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That same autumn he entered upon missionary work in Penobscot Co., Maine, having been previously married to Miss Evelina Gilbert of Gorham, Maine. He was ordained as an Evangelist, at Burling-
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ton, Maine, Oct. 25, 1852. Here he labored with much pleasure and a reasonable degree of success, for about four years and a half. when he accepted a call to become the pastor of a newly organized church in Rockport. Maine. . This was a rapidly growing village, with many young, enterprising, public-spirited men. Having had much experi- ence in dealing with all classes of men, he applied himself very closely to study, and now entered upon his work as a settled pastor full of hope and enthusiasm. Here he hoped to spen I his days and see a large church grow up under his care and God's blessing. But
after several years of prosperity, the war clouds began to gither, and at length the Rebellion burst forth. From the first he felt called upon to do something for the union cause. With this feeling grow- ing deeper and stronger he enlisted as a private, in Dec, 1863. As a consequence of this, in part at least, about thirty others enlisted in h is village that same week ; many of whom distinguished themselves by effective work in putting down the Rebellion. But he was rejected for physical disability, having just then some temporary inflammation of the lungs. All these facts soon found their way into the local papers, and through them to the state regiments at the front, and without any agency of his, resulted in his appointment as Chaplain of the Sth Regiment, Mine Volunteers. He was commis- sioned by the Governor, and in istere ! into the United States service, March 1, 1864. at Beaufort, S. C. Heserved in that capacity till the close of the war, being soon transferred to Virginia and sent to the front, participating in every skirmish, fight and bittle, in which the regiment was engaged, except one, including the battle of Cold Har- bor, the siege of Petersburg and the surrender of Gen. Lee at Appomattox.
After several months spent in Richmond, Va , he received a call to become the acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Orleans, Barnstable Co., Mass. Here he began his work in Nov., 1865, not giving himself any time to rest after the constant excitement and taxation of army life. He had had several attacks of intermittent fever in the anny without leaving his regiment. Soon after resum- ing his pastoral duties, he found his strength giving way. Sickness and death repeatedly visited his family he also met with a severe injury. All these causes combining, at length he was prostrated by disease and brought close to death's door. A merciful Provi. dence raised him up in a measure, but finding his labors too great
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for his strength, he resigned his charge and gave himself up to rest, for four years and a half with a people whose Christian kindness could not be excelled. He was next installed pastor of the Congre- gational Church in Upton, Worcester Co., where he labored about four years and a half, and then removed to Needham, where he re- mained a little more than five years, laboring with great joy, and a good degree of encouragement and success. But in all these places, since his return from the war, he has worked in much weakness and several times has been brought to the brink of the grave. In all his fields of labor, God has blessed his efforts with frequent conversions and additions to the churches, and in all, except Orleans, with special revivals of religion, including the army. At Orleans, it was his priv- ilege to garner and care for the ripened sheaves reaped by another.
Last December he was installed pastor of the old church in Goshen with which his godly mother connected herself in the fresh- ness and hope of early life. "To her, under God," he says, " I owe more than I have power to express. She consecrated me to the work of the ministry from my infancy ; trained me in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and instructed me in the great truths and corresponding duties of our holy religion in my youth ; dying sud- denly, with all the members of the family present except myself, she left me this message, 'Study to know what duty is and then do it.' This I have ever tried to make the rule of my life."
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SUPPLEMENTARY. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
It should be said by way of explanation in regard to the family sketches that the original plan of the writer was to give sketches rather than genealogies, but as the work and printing progressed, the plan was somewhat changed, and the details were more extended. The lists of births, deaths and marriages that follow the sketches, will supply to some extent the lack of these particulars in the sketche -.
Joshua Abell, Jr., married, second, Polly -, who died Nov. 14, 1846, aged 84.
Children of Abner and Lois Baker : Waters, born July 27, 1796 ; Artemas, born Sept. 5, 1798 ; Theodore, born April 26, 1801 ; Nahum, born Feb. 28, 1803. This family removed to the West.
Daniel Beals married Hannah, daughter of David Stearns, and had : Elias, who married Polly Bates, 1832 ; John, married Rosina Bates ; Dav.d, married Climena Bates, Jan. 11, 1827. David had Laura, who married Chester M. Fuller, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller had Elleon Adella, born June 28, 1852.
Gershom Bates was son of Nehemiah. Gershom had several brothers, Nehemiah, Asa and Levi of Cummington; Solomon of Ches- terfield, father of Hudson ; Ephraim, of Plainfield ; Jacob, of Ver- mont ; Eliab, of New York.
Luther Bates, son of Gershom, married Lucinda Hersey in 1835, and about twenty years later removed to Heath.
Dexter Beals, grandson of the " Mountain Miller," married Julia, daughter of Willard Packard, and had Pamelia, born April 3, 1831,
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married John Kinney, Jan. 29, 1852 ; Joseph, born Sept. 2, 1832 ;. Malesta P., born March 10, 1834, died Oct. 22, 1843 ; Elizabeth A., born Sept. 3, 1835 ; Luther H. ; Julia B. ; Emeline F., born July 29, 1842 ; Malesta G., born Feb. 22, 1844 ; Mary Arabella, born July 15, 1846 ; Harriet C., born April 3, 1848 ; Dexter J., Aug. 28, 1850 ;. Abbie A., born July 6, 1852 ; Homan, born Dec. 18, 1854. Mr. Beals removed to Wisconsin, Dec., 1856, and after a residence of a few years returned to this State, and now lives in Easthampton. During his residence in Goshen, Mr. Beals was engaged for several years in the business of selling and setting out shade trees. He was a pioneer " Village Improvement Society," and probably set out more maple and other shade trees in the Connecticut valley than any man. of his time.
Joseph Beals married Martha Rogers, Oct. 28, 1853. Children :. Julia E., born May 17, 1870; Eleanor L., born Aug. 16, 1871; Joseph D., born June 13, 1875.
Luther H., is a manufacturer in Westfield. Homan is in business in New York.
George Barrus (page 140), died May 15, 1868, not 1869. Levi Barrus married second, Elvira (Warner) Allis, Feb. 22, 1854, and had a son, born Jan. 3, died Jan. 23, 1856.
Alvan Barrus (page 141), was born in 1831, not 1841. He received his first commission as Justice of the Peace in 1867.
Patience Barrows married, 3d, Salah Clark, Esq. (page 140). M. Huldah should read married Huldah.
David Carpenter came to Goshen, in 1806, with Ezra his father, from Savoy, where they had lived about twelve years. David was born in Attleboro, his father in Rehoboth.
Ezra Brackett came to this town in 1839, from Hawley, and after a residence of about twenty years removed to Worthington with his son Ezra. His wife died there, and he has since returned to this. town and resides with Henry T. Godfrey, who married his daughter Susannah. Another daughter, Hannah C., married Anson W. God- frey, May 16, 1840 ; Ruth married Newman Bartlett, June 29, 1848 ; Olive married Wm. Porter, June 22, 1858; Ellen married. Heman. White, Jan. 17, 1860.
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Rev. Ralph Cushman, after leaving college, taught the Academy in Belfast, Me. One of his pupils was the late Hon. George W. Crosby, Member of Congress and Governor of Maine. He always remem- bered his early teacher, and often spoke of the loveliness of his char- acter and his remarkable talent as a singer. In a musical history of Andover Theological Seminary, Mr. Cushman was ranked as one of the best three singers that ever graduated from that institution. His nephew, Rev. J. E. M. Wright, gives the date of his death August II, which differs from the record quoted on page 58.
It was said of him, " His sickness and death were, like his life, a bright example of Christian meekness, patience and holy confidence in his Divine Master." Another said, "In the trying situation he was called to occupy, he never was thrown off his balance." An- other, " I do believe that he had more of the mind of Christ than any man with whom I have been acquainted."
The musical talent of the Cushman family was of rare excellence, and is a prominent trait in many of their descendants. C. C. Dresser, son of Vesta Cushman, owned a church organ, and was a skillful performer on that and other instruments. He used his organ in the church for many years as an aid and accompaniment to the choir. Wealthy Cushman, the mother of the present pastor, was a fine singer and read music very readily. She obtained her musical education in the singing schools of this town. Her means of conveyance was on horseback, seated upon a pillion behind her brother Rufus.
NOTE .- While writing the above lines, a member of the writer's family read the fol- lowing startling announcement from the Boston Erening Trareller of April 11 :
"Joseph Hawkes, the well-known keeper of the Goshen (Mass. ) Highland House, known throughout Hampshire County, dropped dead while walking up the aisle of the church of that town on Sunday."
A later account states that he was in his accustomed place at the head of the choir Sunday morning, April 10. He walked over from his house in the afternoon in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. Hiram Packard. They parted in the vestibule, Mr. Packard entering the audience room, Mr. Hawks ascending the north stairway leading to the choir. Proba- bly feeling unwell, after passing up one or two steps, he seemed to have turned to go down, when he fell to the floor, and immediately ceased to breathe. The cause of death was doubtless disease of the heart.
Major Hawks was a man of many excellent traits of character, whole-souled, sympathetic and generous. He filled for a long period a large place in the community. He had been postmaster of the town for about twenty-five years, and keeper of the hotel for about the same length of time. His connection with the choir was almost without parall 1. For about fifty-seven years his connection with it has been continuous, and for nearly the whole time he has served as one of its leaders. He possessed a voice of remarkable power and sweet
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Albert B. Dresser furnishes the following items : "When my grandfather, Moses Dresser, was a boy, he helped drive a drove of cattle to Boston. During his journey he saw a bass-viol, the first he had ever seen. He examined it closely, and after his return home set about making one for himself. Fearing that his father might think it a waste of time and material, he worked out of sight of the house, and on a large flat rock completed the instrument. It proved to be a good one, and is now in possession of his son Levi, of Russell, N. Y.
"One of Burgoyne's men, a Hessian, settled near the Simeon Cowles place. His shanty finally burned down and he left the place.
"I have a bear trap that was made by Seth Pomeroy before the Revolutionary war. His initials, ' S. P.,' are still visible upon it. I have also the stone that Dea. Oliver Taylor used in his tannery in sharpening his currier's knife. It still bears the marks of the knife, though it has been cut down to a size that permits its use in the hayfield."
Children of Caleb C. and Julia M. Dresser : Sophia B., born March 30, 1846 ; Albert B., born March 5, 1848 ; Helen M., born June 19, 1850 ; Edward, born Sept. 14, 1852, died Aug. 7, 1854 ; Charles, born June 2, 1856, died Jan. 24, 1859 ; Martha, born Feb. 16, 1859 ; Laura M., born July 8, 1862 ; Hattie, born July 23, 1864. (Correction .- Albert B. and his three younger sisters reside on the Capt. Reuben Dresser homestead.)
Sophia B., daughter of Caleb C. Dresser, married E. P. Bridgman (not Joseph C., page 145,) member of the 37th Regiment of Massa- chusetts Volunteers, the well-known army correspondent-"E. P. B." -of the Hampshire Gazette. Miss Dresser, previous to her marriage, was engaged for some time in teaching a government school at the Indian agency under Maj. Joseph Bridgman, cousin of "E. P. B." Miss Dresser, inheriting the Cushman musical talent, was a leading member of one of the church choirs in Westfield for quite a period before going west.
Children of George and Alvey Dresser: Henry B., born Dec. 17, 1849 ; George C., born Feb. 18, 1852 ; Vesta C., born Sept. 8, 1854.
ness, that, so far as the writer knows, was never heard in a song that was not proper to be sung in the house of worship. He died at the post of duty, and will be missed and remem- bered for many years.
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Abner Damon (page 144), married Lovisa, not Louisa. His daugh- ter Lovisa married Ornan Bartlett. Abner, Jr., married Miranda, daughter of Solomon Bates.
Incidents Related by Capt. John Grant in 1854.
Ebenezer Parsons, father of Justin, died of small pox in 1777, in the house where J. Milton Smith lives. Mrs. Chapin, daughter of William Hallock, died of the same disease.
Col. Ezra May was at the taking of Burgoyne. He took a violent cold, did not immediately return home, but never recovered from it. He, as Major, and Christopher Banister as Captain, Asa Grant and - Harris of this town as private soldiers, went down towards New York with others, to watch the movements of Howe's army.
Rev. Dr. Lyman of Hatfield, an earnest Whig, was preaching in Williamsburgh on the Sabbath morning when word came that men were wanted at Bennington. He went home after the service, prom- ising to join such as would go to Bennington the next morning. He was as good as his word, and was promptly on hand, armed and equipped for active service.
Rev. Dr. Parsons of Amherst was considered a Tory. He told Dr. Lyman that he dreamed of seeing a large bull fighting a small one at Hockanum-near Mt. Holyoke-and the small one conquered the other. "Very good," replied Dr. Lyman, "Very good, sir. I can interpret that dream : John Bull and the Yankees ; and John Bull is going to get whipped. But I do not understand why the Lord should reveal anything to a tory."
Asa Grant, father of Capt. John, was a soldier in the French and Indian war. He was under Col. Williams, the founder . of Williams College. The Colonel made his will in Albany as they were going up to Fort Edward. While Grant and his comrades were building a breastwork, Colonel Williams went forward to meet the French and Indians and was killed.
Old Mr. James Packard had nine slaves fall to him by way of his wife. He had them sent here, and made arrangements for disposing of them to different parties. Squire Snell of Cummington was to have two, but before they were distributed, slavery in Massachusetts came to an end, and the negroes became their own masters.
Julia Hawks, the teacher, married M. Bertrand Gardel, not Henry,
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as given on page 147. She died while in the East, Feb. 28, 1859, in a tent about a half day's journey from Damascus.
George S. Hunt, of Northampton, son of Lowell, married Fannie Stickney of Greenfield, June 14, 1866. Children : Alfred S. ; Willie A. ; Charles L. ; Frank H.
The following interesting account of the early James families, which will correct some errors in the previous pages, was received from Luther James, Esq., of Ann Arbor, Mich., too late for insertion in its proper place. Mr. James has heretofore shown in practical ways his interest in his native town. The substantial iron gate at the entrance of the cemetery was a donation from him.
John, Philip and Thomas came from England. Lands were granted to Philip and Francis James in Cohasset-then included in Hingham-in 1638.
John James, 4th generation, married Deborah Bates of Pembroke, Mass.
Children : John, Jr., born 1744 ; Deborah, boin March 23; 1746 ; Francis of Boston, born May 13, 1749 ; Enoch of Boston, born Aug. 24, 1751 ; Sarah, born Sept. 13, 1755, married Job Turner of Boston ; Thomas, born July 11, 1758, removed from Cohasset to Chesterfield, 1770, and married Susannah Collier. She was born in Scituate, April 19, 1756, and died Nov. 4, 1820. Thomas James died in Westhampton, March 1, 1834.
John James, Jr., born 1744, married Lois Beals of Cohasset, April 4, 1765. She was born July 20, 1746.
Children : Moses, born Oct. 23, 1766, married Rebecca Ripley, Jan. 13, 1785 ; Malachi, born July 9, 1767, married Elizabeth Lyman, Feb. 18, 1790 ; Lois, born May 29, 1769, married Josiah Beals, Oct. 1, 1789 ; Betsey, born March 17, 1771, married Amherst Harwood, June 20, 1793 ; Sallie born July 25, 1773, married Caleb Damon, Nov. 21, 1795 ; Deborah, born Jan. 6, 1777, married Benj. Pierce, June 26, 1799 ; Ruth, born Nov. 27, 1778, died May 24, 1781.
John James, Jr., removed to Goshen in 1769 ; died July 11, 1804. His wife, Lois, died Oct. 5, 1810.
Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Malachi James, died July 9, 1856; Lyman, son of Capt. James, born March 25, 1825, died Dec. 16, 1830 ; Sophia, died at Chelsea, Mich., Jan. 16, 1879, aged 87 ; Clar-
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issa, died Aug. 15, 1876 ; Maria, 'married May 31, 1855, died in Ashfield, Oct. 15, 1876 ; Lewis L., married Jan. 25, 1832, died in Dexter, Mich., Aug. 17, 1880. Enoch James married A. R. Dwight of Belchertown, Jan. 18, 1825.
John James, Jr., and John Williams were partners in trade from 1779 to 1793. Their accounts were kept in pounds, shillings and pence. Their store was the only one in the vicinity for several years. The goods were brought from Boston with ox teams. The old store was taken down in 1876.
On the night of Sept. 7, 1821, two large barns with sheds attached, full of hay, grain, flax, &c., belonging to Capt. James, were destroyed by fire.
John James, Sen., built the first church in Cohasset, probably about 1747. It was reported at a parish meeting in 1750 that the meeting house had been completed at a cost of four thousand pounds. This church is s' 'll standing. The old family homestead in Cohasset, built over 200 years ago, is still in good condition. The timbers are cedar, and additions have been made to the original house.
F. W. Lyman, writing from his Florida residence, in Spring Gar- den Centre, Volusia Co., under date of March 5, 1881, expresses his " appreciation of the labor of rescuing from oblivion the 'short and simple annals of the poor.' Good blood," he writes, " went up to the hill towns. No doubt some 'ude inglorious Miltons' there may rest ;' 'some Cromwells guiltless of their country's blood.' Religion and patriotism struck their roots deep in the rugged soil, and if corn and cattle were less luxuriant, men and women, in the best English sense, grew there."
"My great grandmother, on the Lyman side, was Thankful Pome- roy, sister of Gen. Seth ; and on the Smith side, my grandmother was a friend and neighbor of Gen. Putnam. My grandfather Lyman was a lieutenant on the side of the government in the fight at Springfield,
[NOTE BY THE COMPILER .- Mr. Enoch James, with his brother, Lewis L., was largely en- gazed in Williamsburgh, for many years in mercautile and manufacturing pursuits. The store and manufacturing are still continued by Henry L. and L. D. James, sons of Enoch, who seem to retain the business taci and enterprise that have been for so long a period, conspicuous in the James family.]
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during the Shay's insurrection. He took, in a two horse sleigh, a squad of his men, of whom one Walker was shot in the sleigh." *
From sources entitled to confidence, it appears that Rev. Justin Parsons had a larger family of children than have been named in the previous pages. The following list probably includes them all :
Lucretia, baptised 1789, who married Rev. Daniel O. Morton, and resided in Shoreham, Vt .; Asahel, baptised Sept. 5, 1790; Levi, born 1792, missionary to Palestine ; Luther, baptised Feb. 21, 1795 ; Calvin, baptised May 6, 1798; Electa, baptised July 20, 1800 ; Electa, baptised Aug. 5, 1804. Mrs. Mary P. Webster writes : "Ira Parsons married a Miss Bardwell, sister of the wife of Dea. Asahel Billings."
Benjamin Parsons, Jr., resided and practiced law for some years, in Chesterfield. He was secretary of the Hampshire Musical Society in 1801, and in 1805-8 represented the town in the Legislature.
Dea. Oliver Taylor kept a daily record of the weather from 1796 till 1827. His grandson, Mr. Emmons Putney, continued it from that time onward, and has the whole now (1881) in his possession. The house of Mr. Putney was the residence of Rev. Mr. Whitman and family, for nearly forty years. The chimney was built of brick made by Deacon Brown, of clay, taken from the bed of the reservoir. Mr. Putney has an old-fashioned eight day clock, made by Isaac Gere. It is claimed it has been known to run for a year without varying from true time. Mr. Putney and others are authority for the state- ment, that Capt. Reuben Dresser procured sufficient pine lumber from a single tree on his farm, for building his hotel in the village. The lumber from another pine tree from the same lands, is said to have sold for eighty dollars in the days when lumber was cheap. The lumber from the original forest trees was excellent in quality and durability. The shingles on the north roof of Major Stone's house lasted nearly seventy years.
The following extracts from a letter written by Rev. J. C. Thomp- son in 1861, in reference to renewing his labors among the people of Goshen, are worth preserving, showing as they do, the christian spirit of the man and his attachment to the people of his early minis- trations :
"I ought to have said before that I have no wish to settle in any parish at present,
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and this on account of my health. Should I continue to be able to labor for a year or two to come, as I have for the past two or three years, I might perhaps consent to take a permanent charge. But for the present, I am quite sure it will be better, both for myself and for the people, to whom I may minister, that my relations to them be that of "stated supply."
"It is certainly very gratifying to receive from the people in Goshen, such expres- sions of interest in me, and of favorable appreciation of my poor services. They awaken a response in my own bosom, which tempts me to leap over other consid- erations and give at once an affirmative decision to the question before me.
"But I have been a dull disciple in the school of Christ, to have lived thus long and yet not learn that the will of the Master, and not our own inclination, must be our guide. I would not run before being sent by the Great Head of the church. If He shall say go, most cheerfully will I once more pitch my tent among the friends and their descendants, and among the sepulchres of friends of more youthful days, and in the place which to me is so full of interesting and grateful memories. Yours very endially,
J. C. THOMPSON.
Mr. Thompson was ordained first pastor of the second church in Rowe, Mass , Oct. 28, 1835, dismissed June 19, 1837; and settled over the Congregational church in Goshen the same year. He married Lucy Ann, daughter of Dr. Chenery of Holden.
Children : John Chenery, born June 14, 1838 ; Edward Payson, born March 9, 1840; Lizzie, married C. J. Humiston, and resides in Holyoke, Mass.
Mr. Thompson preached in Cummington for a year, and in other places, but his health proving unequal to pastoral duties, he re- tired from the profession, and for many years bas been in business in Belvidere, Illinois.
Children of Daniel and Betty Wyman : Daniel, born Feb. 3, 1765 William, born Jan. 12, 1771 ; Artemias, born Dec. 19, 1771 ; Joseph, born Dec. 26, 1774; Nahum, born Jan. 27, 1777 ; John, born Oct. 21, 1780 ; David, born Nov. 25, 1782. The eldest two were born in Brookfield, the others in Goshen.
Rev. T. H. Rood, foot of page 62, not J. H.
John Stearns, page 178, married Abigail, daughter of John Wil- liams.
Vashti Tilton, page 177, not Vasti.
Ellen E. Smith, page 170, was born 1834.
Cranson, page 163, is usually written Cranston.
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After Reuben Smith, page 71, No. 44, insert J. Milton Smith.
The date of birth of Phebe, daughter of Thomas Weeks, page 180> is given in another record as August 31, 1733. Col. Nehemiah May, page 154, died Sept. 10. Susannah May, died June 14.
F. C. Richardson, page 72, not J. C.
Marriages not Previously Inserted.
James Halbert and Mary Selden, Aug. 15, 1781. David Childs and Clarissa Dickenson, June 17, 1784. William Damon and Ruth Whitcomb, May 27, 1784. Hugh Thompson and Sarah White, Feb. 7, 1787. Joseph Thayer and Anna Putney, Feb. 1 1787. Joshua Abell and Dolly Parsons, Dec. 12, 1787. Nathaniel Abell and Eunice French, Dec. 7, 1788. James Whitcomb and Nancy Hunt, Dec. 18, 1790. Stephen Grover and Margaret Beman, Feb. 24, 1793. Ebenezer Bird and Widow Molly White, Jan. 23, 1794. Benjamin Wait and Polly Mott, June 2, 1794. Silas Blake and Parnal Beswick, March 20, 1794. Joseph Mott and Naomi Lyons, April 12, 1792. Origen Orcutt and Eunice Ripley, March 3, 1796. Oliver Thayer and Hannah Vining, Jan. 19, 1797. John Snow and Anna Forbes, Oct. 12, 1797. Justin Parsons and Electa Frary, Oct. 30, 1788. Josiah Beals of Windsor and Lois James, Oct. 1, 1789. Adonijah Taylor of Williamsburgh and Zeruiah Snow, Nov. 5, 1789. Wm. Murray and Polly Palmer, April 13, 1790. Jacob Kilburn and Hannah Alden, Sept 9, 1790. J. Osgood and Sarah Standish, Sept. 9, 1790. Solomon Parsons and Lucinda Packard, Nov. 25, 1790.
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