5. TIMOTHY, b. Oct. 21, 1745.
6. RUTH, b. Dec. 12, 1749, d. Sept. 13, 1756.
JOHN STOW, m. May 22, 1755, Hannah Hall. Children,
1. THOMAS, b. Mar. 9, 1756. 2. RUTH, b. June 7, 1757, d. Aug. 27, 1777. 3. TIMOTHY, b. May 5, 1759. 4. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 7, 1761.
5. SARAH, b. Feb. 6, 1763.
6. NATHANIEL, b. Nov. 3, 1765, d. Dec. 26, 1773.
7. LYDIA, b. July 9, 1768, d. Nov. 3, 1773.
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8. CYRUS, b. July 7, 1770. 9. ANNA, b. March 1, 1773, d. Nov. 20, 1780. 10. JONATHAN, b. May 28, 1775, d. July 6, 1776.
11. POLLY, b. March 3, 1782.
ITHAMER STOW, m. Dec. 16, 1792, Sally Temple. Children,
1. LUCY, b. May 28, 1794. 2. ELIJAH, b. Nov. 3, 1795.
3. JOHN, b. March 26, 1797, d. July 19, 1802.
4. PATTY, b. Jan. 9, 1799.
5. ITHAMER, b. March 15, 1802, m. - Bigelow.
6. SALLY, b. Jan. 7, 1806.
7. MAHALAH L., b. Jan. 21, 1808, m. Lucius Bigelow (B).
8. JOHN I., b. Feb. 16, 1810.
SILAS STOW, by wife Polly, had, children,
1. SILAS A., b. March 21, 1812. 2. MARY S., b. May 29, 1814. 3. OLIVER H., b. June 30, 1818.
AARON STOW, m. May 26, 1793, Anna Clark. " Sept. 28, 1800, Aaron Stow, of Grafton, was shot accidentally, at the regimental drill in North- borough, through the body in a sham fight by the carelessness of a man leaving his ramrod in his gun; the rod entered his breast and came out at his back; he lived about one bour and then expired, leaving a wife and three children to bemoan his untimely end."-Massachusetts Spy. Children,
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1. AARON, b. Oct. 6, 1793, m. Eleanor
2. RUFUS, b. March 21, 1797, m.
3. ANNA B., b. May 2, 1799.
4. ITHAMER F., b. April 22, 1801 (Posthumous).
10-2 RUFUS STOW, (Aaron), b. March 21, 1797. His ch. were,
1. FREDERICK H., b. March 11, 1827. 2. ANNA B., b. Feb. 19, 1829, d.
3. JANE A., b. Sept. 5, 1830. 4. HENRY C., b. May 16, 1834, d. 5. JOHN A., b. July 7, 1837. 6. AUGUSTA O., b. Jan. 9, 1841, d.
7. MARIAN L., b. Nov. 17, 1844.
LOVELL STOW, b. June 7, 1779, m. Betsey Batcheller, b. March 7, 1781, d. May 24, 1842. He d. Oct. 13, 1841.
Children,
12 1. LOVELL, b. Feb. 20, 1802, m. Alone Knowlton, and d. Feb. 3, 1850.
2. BETSEY, b. May 24, 1803.
3. MARTIN, b. March 15, 1805, d. April 6, 1805.
4. HORACE, b. Feb. 19, 1806. 5. HARRIET, b. Feb. 1, 1808.
6. GARY, b. Ang. 11, 1810.
11 7. LUTHER, b. Nov. 6, 1811, m. Mary K. Hathaway.
8. MARTIN, b. Jan. 26, 1814, m. Charlotte Ch., Martin A., b. Oct. 3, 1841.
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AARON STOW, (Aaron), b. Oct. 6, 1793, m. Eleanor , d. May 28, 1839. Children,
1. SUSAN A., b. Nov. 20, 1821. 2. ELEANOR M., b. Sept. 17, 1823. 3. RUFUS S., b. Dec. 25, 1825. 4. AARON W., b. Jan. 30, 1828. 5. SARAH L., b. June 11, 1832, d. Feb. 19, 1834.
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11-7 | LUTHER STOW, (Lovell), m. Mary K. Hathaway, b. Feb. 6, 1817, d. June 16, 1843; m. 2nd, Caroline Bigelow, res. in Worcester. Children, 1. MARY E., b. July 18, 1840.
2. CHARLES L., b. April 21, 1843, d. Sept. 21, 1843.
11-1 LOVELL STOW, (Lovell), b. Feb. 20, 1802, m. Nov. 18, 1834, Alone Knowlton.
He was born on Brigham Hill, on the old Stow place; he remained with his father engaged in the manufacture of shoes in the old shop near by until 1835, when he removed to the centre and built the building now known as Stockwell's Block. He was engaged in the mannfacture of boots and shoes in the building now occupied by Hale's stove store, for fifteen years, until his death in 1850. He d. Feb. 3, 1850. Children,
1. THOMAS W., b. Nov. 1, 1835, d. April 13, 1837.
2. HENRY L., b. April 6, 1837, m. - and Ellen Knowlton.
3. WILLIAM K., b. July 1, 1839, d. unm.
4. ANN E., b. Dec. 13, 1841, m. Charles Van Dusen; res. in Dayton, Ohio.
5. MARIA, m. Charles L. Gorham.
JOSEPH A. STOW, by wife Lydia, had, ch.,
1. FRANCIS A., b. July 30, 1843.
MARRIAGES.
William M. Stow, m. Nov. 15, 1832, Saralı Hall.
Horace Stow, m. May 2. 1833, Nancy Knowlton.
Abel F. Stow, m. April 2, 1834, Sarah Whitney. Martin Stow, m. Sept. 13, 1836, Charlotte C. Marshall.
TAINTER. (Taynter, Taintor, Tayntor).
JOSEPH TAYNTOR, aged 25, embarked at Southampton, April 24, 1638. He settled in Watertown, and was selectman many times be- tween 1657 and 1680.
SIMON TAINTER, JR., (Simon, Joseph), b. Feb. 28, 1693, m. May 25, 1714, Rebecca Harrington, b. 1690, (Thomas, George, Robert). They were dismissed from the church in Westborough to Hassanamisco. Ch.,
1 1. SIMON, Jr., b. April 8, 1715, m. Mary Bruer (Brewer).
I-1 SIMON TAINTER, (Simon, Simon, Joseph), b. April 8, 1715, m. in Westborough, Nov. 20, 1740, Mary Bruer (Brewer). Children,
1. SIMON, b. July 22, 1741. 2. ABIJAH, b. June 7, 1743.
3. JONATHAN, b. June 10, 1744. 4. Mary, b. Nov. 14, 1746. 5. JOEL, b. March 19, 1748. 6. NAHUM, b. Feb. 23, 1750.
7. ELEANOR, b. Nov. 11, 1753.
DANIEL TAINTOR, m. April 21, 1833, Maria B. Marshall.
THURSTON.
The name of Thurston is sald to be derived from the Saxon, Danish and Runic troest, meaning trusty or faithful. Prof. Henry W. Long-
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HISTORY OF GRAFTON.
fellow said, " I have no doubt you are of Scandinavian descent. Thors- ton, Thorsten aud Thurston must be one and the same. The Stone of Thor-the god of thunder. This is rather portentous, but you cannot escape this divine genealogy."
JOHN THURSTON, of Wrentham, Suffolk County, Eng., aged 30, and his wife Margaret, aged 32, were passengers for New England in the Mary Ann, of Yarmouth, Eng., May 10, 1637. The Thurstons in this town are descended from John.
DANIEL THURSTON was a farmer in Mendon and Uxbridge, Mass. Deeds show that he sold land to Joseph Sutton, in 1736, and to his son David, in 1745, m. Meriam -; m. 2nd, Martha Allen, of Medway. He d. July 3, 1745. Children,
1 1. BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 25, 1711, m. Elizabeth - and Dorcas Chapin.
2. DAVID, m. Abigail , and d. in Uxbridge, 1756.
3. MARY. b. Ang. 13, 1714, unm., res. in Grafton in 1771.
4. DANIEL, b. Nov. 21, 1716, settled at Read's Farmn, Hampshire County, about 1740
5. EBENEZER, b. Sept 22, 1718, d. in Grafton, unm. about 1740.
6. JOSEPH, m. Dorothy -, res. in Westborough.
7. ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 22, 1720, res. in 1752 in Uxbridge.
8. MARTHA, m. Joseph Thompson, res. in Uxbridge.
9. MosEs, b. Sept. 17, 1733.
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