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blacksmith; unmarried, d. Charleston, S.C .; Sarah, b. Jan. 3, 1771, m. Hugh Thompson of New Braintree, and had nine children, viz., Dorcas, d. young ; Sarah, m. Hiram Barr of New Braintree ; John, m. Melissa Barr of New Braintree ; Ann, m. Joseph Scott of Vermont ; William, m. Mary Liscom of New Braintree; Phi- lena, unmarried ; Jerusha, m. Israel Allen of Spencer ; Marshall, d. at the age of twenty-one; Sophronia, m. Amherst Hawes of Oakham ; Philip, b. Braintree, Apr. 27, 1774 2 ; Nathaniel, b. Braintree, Jan. 24, 1777 ; blacksmith ; m. Electa Gould of Palmyra, N.Y., and had six children, viz., Asenath ; John M .; Freeborn G., m. Betsey White of Goshen; Sarah Vinton; Orel ; Mary; Abiathar, b. Nov. 2, 1779 3; Ephraim, b. July 22, 1783 ; physician ; unmarried ; Job, b. Aug. 26, 1785 4; Dorothy, b. Sept. 25, 1789, m. Otis Engram of Chesterfield, and had two children, viz., Nathaniel, m. 1842, Susan Rogers ; Ammiel, m. 1846, Maria Dwight ; William, b. Apr. 15, 1793; blacksmith ; m. Sarah Weaver of Waldoboro, Me., and had two children, viz., John E .; Lewis.
2. Philip, son of Ezekiel 1, b. Braintree, Apr. 27, 1774; blacksmith ; m. (I) Jan. 1, 1801, Jerusha Edwards of Northampton, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 18, 1804; (2) Jan. 26, 1806, Abigail Cutler of Brookfield, d. Worcester, Feb. 8, 1863. Chil- dren (b. North Brookfield), Warren, b. 1801, d. Rome, N.Y., 1819; Frederick, b. Dec. 15, 1803, d. young ; Sarah, b. Mar. 26, 1806, m. May 19, 1832, Lucius Wood- cock of Leicester, who d. there 1884; Fanny Cutler, b. Nov. 29, 1807, m. Sept. 3, 1839, Estes Cummings of Ware, who d. Leicester, Sept. 17, 1879; Maria, b. May 27, 1809, m. Nov. 25, 1831, William M. Shaw of Ware; lives Chagrin Falls, O .; Samuel, b. Aug. 11, ISII, d. 1813; Ferusha, b. July 16, 1813, m. June 10, 1834, Warren McFarland of Leicester ; lives Worcester ; William, b. Warren, July 26, 1815; card manufacturer; m. Oct. 4, 1837, Eliza E. Smith of Leicester, who d. in Leicester, July, ISSo ; he d. there Dec. 30, 1881 ; Mary Ann, b. Warren, Feb. 16, 1819, m. May 6, 1845, Cyrus Manvel of Elizabethport, N.J., and d. there Apr. 28, 1858; Frederick, b. Oakham, Oct. 24, 1823, m. June 28, 1848, Rhoda Ward of Newark, N.J., and d. there Sept. 5, 1849; Eliza A., b. Oakham, Mar. 9, 1826, m. William Skinner of New Haven, Ct., and d. there July 13, 1853.
3. Abiathar, son of Ezekiel 1, b. Nov. 2, 1779 ; blacksmith ; m. May 9, 1805, Nabby Bruce, daughter of Charles of North Brookfield. Children, Lucy, m. Thomp- son Dyer of New Braintree; Clarinda, d. at Ware, aged twenty-five ; Chandler ; William V. and Charles B. (twins), d. when about twenty years old ; Abigail A .; Dorothy, m. - Wright of Jackson, Me .; Perry G.
4. Job, son of Ezekiel 1, b. Aug. 26, 1785; blacksmith ; m. (1) Betsey Quimby of Belfast, Me. ; (2) Grace Ulmer of Belfast. Children, George Ulmer ; Vinton.
WHITE, John, son of Moses, b. Westmoreland, N.H., July 12, 1796; under- taker ; d. East Boston, July 25, 1861. He m. June 7, 1821, Harriet Carroll of Wood- stock, Ct., b. Mar. 11, 1796, d. North Brookfield, Apr. 20, 1880. Children, Harriet Amelia, b. Westmoreland, Mar. 27, 1822, m. Dec. 21, 1842, William L. Poland of North Brookfield; Moses Augustus, b. Westmoreland, July 8, 1823, unmarried, d. Chicopee, Dec. 28, 1841 ; Adeline Auvilla, b. Apr. 5, 1825, m. Jan. 1, 1850, Alfred Bur- rill of East Boston ; lives North Brookfield ; Lucy Ann, b. Monson, Dec. 27, 1828, d. 1829; Maria Patience, b. Warwick, Oct. 29, 1832, m. Feb. 9, 1853, Roswell M. White of Littleton, N.H .; Mary Frances, b. Warwick, Oct. 19, 1835, d. 1839; Emily Packard, b. Warwick, May 12, 1838, d. young [John White, the father, is said to have been a descendant of Peregrine, who was born on the Mayflower in Plymouth harbor, through Daniel; John, who was killed by the Indians at Brook-
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field, July 22, 1710 ; Cornelius, of Brookfield; Moses, of Brookfield and Westmore- land, N.H.].
WHITE, Nelson, b. Canada; m. 1872, Eliza Clairtier of North Brookfield, b. Canada. Children, Nelson, b. June 25, 1876; Victoria, b. 1875; Eldora, b. Sept. 14, ISSO.
WHITING [communicated by Daniel Whiting 9, May 4, 1882], James 1, came from England, and settled in Hingham ; m. 1647, Mary Beals of Hingham. They had -
2. James, b. Hingham, 1651. He m. - , and had
3. Samuel, b. Hingham, 1685; m. 1708, Margaret -, and had
4. Daniel, b. Hingham, 1722; m. 1744, Jael Damon, and had
5. Daniel, b. Hingham, 1745; m. 1768, Desire Stoddard, and had
6. Daniel, b. Ilingham, Apr. 14, 1771; farmer ; removed to North Brookfield, where he d. Feb. 14, 1850. He m. Jan. II, 1798, Phebe Whiton of Hingham, b. Apr. 12, 1773, d. North Brookfield, Feb. 23, 1861. Children (b. Hingham), Abi- gail, b. Dec. 11, 1798, d. North Brookfield, Apr. 10, 1815; Lewis, b. June 10, 1800 7; Eliza, b. May 22, 1802, m. Mar. IS, 1827, Parker Johnson of North Brook- field ; Nelson, b. June 5, 1804 8; Daniel, b. June 18, 1806 9; Lyman, b. North Brookfield, Apr. 28, 1817 10.
7. Lewis, son of Daniel 6, b. Hingham, June 10, 1800 ; settled North Brook- field in ISIo; selectman, assessor, etc .; d. Aug. 30, 1881. He m. (I) June 8, 1823, Roxana Parks of Lincoln ; (2) June 15, 1837, Fanny Parks of Wayland; (3) June 14, 1857, Catherine (Gardner) Whiting, widow of his brother Nelson; she d. June 3, 1877. Children (b. North Brookfield), Caroline Parks, b. Sept. 14, 1825, m. Jan. 26, 1853, Rev. Jonas M. Bailey of North Brookfield, and d. Neponset, May 7, 1861 ; Rebecca Bacon, b. Oct. IS, IS28, m. Dec. 26, 1852, Walter H. Howe of Cambridge, Vt .; Phebe, b. Jan. 19, 1832, m (1) Sept. 4, 1856, E. Curtis Knight of North Brook- field; (2) Dec. 6, 1870, Henry DeLand; Mary Frances, b. June 21, 1838, m. June 11, 1862, Thomas H. Reed of Worcester ; Daniel Lewis, b. Mar. 25, 1840, d. June 28, 1842; Charlotte Elizabeth, b. Mar. 25, 1844, d. Apr. 16, 1852.
8. Nelson, son of Daniel 6, b. Hingham, June 15, 1804; carpenter; d. North Brookfield, Apr. 12, 1856. He m. May 27, 1828, Catherine Gardner of Hingham, b. Oct. 14, IS03, m. (2) Lewis Whiting, and d. June 3, 1877. Child, Nelson Gardner, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 22, 1829, d. Jan. 27, IS40.
9. Daniel, son of Daniel 6, b. Hingham, June 6, 1806; shoe manufacturer and farmer. He has been selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor quite a number of years. P. S. The house he lives in he says was built for him in IS30, it being the first house that was glazed with large glass, - viz., 9x 13. It was the second house built in this village without a farm attached. The first door-bell hung in this town was in this house. Mr. Whiting says there are two cellar-holes on land owned by him. One is where a colored man by the name of Cæsar lived, and the other is where a Mr. Townsend lived, one and a half miles from the village, on the road between the Parker Johnson and Wm. P. Whiting places. He m. Dec. 23, 1830, Elizabeth Haskell of North Brookfield. Child, a daughter, b. and d. July, 1832 ; they then adopted the orphan children of Timothy C. and Melissa B. and Fanny P. Haskell, b. Rochester, N.Y., as follows : William James, b. Mar. 1826, m. Orril Lincoln of Warren, and d. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 1871 ; Sarah E., b. Sept. 1830, m. Sept. 19, 1848, Rev. Thomas Wilson of Lowell, and d. Stoughton, Aug. 1865 ;
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Emily J., b. Feb. 1835, d. North Brookfield, May 13, 1857; Frances E., b. Apr., 1838, d. North Brookfield, June 21, 1859.
10. Lyman, son of Daniel 6, b. North Brookfield, Apr. 28, 1817 ; clergyman ; m. (1) Jan. 5, 1843 Sophia Chamberlain of Westboro, b. Oct. 25, 1815, d. Charles- town, W. Va., June 2, 1882 ; (2) Dec. 16, 1884, Josephine Cummings of Lawrence. Children, Helen Sophia, b. Brookfield, Nov. 4, 1843, m. June 1, 1868, Col. S. L. Tag- gart of Dubuque, Ia .; Gertrude Eliza, b. Sept. 23, 1845, m. June 1, 1868, Charles McKeen Duren of Eldora, la .; Daniel Arthur, b. Lawrence, Aug. 11, 1847, d. May 12, 1849; Agnes Swain, b. Aug. 5, 1849 ; artist ; m. June 1, 1868, William G. Farrar of Dubuque, Ia. ; lives Charlestown, W. Va. ; Bela Edwards, b. Reading, Nov. S, 1851, d. Aug. 24, 1852 ; Lyman Herbert, b. Aug. 23, 1853, d. Janesville, Wis., Sept. 20, 1870 ; Annie, b. Feb. 1, 1855, m. Oct. 15, 1877, Charles E. Damon of Reading ; Lewis Knight, b. Portsmouth, N.II., July 6, 1856; lives Grandy Centre, Ia .; m. Nov. 4, 18So, Gertrude F. Reynolds of Eldora, Ia.
Lyman Whiting, now Rev. Lyman Whiting, D.D., was b. Apr. 28, 1817, and lived till fifteen years old on the old homestead with his father, attending the common school when not at work on the farm; in his fourteenth year he experienced a change of life, determined to obtain a public education, and attended one term at Amherst Academy.
In March, 1835, commenced the study of Greek, and the following October was admitted to Amherst College; having attended a select school in town during the summer. Owing to intense application to study, his health failed before the middle of the second year. A year at home on the farm, the winter spent in teaching the Centre School, restored his health. The next spring went to Cambridge, where in private study and teaching, the years of college life were passed, bringing the be- ginning of theological study. He graduated at Andover in 1842; was married to Miss Sophia Chamberlin of Westboro, Jan. 5, 1843; was settled the same year in Brookfield, as colleague with Rev. Micah Stone, remaining there four years ; settled over the First Congregational Church in Lawrence, Mass., in June, 1847.
In 1851, he was settled over the church in Reading, Mass., and, in a few months, his health failing, his people sent him to Europe to recover. This was the year of the World's Exposition, concerning which he wrote a lecture, which was very popular, and its repetition more than paid the expense of his European tour.
He was soon settled in Portsmouth, N.H., and remained there three years, when he accepted a call to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he remained but a few months. He then accepted a call to the High Street Church, Providence, R.I., - the renewal of a call he had seven years before declined, - and near the close of the year 1859 was settled there. After a pastorate there of little more than five years, he was called to Dubuque, Ia., to a church struggling under a discouraging debt, and otherwise in a low condition, but under his ministry they were soon enabled to pay their debts ; their membership was doubled, so that they were able to pay his successor double the amount of salary he received. He left Dubuque, and accepted a call to the church in Janesville, Wis. He says, "Its beautiful new sanctuary, and cultured, ongoing people, made it, as it still is, one of the choicest gates of Zion to be found in the land, and happy is the watchman called to stand over its portal." In the fourth year there, he was seized with a painful lameness, which prevented him from freely associating with his people; compelled him, if he preached, to do so sup- ported by crutch, or sitting ; and after several months of suffering, obliged him to relinquish his charge.
After a few months, he accepted the pastoral charge of a Congregational church in Philadelphia, where he remained three years.
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It is now disbanded. His next settlement was at Charlestown, W. Va., where he labored a few years. He is now acting pastor at South Williamstown. In addi- tion to his pastoral labors, he has been much employed in delivering sermons and addresses on various occasions, religious, literary, and historical ; writing for maga- zines and journals, among them the Congregational and Presbyterian Reviews. He was for a while associate editor of an eight page monthly, which was after merged in the " Advance." He adds, " In the ten years lived there (the Western States), upwards of thirty orations and addresses were made before theological seminaries, colleges and academies in four adjoining States." Also he was trustee in two colleges and the leading ladies' seminary in the West. He received the hon- orary degree of A.M. at Amherst College in 1844, and D.D. at Iowa College in 186S. Dr. Whiting is still engaged in the work of the ministry, with the prospect of many years of usefulness before him ; though in his long career he has devoted himself primarily and assiduously to his parochial work, he has been well and wide- ly known. And wherever known, he has been recognized, it is believed, as a labori- ous student, an original thinker, a terse and striking writer, an impressive preacher, and a sound and able theologian, true to his convictions, and faithful in his utterance of the truth.
11. Galen, son of Daniel 5, b. Hingham, Feb. 1, 1766; farmer ; settled Hing- ham; removed to Lincoln, and after the birth of his children removed to North Brookfield, where he d. Dec. 31, 1847. He m. Sept. 11, 1796, Rachel Prouty of Scituate. Children, Galen, b. Hingham, Dec. 11, 1797 12 ; Leonard, b. Lincoln, Apr. 26, 1799 ; carpenter ; d. Belvidere, Ill., Mar. 20, 1875. He m. Betsey Hersey of Foxcroft, Me .; Andrew, b. Feb. 28, 1801, unm., d. North Brookfield, Feb. 17, 1879; Charles, b. May 1, 1802; lives Caledonia, Ill .; m. Elvira Woodard of Guilford, Me. ; Louisa, b. July 5, 1803, unm. ; d. North Brookfield, Feb. 19, 1879; William P., b. Oct. 24, 1805 13; David, b. Jan. 18, 1809, d. young ; Rachel, b. Jan. 7, 1810, m. Dec. 23, 1841, Jeremiah Dewing of North Brookfield.
12. Galen, son of Galen 11, b. Hingham, Dec. 11, 1797 ; farmer ; settled in North Brookfield; left his family many years ago, and his whereabouts since are unknown. He m. Lucy Souther of Cohasset, b. Dec. 10, 1808, d. North Brookfield, Oct. I, 1873. Children, Henry D., b. Jan. 7, 1827, d. Elizabethport, N.J., Sept. 17, 1875. He m. Elizabeth Young, and had a daughter Mary ; Lucy Ann, b. Jan. 7, 1829, m. Dec. 20, 1854, in Boston, Charles A. Ilaskell of Wethersfield, Vt .; settled Law- rence, Kan. He was son of Franklin Haskell of North Brookfield; was taken sick with congestion of the lungs at Baxter Springs, Kan., where he d. Feb. 8, 1868. They had three children, Hattie Frances, b. July 10, 1857, d. 1859; Helen Grace, b. Jan. 2, 1860; lives Lawrence, Kan. ; Franklin, b. Nov. 27, 1863; Maria L., b. Apr. 24, 1832, m. H. P. Dow of Worcester, and d. Lawrence, Kan., July 7, 1875.
13. William P. son of Galen 11, b. Lincoln, Oct. 24, 1805; farmer ; settled North Brookfield ; d. Nov. 9, 1877. He m. Oct. 4, 1838, Eliza Ann Hersey of Fox- croft, Me. Child, William Howard, b. North Brookfield, Oct. 28, 1840 14.
14. William Howard, son of William P. 13; station agent at North Brook- field ; m. in Leicester, May 7, 1862, Lorinda S. Howe of Brookfield. Child, Rosel- la Howard, b. North Brookfield, Aug. 23, 1867.
15. Josiah, son of Daniel 5, b. Hingham, Nov. 29, 1784; farmer; settled in Hingham; removed ISII to Lincoln ; came to North Brookfield, 1812, and bought of Daniel Forbes the William P. Whiting place, where he lived four years, when he sold to his brother Galen, and bought the farm now owned by George Har-
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wood, where he lived a year. He sold, and hired for a year the Ball place, long known as the Ives place. He then hired the Bell place, where he lived two years ; then leased for two years the Skerry place; then bought of the widow of John Marsh the place now owned and occupied by his son Josiah. He lived here nine years, and then bought of William Howe the Walker place in Brookfield, where he lived two years, then leased the Banister place in that town, remaining only one year. He then returned to North Brookfield to the Marsh place, where he lived and d. Feb. 17, 1845. He m. Merial Prouty of Scituate. Children, Julia Ann, b. Sept. 23, 1810, m. Nov. 5, 1829, Leonard Stoddard of North Brookfield; Osborn, b. Lincoln, Jan. 11, 1812 16; Elizabeth, b. North Brookfield, Feb. 7, 1813, m. Oct. 10, 1837, Daniel T. Hunter of Ware; Josiah, b. June 5, 1815 17 ; Merial, b. June 6, 1817, d. Sept. 3, 1837 ; Abigail, b. Apr. 26, 1819, m. Oct. 20, 1847, Erasmus Haston, and d. North Brookfield, June 17, 1848 ; Jacob, b. July 18, 1822, d. young ; Martha L., b. Oct. 25, 1823, m. Dec. 11, 1848, J. Franklin Hebard of North Brookfield, and d. Sept. 2, 1872 ; Mary B., b. Mar. 27, 1825, m. Jan. 31, 1850, Hubbard Brigham of Boston, and d. Jan. 4, 1873.
16. Osborn, son of Josiah 15, b. Lincoln, Jan. 12, 1812 ; farmer ; lives North Brookfield. He m. Dec. 24, 1840, Nancy B. Hersey, b. Auburn, Me., May 30, 1822. Children (North Brookfield), Rosella A., b Sept. 7, 1843, d. Oct. 8, 1865; Augustine A., b. Oct. 22, 1845, m. Feb. 11, 1875, Ida May Dyer of Joliet, Ill. ; teacher among the Indians ; Harriet E., b. Nov. 17, 1853, d. Aug. 9, 1858.
17. Josiah, son of Josiah 15, b. North Brookfield, June 5, 1815; farmer ; m. Nov. 20, 1850, Catherine Bird of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Seth B., b. Sept. 11, 1851 ; machinist ; lives Exeter, N.H .; Urban }., b. Apr. 17, 1854; shoe dealer; m. Nov. 28, 1882, Elma R. Sampson of North Brookfield ; Lila B., b. Oct. 31, 1856, d. Sept. 20, 1880; Edgar H., b. Aug. 1, 1859, d. June 16, 1860.
18. WHITING, Elias, b. Hingham, Dec. 18, 1769; farmer; settled Hingham ; came to North Brookfield after the birth of his children ; d. Sept. 7, 1845. He m. July 1, 1804, Mehitable Whiting, daughter of Daniel 5, d. in North Brookfield, Feb. 25, 1870. Children, Elias, b. Sept. 22, 1805, d. at sea, Jan. 10, 1825; Franklin, b .. June 18, 1807 ; carpenter ; lives Mt. Holly, O .; m. Sept. 25, 1832, Hannah Davis of Ohio; Sarah Blossom, b. Feb. 7, 1809, m. Dec. 21, 1836, Benjamin F. Bailey of Berlin, and d. Worcester, Dec. 28, 1848 ; Nymphas Marston, b. July 3, 1811 ; farmer ; lives North Brookfield ; Abigail, b. June 3, 1813, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 3, 1838 ; Edward B., b. Jan. 17, 1816 19; Desire, b. Sept. 25, 1819, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 2, 1829 ; Mehitable, b. Dec. 29, 1821, m. Jan. 24, 1848, Edward Humphrey of Hingham, and d. Charlestown, Jan. 4, 1868.
19. Edward B., son of Elias 18, b. Hingham, Jan. 17, 1816; lives North Brook- field; m. (1) Jan. 1, 1840, Maria D. Tubbs of Norwich, Ct .; (2) Nov. 5, 1846, Mary Ann Kendrick of North Brookfield. Children, Jennie, b. May 22, 1841 ; milliner; lives Boston ; Emma, b. June 23, 1852 ; teacher ; lives North Brookfield.
WHITING, Sidney A., b. Holliston, Oct. 12, 1835; farmer ; lives North Brookfield ; m. (1) June 15, 1864, Roxana A. Tucker, d. June 30, 1877 ; (2) Dec. 22, 1881, Henrietta S. Walker of North Brookfield. Child, George A., b. July 9, 1867.
WHITTEMORE, James, b. Sturbridge, Apr. 1849, came to North Brookfield, June 18, 1876; m. 1875, Mary E. Hooker of Sturbridge. Children, Reed Austin, b. Sturbridge, Mar. 16, 1876; James Earle, b. North Brookfield, Sept. 5, 1878; Robert
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Alfred, b. Aug. 14, 1880; Addie Ella, b. May 16, 1883; Lulu Caroline, b. July 30, 1885, d. young.
WHOLEY, John, b. Ireland; stone mason; lives North Brookfield; m. in Lowell, Mary Burke, b. Ireland, d. North Brookfield, Apr. 14, 1876. Children, John, b. Sept. 1867 ; Bridget, b. Aug. 21, 1869; Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1871 ; James, b. Oct. 10, 1873.
WHONEHAN, Daniel, b. Ireland, 1845; m. in North Brookfield, June 15, 1873, Ann McDermott, who d. Jan. 27, 1885. Child, John f., b. Sept. 26, 1878.
WILDER, Marshall; cabinet maker; b. Sterling, 1783, d. Sterling, Aug. 30, 1845. He m. July 15, 1814, Caperniam Knowlton of North Brookfield. Children, Charles Knowlton, b. Sterling, Jan. 24, 1815; farmer; m. Phebe Baker of Sterling, and d. Maquoketa, Ia., Sept. 19, 1868, where he had lived about fifteen years, " an honored citizen and an exemplary Christian ;" Sally Mirick, b. Watertown, N.Y., Apr. 20, 1819, m. Sept. 14, 1837, Elijah Nichols of North Brookfield ; Mary Bush, b. Watertown, Aug. 2, 1821, m. Chester Edson of Brookfield, Vt., and lives Maquoketa, Ia .; James Marshall, b. Watertown, Sept. 5, 1825, d. Sterling, Mar. 6, 1865. He m. Susan Haradon.
WILDER, Rev. Sedgwick P., b. Newfane, Vt., May 28, 1847; pastor of the First Congregational Church in North Brookfield ; m. Oct. 13, 1875, Jennie A. Wat- son of Beloit, Wis. Children, Margery Esther, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 27, 1881 ; John Watson, b. June 27, 1883. (See ante, p. 30).
WILSON, Rev. George Hayward, b. Salem, of English parents, Aug. 20, 1852 ; graduated, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1876; ordained and installed pastor of the Union Congregational Church in North Brookfield, Sept. 6, 1876; dismissed at his own request, May 28, 1878 ; preached at Globe Village in Southbridge two years ; went thence to Biddeford, Me., where he remained two years and seven months ; went thence to Owosso, Mich., in the fall of 1882, and was settled as pastor of the Congrega- tional Church. He m. (1) June 8, 1876, Lorenza W. Pervier of Salem, d. North Brookfield, Nov. 25, 1876; (2) June 6, 1878, Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Knight of North Brookfield. Children, Albert Hiram, b. Globe Village, Feb. 10, 1880, d. Biddeford, May 18, 1880 ; Wendell Wilson Jones (adopted), b. Limerick, Me., Apr. 26, 1880 [son of Rev. D. L. Jones] ; George Robert, b. Biddeford, Me., Jan. 8, 1882 ; Sarah May, b. Owosso, Mich., Feb. 3, 1883; Carrie Frances, b. Sept. 16, 1884.
WILSON, William J., b. Auburn, N.Y., Mar. 1852, m. in Leicester, Aug. 17, 1876, Emma Collier of Millbury. Children, Nettie L., b. Holland, Sept. 26, 1877 ; George L., b. North Brookfield, Jan. 26, 1880.
WINE, Paul; shoemaker in North Brookfield ; m. Nov. 8, 1857, Mary Brow of - Sorelle. Children, Paul, b. East Brookfield, Aug. 1859, m. Nov. 24, 1879, Emma Jandreaux of North Brookfield, where he lives [children, George Napoleon, b. Nov. 12, 1880 ; Paul A., b. Sept. 15, 1883] ; Mary, b. West Brookfield, Mar. 1861, m. July 23, 1876, John Stone of North Brookfield ; Emma, b. in Vermont, Mar. 1862 ; John, b. June, 1864; Frank, b. May, 1867; Charles, b. North Brookfield, Jan. 1870; Josephine, b. Apr. 1872.
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WINSLOW, Kenelm 1, brother of Gov. Edward, b. Droitwich, Eng., Apr. 29, 1599 ; farmer and joiner ; settled Marshfield ; d. on a visit at Salem, Sept. 13, 1672. He m. June, 1634, widow Elinor Adams of Plymouth ; buried at Marshfield, Dec. 5, 16SI, aged eighty-three. Children, Kenelm, b. 1635 2 ; Ellen ; Nathaniel ; Job.
2. Kenelm, son of Kenelm 1, b. 1635 ; yeoman; d. Harwich, Nov. II, 1715. He m. (1) Sept. 23, 1667, Mercy Worden of Yarmouth, d. Sept. 22, 1688 ; (2) Dam- aris -. Children, Kenelm, b. 1668 ; Josiah ; Thomas ; Samuel, b. 1675 3; Mer- cy; Nathaniel ; Edward ; Damaris ; Eleanor ; John.
3. Samuel, son of Kenelm 2, deacon, b. Harwich, 1675; yeoman and cord- wainer ; lived Rochester; was a proprietor of Leicester, also lived Hardwick, and probably removed with his sons to Petersham, where he d. He m. (1) Sept. 26, 1700, Bethiah Holbrook of Scituate ; (2) Nov. 11, 1703, Mercy King of Scituate, d. Rochester, Feb. 16, 1733; (3) Ruth Briggs. Children, Mary Elizabeth ; Ann ; Thomas ; Kenelm, b. Rochester, Feb. 2, 1712-13 4 ; Judith.
4. Kenelm, son of Deacon Samuel 3 ; hotel keeper ; lived Petersham, where he d. before May 5, 1777. He m. June 24, 1734, Elizabeth Clapp of Rochester, d. Petersham. Children, Kenelm ; Elizabeth ; Anna ; Mary ; Susanna ; Kenelm ; Ebenezer, b. Petersham, Sept. 28, 1749 5 ; John Clapp ; Rhoda ; Dorcas.
5. Ebenezer, son of Kenelm 4; farmer ; lived Petersham, d. Feb. 24, 1822. He m. Aug. 5, 1773, Rebecca Dean of Dedham, b. Dec. 23, 1751, d. Mar. 13, 1809. Children, Susanna, b. May 12, 1774, m. in North Brookfield, Dec. 2, 1799, William Thompson of New Braintree, and d. Litchfield, N.Y., May 20, 1832; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 1, 1776, d. young ; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 13, 1778 6; Joel, b. May 29, 1780; farmer ; d. North Brookfield, May 6, 1834 ; Leonard, b. May 22, 1782 7 ; Rebecca, b. Mar. 11, 1785, m. Apr. 1, 1804, John Washburn of Brookfield; Lucretia, b. Feb. 25, 1787, m. May 31, ISOS, Jonas Harwood of Brookfield, and d. North Brookfield, Nov. 28, IS64.
6. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer 5, b. Petersham, Jan. 13, 1778 ; clothier ; d. Shore- ham, Vt., Mar. 2, 1824. He m. Nancy Aldrich of Petersham, who d. Northbridge, 1822. Child, Simeon Aldrich 8.
7. Leonard, son of Ebenezer 5, b. Petersham, May 22, 1782 ; farmer ; d. North Brookfield, Jan. 18, 1827. He m. Jan. 24, ISII, Thankful Jenks, daughter of Gideon of North Brookfield. Children, Susan, m. Rev. Elisha Perry, a Baptist minister of Marshpee, and d. 1841; John Combs, b. Dec. 22, 1813, m. Judith Eliza Davis of Worcester, and d. there ; Mary Combs, b. Dec. 22, 1813 (twin), m. Amasa Hinds of Brookfield, and d. Apr. 1873; Lydia White, b. 1819, m. Archelaus Baker of South Dartmouth.
8. Simeon A., son of Ebenezer 6, b. Petersham, Mar. 3, 1803 ; painter ; d. Ux- bridge, Dec. 26, 1835. He m. Dec. 11, 1823, Mary Shepard Slade of Smithfield, R.I. Children, Helen Maria, b. Spencer, Feb. 28, 1828, in. Mar. 29, 1846, Elkanah Miller Wingate of Appleton, Me .; lives Union, Me .; Mary Louisa, b. Slatersville, R.I., Aug. 3, 1829, d. Northbridge, Apr. 10, 1881 ; she m. (1) Oct. 3, 1850, George W. Bolster of Uxbridge; (2) Oct. 7, 1858, James Hopkins of Northbridge ; Oceana Manverse, b. June 3, 1831, d. Uxbridge, Sept. 23, 1845; George William, b. Nov. 9, 1832, m. May 1, 1855, Jane L. Southwick of Northbridge; lives South Boston ; Edward Clarendon, b. Uxbridge, Dec. 31, 1834 9 ; Lucy' Lucretia, b. Apr. 25, 1836, d. Slatersville, R.I., Dec. 4, 1837.
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