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partly with one town, and partly with the other; and hence the record of the family is sometimes in one town, and sometimes in the other, which makes it very difficult to trace the families.
1- 2 Mary, b. June 8, 1638; d. young.
3 Sarah, b. 1639. 4 Mary, b. Aug. 5, 1641.
5 +Ephraim, b. July 9, 1643; d. Oct. 19, 1696.
6 ¡Joanna, b. Aug. 1, 1645; d. Nov. 19, 1707.
7 Edward, b. June 18, 1648; d. same day.
8 Elizabeth, b. April 15, 1652.
9 +Edward, b. March 3, 1654.
10 Abigail, b. Feb. 13, 1656 ; m. William Russell, May 8, 1683.
11 + Samuel, b. Oct. 24, 1658; m. April 12, 1687, Mary Powers.
12 tJoseph, b. June 21, 1661 ; m. Sarah Harrington.
13 Margery, b. Dec. 10, 1664; m. May 12, 1687, John Dixon.
14 Mehitabel, b. Nov. 19, 1667.
1-5- EPHRAIM WINSHIP m. April 7, 1670, Hannah Rogers, who d. Dec. 20, 1674. He m. second, Dec. 19, 1675, Elizabeth Kendall of Woburn. Ife resided on the place described in his father's Will, in the extreme easterly part of the town. He must have come to the place early. He was a subscriber for the meeting house in 1692, and on the organization of the parish in 1693, he was one of the assessors. He was also a member of the committee chosen to treat with the town of Cambridge in relation to the purchase of land for the ministry, and an assessor, 1694. He d. at Lexington, Oct. 19, 1696. His widow removed her relation to the ch. in Lex. from that of Woburn, immediately after the death of her husband. He had the honor of giving his name to a swell of land near his residence, which is to this day known as "Mount Ephraim." He probably had no children. In the settlement of his estate, mention is made of Sarah Reed, their adopted dau. His widow, Elizabeth, administered upon the estate. She subsequently m. Joseph Pieree of Watertown.
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JOANNA WINSHIP d. unm. Nov. 19, 1707, aged 62. She was famous in her day as a school teacher ; and as our ancestors knew how to appreciate the character of a good school ma'am, they, under the influence of the muses, inscribed upon her monumental stone, this plaintive strain-this melting elegy :
" This good school Dame No longer school must keep, Which gives us cause For children's sake, to weep."
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EDWARD WINSHIP m. May 14, 1683, Rebecca Barsham, who d. Ang. 1717, aged 61. He d. in Camb. June 10, 1718, aged 64. Hle was selectman of Camb. 1691, '93, '95 and 1701. Though he owned land in Cambridge Farms, he resided on the Cambridge side of the line. He d. testate; and by his Will, proved 1718, and by an instrument signed by his heirs, it appears that he had seven children living at the time of his death. He gave to his oldest son Edward, " the house he dwelleth in, and fifty aeres of land adjoining, bounded as follows : beginning near the town road leading from old Mr. Munroe's, towards Menotomy," &e. (This is the present Lowell street.) He gave to his son Ephraim, "all that pareel of land whereon he dwells, and the interest I have in the house he now dwells in, which was formerly my brother Ephraim's, lying on the southwest side of the county road." Both of these bequests were of land lying in Lexington, and they show that his sons Edward and Ephraim were then living in Lexington.
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9-15 | +Edward, b. Jan. 9, 1684; m. Sarah Manning.
16 Elizabeth, b. June 1, 1686 ; m. April 3, 1706, Walter Russell.
17 +Ephraim, b. Feb. 4, 1688; m. June 17, 1708, Hannah Cutler.
+Nathaniel, b. Feb. 16, 1689; m. Feb. 11, 1713, Rebecca Pierce of Woburn.
18 19 William, b.
21 20 +John, b. -; m. Oet. 2, 1718, Elizabeth Wyeth. Jason, b. 1699.
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SAMUEL WINSHIP m. April 12, 1687, Mary Powers of Medford. He resided in the precinct, and was a subscriber for the meeting house in 1692, and for the purchase of the Common in 1711, and his name is upon the tax bills from the first. He was selectmantin 1728, '29, '30, '32 and '33. He d. June 18, 1696.
¡ Samuel, b. Jan. 8, 1688; m. June 10, 1712, Jane Fessenden. Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1689. 24 Elizabeth, b. Dee. 26, 1691.
JOSEPH WINSHIP m. Nov. 24, 1687, Sarah Harrington of Water- town. She d. Nov. 28, 1710. They resided in West Cambridge, where he d. Sept. 18, 1725. They had the following and probably other children.
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EDWARD WINSHIP m. about 1705, Sarah Manning. He was a tythingman in Lexington, 1714; fenee viewer, 1716; constable, 1717. He o. e. in Lex. Sept. 1, 1706. He d. May 15, 1763, aged 88 years.
+Edward, b. Aug. 25, 1706. Rebecca, b. Aug. 22, 1709 ; m. June 16, 1728, John Manning.
Sarah, b. June 28, 1712.
Jonathan, b. May 28. 1713; d. young.
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EPHRAIM WINSHIP m. June 17, 1708, Hannah Cutler. He was a subscriber for the purchase of the Common in 1711. In 1717, he was chosen surveyor of highways, tythingman in 1721, constable, 1728. Not Ephraim alone was employed by the town, but his wife, by vote of the inhabitants, was employed to keep a school in her part of the town. He and his wife were ad. to the ch. Oct. 12, 1718. She d. April 9, 1764, aged 77. He d. July 16, 1757, aged 70.
17-35 +Ephraim, b. May 23, 1709 ; m. Aug. 28, 1735, Mehitabel Cutler. 36 ¡Richard, b. July 25, 1711.
Daniel, b. Aug. 27, 1713; d. Dee. 8, same year.
37 38 Joshua, b. Feb. 17, 1715; was in the West India service, 1740.
Hannah, b. Aug. 18, 1718.
39 40 Moses, b. Sept. 18, 1720; m. Lucy Hastings of Waltham, 1746. Bethiah, b. Feb. 11, 1724; d. March 19, 1740.
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NATHANIEL WINSHIP, m. Feb. 11, 1713, Rebecca Pierce of Wo.
18-42 Elizabeth, b. Oet. 13, 1714. 43 Nathaniel, b. Dec. 27, 1716. 44 Rebecca, b. Dec. 7, 1717 ; m. Dee. 8, 1736, Elijah Whitney.
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Joanna, b. Jan. 14, 1689; d. Dec. 17, 1716. Joseph, b. Feb. 28, 1701; m. about 1722, Anne Margaret, b. Aug. 8, 1703.
15-28 29 30 31 32 Mary, b. June 25, 1716. 33 Jonathan, b. May 28, 1719; m. Elizabeth Cutler. +Isaac, b. June 8, 1724.
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45 46
Martha, b. June 21, 1720; d. July 8, 1746, unm.
Abigail, b. March 25, 1722 ; d. July same year.
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JOHN WINSHIP m. Oct. 2, 1718, Elizabeth Wyeth. He probably m. as a second wife, about 1730, Bethiah -. Ile d. July 18, 1747.
20-47 Josiah, b. Oct. 1, 1719 ; d. young.
48 Elizabeth, b. March 24, 1721. 49 Ruth, b. June 14, 1726.
50 John, b. Nov. 8, 1728.
51 Thaddeus, b. March 8, 1731; d. June 3, 1747.
52 James, b. Sept. 27, 1733 ; m. April 15, 1762, Lydia Phillips of West Cambridge.
53 Ebenezer, b. Sept. 30, 1735; m. Aug. 19, 1756, Elizabeth Raymond.
54 Bethiah, b. March 19, 1739 ; d. March 18, 1740.
55 Josiah, b. July 18, 1741.
56 Eliot, b. 1743; m. June 16, 1768, Edward Crafts of Boston.
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SAMUEL WINSHIP m. June 10, 1711, Jane Fessenden, dau. of Nicholas and Margaret Fessenden. He was High Sheriff of Middle- sex co. He o. c. Sept. 21, 1712, when his first child was bap. His wife d. Jan. 12, 1771; he d. Feb. 13, 1776, aged 88.
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t Samuel, b. Sept. 25, 1712; m. May 22, 1735, Hannah Loring. Martha, b. Dec. 27, 1714; m. William Bowers of Billerica. Margaret, b. Dec. 25, 1718; d. May 25, 1791, unm.
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EDWARD WINSHIP m. Esther - -. She d. Oct. 10, 1785 ; he d. Dec. 7, 1773, aged 69.
28-60 + Thomas, b. Oct. 25, 1729 ; m. May 28, 1755, Sarah Harrington. 61 Benjamin, b. April 12, 1731.
62 tEdward, b. Jan. 18, 1733; m. Feb. 9, 1757, Hepzibah I zughton.
63 +Joel, b. Nov. 13, 1734; m. Elizabeth Grant of Sudbury.
64 Amos, b. Dec. 12, 1736 ; d. May 9, 1740.
65 Mary, bap. 1738.
66 Esther, b. Jan. 21, 1739 ; d. April 28, 1789, unm. 67 Evebell, b. Feb. 2, 1743. 68. Joshua, b. Jan. 27, 1748.
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JONATHAN WINSHIP m. Dee. 3, 1741, Isabel Cutler of Camb. She d. and he m. about 1746, Elizabeth He was ad. to the ch. by a letter from the ch. in Camb. May 21, 1754. She was ad. June 18, 1758.
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Jonathan, b. Jan. 18, 1747 ; dismissed, 1772, to the ch. in Mason, N. H.
70 Joshua, b. June 27, 1748. 71 Amos, b. Dec. 19, 1750.
72 Hepzibah, b. Feb. 15, 1753. 73 Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1755.
74 Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1757. 75 Lucy, b. Feb. 9, 1760.,
76 Nathaniel, b. June 23, 1762.
77 Edmund, b. Oct. 2, 1765; m. Nov. 22, 1789, Lucy Learned.
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ISAAC WINSHIP m. Hannah -. He was in the French and In- dian war, in 1755. He d. April 8, 1783, and his son, Isaac, adminis- tered upon his estate.
34-78 Hannah, b. Dec. 26, 1746; d. July 23, 1749.
79 +Isaac, b. April 7, 1749 ; m. Sarah Fessenden.
80 Hannah, b. May 4, 1752; d. young.
81 | Saruh, b. May 12, 1754.
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82 Phebe, b. July 23, 1755 ; m. May 11, 1779, Ebenezer Hadley.
83 Hannah, b. April 25, 1757; m. May, 1779, Jonathan Marble.
84 Eunice, b. Feb. 28, 1758. 85 Grace, b. May 17, 1759.
86 Rebecca, b. May 20, 1760.
87 Richard, b. Nov. 30, 1762; he was a soldier in the Revolution.
88 Martha, b. Feb. 12, 1764. 89 Prudence, b. May 2, 1765.
90 Benjamin, bap. Oet. 12, 1766.
92 Lydia, b. April 3, 1769.
91 Nehemiah, b. April 4, 1767.
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EPHRAIM WINSHIP m. Aug. 28, 1735, Mehitabel Cutler. He moved to New Marblehead, now the town of Windham, Me., about 1740. This place suffered severely from the Indians, from 1747 to 1763. On the 14th of May, 1756, Ephraim Winship and Ezra Brown, both of Windham, left the fort (for safety required them to live in garrisons) for the purpose of laboring upon Brown's lot, about a mile distant. Knowing that the Indians were lurking about in the region, they took the precaution to engage a guard of four men and four lads. In passing through a thick wood, when Win- ship and Brown were about fifty rods in advance of the guard, they were fired upon by fifteen or twenty Indians, who lay in ambush. Brown fell dead upon the spot. Winship received two balls, one in the eye, and another in the arm. and fell to the ground, -where both were scalped by the Indians. A portion of the guard fled to the fort to give the alarm, while the remainder, and among them Gershom Winship, the oldest son of Ephraim, who was born before the family left Lexington, and then about twenty years of age, boldly rushed upon the savages, who were more than three times their number, and finally put them to flight. The Indians were led by Poland, their chief. When the guard approached, the Indians concealed themselves behind the trees, that they might be secure from the shots of their pursuers, and that they might step from their hiding places and fire upon the citizens, before they were aware of their presence. Poland was the first to break the silence; he stepped from behind the tree, discharged his musket, and immediately concealed himself again to reload. In his eagerness to reload his piece, that he might have another shot, his body became partially exposed, and he re- ceived a fatal shot from one of their pursuers. The Indians gathered around their fallen chief, and gave one of their infernal yells, which was answered by a volley from the little Spartan band, which killed or mortally wounded two more of their number. The Indians imme- diately fled, carrying off their dead and wounded.
At the time Winship received these wounds, he was a widower, his wife, Mehitabel, having died, leaving six children. Winship recovered from his wounds, though the Indians had taken two scalps from his head, and given him a blow with a hatchet, leaving him for dead. They took the two scalps in consequence of his having, as is sometimes the ease, two erowns upon his head. In taking the scalps, they left a narrow strip of skin from his forehead directly over the top of his head. This ever afterwards gave him a very singular appear- anee. After this misfortune he m. a second wife, by whom he had five more children. He d. at Windham, June 4, 1766, aged 55. These facts were obtained from the Centennial Address of T. L. Smith, Esq., delivered at Windham, July 4, 1839, which contains much val- uable information. Two children of Ephraim Winship were b. before he left Lex., viz., Gershom, b. May 10, 1736, and Mehitabel, b. July 28, 1738.
RICHARD WINSHIP m. Prudence Estabrook, dau. of Jolin and Prudence (Harrington) Estabrook, b. March 28, 1724. His Will,
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dated Nov. 28, 1768, and proved Jan. 7, 1769, mentions eight chil- dren then living, viz., Abigail, Ephraim, Hannah, Grace, Rebecca, Richard, Prudence, and Nehemiah. IIc d. Dec. 13, 1768, aged 58 ; she d. 1776, and Nehemiah Estabrook administered upon her estate. He was constable in 1750, and tythingman in 1758.
36- 93 Prudence, b. March 12, 1749; d. Oct. 2, 1751.
94 Abigail, b. Jan. 2, 1751.
95 Ephraim, b. June 25, 1753 ; m. April 8, 1777, Susanna Marion.
96 Prudence, b. July 16, 1756 ; d. young.
97 Hannah, b. April 25, 1757.
98 Grace, b. May 17, 1759 ; probably m. Simon Childs of Cambridge.
99 Rebecca, b. May 20, 1760. 100 Richard, b. Nov. 30, 1762.
101
Prudence, b. May 2, 1765. 102 Nehemiah, b. April 23, 1767.
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SAMUEL WINSHIP m. May 22, 1735, Hannah Loring, dau. of Jo- seph and Lydia (Fiske) Loring. She d. July 27, 1747, and he m. May 5, 1748, Abigail Crosby of Billerica. HIc d. Feb. 16, 1780, aged 68.
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Hannah, b. April 26, 1736 ; m. March 20, 1760, Richard Francis of Medford.
104 105 106
Lydia, b. Feb. 14, 1738; d. May, 1754.
Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1740.
Martha, b. May 12, 1742 ; d. Jan. 8, 1746.
Samuel, b. April 17, 1744; m. July 4, 1771, Rebecca Johnson of Lynn.
107 108 109 110 111 112 113
Loring, b. Dec. 10, 1746; d. May 11, 1754.
+Simon, b. Nov. 2, 1749 ; m. May 21, 1776, Joanna Abbott of Bil. John, b. June 16, 1752; d. April 7, 1754.
+John, b. May 12, 1754; m. Deliverance
+ Stephen, b. Feb. 23, 1756; m. Feb. 5, 1787, Edith Merriam. Abigail, b. May 18, 1759.
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THOMAS WINSHIP m. May 28, 1755, Sarah Harrington, dau. of Henry and Sarah Harrington. He probably had one child before Henry, mentioned below. He d. Aug. 4, 1796. He was one of the brave band who rallied under Capt. Parker, April 19, 1775. Hc was selectman, 1779 and '81; assessor six years.
Henry, bap. Nov. 11, 1759. 115 Isabel, b. March 29, 1762. Anna, b. April 18, 1764.
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+Jonathan, b. Sept. 14, 1770; m. first, Martha -, and second,
119 120 121
Elizabeth Coggen.
Joel, b. April 18, 1773 ; m. Nov. 14, 1792, Phebe Hill of Camb. Eunice, b. -; m. Nov. 2, 1800, Jonas Locke.
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EDWARD WINSHIP m. Feb. 9, 1757, Hepzibah Laughton, dau. of Dea. John and Sarah Laughton.
62-122 124
Amos, b. Feb. 6, 1758. 123 Esther, b. March 4, 1760.
John, b. Feb. 16, 1762. 125 Edward, b. Oct. 15, 1764.
126
Oliver, b. May 8, 1767.
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JOEL WINSHIP In. Jan. 15, 1755, Elizabeth Grant of Sud. They moved to Royalston.
60-114 116 117 + Thomas, b. April 12, 1766 ; m. April 11, 1793, Anna Harrington. Moses, b. June 20, 1768.
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127 | Elizabeth, b. March 14, 1755; m. - Fiske ; went to Barre.
Dorcas, b. June 24, 1758; d. 1807, unm.
Joel, b. May 1, 1761; went to Queensburg, N. Y.
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ISAAC WINSHIP m. March 4, 1773, Sarah Fessenden. He was m. as of Medford, where he resided at the time. When he returned to Lex. does not appear ; but as he was taxed in 1785, it is probable that he returned soon after the death of his father, which occurred in 1783, and his son, Isaac, administered upon the estate. He d. Nov. 29, 1834, aged 85; she d. Feb. 12, 1834, aged 80. He was an assessor from 1793 to 1814, inclusive. We can find no record of his family, and have to depend upon the imperfect recollection of one of his descendants.
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Isaac, b. -; moved to Portland.
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Jonas, b. -; lived in Portland, was twice married.
132 Sarah, b. ; m. John Frost.
133
Thaddeus, b. -; m. Mary Walker. He had a family, but left no record.
134 Hannah, b. -; m. Leonard Johnson.
135 Lydia, b. -- ; m. John Frost.
136 +Oliver, b. Nov. 12, 1794 ; has been twice married.
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SIMON WINSHIP m. May 21, 1776, Joanna Abbott of Billerica. They o. c. July 20, 1777, when their first child, Joanna, was bap- tized. He d. Jan. 4, 1813, and Elias Maynard of Boston was ap- pointed guardian of his widow, as a non compos. She d. Feb. 2, 1826. He was in service in the Jersies, in 1776, and sergeant in 1777.
109-157 138
Joanna, b. May 4, 1777.
Oliver Abbott, b. March 5, 1779; d. Oct. 11, 1792.
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JOHN WINSHIP m. Deliverance -. He d. in West Camb. April, 1825, and his widow administered upon his estate. He was a soldier in Capt. Parker's co. 1775, also served in the first campaign of eight months and twelve months, New York.
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John, b. Dec. 28, 1779. 140 Stephen, b. July 15, 1782.
141 143
Charles, b. June 30, 1784. 142 Sally, b. July 23, 1786.
Polly, b. April 26, 1788. 144 Henry, b. June 28, 1790.
145
Magus, b. Aug. 4, 1793.
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STEPHEN WINSHIP m. Feb. 5, 1787, Edith Merriam, dau. of Ben- jamin and Ginger (Porter) Merriam, b. Aug. 20, 1763. He d. Nov. 16, 1839, aged 84; she d. Feb. 20, 1839, aged 73.
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Stephen, b. Sept. 25, 1787; d. April 18, 1788.
147
Edith, b. Jan. 16, 1789 ; m. Sept. 2, 1806, Isaac Adams of Boston.
148
Cynthia, b. May 10, 1791 ; lives in Camb.
149
Stephen, b. April 16, 1793; d. Aug. 27, 1864, aged 71.
Sophia, b. March 3, 1795; lives at Cambridgeport.
Philenia, b. April 30, 1798; d. Jan. 16, 1819, unm.
150 151 152 Lavinia, b. Feb. 22, 1800; m. March 26, 1822, P. R. L. Stone. Maria Antonette, b. March 8, 1802; m. March 8, 1837, Billings Smith. Archibald, b. Aug. 6, 1804.
153 154 15
Tryphena Merriam, b. March 16, 1808; m. March 3, 1835, Augus- tus Wellington, and d. Dec. 26, 1841, aged 34.
128 129
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HISTORY OF LEXINGTON.
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THOMAS WINSHIP m. April 11, 1793, Anna Harrington. They were ad. to the ch. April, 1795. He d. March 2, 1830, aged 64; she d. July 15, 1821, aged 55.
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Lucebia, b. May 2, 1794; m. Lot Reed.
157
Emily, bap. Jan. 29, 1797 ; m. Otis Reed of Bedford.
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JONATHAN WINSHIP m. Martha - ---. She d. Jan. 10, 1799, and he m. May 12, 1800, Elizabeth Coggen of Natick. She d. June 13, 1823, aged 49 ; he d. July 22, 1825.
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Esther, b. May 21, 1796; d. Aug. 15, 1810.
159
Moses, b. Sept. 20, 1798; d. Feb. 4, 1799.
160
Eliza, b. Feb. 3, 1801; d. Feb. 18, 1801.
161
Eliza. S
Thomas Jefferson, b. May 6, 1805; d. Jan. 18, 1827.
162 163 164 Anna, b. March 10, 1807. 165 Henry Coggen, b. Sept. 6, 1810.
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OLIVER WINSHIP m. Sept. 10, 1820, Anna Fiske. She d. Oet. 15, 1851, and he m. March 25, 1853, Amanda F. Chamberlain.
136-166 Isaac A., b. July 4, 1822 ; m. in Cal. Elizabeth Brooks.
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Oliver M., b. March 6, 1823.
168
Mary E., b. March 13, 1825 ; m. Dee. 31, 1846, William Daley of Cambridge.
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Charles F., b. July 16, 1828; m. Mary Holbrook. They have one child, Eddy Bigelow.
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Sarah, b. July 16, 1828, twin; m. Oet. 1866, George Hager; r. in California.
The records of many of the Winship families are so imperfeet, that it is impossible to trace their genealogy. Some families have neg- lected their record altogether, and hence it is impossible to bring them down to the present day.
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JOIIN WINTER was a proprietor of Wat. in 1636, and d. in that place, 1662. His Will, dated March 4, 1661, and proved June, 1662, mentions sons Richard and Thomas, late of London, dau. Alice Lockman of London, and son John of Wat., to whom he gave his landed property. He probably came from Camb. to Lex. He had land assigned between the eight mile line and Concord, in 1683. mr. Hannah Cutler - 10 49.
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JOHN WINTER lived at Camb. Farms, where he d. Jan. 18, 1690. His Will, dated Dec. 12, 1689, makes no mention of his wife, who probably d. before him, but speaks of sons John, Thomas, and Samuel, and dau. Sarah, Hannah, and Mary.
2- 3 Joseph, b. - -; d. at Camb. Farms, Dec. 10, 1690, being the first death mentioned in the Lex. records.
tJohn, b. ; owned the covenant at Wat. June 22, 1690.
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Thomas, b. ›6 Samuel, b .-
7 Sarah, b. -; d. Jan. 19, 1690, one day after her father.
8 |Hannah, b. -; m. Nov. 17, 1681, John Harrington.
\9 Mary, b.
THE WINTER FAMILY.
Mary, b. May 3, 1803: 3 d. Nov. 6, 1807.
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2-4- JOHN WINTER m. Abigail -. He was a subscriber for the erection of a meeting house in Lex. 1692, following the example of his father, who had subscribed for the same object before his death. She was ad. to the ch. April 9, 1699. They had Joseph, bap. April 2, 1699; Benjamin, bap. Oct. 8, 1699; Ruth, bap. Sept. 22, 1702; Lydia, bap. Aug. 15, 1703 ; James, bap. Sept. 30, 1705 ; Isaac, bap. Nov. 3, 1706 ; Elizabeth, bap. Jan. 20, 1708.
As the tax bills of 1729 and 1735 do not contain the name of Win- ter, and as no place was assigned when the meeting house was seated, in 1731, we infer that they had all left town before that period.
WRIGHT .- ELISHA WRIGHT came to Lex. about 1855. He was b. in Washington, N. H., 1811, and m. Dec. 1836, Harriet Farmer, b. Feb. 22, 1814. He was son of Nathan, b. Feb. 1786, who was son of Jacob, b. Dec. 1758, who served in the Revolution, and m. Patty Reed. Jacob was son Jacob, of whose birth we have no record, but whose death occurred in 1763. Elisha, by his wife Harriet, has five children, three sons, all of whom were in the U. S. service in the late Rebellion, and two daughters, as follows :
Walter R., b. Aug. 22. 1838 : m. Nov. 1860, Lydia Kenniston, and has Minnie, b. Feb. 8, 1862, and Charles C. He served nine months in the army, in North Carolina. Willis L., b. Sept. 14, 1841 ; he was nine months in the service. George W., b. June 30, 1843. Like his two brothers, he was one of the nine months' men who served in North Carolina to put down the rebellion. Hattie A., b. June 9, 1850. Emma E. H., b. Oct. 22, 1852. The first three children were b. in Washington, N. H., the last two in Camb. Mass.
There is another Wright family in town, which originated in Ashby, having no connection with the family above.
ABEL WRIGHT of Ashby, m. first, - Hayward of Acton. She d. and he m. second, - Rice of Ashburnham. He had a family of nineteen children. Isaac, their first child, b. Feb. 12, 1799, mn. Ar- villa Kendall, dau. of Oliver Kendall of Ashby. They had nine children. He d. May 25, 1864.
LUKE W. WRIGHT, son of Isaac, b. Sept. 27, 1821 ; m. April 7, 1846, Abigail Estabrook, dau. of Attai and Polly (Pierce) Esta- brook of Lex. b. Dec. 16, 1819. He came to Lex. 1843. They have had the following children. Sarah Arvilla, b. Oct. 5, 1848; Abbie Elizabeth, b. Dec. 11,, 1849; Arthur E., b. Sept. 29, 1854, d. Jan. 22, 1859 ; Alice Arthuretta, b. Jan. 29, 1861.
THE WYMAN FAMILY.
The name of Wyman is of German origin, and was at first spelt Weyman. Two individuals, who were the progenitors of most of the Wymans, appear on the Charlestown records as signers of "town orders," Dec. 18, 1640. This was coeval with the settlement of Woburn. We find John and Francis Wyman in Woburn imme- diately after. They were Tanners; and thus was laid early the foundation of the shoe and leather business, for which Woburn has always been more or less distinguished. John m. in Wo. 1644, Sarah Nutt.
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HISTORY OF LEXINGTON.
1 FRANCIS WYMAN, from whom our Lex. Wymans deseended, m. Jan. 30, 1645, Judith Pierce of Wo. She dying, he m. second, Oct. 2, 1650, Abigail Reed.
1- 2 Judith, b. Sept. 29, 1652; d. Dec. 22, 1652.
3 Francis, b. about 1654; d. unm. Aug. 26, 1676.
4 William, b. about 1656; m. Prudence Putnam, and d. 1705.
5 Abigail, b. about 1658 ; m. Stephen Richardson.
6 Timothy, b. Sept. 15, 1661; m. Hannah
7 Joseph, b. Nov. 9, 1663 ; d. July 24, 1714, unm.
8 Nathaniel, b. Nov. 25, 1665; m. Mary Winn, and d. 1691.
9 Samuel, b. Nov. 29, 1667 ; m. 1692, Rebecca Johnson.
10 Thomas, b. April 1, 1671 ; m. May 5, 1696, Mary Richardson.
11 +Benjamin, b. Aug. 25, 1674; m. Elizabeth Hancock of Cambridge. 12 Stephen, b. June 2, 1676; d. Aug. 19, 1676.
13 Judith, b. Jan. 15, 1679 ; m. Nathaniel Bacon.
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BENJAMIN WYMAN m. Jan. 20, 1702, Elizabeth Hancock of Camb. He d. Dee. 19, 1735, and she m. Aug. 22, 1739, Jonathan Brown of Bed. and d. 1749. Though Benjamin Wyman may not have resided long in Lex., he and his wife o. e. in the place, June 24, 1705, when Elizabeth, their first child, was bap. Mrs. Wyman was probably sister to Rev. Mr. Hancock ; which would account for their attending ch. in Lex., though their residence might have been out of town.
11-14 Elizabeth, b. May 1, 1705; m. June 11, 1724, Jacob Richardson. Benjamin, b. Nov. 13, or Dec. 17, 1706.
15 16 Lucy, b. April 17, 1708; m. Nathaniel Davenport. 17 Zedekiah, bap. Oct. 30, 1709.
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BENJAMIN WYMAN m. Esther, dau. of Jacob Richardson of Wo. He was dignified by the title of captain. He resided in Wo. where he had a family, among whom was James, the immediate aneestor of the Lexington branch of the Wyman family.
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JAMES WYMAN b. June 29, 1741 ; m. Jan. 14, 1766, Anna Porter'. He came from Wo. to Lex. in 1763, and so was m. as of Lex. She d. and he m. second, Lydia Simonds. He d. Nov. 13, 1822.
18-19 Anna, b. March 8, 1768 ; m. Nov. 19, 1795, Sweethen Reed. +James, b. Sept. 26, 1769.
20 21 William, b. Dec. 11, 1771 ; moved to Westminster, Vt.
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Benjamin, b. March 20, 1774; m. Lucy Gardner, and d. 1849. No issue.
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Phebe, b. Feb. 9, 1776 ; d. April 8, 1805.
Sally, b. Oct. 18, 1778; d. April 7, 1782.
Lydia, b. Feb. 9, 1781 ; d. unm. Dec. 1, 1861.
Sally, b. June 20, 1783; m. March 13, 1810, John Crapo of Lynn. Lucy, bap. Nov. 27, 1785 ; d. young.
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