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BALL, WILLIAM EUSTIS 8 (Zenas,7 Josiah, jun.," Josiah, sen.,5 Joseph,4 John,3 John,2 John 1), b. June 1, 1823; m. Caroline L. Loomis of Hop., ptge., birth- date, etc., not found; cer. 1847, particulars not ascertained. Chn .:-
SARAH P., birth-date not given; d. March 31, 1850, a. 2 yrs. 3 mos. 13 ds.
CARRIE L., birth-date not given ; d. Nov. 1, 1856, a. 2 yrs.
The hus. and fr. d. June 9, 1860. The wf. and mr. has also passed away, and the family is extinct.
BALL, ZENAS EDWIN, a younger bro. of the preceding, b. Nov. 27, 1827; m. Catherine Long, ptge., birth-date, etc., not found; cer. May 24, 1857; no fur- ther particulars. Chn .: -
WILLIAM EDWIN, b. Nov. 19, 1858.
JOSIAH, b. Aug. 15, 1861; d. Nov. 8, 1863.
EMMA JESSIE, b. Dec. 5, 1863.
EVA, b. March 3, 1867.
I understand Zenas E. to have res. always in his native town, and to be a boot-manufacturer. I solicited particulars of his family record; but he did not respond, and I have gathered the above sidewise. It may therefore be defective. BALL, FRANCIS MARION, youngest surviving son of Zenas and Betsey (Til- ton) Ball, b. June 30, 1832; m. Rosetta A. Scammell, dr. of Dr. Alexander and Ann A. (Partridge) Scammell, b. Nov. 12, 1836; cer. Mil., Nov. 30, 1854, hy Rev. David A. Plumb. Issue :-
EMMA B., b. Mil., Nov. 12, 1859.
MAY T., b. Mil., Oct. 8, 1862.
Mr. B. and family have res. for some years in Stoughton. His principal business there has been hotel-keeping.
BALLARD, SYLVANUS, and wf. Judith seem to have res. in our Easterly Precinct at one period; but whence they came, or whither they went, I get no intimation. They are credited as the parents of two drs., and prob. had other chn. The two referred to were, -
MARY, b. Ang. 31, 1761; m. Jonathan Hayward, Dec. 21, 1780.
JUDITH, b. May 21, 1763; m. Adam Hayward, April 18, 1782.
BALLOU, ADIN6 (Ariel,5 Ariel,4 James,8 James,2 Maturin 1), the author of this History, introduces his family record with a brief autobiography :-
I was b. in Cumberland, R.I., April 23, 1803, on a paternal homestead in- herited from James Ballou,8 my gt. gd. father. My gd. mother, on the paternal side, was Jerusha (Slack) of Wrentham. My mother was Edilda Tower, dr. of Levi and Mary (Whipple) Tower, and gd. dr. of Gideon and Mary Tower. My immigrant ancestor, Maturin Ballou,1 a French Protestant, as tradition says, first fled to England, remained there till he had formed a marriage connection, then came to Massachusetts Bay, and thence removed to Providence Plantations. There, about 1640, he joined the co-proprietors of Roger Williams. James Ballou,8 grandson of Maturin, and my gt. gd. father, settled in what is now Cumberland, R.I., then called "The Gore," probably about 1700, on a part of whose patrimony Ariel $ and Ariel 5 spent their lives.
I was always greedy of knowledge, and eagerly coveted a liberal education ;
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but was obliged to content myself chiefly with common-school privileges. To make up for my privations in this respect, I have diligently applied myself to the acquisition of knowledge throughout life, to orderly mental discipline, and to such particular studies as seemed to demand my special attention. At eleven years of age I had an impressive religious experience whose influence on my character has never ceased. At twelve I was baptized by immersion, and joined "the Church of Christ in Cumberland, R.I.," belonging to "the Christian Connexion," so called. At eighteen I had an intensive spiritual vision, in which I understood myself to be called imperatively by God to preach the gospel. To this I finally yielded, much against my own will, and cherished worldly plans; preaching my first discourse, with no human training, at the age of eighteen years and three months, in the ancient Ballou meeting-house of my native neighborhood. The occasion was exciting and memorable for reasons not here necessary to explain. In Sept. of the same year, 1821, I was admitted as an approved minister into the membership of the "Connecticut Christian Conference," and preached in varions places of my own general vicinity during the ensuing year. Meantime I wrote and published my first pamphlet, a "Review of Rev. Hosea Ballou's Lecture Sermon on the New Birth." On the particular points at issne its logic was better than its rhetoric. It led to much polemical discussion, and this finally, after a long and painful investigation, to a change of my theology respecting the final destiny of mankind; that is, from Destructionism to Restorationism.
I was married Jan. 17, 1822, to Miss Abigail Sayles, youngest dr. of Smith and Abigail (Scott) Sayles, Smithfield, R.I .; cer. by. Rev. Reuben Potter. During the summer of this year I became convinced that the Scriptures teach the final holiness and happiness of all human beings, and not the final destruc- tion of such as die out of Christ, which I had previously believed. An honest avowal of my convictions procured me an excommunication from the church to which I belonged, and threw me into the embracing sympathy of the Uni- versalist denomination; and this, in spite of the strong aversion I felt to the then already prominently developed no-future-retribution hypothesis, which afterwards drove me out of the denomination.
In 1823 I preached to several Universalist congregations in So. Mendon, Bellingham, and Medway, and later, for six months, to the First Universalist Society in Boston. I joined the "Southern Association of Universalists" during the summer, and was ordained at its annual session in this town, Dec. 10, 1823. I immediately solemnized the first of my numerous marriages in Boston. About the 1st of April, 1824, I became settled minister of the Uni. versalist Society in Milford, without installation ceremonies. After some years I accepted a call from Prince-St. Universalist Society, New-York City, and was installed as pastor there Sept. 26, 1827. I commenced while there my novitiate as an editor on a small semi-monthly periodical, called "The Dialogical In- structor." Having accepted a recall to Milford, I resumed my pastorate here on the 1st Sunday in July, 1828: I was bereaved of my worthy first wife, by quick consumption, soon after the birth of an infant danghter, Feb. 29, 1829. A year of trials, with one severe fit of sickness, followed. I was married to Miss Lucy Hunt, my present excellent wife, eldest dr. of Pearley and Chloe (Albee) Hunt, March 3, 1830, in the brick church, before a full congregation; cer. by Rev. Hosea Ballou, 2d.
I preached that year under an arrangement to supply the Universalist pulpits of both Milford and Medway. A sermon delivered at Medway in June '
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was asked for the press; and my friends got it printed at "The Trumpet" office, Boston. It was on the text, " What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" In that sermon, while defending the doctrine of universal restoration, I plainly dissented from the no-future retributionists. It gave great umbrage to some of them; and Rev. Thomas Whittemore, then editor of "The Trumpet," the leading Universalist organ of that day, denounced it in strong terms as contrary to American Universalism, and disrespectful to the elders of the order. He subsequently refused to print my defence in his paper. This so aggravated the schism between the small minority of Restorationists and their opponents, who then ruled the denomina- tion in New England, that the former seceded, and the next year formally organized an Independent Association. Meantime I started a religious weekly paper, entitled "The Independent Messenger," as the organ of the Restora- tionists ; taking the responsibility of proprietor and editor. It was printed by Geo. W. Stacy, and the first No. issued about New-Year's Day, Jan., 1831, from the office of Ballou & Stacy, just opened in the shed-loft of William Godfrey, adjacent to the Parish Common. Hot and somewhat bitter controversy followed between the opposing parties for several years. A majority of the Milford Universalist Society, not over-pleased with the new movement, quietly voted to dispense with my services. Passed, Jan. 22, 1831; re-affirmed a week later, and a committee appointed to notify me. I was soon waited on by said committee, and the very same day by a committee of the First Congregational Parish in Mendon to have me supply their pulpit. I was soon invited to take pastoral charge of said parish for one year, and in April removed my family thither; also our printing-office and "The Independent Messenger." There I had an open field for my cause, for reform, and for progress, in which were spent eleven busy and eventful years. I was formally installed in 1832; the congre- gation and church were greatly increased; the temperance reform was auspi- ciously inaugurated; the anti-slavery cause promoted successfully, in spite of some bitter opposition; the principles of peace faithfully proclaimed, and fraternal association earnestly recommended. Practical religion and righteous- ness never had a livelier epoch in that parish than those eleven years.
In the spring of 1842 I removed to Hopedale with others, to make the experiment of establishing a fraternal community on what I deemed the true Christian basis. Of the success and ill success of that experiment, my position and responsibilities therein, and also my pastorate of the Hopedale Parish, enough has been said in Chapter X., - Religious Societies, etc. For thirty years of my life, down to 1860, I was more or less an editor of periodical publi- cations. My authorship of books, pamphlets, and tracts, includes a very con- siderable list of various size, besides several volumes still in manuscript, prepared for press. These labors interlarded and complemented the more regular ones of a Christian minister and moral reformer during an active career in public life, extending from July, 1821, to the present time, 1881, - a period of about sixty years. Meantime I have ministered at more than two thousand funerals, and solemnized over one thousand marriages. I cannot reproach myself with having idled away my time, nor yet congratulate myself on having ac- complished a tithe of the good I tried to promote. But, despite of all my delinquencies and disappointments, I can rejoice gratefully in the loving-kind- ness of my heavenly Father, whose providence and tender mercies have crowned my life, and now shed a. serene sunshine on my old age. Whatever. good uses I, have served, to him alone be glory and praise. For many short-
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comings he knows all my lamentations; and that I confidingly, as well as con- tritely, cast myself, for final disposal, into the bosom of his forgiving love as manifested through his blessed son Jesus Christ.
I will now proceed with my tabulations, commencing with my father's family : -
BALLOU, ARIEL5 (Ariel,4 James,8 James,2 Maturin 1), b. Feb. 21, 1758; m., 1st, Lucina Comstock, dr. of Nathan and Abigail (Arnold) Comstock, who was b. in W. Wrentham, Mass., April 28, 1765. They were m. Feb. 21, 1782; and their chn., all b. in Cumberland, R.I., just over the Mass. line, were, -
ROZINA, b. Dec. 2, 1783; m. Nathan Arnold, April 9, 1809; d. Dec. 5, 1825; 4 chn.
ABIGAIL, b. April 16, 1786; m. Davis Cook, Dec. 8, 1808; d. April 15, 1874; 7 chn.
CYRUS, b. March 18, 1789; m. Susanna Ballou, Feb. 14, 1810; d. March 7, 1816; 2 chn.
ARNOLD, b. March 31, 1792; m. Lorinda Bates, April 11, 1816; d. Nov. 27, 1816; 1 dr.
SARAH, b. March 2, 1795; d. Oct. 11, 1803.
ALFRED, b. June 2, 1799; m. Matilda Cook, June 11, 1835; res. on old home- stead; 2 chn.
The mother d. July 11, 1801. The father m., 2d, Edilda Tower of Cum- berland, R.I., dr. of Levi and Mary (Whipple) Tower, who was b. May 27, 1771. They were m. June 20, 1802; and their chn. were, -
ADIN, b. April 23, 1803; particulars elsewhere noted.
ARIEL, b. Oct. 25, 1805; physician; m. Hannah Horton, Sept. 11, 1832; res. Woonsocket, R.I. They had 5 chn., of whom but 2 survive. The mr. d. Nov. 14, 1873.
Edilda (Tower) Ballou d. Dec. 27, 1834, in her 64th yr. Dea. Ariel Ballou d. Sept. 26, 1839, in his 82d yr.
BALLOU, ADIN6 (Ariel,5 Ariel,4 James,3 James,2 Maturin 1), b. as aforesaid, April 23, 1803; m., 1st, Abigail Sayles, dr. of Smith and Abigail (Scott) Sayles, who was b. in Smithfield, R.I., April 1, 1800. They were m. Jan. 17, 1822; cer. by Rev. Reuben Potter. Their chn. were, -
ADIN, jun., b. Cumberland, R.I., June 22, 1823; d. Mendon, Mass., Feb. 10, 1833.
ABIGAIL SAYLES, b. Mil., Mass., Jan. 30, 1829; m. Rev. William S. Hey- wood, May 11, 1851.
The mr. d. Feb. 20, 1829. The fr. m., 2d, Lucy Hunt, dr. of Pearley and Chloe (Albee) Hunt, who was b. in this town Oct. 31, 1810. They were m. in the Universalist (brick) Church, March 3, 1830; cer. by Rev. Hosea Ballou, 2d; and their chn. were, -
PEARLEY HUNT, b. in Mil., Nov. 23, 1830; d. Mendon, Feb. 27, 1833.
ADIN AUGUSTUS, b. in Mendon, June 30, 1833. He d. in Bridgewater, Mass., of typhoid fever, Feb. 8, 1852. He had graduated with honor at the State Normal School, and entered its service as an assistant teacher. He was richly endowed with all those qualities which inspire love, win admiration, and promise eminent usefulness. But he was cut down suddenly in the bloom of early youth, to the great sorrow of his family and a host of appre- ciative friends. His father commemorated his worth in a duodecimo volume of 192 pages, entitled "Memoir of Adin Augustus Ballou." It was pub-
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lished in 1853, and has been read by old and young with a tender inter- est.
BALLOU, ALBERT7 (Cyrus,6 Ariel," Ariel,4 James,8 James,2 Maturin 1), b. Cumberland, R.I., Aug. 4, 1811. His mr.'s maiden name was Susanna Ballou, dr. of Noah Ballou, Cumberland, R.I. She was m., 1st, to my oldest half-bro., Cyrus Ballou, and by him had two sons, viz., Albert and Cyrus. After my bro.'s decease some yrs., she m. Lewis Brown, by whom she had one son, now res. in Franklin. The venerable Susanna still sur- vives, at over 90 yrs. of age. My nephew Albert has res. for several brief periods in this town, and once owned a farm here. Afterwards he set. a while in Hop. He now carries on a milk-producing farm in Franklin. His son William A. resided a while here, and in. Ella M. Saunders, dr. of David. Albert Ballou mn. Ann Janett Peck, dr. of William and Sarah (Arnold) Peck, b. in Wrenthamn, May 25, 1813; cer. March 13, 1834, by Rev. Elisha Fisk. Their chn. : -
ADIN, b. Hop., Dec. 29, 1835; m. Harriet O. Wormwell, 1865; no chn.
ALBERT MORTIMER, b. Hop., July 29, 1836; m. Emily Watson, May 27, 1868; 2 chn.
WILLIAM ARNOLD, b. Hop., Nov. 9, 1838; m. Ella M. Saunders, April 17, 1864; 1 child.
These three sons all rendered perilous and valuable service in the great war of the Rebellion.
BALLOU, CYRUS7 (Cyrus,8 Ariel,6 Ariel,4 James,3 James,2 Maturin 1), bro. of the preceding, b. Cumberland, R.I., Oct. 27, 1812; m. Laura Follett, dr. of Comfort and Lois (Tower) Follett, b. Cumberland, R.I., 1818; cer. Oct. 15, 1835, by Ezek Dexter, Esq., just. peace. Their chn. : -
CORAZANDA, b. Cumberland, R.I., Oct. 16, 1836; d. Mil., Dec. 5, 1868.
CYRUS CONSTANTINE, b. Hop., Oct. 1, 1838; m. Mary V. Gallup, Oct. 27, 1874.
ELVIRA DANIELS, b. Hop., June 12, 1840; m. Benj. H. Spaulding, Oct. 24, 1865.
AUGUSTUS, b. Mil., Sept. 8, 1842; d. same month, 10th day.
AUSTIN, b. Mil., Sept. 23, 1843; m. Jane Agnes Hayward, Aug. 2, 1871.
ANNA M., b. Mil., Aug. 5, 1845; d. Bell., March 30, 1852.
HERBERT, b. Mil., Oct. 28, 1847 . m. Mary Ella Chappell, Aug. 4, 1871.
MINERVA, b. Mil., Nov. 28, 1850; d. Bell., Feb. 20, 1852.
The hus. and fr. was an energetic, executive, upright man. He was for some time an overseer of our poor. He and his wf. had charge of our asylum several yrs., with general satisfaction to all parties concerned; and, after his death, Mrs. Ballou became again matron of that institution for another series of yrs., in connection with one of her bros. Cyrus d. in the midst of business and usefulness, Bell., Feb. 14, 1852. His wid. still survives in comparative vigor and cheerfulness I believe all the surviving chu. of the family are set. in mar- ried life and active business.
CYRUS CONSTANTINE was m. to Mary V. Gallup, dr. of Frederick and Catherine (Croll) Gallup, Boston; cer. iu Mil., Oct. 27, 1874, by the writer. He has a responsible business position in connection with the manufacture of boots and shoes in the Albany (N. Y. ) penitentiary, for the East New York Shoe Co. They have 2 chn. at their Albany residence :-
LAURA M., b. Sept. 18, 1875.
CYRUS C., jun., b. Nov. 30, 1877.
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ELVIRA DANIELS, wife of Benjamin H. Spaulding, appears in her place under his name.
AUSTIN m. Jane Agnes Hayward, at Bellinghamn, Aug. 2, 1871; cer. by Rev. J. T. Massey; other particulars called for not given. They have 2 chn. : -
CORA SADIE, b. Sept. 25, 1872; and WILLIAM AUSTIN, b. Feb. 12, 1876.
HERBERT, foreman of the straw-factory in town, m. Mary Ella Chappell; dr. of Jeremiah and Mary (Sisson) Chappell, b. in New London, Ct., Nov. 24, 1847; cer. Providence, R.I., Aug. 4, 1871, by Rev. B. P. Byram. They have 1 child :-
LUELLA HATTIE, b. Mil., March 11, 1873.
The chn. of Albert and Cyrus Ballou are of generation & from Maturin;1 and their chn. of gen.9
Mrs. LORINDA A. BLAKE, 35 Pearl St., is the dr. of my half-bro., Arnold Ballou, - his only child.
BALLOU, CHARLES 6 (Ziba,5 Noah,4 Nathaniel,3 James,2 Maturin 1), b. Cum- berland, R.I., Nov. 9, 1797; his mr.'s maiden name was Molly Mason, dr. of Timothy Mason; tailor by trade; came to that part of Mendon adjacent to So. Milford; m. Sena Penniman, dr. of Josiah and Sena (Holbrook) Pen- niman, b. May 2, 1800, and brought up, I think, by Dr. Daniel Thurber; cer. May 2, 1820, by whom not given. They removed to Mil. Centre soon after mge. ; and in 1824, when I came into town, he had bought the Caleb Albee place, had built a small brick shop, and was doing a brisk business as merchant tailor. He continued in town several yrs., but afterwards returned to Mendon, and finally to R.I. Their chn. : -
CHARLOTTE MASON, b. Mendon, Feb. 10, 1821; m. Charles L. Fisher, Feb. 9, 1845; 4 chn.
LOUISA, b. Mendon, Dec. 30, 1830; m. George S. Whitman, Jan. 8, 1856. MARIANNA, b. Mendon, July 6, 1832; remains unm., Providence, R.I.
The hus. and fr. d. at Woonsocket, R.I., May 6, 1838. His wid., with her chn., moved to Providence, and she d. in that city, Feb. 28, 1874. The two drs. that m. found their husbands in Providence. Only 3 gd. chn. of Charles Bal- lou survive.
BALLOU, ALEXANDER6 (Abner,5 Abner," Obadiah,8 James,2 Maturin 1), b. Cumberland, R.I., Aug. 1792; son of Abner Ballou, Esq., and gd. son of Rev. Abner Ballou, once a celebrated Six-Principle Baptist pastor for many yrs. in Cumberland. His mr.'s maiden name was Henrietta Brown.
He came of an eminently respectable stock, and was himself a very worthy man. He taught our district school in my boyhood; and I knew him well as a business clerk, cashier of the Cumberland Bank, and afterwards as a farmer. He came to So: Milford in 1843, and dwelt on the Martin Stoddard place, later the Willard Chilson homestead. He remained in town only about 5 yrs., a part of which time he was postmaster of the So. Milford office. He then sold out his place to Willard Chilson, and returned to R.I. His son Henry and young family dwelt at So. Mil. with him, and perhaps both fr. and son, or one of them, ran the store there for a time. I notice that his son had charge of the post-office for a season, that he had a child's birth recorded by our town clerk, and that he buried his wf. Sarah while there; also that a dr. of Alexander was in. to Major John C. Scammell's son, Samuel S. None of his chn. or descend- ants remain in town; but it cannot be improper for me to tabulate his family record. He m. Fanny Sweetser, dr. of Philip Sweetser, Marlboro', N.H., b. in Royalston, Mass., Feb., 1793; cer. in Marlboro', N.H., Aug. 27, 1817; by whom not reported. Their chn .:-
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FREDERICK M., b. June 21, 1818; m., 1st, Sarah A. Arnold, 1844; 2d, Nancy Cummings.
HENRY S., b. Feb. 25, 1820; m., 1st, Sarah -; 2d, Deborah A. Davis. FANNY A., b. April 18, 1822; m. Samuel S. Scammell, Nov. 20, 1845.
ALEXANDER, b. April 22, 1825; m., 1st, Martha A. Mowry; 2d, Hannah A. Wood.
JAMES, b. May 9, 1828; d. May 3, 1849.
JULIUS, b. June 14, 1830; d. Dec. 31, 1851.
MARY, b. June 14, 1832; d. Sept. 13, 1840.
AUSTIN, b. Feb. 26, 1835; d. Aug. 5, 1879.
The hus. and fr. d. Providence, R.I., Jan., 1869. His wid. d. there 1875. BALLOU, AMOS JENKS6 (Absalom,5 Noah,4 Nathaniel,8 James,2 Maturin1),
b. Cumberland, R.I., March 24, 1800; mr.'s maiden name, Anna Jenks; m. Joanna Kelley, dr. of Wing Kelley, and sister of the celebrated anti- slavery lecturess, Abby (Kelley) Foster; particulars of the mge. cer., etc. not at command. Their chn. : -
CHARLES WING, b. during the year 1831; d. at' Yuba River, Cal., Sept. 15, 1852.
FRANCISCO MARSHALL, b. during the year 1833; m .; res. a man of business in Worcester.
ABBY LUCY, b. during the year 1839; m .; res. also in Worcester.
They came to Hopedale toward the close of 1842, and soon after became members of the Community. They were substantial and worthy people. He was an executive and estimable intendant of agriculture for us three yrs. They resigned their membership in 1845, and set. in his native town, on a part of the old family homestead; there he d. Oct. 31, 1869. His wid. still survives, and has res. in Worcester for the last few yrs.
BALLOU, OLNEY, bro. of Amos J., res. with his family at Hopedale a sliort time while his bro. was here; but I have no data of his record, only that his wife was Diadama Kelley, a sister of Joanna and Abby. Olney and wf. are both dead.
BALLOU, GEORGE BROWN, a descendant of Maturin,1 but he cannot trace the connecting links of his lineage; b. in Burrillville, R.I., son of Daniel and Mercy (Brown) Ballou; m. Fannie Jane Thayer, dr. of Archa. and Elizabeth (Aldrich) Thayer, b. in Spencer, Mass., July 8, 1835 ; cer. in Chepachet, R.I., July 5, 1857, by Rev. John Pratt. Their chn. :-
FREDDIE LINCOLN, b. Upton, Nov. 28, 1861; clerk, 64 Main St.
NELLIE, b. Upton, July 12, 1865; d. Sept. 8, 1865.
BEATRICE ANNA, b. Upton, Oct. 12, 1867.
GEORGIE MARSHALL, b. Upton, Feb. 22, 1871; d. July 16, 1871.
FANNIE LOUISE, b. Mendon, July 20, 1873; d. Sept., 1873.
This family have res. in Upton, Mendon, and latterly in Mil. The hus. is a provision-dealer, and the wf. manages a boarding-house. I have little per- sonal acquaintance, but presume them to sustain a reputable standing.
BANCROFT. This is a comparatively recent name in Mil. Those who bear it are probably descendants of John and Jane Bancroft, who came over from London in 1632, and set. in Lynn. They brought with them two sons, John and Thomas. Their fr. soon d. Thomas m., and set. in Reading, where he had three sons, John, Thomas, and Ebenezer. One of these had a son Samuel, but which one is not certain. I conjecture he must have been Thomas. Our Bancrofts run back through Samuels to a first Samuel, son of this conjectural Thomas. Thus much is certain; the rest, merely probable.
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BANCROFT, JOSEPH BUBIER 8 (Samuel,7 Samuel,6 Samuel,5 Samuel,4 prob. Thomas,8 Thomas,2 John1), one of 10 chn .; b. in Uxbridge, Oct. 3, 1821. His father followed the sea for many yrs. He was b. in Marblehead, Dec. 2, 1784; m. Mary Bubier of that town, Jan. 12, 1807; was taken prisoner in the war of 1812, and confined in the infamous Dartmoor Prison, to the irreparable loss of his health, and finally d. in West Medway at the age of 60 yrs. His wid. also d. there at the age of 87 yrs.
JOSEPH BUBIER m. Sylvia Willard Thwing, dr. of Benjamin and Anna (Mowry) Thwing, b. in Uxbridge, June 26, 1824; cer. in Ux., Sept. 11, 1844, by Rev. Samuel Clarke. Their chn. : -
EBEN DRAPER, b. Hopedale, Aug. 27, 1847; m. Lelia Coburn, Sept. 9, 1874. CHARLES EUGENE, b. Hopedale, March 20, 1849; d. March 27, 1849.
MINERVA LOUISA b. Hopedale, March 12, 1851; d. same day.
WILLIAM (triplets), b. Hopedale, March 12, 1851; d. March 18.
WALTER b. Hopedale, March 12, 1851; d. March 23.
ANNA MINERVA, b. Hopedale, Feb. 9, 1853.
MARY GERTRUDE, b. Hopedale, Dec. 2, 1856; m. Walter P. Winsor, Oct. 4, 1876.
CHARLES FREDERIC, b. Hopedale, April 30, 1861; d. Sept. 14, 1868.
LILLA JOSIE, b. Hopedale, Aug. 25, 1863.
LURA BELLE, b. Hopedale. Dec. 27, 1865.
Their dr., Mrs. Winsor, res. in Fairhaven, and has 1 son ; viz., -
WALTER BANCROFT WINSOR, b. April 20, 1879.
Mr. Bancroft and wf. came to Hopedale in 1847, and soon after joined the Hopedale Community, of which they were useful and exemplary members. He was a capable machinist, and has long been superintendent of the Hopedale Machine Company's establishment. He is likewise a prominent member and officer of our parish. As a citizen he has been deservedly honored with responsible official positions. He represented the town in Gen. Court in 1864, and served for several yrs. as our principal selectman. Their dr. Anna M. has proved herself a successful teacher, and is now one of the assistant instructors in the High School. The whole family hold a highly reputable standing in society.
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