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John and Thomas moved to Windham County, Conn., and from them sprung the Dyers of Connecticut.
Benjamin (twin), son of Thomas Dyer, of Weymouth, married Mary. He settled in Boston; lived at one time in Brattle Street ; was a soldier in King Philip's War, in 1675 and 1676. Hobart's Sketch of Abington says William Dyer was from Weymouth before 1699; but I have not yet been able to determine whose son this William was. He is said to have held lands in Abington, and afterwards to have returned to Weymouth ; but whom he married, or what children he had, I have not been able yet satisfactorily to determine. He is supposed to have been the father of Christopher, who mar- ried Hannah Nash, daughter of Ensign Nash. The children of Christopher and Hannah were-
Mary, Hannah, Christopher, jr., Sarah, Jacob, Betty and James, born before 1743.
Christopher, jr., married. The children of Christopher, jr., were-
Bela, Joseph, Christopher, Benjamin, Jesse and Asa. Joseph died young.
Bela and Christopher, 3d, settled in Abington ; Benjamin, in Ashfield, Mass. ; Jesse, in Plainfield ; Asa, in Skowhegan, Me.
Bela Dyer, son of Christopher, jr., was a carpenter and Wheelwright ; he lived in an upright house, near the street, a few rods east of where Martin Stetson now lives. He, with his brother Christopher, built a mill for General Lincoln, in
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Passamaquody, Me., in 1786. He married Ruth Hunt ; died May 1, 1830, aged 73. He had three sons-Samuel, Bela and Albert. Samuel died young. Bela married Lydia White, and lives in Abington, near the old homestead. He has one son, Samuel, residing in Abington. This Samuel married · Lydia Alger, of Abington, September 16, 1841, by whom he had three children-Bela Dyer, 2d, born July 4, 1843 (now a student in Amherst College), Edward and Edwin (twins), born April 4, 1851. His wife, Lydia, died April 4, 1851. Married, 2d, Sarah Dyer, of Skowhegan, Me., December 25, 1855, by whom he has one child-Charles Dana Dyer-born October 3, 1857.
Bela and Charles D. Dyer are the seventh generation now living on the patrimony of the first settlers. Albert married Polly Wilkes, and has one son, Henry, in California.
Christopher, 3d, son of Christopher, jr., and brother of Bela, married Deborah Reed, of Abington, daughter of Samuel Reed, and of his third wife, Mary Young. The children of Christo- pher, 3d, and Deborah were-
Christopher, Sally, Deborah, Mehitable, Lucy, Charles, Sally, Hervey, Mary and Samuel.
Christopher, 4th, married Betsey Porter, eldest daughter of Ebenezer Porter, of South Abington. Their children were-
Betsey, who died young ; Ebenezer Porter, Elizabeth La- vinia, Christopher, Maria Louisa, Sally, George, Gustavus, Edward Loring, Elihu Francis and Helen Amelia.
Sally died young ; Deborah married Moses Bates, of East Bridgewater ; Mehitable married James Reed, of Abington ; Lucy married Jacob Bates, of East Bridgewater; Charles married, 1st, Cynthia Jenkins, of Abington ; 2d, Mary Ford ; 3d, Sophronia Oldham, both of Pembroke. He settled in IIanover. Sally married Elihu Hobart, Esq., of Abington ; Hervey married Ruth T. Reed, of Abington, for his first wife ; second, Lydia -. IIe settled in Pembroke. Mary married Harvey Gurney ; he settled in Abington. Samuel married Margaret J. Ford, of Pembroke, and settled in Abington. They have one daughter-Margaret Augusta.
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Of the children of Christopher, 4th, and Betsey, Ebenezer Porter married Esther Ann Hough, of Canterbury, Conn. IIe graduated at Brown University in 1833, and in 1838 entered the ministry. They had ten children, three of whom died young. Ile now resides at N. Somerville.
Elizabeth L. married Charles Cummings, of Medford ; Christopher, 5th, married Almira Littlefield, of East Stough- ton ; Maria L. married Ebenezer Alden, of Randolph ; Sally married Dauiel M. Fullerton, of Abington ; George Gustavus married Mary A. B. Sampson, of Plymouth ; Edward L. mar- ried Lavinia Gannet, of Hanson. He enlisted in the army for three years : before his term of service expired, he was taken sick, came home, and died. He left two sons in Abington- Edward Oscar and Ebenezer Alden. Elihu Francis married Mary Thomas, of Rochester ; has two daughters, and no sons. He is the only son of Christopher, 4th, now residing in town. This closes the line of which Capt. Christopher Dyer is the oldest male representative in Abington.
Jacob, son of Christopher and Hannah, married Abigail Reed, daughter of Eben Reed, of Abington. Their children were Jacob and Joseph.
Jacob, son of Jacob and Abigail, married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Samuel Niles, of Abington. Their children were --
Ezekiel Dodge, Samuel Niles, Mary Dodge Niles, and Nathaniel N.
Ezekiel Dodge married Widow Morse, and settled in Abing- ton. No children.
Samuel Niles married Maria Trow, and settled in Boston.
Mary Dodge Niles married Gladden Bonney, of East Bridge- water.
Nathaniel N., unmarried, is an apothecary in South Abing- ton.
Joseph, son of Jacob and Abigail, married Plebe Clark, and settled in Abington ; had a daughter Mehitable by his first wife. Married Anna Snell for his second wife, and had Cyrus A., late Postmaster at South Abington, now deceased.
James, son of Christopher and HIannalı, settled in Abington.
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He lived nearly opposite to the house where Samuel Blake now lives. Ile married Patty Harden ; they had one son- James-who settled in Centre Abington. He was a military captain ; and, for a portion of the time, during the war of 1812, had command of the troops stationed at the fort on the Gurnet. He married Nancy Bieknell, and had two sons and a daughter ; he also married Widow Bicknell for his second wife. Samuel, his eldest son, for many years a resident in Paris, has recently erected a costly and elegant dwelling-house near where his father lived. He is unmarried. James, his younger son, married, and resides in the same house with his brother, in Centre Abington.
Thus, so far as I have been able, I have endeavored to give a brief outline of the Dyers of Abington. Some blanks I have been unable to fill, from the sources of knowledge within my reach ; but so far as I have been able to verify the statements here made, I believe them to be correct.
I am aware that a bare genealogy is, to most readers, dry and uninteresting, and others take pleasure in being able to trace their pedigree back through a long line. Brevity is sometimes a virtue.
From Philip Reade, of Weymonth, in 1640, and Mary his wife, were descended-
Philip, his son, who married (1) Hannah, (2) Abigail ; Samuel, son of the 2d Philip and Abigail, married Mary Davis ; Samuel, jr., son of Samuel and Mary, married Eliza- beth Haywood ; Samuel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, married Mary Young; Deborah, daughter of Samuel and Mary Young, married Christopher Dyer, father of Capt. Christopher Dyer, of South Abington.
Mary Young was the daughter of Geo. Young, jr., of Scituate, who married Mary Stockbridge. His father was George, and his grandfather Thomas, born 1663, who married Sarah White (born 1663), in 1688, eldest daughter of Peregrine White, of the Mayflower.
From Philip Reade, of Weymouth, and Mary, are descended
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the Reeds of East Abington-Samuel, Abiah, Hon. Levi, and others.
Of the Reed family, from whom Betsey Dyer, wife of Capt. Christopher, is descended, the following is the record :-
1. William Reed married Lucy Henage.
2. William, his son, married Ivis ; William and Ivis were among the first settlers of Weymouth.
3. William, son of William and Ivis, married Esther Thompson, of Middleboro', in 1675. Her father, Jolın Thompson, came over in Werson's Company. John Thomp- son married Mary Cook, daughter of Francis Cook, who came over in the Mayflower's Company.
4. Jacob, third son of William and Esther, married Saralı Hersey, of Abington, and settled in Abington in 1708.
5. William, son of William and Sarah, married Silence Nash in 1750. Their children were-
Silence, born August 6, 1753 ; died July 10, 1794. William, born June 8, 1755 ; married Olive Pool, of Bridgewater. Jane, born June 23, 1757 ; married Rev. David Gurney. Betty, born February 23, 1760; married Ebenezer Porter, of Abing- ton. Susannah, born July 26, 1762; married Benjamin Bates. James, born October 6, 1764; married Ruth Porter, of Bridgewater. Timothy, born May 29, 1767; died Septem- ber 8, 1775. Mehitable, born January 29, 1770 ; died January 6, 1773.
The coat-of-arms of the Dyer Family was a plain shield, surmounted by a wolf's head, as appears from a tombstone in the burying-ground on Copps' Hill, Boston.
I find the name of Dyer very often occurs among the trades- men and mechanics of England, and is abundant in the Post- Office Directory of London.
There are many of the name in Maine, probably descendants of Asa ; and also on the Cape, descended from the same original stock. In the Lynn Records, and from the burying- grounds of Malden, West Bridgewater, South Bridgewater, and Weymonth, may be gathered additional facts by those
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who are curious to trace out the various branches of a some- what numerous family. But neither time nor space can be afforded now to give a more particular statement.
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FORD.
THE FORDS of Abington are the descendants of Andrew Ford, of Weymouth, the earliest mention of whom yet found is in the will of his father-in-law, Robert Lovell, (Suffolk Registry,) dated 1651. Andrew Ford was then married, and had at least two sons. He cannot be connected with certainty with Widow Ford, who came to Plymouth in the Fortune in 1623, nor with the early Fords in Dorchester and Cambridge ; nor is it now ascertained from which of the many English families of this name any of these New England branches sprung. From some circumstances, however, it would seem that Devonshire and Dorsetshire, where the name frequently occurs, and whence many of our early settlers came, are the most promising field of inquiry ; but this is conjecture. The descent of the Abington Fords, from Andrew Ford, of Wey- mouth, is as follows :-
I. 1. Andrew Ford, of Weymouth, admitted freeman in 1654 ; married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Lovell, some time before 1650; was associated with James Lovell and John Holbrook, in 1668, in purchasing from the Colony a part of the land called Ford's Farms, now in Abington, and near the Colony line. His children were Andrew, James and Joseph, who died about 1690, being then of New Bristol ; Samuel, born 1656, and died in Weymouth 1711; Nathaniel, born 1658, and died 1733, leaving a family in Weymouth ; Mary, who married a Whitman ; Ebenezer, born 1660 ; Silence, born 1661 ; Prudence, born 1663, married Joseph Lincoln, of Ilingham, and died 1695 ; Jacob, born 1666; Elizabeth, born 1667; Israel, born 1670, and died 1736, in Weymouth, his wife Sarah having died 1718, and no children being mentioned in his will; Sarah, born 1672. Of the sons, Samuel, James
FORD HOUSE, RESIDENCE OF J. IL. GILES, CENTRE ABINGTON.
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and Ebenezer, little is known except that they were for a time in Abington. Joseph has been conjectured to be the progenitor of the New Jersey Fords. Andrew Ford, the father, died in Hingham, March 4, 1693. [See HOBART'S DIARY. ]
II. 1. Andrew, (son of Andrew I. 1.,) was settled at Ford's Farms probably before 1679, near Joseph Cleverly's. Tradition says that he was once dislodged by the Indians, (was this in Philip's war, 1675, when the Indians once at- tacked Weymouth ?) and afterwards settled towards Bridge- water line. He married Abiah -, and his children were Andrew, born 1682; Sarah, who married Joseph Josselyn, and died 1734; Thankful, who married a Hersey ; Hezekiah, born 1687; Lydia, who married Richard Whitmarsh ; and Abiah, who married a Hersey. The father, Andrew Ford, senior, of Abington, who was the original settler of the town, and the chief proprietor in the first meeting-house, died August 24, 1725.
III. 1. Andrew, (son of Andrew II. 1.,) called in the Town Records Ensign Andrew Ford, was born 1682 (recorded in Weymouth), married Marcy Whitmarsh, and had children as follows :- Marcy, born 1708; Jacob, born 1711 ; Hester, born 1714, and married Jacob Porter; Mary, born 1719, and married Jacob Reed ; Andrew, born 1721. The mother died February, 1737 or '38 ; and Ensign Andrew Ford died May 12, 1750. His gravestone, and his wife's, were lately stand- ing in the burying-ground, near Mr. Cleverly's, in North Abington .*
III. 2. Hezekiah, (son of Andrew II. 1.,) born 1687; married, 1712, Ruth, daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Whit-
* Ensign Andrew Ford's will bequeaths certain property to the children of his daughter, Mrs. Porter, adding,-" And I would have it known, that the reason that I don't give tlie whole unto my said daughter, Hester Porter, is because I would not have it to come unto my son-in-law, Jacob Porter's hands, that he might not, with it, fight against ministers of the Gospel." This is a pregnant illustration of the bitter controversy thien (1749) going on respecting Rev. Mr. Brown, who witnessed, and, perhaps, drew, this will.
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marsh, and had children-Hezekiah, born 1713; Ruth, born 1716, who married Joseph Pool ; Mary, born February, 1717, and died in infancy. His wife, Ruth, died February, 1717, and he married Sarah Magoun, by whom he had James, born 1721, who died in infancy. Hezekiah Ford was one of the selectmen in 1720, and died November 3, 1721.
IV. 1. Jacob, (son of Andrew III. 1.,) born 1711; mar- ried, 1733, Sarah Pool, daughter of Samuel Pool, and had children-Jacob, born 1738; Sarah, born 1739, and married Barnabas Packard ; Mark, born 1741, married Hannah Brett, 1764, and moved to Bridgewater, where he left a family, and died 1821. Luke, born 1742; John, born, 1744 ; Noah, born 1745, and died in the French War; Joseph, born 1746, and married Freelove Beal, 1766; Mary, born 1748; Benjamin, born 1750. The mother died 1788, and Mr. Jacob Ford himself died Jnne 9, 1794, and is buried with his wife, near his father and mother.
IV. 2. Andrew, (son of Andrew III. 1.,) born 1721, married, 1742, Sarah Shaw, and had children ; Marey, born 1744, and married Daniel Reed; Lydia, born 1758; 'Elijah, born 1748, and died a child; Thomas, born 1749; Daniel, born 1751, and married Hannah Allen, 1774 ; Andrew, born 1745, and died a child ; Sarah, born 1754 ; Mary and Martha, twins, born 1755, of whom Martha died in infancy ; Solomon, born 1756; Elijah, born 1759.
IV. 3. Hezekiah, (son of Hezekiah III. 2.,) born 1713, married Deborah Beal 1733, and had children-Hezekiah, born 1734; Amos, born 1735; Deborah, born 1738, and married Solomon Shaw ; Huldey, born 1740, and married David Cobb, 1758; Abiah, born 1742.
V. 1. Jacob, (son of Jacob IV. 1.,) born 1738 ; married, 1761, Rachel Agur, and had children-Noah, born 1762 (see note) ; Jacob, born 1764, and married Polly Perry, 1793 ; Mary, born 1766; Sarah, born 1768; David, born 1770, and married Olive, daughter of Simeon Packard, 1794, and moved to North Bridgewater; Jonathan, born 1772, several times married ; lived in Boston. Simeon, born 1774, married Polly
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Vinson, and, for his second wife, Mehitable Curtis ; Molly, born 1776, married David Porter; Solomon, born 1778, mar- ried Phebe Gurney, and, for his second wife, Lydia Shaw, and lived in North Abington ; Joseph, born 1780, married Ruth Torrey, and died 1848; Rachel, born 1783, and married William Gurney ; Susannah, born 1787, and married Ezra Dunham. The mother died 1792, when Mr. Jacob Ford married Anna Ellis, 1793. Ile died February 21, 1818, and his widow died a week later.
V. 2. Luke, (son of Jacob IV. 1.,) born 1742, married, 1766, Hannah Reed, and had children-Deborah, born 1767 ; Lydia, born 1769 ; Molly, born 1772; Seth, born 1778; Adam, born 1784.
V. 3. Jolın, (son of Jacob IV. 1.,) born 1744, married Lydia Auger, 1767, and had children-Susannah, born 1768, married Noah Thomas, jr., 1793 ; John, born 1771 ; Lydia, born 1773; Hannah, born 1778, and died young ; James, born 1780, married Parna Howard, and, for second wife, a Gurney ; Samuel, born 1783, married Sally Clapp, and, for second wife, a Warren ; Lydia, born 1782, married John Wild; Hannah, born 1792, and married an Oldham. The father, John Ford, was a lieutenant in the Continental Army, and died March 18, 1792.
V. 4. Benjamin, (son of Jacob IV. 1.,) born 1750, mar- ried Sarah Brett, daughter of Samuel Brett, of Bridgewater, and had children-Sarah, born 1773 ; Mehitable, born 1775, and married Samuel Noyes ; Benjamin, born 1777; Sarah, born 1778; Pattie, born 1779, and married a Hall ; Moses, born 1781; Peter, born 1782, and married Polly Reed ; Molly, born 1784; Mark, born 1785; Andrew, born 1787; Cilvia, born 1788, and married a Whitman ; Ephraim, born 1791; Betsey, born 1793.
V. 5. Hezekiah, (son of Hezekiah IV. 3.,) born 1734, married Sarah Fisher in 1759, and had children-Hezekiah, born 1759, who married Huldah Cobb in 1787; Huldah, born 1761, and died 1762; Sarah, born 1764; Amos, born 1766, and married Molly Stetson. Hezekiah removed to Township
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No. 4, now Cummington, Hampshire County, in this State, about 1767, with his wife and daughter Mary, then aged 15, and his son IIczekiah, jr. Ruth, another daughter, married Ephraim Stetson, of Abington, before her father's removal. It is not known whether his other children remained here, or removed with him.
Mary, after her removal to Cummington, married Edmund Lazell, who emigrated to that town from Bridgewater some time before. He was a brother of the late General Sylvanus Lazell, and of Isaac and Nathan Lazell, of that town.
Edmund Lazell, by his wife Mary, had twelve children, most of whom died young. Two of his sons lived to grow up ; one, Cyrus M., was a graduate of Williams' College ; settled in Richmond, Va., as a lawyer, and died there before he was thirty years old. The children are now all deceased but one daughter, Deborah, who was married to Benjamin Ilobart, of Abington, January 22, 1815, whose descendants are mentioned in the Hobart family.
Hezekiah, the son, who removed to Cummington with his father, married a Miss Cobb, of Cummington, and had several children ; among them was a son Amos, who married his cousin, Mary, daughter of Ephraim Stetson. Another son of this latter, Hezekiah, married in Cummington, and had a family, and some of his posterity still remain there.
This gives the posterity of Andrew Ford, of Weymouth, to the fifth generation, from which the memory of most persons of the name now living in Abington will enable them to trace their descent. Many of the name have removed to the western part of the State, and elsewhere ; but there has been no attempt to make a strict account of these cases.
NOTE .- To the above we add an account of the descendants of the oldest son of Jacob Ford, (V. 1.,) to the present genera- tion ; this branch of the family being also the oldest in each generation, from Andrew Ford, of Weymouth.
VI. Noah, (son of Jacob V. 1.,) was born 1762, and married, 1783, Abigail, daughter of Eleazar and Abigail
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(Alden) Whitman. He served in the Revolutionary Army ; was for many years a prominent citizen of the town ; one of the selectmen, and captain of the artillery company, and died 1817. His widow died 1841, aged 77. His children were as follows :-
1. Nancy, born October 1, 1788 ; married Asaph Dunbar, and died October 15, 1853.
2. Daniel Alden, born January 27, 1791 ; married Abigail Farrar, of Scituate. Their children were-Thomas Alden, who died in Boston, 1859, leaving a daughter. Louisa, wife of Jesse Giles ; Mary Caroline, wife of Jacob Bates, of South Abington.
3. Sarah, born March 22, 1793 ; married Davis Packard, of Bridgewater, and died 1860, in Randolph. Their children were-Harriet Newell, Rev. Noah Ford, Abigail Whitman, Davis Snow and Sally Snow ; all died before her, as well as her husband. Rev. Noah F. Packard died in New Orleans in 1847.
4. Mary, born July. 27, 1795 ; married Jeremiah Litch, of Boston, and died there in 1848, without children.
GURNEY.
1. JOHN GURNEY, the ancestor of most of the name in Abington, came from Weymouth, and settled in the south part of this town, then a part of Bridgewater, about the year 1690. 1Ie died about 1715 ; and, it seems, intestate, as his estate was divided equally among his children, among whom were Richard, David and Nathan. Nothing is known of the posterity of Richard and David.
2. Nathan had Rebecca, born October, 1727; Lemuel, born October, 1730 ; Elijah, born -, 1732; Noah, born May, 1735 ; Nathan, born November, 1739; Silas, born June, 1743 ; Sarah, born March, 1745; Jacob, born March, 1748 ; Jolın, born May, 1751.
3. Lemuel left no posterity, so far as is known.
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3. Elijah married a Widow House, and had Sophia and Sylvia.
3. Noah married a daughter of Samuel Pool, Esq .; and had Asa, Joseph Pool, Noah, Jeremiah, James, John and Olive.
3. Silas married a Palmer ; and had Sarah, Oliver, Huldah, Rebecca, Anna and Ephraim.
3. Nathan married a Palmer (sister of Silas' wife) ; and had Nathan, Mary and Lebbeus.
3. Jacob married a Reese ; and had Elizabeth, Ruth, Mehitable, Jacob, William S., Phebe and Lucy.
3. John married Sarah Norton, daughter of Samuel Nor- ton, Esq., and had Polly, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hannah, John, Ira, Martha, Clarissa and Zenas.
3. Sarah married John Tirrell ; no issue.
3. Rebecca is supposed to have removed to Weymouth.
4. The daughters of Elijah left this town in early life.
4. Asa, son of Noah, married Mary, daughter of Jos. Hersey ; and had David, Mary and Rosand. The daughters died in early life.
4. Jos. P., son of Noah, married Sarah Reed, and had Nathaniel, Sarah, Samuel and Edmund. Samuel was killed by the kick of a horse.
4. Noah, son of Noah, married a Reed ; and had Jonathan R., Noah, Cyrus, Ichabod, Lydia, Ruth, Charity and Abigail.
4. Jeremiah, son of Noah, married Mary Fullarton ; and had Charlotte, Chandler R., Lysander, John, Mary, Eliza and -.
4. James, son of Noah, was a graduate of Brown Uni- versity, and was settled in the ministry at Nantucket ; he married, in succession, two of the daughters of Silas Gurney, and had children.
4. John, son of Noah, married and removed West.
4. Olive, daughter of Noah, left no posterity.
4. Oliver, son of Silas, removed to Freetown, and had a family.
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4. Ephraim, son of Silas, left one son-William-who commanded a company in the War of 1861.
4. Sarah, daughter of Silas, married Asa Whitmarsh, and had two sons-Asaph and Oliver G.
4. Huldah and Anne, daughters of Silas, married James Gurney.
4. Nathan, son of Nathan, married a daughter of the late Elijah Shaw, and had Diantha and Merilla L. He after- wards married Martha Puling, and had Nathan P .; she dying, he married Sarah Whitman, and had Ephraim W.
4. Lebbeus, son of Nathan, married Susanna Lazell ; and had Lebbeus, Nathan and Nahum ; after her decease he mar- ried Ruth Gurney, and had children.
4. Mary, daughter of Nathan, married Malachi Jenkins, and removed from Abington.
4. Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob, married Ezra Cushing ; Ruth married Joel Reed ; Mehitable married Seth Pool; Phobe married Solomon Ford ; Lncy married John Wild.
4. Jacob, son of Jacob, removed to Randolph ; William S. married a daughter of Jacob Ford, and had a family.
4. Polly, daughter of John, had no family ; Elizabeth mar- ried Ephraim S. Jenkins, and has children; Sarah married Thos. Blanchard ; no issue. Hannah married Daniel Reed ; Martha married Jos. Jenkins ; both removed to Madison, Me., and had families ; Clarissa married Peleg Stetson, and had no children.
4. The sons of John-Ira, John and Zenas-died child- less.
5. David, son of Asa, married Naney Ellis, and had Ruth, who married Orange Wilkes; Mehitable married Samuel D. Wilkes; Davis married Blanchard, and has a family ; David B. married Blanchard, and has a family ; Mary mar- ried James Corthel ; Rosanda married a Drake.
There are a few others in Abington by this name, who probably did not descend from the aneestor John Gurney, but from Joseph Gurney, who settled in this town about the close of the seventeenth century.
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Joseph G. had children, viz., Perkins, Benoni and Joseph, if no more; Perkins removed to Bridgewater, and was the father of Adam, David, Seth, and three daughters.
Bencni was the father of Benoni, Thomas, Samuel and Caroline.
Joseph, son of Joseph, had Joseph, Gideon, Daniel, Zacha- riah, Sarah and Deborah.
So far as is known, there are none of the descendants of Benoni remaining in this town. Of the descendants of Joseph, only Daniel, son of Daniel, and the children of Hervey, son of Daniel.
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HOBART.
I. THE families of this name in Abington and vicinity, descended from EDMUND HOBART, who, with his wife and son, Joshua, and daughters Rebecca and Sarah, came to New England, in 1633. He settled at Charlestown, became a free- man March 4, 1634, and went to Hingham in 1635. He was a deputy in 1639, 1640, and 1642. Ile died March 8, 1645 or 1646. The other sons were Edmund, jr., Rev. Peter Hobart, first minister of Hingham, and Thomas Hobart.
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