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ROCKWOOD, JOHN8 (Col. Joseph of Bell.,7 Levi,6 Joseph,5 John,4 Joseph,3 John,2 Richard of Dorchester, 16361), b. Bell., Jan. 25, 1821; mr.'s maiden name Ann Chilson; m. Mary Ray, dr. of Samuel and Susan (Carroll) Ray, b. Slaterville, R.I., Oct. 12, 1823; cer. May 1, 1848, by Rev. James Davis. No chn. Eminently worthy people. They res. here 15 yrs., but now for some yrs. in Franklin.
ROSE, THOMAS, understood to have been an Englishman, res. for several yrs. on Silver Hill St., and perhaps then mvd. to the western country. He and his wf. Ann, pedigrees to me unknown, stand on our records credited with the following specified births; viz., ESTHER LEONARD, b. Nov. 27, 1831; RICHARD, b. Aug. 30, 1833; THOMAS, b. Jan. 19, 1836; MARY ANN, b. March 14, 1838; CHARLES, b. July 17, 1840. No further traced.
ROSE, OLIVER, Jun., son of Oliver and Mary (Dodge) Rose, b. South Kingston, R.I., Oct. 1, 1809; m., 1st, Sally Cooper, b. in Northbridge, d. in 1836; 2d, Fidelia A. Snowling. Mr. Rose d. at his res. on Dilla St., of apoplexy, July 2, 1881, in his 79th yr. He left his wid., Mrs. Fidelia, and 5 chn. I ex- pected to have had a full family record, giving the births, marriages, etc., of the several chn., who are all, I think, adults, but recd. only the few fore- going particulars. Mr. Rose has been many yrs. an industrious, quiet citizen of the town.
ROSS, ANDREW JACKSON, son of Ziba and Rebecca (Burgess) Ross, b., East Blackstone, Jan. 10, 1839; m. Helen Maria Seagrave, dr. of Daniel and Mary (Weld) Seagrave, b. in Uxbridge, Sept. 19, 1842; cer. March 5, 1859, at Woonsocket, R.I., by Rev. John Boyden. Issue : -
EMMA ESTELLA, b. Uxbridge, Dec. 16, 1859.
WILLIAM HENRY, b. Uxbridge, June 17, 1868; d. June 26 ensuing.
NELLIE MARIA, b. Uxbridge, June 33, 1869.
This quiet, orderly, and worthy family have res. in Hopedale since May 21, 1873. Mr. Ross is an expert and trusted inspector of rings.
ROSS, ROBERT, son of Edward and Margaret (Tortington) Ross; b. in Preston, . Eng., May 22, 1845; m. Isabella. Hayes, dr. of Thomas and Mary (Metcalf)
Hayes, b. in Carlisle, Eng., Nov. 2, 1844; cer. Preston, Eng., Dec. 25, 1867, by Rev. Owen Parr. Issue :-
ISABELLA HAYES, b. Blackburn, Eng., Feb. 22, 1869.
EDWARD TORTINGTON, b. Worcester, Mass., Dec. 5, 1870.
SARAH ANN, b. Hopedale, June 2, 1872; d. July 29 ensuing.
ROBERT HAYES, b. Hopedale, March 10, 1874; d. April 28 ensuing.
WILLIAM HAYES, b. Hopedale, April 25, 1875.
LILLIAN, b. Hopedale, April 26, 1878.
CHARLES SUMNER, b. Hopedale, July 1, 1880.
Well disposed, industrious, and worthy family; came to Mass. in Sept., 1869; staid a short time in Worcester, and have res. in Hopedale since July 12, 1879. Mr. Ross is a skilful and faithful employé in the Hopedale Foundery.
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RUSSELL. Rather an uncommon name in town. Wid. ABIGAIL RUSSELL is the first I find mentioned on our records. She was the mr., I presume, of Col. James Mellen's wf., and res. in his family 1791 and thereabouts. I think she must have been of Holl., and wid. of James. On the maternal side she was gd. mr. to Hon. Jona. Russell of Mendon. Her death-date not found.
RUSSELL, Rev. JAMES W., was the first pastor of our Central Baptist ch. in
1853. Some yrs. later he kept a grocery-store near Charles-river Bridge. I have received no family record, but understand that he d. in town several yrs. ago, and infer from our directories that Mrs. Rhoda A., 9 Main St., is his wid.
RUSSELL, DWIGHT, M.D., son of Simeon F. and Experience (Colson) Russell, b. Madison, N.Y., April 26, 1819; m., 1st, Nancy Gardner, dr. of Joseph and Susan M. (Beatty) Gardner, b. in Columbia, N.Y., 1820; cer. in Hamil- ton, N.Y., date not given, by Rev. Z. Cook. Issue :-
EDGAR, b. Edmeston, N.Y., Dec. 25, 1844.
JENNIE M., b. Edmeston, N.Y., April 18, 1847; one of our public grammar- school teachers.
Mrs. Nancy d. in Mil., Oct. 26, 1856, a. 36 yrs. The doctor m., 2d, Mary Jane (Parkhurst) Carpenter, dr. of Otis and Sarah (Jones) Parkhurst, and wid. of Joseph H. Carpenter, Providence, R.I., b. Mil., Dec. 7, 1824; cer. Mil. March 4, 1861, by whom not given. Issue : -
LOUISE PARKHURST, b. Mil., July 3, 1863; public-school teacher.
Mrs. Mary Jane was m. to her first hus., Joseph H. Carpenter, Nov. 25, 1851, and had by him a son, b. in Providence, R.I., Sept. 20, 1852, who d. Oct. 5, 1862; also Harris I., b. Nov. 6, 1853, who, I presume, yet survives. Mrs. Mary Jane had large experience as an educator in the public schools of Provi- dence, R.I., is deeply interested in the salutary management of our town schools, and has the honor of being the first woman ever elected to serve on our school- board. She held the office two terms, from 1869 to 1875.
Dr. Dwight Russell is a man of strong mental powers, ample scholastic acquirements, much experience, and holds the front rank of his profession in town. He stud. medicine with Dr. Silas Graham in Hamilton, N.Y .; attended lectures and graduated at Central Medical College (Eclectic), Syracuse, N.Y .; was professor in that institution 4 yrs., fromn 1850 to 1854, lecturing on Materia Medica, Therapeutics, Practice of Medicine, and special Pathology. He came to Mil. in 1855, and has been in extensive practice here from that to the present time.
RUSSELL, RUFUS, the fr. of Mrs. Edward Woods, lived in her family several yrs., and d. there Aug. 21, 1866, a. 84 yrs. and 8 mos.
A few others of this name are traceable in our successive directories; but I have no knowledge of their family records, having recd. no report from any of them.
SAUNDERS, ROBERT, ancestry untraced; m., 1st, Sarah Cheney ; cer. March 27,
1746, by Rev. Amariah Frost. Who this Sarah Cheney was, I am very doubtful. Our first William Cheney had a dr. Sarah, b. in 1699; but I have put her down as m. to John White, April 28, 1720. Possibly this was an error; but, as this Sarah would have been 47 yrs. old at the date of Robert Saunders's mge., she could hardly be bearing twin children in 1760. So Mrs. Saunders must have been some other Sarah Cheney. Robert, and prob. his wf., became recognized members of Rev. Mr. Frost's ch., Feb. 8, 1746-47. Their homestead was in our "City district," so called. Their chn. were, -
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ANNA, b. Nov. 6, 1746; m. Levi Beal, July 22, 1776.
DAVID b. May 7, 1752; untraced.
SARAH (twins), b. May 7, 1752; m. Samuel Beal, New Plantation No. 5, March 16, 1775.
NATHANIEL, b. June 26, 1758; m. Lydia Rockwood, Holl., Dec. 9, 1779.
(twins), b. Aug. 29, 1760; m. Elizabeth Chapin, Oct. 27, 1785. JOHN
MARY b. Aug. 29, 1760; m. Smith Phillips, Dec. 28, 1783.
Mrs. Sarah having d., the hus. m., 2d, wid. Mehetabel Beal ; cer. April 24, 1764, by Rev. A. Frost. Issue : -
ROBERT, Jun., bap. June 11, 1769; m. Olive Chapin, Nov. 25, 1792.
Mrs. Mehetabel d. July 9, 1800. The hus. m., 3d, Sarah Hall, Sept. 27, 1801; cer. by Rev. D. Long. Mr. S. d. Oct. 9, 1805. Death-date of his last wf. not found.
SAUNDERS, NATHANIEL, son of Robert, sen., and Sarah (Cheney) Saunders; b. June 26, 1758; m., 1st, Lydia Rockwood of Holl .; cer. Dec. 9, 1779, by Rev. A. Frost. Issue : -
SAMUEL, b. Aug. 19, 1781; d. Jan. 1, 1782.
ASA, b. Aug. 15, 1784; m. Mary -.
LEVI, b. Dec. 28, 1786; untraced.
ALEXANDER, b. Aug. 20, 1792; d. Sept. 9, 1798.
NATHANIEL, Jun., b. April 13, 1795; m. Hannah Hawks, Oct. 9, 1817.
Mrs. Lydia d. April 26, 1813. The hus. m., 2d, Mrs. Anna Chapin, whom I suppose to have been a wid., but cannot identify; cer. Oct. 13, 1814, by Rev. D. Long. No chn. The death-dates of Nathaniel Saunders and his 2d wf. liave not come under my notice. They dwelt in the " City district."
SAUNDERS, JOHN, son of Robert, sen., and Sarah (Cheney) Saunders; b. Aug. 29, 1760; m. Elizabeth Chapin, dr. of Moses and Lydia (Atwood) Chapin,
b. 1762; cer. Oct. 27, 1785, by Rev. A. Frost. Issue : -
MARY, b. Jan. 6, 1787.
MOSES CHAPIN, b. May 27, 1789.
LEANDER, b. April 23, 1791.
CHLOE, b. July 17, 1793.
ANNA, b. Aug. 22, 1796.
JOHN, Jun., b. April 15, 1799.
For some reason I cannot trace this family on our records further. Possi- bly they emigrated to another locality. Their homestead was also in the "City district," just over Milford River towards Up.
SAUNDERS, ROBERT, Jun., son of Robert, sen., and Mehetabel (Beal) Saun- ders, bap. June 11, 1769; m., 1st, Olive Chapin, dr. of Moses and Lydia (Atwood) Chapin, b. 1772; cer. Nov. 25, 1792, by Amariah Frost, Esq. Issue : -
LAURA, b. Sept. 15, 1793.
AUSTIN, b. April 16, 1795.
ALEXANDER, b. Sept. 13, 1799.
JOHN MILTON, b. Nov. 10, 1804.
OLIVE, b. Aug. 11, 1806.
ELIZA CHAPIN, b. Aug. 10, 1808.
Robert Saunders owned and dwelt on the homestead now the town asylum. He and his wf. were members of our Cong. ch., whereof he was elected a dea- con in 1802. They removed to Wrentham in 1814. No further traced.
SAUNDERS, ASA 8 (Nathaniel,2 Robert 1), b. Aug. 15, 1784; m. Mary -,
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pedigree, birth-date, and particulars of cer. not ascertained. Issue as re- corded here : -
ANNA PERRY, b. April 11, 1816.
MARY, b. April 3, 1818; m. Nathaniel S. Taft, Jan. 4, 1843.
WILLARD, b. Feb. 2, 1820.
SUSAN, b. June 12, 1824; m. Linville L. Pike, Jan. 15, 1845.
I am obliged to leave this family thus for want of time to make research, having had no assistance from any of the near relatives.
SAUNDERS, NATHANIEL, Jun.3 (Nathaniel, sen.,2 Robert 1), b. April 13, 1795;
m. Hannah Hawks, pedigree, birth-date, etc., not ascertained; cer. Mil., Oct. 9, 1817, by Rev. D. Long. Issue :-
CHLOE ANN, b. Feb. 12, 1818; m. George S. Bowker, Nov. 28, 1838.
DAVID GORAM, b. Sept. 11, 1820; m. Elizabeth Fisk, 1845.
SARAH ELIZABETH, b. March 5, 1822.
OLIVE DANIELS, b. Sept. 30, 1824.
MARY GORAM, b. Dec. 14, 1827.
HANNAH MARIA, b. Jan. 14, 1833; m. Liberty W. Nelson, Dec. 18, 1856.
JOHN PILLSBURY, b. Nov. 30, 1834; m. Sarah Taft, April 26, 1863.
Nathaniel Saunders d. suddenly in Mendon, Oct. 1, 1860. As to Mrs. Hannah I am not informed.
SAUNDERS, DAVID GORAM 4 (Nathaniel,8 Nathaniel,2 Robert 1), b. Sept. 11, 1820; m. Elizabeth Fisk, dr. of Jonathan and Gratia (Wilson) Fisk, b. Sept., 1823; cer. in 1845, particulars not ascertained. Issue : -
ELLA M., b. Mil., 1848; m. William A Ballou, April 17, 1864.
Mr. Saunders and wf. resided several yrs. in Hopedale neighborhood, being then owners of the homestead now belonging to Felix Kearney on Freedom St. I think they afterwards res. in Grafton.
MENTIONED IN DIRECTORIES.
SAUNDERS, ALEXANDER R., bootmaker. 1869, '72, '75, '78, '80.
SAUNDERS, MILTON A., bootmaker, 1869; boots and shoes, 1872, '75, '78, '80.
SAUNDERS, CURRINGTON B., carpenter. 1872, '78, '80.
SAUNDERS, SAMUEL R., laborer. 1875, '78, '80.
SAUNDERS, JONATHAN, of firm Saunders, Sloan, & Co., painters, etc. 1880. SAWYER, HENRY JAMES, son of John B. and Sally (Hayward) Sawyer; ancestry no further traced; b. in New York City, Jan. 22, 1825; m., 1st, Chloe S. Comey, adopted dr. of Lovett H. and Alma Maria Bowker, Hop .; cer. June 27, 1850, by Rev. George W. Stacy. Their chn .:-
ALMA M., b. Mil., April 6, 1853; m. Clarence A. Claflin, Hop., June 12, 1877. MARY B., b. Mil., March 27, 1855; m. Clarence A. Thompson, Hop., Oct., 1877.
Mrs. Chloe d. in Mil., April 4, 1857. The hus. m., 2d, Sarah Adaline Cook of Mil., dr. of Arthur, Esq., and Adaline S. (Purinton) Cook, b. June 30, 1844; cer. in Mil., Jan. 27, 1869, by the writer. Their chn. :-
HENRY JAMES, Jun., b. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 9, 1870.
GORDON HAYWARD, b. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 2, 1871.
MABEL AURILLA, b. Chicago, Ill., March 25, 1873.
GERTRUDE LOVICA, b. Chicago, Ill., Feb., 1876.
Mr. Sawyer has from early life been actively employed in the boot and shoe
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manufacture in more or less responsible positions, as workman, manager, or principal. He came to this town in 1850, and res. here 7 yrs. Latterly, for many yrs., he has been successfully engaged in his favorite occupation at Chicago, Ill. An intelligent, enterprising, and highly esteemed family.
SAWYER, Rev. ROYAL TYLER, D.B .; ptge. not given; b. Mt. Holly, Vt., April 25, 1848; as a young man he was familiar with the farm and shop, and served a clerkship in the city of Worcester. He taught school in Ver- mont and Wisconsin, having received an academical education at Ludlow and Chester, Vt., and in the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Divinity Department of Tufts College, in the class of 1873. He was first pastor for 3 yrs. in Gardner, Mass., and resigned a 2 yrs. pastorate at New Market, N.H., to accept a unanimous call of the Universalist Parish in this town. He located here about March 1, 1879. He has a wife and one infant child, but deemed it unnecessary to give me any further requested particulars of his family record. He is a very acceptable preacher, a highly satisfactory pastor, and eminently esteemed in all the orderly circles of our community.
SAWYER, JOSHUA, son of Joshua and Abigail (Patten) Sawyer, b. Hamp- stead, N.H., Dec. 18, 1813; last-manufacturer; m. Lucy Emerson Burn- ham, dr. of Luke and Eunice (Foster) Burnham, b. in Essex, July 18, 1815; cer. Nov. 13, 1839, in Essex, by Rev. Robert Crowell. One adopted son :- GEORGE BYRON, b. Hampstead, N.H., June 27, 1838; m. Aug. 9, 1862, bride's name not given; 1 child, Mary Esther, b. March 25, 1872.
This family res. in Haverhill 15 yrs. They have res. in Mil. 26 yrs. Use- ful, enterprising, worthy people.
SCAMMELL. The Scammells have been justly distinguished here ever since 1737. Two bros., SAMUEL LESLIE and ALEXANDER, natives of Ports- mouth, Eng., came over to this country together at about the date mentioned. Both were educated men, and well qualified to take influential positions in society. Little is known respecting Alexander's career in life. He was prob. employed in governmental services, perhaps as land-surveyor, or in other kin- dred duties. The last we hear of him is as " sole executor" of Samuel Leslie's will, in 1753. He is supposed to have finally taken up his abode in his native place. Samuel Leslie had fitted himself for the practice of medicine, but is said to have felt such reluctance for the calling, that, on settling here, he at first concealed his profession. His secret, however, soon leaked out; and he yielded to the very urgent demands which were made for his services. The oldest document, in which his name is mentioned, is a deed I found in Worces- ter Registry, B. 18, p. 357. It sets forth that Thomas Sleman "of Salem, in the co. of Essex, with the consent of Priscilla, my wife, in consideration of £380, bills of credit, paid me by Samuel Scammell of Portsmouth in Old England, Schoolmaster," conveys to the said Scammell "the whole of the land in Mendon which I purchased of Benjamin Wheeden [Wheaton], with the buildings," etc. This deed is dated Dec. 7, 1737. Whether he had been here beforehand spying out the land, which is not improbable, nothing is told. An old family Bible says that he and his wife Jane (Libbey) sailed from Ports- mouth, Eng., and landed at Boston 1738. This date may or may not be correct, but we are certain about his purchase of the farm. This ancient homestead on Magomiscock Hill originally belonged to Benj. Wheaton, sen., and somehow came into possession of Benj., jun., who sold it to Sleman, and he to Scammell. It remained in the hands of Scammell's descendants till after the death of the
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late Daniel Scammell, a period of over 100 yrs. It is said that the first Dr. Scammell found the old Wheaton domicile on Freedom St. still habitable, and there commenced housekeeping on his newly purchased farm. In my descrip- tion of abandoned home-sites, Chap. XV., this is numbered 30. He soon became conspicuous as a physician, citizen, and member of the ch. Respect- ing the chn. of Dr. Samuel Leslie and Jane (Libbey) Scammell, I find nothing to guide me, but Rev. Mr. Frost's record of baptisms, and certain cemetery monuments. Frost's record omits altogether the name of the eldest son, which I have to supply from the Scammell monument in No. Bellingham. From this it appears that the first-born d. Dec. 5, 1805, at the age of 66 yrs; showing that he must have been born in 1739.
SAMUEL LESLIE, Jun., b. 1739; m. Bethiah Corbett of Bell., Jan. 3, 1760. ALEXANDER, bap. May 16, 1742, by Rev. Mr. Webb, Ux .; d. young.
ANN, bap. Aug. 18, 1745, by Rev. Mr. Frost; d. young.
ALEXANDER, bap. March 22, 1747, by Rev. Mr. Frost; the Adj .- Gen. of the Rev. armies.
ANN, bap. May 13, 1750, by Rev. Mr. Frost; m. Timothy Jones, Dec. 3, 1771.
The fr. d. in the prime of middle age, in 1753, being then about 45 yrs. old. How long his wife survived, I have seen no record. His will describes him as "being sick of a fever," and expecting death ere long. He made a judicious testament, providing suitably for his widow and chn., and appointing his bro. Alexander as sole executor. He commended his 2 sons to the special oversight and tuition of his pastor, Rev. Mr. Frost, that they might be fitted for professional life and usefulness. Mr. Frost is said to have discharged his trust with great fidelity.
Samuel Leslie, jun., did not choose to go to college, but preferred entering by a shorter cut on the practice of medicine. Mr. Frost qualified him, accord- ing to the medical requirements of that day, to pursue his studies with eminent physicians. He studied surgery and physic, first with Dr. Wheat of Newton and Boston, and later with the 2d Dr. John Corbett of Bell., into whose family he married at the age of about 21 yrs. He soon set. on his fr.'s home- stead, and was the 2d regular physician on our territory.
His bro. Alexander was early fitted for col., must have entered Harvard before he was 19 yrs. old, and grad. in the class of 1769. He was a tall, well- built, handsome man, full 6 ft. 2 inches in height, and of graceful deportment, a bright scholar, a genial companion, and of attractive manners. He taught dis- trict schools, with great success, before and during his college course. After graduating, he taught higher schools in Kingston, Mass., Portsmouth, N.H., and Shapleigh, Me. He spent some tinie with his cousin, Thomas Scammell, who was commissioned by the British Govt. as surveyor of timber in the Dist. of Maine. He then entered on the study of law in the office of John Sullivan, N. H., where he was when the Revolutionary war broke out. Of his entrance into the army, his bravery, his promotion from rank to rank till he reached the grade of Adjutant-Gen., and of his untimely death, through the cowardly bru- tality of a Hessian mercenary, I have stated the principal facts in Chap. VII. These I need not repeat. Some yrs. ago Wm. F. Goodwin, Esq., of Concord, N.H., proposed to write the life of Gen. Scammell, and collected many of his letters. But I have never heard that the work was published, and do not know what became of the materials collected. A copy of "The Independent Democrat," Concord, N.H., dated Dec. 6, 1860, was put into my hand, some yrs. ago, by John S. Scammell, Esq., of this town, containing a notice of
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Mr. Goodwin's intended biography, with important reminiscences of the Adju- tant-Gen. and his family. Among other interesting papers mentioned, was what may be called a love-letter to Miss Abigail Bishop, a young lady in N. H., to whom he was tenderly attached at the outbreak of the war, and to whom, it seems, he offered his nuptial hand.
LETTER.
EXETER, March 22, 1777.
DEAREST NABBY, -I arrived at Exeter the Monday after I left Mystic. My horse held out much better than I expected; but, as to myself, I ever feel dejected when I am going from you. I feel as if I had left my better half behind me: a certain inexpressible something hangs upon my mind, that I can't feel happy , when absent from my dearest Nabby. Heaven has certainly destined us for each other, else why should we be permitted to carry our mutual affection to so great a length ? But cruel fate, and a more cruel war, has thrown an obsta- cle in your way ; but I hope you will surmount it. I can't conceive how or why it should have any weight with you. Love is a noble, disinterested passion; it overlooks small obstacles: and the purer the passion, the greater difficulties it will surmount. Pray consider the almost infinite importance it is to me, to call you my own before I march to Ticonderoga. How happy it will make me! and what vast obligations it will lay me under, to contribute as far as possible to make you happy in the marriage state! I shall not march, I believe, under a month from this time. Consider me, my lovely girl, and enter into a noble resolution to give your hand to the man who loves you almost to adoration, before he takes the field to oppose our tyrannical foes, -consider how many young ladies have immortalized their characters by encouraging their lovers to defend their country. I should still have an opportunity to celebrate our nup- tials, and spend a week or ten days in your dear company before my departure, if you could possibly consent. For Heaven's sake, by all the endearing ties of tender affection, I conjure you to write to me by Capt. Livermore; and, if you can consent to my proposal, I will fly to you upon the wings of love! How- ever, write to me, if you have only time to enclose your name in paper.
The more I am acquainted with you, the more my passion increases, the more tender and delicate my love. I shall endeavor, if possible, to spend a few days more with you before I leave this part of the country, at all events, and snatch a few moments of bliss and happiness before I take the field.
Your sincere and most affectionate friend,
ALEXANDER SCAMMELL.
The anxiously desired marriage was never consummated. The bloody tide of war bore this ardent lover farther and farther from the goal of his connubial aspirations, till it plunged him into an untimely grave at Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 6, 1781. His successor in command, Col. Humphreys, hymned his requiem in the following lines : -
" What though no friend could ward thine early fall, Nor guardian angels turn the treacherous ball, Bless'd shade, be soothed : thy virtues all are known; Thy fame shall last beyond this mouldering stone, Which conquering armies, from their toils return, Read to thy glory, while thy fate they mourn."
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So passed away Gen. Alexander Scammell in his sombre glory; and five years afterward his adored sweetheart became the bride of Dr. Archelaus Putnam of Danvers, Mass., to wit, Nov. 12, 1786.
SCAMMELL, Dr. SAMUEL LESLIE 2 (Dr. Samuel Leslie 1), b. 1739; m. Bethiah Corbett, dr. of Dr. John and Hopestill (Chapin) Corbett, b. Bell., Nov. 21, 1740; cer. Jan. 3, 1760, by Rev. A. Frost. As recorded in Rev. Mr. Frost's regr. of baptisms, their chn. were, -
JOHN, bap. Oct. 23, 1762; physician; m. Hannah Jones, Nov. 24, 1782.
SAMUEL LESLIE, bap. Aug. 21, 1763; not traced.
ALEXANDER, bap. Jan. 1, 1769; d. in infancy.
ALEXANDER, bap. Oct. 6, 1771; m. Ede Daniell, April 18, 1799.
HOPESTILL, bap. May 7, 1775.
Mrs. Bethiah d. in Bell., on the ancient Dr. Corbett homestead, which had become her husband's, Nov. 27, 1805; and her hus. d. just 8 ds. later, Dec. 5, 1805, a. 66 yrs. At what precise date they took up their abode in Bell., I have not ascertained, but prob. only a few yrs. before their death.
SCAMMELL, Dr. JOHN 3 (Dr. Samuel Leslie,2 Dr. Samuel Leslie1), bap. Oct.
23, 1762; m. Hannah Jones, dr. of Jonathan and Mary Jones, b. Nov. 29, 1760; cer. Nov. 24, 1782, by Rev. A. Frost. The particulars of Dr. John's education and fitting for his profession have not come to my knowledge. He set. finally on the Dr. Corbett patrimony, whilst the Scammell home- stead became the inheritance of his bro. Alexander. The chn. of Dr. John and Hannah (Jones) Scammell were, -
HOPESTILL, b. May 6, 1783; m. Otis Thayer, March 17, 1807; d. Oct. 14, 1808. SAMUEL LESLIE, b. Nov. 25, 1784; m. Emily Stearns, Oct. 10, 1811; set. Mil. MARY, b. Nov. 25, 1786; m. John Wheeler, April 4, 1807; she d. Feb. 3, 1811. BETHIAH, b. June 16, 1791; m. John Wheeler, 1812, and d. soon after.
JOHN CORBETT, b. Aug. 5, 1793; m. Joanna Stearns, Dec. 25, 1815; res. Bell .; farmer.
Mrs. Hannah d. Sept. 9, 1823, a. 62 yrs .; Dr. John d. March 9, 1845, a. 83 yrs.
SCAMMELL, ALEXANDER 3 (Dr. Samuel Leslie,2 Dr. Samuel Leslie 1), b. Oct.
6, 1771; m. Ede Daniell, dr. of Oliver and Sarah Daniell, b. in 1781; cer. April 18, 1799, by Samuel Jones, Esq. They set. on the Scammell home- stead, and pursued the business of agricultural life. Their chn. were, - SAMUEL, b. April 6, 1800; d. in Cambridge, Aug. 17, 1823, unm.
DANIELL, b. Oct. 15, 1802; m. Mary S. Chapin, Oct. 9, 1827.
LESLIE, b. Dec. 7, 1804; m. Maria Jane Badger; he d. Chelmsford, Nov. 25, 1833; 1 child.
ALEXANDER, b. July 21, 1808; m. Ann A. Partridge, Nov. 6, 1834.
DORINDA, b. June 11, 1811; m. John Adams Clarke, April 10, 1833.
JOHN WHEELER, b. March 22, 1818; m. Mary M. Ellis, Dec. 7, 1841. VIANA, b. Feb. 18, 1822; d. Feb. 18, 1823.
The hus. and fr. d. rather suddenly of dysentery, Sept. 29, 1823; Mrs. Ede d. Feb. 23, 1832. Worthy people.
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