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Children :
MARY, b. Hebron, 11-17-1774. m. Ebenezer Emmons, (See Emmons Fam. and Mack Gen. p. 550). LOIS, b. Mid. 3-14-1776. m. Jacob Robbins, (See Robbins Fam. and Mack Gen. p. 468).
DAVID, b. Mid. 2-17-1778. (See Fam. 2).
MINDWELL, b. Mid. 9-6-1779. m. Ichabod Emmons. (See Mack Gen. p. 469-70).
JOHN TALCOTT, b. Mid 8-23-1781. Lived some years at the home of his grandfather but later moved to Hinsdale and became a tavern keeper. (See Mack Gen. p. 473-4). ELISHA, b. Mid. 5-26-1783. Moved to Salem, Mass. where he was Judge of Police Court many years. (See Mack Gen. p.475-78.). (See Fam. 3).
ANNA, b. Mid. 12-18-1784, m. 1st. Isaac Clark. m. 2nd. Joseph Eg- gleston. (See Mack Gen. p. 478-9). PHEBE, b. 6-30-1786. m. Uriah Church. (See Church Fam. also Mack Gen. p. 479).
ZILPA, b. 2-3-1788. m. Azariah Smith. (See Mack Gen. 110 & 482).
LUCY, b. Mid. 2-19-1790. m. Selden Spencer. (See Mack Gen. p. 482-3) HANNAHI, b. 10-29-1791. m. Geo. W. McElwain. (See Mack Gen. p. 442).
ABIGAIL, b. 6-20-1793. m. William Elder. (See Mack Gen. p. 483). LAURA, b. 6-4-1795. m. Solomon Root. (See Mack Gen. p. 484. See Root Family). She was a life long resident of Mid.
DAVID
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OL DAVID MACK
HOUSE OF CAPT. ELISHA MACK
THE MACK MEMORIAL
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FAM. 2. DAVID MACK, son of David+ and Mary ( Talcott) Mack, was b. Mid. 2-17-1778; d. Amherst, 9-9-1854; m. 3-2-1803, Independence Pease, b. 8-25-1776 ; d. 4-13-1809. He bought the farm next to his father's previously owned by Josiah Leonard and Bildad Kibbe, and erected a new house on the Parsonage Lot on the site of Leonard's dwelling. He fol- lowed his father keeping the first store in Mid., located a short distance south of his house. This was moved to the Center where Edmund P. Morgan became a partner, the store then belonging to the firm of Mack and Morgan. David Mack, Jr., also known as General Mack, was town clerk, 1807-31, and represented the town in the General Court 1821-24. He moved to Amherst about 1834. He was for 18 years a Trustee of Amherst College, and for several years a member of the Prudential Committee. He was a man of great decision of character, a devoted Christian and liberal in his benefactions. From 1840-48 he engaged in the manu- facture of ladies hats, in a shop built by him on the site of the Cook block. He kept a general store at the Center in 1844. He was a member of the General Court for Amherst, a state Senator at Boston and a member of the Governor's Council. In the war of 1812 he commanded the militia around Boston and thus acquired the title "General" by which he was afterward known. (See Mack Gen. p. 469.)
FAM. 3. ELISHA MACK, son of Elisha" and Mary (Ellis) Mack, was b. Hebron, Conn. 5-13-1759 ; d. Lenox, 12-7 or 20-1850; m. 6-30-1781, Mrs. Sarah (Blossom) Howes, dau. Thomas and Thankful (Paddock) Blossom of Yarmouth. (See Mack Gen. p. 446.) He came to Mid. with his father in 1776, being a lad of seventeen. In 1791 he bought the farm on Johnny- cake Hill, (Lot 19, III Div. Becket) formerly owned by Benjamin Blish, where he lived for many years, in the house later owned by Lansing Ferguson. He was active in local af- fairs serving as selectman from 1793 to 1798, and for three years on the School Committee. In 1801 he joined the Cong. Church, from which he was given a letter of dismission in 1823 to the church in Lenox, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a soldier in the Rev. War, and had the title of Captain.
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Children b. Mid. :
SALLY, b. 9-22-1782, m. Russell Little. (See Little Fam. also Mack Gen. p. 488). Lived in Peru and Lenox.
ELISHA, b. 9-26-1784. m. Sarah Hay- ward. Was a wholesale produce dealer and pork packer. Lived in Windsor, Mass. and Watervliet, N. Y. (See Mack Gen. p. 489). AMOS, b. 6-12-1786. m. Betsy Ing- ham. (See Mack Gen. p. 489).
THANKFUL, b. 4-1-1790. m. Royal Cooper. (See Mack Gen. p. 490). CHARLOTTE, b. 11-24-1792. m. Amos Cone. (See Cone Fam. and Mack Gen. p. 490).
LAURA, b. 9-1-1795. d. unm. before 1865.
JOSIAH, b. 6-15-1798. m. Maria Ward. (See Ward Fam. also Mack Gen. p. 491).
FAM. 4. WARREN MACK, son of Elisha3 and Mary (Ellis) Mack, was b. 6-16-1763; d. 7-3-1843; m. 1st Sophia Larabee, 2nd, Polly -. He was a soldier in the Rev. War.
After his father's death he became head of the household. In 1789 he sold the farm to his brother, David, and moved to Pittsfield, where at least one of his children was born.
By 1810 he had moved to Warren, N. Y. Later he made his home at Jordanville, N. Y., where he spent the rest of his life.
His tombstone is found in Jordanville, N. Y., cemetery and beside it that of his wife, Polly, who d. 11-26-1823, ae. 59.
The Warren Mack homestead is two miles north-east of Jordanville. (See Mack Gen. p. 449.)
MANN
MANN, ASHLEY, d. in Chester, 10-15-1842 aged 54; was prob. re- lated to Nathan or William Mann. The settling of his estate shows that he owned a half interest in a lot of land in Becket and Mid. near Mid. station. He was recorded as of Becket when he m. Jane Cannon, of Chester, in 1819.
MANN, JOHN, prob. of Blandford, m. Sarah Was per- haps son of Ashley Mann. Was the first man to manufacture paper at "The Switch" about 1840; also kept a sawmill and a store. Sold his paper mill to Charles West.
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Children :
LYDIA, b. - m. 10-5-1842. Daniel Phelps, of Chester & Otis.
JOHN L., paper manufacturer, m. (int) 5-8-1846 Lodemia Antoinette, dau. of Gershom & Anna Todd, of Blandford who was b. 3-9-1823. He d. July, 1891. Had Eugene W. b. Mid. 5-27-1847.
ELIZABETH, m. Orrin B. Todd, of Blandford, 3-1-1843.
CHILD, b. Mid. 1839.
MANN, NATHAN, who was a pioneer in Mid., may have been a son of William Mann and have come to Prescott's Grant with him. It may be that Nathan was given land on Dickson Hill, that was owned by Dickson in exchange for the land that William Mann had to yield to Dickson. He may have been Nathan Mann of Blandford or of the family of Manns of Murrayfield. The Mid. pioneer settled about 1783 on Lot No. 3, II Div. E. Prescott's Grant, locating his dwelling high upon the hillside, east of the Sternagle farm, where the cellar hole is still visible, in the midst of a rough and rocky pasture. It was a lofty and sightly spot for a house, but how the Manns must have enjoyed the winters on that spot. Within a decade they had moved away. Mid. records record the following children of Nathan and Azubah Mann.
ASENAH, b. 12-6-1783. JABEZ, b. 6-13-1788.
NATHAN, b. 5-16-1786. AZUBAH, bap. 11-11-1792.
MANN, WILLIAM, who next to James Taggart was the earliest settler in the Prescott's Grant section of Mid., was of Scotch- Irish descent, coming from the Worcester colony of Scotch- Irish settlers which settled such towns as Colraine, Pelham, Palmer and Blandford. He first appears at Palmer on the Roll of Minutemen of Col. John Worthington's Co. in 1754, serving in the French and Indian War. His brother James was captured and taken to Canada. His name appears among inhabitants living West of Sheffield and Stockbridge, who petitioned for military protection from the Indians. By 1762 he was a squatter in Murrayfield. Being apparently dissatisfied with his holdings he had as early as 1769 taken up and begun improvement upon 400 acres of land north- west of Mid. Center, including land now owned by Jesse Pelkey, G. E. Cook and Judge Birnie. Lawsuits followed
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with the purchase of these lots, with the result that Mann lost his land and improvements and moved to Chester. The following data is supposed to refer to this William Mann.
Children of William and Lydia Mann :
JOSEPII, b. Palmer, 9-4-1753. The LYDIA, b. Mur. 4-13-1766, m. Part-
HUGH, b. Palmer 11-8-1755.
name of Joseph Mann appears in ridgefield (int) 1794 Eli Parker. Pet. Inc. 1781. DAVID, b. Mur. 6-22-1770, m. Part- ridgefield (int) 12-16-1793, Phebe Parker.
A Mary Mann was a charter member of the Mid. Cong. Ch. 1783.
An Elizabeth Mann, of Prescott's Grant m. (int) 1-23- 1798, Seneca Cooley of Chester.
MARSH
MARSH, RUFUS, in 1785 bought of James Kelley lots Nos. 213, 214 and 218 in the Worthington section. His house was located between those of James Kelley on the Cottrell farm and Simon Huntington who was located further north on Ridge- pole Road. Marsh may have lived in the old house standing just north of the Cottrell place where Isaac Glea- son lived later. In 1789 Marsh sold out, his lot 214 going to Sarah B. Benjamin. Marsh moved to Worthington where he was living in 1790 and 1800 according to the census.
MAY
MAY, WILLIAM, name appears upon the census list for 1800. He was apparently located in the West Hill region near Daniel Babcock who was at "Ashdod." May's family consisted of one male over 16 years, himself, three males under 16 years and three females.
MAY, JASPER, s. of Elisha and Esther May, was born in Mid. 11-17-1800.
MCELWAIN
The MeElwain Family in America is of Scotch or Scotch- Irish origin, having sojourned for a short time in the north of Ireland on the way from Scotland to America.
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JAMES MCELWAIN, with his two sons, James and Timothy, came over previous to 1727. From Temple's "History of Palmer, Mass." (page 520) we learn that in 1728 he bought a tract of 100 acres of the Gentlemen Claimers on the Ware River. He died in 1730. Among his children were:
TIMOTHY, b. Ireland 1709. (See JAMES, Jr. settled on the East and Fam. 1). South side of the Ware River but later sold out and returned to Ireland. He never married.
FAM. 1. TIMOTHY MCELWAIN, son of James1 McElwain, was b. Ireland, 1709; d. 9-7-1790 ; m. 8-24-1738 Anna Spear, who d. 4-28-1746. He m. 2nd 8-10-1750 Susannah Thomson. He settled on the west side of the Swift River.
Among their children was Timothy, b. 4-17-1746. (See Fam. 2.)
FAM. 2. TIMOTHY MCELWAIN, son of Timothy1 and Anna (Spear) McElwain, was b. 4-17-1746; d. Mid. 11-6-1830; m. 1-9-1772, Jane Brown of Somers, Conn., who was b. abt. 1751; d. 1-2-1832. At the time of the Revolutionary War he was living in Ellington, Conn., and he aided the cause by contributions and was honored for his services. In 1781 he purchased of Salah Barnard of Worthington, Mass., Lot No. 219, a lot in that portion of Worthington ceded to Mid- dlefield in 1783, situated nearly a mile northeast of the Cen- ter. Since his name is not among those of the signers of the petition for incorporation in 1781 we judge he was not living on his new farm at that time. He was in Middlefield by 1783 for his house is mentioned in a road survey for that year. This was probably the log house he first built, which stood on or near the site of the large square house which he built in 1797, and which still remains as the home of his great-grandson, Mr. Edwin S. McElwain. Capt. Timothy McElwain, as he was known, was prominent in town affairs, serving two years as selectman, as surveyor of highways in 1783 and on the school committee for several years. His wife joined the Congregational Church in 1794.
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Children :
TIMOTHY, b. E. Windsor, Conn. 10- 21-1772: d. Hinsdale 11 -- 27-1825: m. 1-29-1798 Zilpha Gates. Had six children b. Mid. and Hinsdale. ANNE, b. Mid. 6-12-1774, m. 11-27- 1800, John Shapley. Lived in New York.
JANE, b. E. Windsor, 9-24-1776, d. Mid. 1-7-1787.
ALEXANDER, b. E. Windsor 11-9-1778 Settled in New York.
JAMES, b. E. Windsor, 2-22-1781. Lived in Ohio.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. Mid. 5-4- 1783. d. 7-18-1861: m. 1st 8-20- 1810, Martha Putnam, who d. 5- 11-1812 : m. 2nd 6-10-1817 Hannah Mack. (See Mack Gen. p. 442). m. 3rd Fanny Fitch of Becket, 6- 28-1837. He lived for many years in Mid. part of the time at the David Mack farm. He was repre- sentative to the General Court in 1829-31.
BETSEY, b. Mid. 8-18-1785, m. John Hatch of New York.
SARAII, b. Mid. 3-30-1787, m. 7-31- 1810 Dr. Solomon Hatch of Hamilton, N. Y.
DAVID, b. Mid. 4-19-1789 d. Becket 5-3-1853. m. (int) 5-7-1818. Nancy Payne who d. Becket 6-12-1844. He lived in Becket and Hinsdale where his children were b. 1819- 1828.
JEANETTE, b. Mid. 3-31-1791, d. Becket, Feb. or Mar. 16-1845. m. 5-30-1815, Lewis Taylor, Jr. of Mid. Lived in Mid. and Becket. (See Taylor Family).
JONATHAN, b. Mid. 6-11-1793. (See Fam. 3).
LANEY, b. Mid. 6-21-1795. d. Becket 3-5-1867. m. 9-18-1817, Reuben Smith of Becket, who was b. Mid.
FAM. 3. JONATHAN MCELWAIN, son of Timothy3 and Jane (Brown) McElwain, was b. Mid. 6-11-1793; d. Mid. 2-23- 1866 ; m. Mid. 10-15-1818 Lucy, dau. John and Lucy (Blush) Smith (See Smith Family), who was b. 5-29-1798; d. 3-5-1873. He lived at the old homestead on Windsor Street, and carried on his father's farm. He was selectman for sev- eral years, and representative to the General Court in 1846. Believing in higher education for women he gave Mary Lyon $100 toward founding Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary.
Children b. Mid. :
JONATHAN, b. 7-14-1819. (See Fam. 4).
JOHN SMITH, b. 3-17-1828. (See Fam. 7).
OLIVER, b. 8-24-1821. (See Fam. 6). EDWIN, b. 11-5-1833. (See Fam. 8). TIMOTHY DWIGHT, b. 8-10-1821, d. 9-3-1841.
FAM. 4. JONATHAN MCELWAIN, son of Jonathan+ and Lucy (Smith) McElwain, was b. Mid.7- 14-1819, d. Mid. 1-23-1899,
JONATHAN MCELWAIN, JR. JONATHAN MCELWAIN, SR. JOHN SMITH MCELWAIN
OLIVER MCELWAIN MRS. LUCY (SMITH) MCELWAIN EDWIN MCELWAIN
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m. 1st 5-20-1847 Clarissa Jane Lyman of Chester who was b. Apr. 1823, d. 3-22-1851. He m. 2nd 12-21-1852, Mary Smith of Salisbury, Conn., who was b. 6-20-1823, d. 3-7-1886. ,He was a life long resident of Mid. living at the old homestead and carrying on the MeElwain farm. He was prominent in local affairs, serving as town clerk from 1856 to 1898. He was a pillar in the Cong. Ch. where he was deacon and su- perintendent of the Sunday School. He was for many years the secretary of the Highland Agricultural Society.
Children b. Mid. :
ALBERT, b. Nov. 1853, d. 1855.
EDWIN SMITHI, b. 4-20-1855. (See Fam. 5).
MARY JANE, b. 6-5-1858, m. 1st 6-12- 1885, Fitzhugh Babson of Glou- cester, Mass. He d. 6-25-1893. She m. 2nd. 6-2-1896, Clark B. Wright. (See Wright Family).
Child: Martha, b. 11-5-1899, d. 7-24-1900.
LURA VERONA, b. 4-20-1862, m. 11- 19-1891, Arthur D. Pease of Mid. (See Pease Family).
FAM. 5. EDWIN SMITH MCELWAIN, son of Jonathan" and Mary (Smith) McElwain, was b. Mid. 4-20-1855, m. 2-13-1877 Lucy Maria, dau. Barton and Lucy (Cone) Graves, who was b. Mid. 12-14-1853, d. Mid. 3-28-1919. (See Graves Family.) Like his father he has been a life long resident of Mid. car- rying on the McElwain farm.
Children b. Mid. :
BESSIE LILLIAN, b. 4-18-1879, m. 7- 18-1898, Walter S. Newell of Brimfield. They lived at Cedar Rapids, Ia. He is a professor at Coe College. Children : Marjorie, b. 1-19-1902, Constance, b. 7-15- 1903, Noel, b. 12-30-1910.
JESSIE BELL, b. 7-10-1880: d. 4-15- 1917, m. 10-18-1904, Reuben Franklin MeElwain. Lived in Holyoke. (See R. F. McElwain under Fam. 6).
EDNA MARIAA, b. 3-14-1883: d. in infancy.
GEORGE EDWIN, b. 12-16-1884, m. 1- 1-1919 Agnes White of Penicuick, Scotland, who d. 12-29-1923. He lives at the old McElwain home- stead in Mid. Child George Edwin, Jr., b. Holyoke, 12-7-23.
FAM. 6. OLIVER MCELWAIN, son of Jonathan+ and Lucy (Smith) McElwain, was b. Mid. 8-24-1821. d. W. Springfield, 12-18-
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1907; m. Becket 2-10-1853, Paulina Doane Witherell, who was b. Eastham, 8-8-1828 and d. W. Springfield, 11-14-1915. After completing his education at Mid. and Williston Semi- nary Easthampton, he became a millwright and went into the lumber manufacturing business with his uncle, Reuben Smith, at Becket. In 1881 he moved to W. Springfield to his brother's stock farm. He retired from the farm in 1901, but continued to live in W. Springfield.
Children b. Becket :
LUCY HANNAH, b. 12-6-1854, m. W. Spfid. 6-16-1881, Clifton, a son of Samuel Crocker of Leominster. Children, Pauline, b. 11-4-1882. Ruth, b. 2-8-1884. Elizabeth, b. 2-13-1891. Residence, Springfield.
LANEY SMITII, b. 4-14-1857, m. W. Spfld. 1-4-1888, Arthur E. Ford. Lives in Springfield.
HARRIET A., b. 2-12-1859. Lives in W. Springfield.
OLIVER DWIGHT, b. 2-10-1862. m. 4- 10-1920 Mrs. Mary Rankin Wil- son. Lives in W. Springfield.
REUBEN FRANKLIN, b. 3-31-1865, m. 10-18-1904 Jessie Bell McElwain. With his brother-in-law C. A. Crocker he organized the Crocker- McElwain Company of Holyoke, for the manufacture of writing paper. He lives in W. Springfield. Their summer home is a cottage in Mid. on the MeElwain Farm. Children, Paulina Witherell, b. 3- 8-1906. Rachel Doane, b. 10-16- 1910.
CARRIE MABEL, b. 2-20-1870, d. 8-30- 1919, m. 2-12-1896, Edward P. Butts, b. Bellefonte, Pa. Lived in Springfield. Their summer home was the cottage built by Capt. Babson, out of the old Timothy Allen house, adjoining the Me- Elwain farm in Mid. It is now owned by Dwight McElwain.
FAM. 7. JOHN SMITH MCELWAIN, son of Jonathan4 and Lucy (Smith) McElwain, was b. Mid. 3-17-1828; m. 1st 1858, Esther M. dau. of Homer and Anna (Kent) Ely of W. Springfield, m. 2nd 1-13-1863, her sister, Celia S. Ely. He attended school at Mid. and at Williston Seminary and then taught a short time. He became a clerk a few years later in the agricultural store of Allen & Mason in Springfield, later buying out the firm and with his younger brother, Edwin. built up a prosperous business under the firm name of Mc- Elwain Bros. In 1867 he entered the paper business as gen- eral manager of the office of the Parsons Paper Co. and in 1886, on the death of Mr. Parsons, he became agent of the
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company. In 1879 he organized the Nonotuck Paper Co. of which he was president. In 1893 he organized the Linden Paper Co. He was for several years treasurer and general manager of the Valley Paper Co. He is a director in the City National Bank of Holyoke, and in the Third National Bank of Springfield. As a citizen Mr. McElwain has always been identified with the interests of Holyoke, and is a mem- ber of the Second Cong. Ch.
Child :
HENRY ELY MCELWAIN, b. Spring- field, 3-31-1859. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Harvard College 1879, but went into business the same year, as Secretary of the Nonotuck Paper Co. In 1887 he was made Treasurer and Manager of the Valley Paper Co. In 1888 he served as President of the "Com- mon Council"' at Holyoke and the next year as President of the Board of Aldermen. In 1892 he became Treasurer and Manager of the Linden Paper Co. and held that position until the company sold out to the American Writing Paper Co. Since then his business interests have been largely in Colorado as owner of mines. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descend- ants. He married Miss Marion Graham Macmillan, daughter of the Honorable John M. and Anne (McCara) Macmillan of Canada, April 26, 1906 by whom he has one son, Macmillan, b. December 16, 1908. There are four children by a former marriage:
JOHN H., b. May 29, 1886. Gradu- ated from Dartmouth College, 1908; now with the Chemical Paper Manufacturing Co. of Holyoke.
HENRY ELY, Jr., b. June 19, 1891; graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege, 1912. Graduated from Har- vard Law School, 1915. Now practicing law at Louisville, Ky. Enlisted in 1917 in Coast Artillery and served overseas as Captain in Co. F., 60th Div.
LEICESTER KENT, b. May 11, 1895. Graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege 1918. Enlisted in 1917 and served for 18 months overseas as Corporal in Co. C. 101st Machine Gun Battalion of the 26th Yankee Div. Is now with Chase National Bank, New York City.
LOUISE, b. Jan. 8, 1897. Graduated with honors from Smith College, 1919.
FAM. 8. EDWIN MCELWAIN, son of Jonathan4 and Lucy (Smith) McElwain, was b. Mid. 11-5-1833; d. Spfld. 10-9-1911; m. 12-30-1863, Caroline, dau. Sumner and Harriet (Emmons) Church of Mid. (See Church Fam.) He went into business with his brother, John S. MeElwain, carrying on a prosper-
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ous agricultural store under the firm name of McElwain Bros. in Springfield, Mass. He left this firm to enter the firm at the time of his death. He had been instrumental, in tionary. On the death of the proprietors he acquired the business with Mr. S. D. Porter. He was treasurer of this firm at the time of his death . He had been instrumental, in his earlier days, together with Matthew Smith, in founding the Highland Agricultural Society which holds annual agri- cultural fairs at Middlefield, Mass. He was the first sec- retary of this organization. In Springfield he was one of the pillars of the North Congregational Church. He was a director of many companies.
Children :
CHARLES CHURCH, b. Springfield, 5- ARTHUR EDWIN, b. 2-8-1879, d. 7-14- 1880.
14-1872, m. 11-8-1899 Greta Parks of Springfield. He entered the firm of Kibbe Bros. Co. and is now treasurer of the company. Child: Edwin, b. 12-17-1908.
MEACHAM
MEACHAM, JEREMIAH, the emigrant, was b. England, 1613; d. Salem 11-11-1696; m. 1st Margaret -; m. 2nd Widow Alice (Doutch) Dane. Lived in Salem. They had a son Isaac.
CAPT. ISAAC MEACHAM, S. of Jeremiah1 Meacham, was b. Salem 1643; d. Enfield, Conn. 4-29-1715; m. 12-28-1669 Widow Deborah (Browning) Perkins. He was one of the first set- tlers of Enfield where he had one of the first fulling mills in the Connecticut valley. Among his eleven children were : ISAAC, b. 11-13-1672. (See Family ICHABOD, b. 6-11-1679. (See Fam. 1). 5).
FAM. 1. ISAAC MEACHAM, s. of Capt. Isaac2 and Deborah (Browning) Meacham, was b. Salem 11-13-1672; d. Enfield 5-9-1715; m. Enfield 12-12-1700 Mary dau. Thomas and Mary (Gridley) Root of Enfield; b. Northfield 10-23-1673. Among their children was Samuel, b. 12-15-1703. (See Fam. 2.)
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FAM. 2. SAMUEL MEACHAM, S. of Isaac3 and Mary (Root) Meacham was b. Enfield 12-15-1703; d. Somers, Conn. 2-14- 1769. m. (int) 11-17-1726 Sarah Pope. Among their chil- dren was Samuel b. 1727. (See Fam. 3.)
FAM. 3. SAMUEL MEACHAM, s. of Samuel+ and Sarah (Pope) Meacham, was b. 1727 ; d. Mid. 8-18-1797 ; m. Somers, Conn. 5-10-1759 Widow Deborah Bush, widow of John B. Bush of Somers, who d. Mid. 5-6-1808, ae. 78. He lived in Somers, Wilbraham and Mid.
Children :
FREDERICK, b. Somers 3-12-1760. FLAVIA, b. Somers, 1766, d. Mid. 1- LOUISA, b. Somers 3-10-1761, m. Somers, Joel Pease. 24-1836. ANDREW, b. Wilbraham, July 1768. (See Fam. 4).
FAM. 4. ANDREW MEACHAM, S. of Samuel" and Deborah Meach- am, was b. Wilbraham, July, 1768; d. Mid. 12-31-1863; m. 1st Somers, Conn. 11-12-1794 Sarah, dau. Capt. John and Mary (Chapin) Wood, who d. Mid. 4-20-1812. He m. 2nd 9-7-1813 Mrs. Celina (Bird) Hawes, dau. Enoch and Celina (Lyon) Bird, b. Cummington, 6-8-1786; d. Mid. 7-19-1849. She was widow of Ebenezer Hawes. Andrew Meacham lived for a while in Monson, Mass. He was in Mid. as early as 1794, being assigned to Pew 22 in the meetinghouse that year. He lived on the farm first cleared by Daniel Meeker, the cellar of the house being located a short distance north of Mr. Millott's new house on the road to Mr. Alderman's farm. The old house was struck during a severe thunder- storm in the Fall of 1819 and Mr. Meacham's eleven year old son, Harlow, was "instantly killed with lightning as he was ascending the chamber stairs." The story goes that the bolt so shattered the house that it was not fit for habitation, and that while the funeral of Harlow Meacham was being held a day or two later, a shower having come up, it was necessary for the people assembled in the house to hold um- brellas over them to keep dry. Mr. Meacham is said to have abandoned the first house and built another beside it. The two cellar holes can still be seen.
Meacham 547
GENEALOGIES
Children b. Mid. :
INFANT, d. 8-18-1795.
LAURA, b. 3-3-1797, d. 3-3-1878, m.
(int) 3-4-1821 Milton Combs. (See Combs Family).
SALLY, b. 8-13-1799, d. 1-10-1866. m. 5-23-1822 Ambrose Newton. (See Newton Family).
SAMUEL, b. 7-19-1801, d. 8-27-1802. SOPHIRONIA, b. 6-5-1803, d. 2-1-1898; m. 10-3-1827 Amasa Graves Love- land. (See Loveland Family).
CHILD, b. May 1805, d. 10-27-1805. HARLOW, b. 12-27-1808, killed by lightning 9-7-1819.
CHILD, b. 3-2-1815, d. 3-13-1815. AMANDA, b. 4-6-1816, d. 10-13-1896 ; m. 5-7-1839 Lyman Church. She was a loyal member of the Baptist Church. (See Church Family).
FAM. 5. ICHABOD MEACHAM, S. of Capt. Isaac2 and Deborah (Browning) Meacham, was b. Salem 6-11-1679; d. Enfield 1766; m. Elizabeth -, who d. 4-27-1773. He went to Enfield with his father, when five years old. He had a son John b. 12-18-1728 (See Family 6).
FAM. 6. JOHN MEACHAM, S. of Ichabod" and Elizabeth Meacham was b. Enfield 12-18-1728; d. Mid. 2-28-1812; m. Enfield 11-15-1753, Lucia, dau. Philip and Mary (Colton) Parsons, Jr., who d. Mid. 9-11-1825, ae. 90 years. John Meacham with his family appears to have moved to Mid. shortly after the incorporation of the town. He was there at least as early as 1787, when he sold to his son Philip the western portion of lots Nos. 4 and 5 in the 2nd Div. East, Prescott's Grant, on a part of which lots he had his own homestead. His house stood east of the road running north from the Center, a few rods north of the old Uriah Church place where Mr. Gard- ner now lives. He served on the school committee in 1794. He and his wife joined the Congr. Church in 1793 by letter from the church in Enfield.
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