History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 5

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1464

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MINISTERS .- Rev. Jonathan Bigelow, son of An- drew and Sarah (Fassett) Bigelow, graduated from Brown University in 1817, and at Andover Theologi- cal Seminary in 1820 ; married Eliza Tappan, a sis- ter of William Tappan, the poet, and herself a ready writer. He was ordained and settled July 11, 1821, at Lubec, Me., where he remained until 1826. From 1827 to 1849 he was settled at Rochester, Mass., and at Euclid, Ohio, from 1850 until his death, which oc- curred January 26, 1854, at the age of sixty-one years. Rev. Ashael Bigelow, also a son of Andrew Bigelow, graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and subsequently from Andover Theological Seminary ; he was ordained over the Congregational Church in Walpole, Mass., March 28, 1823, and, in 1850, was installed at Hancock, N. H., where he died August 16, 1817, after a pastorate of twenty-five years, and a ministry of forty-nine years. Rev. Andrew Bigelow, Jr., D.D., brother of above, was for several years the acting pastor of the Boylston Church. A sketch of his life appears in connection with the history of the church. Rev. Jonathan Longley, son of James Longley, Esq., entered Harvard College in 1812, but was forced on account of ill health to leave the Uni- versity before completing his course. He studied theology with Rev. Nathaniel Emmons, D.D., and resided at Northbridge, where he died January 26, 1850.

Rev. John Flagg graduated at Harvard College 1816 ; ordained pastor of the Second Church in Rox- bury February 2, 1825; died March 14, 1831, aged forty-one years.

Rev. William J. White, son of Aaron White, and a graduate of the Andover Theological Seminary, was ordained September 20, 1842, and is now residing in Worcester.

Rev. William D. Flagg graduated at Amherst Col- lege 1853 ; died 1859, at the age of thirty years.

Rev. William W. Whipple, A.M., graduated at Amherst College 1841, and is now settled at Yonkers N. Y.

Rev. Frank D. Sanford, son of Rev. Wm. H. San- ford, is a widely-known Evangelist.

Rev. George S. Ball, of Upton, a well-known

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Unitarian clergyman of Worcester County, and chap- lain of the Twenty-first Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers during the War of the Rebellion and an ex-member of the Massachusetts Senate, is also a direct descendant of a Boylston family.

LAWYERS .- Hon. Asa Andrews, A.M., graduated at Harvard College 1783, studied law and settled at Ipswich, Mass., where he was appointed by President Washington collector of the port, which office he held for over thirty years; he died in 1856. Mathew Davenport, Esq., graduated at Harvard College 1802, studied law and settled on the homestead of the family in Boylston, where he died in 1860. He was the author of a " Historical Sketch " of Boylston, published in 1830. James Sawyer, Esq., graduated at Brown University 1814, studied law and settled in Texas, where he died in 1823.

Aaron White. Jr., Esq., graduated at Harvard College 1817, studied law and settled first in Rhode Island, where he took an active part in the "Dorr's Insurrection." He afterwards settled in Connecticut and in Dudley, in this county. He died in Connecti- cut in 1887.

Thomas W. White, Esq., brother of above-named, studied law, and is now engaged in business in Brooklyn, N. Y. Hon. William N. Davenport studied law at the University of Michigan and at Hudson, Mass., and is now engaged in practice at Marlborough, Mass., which place he represented in the General Court in 1885-86, and has just been elected to the Massachusetts Senate. Asa Welling- ton, Esq , who studied law and practiced in Boston, is now residiug at Quincy, Mass.

Among the physicians of the town have been Drs. Abraham Howe, who died October 19, 1779, aged twenty-one years; Amariah Bigelow, Jr., Uriah Bigelow, Eliakim Morse, son of Rev. Ebenezer Morse, M. D., who afterwards settled in Water- town, and died at the age of nearly a cen- tury ; Samuel Brigham, Seth Knowlton, Thaddeus Chinnery, William Davenport, who died at Boston in 1816, aged twenty-two years, and John Andrews. The latter was the physician of the town for forty years, and a man of much influence and prominence in the civil, parish and church relations of the town. William S. Bigelow, M. D., graduated at New York Homeopathic Medical College 1884, and is uow lo- cated at Phillipsburg, Pa. Charles A. Stearns, A.B., M.D., graduated at Amherst College 1881, and Har- vard Medical School 1884, and is now located at Pawtucket, R. I. Dr. Fred Bigelow, now located in Maine. Rev. Ebenezer Morse, A.M., M.D., the first minister of the town, united in himself the three- fold offices of mioister, lawyer and physician. Among others who have gone from the town and held prominent positions elsewhere should be noticed James Longley, Jr., who settled in Boston, where he was well-known in the hotel business, and afterwards largely connected with several manufacturing inter-

ests. He was twice elected an alderman of the city of Boston. In 1863 he gave the sum of five hundred dollars to the town for the benefit of the Old Ceme- tery.

Hon. E. Hastings Moore, of Athens, Ohio, for several years a member of Congress from that State.

The late Major-General Aaron Sawyer Gibbs, once prominent in the military circles of Massachusetts and New York, and the late General Lysander Flagg, a prominent capitalist and business man of Rhode Island, and formerly quartermaster-general of that State.

Hon. Phinehas Ball, of Worcester, is a native of the town. He served the city of Worcester in 1865 as mayor, and was for many years city engineer. He is a well-known civil engineer, and for many years a partner of Elbridge Boyden. which firm built Mechanics' Hall, Worcester, Taunton Insane Hos- pital and the jails at Greenfield and Fitchburg. He planned and constructed the water-works at Wor- cester, Springfield and other places. He is now president of the Union Water-Meter Company. Hon. Charles B. Pratt, mayor of Worcester in 1877- 78-79, is emphatically a Boylston man, coming to the town when very young. His early years were spent here. Mr. Pratt has been city marshal, alder- man and, in fact, has held nearly all the city offices, and iu 1859 represented the city of Worcester in the House of Representatives, and has since been a member of the State Senate. He is now president of the First National Fire Insurance Company.

Hon. Charles G. Reed, ex-mayor of Worcester, is also a descendant, on his mother's side, of another Boylston family. Boylston has sent many men of influence and note into the city government of Wor- cester. Hardly a year has elapsed since Worcester became a city, but what the town has been represented to a greater or lesser extent. It has also many repre- sentatives among the successful business men of the city.

For more than forty years this town was the chosen home of John B. Gough, the distinguished temperance orator, lecturer and philanthropist. Coming here in 1843, Mr. Gough married Miss Mary G. Whitcomb, and purchased a large tract of land, situated midway between Boylston and Worcester, where he erected large and fiue buildings, con- structed the finest avenues through his grounds, planted thousands of fruit and ornamental trees and developed his beautiful homestead of "Hillside," the mansion of which he filled to repletion with the bric-a-brac of all climes, and with a magnificent library of the choicest works, and one of the finest and most valuable private collections in America. To this beautiful home Mr. Gough came for recuper- ation and rest after his extended and successful lec- ture tours through this country and abroad, and here he delighted to gather about him the most distin- guished aud cultured of both continents.

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The story of Mr. Gough's remarkable life is so well known to all, that an extended notice of it hardly seems necessary here. A brief sketch of it is, however, appended. He was born at Sandgate, Eng- land, a romantic little watering-place, about ten miles from Dover. His father was a veteran of the Peninsular War, and his mother was a schoolmistress of the vil- Jage. When abont six years of age he was sent to a seminary at Folkstone, two or three miles from Sand- gate. About this time, attracting the attention of the visitors at the little watering-place, he was often sent for to read to the ladies and gentlemen gathered at a small reading-room in the place.

In 1829, when twelve years of age, he came to America with a family from Sandgate. He reached New York, after a voyage of fifty-four days, and soon after removed, with the family, to a farm in Oneida County, in that State. Atter remaining here two years, he went to New York City, where he entered the Methodist Book Concern as an errand boy and apprentice to the book-binding trade. After this followed the dark and discouraging period of his life, during which he drifted about to different places, -- first to Bristol, R. I., then to Providence, R. I., and New- buryport, Mass., and finally to Worcester, Mass. This was during the Washingtonian Temperance movement, and, after coming to Worcester, he was induced to take the pledge, and, after a long and desperate struggle, overcame his appetite for strong drink, and entered the work as a speaker. From 1843 until the time of his death not a year passed without his entering the lecture field.

In 1853 he went to England at the invitation of the London Temperance League, and was absent two years, speaking throughout all parts of Great Britain. In Edinborough alone seventeen thousand people flocked to hear him, and the London Temperance Society gave him a silver dinner service.

In 1877 he again visited Great Britain, and spent three years in England and Ireland, delivering in England alone three hundred and ninety addresses to five hundred thousand people, and secured twelve thousand signatures to the pledge. After his return to America he began to speak on other topics besides temperance. His published works have had a large sale,-one million copies of his lectures have been sold, and over one hundred thousand copies of his autobiography.

On the 1st of January, 1886, he had delivered eight thousand five hundred and sixty-seven lectures and traveled five hundred thousand miles. He was stricken with apoplexy while speaking at Frank- ford, Pa., and died there February 17, 1886, at the age of sixty-eight years, six months and twenty-six days.

PRECINCT CLERKS -Shrewsbury North Precinct, 1742 to 1786 .- 1742, John Bush; 1843-1748, Deacon Cyprian Keyes ; 1749-1755, Daniel Hastings; 1756- 1758, Deacon Amariah Bigelow; 1759, Deacon John

Keyes; 1760, 1761, Deacon Cyprian Keyes; 1762- 1764, David Taylor; 1765, 1766, Deacon Amariah Bigelow; 1767-1772, Captain Joseph Bigelow, Jr .; 1773, 1774, Thomas Andrews; 1775, 1776, David Taylor; 1777, Deacon Amariah Bigelow ; 1778 to Dec- ember, David Taylor; December, 1778, 1779, 1780, David Goodale; 1781-1785, Dr. Amariah Bigelow.

TOWN CLERKS-Town of Boylston, 1786 to 1888 .- 1786, Lieutenant Aaron Sawyer; 1787-1799, Colonel Jotham Bush ; 1800-1818, Aaron White, Esq. ; 1819, Pitt Moore ; 1820-1824, Aaron White, Esq .; 1825, Cap- tain Eli Bond ; 1826-1837, Nathaniel Davenport, Esq .; 1838-1849, John T. Cotton, Esq .; 1850 to June 19, 1888, Deacon Henry H. Brigham ; June 25, 1888, Penniman M. Brigham.

REPRESENTATIVES TO GENERAL COURT-Shrews- bury North Precinct, 1742 to 1786 .- 1746, John Keyes, Esq .; 1747, 1749, 1756. 1758, Isaac Temple; 1783, Lieutenant Jonas Temple.

Town of Boylston, 1786 to 1888 .- 1787, 1788, 1792 to 1796 inclusive, Lieutenant Jonas Temple ; 1789-1791, Ezra Beaman, Esq .; 1798 to 1810, inclusive, James Longley, Esq. ; 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, Deacon Jona- than Bond ; 1815, 1816, 1817, Colonel Jotham Bush ; 1818, 1819, 1821, 1822, Aaron White, E.q .; 1827, 1829 to 1835 inclusive, Rev. Ward Cotton; 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, Captain Eli B. Lamson ; 1843, 1844, 1845, John T. Cotton, Esq. ; 1848-1880, Henry H. Brig- ham, Esq. ; 1849, Nathaniel Davenport, Esq .; 1851, Captain John Andrews; 1852, Robert Andrews, Jr .; 1854, Oliver S. Kendall ; 1857, Rev. William H. San- ford ; 1860, Dr. John Andrews; 1863, Horace Ken- dall; 1869, Henry White; 1874, Henry V. Woods ; 1884, Levi L. Flagg.

DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS .- 1788, Lieutenant Jonas Temple ; 1820, Deacon Jona- than Bond; 1853, Rev. Daniel S. Whitney.

CHAPTER CXXII.

UPTON.

BY WILLIAM T. DAVIS.

THE territory constituting the town of Upton was occupied before the migration of the white men from the sea-coast to the interior by the Nipmuck tribe of Indians. Before the incorporation of the town, in 1735, it belonged to the towns of Sutton, Uxbridge, Mendon and Hopkinton. Among the first settlers on this territory were John Hazeltine, David Batch- eler, Jonathan Wood, Israel Tatt, John Sadler, Wil- liam Johnson, John Bromly, William Green, Benja- min Perham, Samuel Nelson, Stephen Denny, Sam- uel Watkins, Marshal Baker, Samuel Work, Samuel Reeks, John Warfield, Willson Rawson, Robert Tyler, Matthias Taft, Peter Holbrook, Stephen Ten- ney and Thomas Palmer. Of these, Matthew Taft

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was a settler as early as 1728, having bought his land of Harvard College. This territory included thirteen thousand and ninety-four acres. A portion of it, including about three thousand acres, formed a part of the tract of land belonging to the Hopkins Fund, which, during nearly a hundred years, was a source of trouble and vexation to the inhabitants. Edward Hopkins came from England in 1637, and settling in Connecticut, became its Governor. He re- turned to England and died in 1657, giving the sum of five hundred pounds out of his estate in New Eng- laud to trustees, after the death of his wife, to be in- vested in houses and lands in New England, the in- come from which should be devoted to the support of students in the grammar and divinity schools at Cambridge, and to the purchase of books to be given to meritorions students at Harvard College. Anne Hopkins, his wife, died in 1698, and after a suit in Chancery the trustees obtained, in 1715, in satisfac- tion of the legacy, a verdict and payment of five hundred pounds, with interest, amounting to three hundred more. This money was invested in the pur- chase of Maguncog from the Natick Indians, which, with other land-, finally became the town of Hop- kinton, one of the contributors 'to the township of Upton.

In 1716 the court gave to the Hopkins Trustees the province lands in Hopkinton, swelling their pos- session to twenty-five thousand acres. About one- half of these acres were leased for ninety-nine years, dating from March 25, 1723, and the remainder were reserved as common lands. Troubles ensued con- cerning the payment of rent and taxes; the courts and the Legislature were resorted to for relief by both trustees and tenants, and not until 1832 was peace restored. In that year the Legislature agreed to pay eight thousand dollars and the tenants two thousand dollars, and for this consideration the trustees aban- doned their claim on the lands.

The territory of Upton is not specially attractive in soil or scenery. Its surface abounds in rocky hills, with here and there a plain of better land, like those on which the pleasant villages of Centre and West Upton are situated, while West River, the chief stream of the locality, finds its way through the richer meadows of the valley towards its outlet in the Black- stone River, at Uxbridge.

On the 31st of January, 1735, John Hazeltine and others, living on this territory, presented a petition to the Provincial Court to be incorporated as a town- ship, and on the 14th of June the following act was passed :

An Act for dividing the towns of Mendon, Sutton, Uxbridge and Hopkinton, and erecting a new town in the Connty of Worcester by the Dame of Uptou.

Whereas, the outlauds of the several towns of Mendon, Sutton, Ux- bridge and Hopkinton are completely filled with inhabitants who labor under difficulties by reason of their reuioteness from the places of pub- lic worship in the said towns, and have therefore addressed this Court that they may be sett off a distinct and separate township and vested

with all the powers and privileges that other towas in this Province are Vested with ;

Be it enacted by His Excellency, the Governor, Council and Repre- sentatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same :

SECT. 1. That all the outlands of the aforesaid towns of Mendon, Sutton, Uxbridge and Hopkinton comprised within the following bounds, containing in the whole twelve thousand nine hundred and forty-three acres, together with one hundred and fifty-one acres taken off Mr. John Rockwood's farm, bounded as follows, viz. : beginning at a pine tree, being the southeast corner of Grafton, and from theuce ex- tending north, bouoding west on Grafton till it comes to the northeast corner thereof; and from thence hounding by Westboro' line till it meets with Hopkinton live ; from thence extending southerly two hun- dred and twelve perch in the bounds between Sutton and Hopkinton ; from thence south nine degrees east four hnodred and ninety perch, to a stake and heap of stones ; from theace south thirty-one degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and forty perch ; from thence south sixty-one degrees thirty minutes east two hundred perch toa heap of stones at Haven Meadow ; from thence easterly one hundred and thirty- four perch to the north end of a pond called North pond and there bounded easterly oo said pond till it comes to the place where the Mill River runs out of said pond ; and thenice bounding by said River till it comes to a wading place called Peck's Wading Place, above the lower North Meadow ; from thence south thirty degrees thirty minutes west two hundred and seventy-four perch ; from thence sontb forty de- grees west ninety perch to Tyler's lane alias Marlborough road ; from thence south fifty-five degrees west four hundred perch to Uxbridge, where Uxbridge and Meudon meet ; thence bounding by Misco liill Brook till it meets with West River so called; then runs north twenty- five degrees west ten hundred and twenty-two perch on Uxbridge line to a beap of stones at Hazeltine's goat pasture ; from thence northerly to a pine tree ; thence easterly to a stake in a meadow ; and thence north twenty-five degrees and thirty minutes west one hundred and seventy perch to Grafton south line ; and thence bounding northerly ou Grafton one hundred and ninety-six perch to the bounds first men- tioned ; be and hereby are set off a distinct and separate township by the name of Upton.

SECT. 2. And that the inhabitants thereof be and hereby are vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities that the other towns in this Province are or ought, by law, to be vested with.

Provided,

SECT. 3. That the whole of Mr. Nathan Tyler's farm be and herehy is excluded out of the abovesaid township and be and it forever remains to the town of Meudon as heretofore.

Provided also,

SECT. 4. That the inhabitants of the said town of Uptou do within three years build a suitable and convenient house for the public worship of God and settle a learned orthodox minister and provide for his com- fortable and honorable support.

By an order of court passed June 17th John Hazel- tine, as one of the principal inhabitants of the new town, was authorized to notify and warn the inhabit- ants to meet on the 28th of July and choose town officers. On that day the town met at the house of John Sadler and John Hazeltine was chosen moder- ator, Jonathan Wood was chosen clerk and Samuel Work treasurer. The condition of the town records is such that it is impossible to learn who composed the first Board of Selectmen. Mr. Work, the treas- urer, died not long after his election, and on the 10th of November Jonathan Wood was chosen in his place.

The following is a list of persons who have served as selectmen in the years set against their names :

1736. Jolin Hazeltine. Israel Taft. Samuel Watkins.

Jonathan Wood.

William Green.

Jobn Sadler.

1737. Jonathan Nelson.

Jobo llazeltine.

1738. - Smith. - Taft.

Jonathan Wood.

1739. Matthew Taft.

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Stephen Tenney. William Green.

1764. Abiel Sadler. Ezra Wood. Nathan Tyler. 1765. Abiel Sadler.

Elijalı Warren.

Elisha Tuft.

1766. Abiel Sadler. Nathan Tyler. Ezra Wood.

1767. Nathan Tyler.

Stephen Sadler. Ezra Wood.

1790. Ezra Wood. Elisha Bradish. David Chapin. Jonas Warren. Thomas Nelson, Jr.

1743. Jonathan Wood. Matthias Taft. Wilson Rawson. Stephen Tenney.

1768. Nathan Tyler. Wilson Rawson. Elisha Taft.

1709. Josiah Deane.

Ephraim Whitney. Robert Taft.

J. RawsoD.

1808. Daniel Fisk. Daoiel Fisk, Jr. Wilson Rawson. Elisha Bradish. Amos Whitney.

1809. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Ezra Wood, Jr. Elisha Bradish. Enoch Batcheler. Silas Warren.

1810. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Ezra Wood, Jr. Enoch Batcheler. Silas Warren. Jonathan Ward.

1811. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Ezra Wood, Jr. Silas Warren. Jonathan Ward. Stephen Taft.

1812. Same.

1813. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Ezra Wood, Jr. Elisha Fisk. Jonathan Ward. Stephen Taft.

1814. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Ezra Wood, Jr. Jonathan Ward. Stephen Taft. Elisha Fisk.

1815. Jonathan Ward. Ezra Wood, Jr. Ward Palmer. John Sadler. Ephraim Taft.

1816. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Amos Whitney. Elisha Bradish. Jobn Sadler. Hezekiah Rockwood.

1817. Ezra Wood.

Amos Whitney. Elisha Fisk. Daniel Holbrook. Jonathan Ward.

Jonathan Nelson. Benjamin Perham.

1759. Abiel Sadler.

Stephen Sadler. Ezra Wood.

1786. Jonathan Batcheler. Ezra Wood.

John Taft. Ephraim Whitney.

1787. Ezra Wood.

1762. Abie) Sadler.

Stephen Sadler. Nathan Tyler. 1763. Jonathan Wood. Wilson Rawson. Abiel Sadler.

Robert Fisk. Simeon Holbrook. Thonms M. Baker. Nahum Warren.

1788. Ezra Wood. Robert Fisk.

Amnos Bradish. Daniel Fisk, Jr.

Constant Hardy. Hezekiah Rockwood. 1805. Amos Bradish.

Wilson Rawson. Constant Hardy. Hezekiah Rockwood. Stephen Taft.

180f. Wilson Rawson. Elisha Bradish. Amos Whitney. Daniel Fisk. John Sadler.

1807. Wilson Rawson. Elisb & Bradish. Amos Whitney. Daniel Fisk. Daniel Fisk, Jr.

1744. Wilson Bawson. Jonas Warren. Robert Bradish. Benjamin Stewart. Ebenezer Fisk.

1745. John Sadler.

1770. Abiel Sadler. Elisha Taft. Elijah Warren.

1771. Joseph Sadler. Robert Taft. Josiah Childs.

1793. Same.

1772. Josiah DeaDe. Ezra Wood.

Benjamin Farrar.

1794. Elisha Bradich. Thomas Nelson, Jr. Wilson Rawson. Paul Nelson. Amos Whitney.

1747. Wilson Rawson. Jonathan Wood. Jonathan Nelson

1748. John Sadler.

Ephraim Whitney. Benjamin Fisk.

David Chapin. Ebenezer Stearns.

1749. Jonathan Wood.

John Hazeltine. Jonas Warren.

1776. Marshal Baker.

David Nelson. Julın Taft.

Amos Bradish. Wilson Rawson.

1750. Jobn Hazeltine. Jonas Warren. Jonathan Nelson.

1777. Josiah Deane.

1797. Ezra Wood.

1751. Beriab Rice. David Wood. Ebenezer Fisk.

Stephen Sadler. Ephraim Whitney.

Thomas Nelson, Jr. Wilson Rawson. Enoch Batcheler. Constant Handy.

1752. Jobn Sadler. Beriah Rice. Francis Nelson.

1779. Josiah Deane.

Wilson Rawson. Enoch Batcheler.

1753. Marshal Baker. Benjamin Perham. Jonas Warren, Jr.

1780. Ephraim Whitney. Joseph Sadler. Ebenezer Walker.

1781. Abiel Sadler.

Thomas Forbush. Abner Palmer.

Elisha Taft. Ephraim Whitney. Hezekiah Rockwood.

1800. Ezra Wood.

1756. Matthew Taft.

Abiel Sadler. Ephraim Whitney.

1783. Thomas Forbush.

Asa Hazeltine. Stephen Sadler.

1801. Ezra Wood.

Amoa Bradish.

1758. Samuel Wright.

1784. Jonathan Batcheler. Elisha Brodisb. Elijah Warren.

Daniel Fisk, Jr. Ezekiel Stoddard. Peter Forbush.

1802. Ezra Wood.

Amos Bradish. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Asa Childs. Wilson Rawson.

1760. Abiel Sadler. Ephraim Whitney. Daniel Batchelor.

1761. Same.

1818. Ezra Wood. Amos Whitney. Silas Warren. Daniel Holbrook. Josiah Rockwood, 1819. Jonathan Ward. Anos Whitney. Josiah Rockwood. Samuel Forbush. Elisha Chapin.

1820. Ezra Wood. Elisha Chapin. Ward Baker. Elisha Fisk.

Jonathan Wood. Stephen Tenney. Benjamin Palmer. Jonas Warren. 1746. Jonathan Wood. Jobn Hazeltine. Wilson Rawson.

1773. Elijah Warren. Abiel Sadler. Elisha Taft.

1774. Ezra Wood.

1795. Elisha Bradish. Abiel Sadler. John Taft.

Jobn Hazeltine. Jonathan Wood.

1775. Josiah Deane. Stephen Sadler. Nathaniel Flagg.

1796. Ezra Wood. Paul Nelson. Thomas Nelson, Jr.

1778. Ephraim Whitney. Thomas Nelson. James Torrey.

1798. Ezra Wood.

David Kelly. Wm. Fisk.

Jobn Childs. Daniel Fisk.

1799. Ezra Wood.

Elish& Bradislı.

1754. Marshal Baker. Matthew Lackey. Ephraim Whitney. 1755. Jonathan Wood. Stephen Sudler. Wilson Rawson.

1782. Thomas Forbush.

Ezra Wood. Jonathan Batcheler.

Elisha Bradish.

Wilson Rawson. Ephraim Whitney. Hezekiah Rockwood.

1757. Wilson Rawson. Stepben Sødlez. Ephraim Whitney.

1785. Jonathan Batcheler. Benjamin Farrar. Jonas Hayward.

1803. Ezra Wood. Amos Bradish. Daniel Fisk, Jr. Asa Childs. Nathaniel Flagg.

1804. Ezra Wood.

Simeon Holbrook. Thomas M. Baker. Nahum Warren. 1789. Wilson Rawson. Benjamin Fisk, Jr. Abner Palmer. Enoch Batcheler. Jonathan Batcheler.

1740. John Hazeltine. Jonathan Wood. Robert Tyler. 174]. John Hazeltino. Jomithan Wood. Stephen Tenney.

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History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 5

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1464

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1464