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GIBBS, BENJAMIN" (Lieut. Joseph,5 Jacob,4 Isaac,3 John,2 Matthew1), b. in
Mil., Dec. 25, 1783; m., 1st, Clarinda Jones, dr. of Capt. Ezekiel and Mary (Wight) Jones, b. in Mil., April 13, 1786; cer. Nov. 24, 1805, by Rev. David Long. Mrs. Clarinda d. childless, Nov. 11, 1820; the hus. m., 2d, Experi- ence alias Pedee Thayer, dr. of Jotham and Bathshebah (Wheelock) Thayer b. July 20, 1786; cer. June 3, 1821, by Rev. D. Long. Their chu. :-
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CLARINDA, b. Mil., March 15, 1822; m. Elihn Veber, Feb. 22, 1844; 4 chn. NAMELESS INFT., b. Mil., date not found ; d. April 13, 1823.
CLARK J., b. Mil., Feb. 6, 1825; m. Almira Kent, April 2, 1848; 2 chn.
CHARLES, b. N. Y. State, Jan. 11, 1828; d. July 16, 1849.
HIRAM HUNT, b. N. Y. State, Oct. 5, 1829; m. Betsey Wilkinson, Oct. 17, 1851; 1 son.
LEONARD, b. N. Y. State, Oct. 28, 1831; m. Elizabeth Johnson, June 16, 1856; 1 son.
FARNUM, b. N. Royalton, O., March 1, 1835; m. Calista Garlock, Nov. 6, 1856; 5 chn.
ALEXANDER W., b. N. Royalton, O., Jan. 9, 1844; m. Alice P. Green, Feb. 6, 1867; 5 chn.
Mr. Gibbs and wives held a respectable social standing here and elsewhere. He was a skilful, neat, and executive cabinet-maker. He dwelt on E. Main St., where Charles T. Eames afterwards had his domicile and shop. Mr. G., 2d wf., and 2 chn., left Mil. in June, 1825, to find a home in western New York. I forget the name of the town, Thence the family removed, in Oct., 1835, to No. Royalton, O. There (perhaps before) the parents, and most if not all their chn., became devotedly attached to the Christian ch. called "Disciples," or sometimes Campbellites. Farnum Gibbs is a successful minister of that denomi- nation, as well as farmer. All the surviving members of the family are in com- fortable circumstances. The gd. chn. number 18, and the gt. gd. ch. 14. The fr. d. Jan. 27, 1851; the mr. and wid. d. Nov. 9, 1876. Hiram H. d. April 25, 1871. Leonard d. Feb. 17, 1857.
GIBSON, THADDEUS, pedigree untraced ; appears to have m. Elizabeth Sumner,
dr. of James Sumner, Esq., date and particulars not ascertained, All I learn about them is from the record of persons warned out of town in 1791: "Thaddeus Gibson, wife Elizabeth, and two children, Lewis and Mary, from Hampshire State, came here Jan. 10, 1782; taken in by James Sum- ner." Whither they went, or what became of them, I learn nothing.
GIBSON, JOHN, pedigree untraced; m. Sarah A. Cushman, dr. of Matthew S. and Cynthia Cushman; cer. in Mil., Dec. 21, 1826, by the writer. I can give no account of their issue. They left town, she long ago d., and the hus. m. again. He res. a while since once more among us, and told me some of his experiences in life; but my recollection does not serve me well enough to state particulars.
We have had a few other Gibsons here for longer or shorter periods, and some yet in town; but they have reported to me no family records.
GILMAN, SILENUS C., son of Jehiel and Polly (Bliss) Gilinan, b. in East Calais, Vt., July 25, 1818, foreman of boot-factory; m., 1st, Sarah Ann Perry, dr. of Josiah W. and Anna (Corbett) Perry, b. Mil., 1822; cer. at Hopedale, April 28, 1846, by the writer. Issue :-
ELLA FRANCENA, b. Mil., July 29, 1849; m. Paran C. H. Belcher, Sept. 8, 1869.
MARY LOUISA, b. Mil., June 15, 1852; m. Frederick P. Ham, May 22, 1872.
Mrs. Sarah Ann departed this life Nov. 22, 1854. Mr. G. m., 2d, Priscilla Bingham Fisk, dr. of Bingham and Lydia Smith (Avery) Fisk, b. in Chaplin, Windham County, Ct., March 1, 1831; cer. in Mil., April 22, 1856, by Rev. J. R. Johnson. Issue : -
FRANK FISK, b. Mil., Oct. 30, 1860.
Mr. G. has long res. in town, is executive in the despatch of business, is an
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orderly and trusted citizen, and a respected member of society. His wives and children have held a like reputable social standing. There has been but one gd. child as yet reported; viz., George Paran Belcher, b. July 21, 1870, who d. in early infancy.
GILLMAN, WILLIAM CONNER, son of Herbert and Wilhelmina Martlia (Con- ner) Gillman, b. in Bandon Coof, Cork County, Ireland, Dec. 20, 1842; m. Arabella Wharton, dr. of John and Hannah (Coston) Wharton, b. Enfield, Me., Nov. 6, 1844; cer. in Hopedale, Oct. 13, 1867, by the writer. One foster dr., -
HATTIE E. GILLMAN, b. in Veazie, Me., Feb. 22, 1865.
Intelligent and excellent people. Mr. G. has long been the executive, faithful, and trusted foreman of Johnson, Rust, & Co.'s extensive boot and shoe manufactory.
GILLMAN, JOSEPH, bro. of the preceding, b. in Ireland, 1844; m. Mary Edna Bragg, dr. of Willard and Mary (Claflin) Bragg, b. Oct. 7, 1847; cer. at Hopedale, Oct. 15, 1867, by the writer. No chn. reported to me. Of good repute. Found in Directory of 1878, but not in that of 1880.
GILLMAN, JOSEPH COGHLIN, son of Herbert and Bridget Sophia (Coghlin) Gillman, b. in Ireland, 1819; watchman; m. Jane E. Hunt, dr. of Lowell and Emily (Bragg) Hunt, b. in Mil., 1832; cer. at Hopedale, July 1, 1869, by the writer. No chn. reported to me. Worthy people. Mrs. Jane d. June 19, 1879.
GILLMAN, HERBERT, noted in Directory of 1880 as farmer, house Grant St. GILLMAN, HERBERT, Jun., noted in Directory of 1880 as boot and shoe mann- facturer (firm of Gillman & Raftery), South Bow, house Exchange.
GILLMAN, THOMAS G., boot-click, bds. H. Gillman's, Grant St.
There are several Gillmans in town whose family records I hoped to have obtained, but am disappointed.
GLEASON, ZELOTES, son of Abel and Catherine (Lincoln) Gleason, b. West- moreland, N.H., Dec. 18, 1809; came to Mil. about the yr. 1843; carriage- dealer and farmer; m. Sarah Adelaide Scott, dr. of Rila and Sarah S. (Paine) Scott, b. Hillsboro', N.H., July 13, 1829; cer. Mil., Dec. 20, 1855, by Rev. James R. Johnson. Their chn. : -
MALVINA FRANCES, b. March 16, 1857; public-school teacher.
ALBERT, b. Oct. 10, 1862.
Mr. Gleason and family res. on Congress St. He d., after a long and wasting illness, June 23, 1876. His surviving wid. and chn. occupy the same res. still, filling up life with exemplary usefulness.
GLEASON, LYMAN, bro. of the above, b. in Westmoreland, N.H., March 7, 1819; boot-finisher: came to Mil. in 1844; m. Selina A. Rockwood, dr. of Perley and Prudence (Ward) Rockwood, b. in Upton, March 21, 1830; cer. in Upton, Nov. 27, 1848, by Rev. Mr. Tenney. No issue reported.
GLEASON, DE WITT CLINTON, also son of Abel and Catherine (Lincoln) Gleason, b. Westmoreland, N.H., 1818; m., 2d, Hopestill Corbett ( Perry) Holbrook, dr. of Josialı and Anna (Corbett) Perry, and wid. of Benjamin Holbrook, b. Mil., Oct. 4, 1833; cer. in Pearl St. Universalist ch., March 10, 1867, by the writer. Issne :-
PERRY, b. May 23, 1873.
Mr. Gleason came into town many yrs. ago, and was first engaged in the lumber business. He afterwards went into the boot-business, and was, at the time of bis 2d mge., a boot-manufacturer in Hartford, Ct. If I am not mis- taken, he remains so still. Enterprising and worthy people.
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There are several other Gleasons in town, unreported to me, but whose names appear in our successive directories.
GODFREY. Col. Benjamin Godfrey and his descendants have been con- spicuous in town for their pecuniary, civic, and social standing. I have tried in vain to trace Col. Benjamin's pedigree. All I can learn of his origin is, that he came into our Precinct, from East Greenwich. R.I., his birthplace, between 1770 and 1775; that he came penniless, with only a few articles of wearing apparel in his handkerchief; and that then he was first employed by some one in the Bear-hill district. He could, at that time, have been only between 16 and 20 yrs. of age, - some say only 16. He was full of inborn enterprise and business tact, by force of which he soon rose into business distinction. He had a great aptitude for trade, and turned every exchange to profit. He was m. in 1778; and in 1785 we find him the owner of the Eli Chapin farm, now occu- pied by F. M. Inman. Thenceforth all kinds of real and personal estate passed through his hands with celerity, or remained in them to his advantage. Before 1797 he had planted himself firmly in the Centre, as merchant and innholder. There, for a time, nearly all the farming produce of Mil. and its adjacent vicinity passed through his hands, mostly to a ready market in Providence, R.I. In return, he supplied the home-market with an abundant variety of out- side necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries. At his zenith he had absorbed into his possession a large landed estate, much of it in and near the Centre. Meantime he rose to be lieut .- col. commandant in the militia, and was honored with responsible town offices. I now proceed to his family record :-
GODFREY, Col. BENJAMIN, ptge. untraced, except that his mr.'s name was
Sarah, who lived with him an aged wid. many yrs., and d. April 26, 1813, a. 85 yrs. ; b. in East Greenwich, R.I., about 1755; m. Bethiah Gibbs, dr. of Lieut. Joseph and Elizabeth Gibbs, b. in Holliston, Aug. 10, 1762; cer. in our Precinct, Dec. 31, 1778, by Rev. A. Frost. Their chn. : -
BETSEY, b. May 19, 1779; m. Seth Davenport, April 29, 1797.
SALLY, b. March 3, 1781; m. Willis Bronson, Dec. 20, 1801.
JOHN, b. March 13, 1783; d. March 15, 1784.
SOPHIA, b. April 28, 1784; m. Benjamin Davenport, Nov. 3, 1805.
BENJAMIN, Jun., b. April 18, 1786; d. Nov. 3, 1806, a. 20 yrs.
WILLIAM, b. Feb. 10, 1788; m. Nancy Stearns, Nov. 30, 1809.
HOPESTILL, b. Feb. 13, 1790; m. Dr. Jeremy Stimpson, Sept. 7, 1808.
MARY MELLEN, b. Oct. 29, 1792; d. March 16, 1816, a. 24 yrs.
SAMUEL WARREN, b. Nov. 23, 1795; d. July 9, 1817, a. 22 yrs.
CHARLOTTE FROST, b. June 23, 1798; m. Charles Leland, Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1823.
Mrs. Bethiah joined the Cong. ch. in 1800. The col. does not seem to have made any profession of religion, but gave liberal countenance and support to the standing ch. and ministry, which is commonly accepted in such cases as the next best thing. Mrs. Bethiah d. Dec. 13, 1804. The hus. m., 2d, Cathe- rine Fuller of Needham, in the spring of 1806. They had 1 dr. : -
SARAH F., b. June 21, 1810; m. Nathan T. Chapin, 1845. She had a brief m. life.
Col. Benjamin d. Oct. 9, 1822. Mrs. Catherine d. Sept. 21, 1840.
GODFREY, WILLIAM 2 (Col. Benjamin 1), b. Feb. 10, 1788; m. Nancy, dr. of David and Joanna (Adams) Stearns, b. March 1, 1791; cer. Nov. 30, 1809, by Rev. D. Long. Their chn. : -
HARRIET BETHIAH, b. Aug. 13, 1810; m. John Erskine, Sept. 20, 1830.
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DAVID STEARNS, b. Nov. 13, 1811; m. Elizabeth A. Carshore, Sept. 12, 1836.
BENJAMIN DAVENPORT, b. Jan. 19, 1813; m. Ann Eliza Roberts, Feb. 17, 1842.
WILLIAM, Jun., b. Dec. 27, 1814; d. 1824.
MARY, b. Oct. 20, 1816; m. Dr. James Fiske, May 17, 1837.
SAMUEL, b. Dec. 7, 1819; m. Julia Brown, Philadelphia, March 31, 1845; and he d. without issue, Sept. 18, 1846.
William Godfrey inherited the large farm of his fr., m. an excellent wf., maintained a high social standing, was remarkably enterprising, of generous public spirit, and a popular citizen. He established the first line of stage- coaches ever run between Mendon, Milford, and Boston. This was done in 1822. He subsequently extended this line to Stratford and Norwich, Ct., there- by connecting with steamers to New York, and opening direct communication between Boston and the empire city through Milford. He had previously introduced into town the manufacture of cotton-plush hats, which had a brisk run for several yrs. The tin-ware business under Lewis Johnson, started in 1822, was largely due to his projection and patronage. Also the carriage, har- ness, and wheelright establishment of 1826. Also the currying and leather business under H. & H. Freeman in 1830, afterwards successfully prosecuted by Godfrey & Mayhew. Thus, and in many other ways, he won a deserved popularity from his townsmen of all classes. He was famous in the horse-trade, and once gave me a characteristic anecdote of his tact in that line. A man from one of the neighboring towns called on him, anxious to swap horses, but did not bring the animal he wished to exchange along with him. "Oh, yes !" said Mr. G., "I am always ready to accommodate in that line. I'll show you two or three of the general value you indicate." One was presently selected that seemed to suit. Whereupon the man examined the animal closely, and asked if he was free from such and such defects. "I read him like a book," said Mr. G., "and knew that his horse probably had the very defects on which he laid the most stress." "Well," said the man, "I suppose you will want to see my horse before we trade." - "Oh, no! I'll take him at such a boot. I know all about him." -" How is that ?" said the man, "you never saw him ?" - "No; but he has a spavin on one of his legs, is a little foundered in the fore- feet, his wind is sometimes short, etc.," naming half a dozen defects. "How under heaven have you found all this out?" exclaimed the man. "Oh! I understand horses in these cases : send him along; it's an even bargain." "The fellow," said he, "did not dream he had sufficiently described his own horse." I always found Mr. G. a genial, kind-hearted, and accommodating friend. He d. somewhat suddenly, Sept. 2, 1839. His much respected wid., Mrs. Nancy, d. March 1, 1861.
GODFREY, DAVID STEARNS 8 (William,2 Col. Benjamin1), b. Nov. 13, 1811; m. Elizabeth A. Carshore, dr. of - and Sally (Freeland) Carshore (after- wards Mrs. Benjamin Davenport), birth-date not given; cer. at the res. of Benjamin Davenport, Esq., Mendon, Sept. 12, 1836, by the writer. They had no issue. D. S. Godfrey inherited all, and more than all, the commend- able qualities of his progenitors. His enterprise, public spirit, judicious shrewdness, and kindness of heart, were pre-eminent. He was the leading proposer and promoter of the Branch R.R. to Framingham. He was no less distinguished for mental independence and liberality of religious senti- ment. I shall be pardoned for my high appreciation of him in the
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remembrance of his friendly regard for myself from his boyhood to the close of life. This regard he uniformly manifested in many ways. Among the more prominent tokens of it, I may mention, 1st, his procuring a valuable portrait of me after I came to Hopedale, which, just before his death, he donated to the Hopedale Community in my care; 2d, his leaving me a legacy of $50 in his will; and 3d, his careful pre-arrangement that I should deliver an address at his funeral in the Cong. meeting-house, his pastor, Rev. Mr. Woodbury, officiating in the other services. He was a great sufferer from a fatal bone-disease in one of his arms, which he had had repeatedly amputated in vain. After many months of anguish and wasting, patiently endured, he passed into the higher existence in full assurance of immortal blessedness, Sept. 12, 1853, universally respected and lamented, being in the 42d yr. of his age. His bereaved companion subsequently m. Hamilton B. Staples, Esq. ; cer. at Esq. Davenport's in Mendon, June 15, 1858, by Rev. Mr. Barber. Mrs. Staples d. of heart disease, Mil., July 1, 1867.
GODFREY, BENJAMIN DAVENPORT& (William,2 Col. Benjamin 1), b. Jan. 19, 1813; m. Ann Eliza Roberts, dr. of John and Sarah E. (Stuart) Roberts, b. Pemberton, N.J., Aug. 15, 1819; cer. in Philadelphia, Penn., Feb. 17, 1842, by Rev. Mr. Boardman. Their chn. : -
WILLIAM, b. New York, Dec. 9, 1842; d. Mil., Aug. 27, 1843.
CHARLES BOKER, b. New York, Feb. 12, 1845; m. Cora Anna Chapin, June 25, 1868.
DAVID STEARNS, b. Boston, Feb. 29, 1848; m. Annie Donovan, 1872; famous musician.
ANNIE ROBERTS, b. Mil., Feb. 11, 1850; m. Melville Dewey, Boston, Oct. 19, 1878.
LYDIA BOKER, b. Mil., Aug. 7, 1855; assist. high-school teacher.
This family maintains the ancestral social standing. Mr. Godfrey is a man of lively enterprise, inventive mechanical ingenuity, and a fine taste for the beautiful; but he has experienced embarrassing business reverses and sad trials of his personal fortitude, yet is sustained by unfaltering trust in Divine Provi- dence, being a fervently religious man. He is a zealous friend of the working- people, temperance cause, woman suffragists, and other reform movements. He is entitled to the credit of being a pioneer in applying boot and shoe machinery by power. The boot and shoe manufactory, north side, near the head of Central St., erected by Mr. Godfrey in the year 1855, was the first, he says, ever built in this country, or any other, for the express purpose of run- ning boot and shoe machinery by power. Wm. R. Bliss, a boot-manufacturer of Worcester, about the time Mr. Godfrey contemplated building his factory, was running a few of the Howe sewing-machines, in which he was interested with the inventor, Elias Howe, by steam-power, in Merrifield's Building, and was also finishing some of his boot-bottoms by power. Mr. Godfrey, witnessing the operation, saw at a glance the great advantage to be derived in the manu- facture of boots and shoes on an extensive scale by power, and decided at once to build his factory for the accommodation of steam-power to be practically applied to all his boot and shoe machinery.
GODFREY, CHARLES BOKER4 (Benjamin D.,8 William,2 Col. Benjamin 1), b.
Feb. 12, 1845; m. Cora Anna Chapin, dr. of Daniel S. and Angeline P. (Nelson) Chapin, b. Orrington, Me., Dec. 11, 1845; cer. in Mil., June 25, 1868, by Rev. Charles J. White. Their chn. :-
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MABEL LEE, b. Oct. 27, 1869.
GRACE, b. Nov. 15, 1873.
Worthy their ancestry; and are battling bravely in the great competitive arena of life, in which they have caught some hard blows, but are hoping for better success. They have res. here mostly since marriage, but he is now doing business in Boston.
GODMAN, JAMES, pedigree unknown; m. Ann Nelson, dr. of Gershom and Abigail (Ellithorpe) Nelson, b. in Rowley, Sept. 4, 1703; cer. Nov. 19, 1731. Issne, according to Rev. Mr. Frost's baptismal record :-
MARGARET, said to be Ann's illegit. dr., bap. April 1, 1744.
COMFORT, bap. Aug. 7, 1757.
JOHN, bap. July 16, 1758.
The previous and subsequent history of James Godman is unknown to me. He was among the old Mendonians, before the incorporation of our Easterly Precinct, and had prob. had a former wf. and family; but after this mge. to Ann Nelson, he dwelt somewhere on Mill River in the neighborhood of now Hopedale. No death-dates have come to my knowledge.
GOLDSMITH, JOHN, son of Timothy and Mary (Walker) Goldsmith, b. in Stillwater, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1806; m. Julia A. Parkhurst, adopted dr. of Dea. Ithiel and Catherine Parkhurst, b. in Killingly, Ct., date not given; cer. in Mil., Aug. 1, 1833, by Rev. O. Robbins. Issue : -
CHARLES C., b. Mil., Dec. 9, 1833; m. Julina Burr of Ludlow, Jan. 1, 1857.
ARTHUR, b. Mil., July 31, 1836; d. Aug. 23, 1836.
MUNROE A., b. Mil., April 27, 1838; m. Abbie Porter, Sept. 1, 1862.
ELLEN M., b. Mil., Aug. 3, 1840; d. May 19, 1863.
ELIZABETH M., b. Mil., Feb. 6, 1848; m. George H. Douglas, Westfield, Sept. 1, 1869; she d. Aug. 23, 1877.
ANNA J., b. Mil., Nov. 6, 1846; d. Aug. 29, 1849.
GEORGE A., b. Mil., Feb. 27, 1849; d. Feb. 7, 1869.
ADELAIDE, b. Mil., Jan. 27, 1852; d. July 30, 1852.
S. HATTIE, b. Mil., July 26, 1854; m. Frank Mathewson, Mil., May 21, 1873.
A large and worthy family, sadly bereaved again and again. Mr. Gold- smith set. in Mil., Feb., 1828, working for Lee Claflin at the currying business. A little later he became associated with Claflin as partner in the mannfacture of boots, being among onr pioneers in that line of enterprise. He has ever since followed the same with fair success, now sustained efficiently by his son Mun- roe. He is a highly-respected citizen, and has been honored with various town offices. He was bereaved of his faithful companion, Mrs. Julia, Oct. 23, 1880. Grandchn. : -
NELLIE A. GOLDSMITH, b. Nov. 23, 1870.
ANNIE G. DOUGLAS, b. Dec. 8, 1870.
BERTHA M. GOLDSMITH, b. July 27, 1872; soon d.
GOUGH, JOHN, and wf. Mary, are credited on our records with the births of the following named chn. :- GEORGE, b. Feb. 3, 1823.
SARAH ANN, b. Sept. 30, 1825.
WILLIAM JAMES, b. Oct. 18, 1827.
MARY NARCISSA, b. Nov. 30, 1829.
ROBERT, b. April 14, 1832. ELIZABETH, b., no date; d. early, Feb. 6, 1838. JOHN CHARLES, b. July 18, 1836.
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ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 18, 1839.
JOHN TYLER, b. April 20, 1841.
I suppose this must be one of our early Irish families. They all seem to have disappeared from among us not long after 1841; but I am wholly unin- formed whither they went, and of their subsequent history.
GOULD. I suspect that our Goulds came in from Hop. and Holl. They are traceable to Hop., whence some of them went to Holl., and from both towns spread into the neighboring ones. They have not been very numerous within our limits. My friend Alfred Bragg has given me, in part, the record of one prominent family, which I have supplemented as well as I could from other sources, there being no dates in his list of names. I refer to Paul Gould's family. The Hop. records seem to show that this Paul was b. in that town, Dec. 22, 1746, and that he was the son of Thomas and Huldah. He set. in Holl., and lived there many yrs. Whether he ever dwelt much, if any, in Mil., is improbable ; but he was a near neighbor, and several of his chu. made their homes among us.
GOULD, PAUL2 (Thomas1), b. Hop., Dec. 22, 1746; m., in Holl., Ist, Chris- tian Hill ; cer. Dec. 20, 1770. Issue : -
PRUDA, b. Nov. 12, 1771; m. Jesse Daniels, afterwards of Mil.
OLIVE, b. July 27, 1773; m. Levi Adams.
ISAIAH, b. Nov. 21, 1774; m. Lucretia -, and set. in Bell .; he d. 1849, a. 75 yrs.
RUTH, b. June 17, 1776; m. Reuben Hixon.
Mrs. Christian d. Aug. 10, 1776. The hus. m., 2d, Morse says, Sarah Pike ; cer. Feb. 20, 1777. Issue :-
PAUL, birtli-date not found; m. Chloe Adams.
SILAS, birth-date not found; m. Olive Thayer of Mendon, 1810.
JOSIAH, b. March 3, 1793; m., 1st, Olive Warfield; 2d, Keziah Holbrook.
MARGERY WISWALL, birth-date not found; m. Abijah Howard, Dec., 1808.
CHRISTIAN, birth-date not found; m. Daniel Adams.
LYDIA, birth-date not found; m. Henry Kilburn, 1799.
JERUSHA, birth-date not found ; m. Laban Thompson.
SARAH, birth-date not found; m. Eleazer Kilburn; the family extinct.
The fr.'s death-date not ascertained. The mr. d. Nov. 28, 1848, a. 96 yrs. GOULD, SILAS8 (Paul,2 Thomas 1), birth-date not ascertained; m. Olive Thayer,
dr. of Nathan Thayer, b. Mendon ; cer. 1810; particulars not found. Issue :- MERCY DANIELS, b. 1810; d. June 1, 1835.
SUSAN SEMIRA, b. Sept. 20, 1812; d. Aug. 15, 1845.
The entire family were buried in the Solomon Pratt burying-place in Men- don, where a single stone commemorates them. It was erected by our gen- erous overseer of the poor, Elias Whitney, by town consent, with the fragment of property left in his hands by one of the drs. for that purpose, supplemented by several dollars from his own private purse. Silas Gould d. Jan. 1, 1864, a. 82 years. Mrs. Olive d. April 25, 1854, a. 62 yrs. 7 mos. Hard working, orderly people, sometimes in straitened circumstances.
GOULD, JOSIAH& (Paul,2 Thomas 1), b. March 3, 1793; m., 1st, Olive Warfield,
dr. of Capt. Samuel and Margery (Gay) Warfield, b. Sept. 2, 1794; cer. 1814 by whom not ascertained. Issue :-
DENCE, b. Aug. 14, 1814; d. Dec. 17, 1817.
WILLIS, b. April 17, 1818; m. Mary Thurber Gaskill, April 6, 1845.
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MARIA, b. March 21, 1821; m. William G. Gassett, May 9, 1841.
ALZADA, b. July 8, 1823; m. Micajah C. Gaskill, Feb. 12, 1850.
MOSES, b. Dec. 11, 1824; m. and set. here in town.
INFANT, b. ; d. Aug. 27, 1831.
OLIVE WARFIELD, b. Jan. 22, 1833; m. Gilbert Gaskill, Sept. 1, 1848; d. 1854.
Mrs. Olive d. Feb. 10, 1833. The hus. m., 2d, Keziah Albee, wid. of Nathan Albee, and dr. of Calvin and Sabra (Partridge) Holbrook, b. Feb. 2, 1794; cer. Sept. 22, 1833, by Pearley Hunt, Esq. Issue :-
BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 2, 1833; res. in Boston.
Mr. Gould d. in our town asylum, Sept. 28, 1879, a. 84 yrs. 6 mos. 15 ds. GOULD, SEWALL H.4 (Paul,8 Panl,2 Thomas1), birth-date not ascertained; mr.'s maiden name, Chloe Adams; m., Ist, Rebecca Howard, 1832, who d. July 23, 1834; and m., 2d, Cynthia Albee, dr. of Seth and Elizabeth (Lam- bert) Albee, b. Mil., Aug. 7, 1809; cer. March 31, 1835, by Rev. D. Long. Issue, so far as recorded here : -
CYNTHIA, b. Mil., Feb. 17, 1836.
AMASA, b. Mil., Nov. 14, 1837; m. Susan Benson of Hop., March 13, 1869. AMANDA, b. Mil., Dec. 9, 1839.
ALBERT, b. Mil., July 27, 1841; d. Jan. 10, 1843.
I think the parents, soon after the last-mentioned date, removed to Hop., and there prob. had other chn. ; but as no report has been furnished me of their family record, I can tell no more.
GOULD, PEARLEY J., pedigree, etc., untraced; said to have been a native of N. H .; m., 1st, Betsey Green of Hop., dr. of Cleophas; date and particulars not found. Issue :-
HIRAM, birth-date not ascertained; m. Ann Despeaux, Sept. 8, 1836; had 2 chn., and d. 1840.
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