History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts with genealogies and notes on persons and estates, Part 51

Author: Daniels, George Fisher, 1820-1897
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Oxford : Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town
Number of Pages: 916

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" Surely your honors will not think that a loose receipt dated Sept. 26, 1743, containing £4. 6d. old tenor with depreciation and interest can be satisfaction proportionable to such extensive and expensive services and sufferings as I have been obliged to undergo in discharging my trust. But if, after all I have most humbly offered, your Honors should remain of the opinion that the loose receipt as above delineated is sufficient satisfaction for the trouble and ex- pense I have been and am still exposed to in the administration of said Williams' estate; and as it is said in the report of the Honorable Committee that the saving has been to my pupil Mr. Josiah Wolcott and that therefore the greater part of the allowance should lie upon him, I beseech your Honors that said Wolcott be expressly subjected to the payment thereof, since he utterly refuseth to pay or allow any part thereof on my account with him, although he received in cash what saving there was some time before the appeal. Doubtless, your Honors will easily see how much I stand in need of your relief in this dilemma.

"In fine. I most humbly beg your Honors favorable consideration and direction respecting the payment of two dividends of the residue of my Tes- tator's estate that it be deferred to some distant period, since the debts and legacies are already discharged - for these reasons: 1. Because it is the express will of the Testator that the two said dividends be kept on interest till his only son arrives at a lawful age. 2. Because it is almost impossible for your memorialist to collect so large a sum in so short a time as Mr. John Ballard, Guardian, has set him; considering that several debtors to the estate have been and some are yet in his Majestie's service, who owe at least to the amount of 1,000 pounds old tenor. 3. Because the present almost universal distress of New England makes it very difficult for most men to make speedy payment of a large sum in silver and gold, and Mr. Ballard seems unwilling to take anything else of me.

"Your Honor's resolution and determination upon the premises (as in your great wisdom and goodness you think reasonable) is earnestly solicited by your most humble memorialist, which will oblige him as in duty bound ever to pray.

(Signed) JOHN CAMPBELL."

[This petition was dismissed on the ground that the case was out of the jurisdiction of the Lieut .- Governor and Council. ]

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Many incidents of his life have been narrated in the past. The story of his having been plunged into the river while being taken across a foot-bridge one evening on the back of Ebenezer Coburn, against whom, in favor of William Hudson, he had that day decided a case, comes through Mr. Peter Butler on the authority of Abial Lamb, an eye-witness. His wife was long an invalid and somewhat hypochondriacal. On a certain spring morning, she being unable to walk, was carried in her chair to the sunny side of the house to be refreshed by the air. After sitting for a time she called for help to be taken indoors. No one responded. She called again and again, without avail, her patience failed, and in a passion she rose and walked into the house. Mr. Archibald Campbell, on whose authority we have the story, remarked, this was a plan of Mr. Campbell's to convince his wife she was not as ill as she thought. It is related on the same authority that at the time of the Indian hostilities . they came around his house, on which he began making noisy demonstra- tions, running up and down stairs, slamming doors, upsetting furniture, calling out to John, Henry, James, to "hurry down and bring those guns," and opening a window fired a blank cartridge, all which so alarmed the marauders that they left at once.

His will bears date 1 Aug., 1760. He gives to his wife Esther one moiety of all his household movables and furniture, excepting bonds, notes, accounts, clothing, library and gun, also his spoons and gold rings : to be used and improved by her during her life and afterward to go to Mary Twiss and Isabella Wolcott, his daughters; also a comfortable home in his house with full provision for her support, with what wool and flax she may need, and eight pounds annually of money for incidental expenses.

To his son Duncan he gives 40 shillings, as he had received at setting out in trade his share of the estate.

To his son Alexander he gives a lot in the Cedar Swamp which, with a farm formerly given and his expenses of education as a physician, is his portion of the estate.

To his son William he gives a deed of one-half his home farm, with other out lands, bearing the same date as his will, and in his will gives him the other half, with his farming tools, stock, etc., and also his negro, " Will," to be kindly used and improved and supported by him during his life.

To his son Archibald he gives £133. 6s. 8d. lawful money, to be kept on interest until he settles in some business in the world, also his apparel, library, watch, gold wrist buttons, knee and shoe buckles, and a young horse, and provision for payment of all his bills at college "till after the next com- mencement."

To his daughter Mary Twiss he gives 40 pounds to be kept at interest for her benefit and a house and lot near the north end of the Plain, one cow and five sheep.

To his daughter Isabella Wolcott he gives one cow and five sheep; also 60 pounds to be kept at interest for her benefit, . .. "which with what I gave to her at her marriage and some articles since, with a considerable sum of money I paid for Mr. Josiah Wolcott her husband in consequence of the decree of the Governor and council in my favor against him, which he hath neglected and refused to pay makes up her full portion of my estate."

To his granddaughter Esther Town and his grandsons John and William Town he makes small bequests.

To his grandson John (son of John, Jr., who had then gone from town) he

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gives 10 pounds, and to his grandsons, John, son of Duncan, and Edward R., son of Alexander, he gives his land in the South Gore, "provided that the said farm may be sold ... for their education." To his grandson John, son of Josiah Wolcott, he gives the gun which was his great-grandfather Wolcott's, and "which I purchased out of the estate of Capt. Richard Williams."

He appoints his sons Alexander and William his executors.

On 26 May, 1761, the town voted £10 to pay the expenses of his funeral. The following is inscribed upon his tombstone :

"Intoom'd here lieth ye body of ye Rev'd Mr. John Campbell who died May, 25, 1761, in ye 71 yr. of his Age. he was born in ye north of Scotland. Educated at Edenburgh & had ye benefit & Honors of ye University came to N. England A. D. 1717 & was Ordain'd Pastor of ye Church in Oxford A. D. 1721 where with great wisdom & fidelity he continued to Execute ye several parts of his office for more than 40 years. in his last sickness he sus- tained ye prospect of his approaching death with great serenity as knowing him in whom he had believed.

"The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when they sleep in dust."

He m. 6 Feb., 1722, Esther Whittle, Wheatly or Whately, of Boston. The record of his publishment is as follows: "Mr. John Campbell and Ester Whetly "; that of his marriage : "John Campbell and Ester Whittle, by Wm. Waldron." He d. 25 May, 1761, she d. 11 March, 1777. . . . Children : MARY, b. 11 Feb., 1724, m. (1) Jacob Town, m. (2) Joseph Twiss; JOHN, b. 7 Feb., 1725, left town in young manhood, subsequent history unknown, his reputed son, John, by Mary Hunkins, was b. 13 Nov., 1744; ISABEL, b. 29 March, 1726, d. young; DUNCAN, b. 27 March, 1727; ISABEL, b. 26 July, 1728, m. Josiah Wolcott; ELIZABETH, b. 14 Aug., 1730, d. young; ALEXANDER, b. 22 Feb., 1732; WILLIAM, b. 2 April, 1734; ARCHIBALD, b. 6 Aug., 1736.

2. DUNCAN, son of John (1), m. 27 Jan., 1750, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Stearns of Worcester, b. 7 Dec., 1730, settled opposite the North Common, where he built the house now standing, and was innkeeper and trader. Before 1754 he began building the mansion at the South Common, which he sold unfinished that year to his brother-in-law, Josiah Wolcott. He appears to have been unsettled in his business relations, removed often, was promi- nent in public affairs, justice of the peace, collector under the excise law, and many years licensed retailer of liquors. He lived in Dudley from 1766 to 1770 and removed thence to the north part of Oxford, now Auburn, and was 1785-1787 in Worcester, where he kept a tavern, and later at Putney, Vt., where he was a farmer. He spent his later days in Oxford. On 13 June, 1795, as he was crossing from the centre tavern to his residence on the oppo- site corner he was taken suddenly ill, fell in the street and soon died. Joseph Hurd was administrator of his estate. His wdow d. 18 Nov., 1821, aged 91.

. Children : ELIZABETH, b. 7 Nov., 1750, m. Ezra Bowman(?) ; SAMUEL,

b. 5 Aug., 1752; JOHN, b. 7 Aug., 1754, Revolutionary soldier, m. 16 Jan., 1777, Mary [Wor. Rec. say " Martha "] Stevens of Worcester, he was of Ox. in 1782, and March, 1783, with w. Martha and sons John and Archibald, re- moved before 1786 to Putney, Vt., where he d. 15 Jan., 1820, a physician, prominent professionally and civilly ;1 MARY, b. 3 March, 1757, m. intentions

1 John and Archibald Campbell of Putney, Vt., traders, as "Campbell & Son," had a case in

Worcester Court, March, 1808.

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2 April, 1774, John Walker, and had John, b. 1774, d. 1786, she d. 16 Dec., 1780, nothing is known of him before his coming to Ox. He was an English- man of some means, resided at Dr. Cushman's place, H. 225, and lived in style. He was in Crafts' Cavalry Co. and marched on Lexington alarm, joined the Continental army, became dissolute; his w. d. broken hearted. Works of art which adorned their house, and later hung in the tavern at the centre, are remembered by persons now living. THOMAS, b. 7 April, 1759, Revolu- tionary soldier, m. intentions 20 Sept., 1783, Rebecca Felshaw of Killingly, Conn., removed to Vt., where they d. ; LUCRETIA, b. Dec., 1762, m. 12 Nov., 1792, John T. Hurley of Boston; had Harriet and others; she m. (2) - Gray; PATTY, b. 5 Feb., 1765, m. intentions 10 June, 1784, Capt. William Moore, U. S. Army ; OLIVIA and SOPHIA, b. 4 Dec., 1767, at Dudley, Sophia d. young; OLIVIA m. (1) Benjamin Witt, m. (2) Daniel Bacon of Charlton; ALEXANDER, b. 17 Dec., 1769, settled at Putney, Vt., physician, d. 15 Dec., 1839 ; had a son John, a physician and highly esteemed at Putney, d. 4 June, 1866; ARCHIBALD, b. 22 Aug., 1776.

3. SAMUEL, son of Duncan (2), m. 15 Dec., 1774, Ruth, dau. of John Nichols, resided in west part of the town, removed, probably 1783, to the tavern on the Plain, continuing until his failure in 1807. He carried on hatting business at a shop on the corner south of the tavern, was trader also in tavern building and first postmaster of Oxford. He removed 1812 to Chel- sea, Vt., where he was taverner, and thence to Montpelier where he was land- lord of the Pavilion, leading house of the town, d. there July, 1827. He was a good citizen. . . . Children : JOHN, b. 24 Sept., 1775, resided in Me., m. and had ch .; SAMUEL, b. 11 April, 1777, d. 19 Jan., 1796; HENRY, b. 4 Jan., 1779, m. intentions 10 Dec., 1808, Sarah Blake of Franklin, no ch., she d. aged 24, 8 May, 1811, at Ox., he removed to Vt. with his father and d. at Montpelier; ABIJAH, b. 25 Sept., 1780, m. intentions 27 July, 1803, Patty, dau. of Samuel Davis, resided at Eddington, Me., was a hatter in his father's employ in Ox. ; they had Ruth N., b. 28 July, 1804; Mary Davis, b. 16 Nov., 1805, both at Ox .; Samuel D., b. 27 Dec., 1809; WILLIAM, b. 24 Dec., 1782, m. 16 Feb., 1805, Lucinda, dau. of Col. Sylvanus Learned, b. 3 Feb., 1785, d. 1 Dec., 1807, aged 22; they had Alexander C., b. 2 Aug., 1805, d. 1826; Samuel C., b. 27 Aug., 1807, m. Elvira Smalley; after his wife's decease, William, the father, and two sons removed to Vt., m., d. at Waitsfield, farmer, miller and distiller ; RUFUS, b. 29 Sept., 1784, said to have been the first teacher in the school-house on the Charlton road, removed young to Montpelier, and was an active business man, brick-maker and tavern-keeper; STEARNS, b. 25 May, 1786, saddler, in business 1807 in the shop his father previously used for hatting, removed to Thompson, there m. Prudence, he d. 15 April, 1825; they had Maria E., b. 25 May, 1818, d. 1826 ; ALEXANDER, b. 30 June, 1790, m. 27 Nov., 1811, Patience Hammond of Charlton, removed to Vt., in a few years returned to Ox., d. here 10 July, 1830, she d. 7 Oct., 1833; they had Sally B., b. 3 April, 1813, m. Charles C. Wood; Louisa, b. 8 Aug., 1815, m. (1) 30 Sept., 1833, Otis Moffitt, m. (2) Simeon Lamb of Charlton; BETSEY, b. 21 Dec., 1793, went to Vt., with her father, m. (1) - - Fullerton, m. (2)

4. ARCHIBALD, son of Duncan (2), m. 13 July, 1800, Celia, dau. of James Butler, went young to Hardwick, learned saddler's trade, was journeyman in Vt., returned to Ox , carried on business at the site of Episcopal Church and also at a shop on the common, later succeeded his brother in centre tavern, was the second postmaster of Ox., a popular and esteemed citizen, appointed by Gen.

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Jonathan Davis inspector of powder-houses with the rank of Major, by which title he was widely known, in 1802 and 1805 deputy sheriff, and four years town clerk. He d. 5 Oct., 1818, she d. 20 May, 1851. . . . Children : MARY B., b. 1800, d. 1803 : BENJAMIN F., b. 1802, d. 1803 ; ARCHIBALD, b. 3 May, 1804; BEN- JAMIN F., b. 6 July, 1806 ; JAMES B., b. 27 Oct., 1808; MARY B., b. 26 May, 1811, of unusual ability and strength of character, teacher at Oxford, Springfield and New York city, resided many years at Charleston, S. C., with her brother James B .; CELIA E., b. 18 Aug., 1818, m. 4 Oct., 1849, Samuel H. Higgins, physician, of Boston, later a preacher, she d. 14 June, 1854, a person of great worth and lovely character; they had Cecil C., b. 28 Aug., 1850, at Roxbury, was graduated, 1871, at Princeton, studied law at Columbia Law School, New York city, where he settled, 1873, and continues successfully, 1890, m. 1886, Susan, dau. of Richard Henry Rush of Philadelphia; Mary C., b. 1852, d. 1854.

5. ARCHIBALD, son of Archibald (4), m. 20 Feb., 1828, Artemesia, dau. of Aaron Wheelock of Charlton, settled at Ox., removed to Vermont, re- turned to Ox., was 8 years in California, much respected, social, large-hearted and popular, of very decided character, representative to General Court. He d. aged 80, 28 May, 1884, she d. aged 72, 16 Dec., 1881. . . . Children : ARCHI- BALD, b. 27 Feb., 1830, went with his father to California 1850, and 1890, resided there; JAMES B., b. 27 Sept., 1833, marketman at Ox., m. 21 Feb., 1877, Elvira Raymond of Ashburnham, she d. 1890, they had James R., b. 14 Dec., 1881; CELIA RUTH, b. 20 May, 1840, d. 17 June, 1861 ; WILLIAM A., b. 29 Jan., 1844, m. July, 1866, Medora, dau. of Oscar F. Morris, she d. aged 34, 10 May, 1882; they had Archibald, b. 23 April, 1868, m. 25 Dec., 1886, Mary O'Connell, had ch .; Mary, b. 7 June, 1871, Celia, b. 21 April, 1874, John W., b. 18 Nov., 1877.

6. BENJAMIN F., son of Archibald (4), m. 21 Sept., 1831, Mary, dau. of David Lilley, an able business man and much esteemed, town clerk from 1829 to 1836 inclusive, for a number of years in trade at the old Witt & Dowse stand, in thread manufacture in the west part of the town for a time and in 1848 engaged in partnership with Sanford Gilmore and Daniel Harwood and afterward with his son Benjamin F. in wholesale shoe trade in Boston, in which he was successful, he d. 29 March, 1874, at Boston, she d. 7 May, 1884, at Brookline. . . . Children : HELEN L., b. 7 Jan., 1833; BENJAMIN F., b. 9 Aug., 1837, residence, Boston; MARY L., b. 19 Feb., 1843, m. William Hum- phrey, Boston, master mariner.

7. JAMES BUTLER, son of Archibald (4), one of the noblest sons of the town, fitted for college at Nichols Academy (Dudley), completed 1826 a course of study at Brown University, went to Edisto Island, S. C., taught four years, in the meantime reading law, and began study in 1830 with Hon. Hugh S. Legare at Charleston, in 1832 established himself in practice in that city, and for many years stood in the front rank in the State in his profession. As a lawyer " he had no peer in breadth and subtilty of intelligence, and his dialectic skill was conspicuous on all occasions. . . . A man of power, of energy, of tenacity, he enjoyed the controversies in which quarter is neither asked nor given." He was a debater of great eloquence, sarcasm and inge- nuity. His practice became extensive, and the most important causes were committed to his management.1

1 He in one instance received a retaining fee of fifty thousand dollars.

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On the occasion of his death Col. C. H. Simonton, a colleague at the Charleston Bar, said :-

" Having been a member of this Bar for many years it has been my fortune to be thrown into conflict or conference with some of the best intellects of this region, I must say here that never in my time have I met a man superior to Mr. Campbell in the great qualities that constitute an excellent lawyer. When he was roused in any prosecution or defence where his feelings were enlisted- and at times I have seen him engaged in behalf of the poorest and most hum- ble -- then his intellect rose with giant strength, and the blows he struck in the court room were those of a Titan, and all within his reach felt the force of a mind of extraordinary power."

In the Nullification contest of 1830 to 1834 he took an active part on the Union side, and by his efforts the vote of Edisto Island was given for the Union candidate for Congress. He was made the confidential agent and cor- respondent of the Union State Committee at Washington and while there re- sided for a time at the White House, where he was often in conference with President Jackson, Livingston, Louis McLane, Cass, and other eminent men among whom was Daniel Webster, with whom he renewed an acquaintance begun in previous years, which ripened into a friendship which continued while Webster lived.

In 1850-52 political excitement again ran high in South Carolina, and he being in the legislature fought the disunion sentiment and was largely instru- mental in carrying measures which resulted in the defeat of the discontents. When the secession movement culminated in that State, he stood entirely aloof and declined all office, and while he was at heart a sympathizer with his southern brethren and believed their cause was just, he still opposed most strenuously the arbitration of war, deplored the attack on Sumter and predicted defeat when hostilities began. The Charleston News and Courier in an obituary notice of him-to which we are indebted for many of the facts of this sketch-said : " In a word, Mr. Campbell was a Union man from first to last. His sympathy with the South was ardent, but none loved the Union more sincerely than he." In December, 1866, under the Provisional government he was chosen United States Senator, his views of public affairs being of course well known. His election to this high position, under the circumstances, was considered in the greatest degree complimentary. But in common with other southern members at that period he was refused his seat. In 1877 he was unanimously nomi- nated for State Senator from Charleston district by a Democratic Convention and elected without opposition. In 1878 the name of another was substituted for his, upon which he announced himself as an independent candidate, but was defeated, having been, as he claimed, defrauded of his election by the use of tissue ballots. This condition of affairs confirmed him in his opposition to the prevailing southern sentiment and his disapproval of dishonorable meth- ods in politics, and resulted in his withdrawal from political life.

He invested his means largely in the Charleston and Savannah railroad of which he was for a time the manager, and lost heavily in that enterprise.

Personally he was of a fine aspect, with a ruddy countenance in which could be plainly traced his Scotch descent, of strongly marked character, a steadfast friend to those he loved or trusted, and decided in his bearing toward his ene- mies. There was no middle ground in his likes and dislikes. In serving a friend he stopped at nothing. His heart was tender and he was generous and kind. Of course such a man had many friends who adhered to him through all his varied fortunes. Socially he moved in the highest circles of Charleston, and was brilliant, genial and attractive. He was many years president of the

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New England Society in that city, which in 1881 celebrated in an impressive manner the fiftieth anniversary of his membership. Of that meeting, in Feb., 1884, Dr. Vedder, then president, said: "Presiding over the festivities of that occasion was one whose inimitable grace and dignity had lent a peculiar charm to like occasions for many years, but whom we were never again to see in the chair which will be inseparably associated with his name." A portrait of Mr. Campbell, executed at the order of the society, adorns its rooms.

Mr. Campbell's health had become enfeebled several years before his de- cease. In the autumn of 1883 he came north to visit old friends and old scenes, and returned as far as Washington. Here he grew worse, declined rapidly and died on the eighth day of November. He m. 19 Jan., 1837, Anna Margaret, dau. of Ex-Governor Bennett of Charleston, she d. 12 Dec., 1850; they had MARY BENNETT, residence, 1889, at Charleston; CELIA, d. unm., at Charleston.

8. ALEXANDER, son of John (1), m. intentions 14 May, 1757, Lydia, dau. of Thomas Stearns of Worcester, b. 7 Jan., 1735, lived on Sutton road near the mill brook, H. 195, where his new house was burned, 1 Nov., 1771, after- ward lived at H. 205, now Israel Sibley's heirs, and d. there 28 Dec., 1782. Later his widow resided with her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Learned, at North Ox., where she d. 19 March, 1816. He was a man of good ability, stood well as a citizen, and was somewhat in public life. In 1776, when the question of forming a State Constitution was before the town, he was chosen chairman of committee to report on the subject. He was for many years the lead- ing physician of the centre of the town, did a thriving business, and had numerous pupils studying under him. In person he was short, thick set, dark complexioned and socially free and attractive. . . . Children: EDWARD RAYMOND, b. 17 June, 175-, physician, resided at Ox., 1782, removed to West- minster, Vt., m. and had Edward, Frazer, Sidney, John, physician, d. at Surrey, N. H .; the father removed to Pittsfield, Mass., and d. there, descendants now reside in that vicinity ; LYDIA, b. 13 Oct., 17-, residence, Westminster, Vt., m. -- Wright, no ch., a widow many years, d. there; ALEXANDER, b. 1761, d. 1762; ALEXANDER, b. 20 Dec., 1762, physician at Rockingham, Vt., very successful, removed to Grafton, Vt., where he d .; he had Edward, trader; Alexander, graduated 1811, at Dartmouth, lawyer, probate judge; John, dep- uty sheriff, and another son; ESTHER, b. 9 March, 1765, removed to Rocking- ham, m. (1) -- Day, and had ch., m. (2) - - Marsh, no ch., d. at Rock- ingham ; ANNIS, b. 26 Dec., 1766, m. 7 April, 1787, Dr. Jonathan H. Learned; SALLY, b. 19 June, 1769, m. 3 Nov., 1786, Nathan Thurston; the two youngest children were POLLY, m. - - Simonds of Rockingham, and had two sons; MIRIAM, m. Wilcox, settled at Woodstock, Vt., and had ch. [one of these was b. 28 Oct., 1771, perhaps Polly, the other 18 April, 1774 (record defec- tive) ; Miriam Campbell and Aaron Newell m. intentions 11 May, 1793, Ox. Rec. ].

9. WILLIAM, son of John (1), m. 25 Oct., 1759, Mary, dau. of Uriah Stone of North Gore. He was an energetic man of good business capacities, the owner of the homestead after his father's death, executor with his brother Alexander of the estate, was in the Louisburg expedition, Capt. of the Oxford company in the Revolutionary war, lived for a time after the war at Brook- line, returned about 1783 to Oxford, soon after removed to Putney, Vt., and thence to Castleton, where he d. His widow removed to Lanesboro, Mass. SARAH, her dau., m. a son of Dr. Shaw of Castleton, surgeon in the U. S. army

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1815 at New Orleans .; Hon. Henry Shaw of Lanesboro, a prominent citizen, was their son. Mrs. Shaw was living recently at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . . . Children : SARAH, b. 15 Dec., 1760, d. 1768; WILLIAM, b. 29 May, 1762, d. 1768; DANIEL, b. 5 Feb., 1764; MARY, b. 21 Feb., 1766; JOSIAH, b. 8 Nov., 1767; SARAH, b. 5 Sept., 1769; LUCY, b. 22 June, 1771; ISABEL, b. 6 June, 1774; WILLIAM, b. 13 Aug., 1776, d. young(?) ; and baptized at Brookline : NABBY, b. 29 Nov., 1778; WILLIAM, b. 23 Dec., 1781; supposed all to have gone to Vermont with their parents.

10. ARCHIBALD, son of John (1), m. 15 Nov., 1762, Hannah, dau. of Isaac Barnard of Sutton, she d. 24 May, 1814, he d. 15 July, 1818, and both lie in unmarked graves on Stockbridge, Vt., common. . . . Children : JOHN, HANNAH, both b. and d. young at Easton; ARCHIBALD, b. 16 Jan., 1765, m. 26 Nov., 1788, Martha Laflin of Charlton, where she d. 25 April, 1792, aged 24; they had Barnard, b. 1790; Martha B., b. 1792; he left home and when last heard from was a soldier at Detroit; BARNARD, b. 21 Nov., 1766, d. 11 Feb., 1789, at Charlton; JOHN, b. 1770, d. 1775; HANNAH, b. 1772, d. 1775; SOPHIA, b. 7 Aug., 1774, m. Walter Pollard, resided and d. at Stockbridge.

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History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts with genealogies and notes on persons and estates, Part 51

Author: Daniels, George Fisher, 1820-1897 Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Oxford : Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town Number of Pages: 916

Author: Daniels, George Fisher, 1820-1897
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Oxford : Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town
Number of Pages: 916