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FRINK, ALFRED BINGHAM, son of Nathaniel L. and Rebecca (Simonds) Frink, b. Windham, Ct., June 3, 1796; sculptor and engraver in stone; m. Mary Page, dr. of William and Lucy Page, b. in Upton, May 17, 1799; cer. in Windham, Ct., April S, 1822, by John Baldwin, Esq. Their chn. : -
ALFRED LATHROP, b. Woodstock, Ct., April 23, 1823; m. Louisa A. Bancroft, Oct. 18, 1848. He d. May 2, 1875.
GEORGE W., b. Bellingham, Mass., July 24, 1825; d. unm., Mil., July 2, 1878.
MARY E., b. Franklin, Mass., Jan. 26, 1831; m. Dr. Nelson Harris, Oct. 6, 1851.
WILLIAM PAGE, b. Providence, R.I., July 5, 1833; m. Mary J. Bancroft, May 29, 1859.
ELIZA E., b. Providence, R.I., Dec. 9, 1834; m. Henry Nelson Madden, Nov. 9, 1853.
Upright, industrious, hard strugglers for a livelihood, kind-hearted, ex- emplary people. They have res. at different periods in Woodstock, Ct., Provi- dence, R.I., etc., but for many yrs. past in Mil., City District. Their son
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George W., on whom they leaned in their old age, d. suddenly July 2, 1878. Mrs. Mary, the wf. and mr., d. April 18, 1880, in the kind care of her dr., Mrs. H. N. Madden and her hus. The aged hus. and fr. still survives in the same filial care.
FRINK, ALFRED LATHROP, son of Alfred B. and Mary (Page) Frink, b. in Woodstock, Ct., April 23, 1823; machinist; m. Louisa Angeline Bancroft, dr. of Samuel and Mary (Bubier) Bancroft, b. in Marblehead, July 4, 1820; cer. at Hopedale, Oct. 18, 1848, by the writer. Issue : -
LOUISA ANGELINE, b. Medway, Oct. 29, 1849; m. Amos Levi Madden, Sept. 6, 1868.
HANNAH ELIZA, b. Mil., Dec. 13, 1851; m. Frank S. Hayward, Nov. 15, 1874. GEORGE ERFORD, b. Mil., Aug. 20, 1854; res. with his widowed mr., Hope- dale; machinist.
MARTHA WASHINGTON, b. Mil., Feb. 22, 1857; res. with her widowed mr., Hopedale.
IDA MAY, b. Mil., Feb. 11, 1861; d. Nov. 17, 1862.
Grandchn. : -
See, under name Madden, AMOS LEVI.
See, under name Hayward, FRANK SAMUEL.
A worthy family throughout. Res. Medway,.Mil., Holl., Hopedale, and Bell. The hus. and fr. d. in No. Bellingham, May 2, 1875. His wid., with her unm. son and dr., now res. at Hopedale.
FRINK, WILLIAM PAGE, son of Alfred B. and Mary (Page) Frink, b. Providence, R.I., July 5, 1833; farmer; m. Mary Josephine Bancroft, dr. of Samuel and Abigail (Fairbanks) Bancroft, b. Medway, 1836; cer. Woonsocket, R.I., May 29, 1855, by Rev. Joseph B. Breed. Issue : -
EMMONS ADOLPHUS, b. Feb. 4, 1859; d. March 31, 1859.
SAMUEL HANDEL, b. May 26, 1860.
ALFRED BANKS, b. Feb. 18, 1865.
LOUISA JOSEPHINE, b. Oct. 18, 1867; d. May 13, 1874.
HERBERT COHEN, b. July 30, 1873.
JOSEPH BANCROFT, b. Nov. 18, 1875.
A family believed to sustain the good reputation of their lineage. Their res. has been Mil. and W. Medway.
FRINK, SAMUEL, Jun., son of Dr. Samuel Frink, b. Rutland, 1819; bootmaker; m. Nancy Parkhurst Nelson, dr. of Capt. Henry and Catherine (Parkhurst) Nelson, b. Mil., Feb. 15, 1818; cer. 1840; no further particulars given. Issue : -
MEDORA ISABELLA, b. Mil., Oct. 1, 1840; m. Stedman Howe, Jan. 15, 1S80.
Mr. Frink d. in Mil., 1852. His worthy wf. still survives in continued widowhood.
FROST. This name first appears on our records in 1743, when the recently organized Cong. Precinct and Ch. were anxiously seeking a pastor. After their first choice, Mr. John Bass, had disappointed them, Mr. Amariah Frost became a candidate, and gave such satisfaction as soon to receive a call. He was or- dained, as elsewhere related, Dec. 24, 1743. He appears to have been a man of respectable natural abilities, well-balanced mind, sound moral integrity, fair literary acquirements, and reputable standing among his clerical brethren. He is believed to have descended from Rev. John Frost, an English nonconformist, whose son Edmond, with his wf. Thomasine, came from Ipswich, Eng., to N. Eng., in the ship "Great Hope," about 1635. Their chn. were John, Thomas,
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Samuel, Joseph, James, Mary, Ephraim, and Sarah. Edmond set. in Cambridge, was made freeman in 1636, ruling eld. in the ch., and d. July 12, 1672. Thomas, his 2d son, set. in Sudbury, m. Mary Goodridge, and had Thomas, John, Samuel, and Mary. He had three wives in succession, and d. in Framingham. His will, which was proved in 1724, mentions a dr. Sarah, wf. of John Rice. Samuel, 3d, son of Thomas, sen., res. in Framingham; m. Elizabeth Rice, Feb. 1, 1710-11, and was the fr. of Amariah. So I will begin my tabulation with his family : -
FROST, SAMUEL 4 (Thomas,3 Eld. Edmond,2 Rev. John 1); wf. Elizabeth (Rice). Chn. : -
KEZIAH, b. Dec. 1, 1711; m. Ebenezer Goodman of Sudbury.
BEZALEEL, b. Sept. 8, 1713.
SAMUEL, b. Dec. 13, 1715.
AMASA, b. Jan. 24, 1717-18; res. for some yrs. E. P. Mendon.
AMARIAH, b. Oct. 4, 1720; grad. H. U., 1740, and became pastor here 1743.
ELIZABETH, b. May 10, 1724; m. Isaac Cutler of Brookfield.
LOIS, b. Oct. 3, 1732; m. Phinehas Goodnow of Sudbury.
Samuel, the fr., d. Aug. 2, 1736.
FROST, Rev. AMARIAH5 (Samuel,4 Thomas,3 Eld. Edmond,2 Rev. John 1), b. in Framingham, Oct. 4, 1720; grad. H. U., 1740; ordained E. P. Mendon, Dec. 24, 1743; m., 1st, Esther, dr. of Rev. Henry Messinger, Wrentham, April 27, 1747. For the rest, I will follow his own rather unique record nearly verbatim : -
"ESTHER, b. Oct. 4, 1 o'clock A.M., 1748; d. April 25, 1749.
" AMARIAH, b. Monday, about noon, Feb. 5, O. S., 1749-50.
"SARAH, b. Friday, about 7 A.M., May 24, O. S., 1751.
"OLIVE, b. Monday, Feb. 19, N. Style, 1753, about } past 1 P.M.
" ELIZABETH, b. Friday, about midnight, Sept. 6, 1754, N. S.
"My wf. Esther d. Jan. 5, about S at night, 1778. Born Jan. 15, 1723-24.
"May 23, 1779, m., 2d, Susanna Dorr of Mendon, a dr. of Rev. Joseph, of whom were born, -
" MARY, b. April 14, about 1 o'clock A.M., and d. April 25, 1780.
" ELIAS, b. Jan. 10, 1782, about 9 o'clock A.M.
" My wf. Susannah d. this day, Jan. 21, about S o'clock A.M., 1783, in the 43d yr. of her age.
"Oct. 14, 1784, m. Wid. Sarah Adams from Grafton, but now of Mil. (my birthday, being now 64 yrs. old);" cer. by Rev. Elisha Fish of Upton.
This third wf.'s maiden name was Sarah Thwing, dr. of John and Mercy (Jones) Thwing, b. Feb. 28, 1722. She was m., 1st, to Samuel Torrey; cer. May 20, 1747, by Rev. A. Frost. Torrey d., and she m., 2d, Andrew Adams of Grafton, May 30, 1771. Adams d., and she m., 3d, Rev. Mr. Frost, her old pastor, as above. What became of her after Mr. Frost's death, the ch. records are entirely and strangely silent.
Rev. Mr. Frost d. March 14, 1792, in the 72d yr. of his age, and 49th of his ministry. In addition to what I have already said of him, I will give what is said by Rev. Mortimer Blake, author of " A Centurial History of the Mendon Association, etc. : " "Mr. Frost was reputed an excellent man, and one of the most popular preachers of his age. It is a sufficient indication of his reputa- tion and of his attainments, to state, that he was extensively resorted to as an instructor of young men fitting for college and for the ministry. A list of his pupils is not preserved. But among them were his son Amariah, Thomas
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Haven, son of Rev. Elias Haven of Franklin, who set. in Reading 2d ch., and Hezekialı Taylor, afterwards of New Fane, Vt., and also Alexander Scammell, one of the aids of Gen. Washington in the Revolution. None of his works were published, save the charge at the ordination of Mr. T. Dickinson, Hollis- ton, - the last charge he ever gave."
Sinee writing the foregoing, Mr. Henry E. Rockwood, our Milford antiqua- rian, has kindly loaned me, for my perusal, two ancient-looking sermons by Mr. Frost, which he has garnered into his collection. Their title-page reads, "The Substance of Two SERMONS, One on the Total Depravity of human Nature, while unrenewed; from Gen. 6. 5. The other from Gal. 6. 15. Being a De- scription of the New Creature; Delivered at Westborough, Dec. 8, 1765. By Amariah Frost, A.M. Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Mendon, &c."
They exhibit the soundest type of Hopkinsian orthodoxy.
His oldest son, Amariah, grad. H. U., 1770; preached a short time in Ward; m. his cousin, Esther Messinger of Wrentham; ceased to preach; set. down in secular business in his native vicinage; was commissioned justice peace in 1785; and was a conspicuous man here for many yrs. He had some very good capa- bilities and qualities as a man, ch. member, and citizen, but was not the success his friends hoped. He d. in Sandford, Me. More in its place. Sarah m. Rev. Hezekiahı Taylor, above named, March 30, 1774; cer. by her fr. Olive m. Dr. Samuel Willard of Uxbridge; cer. Nov. 3, 1774, by her fr. Elizabeth m. Dr. Isaac Brigham of Grafton, afterwards Mil .; cer. April 6, 1786, by her fr. Elias; fitted for college at Leicester, and, with Dr. Crane of Northbridge, grad. B. U., 1804; made A.M. and M.D., 1824; and practised medicine many yrs. in Plain- field, N.H. His mge., family, etc., not traced.
FROST, AMARIAH, Jun., Esq.6 (Rev. Amariah,5 Samuel.4 Thomas,3 Eld. Ed- mond,2 Rev. John 1), b. in our Precinct, Feb. 5, 1749-50, O. S .; graduated H. U., 1770; m. his cousin, Esther Messinger, dr. of John and Melatiah (Corbett) Messinger, b. Wrentham, March 25, 1759; cer. Oct. 22, 1778, by whom not given. Their chn .: -
OLIVE, bap. Sept. 19, 1779; no further traced.
CLARINDA, bap. April 20, 1783; d. Sept. 23, 1784.
CHARLOTTE, bap. Oct. 16, 1785; d. Aug. 22, 1797.
JOIIN, b. Feb. 27, 1787; no further traced.
I have found no one who seemed to be very well informed concerning the later history of this family, and our records are very meagre. As has been already stated, Mr. Frost, after quitting his brief career in the pulpit, went into secular business here, in which, however, he was unsuccessful on the whole. Meantime he was commissioned by Gov. Hancock as Just. Peace in 1785, and again in 1791. He is said to have tried numerous cases as a civil magistrate, and also to have served as one of the Worcester Co. Court of General Sessions. He taught school at times, and betook himself to such employments as neces- sity or convenience afforded. In 1797 he made a journey to the new city of Washington, hoping to find a remunerative opening in some governmental office. He extended his travels to Northern Virginia, and took the principal intervening cities in his route. Of this journey and its incidents he kept a diary, the whole or a part of which Hamilton B. Staples, Esq., of Worcester, read last year as a curiosity before the American Antiquarian Society in Bos- ton. This paper has since been published in a neat pamphlet, headed, " A Day at Mount Vernon in 1797, &c." It does not appear that the tourist found the opening he sought. He returned to Milford, and was hereabouts for several
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yrs. in rather poor circumstances. He was exempted from taxation after 1805, and must, I think, have left town before 1812. He is said to have d. in Sand- ford, Me., in 1819. When his wf. d., I have inquired thus far in vain; also what became of his dr. Olive and son John, or why he made his final home in Sandford, Me. Somebody knows, but no one with whom I have fallen in. The homestead of his father, Rev. Amariah, was situated in the corner formed by West and Congress Sts. It embraced a decent acreage; and the old domicile was, when I came into town, occupied by his son-in-law, Dr. Isaac Brigham. Isaac, jun., next possessed it; and afterward Major Clark Sumner purchased the site, and built thereon the mansion in which he died. Who now survive of Rev. Amariah Frost's descendants, I am unable to tell.
FROST, AMASA 5 (Samuel,4 Thomas,8 Eld. Edmond,2 Rev. John1), a bro. of Rev. Amariah; b. Framingham, Jan. 24, 1717-18; m. Abigail Livermore of Fram., dr. of John and Abigail (Stone) Livermore, b. 1731; cer. Feb. 1, 1749-50, by Rev. Amariah Frost. They were received from the Fram. ch. into the ch. here, May 26, 1751. They had 2 chn. here, - NATHAN, bap. May 26, 1751.
JOHN, bap. Feb. 4, 1753.
I find no intimation of more chn. b. here. In 1765 the parents were dis- missed from the ch. here in good standing to the ch. in Hatfield. I have not learned in what part of the Precinct they resided, and have traced the family no further.
FROST, PETER, and wf. Sarah, came into town about the time of its incor- poration, bringing with them a son Benjamin, and having born to them here a son named Peter Edes, Jan. 11, 1783. They gained no inhabitancy, and soon departed. What was their pedigree, whence they came, or whither they went, I have left untraced.
FROST, ELISHA JONES, son of David and Sophia Parkman (Jones) Frost; remoter ancestry not traced; b. Fram., Feb. 25, 1828; house-painter; n. Elizabeth R. Burrell, dr. of James and Prudence S. (Chessman) Burrell, b. Boston, Nov. 9, 1833; cer. in Mil., Nov. 30, 1851, by Rev. Mr. Eaton. Issue : -
LEMUEL, b. Westboro', 1852; d. same yr.
GEORGE ALFRED, b. Natick, 1856.
They have resided mostly in Mil .; an orderly, well-disposed family. In- cluded in the report of their record are the following interesting particulars respecting Mr. E. J. Frost's father: Mr. David Frost was b. in Natick, but removed to Fram. when 8 yrs. old, and res. there 78 yrs. He was one of 9 chn., all of whom lived to old age; 1 of them still remaining. During the war of 1812 he went with the Fram. Artillery under Capt. Temple, and served his country for some time on Dorchester Heights. Later he was hired by Dea. Enoch Belknap to drive an ox-team to Philadelphia, carrying a load of broad- cloth, and returning with one of powder for the Charlestown Navy Yard. He d. in Fram., Dec. 22, 1877, a. 86 yrs. and 10 mos.
GAGE. We had Gage families on our territory for about a century, reck- oning from 1718 onward. They prob. came from Eng. to Rowley, and thence hither. At the end of that period they disappeared, and scarcely one of the name has even sojourned here since. The first Gage I read of in the records was Thomas, to whom Capt. Seth Chapin deeded a farm of 80 acres with build- ings, on Sherborn road, near the "Great Meadow," in Bear-hill district. That deed was dated May 25, 1723. In 1742 Gage sold the bulk of said farm to
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Joshua Green of Hopkinton. I think it must have been situated toward the northerly terminus of now Beaver St. I cannot learn much of that Thomas. He owned several tracts of land, first and last, within our limits, which he seems to have sold one after another to later comers, as opportunity offered. When Sherborn road was laid, or relaid, extending eastward from Post Lane, in 1739, he is mentioned as owning all " enclosure" on the side-hill near where Charles Young lately dwelt. In 1742-43, when our now Cedar St. was laid out, he gave the land, a distance of 80 rods, south-easterly of Cedar Swamp. Prob- ably at that time he may have owned the farm bought by John Perry, after- wards called the Caleb Albee place. This can only be settled by research in Worcester Registry of Deeds. I suspect, but do not know, that this Thomas was the father of Hannah Gage, who made Mr. Frost's ch. no little trouble by her sexual laxity in connection with her piety. She had two illegitimates, Peter and Sybil; meantime clinging to the ch., and having them baptized. She was, of course, properly censured and disciplined. I think Thomas may also have been the father of John Gage, whose family record I am about to give, but I cannot be certain of it. When or where this first Thomas d., I have not ascertained.
GAGE, JOHN,2 supposed son of Thomas; 1 birth-date not found; m. Lydia
Thayer, dr. of Benjamin and Sarah Thayer; cer. Jan. 4, 1729. Their chn. : - RACHEL, b. Sept. 7, 1732; untraced.
SARAH, b. Feb. 17, 1734; untraced.
JOHN, b. May 21, 1737; untraced.
THOMAS, b. May 11, 1740; untraced.
LYDIA, b. June 21, 1743; untraced.
JEMIMA, b. May 5, 1746; untraced.
SAMUEL, b. Dec. 8, 1749; untraced.
BENJAMIN, b. June 17, 1751; untraced.
From the description of land laid out to him, this John Gage must have dwelt for a time in the near vicinity of Pine-grove Cemetery; but what became of him and his family, I have found no information. Prob. they emigrated to some remote locality.
GAGE, MOSES,1 prob. brother of Thomas,1 b. 1705; m. Sarah Nelson, dr. of
Gershom 3 and Abigail (Ellithorpe) Nelson, b. Rowley, Feb. 27, 1707; cer. Jan. 13, 1731. Their chn. :-
MOSES, b. 1732; m. Mary Boynton, Feb. 17, 1758.
DANIEL, b. June 1, 1734; m. Priscilla Jones, Jan. 1, 1756.
MOLLY, b. 1737; m. Phinehas Davis, Aug. 23, 1764.
Whether they had other children is uncertain. If so, there is no record of them. The confident tradition of his descendants is, that Moses 1 came from Eng. to Rowley, and there m. his wf. As his wf. was a dr. of our first Gershom Nelson, who came from Rowley hither, it is likely that the son-in-law and dr. set. on our territory about the time, or soon after, her father did. There are intimations on the records that they first dwelt in what we now call So. Hope- dale, i.e. somewhere on or near the Gershom Nelson premises; but they after- wards set. on what in our times has been known as the Amasa Leland place. I learn from their head-stones in our old burying-ground, that he d. Oct. 2, 1774, in his 69th yr. Mrs. Sarah, his wid., d. 1791, in her 84th yr.
GAGE, MOSES, Jun.2 (Moses, sen.1), b. 1732; m. Mary Boynton of New Salem,
prob. a dr. of Ebenezer Boynton ; cer. Feb. 17, 1758, by Rev. Amariah Frost. Their chn. : -
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DAVID, b. Dec. 26, 1758; m. Rachel Newton of Paxton, 1783.
PATIENCE, b. Dec. 8, 1761; d. Jan. 1, 1776.
SARAH, b May 19, 1766; m. Reuben Walker, May 26, 1791.
STEPHEN, b. Aug. S, 1768; d. April 11, 1770.
MARY, b. Feb. 10, 1771 ; m. Ebenezer Boynton of Holden, 1795.
ABIGAIL, b. Nov. 9, 1773; m. 1st, Joseph Hunting, jun., May 26, 1791, etc. PATIENCE, b. Jan. 1, 1775; m. Elijah Bowker of Hop., 1799.
ANNA, b. March 29, 1779; m. Weston Colburn, July 19, 1804.
Moses, jun., inherited the homestead of his fr., afterwards known as the Amasa Leland place. His wf. became a member of our Cong. ch., March 30, 1760, and had all her chn. bap .; but her husband joined on his death-bed, June 11, 1802. He d. June 24 ensuing, a. 72 yrs. Mrs. Mary, his wid., d. Jan. 5, 1819, a. 80 yrs.
GAGE, DANIEL 2 (Moses, sen.1), b. June 1, 1734; m. Priscilla Jones, dr. of Dea. Nathaniel and Priscilla (Corbett) Jones, b. July 21, 1738; cer. Jan. 1, 1756, by Rev. A. Frost. Their chn. : -
DANIEL, b. Dec. 15, 1756; untraced.
ASA, b. July 22, 1758; untraced.
MILLE, b. March 7, 1761; untraced.
LYDIA, b. Aug. 15, 1763; untraced.
NATHANIEL, b. Sept. 10, 1765 ; untraced.
ELIZABETH, b. May 4, 1768; untraced.
NABBY b. April 1, 1770; untraced.
NATHAN { (twins), b. April 1, 1770; d. May 5 ensuing.
RICHARD, b. Dec. 23, 1772; untraced.
ABRAHAM, b. May 2, 1775; untraced.
MOSES, b. April 15, 1778; untraced.
The parents were both members of the Cong. Ch. here. They were received April 3, 176S. All their chn. were duly bap. I suppose they had their home- stead in the No. Purchase, but I cannot specify the estate. The family emi- grated, soon after the birth of their youngest child, to Hubbardston. At least, a certain document, executed April 8, 1784, shows the parents to be of Hub- bardston at that time. No further traced.
GAGE, DAVID 3 (Moses, jun.,2 Moses, sen.1), b. Dec. 26, 1758; m. Rachel New-
ton of Paxton; ptge. not ascertained, b. Aug. 2, 1765; cer. 1783; no par- ticulars found. Their chn. : -
AZUBA, b. Dec. 22, 1784; m. Lemuel Green Morse, Dec. 4, 180S; 10 chn.
BETSEY, b. Aug. 1, 1786; milliner; went to Henrietta, N.Y., 1817, and m .; but no chn.
CHARLOTTE, b. March 14, 1789; m. Ansel Morse, Upton, Dec. 22, 1814, 2 chn.
MOSES, b. Aug. 1, 1793; went to Holland Purchase, N.Y., m., had 4 chn. ; and d. 1849 or 1850. This Moses learned bootmaking of Capt. Rufus Chapin. In 1814 he sought his fortune in the Holland Purchase, so called. When his fr. arrived there, in 1817, in the town of Gates, they bought a farm together. His wid. d. there in 1851 or 1852, and since then his chn. have all gone to that rather indefinite region called "The West."
His fr., David Gage, lived on a part of the patrimonial farm, on now High- land St. In early manhood he went into the Revolutionary army, and was at West Point when Benedict Arnold, the traitor, engaged to give up the fort to the British. He was taken sick there; and his fr. went thither on horseback, and
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managed to bring him safely home. After he had m., and raised up a family, he resolved on removing to the far-famed Holland Purchase, N. Y. In 1816 he sold his farm to Amasa Leland, then of Southborough ; and the next yr., 1817, with wf. and goods, mounted on a large ox-wagon, drawn by one yoke of oxen and a horse, he proceeded toward the promised land. After five weeks' travel, they arrived safely in the town of Gates, N. Y., were greeted by Moses, aforesaid, their only son, purchased a good farm, and set. down happily in their new home. They all lived together until the death of the parents. The fr. d. Aug. 24, 1844. The mr. had already d. March 28, 1841. Moses and his wf. at length d., the farm was sold, and the grandehn. sought a more western home, as already told.
GARDNER. This name was never numerously represented on our terri- tory. In early times considerable tracts of land were owned by Richard, Caleb, and John Gardner. Richard and Caleb were bros .; John may have been another bro., or perhaps a son of Richard. I find no elew to their pedigree, nor am I certain that they all res. here. But I find that John Parkhurst, fr. of our first Parkhursts, bought the 161 acres of land, wherewith he endowed Isaac and Jonas, of Caleb Gardner, then of Newport, R.I., who had it of his bro. Richard, etc. See what I say in the introduction to my genealogy of the Parkhursts. This purchase of 161 aeres dates back of 1745. I find also other lands, not far from our Centre, mentioned or referred to as owned by one or more of these Gardners. But their ownership soon passed into other hands, and the name disappeared in those days from our records. 'Latterly we have had several Gardners in town, but I have reports from only the following named families : -
GARDNER, JOSHUA, son of Richard and Sarah (Fuller) Gardner (who were
from Eng., and had 11 ehn.), b. Phillipsburg, Me., Jan. 17, 1801; carpenter; m. Susan Boynton, dr. of Richard and Betsey (Davis) Boynton, b. Mere- dith, N.H., date not given; cer. in Newton, Jan. 9, 1829, by Rev. Joseph Grafton. Issue: -
CHARLOTTE, b. Newton Upper Falls, Oct. 9, 1829; m. George Smith, Sept., 1855; he d. Aug., 1865.
MARY E., b. Newton Upper Falls, June 10, 1832; m., 1st, George Billings, Oet., 1851, by whom she had 2 drs. : Susie M., b. in West Newton, Sept. 29, 1852; and Lottie M., b. Newton Upper Falls, Feb. 26, 1858. Mr. Bil- lings, the hus. and fr., d. in St. Catherine, Mo., June 26, 1861.
Mrs. Mary E. m., 2d, William F. Reynolds of Mil., Oet. 21, 1864. See Reynolds. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner must, I think, have come in town some 30 yrs. ago. He has been an industrious carpenter and orderly eitizen. She long and successfully practised midwifery, but has latterly suffered so much from sickness and infirmity as to oblige her to relinquish her professional responsi- bilities.
GARDNER, LEWIS F., son of Thomas and Naney' (Fairbanks) Gardner, b. in Mendon, June 24, 1815; boot-eliek; m. Hannah S. Thurber, dr. of Daniel and Hannah (Sibley) Thurber, b. in Mendon, Dec. 2, 1821; cer. Medfield, April 22, 1840, by whom not given. Their ehn .: -
ALVAH B., b. Mendon, Oet. 29, 1841; m., name not given, Jan. 25, 1876.
MARY E., b. Mendon, Feb. 22, 1848; m., name not given, Jan. 24, 1866.
GEORGE L., b. Mil., March 1, 1854; m., name not given, Oct. 1, 1879. HANNAH S., b. Mendon, July 22, 1856; unm.
Worthy family. The hus. and fr. d. in Mil., Oet. 15, 1857. His widowed wf. has shown uneominon enterprise as a judicious boarding-house manager,
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and brought up her chn. to virtue and usefulness. She recently m., 2d, Aldrich B. Cook of Mendon.
One grandchild : -
BLANCHE L. GARDNER, b. Feb. 11, 1880.
GARDNER, SAMUEL HENRY 7 (Oliver C.,6 Latham,5 Alexander,4 Thomas,3 George,2 John 1), b. Nantucket, Feb. 17, 1824; mr.'s maiden name, Hannah Macy; m. Lydia Paddock Brown, dr. of Benjamin and Nancy (Gardner) Brown, b. Nantucket, Oct. 1, 1835; cer. Nantucket, Dec. 31, 1854, by Rev. N. P. Philbrook. Their chn. :-
ALEXANDER BROWN, b. Mil., Oct. 1, 1855; m. Fannie Young, Aug. 26, 1878. HERBERT H., b. Mil., Aug. 25, 1859.
ARTHUR C., b. Mil., Nov. 24, 1861.
DAVID M., b. Mil., April 12, 1871.
ROLAND, b. Mil., Aug. 23, 1874; d. Jan. 3, 1875.
LOUISE M., b. Mil., Sept. 8, 1880.
Mr. Gardner's occupation is that of steam and gas pipe fitting. From his 17th yr. until just before mge., he followed the seas in both whaling and mer- chant service. He came to Mil. from Nantucket in the summer of 1854. He has res. transiently in several other places, but since 1854 has always considered Mil. his home. During the late war he served one yr. in the U.S. Navy. A worthy and respected family.
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