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SAMUEL, b. Dec. 7, 1819; m. Julia Brown, Philadelphia, March 31, 1845; and he d. without issue, Sept. 18, 1846.
William Godfrey inherited the large farm of his fr., m. an excellent wf., maintained a high social standing, was remarkably enterprising, of generous public spirit, and a popular citizen. He established the first line of stage- coaches ever run between Mendon, Milford, and Boston. This was done in 1822. He subsequently extended this line to Stratford and Norwich, Ct., there- by connecting with steamers to New York, and opening direct communication between Boston and the empire city through Milford. He had previously introduced into town the manufacture of cotton-plush hats, which had a brisk run for several yrs. The tin-ware business under Lewis Johnson, started in 1822, was largely due to his projection and patronage. Also the carriage, har- ness, and wheelright establishment of 1826. Also the currying and leather business under H. & H. Freeman in 1830, afterwards successfully prosecuted by Godfrey & Mayhew. Thus, and in many other ways, he won a deserved popularity from his townsmen of all classes. He was famous in the horse-trade, and once gave me a characteristic anecdote of his tact in that line. A man from one of the neighboring towns called on him, anxious to swap horses, but did not bring the animal he wished to exchange along with him. "Oh, yes !" said Mr. G., "I am always ready to accommodate in that line. I'll show you two or three of the general value you indicate." One was presently selected that seemed to suit. Whereupon the man examined the animal closely, and asked if he was free from such and such defects. "I read him like a book," said Mr. G., " and knew that his horse probably had the very defects on which he laid the most stress." "Well," said the man, "I suppose you will want to see my horse before we trade." -" Oh, no! I'll take him at such a boot. I know all about him." -" How is that ?" said the man, " you never saw him ?" - "No; but he has a spavin on one of his legs, is a little foundered in the fore- feet, his wind is sometimes short, etc.," naming half a dozen defects. "How under heaven have you found all this out?" exclaimed the man. "Oh! I understand horses in these cases : send him along; it's an even bargain." "The fellow," said he, "did not dream he had sufficiently described his own horse." I always found Mr. G. a genial, kind-hearted, and accommodating friend. He d. somewhat suddenly, Sept. 2, 1839. His much respected wid., Mrs. Nancy, d. March 1, 1861.
GODFREY, DAVID STEARNS 3 (William,2 Col. Benjamin 1), b. Nov. 13, 1811; m. Elizabeth A. Carshore, dr. of - and Sally (Freeland) Carshore (after- wards Mrs. Benjamin Davenport), birth-date not given; cer. at the res. of Benjamin Davenport, Esq., Mendon, Sept. 12, 1836, by the writer. They had no issue. D. S. Godfrey inherited all, and more than all, the commend- able qualities of his progenitors. His enterprise, public spirit, judicious shrewdness, and kindness of heart, were pre-eminent. He was the leading proposer and promoter of the Branch R.R. to Framingham. He was no less distinguished for mental independence and liberality of religious senti- ment. I shall be pardoned for my high appreciation of him in the
Luis Johnson
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remembrance of his friendly regard for myself from his boyhood to the close of life. This regard he uniformly manifested in many ways. Among the more prominent tokens of it, I may mention, 1st, his procuring a valuable portrait of me after I came to Hopedale, which, just before his death, he donated to the Hopedale Community in my care; 2d, his leaving me a legacy of $50 in his will; and 3d, his careful pre-arrangement that I should deliver an address at his funeral in the Cong. meeting-house, his pastor, Rev. Mr. Woodbury, officiating in the other services. He was a great sufferer from a fatal bone-disease in one of his arms, which he had had repeatedly amputated in vain. After many months of anguish and wasting, patiently endured, he passed into the higher existence in full assurance of immortal blessedness, Sept. 12, 1853, universally respected and lamented, being in the 42d yr. of his age. His bereaved companion subsequently m. Hamilton B. Staples, Esq .; cer. at Esq. Davenport's in Mendon, June 15, 1858, by Rev. Mr. Barber. Mrs. Staples d. of heart disease, Mil., July 1, 1867.
GODFREY, BENJAMIN DAVENPORT 3 (William,2 Col. Benjamin 1), b. Jan. 19, 1813; m. Ann Eliza Roberts, dr. of John and Sarah E. (Stuart) Roberts, b. Pemberton, N.J., Aug. 15, 1819; cer. in Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 17, 1842, by Rev. Mr. Boardman. Their chn. : -
WILLIAM, b. New York, Dec. 9, 1842; d. Mil., Aug. 27, 1843.
CHARLES BOKER, b. New York, Feb. 12, 1845; m. Cora Anna Chapin, June 25, 1868.
DAVID STEARNS, b. Boston, Feb. 29, 1848 ; m. Annie Donovan, 1872; famous musician.
ANNIE ROBERTS, b. Mil., Feb. 11, 1850; m. Melville Dewey, Boston, Oct. 19, 1878.
LYDIA BOKER, b. Mil., Aug. 7, 1855; assist. high-school teacher.
This family maintains the ancestral social standing. Mr. Godfrey is a man of lively enterprise, inventive mechanical ingenuity, and a fine taste for the beautiful; but he has experienced embarrassing business reverses and sad trials of his personal fortitude, yet is sustained by unfaltering trust in Divine Provi- dence, being a fervently religious man. He is a zealous friend of the working- pcople, temperance cause, woman suffragists, and other reform movements. He is entitled to the credit of being a pioneer in applying boot and shoe machinery by power. The boot and shoe manufactory, north side, near the head of Central St., erected by Mr. Godfrey in the year 1855, was the first, he says, ever built in this country, or any other, for the express purpose of run- ning boot and shoe machinery by power. Wm. R. Bliss, a boot-manufacturer of Worcester, about the time Mr. Godfrey contemplated building his factory, was running a few of the Howe sewing-machines, in which he was interested with the inventor, Elias Howe, by steam-power, in Merrifield's Building, and was also finishing some of his boot-bottoms by power. Mr. Godfrey, witnessing the operation, saw at a glance the great advantage to be derived in the manu- facture of boots and shoes on an extensive scale by power, and decided at once to build his factory for the accommodation of steam-power to be practically applied to all his boot and shoe machinery.
GODFREY, CHARLES BOKER 4 (Benjamin D.,3 William,2 Col. Benjamin 1), b. Feb. 12, 1845; m. Cora Anna Chapin, dr. of Daniel S. and Angeline P. (Nelson) Chapin, b. Orrington, Me., Dec. 11, 1845; cer. in Mil., June 25, 1868, by Rev. Charles J. White. Their chn. : -
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MABEL LEE, b. Oct. 27, 1869.
GRACE, b. Nov. 15, 1873.
Worthy their ancestry; and are battling bravely in the great competitive arena of life, in which they have caught some hard blows, but are hoping for better success. They have res. here mostly since marriage, but he is now doing business in Boston.
GODMAN, JAMES, pedigree unknown; m. Ann Nelson, dr. of Gershom and Abigail (Ellithorpe) Nelson, b. in Rowley, Sept. 4, 1703; cer. Nov. 19, 1731. Issue, according to Rev. Mr. Frost's baptismal record : -
MARGARET, said to be Ann's illegit. dr., bap. April 1, 1744.
COMFORT, bap. Aug. 7, 1757.
JOHN, bap. July 16, 1758.
The previous and subsequent history of James Godman is unknown to me. He was among the old Mendonians, before the incorporation of our Easterly Precinct, and had prob. had a former wf. and family; but after this mge. to Ann Nelson, he dwelt somewhere on Mill River in the neighborhood of now Hopedale. No death-dates have come to my knowledge.
GOLDSMITH, JOHN, son of Timothy and Mary (Walker) Goldsmith, b. in Stillwater, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1806; m. Julia A. Parkhurst, adopted dr. of Dea.
Ithiel and Catherine Parkhurst, b. in Killingly, Ct., date not given; cer. in Mil., Aug. 1, 1833, by Rev. O. Robbins. Issue : -
CHARLES C., b. Mil., Dec. 9, 1833; m. Julina Burr of Ludlow, Jan. 1, 1857. ARTHUR, b. Mil., July 31, 1836; d. Aug. 23, 1836.
MUNROE A., b. Mil., April 27, 1838; m. Abbie Porter, Sept. 1, 1862.
ELLEN M., b. Mil., Aug. 3, 1840; d. May 19, 1863.
ELIZABETH M., b. Mil., Feb. 6, 1843; m. George H. Douglas, Westfield, Sept. 1, 1869; she d. Aug. 23, 1877.
ANNA J., b. Mil., Nov. 6, 1846; d. Aug. 29, 1849.
GEORGE A., b. Mil., Feb. 27, 1849; d. Feb. 7, 1869.
ADELAIDE, b. Mil., Jan. 27, 1852; d. July 30, 1852.
S. HATTIE, b. Mil., July 26, 1854; m. Frank Mathewson, Mil., May 21, 1873.
A large and worthy family, sadly bereaved again and again. Mr. Gold- smith set. in Mil., Feb., 1828, working for Lee Claflin at the currying business. A little later he became associated with Claflin as partner in the manufacture of boots, being among our pioneers in that line of enterprise. He has ever since followed the same with fair success, now sustained efficiently by his son Mun- roe. He is a highly-respected citizen, and has been honored with various town offices. He was bereaved of his faithful companion, Mrs. Julia, Oct. 23, 1880.
Grandchn. :-
NELLIE A. GOLDSMITH, b. Nov. 23, 1870.
ANNIE G. DOUGLAS, b. Dec. 8, 1870.
BERTHA M. GOLDSMITII, b. July 27, 1872; soon d.
GOUGH, JOHN, and wf. Mary, are credited on our records with the births of the following named chn. : -
GEORGE, b. Feb. 3, 1823.
SARAHI ANN, b. Sept. 30, 1825.
WILLIAM JAMES, b. Oct. 18, 1827.
MARY NARCISSA, b. Nov. 30, 1829.
ROBERT, b. April 14, 1832. ELIZABETHI, b., no date; d. early, Feb. 6, 1838. JOHN CHARLES, b. July 18, 1836.
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ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 18, 1839.
JOHN TYLER, b. April 20, 1841.
I suppose this must be one of our early Irish families. They all seem to have disappeared from among us not long after 1841; but I am wholly unin- formed whither they went, and of their subsequent history.
GOULD. I suspect that our Goulds came in from Hop. and Holl. They are traceable to Hop., whence some of them went to Holl., and from both towns spread into the neighboring ones. They have not been very numerous within our limits. My friend Alfred Bragg has given me, in part, the record of one prominent family, which I have supplemented as well as I could from other sources, there being no dates in his list of names. I refer to Paul Gould's family. The Hop. records seem to show that this Paul was b. in that town, Dec. 22, 1746, and that he was the son of Thomas and Huldah. He set. in Holl., and lived there many yrs. Whether he ever dwelt much, if any, in Mil., is improbable; but he was a near neighbor, and several of his chn. made their homes among us.
GOULD, PAUL2 (Thomas1), b. Hop., Dec. 22, 1746; m., in Holl., 1st, Chris- tian Hill ; cer. Dec. 20, 1770. Issue : -
PRUDA, b. Nov. 12, 1771; m. Jesse Daniels, afterwards of Mil.
OLIVE, b. July 27, 1773; m. Levi Adams.
ISAIAH, b. Nov. 21, 1774; m. Lucretia -, and set. in Bell .; he d. 1849, a. 75 yrs.
RUTH, b. June 17, 1776; m. Reuben Hixon.
Mrs. Christian d. Aug. 10, 1776. The hus. m., 2d, Morse says, Sarah Pike ; cer. Feb. 20, 1777. Issue : -
PAUL, birth-date not found; m. Chloe Adams.
SILAS, birth-date not found; m. Olive Thayer of Mendon, 1810.
JOSIAH, b. March 3, 1793; m., 1st, Olive Warfield; 2d, Keziah Holbrook.
MARGERY WISWALL, birth-date not found; m. Abijah Howard, Dec., 1808. CHRISTIAN, birth-date not found; m. Daniel Adams.
LYDIA, birth-date not found; m. Henry Kilburn, 1799.
JERUSHA, birth-date not found ; m. Laban Thompson.
SARAH, birth-date not found; m. Eleazer Kilburn; the family extinct.
The fr.'s death-date not ascertained. The mr. d. Nov. 28, 1848, a. 96 yrs. GOULD, SILAS 3 (Paul,2 Thomas 1), birth-date not ascertained; m. Olive Thayer,
dr. of Nathan Thayer, b. Mendon ; cer. 1810; particulars not found. Issue :- MERCY DANIELS, b. 1810; d. June 1, 1835.
SUSAN SEMIRA, b. Sept. 20, 1812; d. Aug. 15, 1845.
The entire family were buried in the Solomon Pratt burying-place in Men- don, where a single stone commemorates them. It was erected by our gen- erous overseer of the poor, Elias Whitney, by town consent, with the fragment of property left in his hands by one of the drs. for that purpose, supplemented by several dollars from his own private purse. Silas Gould d. Jan. 1, 1864, a. 82 years. Mrs. Olive d. April 25, 1854, a. 62 yrs. 7 mos. Hard working, orderly people, sometimes in straitened circumstances.
GOULD, JOSIAH 3 (Paul,2 Thomas 1), b. March 3, 1793; m., 1st, Olive Warfield,
dr. of Capt. Samuel and Margery (Gay) Warfield, b. Sept. 2, 1794; cer. 1814 by whom not ascertained. Issue :-
DENCE, b. Aug. 14, 1814; d. Dec. 17, 1817.
WILLIS, b. April 17, 1818; m. Mary Thurber Gaskill, April 6, 1845.
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MARIA, b. March 21, 1821; m. William G. Gassett, May 9, 1841.
ALZADA, b. July 8, 1823; m. Micajah C. Gaskill, Feb. 12, 1850.
MOSES, b. Dec. 11, 1824; m. and set. here in town.
INFANT, b. ; d. Aug. 27, 1831.
OLIVE WARFIELD, b. Jan. 22, 1833; m. Gilbert Gaskill, Sept. 1, 184S; d. 1854.
Mrs. Olive d. Feb. 10, 1833. The hus. m., 2d, Keziah Albee, wid. of Nathan Albee, and dr. of Calvin and Sabra (Partridge) Holbrook, b. Feb. 2, 1794; cer. Sept. 22, 1833, by Pearley Hunt, Esq. Issue :-
BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 2, 1833; res. in Boston.
Mr. Gould d. in our town asylum, Sept. 28, 1879, a. 84 yrs. 6 mos. 15 ds. GOULD, SEWALL H.4 (Paul,3 Paul,2 Thomas 1), birth-date not ascertained ; mr.'s maiden name, Chloe Adams; m., 1st, Rebecca Howard, 1832, who d. July 23, 1834; and m., 2d, Cynthia Albee, dr. of Seth and Elizabeth (Lam- bert) Albee, b. Mil., Aug. 7, 1809; cer. March 31, 1835, by Rev. D. Long. Issue, so far as recorded here : -
CYNTHIA, b. Mil., Feb. 17, 1836.
AMASA, b. Mil., Nov. 14, 1837; m. Susan Benson of Hop., March 13, 1869. AMANDA, b. Mil., Dec. 9, 1839.
ALBERT, b. Mil., July 27, 1841; d. Jan. 10, 1843.
I think the parents, soon after the last-mentioned date, removed to Hop., and there prob. had other chn .; but as no report has been furnished me of their family record, I can tell no more.
GOULD, PEARLEY J., pedigree, etc., untraced; said to have been a native of N. H .; m., 1st, Betsey Green of Hop., dr. of Cleophas; date and particulars not found. Issue : -
HIRAM, birth-date not ascertained; m. Ann Despeaux, Sept. 8, 1836; had 2 chn., and d. 1840.
ALBERT, birth-date not ascertained; m. 1st, Ann C. Chamberlain, 1839; 2d, Dolly B. Chamberlain, 1840; he d. in Worcester.
LORENZO, b. Hop., Dec. 25, 1820; m. Eliza F. Johnson, March 8, 1846.
APPLETON H., b. not ascertained; res. Owego, N.Y .; m. and prospering there.
MARIAN, b. not ascertained; unm .; res. Hop.
ADIN BALLOU, b. not ascertained; resided Salmon River, Cal .; prospered there; not heard from lately.
Mrs. Betsey d. Oct. 16, 1829. The hus. m., 2d, Mary Houghton ; pedigree, etc., untraced; cer. March 3, 1831, by the writer. Issue : some chn. unknown to me. The hus. and fr. d. Nov. 8, 1834. 'No further particulars ascertained.
GOULD, LORENZO, son of Pearley J. and Betsey (Green) Gould, b. Hop., Dec.
25, 1820; m. Eliza F. Johnson, dr. of Levi and Martha (Wilber) Johnson, b. March 2, 1826; cer. in Thompson, Ct., March 8, 1846, by Esq. Stiles. Issue : -
MANFRED EARL, b. Mendon, Jan. 20, 1847; m. Eliza Green; res. Worcester. CLARENCE WILBER, b. Mil., Nov. 2, 1849; m. Genevieve Newton ; res. Boston. CLIFTON FLOYD, b. Mil., July 24, 1854; d. Oct. 13, 1875.
EDWARD CLAYTON, b. Mil., April 10, 1856; unm. ; res. Worcester.
MARIET HATTIE, b. Mil., May 7, 1858; d. Oct. 1, 1863.
CARRA BLANCHIE, b. Mil., March 30, 1860; d. Sept. 27, 1863. LE ROY FOSTER, b. Mil., Nov. 3, 1861; in a Boston store.
Worthy family; enterprising, industrious, and exemplary. They have drunk their cups of affliction with undespairing resignation. The hus. and fr. d. in
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Mil., April 7, 1873, in his 53d yr. His worthy wid. has ministered comfort in many a sick-room, and has won the highest commendations as a skilful and devoted nurse in our general vicinity.
There have been and are other Goulds in town; but it has been so difficult for me to trace them, with the little help received, that I must be excused from further effort.
GRADY, JAMES, ptge., ancestry, birth-date, etc., unknown to me; brought up, or at least lived long, in the family of Esek Green, Esq., and shared, I think, a portion of his estate; m. Sarah J. Parkhurst, dr. of Otis and Sarah (Jones) Parkhurst, b. Mil., April 27, 1812; cer. Mil., Sept. 7, 1837, by Rev. Horace W. Morse. Issuc: -
JOHN G., birth-place and date not given; m. Sarah L. Wood, Oct. 18, 1863. ANDREW J., birthplace and date not given ; m. Versalia E. Cornwell, June 6, 1870.
CASSIUS M., b. Sept. 19, 1847; d. Nov. 3, 1876.
The record handed me of this family is incomplete in several respects, and I am restricted to its imperfect data. After Esq. Green's decease, and that of his wf., Grady possessed, under some tenure, the estate; and the place was known as "Grady's Mills." Next it was called "Gaskill's Mills;" and now has the name of "Spindleville." When Grady sold out, he moved to the West; but to what locality, no one tells me, - perhaps some part of Illinois. Who can say where ?
His son JOHN G. served in the 8th Regt, Ill. Cavalry some yrs. during the late civil war, and was discharged March 3, 1863. He was in all the engage- ments, under Generals Mcclellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, that occurred while he was in service. His chn. : -
DELLA J., b. Nov. 27, 1865.
CLARA E., b. April 5, 1867.
DEXTER A., b. Jan. 19, 1871.
CARLTON, b. Dec. 11, 1876.
The second son, ANDREW J., and wf., have had 4 chn. ; viz., -
WILBUR J., b. June 15, 1871.
ALBERT B., b. Nov. 16, 1872.
GRACE W., b. May 16, 1874; d. Aug. 25, 1876.
MABEL E., b. April 29, 1876.
I should be glad to tell where all these Gradys were b. and the living now res., but my furnished data do not inform me. Mrs. Sarah J. Grady, wf. of James, d. some yrs. ago.
Our directories, from 1869 downwards, contain the following names of Gradys who now live or have lived in town; viz., Mathew, Michael, Anthony, David, Dennis, Maurice, and Stephen; but none of these have been ambitious enough to give me a family record for these pages.
GRAHAM, JOHN ROBERT, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Matthews) Graham, b. in Wigton Co., Scotland, Oct. 16, 1849; m. Ellen Toomey, dr. of Michael and Mary (Callahan) Toomey, b. Cork, Ireland, Nov. 18, 1846; cer. in Dover, Mass., April 4, 1872, by Rev. Mr. Metcalf. Issuc :-
ELLEN, b. Hopedale, Dec. 12, 1873.
WILLIAM JOHN, b. Hopedale, Nov. 12, 1878.
An industrious, orderly, quiet family. They came to res. in Hopedale in April, 1872, and have demeaned themselves commendably. The late W. W. Dutcher employed Mr. Graham as his hostler and family factotum. In this
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capacity he gave excellent satisfaction, and still continues in the family ser- vice.
GRAVES. A scarce name in town. The first found on our records was ARETAS; ancestry, ptge., antecedents, and subsequents not ascertained; said to be of Boston; m. Rebecca Holbrook, dr. of Ziba aud Rebecca (Kimball) Hol- brook, b. Mil., Dec. 21, 1784; cer. by Samuel Jones, Esq., May 15, 1809. Issue :- WILLIS, birth-date not found.
I have heard that this mge. took place under disagreeable circumstances, and that the parties never lived together in matrimonial life. It is useless to explain the reasons, but I cannot help guessing that Aretas was not a model lover or husband. He thenceforth disappeared from our coasts and our records. GRAVES, WILLIS, son of Aretas and Rebecca (Holbrook) Graves, b. prob. in 1809 or 1810, proved to be a respectable man, learned the trade of a car- L penter, and m., 1st, Sally Torrey Nelson, dr. of Newell and Betsey (Kelley) Nelson, b. Mil., June 5, 1810; cer. Holl., April 20, 1836, by Rev. John Par- ker.' Issue : -
WILLIS, Jun., birth-date not ascertained.
Mrs. Sally d. Nov. 28, 1841; and the hus. m., 2d, a lady of Holl., whose name I have not learned. Mr. Graves removed to Cincinnati, O., acquired wealth by the rise of land which he purchased low, and was at last accounts in easy circumstances. Whether he had chn. by his 2d mge., I have not been told. He kindly cared for his mother in her old age; and she d. with him in Cincin- nati, at the age of 77 yrs.
GRAVES, WILLIS, Jun., was brought up with his gd. fr. Nelson, or at least lived with him several yrs .; learned the business of a machinist; went down South just before the Rebellion; got forced into the rebel service; lost his little savings; at length escaped North; set., after the war, at St. Louis, Mo., as an overseer brickmaker; m. a good wf., has several chn., and is now handsomely circumstanced in or near that city.
GRAVES, WILLIAM, bootmaker, house Vine, near Green St., appears in our Directories of 1878 and '80. No report from him. I hear of no others bearing this name among our inhabitants.
GRIGG, JOHN, son of Thomas and Mary (Tonkin) Grigg, b. in Camwell, Eng., date not given; m. Ellen Ball, dr. of Henry and Betsey (Lincoln) Ball, b. Mil., 1829; cer. in Worcester, 1850. Issue : - HENRIETTA, b. in Ohio, 1851; d. 1867.
ANNA, b. in Ohio, 1852.
EMMA, b. in Ohio, 1854.
EDMOND, b. in Ohio, 1856.
JOHN, b. in Ohio, 1857; d. 1869.
THOMAS H., b. in Ohio, 1859; d. March 21, 1864.
WILLIAM, b. in Ohio, 1861; d. March 22, 1864.
HERBERT, b. Camwell, Eng., 1863; d. Aug. 1, 1864.
MINNIE, birthplace not given, 1867.
ELLEN, birthplace not given, 1869.
This family have res. little in town, but some yrs. in Ohio, then in Eng., and latterly in Missouri. I have entered the record as returned to me. It is rather too general and vague to suit my taste, but perhaps the best the circum- stances allowed.
GREEN, JOHN, pedigree untraced; m. Lydia Linesford, dr. of Edward Lines-
ford of Braintree; cer. July 1, 1706. As nearly as I can judge, they dwelt
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on a homestead just east of now Spindleville Pond; and prob. their domi- cile stood on the site, or not far from it, now occupied by the house next eastward of Spindleville Machine-Shop, - anyhow, somewhere thereabouts. Their chn. were, -
HANNAH, b. Feb. 21, 1707.
SARAH, b. March 16, 1709.
LYDIA, b. July 7, 1711; d. Oct. 9, 1739.
MARGARET, b. May 15, 1714.
JOHN, Jun., b. July 19, 1716; m. Rachel White, May 25, 1742.
MERCY, b. Aug. 18, 1718.
ESTHER, b. Jan. 22, 1721; m. Hezekiah Hayward, April 5, 1744.
RUTH, b. Feb. 28, 1723; m. Elihu Warfield, May 24, 1744.
EDWARD, b. Aug. 22, 1728.
LINESFORD, b. March 28, 1731; said to be fr. of Cleophas by Sarah Gage, 1753. The hus. and fr. d. March 17, 1742. Death-date of Mrs. Lydia not found.
GREEN, JOHN, Jun., son of John and Lydia (Linesford) Green, b. July 19,
1716; m. Rachel White, dr. of Thomas and Mary (Bowditch) White, b. April 14, 1716; cer. May 25, 1742. Issue: -
LYDIA, b. March 17, 1745.
RACHEL, b. March 14, 1748; m. Caleb Wheelock, Nov. 27, 1766.
John Green, jun., dwelt, I believe, on the paternal homestead above de- scribed; but his m. life was brief. He d. about the time his youngest child was b., in 1748. Family no further traced.
GREEN, JOSHUA, wf. Lydia Chaddock or Chadwick, came from Hop., and bought of Thomas Gage a 60-ac. farm in Bear-hill dist., north of the Great Meadow, April, 1742. The Mendon record of their chin.'s births became so considerably defaced that it is impossible to make out several of their names. There were 6 of them all, -
-, b. Jan. 24, 1734, prob. in Hop.
- a (son), b. March 14, 1736; perhaps a Joshua that d.
LYDIA (prob.), b. Sept. 2, 1737; m. Reuben Rockwood, Sept. 11, 1754.
EBENEZER, b. Oct. 17, 1739.
-NNAH, b. Feb. 13, 1741.
JOSHUA, b. April 6, 1745.
Joshua, the hus. and fr., d. April 9, 1745. Mrs. Lydia subsequently m. Samuel Rawson. Family no further traced.
There were other Greens close on our borders, in Mendon, who may be properly noticed. Among these were Benjamin and Samuel Green of No. Mendon, who were included in the easterly precinct, as mentioned in the act of incorporation. These I understand to have been fr. and son.
GREEN, BENJAMIN, pedigree not found. He m., 1st, Margery -. They had, -
SAMUEL, b. May 12, 1720; m. Martha -
DEBORAH, b. Sept. 1, 1721; m. Edward Rawson, Oct. 19, 1747.
MARGERY, b. March 18, 1723.
Mrs. Margery d. Feb. 18, 1731; the hus. m., 2d, Martha Adams of Holl., Oct. 25, 1733. Issue : -
BENJAMIN, b. Aug. 11, 1734.
Benjamin, the fr., was one of the original members of our Cong. ch., at its formation, 1741. He d. in 1749, on what we of this generation have been accustomed to call the Seth Davenport place, No. Mendon.
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BIOGRAPHICO-GENEALOGICAL REGISTER.
GREEN, SAMUEL, son of Benjamin and Margery, b. May 12, 1720; m. Martha -, ptge, particulars of cer., etc., not ascertained. They lived in the near vicinity of his fr., and had, -
MARY, b. Nov. 17, 1739.
ISAAC ADAMS, b. May 31, 1742; m. Hannah Pierce of Holl., 1764.
MOSES, b. June 18, 1745.
HANNAH; b. Feb. 5, 1747.
Perhaps this family moved into Upton. No further traced.
GREEN, ISAAC ADAMS 3 (Samuel,2 Benjamin 1), b. Mendon, May 31, 1742; m.
Hannah Pierce of Holl .; cer. April 26, 1764. Issue : -
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