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SAMUEL, b. Dec. 14, 1801; m. Evelina Eames, April 8, 1830.
LEVI FISK, b. Dec. 6, 1806; d. April 2, 1809.
DEXTER STONE, b. June 6, 1810; d. March 6, 1811.
LUCY PARKHURST, b. May 17, 1813; d. Sept. 2, 1817.
ABIGAIL FAXON, b. Dec. 13, 1818; d. May 13, 1832.
Joel and family dwelt on the patrimonial homestead. Worthy people; much bereaved. He d. Aug. 3, 1833. Mrs, Polly d. long before him, Feb. 1, 1809.
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DAY, SAMUEL 6 (Joel," Mordecai,4 Mordecai,3 Samuel,2 Anthony 1), b. Dec. 14, 1801; m. his cousin, Evelina Eames, dr. of Phinehas and Izanna (Jones) Eames, b. Mil., July 23, 1799; cer. April 8, 1830, by Rev. D. Long. Their chn. : -
WINSLOW, b. Feb., 1831; d. Aug. 21 ensuing.
HIRAM JONES, b. Nov. 4, 1832; d. Worcester, a. 36 yrs .; last of the family.
Samuel inherited the old farm, but soon sold it to strangers, and built him a house in the Centre. For some reason he became discontented there, and disposed of his premises a little while before real estate took a remarkable rise. The fortunate purchaser was Rev. G. W. Stacy. Mr. Day, with dwindling prop- erty and threatening infirmities, sought his fortune elsewhere. At length, pecu- niarily and physically broken down, he d. in our asylum, June 10, 1876, little blamed and much pitied by his considerate townsmen. His wf., Mrs. Evelina, preceded him, having d. Jan. 28, 1866.
Several other Day families have for some yrs. res. in town, who must be distantly, if at all, related to the foregoing lineage. Among these are the fol- lowing :-
DAY, CHARLES S. W .; ancestry not given; son of Stephen Whitney and Elvira L. (Fiske) Day ; b. Rutland, March 30, 1825; bootmaker; m. Melancy L. Dar- ling, dr. of Zelek and Sarah Ann (Humphrey) Darling, b. Sutton, April 2, 1830; cer. Mil., Jan. 8, 1852, by Rev. George W. Stacy. Their chn .:- CHARLES Z., b. Mil., Nov. 4, 1852; d. Ang. 4, 1853.
NETTIE ELVIRA, b. Mil., Jan. 23, 1857.
Exemplary and estimable people.
IN DIRECTORIES.
DAY, MICHAEL, res. Main St. 1856.
DAY, DAVID L., res. South St. 1856, '78, '80.
DAY, PATRICK, laborer. 1856, '72.
DAY, THOMAS O., res. Central St. 1856.
DAY, CORNELIUS T., clerk. 1869, '75, '78, '80.
DAY, GILMAN B., carpenter. 1869, '72, '75, '78.
DAY, MOSES, bootmaker. 1869, '72, '75, '78, '80.
DAY, ROBERT, laborer. 1869.
DAY, JOSEPH, shoemaker. 1872, '75.
DAY, CHARLES, bootmaker. 1875.
DAY, LEON G., clerk. 1875, '80.
DAY, HARRY N., clerk. 1878, '80. 1
DAY, EDWARD, grammar-school teacher. 1880.
DAY, LIZZIE S., clerk. 1880.
DAY, FLORENCE M., Hopedale. 1880.
DEAN. We have had few families of this name in town. The eldest and most abiding of these was that of the late Capt. Sylvester Dean. He came here in 1815, and served two or three yrs., if I mistake not, as salesman and clerk in the store of Pearley Hunt, Esq., near Charles-river Bridge. In 1818 he bought of Esq. Hunt the store-building, and perhaps goods on hand, - but certainly the building, - and about half an acre of land. There he continued his mer- cantile business for many yrs., down to old age. He was a man of reserved, quiet, and exemplary habits, altogether averse to noise and display. He was much respected by his fellow-citizens, and, besides serving as captain of militia in his younger days, held from time to time several town offices of trust and
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responsibility, among others that of town-treasurer to great public satisfaction. Meantime he m., and raised up a respectable family. I intended to ascertain his exact lineal descent, but have not found it convenient to do so. He is a descend- ant of either John or Walter Dean, two bros. b. in or near Taunton, Eng., who came to Boston in 1637, stopped a yr. in Dorchester, and then, with others, set. at Taunton, Bristol Co., -naming it, from reverential affection, after their native English Taunton. I knew Capt. Dean's parents, and several family rela- tives in Franklin. The late Dr. Oliver Dean, founder of Dean Academy in Franklin, was his elder brother. The Deans are of an ancient and honorable race, many of whose scions have distinguished themselves in the learned pro- fessions and in public positions of life.
DEAN, Capt. SYLVESTER, son of Seth and Edina (Pond) Dean, b. Franklin, April 10, 1790; merchant; m. Charlotte Cutler, dr. of Simeon and Lydia (Grant) Cutler, b. Medway, March 13, 1801; cer. in Medway, Jan. 25, 1821, by Rev. Dr. Jacob Ide: always res. Mil. Their chn. :-
MARIA E., b. Nov. 15, 1821; m. Warren Carpenter of N. Y., June 28, 1848; d. Jan. 28, 1871.
CHARLOTTE C., b. Sept. 11, 1823; m. Hon. John C. Park of Boston, Nov. 1, 1854.
OLIVER, b. Aug. 29, 1825; d. Mil., May 14, 1875.
SOPHIA L., b. Aug. 8, 1827; m. Seth Chamberlain of Boston, June 15, 1853; d. July 14, 1878.
CAROLINE S., b. Aug. 5, 1829; m. William Pettet, Nov. 7, 1850.
FRANCES L. G., b. March 8, 1831; d. Aug. 18, 1864.
WILLIAM B., b. Dec. 25, 1834; m. Eliza Rercheval of St. Louis, Mo., April 11, 1871.
LOUISA C., b. Nov. 16, 1839; m. John Bliss of Springfield, Nov. 7, 1860.
ALBERT C., b. Feb. 2, 1842; m. E. J. Bailey of Dorchester, June 6, 1872.
Mrs. Carpenter was m. by Rev. Preston Pond; res. 10 yrs. in Brooklyn, N.Y. ; had 1 son and 2 drs. there; and removed in 1858, with her family, to St. Paul, Minn .; whence she came to her parental home in declining health, and d. Mrs. Park was m. by Rev. Dr. Chandler Robbins, res. at Newton, and has 2 sons. Oliver lived at Lowell several yrs. prior to 1850, then went to California, and passed most of his remaining days on the Pacific coast, but finally returned, and, through the misfortune of cerebral disease, was impelled to suicide. Mrs. Chamberlain was m. by Rev. James T. Woodbury; set., lived, and d. in Bos- ton, leaving with her bereaved hus. 3 sons. Mrs. Pettet was m. by Rev. Pres- ton Pond; res. in New Jersey, and has had 5 chn., of whom 3 drs. and a son survive. William B went to New York early in life; res. there till the out- break of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in the 22d Regt. N. Y. Vols. for 90 ds., and marched to the front. He re-enlisted in the 127th Regt. for 3 yrs., and served till discharged. Subsequently he m. at San Francisco a lady belonging to St. Louis, Mo., and removed thither. He has since res. there. He has had 2 chn., one of whom, a son, survives. Mrs. Bliss was. m. by Rev. James T. Woodbury; res. in West Newton, and is the mother of 6 chn., - 3 drs. and 3 sons. Albert was m. to his Dorchester bride by Rev. B. W. Barrows of Nepon- set; res. in Boston, and has 3 chn .; viz., Fannie L., b. April 30, 1873; Robert C., b. Sept. 25, 1875; and Franklin B., b. Feb. 9, 1877. Capt. Sylvester d. Nov. 16, 1878, in his 89th yr. Mrs. Charlotte d. April 5, 1880, in her 79th year.
DEAN, SAMUEL P., son of Nathaniel and Rebecca; birth-date, etc., not ascer-
tained. Freight-master on the railroad; m. Delia M. Holbrook, dr. of Ben-
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jamin and Hannah Holbrook, b. Mendon, Sept. 20, 1825; cer. in Mil., Feb. 21, 1850, by the writer. She d. in this town, July 29, 1867.
I have been unable to obtain their family record in respect to chn., if any they had.
DEAN, ALBERTUS, son of James M. and Patience W. (Holbrook) Dean, b. Woonsocket, R.I., 1852; R.Rd. station agent ; m. Sarah Lois Crosby, dr. of Isaac N. and Maria F. (Howard) Crosby, b. in Mil., 1854; cer. at the bride's parental home, July 16, 1878, by the writer. No chn. reported.
DEAN, OSBORN M. ; pedigree, birth-date, etc., not ascertained; m. Callie Claf- lin, dr. of Dexter and Lucy (Stone) Claflin, b. Oct., 1852; cer. Oct. 25, 1872. He soon left his wf. a widow. I am not further informed in the case.
DEAN, Rev. OLIVER STONE, present pastor of the First Cong. Ch., son of George T. and Caroline (Hawley) Dean, b. in Patterson, Putnam Co., N.Y., Oct. 13, 1835; grew up on a farm, abundant with comforts and labors, in companionship with a favorite elder bro. and two younger sisters, and, at the age of 17 yrs., joined the Presbyterian Ch. of his native town, of which his parents were members and his fr. a deacon. His early educa- tion was in the common schools, supplemented by a few winters' training in the select school. In 1853 he and his bro., Rev. William H. Dean of East Oakland, Cal., commenced preparations for college under the tuition of Mr. H. S. Newcomb, a grad. of Dartmouth College, then in charge of the academy in Patterson. In March, 1855, both entered Lafayette College, Easton, Penn., as freshmen six months advanced. They grad. July 28, 1858, Oliver S. being the valedictorian of his class.
His subsequent career in life may be summarized thus: Professor of Mathematics in Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, Bradford Co., Penn., one yr., and then principal of that institution for two yrs .; m. to his present wf., then in charge of the female department of the same institute, July 12, 1860; next yr., impressed with a sense of duty to preach, began his pre-requisite studies, and entered the middle class of Princeton Theo. Sem. in Sept., 1861, thence graduating in April, 1863; was a few months financial agt. of the institute at Towanda, whereof he had been principal; then called to the pastorate of the Cong. Ch., Roxbury, Ct., where he was ordained July 6, 1864; had a successful ministry, and exerted a powerful influence in behalf of his country amid the perils of the great Rebellion, by eloquent patriotic addresses to the faltering hearts of the people. At the end of four yrs. he accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Cong. Ch., Kalamazoo, Mich., and entered on his duties there in Oct., 1867. In 1873 he accepted a call to Plym- outh Ch., Indianapolis, Ind. Thence he was called to his present pastorate here, where he was installed Sept. 20, 1877. Eminent success seems to have attended his active ministry, and his talents have given him a commanding place among his brethren. This has been obvious from the responsibilities they have repeatedly called him to discharge. He preached the closing sermon before the Michigan State Cong. Association in 1868, was moderator of that body at their session of 1869, and delivered the opening sermon at their meet- ing in Grand Rapids, 1870. He was elected vice-president of the Triennial Convention of Ten States assembled at Chicago in 1873, and, at their next meeting, president of that body. In the spring of 1876 he was chosen chair- man of the Board of Examiners of the Chicago Theological Seminary. All this is an ample testimony, not only to his abilities, but to the stanchiness of his orthodoxy.
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He was m. to Mrs. Anna Cooper Kellogg, above alluded to, dr. of James and Ruth (Clark) Cooper of Corning, N.Y .; cer. at Corning, July 12, 1860, by Rev. Charles Morton. No report of chn. given me.
DENNETT, WINBURN RUSSELL, son of Winburn and Sarah (Frost) Dennett, b. North Berwick, Me., Nov. 1, 1824; pattern-maker; m. Martha Durgin, dr. of Charles and Jane (Cram) Durgin, b. Berwick, Me., July 8, 1831; cer.
April 15, 1849, by Rev. John Davis of Dover, N.H. Issue :- BLANCH, b. So. Berwick, Me., March 15, 1852; d. Feb. 14, 1858.
ALMA, b. Lawrence, Mass., Oct. 25, 1854; d. Jan. 6, 1858.
WINBURN, b. Lawrence, Mass., July 5, 1856; d. Dec. 18, 1857.
CLARA ESTELLE, b. Manchester, N.H., July 1, 1860; m. Harlan H. Hart, Nov. 23, 1879.
PERLEY, b. Manchester, N. H., 1863; d. Oct. 24, 1865.
LILLA, b. Hopedale, March 26, 1868.
MORTIMER SHERMAN, b. Hopedale, June 18, 1871.
WINBURN, b. Hopedale, July 27, 1873; d. Sept. 5, 1873.
Reputable family. Mr. Dennett is an ingenious, industrions, faithful workman in his line of business, and commands good compensation. He has a comfortable homestead in Berwick, Me., to which he can retire with bis family at pleasure. He has been at Hopedale since July 6, 1865.
DESPEAUX. I find this name spelled on our records in various ways, - Despair, Desper, Disper, Dispeau, and Despeaux. This last is the most recent. It is said to be warranted by a genealogical pamphlet somewhere extant, which claims to give, on good authority, the original French family name in this orthography. I have never seen the pamphlet, but some of the descendants have; and so I conform.
DESPEAUX, EDWARD, reputed to have been an only child; b. Chelsea, Nov. 23, 1740; m. Elizabeth Hunting, b. Sept. 24, 1747; cer. Feb. 9, 1763. Their chn .: -
HANNAH, b. Aug. 11, 1764.
JOSEPH, b. Feb. 19, 1766; m. and set. in Grafton.
MARY, b. Dec. 17, 1767.
BETSEY, b. Nov. 2, 1769; m. Amos Merrifield, Leicester, Vt., Feb. 12, 1795.
ABIGAIL, b. June 29, 1771; m. Nathaniel Kimball, Medway, May 29, 1794.
SARAH, b. March 27, 1776; d. soon after birth.
SARAH, b. Nov. 14, 1777; d. soon after birth.
SALLY, b. Feb. 7, 1779; d. soon after birth.
JASON, b. Aug. 1, 1780; m. Rebecca North, April 17, 1808.1
JOHN, b. June 6, 1782; m. Rachel Ball, July 5, 1807.
JESSE, b. Feb. 28, 1784; m. Anna Pond, Holl., Sept. 10, 1807.
PHEBE, b. Feb. 4, 1786; m. Henry Leland of Sherborn.
JAMES, b. May 25, 1789; m. Anna Cheney of Ward. LoIs, b. June 25, 1793.
This family were among the multitude warned out of town under the pauperphobia panic of 1791. He was then styled cordwainer, and it is not told whence he came. But, like most others of the warned-out, he came to stay, and did stay, with most of his chn. He dwelt many yrs., as a tenant, in an old domicile that stood just east of William Miller's hot-house, a little out from Cedar St., in the near vicinity of Pine-grove Cemetery. He was an industrious,
1 Jason lived to be an old man, and d. childless. He claimed to have read the Bible through in course 7 times, and to have walked 10,000 miles.
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frugal man, frequently in needy circumstances, and withal quite orthodox in his religious notions. He had a great abhorrence of Universalism, though often a recipient of favors from Noah Wiswall, one of its earliest professors in this town. It is reported that Wiswall donated to Despeaux a load of firewood on a certain occasion, that Parson Frost made Despeaux a pastoral call the next day, and that, during the call, Despeaux made a complimentary reference to Wiswall in these words: "Parson Frost, don't you think! the good Lord sent me a nice load of wood yesterday by the hand of the Devil." He d. at his dr. Kimball's in Medway, Feb. 23, 1822. Mrs. Elizabeth, at the same kind home, d. March 2 immediately ensuing.
DESPEAUX, JESSE 2 (Edward 1), b., I presume, Mil., Feb. 28, 1784; m. Anna
Pond, dr. of Aaron and Silence (Underwood) Pond, b. in Holl., Aug. 3, 1789; cer. in Mil., Sept. 10, 1807, by Samuel Jones, Esq. Their chn .:-
JOSEPH, b. Mil., March 12, 1808; m. Lavina Adams, Feb. 18, 1830; also 2d and 3d wives.
SILENCE, b. Mil., June 22, 1810; m. Henry Leland, Dec. 11, 1832.
VAN RENSSELLAER, b. Mil., Sept. 30, 1812; m. Catherine Goodnow; res. on an island in Lake Erie.
BETSEY, b. Mil., Sept. 14, 1814; m. Alford Angel, July 3, 1836.
EDWARD, b. Mil., April 17, 1817; unfortunate, blind, etc. ; res. in our asylum. ANNA, b. Mil., 1819; m., 1st, Hiram Gould; 2d, Reuben H. Cook; both d. JESSE, Jun., b. Mil., May 5, 1821; m. Mary R. Reed of Acton, Sept. 11, 1842. SALLY or SARAH, b. Mil., April 10, 1826; m. Orrin Sweet of Mil.
SAMUEL, b. Mil., May 16, 1828; m. Mary Knight of Acton; res. Boston. NAMELESS INFT., b. Mil., Sept., 1831; d. Nov. 2, a. 7 weeks.
Mr. Despeaux, the hus. and fr., d. of small-pox in this town, June 31, 1837, a. 53 yrs. Mrs. Anna, his wid., d. July 11, 1871, in her 83d yr. All their chu. survive, excepting Silence, and the youngest, that d. in early infancy. Joseph res. in Medway; also Betsey, now a wid .; Van Renssellaer, on a small island in Lake Erie; Edward, in our asylum; Anna, the 2d time a wid., in Boston; Jesse, in Upton; Sarah, Mrs. Orrin Sweet, in town; and Samuel, in Boston. Jesse is so near us, and so often among us, that I give his family record.
DESPEAUX, JESSE, Jun.8 (Jesse,2 Edward1), b. in Mil., May 5, 1821; m. Mary R. Reed, Sept. 11, 1842. Issue : -
JESSE GARDNER, b. Sept. 19, 1844.
OREN TRASK, b. Oct. 11, 1847.
LUCY ANNA, b. Sept. 13, 1850; d. Sept. 13, 1851.
JOHN WILLIAM, b. July 11, 1853; d. July 14, 1854.
An industrious, enterprising, worthy family. They res. in Upton, but are well known in Mil.
DEWEY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, Esq., son of Hon. Charles Augustus and Mrs. Caroline H. (Clinton) Dewey, b. Northampton, Dec. 29, 1830; m. Marietta N. Thayer, dr. of Alexander White Thayer and Marietta (Dustan), his wf., b. in Worcester, June 22, 1847; cer. Mil., March 12, 1867, by Rev. George G. Jones. Issue :-
MARIA THAYER, b. Aug. 8, 1872.
Mr. D. is judge of our Worcester Co. South-east District Court. He has a distinguished ptge. and ancestry, his fr. having just retired from the bench of our State Supreme Court, and his mr. being of corresponding social rank. His wf., too, has the ancestral honor of being a descendant of the celebrated Hannah Dustan of Haverhill, whose captivity among the Indians was so thrillingly nar-
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rated in olden times. I expected Judge Dewey to have given me the outline of his story as a scholar, lawyer, etc .; but either through modesty, misapprehen- sion of my wishes, or my neglect to urge the matter, I find myself unable to specify any particulars of his graduation, admission to the bar, etc. Of his appointment to his judgeship, etc., something may be found in Chap. XVI., "Succession of Civil Officers, etc." - head, "Police Court." He has res. in town some 15 yrs., I think; has rendered various official services to his fellow- citizens, and eminent ones on the school board.
DEWING, JOHN, pedigree, birth-date, etc., not ascertained; m. Patience Sum-
ner, dr. of James and Mary (Bigelow) Sumner, b. Nov. 2, 1756; cer. Sept. 21, 1780, by Rev. A. Frost. Their chn. :-
PENELOPE, b. Feb. 1, 1781; m. Jonathan Bowker, date not found.
DANIEL, b. March 5, 1784; d. Feb. 2, 1796, a. 12 yrs.
POLLY, b. Aug. 3, 1787.
JAMES, b. March 28, 1791.
HANNAH, b. Oct. 8, 1794.
ABIGAIL, b. July 26, 1797.
The fr. d. in Hop., Sept. 11, 1833.
Our records are barren in respect to this family beyond the above data. What became of the mr. and chn. I have yet to learn. I think they must have taken up their abode outside our municipal limits.
DEWING, FRANK, clerk, appears in Directories, 1872, '75, '78, '80.
DEWING, DWIGHT C., bootmaker, appears in Directories, 1878, '80.
Frank Dewing, above named, now res. in Hopedale, as clerk in the employ of George Draper & Sons. He m. Sarah Frances Cummings, dr. of Dr. Royal Cummings, and Sarah (Carpenter) Cummings, his wf., b. in Northbridge, Aug. 16, 1848; cer. Jan. 1, 1872. They have 1 child.
Doubtless others of this name have been transient dwellers among us.
DEWNER, ANDREW, was the slave of the first Josiah Ball. A friend in Boston made him a present of Andrew when a babe only 4 weeks old. If the reader will turn to the family record of Ball, under the proper head, he will find two versions of the traditional story about how he came by Andrew, - how he brought him home from Boston a young babe, how his wf. was frightened at the outcry of a black baby on her bed, how Andrew grew up a trusty slave, was inade free at 21 yrs. of age, exchanged his freedom-horse for a wf. named Rose in Marlboro' (formerly including Westboro'), and was comfortably settled by Ball on a little homestead, where he raised up a family, lived and died. I knew him in his old age, dwelling in his humble No. Purchase home. But I cannot give, with any accuracy, his birth-date, or the particulars of his marriage to Rose. They had several chn., concern- ing whom I can tell only the little that has reached me. They had certainly 2 sons and 3 drs. ; viz., ---
JUDITH, prob. eldest, b. March 2, 1768; m. Luke Smith as her 2d hus .; the 1st not known.
DINAH, birth-date not found; m. George Smith, Grafton, 1792.
ACHSA, birth-date not found; m. Pero Gardner, Wrentham, 1793; d. Feb. 12, 1803.
ANDREW, birth-date not found; went off to sea, and never returned.
HENRY, birth-date not found; went to sea, but finally d. in Boston.
I get no clew to the name of Judith's 1st hus. Her 2d was of Boston, and d., leaving her in widowhood. She ultimately found support in our town asy-
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lum, where she d. April 19, 1872, at the remarkable age of over 104 yrs. Andrew is supposed to have been sold as a slave in Georgia by a villanous sea-captain under whom he went to sea. Mr. Lewis Cobb, when out in Georgia, recognized him in a slave-gang, but could not speak with him.1 Henry followed the seas, but finally d. in Boston. Dinah and hus. moved to Boston, and prob. d. there. She had a son who came up to Mil., and d. with his gd. parents in 1820. When and where Achsa and her hus. d., I get no information. Andrew, the fr., d at his home in No. Purchase in 1825. Mrs. Rose went to live with her chn. in Boston. She was carefully assisted to get there in safety by Mrs. Luther Haven. She d. there a few yrs. later. I am indebted for several of the foregoing facts to my friends Elias Whitney and Isaac C. Haven. If the record of this family is imperfect on earth, I have no doubt it is complete in heaven.
DICKINSON, Dr. GIDEON3 (Capt. John D.,2 Gideon1), b. Williamston, Vt., date not given; mr.'s maiden name Chloe Hatch; m. Martha L. Knox, Boston, dr. of Charles H. and Harriet (Crockett) Knox, birth-date not given; cer. Boston, 1859, by Rev. George H. Hepworth. Issue :- MAUD, b. Boston, April 23, 1866.
Dr. D.'s gd. frs., on both the paternal and maternal sides, were Revolution- ary soldiers, were in the battle of Bennington, fought through the entire war, and were pensioners in old age till death. So he has live patriotic and martial blood running in his veins, which he does not allow to stagnate. He left home at the a. of 16 yrs., went to Goffstown, N.H., and there worked and attended school 2 yrs., thus fitting himself to be a teacher. Thence he came to Mil., entered the office of Dr. Francis Leland, and studied medicine and pharmacy. After spending several yrs. as a student with Dr. Leland, and sundry private teachers of Greek, Latin, and French, he went, in 1855, to Paris, where he at- tended lectures in the Medical College, and also academic courses in the Sorbonne and College of France. He then travelled several months on the continent, and in England and Scotland, returned to Mil. in 1857, and has since success- fully practised both medicine and dentistry, having offices here and in Boston. He cultivates his literary taste with assiduity, and not only admires fine poetry, but has printed several productions of his own muse. Principal among these is one published in pamphlet-form, entitled " A Hundred Years; or, Milford's First Centennial. In Three Cantos." 1880. Several other effusions, of simni- lar vim and merit, appeared, during 1880, in " The Boston Traveller."
DIX, JAMES, pedigree untraced; m. Submit Fairbank of Holl., pedigree un-
traced; cer. March 19, 1771, by Rev. A. Frost. Had 1 child bap. here by Mr. Frost; viz., MOLLY, Nov. 12, 1775. No further traced.
DIXON, WARREN, and Polly, had born to them, - HOSEA, b. May 3, 1797.
DIXON, MARVIN, and Mary, are credited also with 1 birth, -
LEWIS, b. Feb. 28, 1796.
Whence these Dixons came, and whither they went, I learn not.
DIXON, THOMAS, and Bertha, res. some yrs. ago in Hopedale, and had several chn .; but I can give only the names of 2 that died there; viz., -
THOMAS ALEXANDER, d. Oct. 12, 1866, a. 3 yrs. and 10 mos.
1 Sioce writing the foregoing, my friend Alfred Bragg, who claims to be better informed, says that Andrew, jon., was sold into slavery in Cuba, W.I .; that Ezekiel Madden of Milford, who traded more or less in Cuba, and who knew Andrew well, saw him there in slavery; aod that, having come home and procured the necessary legal documents to secure Andrew's freedom, he died on his passage back to Cuba. So the kidnapped victim was left to his fate.
Van Slyck & Co Boston.
George Oraper
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WALTER B., d. April 4, 1867, a. 2 yrs. and 6 mos.
Mrs. Bertha, the wf. and mr., d. at Whitinsville, whither the family had removed, June 13, 1874, a. 33 yrs. Her remains were brought to Hopedale for burial.
DOVE, CHARLES, son of John and Elizabeth, b. in Bubwith, Eng., Oct. 15, 1822; m., 1st, Elizabeth Humphrey, dr. of Richard and Catherine (Thomas) Humphrey, b. Chester, Eng., March 4, 1822; cer. Manchester Cathedral, Eng., July 21, 1849, by Rev. Mr. Johnson. Issue :-
CHARLES WILLIAM, b. Manchester, Eng., Sept. 1, 1851.
Mrs. Elizabeth d. in Mil., Sept. 22, 1868. The hus. m., 2d, Helen Maria Safford, dr. of Hiram and Ruby (Jumper) Safford, b. Dexter, Me., Oct. 22, 1838; cer. at Chelsea, Mass., March 16, 1878, by Rev. John T. Burrill. Issue :-
CHARLOTTE ALICE, b. Mil., Jan. 9, 1879.
Reputable people, industrially, civilly, and religiously. Mr. D. has res. in Mil. about 27 yrs. He is by occupation a boot-packer.
DRAPER. The Drapers are among our comparatively modern inhabitants, but they are also among the ancients of the Commonwealth. There were prob. several early immigrants of this name from Eng. unrelated to each other by family ties. The following is the substance of a document left by Ira Draper of Saugus at his death. I received it from his son, George Draper of Hopedale, and present a faithful digest of its essential data :-
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