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10. Solomon, son of Deacon Jonathan 7, b. Boylston or Sturbridge, May 9, 1764, a physician ; studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Kittridge of North Brookfield, and commenced practice in Plainfield, Mass .; removed 1797 to Enfield, Ct., after which he, with his brother-in-law Judge Hinckley of Northampton, engaged in the purchase of lands of the State of Connecticut, situated on the Western Reserve, O., accumulating a large estate. He m. Feb. 2, 1792, Sally Hinckley of North Brook- field, and d. Enfield, Nov. 4, IS14, aged fifty-one ; she d. Clinton, N.Y., Dec. 9, 18 53, aged eighty-five. Children, Mary Proctor, b. Plainfield, Nov. 16, 1792, m. July 3, 1821, Asa Olmstead of Wilbraham, b. Enfield, Ct., Apr. 19, 1791, physician ; prac- tised in Wilbraham, Northfield, and Clinton, N.Y., where he d. Feb. 25, 1874, aged eighty-three; Rebecca Hinckley, b. Connecticut, Nov. 17, 1794, m. Jan. 27, 1824, Levi Bliss of Brimfield, b. Apr. 23, 1788, d. Brimfield, July 25, 1856, merchant ; Solomon, b. Connecticut, Mar. 13, 1797, d. Enfield, March 15, 1812; Thomas Hinckley, b. Enfield, Ct., Jan. 14, 1804, m. (1) Sept. 14, 1828, Elizabeth Goodrich of New Haven, who d. Mar. 16, 1864, aged fifty-seven ; (2) Mary C. Hinman of Hartford; lawyer ; graduated Yale Law School, New Haven; admitted 1827, to the Bar ; practised in Pittsburg, Pa .; Collector of Oswego; member of State Senate, and in 1854 removed to New Haven, where he was elected Representative and State Senator [children, John Goodrich, b. Oct. 17, 1829, a Captain in Military and Marine Service, resigned Jan. 1, 1872 ; Josephine Maria, b. Oct. 9, 1842, m. June 10, 1863, Edward Le Moyne of New York, firm of Le Moyne & Son. Children, Elizabeth Goodrich, b. Apr. 22, 1864; Josephine Clara, b. Dec. 19, 186S ; Henrietta, b. Dec. 27, 1872]; Eliza Anu, b. Enfield, Mar. 22, 1807, m. Sept. 4, 1837, Francis B. Stebbins, lawyer, and d. Brimfield, Nov. 10, 1882.
11. John, son Lieut. Thomas 8, b. Westboro, Feb. 5, 1770, m. (1) Ruth Bond of Boylston, 1791; (2) Apr. 1, 1798, Judith Fiske of Boylston or Barre, who d. May Io, 1844; he d. Boylston, Oct. 25, 1837. Children (Boylston), Tyler, b. Apr. 5, 1792, d. Feb. 12, 1813; Ruth, b. July 22, 1799, d. Aug. 9, 1822; Sally F., b. Jan. 6, ISOI, m. May 22, 1834, Thomas B. Eaton of Worcester ; David Fiske, b. Oct. 6, 1802, d. Oct. 27, 1833; Louisa, b. Nov. 26, 1805, m. May 17, 1831, Aaron S. Gibbs of Boylston ; Thomas, b. Aug. 14, 1807, m. Oct. 16, 1834, Harriet Slocumb of Shrewsbury ; John B., b. Feb. 6, ISIo, m. Eliza Hathaway of Worcester, and d. Dec. 16, 1853.
12. Amos, son of Lieut. Thomas 8, b. Westboro, Feb. 1, 1774, m. Dec. 26, 1799, Sally Goddard of North Brookfield, and d. Jan. 22, 1848. Children (North Brook- field), Gilbert, b. Sept. 24, 1800 15; Chauncey, b. July 2, 1802, m. Apr. 5, 1830, Frances B. Bullard of Shrewsbury, b. Oct. 9, 1805, d. May 7, 1835 ; he d. Shrews- bury, Apr. 29, 1833; Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1804, n. June 3, 1830, Freeman Walker of North Brookfield, and d. July 1, 1839; Edward Goddard, b. Jan. 24, 1807, d. Mar, 23, 1832; Lydia Newton, b. Nov. 12, 1810, m. Oct. 22, 1839, Samuel Haskell of North Brookfield, and d. May 22, 1850; Thomas, b. Sept. 20, 1814 16; Sarah Goddard, b. Oct. 13, 1818, d. May 25, 1843.
13. Thomas, son of Lieut. Thomas 8, b. Westboro, Sept. 17, 1777, m. Sept. 23 1804, Jemima Bush of Boylston, and d. Springfield, Jan. 6, 1852. Children (Brook-
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field and North Brookfield), Henry Morris, b. Aug. 5, 1805; Lucy, b. Nov. 5, 1807, m. Nov. 5, 1827, Henry Penniman of Brookfield; Clarinda, b. Dec. 10, 1809, m. Oct. 1, 1833, Samuel Reynolds of Springfield; Thomas, b. North Brookfield, Dec. 6, 1812; merchant; m. July 14, 1846, Ellen Maria Carr of New York ; William Bush, b. Jan. 12, 1815; clergyman; graduated Amherst, 1835; ordained Apr. 15, 1840; m. May, 1840, Harriet Sheldon of Stockbridge; George Taylor, b. Jan. 22, 1817 ; Mary Bush, b. June 5, 1819, m. Oct. 26, 1848, Rev. John E. Hall of Egremont ; Ephraim Ward, b. May 15, 1821 ; lawyer; graduated Amherst, I841 ; m. - Hazard of Hazardville; Edward, b. Apr. 27, 1827 ; merchant of New York; m. a daughter of Col. Hazard.
14. Moses, son of Lient. Thomas 8, b. Brookfield, Apr. 5, 1784; a merchant ; published Aug. 29, 1809, to Lucy Fiske of Sterling, and d. Templeton, Feb. 14, 1846; she d. Northampton, Sept. 28, 1861, aged eighty. Children, Lucy Bush, b. Brook- field, Mar. 27, ISII, m. June 10, 1830, Hon. Artemas Lee of Templeton, b. Barre, Nov. 2, 1793, a merchant and prominent citizen of Templeton; repeatedly a mem- ber of the House and Senate, a colonel in the militia, a man of great strength of character, energy and influence ; d. Templeton, June 27, 1870 [children, Ellen Maria, b. Aug. 30, 1832; Edward Dwight, b. Jan. 16, 1834; merchant ; d. Apr. 17, 1864, in the army in Virginia; Caroline Frances, b. Oct. 26, 1835, d. Aug. 27, 1836; Henry Winthrop, b. Mar. 14, 1838; merchant; d. Boston, Nov. 6, 1879; Josephine Hard- ing, b. Mar. 7, 1840, m. Leonard A. Jones, lawyer of Boston; Charles Francis, b. Oct. 16, 1842, m. Mary A. Hare of Templeton, who d. Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1864]; Martha, b. North Brookfield, Oct. 31, 1813, m. Dr. Henry Lincoln of Lancaster ; Catherine, b. Apr. 12, 1815, m. Samuel L. Harding of Templeton ; Harriet Eliza, b. June 16, 1821, m. Addison J. Lincoln of Templeton.
15. Gilbert, son of Amos 12, b. North Brookfield, Sept. 24, 1800. He once remarked, that his grandfather owned from Dean's pond to the Bell place, near the Catholic Cemetery. Lieut. William Ayres told Amos Bond that when he was a youth, all this part of the country was destitute of trees, and at one time to ob- tain four thirty-feet sticks of timber they were obliged to go four miles for them. Mr. Bond introduced the Baldwin apple in this town, from Boylston. He m. Mar. 4, 1841, Rebecca Thompson, b. Feb. 7, 1817, d. Sept. 9, 1873. Children, Sarah Cheever, b. Dec. 9, 1842, m. Jan. 4, 1872, William Walley; Mary Rebecca, b. June 19, 1844, d. Sept. 8, 1869.
16. Thomas, son of Amos 12, b. North Brookfield, Sept. 20, 1814, m. Nov. 26, 1838, Nancy B. Jenks of West Boylston. Children, Thomas Edward, b. Dec. 3, 1843, m. Oct. 8, 1868, Mary Louisa Dean of Boston [children, John Arthur, b. Aug. 7, 1869 ; Carl Franklin, b. Feb. 16, 1876]; Elizabeth Jenks, b. Apr. 2, 1848, d. Boston, Oct. 31, 1873; Charles Walker, b. Ang. 4, 1853, d. Boston, Dec. 16, 1865; Caroline Lyon, b. East Brookfield, Aug. 25, 1858.
BORBEAU, Louis, b. Canada, 1838, m. - Faneuf, 1864. Children (North Brookfield), Rosie, b. 1865; Frederick, b. 1867; George, b. 1868; Osy, b. 1870; Oliver, b. 1872; Lefridge, b. 1874; William, b. 1876; Eli, b. 1879.
BOSCLAIRE, Triffle, b. Canada, Apr. 1, 1850, m. July 27, 1874, Alice Loreau of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Triffle, b. Jan. 1876; Emma, b. Oct. 1878.
BOSWORTH, William P., b. Petersham, July 11, 1810; m. Apr. 2, 1846, Mary C. Stowe of Paxton. Children (North Brookfield), Mary Jane, b. Dec. 14,
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1848, d. Sept. 26, 1850 ; Milton Augustus, b. Oct. 1, 1850; William Harrison, b. Apr. 19, 1854, d. Nov. 21 following; Marion Grace, b. Sept. 27, 1856.
BOTHWELL, Sylvester 1, b. Oakham, Feb. 10, 1828, m. Oct. 13, 1850, Sarah Lyman, daughter of Deacon Joseph A. Moore. Child, Idella Melinda, b. North Brookfield, Jan. 7, 1852, m. Oct. 3, 1882, Clarence B. Root of Francestown, N.H., b. Francestown, 1853.
2. Sylvander, twin brother to above, b. Oakham, Feb. 10, 1828, m. (1) May 30, 1850, Martha A. Mead of North Brookfield ; (2) Apr. 21, 1867, Mrs. Lizzie J. Poland of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Ernst S., b. June 17, 1853; Sylvester Rockwood, b. Dec. 30, 1869, d. May 11, 1874.
BOWEN, Dwight W., b. Warren, Mar. 28, 1834, m. Feb. 28, 1867, Abbie J. Eaton of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Lottie Idelle, b. Nov. I, 1868 ; Alonzo, b. Feb. 23, 1870, d. Oct. 23, 1876 ; Iver y., b. June 3, 1872.
BOWKER, Joseph 1, b. North Sudbury, July 15, 1777 ; farmer and blacksmith ; m. (1) 1802, Mary Brown of Boston, aged 22, who d. Sudbury, Jan. 8 or 12, 1803 ; (2) Patty Proctor, b. 1780, d. Rutland, Sept. 10, 1841 ; (3) Mar. 21, 1842, widow, Polly Noyes of Sudbury. He d. Westboro, Sept. 3, 1846 or 1848. Children (Sud- bury), Mary, b. Jan. 8, 1803, m. Jan. 15, 1824, Avery Bush of North Brookfield, and d. Spencer, Dec. 28, 1827 ; Lydia, b. Apr. 11, 1807, m. Aug. 15, 1828, Avery Bush, her sister's husband; Amos, b. Aug. 5, 1812 or 1813 2; Almira, b. Aug. 25, 1810, m. May 27, 1837, Lewis Brigham, b. Sudbury, Oct. 27, 1797; she d. North Sudbury, Dec. 12, 1873 [children, Martha A., b. Mar. 9, 1839, m. June 1, 1859, Hiram Green of Boston; Rebecca H., b. July 1, 1840, m. Sept. 8, 1859, T. A. Bent of Sudbury ; Nancy E., b. Apr. 25, 1843; Esther L., b. Dec. 16, 1846; Lewis A., b. Feb. 25, 1850, d. Mar. 7, following; Emma, b. Aug. 9, 1853, m. Mar. 20, 1872, Newell D. Willcomb of Mount Desert, Me]; Joseph Proctor, b. Apr. 4, 1814 3; Daniel, b. North Brookfield, Mar. 11, 1817, m. Rebecca Roby of Metropolis, Ill., and d. there Dec. 19, 1875.
2. Amos, son of Joseph 1, b. North Sudbury, Aug. 5, 1812, or Aug. 3, 1813, m. (1) Apr. 15, 1835, Lucy Snow of Spencer, who d. Berkshire, Vt., May 23, 1845; (2) Sept. 1, 1847, Lucinda Haskins of Barre, who d. Slatersville, R.I., Aug 2, 1868. Children, Mary H., b. North Brookfield, Apr. 15, 1838, m. Mar. 22, 1876, W. H. Bush of Palmer ; Proctor }., b. Middlesex, Vt., Aug. 7, 1840, m. July 12, 1866, Emma Sherman of Westfield; Lucy M., b. Westfield, June 22, 1848, m. Oct. 1, 1870, W. A. Wilson of West Brookfield; Tinnie y., b. July 29, 1849, m. May, 1871, J. W. Robertson of Lawrence, Kan .; Jennie S., b. July 9, 1852, m. May 29, 1879, H. A. Stanley of Lawrence, Kan. ; Mattie A., b. Apr. 14, 1854, d. East Hampton, Nov. 3, 1869.
3. Joseph P., son of Joseph 1, b. North Sudbury, Apr. 4, 1814, m. May 19, 1847, Catherine Wilson of Metropolis, Ill. Children (Metropolis), Mary C., b. Feb. 9, 1848, m. Jan. 24, 1870, Lyman Wilson of Metropolis ; Joseph IV., b. Sept. 25, 1849, m. Sept. 10, 1879, Belle Dill of Huntington, Tenn .; Thomas D., b. Feb. 15, 1852, d. July 5, 1858; Martha R., b. Mar. 25, 1854 ; Charles A., b. Jan. 30, 1856 ; Sarah M., b. Oct. 12, 1859; Lewis W., b. Nov. 25, 1861 ; Maggie }., b. July 24, 1864 ; Ellen A., b. May 9, 1869.
BOYD, Cheney 1, son of James, b. Oakham, 1797, m. Susan Flint of Oakham, b. 1792, d. Apr. 3, 1856; he d. New Braintree, Oct. 17, 1827, aged 30. Children
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(Oakham), Oliver Allen, b. 1817, m. Lucinda Allen of Oakham; Asahel Cheney, b. 1819, m. Mary Holbrook of Oakham ; Isaac Moulton, b. July 7, 1821 2; Martha Maria, b. Mar. 1826, d. Oct. 2, 1838.
2. Isaac M., son of Cheney 1, b. Oakham, July 7, 1821, m. (1) Nov. 28, 1843, Annis F. Poland of North Brookfield ; (2) Hattie E. Woodis, who d. Mar. 31, 1879. Children, Charles Oscar, b. North Brookfield, Sept. 4, 1844; John Flint, b. Sept. 10, 1846, m. Nov. 1874, Abbie Lovell of Oakham; Frank Herbert, b. Oakham, June 4, 1851, m. Dec. 31, 1874, Mary Bullard of Oakham; Martha Lane, b. North Brook- field, Oct. 26, 1856, m. 1885, J. R. Kane, a lawyer of Spencer ; Leon Poland, b. Apr. 13, 1861.
3. Alfred O., son of Oliver, b. Worcester, Sept. 2, 1847, m. 1869, Myra J. Tucker of North Brookfield. Child, Arthur A., b. Sept. 14, 1872.
BOYLE, Patrick, b. Ireland, m. - , 1866, Mary Landrey of New Braintree. Children (New Braintree), Catherine, b. Feb. 14, 1867; James, b. 1869 ; Annie, b. Dec. 4, 1872 ; Mary, b. May, 1874; Dennis, b. North Brookfield, 1876; John, b. May 20, 1877 ; Bridget, b. Mar. 22, 1879 ; Margaret, b. Mar. 20, 1881.
BOYNTON, Adding 1, b. Newbury ; machinist ; m. Roxanna Stevens of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Ellen ; Lucy, d. infancy. Mrs. Boynton m. (2) Deacon Amasa Hinds of East Brookfield ; no issue.
2. Rufus S., b. Pelham, Nov. 6, 1816, m. Feb. 12, 1840, Lucy Ann Tucker of North Brookfield, b. May, 1814. Children (North Brookfield), Elbridge W., b. May 15, 1841, m. Aug. 1866, Adelaide L. Robinson of Barre ; Frederick H., b. July, 1843, d. May 30, 1849; Clara A., b. Apr. 18, 1848 ; Charles H., b. Mar. 6, 1852 ; dentist ; m. Jan. 4, 1877, Addie E. Stoddard of Philadelphia; Frederick S., b. Feb. 21, 1855, m. Nov. 5, 1880, Ida Emma Leonard of North Brookfield, b. Feeding Hills, May 13, 1863 [child, Elbert Sumner, b. North Brookfield, Feb. 20, 1881].
BRADISH, John, b. Boston or vicinity, m. Elizabeth Milledge of Charlestown, or Boston. Her father's family were burnt out in the great fire at Charlestown dur- ing the Revolutionary war. She d. West Brookfield. He d. North Brookfield, Jan. 30, 1822. Children, Elizabeth, m. Jan. 15, 1809, Abner Bird 2, b. Waltham, Mar. 2, 1786, d. Dec. 22, 1837; she d. North Brookfield, Mar. 7, 1860 ; Abigail, m. Nov. 4, 1808, Samuel B. Rice of West Brookfield; Frances, m. Joshua Eaton of Boston ; Mary, m. (1) - Isham ; (2) - Osborne of New York ; Sarah, m. - Colburne of Baltimore; John, m. Lucretia O. Benjamin of New York ; Samuel S., d. West Brookfield, Oct. 5, 1880; Johnson, went " West ; " Emerson, went " West" and d. there; Henry, a master mariner, d. at sea. The foregoing items were obtained from Samuel S. Bradish of West Brookfield, age about 90, and from Mrs. Lucinda R. Tomblen of West Brookfield, daughter of Samuel B. and Abigail (Bradish) Rice, above.
BRADLEY, John, b. Ireland, 1820, m. 1867, Julia Darley of Lawrence ; came from Lawrence to North Brookfield, 1873. Children, Thomas F., b. Lawrence, Mar. 20, 1869; Mary, b. Jan. 1871 ; Lizzie E., b. North Brookfield, Mar. 24, 1873 ; Abbie, b. Mar. 9, 1875.
BRADSHAW [Genealogy of Eleazer from History of Medford, by Rev. Charles Brooks].
1. John, son of Humphrey and Patience of Cambridge, b. June 24, 1655, was
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one of the earliest recorded taxpayers ; d. Mar. 19, 1745, aged nearly 90; m. Mary Johnson, who d. Apr. 1758, aged 90 [the names, b. and m. of their twelve children, also five families of forty-two grandchildren, are given in Vol. I, by Hon. C. Adams, jr., but are omitted here until the twelfth child, Simon, father of Eleazer, is reached].
2. Simon, twelfth child of John 1, b. Oct. 3, 1709, m. Jan. 6, 1736, Mary John- son, b. May 15, 1712, d. July 26, 1764. His will proved Oct. 10, 1769. Children, (Medford), Simon, b. Mar. 1, 1739 3; Isaac, b. Sept. 26, 1740, d. Dec. 1741 ; Isaac, b. Dec. 10, 1743, d. Feb. 14, 1746; Eleazer, b. Feb. 11, 1746 4; Mary, b. Sept. 24, 1747, m. John Coombs of Newburyport; inherited one-half of her brother Eleazer's estate. [Children, Philip, John, Lydia and Mary. Son Philip had children, John, Mary and Elizabeth].
3. Simon, son of Simon 2, b. Mar. I, 1739, m. July 12, 1770, Hannah Johnson, and d. Apr. 1790; she d. Aug. 8, 1800. Children (Medford), Simon, b. July 6, 1778, m. Tamar Blood ; no issue ; Abigail Edes, b. 1783, m. Feb. 7, 1803, Henry Morgan of Boston, and d. Petersham, May 12, 1814.
4. Eleazer, son of Simon 2, b. Feb. 11, 1746; a hatter ; d. Brookfield, July 19, 1810, unm. Came to this town probably in 1791-2; lived in a one-story gambrel roofed house, about a mile and a quarter east of the present village. After his de- cease the place was owned and occupied by Lieut. Joseph Bush, and subsequently by various parties until 1833, when Jonas Harwood bought it, demolished the old house and built the one now standing and lived there until 1868, when he sold it to John Hoone. The old shop occupied by Mr. Bradshaw for making hats and for the grocery trade, on a limited scale, still stands in the rear of Mr. Hoone's house. Among the owners after Lieut. Bush, were Elias Harrington, and Kittridge Hill who never resided upon it, and who sold it to Jonas Harwood in 1833. Lieut. Bush named his youngest son for Mr. Bradshaw - Eleazer Bradshaw Bush. Dr. Snell, in his account of Mr. Bradshaw, says, that " He accumulated $40,000 or $50,000; lived in an old house where Mr. J. Harwood now lives ; was a bachelor - never attended meeting though he cheerfully supported the Gospel." Mrs. Frances A. Brooks, a descendant of a niece of said Eleazer, among other things says of him, " that he gave a bell for a meeting house, erected in Petersham about 178; is also remembered as appearing there on a fine white horse in pursuit of Shay's men under Gen. Lincoln, where the rebellion was eventually checked. He is said to have always kept his broad brimmed hat on, which gave rise to the impression that he was a Quaker, though hardly consistent with the report of his military career.
For a fuller account of the Bradshaws, see Vol. I, by Hon. Chas. Adams, jr., in Town Clerk's office.
BRAGG, Henry W. 1, b. Royalston, m. June 1, 1870, Doulesky N. Jackson of Southbridge. Children (North Brookfield), Josephine T., b. Jan. 11, 1872; Albertia M., b. Jan. 20, 1875.
2. Warren S., brother to Henry, above, came to town in 1861, and entered as clerk in the store of Hiram Knight - m. here, enlisted in Company F, Forty-second Regiment ; removed to Chicopee where he was chosen to some town office, since when he has been an officer in the Boston Custom House, - his family reside in Cambridge.
BRANDT, Philip, b. Peekskill, N.Y., Sept. 1782 ; coppersmith ; m. Apr. 1825, Margaret D. Brown, Providence, R.I., and d. Troy, N.Y., May, 1858; she b. Mar . 1798, and lived in Napa City, Cal., in ISSo. Children (Troy, N.Y.), Ellen E., b.
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May, 1826, m. Nov. 20, 1851, Jos. C. Felton of New Braintree; lawyer ; who d. Chicago, Mar. 1864; John P., b. Jan. 1828 ; a sheep rancher in Locke County, Cal. ; Lavinia F., b. Oct. 1830, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 1836; Henry S., b. Jan. 1832, d. Soldiers' Hospital, David's Island, N.Y., June, 1864.
BRESNAHAN, Timothy, b. Ireland, 1827, m. 1858, Elizabeth O'Brien of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), John, b. May 22, 1859; Patrick, b. Nov. 1860; Margaret, b. Apr. 1864; Timothy, b. Feb. 1866; games, b. June, 1869.
BRESSO, Joseph, b. Canada, m. 1866, Almira Godreau. Children, Almira, b. Springfield, 1868 ; Charles, b. Chicopee, 1869.
BREWER, Jonas 1, lived on what is now the Town Farm, m. (1) Mary -, who d. Dec. 31, 1770; (2) Thankful -. Children (Brookfield Record), Hannah, b. Apr. 17, 1760; Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1764; Mary, b. May 12, 1772 ; Jonas, b. July 12, 1774; John, b. Jan. 18, 1776; Thankful, b. Apr. 24, 1778; Josiah, b. Mar. 16, 1780; Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1784; Isaac, b. Apr. 28, 1789.
2. John, b. Spencer, Feb. 2, 1789, m. Apr. 9, 1809, Mary Prouty of Spencer, d. Spencer, Apr. 15, 1876. Children (Spencer), Lysander, b. Aug. 25, 1811 3; Lydia Cleora, b. May 7, 1813, m. Dec. 1834, Christopher G. Lyon of Spencer ; Mary Ann, b. Jan. 25, 1815, m. Aug. 4, 1835, Elbridge Green ; Lucinda Morse, b. July 8, 1817, m. Apr. 17, 1838, Josephus Muzzy of Spencer ; Fannie Whittemore, b. June 29, IS19, m. Feb. 5, 1839, Ebenezer W. Nichols ; John Dexter, b. Dec. 11, 1822, m. Ann Richardson; William Prouty, b. July 18, 1825, m. Elvira Barr of Spencer; Hiram Horace, b. Aug. 4, 1828, m. L. Snow; Emily Melvina, b. July 28, 1832, d. July 31, 1833.
3. Lysander, son of John 2, b. Spencer, Aug. 25, ISII, m. (1) Oct. 6, 1836, Emily Newcomb of Spencer, who d. Jan. 13, 1844 ; (2) Nov. 19, 1845, Ann Maria Newcomb, who d. July 16, 1846; (3) Mar. 25, 1856, widow Sarah C. Ellis, and daughter of William Duncan of Paxton, who d. Mar. 25, 1881. Children, Mary Amanda, b. Sept. 2, 1837, m. Leonard C. Duncan of North Brookfield, Oct. 4, 1855; William Henry Harrison, b. Jan. 17, 1841, m. Apr. 14, 1873, Lizzie E. Hill of North Brookfield; Mason Duncan, b. North Brookfield, Dec. 26, 1859, d. Littleton, Col., Aug. 14, 1880 ; Gertie Louise, b. Apr. 14, 1873, d. July 9, 1873. Lysander the father was the first of this family in town from Spencer, Apr. 10, 1848 ; was constable eight years, and sexton twenty years.
BRICK, William S., b. Fitchburg, Mar. 18, 1847, m. July 9, 1867, Emma F., daughter of Luther Brigham, and adopted child of William Duncan, jr. Children, Anna Louise, b. Fitchburg, Apr. 18, 1870; Luther }. Brown, b. West Brookfield, June 15, 1874; Curtis Duncan, b. East Brookfield, Apr. 22, 1881.
BRIDGES, Gideon 1, b. Spencer, Nov. 6, 1767; farmer, and lived on the Ball, now called the Ives, place, m. Oct. 3, 1793, Keziah Edmands of Brookfield, and d. Feb. 17, 1817; she d. May 16, 1824 ; no issue.
2. David, m. Apr. 27, 1750, Betsy Rice of Spencer. Child, Keziah, b. Jan. 8, 1758, m. May 28, 1783, Amos Rice of Brookfield.
BRIGGS, Lorin 1, a mason, m. Sarah E. Holley of Amherst. Children, Oliver ; Colburn ; James ; Francis ; Willard ; Ashley ; Dwight ; Sarah E. and Sanford 2.
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2. Sanford, son of Lorin 1, b. Shutesbury, Sept. 1847, m. Apr. 26, 1876, Maria L. Sikes of North Brookfield. Children, Addie E., b. Nov. 9, 1878; Urban San- ford, b. May 29, 1883.
3. A. Washburn, a printer, b. Worcester, Feb. 1, 1842, m. May 6, 1868, Ellen G. Jefts of Boston. Children, Bertha Hartwell, b. Palmer, Apr. 9, 1869, d. Minne- apolis, Aug. 11, 1870; Benjamin Forest, b. Morenci, Mich., Feb. 28, 1873.
BRIGHAM, Jonas, Capt. 1, b. Marlboro, Feb. 25, 1718, m. Persis Baker, and d. Westboro, Sept. 25, 1789; a distinguished citizen of Westboro. Children (West- boro), Martha, b. Nov. 1, 1746; Jonas, b. Oct. 29, 1748 2 ; Antipas, b. July 23, 17 50, d. Nov. 12, 1756; Eli, b. May 17, 1752, drowned Lake Champlain, 1786; no family ; Edward, b. May 21, 1754, m. in Milton, Vt .; Barnabas, b. Mar. 29, 1756 3; Antipas, b. Mar. 15, 1758, m. Hepzibah Brigham, and d. 1840; Danie!, b. June 12, 1760, m. Anna Monroe, and d. June 1, 1837 ; David, b. Mar. 31, 1762, m. Lucy Harrington ; Persis, b. Apr. 23, 1764, d. Westboro, Feb. 3, 1775; Joseph, b. Apr. 20, m. Lucy Warren ; William, b. May 12, 1768, d. young in Westboro.
2. Jonas, Esq., son of Capt. Jonas 1 (son of David of Westboro, son of Thomas, b. England, settled in that part of Marlboro now Westboro). He was b. Oct. 29, 1748, m. (1) Hannah Draper of Watertown; (2) Nov. 10, 1780, Polly Wyman, and d. Bakersfield, Vt., 1826. He lived beyond the Carruth place, last house in town towards New Braintree. Children (Bakersfield, Vt.,) Michael, b. Mar. 2, 1772 4; Eli, b. Dec. 14, 1773, m. Mary Harrington of New Braintree, and d. Bakersfield, Vt., Apr. 7, 1848 ; Hannah, b. July 7, 1776, m. Col. Holley Taylor of St. Albans, Vt .; Sally, b. Dec. 7, 1778; Patty, b. Apr. 29, 1780; Jonas, b. Mar. 14, 1782 5; Luther, b. May 15, 1785 6; Asa, b. 1786; Betsey, b. 1788, d. young ; Cheney, b. 1793.
3. Barnabas, son of Jonas 1, b. Westboro, Mar. 29, 1756, m. Feb. 28, 1790, Eunice Mandell of Barre, and d. North Brookfield, Jan. 30, 1817, aged sixty ; lived beyond Carruth place. Children, Harry, was a good scholar and contemporary with Rev. Thomas Adams ; under the tuition of Rufus Dodge and David Draper ; entered college, but did not graduate ; Otis, not known what became of him ; Nancy. 4. Michael, son of Jonas 2, b. Brookfield, Mar. 2, 1772, m. Sept. 21, 1796, Polly Tyler of Brookfield, and d. 1802. She m. (2) Apr. 17, 1805, William Bowdoin of Ware. Children (Brookfield), John Tyler, b. 1795; merchant, d. New York; Anna Allen, b. Dec. 9, 1797, m. Sept. 1, 1819, John Gould of Ware; Loring W., b. Oct. 30, 1799, m. Maria H. Wiswell ; Crosby (posthumous), b. 1802, d. Sept. 25, 1803.
5. Jonas, son of Jonas 2, b. Brookfield, Mar. 14, 1782, m. Eunice Billings, b. Aug. 13, 1780. Children (Brookfield), Melinda, b. Apr. 15, 1806, m. Metcalf Ayres of Bakersfield, Vt .; Holloway P., b. Nov. 4, 1807, m. Eunice Fay of Bakersfield ; Erastus O., b. Nov. 11, 1809, m. in Canada; Eunice, b. Nov. 8, 1811, m. Ephraim Perkins of Enosburg, Vt .; Annah D., b. Apr. 18, 1814; Lavinia, b. June 7, 1816, m. Horace Fletcher ; Emily, b. Oct. 4, 1818, m. James A. Perkins ; Jonas M., b. Feb. 23, 1821 ; Moses B., b. Sept. 18, 1823, m. Almira E. Fillebrown of Cavendish, Vt .; Jewett B., b. Aug. 25, 1826, m. Julia R. Fuller of Bakersfield.
6. Luther, son of Jonas 2, b. Brookfield, May 15, 1785, m. (1) Eunice Hawley of Arlington, Vt., who d. Apr. 8, 1824; (2) Betsey Ayres of Brookfield, who d. Springfield, Oct. 23, 1841 ; (3) Olive L. Hadley of Nashua, N.H., who d. there Nov. 5, 1850 ; he d. North Brookfield, Aug. 28, 1856. Children (St. Albans, Vt.), Lucretia M., b. Oct. 26, 1811, m. Jason B. Lobdell, and d. St. Albans; Jonas C., b. July 27, 1813, d. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 25, 1842; Lemuel H., b. Aug. 17, 1816, m. Lucinda D. Bainford ; Martha Eliza, b. July 27, ISIS, m. John W. Brigham of Barre ; Hannah
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Z., b. Feb. 2, 1821, m. George Holt of Watertown, Minn .; Eunice Jane, b. Apr. 9, 1823, m. Jason B. Lobdell, her sister Lucretia's husband, and d. Dickinson, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1857; George Homer, b. Nashua, Aug. 18, 1830, d. Worcester, May 22, IS57 ; Elizabeth Ann, b. Sept. 16, 1831, m. Hiram Fowler of Westfield ; Luther Ayres, b. Oct. 7, 1832 : Charlotte Rice, b. Feb. 27, 1834, d. Ware, June 8, 1835; William Henry, b. Oct. 17, 1838, d. Springfield, Aug. 3, 1839; Emma Frances, b. May, 1848.
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