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HOLBROOK, DR. HORATIO, of Wrentham, resided at Ox. about 1807 for about two years, taught school at the centre, studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Fisk, settled at Thompson, Conn., of high repute.
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JONATHAN, of Shrewsbury, and Polly Rawson [Brown?] of South Gore, m. intentions 12 Oct., 1816.
THOMAS, and Sarah Blood, m. 9 Nov., 1736.
CHLOE, and Preserved Pierce of Brooklyn, Conn., m. 9 Sept., 1821.
LEWIS, w. Caroline, had LEWIS, b. 1828; SARAH ANN, b. 1829, both d. young; Lewis, the father, d. 1 Jan., 1830.
ASA, son of Amaziah, of Bellingham, aged 82, d. 9 Sept., 1874.
ANNA, widow, of Medfield, aged 69, d. 19 Oct., 1874.
HOLDEN, DR. JABEZ, bought 1752 the first Meeting-house lot, north end of the Plain, H. 244, sold 1755, remained in town, was of Ox. June, 1760. He m. 3 Oct., 1751, Rebecca, dau. of Eleazer Ward. . . . Children : ELIZABETH, b. 14 March, 1753; SAMUEL, b. 10 Aug., 1755; WILLIAM, b. 10 June, 1757. EBENEZER, resided at Ox. Feb., 1755.
HOLLEY, JOSEPH or ICHABOD, d. 9 March, 1849, aged 98, supposed from R. I., lived about 1800 at the Samuel Rawson place in South Gore, and dug iron ore from the hill near for smelting works at the East village; the following ch. are on Ox. records : PERRY, m. intentions 7 Feb., 1800, Selah Bliss of South Gore; PENELOPE, m. intentions 8 Feb., 1800, Benjamin Smith of South Gore; POLLY, of Burrillville, R. I., m. (1) intentions 20 Aug., 1807, Benjamin Pratt, Jr., m. (2) Nehemiah Collier; ICHABOD, m. intentions 10 Sept., 1815, Mrs. Polly Weld, m. n. Mellen, whose husband Weld had d. at Hatfield ; RICHMOND, m. Mary -, and had Delilah, b. 2 May, 1818; Perry, b. 4 Feb., 1820.
HOLLINGSWORTH, dau. of James M., aged 3, d. 17 Aug., 1845. MARY, w. of James M., aged 39, d. at Templeton, 11 Dec., 1848.
HOLMAN, DR. DAVID, descendant of Solomon of Newbury 1693 or 1694, who came from Wales, the line being THOMAS, THOMAS, ABRAHAM, who was b. 30 July, 1776, at Sutton [History of Sutton], m. Polly Converse, b. 9 Sept., 1777, at Providence, R. I .; DAVID, their son, was b. 24 Jan., 1803, at Union, Conn., where Abraham then resided, studied at the medical institute at Pitts- field, was graduated at an early age, began practice with Dr. Charles Negus of Dudley, now Webster, continuing about ten years, in 1831 settled at Ox., where he continued for upwards of 50 years. He m. 4 July, 1830, Almira, dau. of Rufus and Huldah (Bates) Brown of Thompson, Conn., b. 20 Aug., 1809; bought 1841 the estate south of the North Common, H. 181, and d. there, aged 78, 13 March, 1881, she d. aged 74 at the same place, 31 March, 1884. . . . Children : GEORGE W., b. 25 Dec., 1834, m. 13 Aug., 1862, Sarah, adopted dau. of Abijah Davis; had Grant D., b. 14 Feb., 1867; JUSTIN B., b. 12 June, 1837, m. 20 Aug., 1862, Laura, dau. of Hiram Allen of Webster, railroad con- ductor between Saybrook and Hartford, Conn .; they had Mabel C., b. April, 1866; RUFUS B., b. 9 Aug., 1840, m. Aug., 1862, Addie Cutter of Medford, druggist; MARTHA A., b. 30 March, 1842, m. 6 March, 1862, Stephen F. Marsh of Sutton; had Anna K., b. June, 1863; George, b. 8 March, 1871; Mary A., b. 13 March, 1874; EMMA J., b. 9 Nov., 1844, m. 30 Oct., 1867, Otis D. Cooper of Auburn; had Varnum O., b. 13 May, 1871; WILLIAM F., b. 8 March, 1847, m. 9 Nov., 1879, Martha W., dau. of Andrew Gardner of Nantucket.
TYLER, b. 3 Jan., 1830, son of Aaron of Millbury, m. May, 1856, Mary Barnard of Auburn, came to Ox. in 1858, having bought land in the northeast
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part of the town, H. 158. . . . Children : SUSAN M., b. 21 June, 1857; LAURA L., b. 2 April, 1859; M. STELLA, b. 14 Sept., 1861.
SOLOMON, and Mercy Waters, both of Sutton, m. 28 Aug., 1729.
EDWARD, of Sutton, and Rebekah Gale, m. 7 May, 1754; she resided at Ox. May, 1765, "late wife of Edward Holman."
ABEL, residence, Ox., 1782.
STEPHEN, residence, Ox., March, 1783.
SIMEON, of Ward, and Sally Rich of Sutton, m. 3 May, 1812.
JACOB, and Hannah Parker, both of Ward, m. 4 July, 1819.
OLIVE, and Joshua Shumway, both of Ward, m. 4 Oct., 1820.
SOLOMON, and Miranda Clark of Millbury, m. 11 Jan., 1821.
SIMEON, aged 42, d. 1 Sept., 1829.
SIMEON D., of Auburn, and Nancy Lawrence, m. 27 May, 1846, she d. aged 29, 4 May, 1855.
MOSES D., d. 9 Nov., 1850.
JOHN E., son of Moses, aged 70, d. 17 March, 1872.
HOLMES, JOHN, of Roxbury, son of David of Dorchester, m. 9 April, 1690, Hannah Newell, was among the first settlers at Woodstock, Conn., where he was owner of the first mills. He had DAVID, who succeeded him at the mills and was a clothier, and had a son DAVID, b. 11 Aug., 1721, who was a physician and settled at Ox., m. (1) intentions April, 1743, Mehetable, dau. of Ephraim Mayo, m. (2) 12 Nov., 1761, Temperance Bishop ; the second child by the second m. was ABIAL HOLMES, D.D., the historian, and the father of Dr. O. W. Holmes. Dr. DAVID was of Ox. in 1742, bought the estate on the main street next north of the hotel property, H. 240, where he settled. They had DAVID, b. 17 April, 1744. In Oct., 1746, he sold and returned to Woodstock. The occasion of his removal appears to have been the death of his father, 22 May, 1745. In July, 1746, it was represented to the court that the estate could not be divided without detriment, upon which it was ordered that the widow's thirds be set off and the balance be assigned and confirmed to David, the eldest son, he to pay his three brothers, Josiah, Moses and Stephen, each the sum of £54. 6s. 9d. [Moses Holmes, 19 years of age, son of David Holmes of Woodstock, 20 Aug., 1746, chose as his guar- dian Jonathan Pratt, Jr., of Oxford. Probate Record.] In 1763 Dr. David Holmes was dismissed from Ox. Church and recommended to Woodstock.
Thus Oxford lost one of its most valuable citizens. He took a stand among the foremost men of Woodstock, and in the Revolutionary struggle was very active. He was Captain in the French and Indian war, and in the Revolution offered his valuable services as surgeon; at the battle of Brooklyn in Sept., 1776, was taken prisoner; in the campaign of 1777 was surgeon in Col. Chandler's Regt., and in Sept. of that year retired from the service on account of ill health. [Miss Larned, History of Windham County.] He d. 19 March, 1779.
MOSES, and Keziah Pratt, both of Ox., m. 25 Dec., 1746.
REV. JOHN (English), aged 77, d. 5 Jan., 1888.
HOLWAY, NATHAN, and Mrs. Sarah Chamberlain, m. int. 19 Jan., 1785.
HOOD, DANIEL, residence, Ox., May, 1766.
HOPKINS, FENNER S., of Southbridge, and Althea Bruce, m. intentions 24 Aug., 1834.
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HOSMER, MANASSEH, of Thompson, Conn., bought land 1729 at Ox., now Charlton, where he resided 1735, removed to Dudley.
HOUGHTALING, DANIEL, and Mary A., had EDWIN L., b. 12 April, 1845.
HOUGHTON, NAHUM, and Deborah Campbell of Rutland, m. intentions Jan., 1770, he was of Ox. 1768, then bought H. 188, taxed 1771.
RODERICK, of Petersham, and Polly Clark, m. intentions 16 Aug., 1800.
HOURIGAN, JAMES, aged 22, d. 21 March, 1865.
HOUSTON, MARGARET, of Bedford, N. H., and Christopher P. Sanborn, m. 23 Sept., 1845.
HOVEY, DANIEL, of Ipswich, b. 24 June, 1665, son of Daniel, bought 1722 the farm, H. 162, on Long Hill on which he and his descendants lived more than 100 years, and also in 1724 the estate at the northeast corner of Main Street and the Sutton road. With him came his w. Molly or Mercy, his sons DANIEL and JAMES, and dau. MERCY, who m. (1) Thomas Gleason, Sen., second w., she m. (2) John Wait of Sutton and d. 1767. There are also named in the records PRISCILLA, who m. David Town, and REBECCA, who m. William Lamb, who may have been his daughters. He was deacon in 1729, then 64 years of age, carpenter, occupied his homestead on the Plain until his death. In 1735 he deeded one-half his homestead to his son James. After his death his presumed son-in-law, David Town, became an owner. He d. 7 March, 1742, she d. 30 March, 1743.
2. DANIEL, son of Daniel (1), m. 24 Nov., 1726, Mehetable Bridges of Framingham, settled on the farm on the hill, d. 3 April, 1758, she d. 6 Aug., 1785, aged 78. . . . Children : TABITHA, b. 1728, d. 1731; BENJAMIN, b. 1731, d. 1741; DANIEL, b. 1733, d. 1741; MEHETABLE, b. 28 Jan., 1735, d. 21 Oct., 1803, unm. (?) ; TABITHA, b. 15 April, 1737, m. 16 July, 1760, Zebulon Streeter of Douglas; MERCY, b. 1739, d. 1741; DANIEL, b. 20 Dec., 1741; MERCY, mentioned in his will, m. Ambrose Stone; SARAH, b. 12 Sept., 1747, m. 23 April, 1767, Daniel Hood.
3. JAMES, son of Daniel (1), m. 1 April, 1740, Rebecca Rockett, no ch. mentioned in his will; he d. 1 May, 1751(?). [Will approved 1 July, 1751.]
4. DANIEL, son of Daniel (2), m. (1) 31 Dec., 1759, Content Ramsdell of Abington, was only son, received his father's farm and personal estate, was required to pay legacies to his sisters. Lieutenant in Capt. Town's company and marched on the Lexington alarm. He d. 1776, date of appraisal 6 Nov., Gideon and five other children named in settlement of estate. He with Lieut. Ebenezer Shumway owned at the time of his death the brick-yard lying north- west of Town's Pond. In 1795, Molly deeded one-seventh of the farm and brick-yard to her brother Gideon. His widow m. intentions 6 May, 1782, Charles Cudworth of Freetown. . .. Children : SARAH, b. 23 Dec., 1760, m. 19 Aug., 1779, Moses Nelson; GIDEON, b. 22 Nov., 1762; LYDIA, b. 6 April, 1765, living 1792, at Putney, Vt., unm .; DANIEL, b. 7 May, 1767, d. 1768 ; MIRIAM, b. 30 Aug., 1769, m. Amos Shumway; CONTENT, b. 10 March, 1772, m. Obadiah Joy of Putney, Vt .; MARY, b. 6 Dec., 1774, living 1795, at Put- ney, unm.
5. GIDEON, son of Daniel (4), Revolutionary soldier, m. (1) intentions 1 May, 1784, Hannah Crane, she d. 5 April, 1785; m. (2) 17 March, 1789, Polly Crane, sister of first wife. He d. 11 Aug., 1801, she m. (2) Jeremiah Dana.
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He was an only son; owned and occupied the homestead. . . . Children, by second m. : HANNAH, b. 15 Nov., 1789, d. at Bristol, Ill., unm .; DANIEL, b. 26 May, 1793, m. Reliance Smith, removed to Bristol, where he d .; they had George Daniel, d. 1850; Mary Crane, residence, Bristol; PEREZ G., b. 25 Sept., 1795.
6. PEREZ G., son of Gideon (5), m. 4 Dec., 1821, Hannah J., dau. of Mayo Packard, b. 2 Dec., 1803, settled on homestead, removed to Charlton about 1827, returned to Ox., removed about 1840 to Illinois. He d. 26 July, 1851, at Bunker Hill, Ill. . . . Children, b. at Ox. : CALPURNIA, b. 17 June, 1822, d. 1831, at Charlton; MILO, b. 6 Oct., 1824, m. Sarah Goodwin of Bunker Hill, he d. 27 July, 1881, six ch .; Lucros, b. and d. 1826; MARCIA ANN, b. 24 Dec., 1826, d. July, 1848, at Bunker Hill; CALISTA, b. 12 March, 1827, at Charlton, m. David Cavender, of Bunker Hill, she d. 1846, no ch .; LURA, b. 4 April, 1828, d. 23 July, 1851, at Bunker Hill; DANIEL W., b. Oct., 1829, m. Rebecca A. Barnes, residence, Forest City, Ill., three ch. : GIDEON, m. Kate Herder of Bunker Hill, three ch .; MARY G., b. 28 Sept., 1834, m. William Lancaster, seven ch .; CLARISSA H., m. George E. Barnes, five ch .; JAMES H., b. 23 July, 1837, m. Mary A. Griffin of Salem, Ill., no ch .; ELIZA J., b. 8 June, 1839, at Ox., m. John M. Ness, six ch .; OLIVE J., b. 15 March, 1841, at Troy, Madison Co., Ill., m. James M. Wilson of Bethalto, Ill., he d. 8 Dec., 1872, no ch .; SARAH H., b. 28 Jan., 1844, at Bunker Hill, m. John L. Manley, three ch.
DANIEL, of Sutton, b. about 1717, son of Luke and Susanna (Pillsbury ) of Boxford. [Luke Hovey of Boxford sold land on Prospect Hill to Thomas Gleason 25 Feb., 1734.] He m. 31 March, 1742, Ruth, dau. of John and Anne (Messenger) Tyler of Boxford, baptized 30 June, 1728, settled in Sutton in 1754, bought the farm in the northwest part of that town, now in Ox., H. 160. They had MOSES, b. 28 Oct., 1748, and BENJAMIN, b. 12 March, 1758, who both owned estates and resided in Ox. Benjamin was Revolutionary soldier, bought first the farm now or late of George W. Gibson, H. 148, and later the Dr. Learned place at North Ox., H. 131, which he sold in 1785. He was from 1783 to 1787 deputy sheriff for Worcester County. A little before 1790 both removed to central New York, among the pioneers in Otsego and Chenango Counties, Moses going to Unadilla, Otsego, and Benjamin to Oxford, Chenan- go. A well attested tradition has it that Moses while living in Ox. became involved in debt, and imprisonment awaited him unless he made his escape. He, therefore, one night deposited his clothing on the bank of Town's Pond to give the impression he had drowned himself and left town. Travelling westward he came after a few days to a large place, perhaps Hudson, N. Y., where there was going on a public sale of wild lands in New York State. Although he had not five dollars in his pocket he ventured to make a bid on a large tract when to his surprise it was struck off to him. He obtained a few hours grace for payment and put up at a neighboring tavern (Foster's). In the night he was awakened by two men clamoring outside and demanding admittance. He was alarmed and thinking some of his creditors were in hot pursuit, dressed in haste and was on the point of making his escape when the landlord met him and informed him that two men had arrived who in- tended to have been at the sale but were detained, and they wished to see him to know if he would sell his land. He replied that he might be induced to sell, but would want a good bonus for his bargain. The business was closed in the morning, he sold for hundreds of dollars above the price he paid and reserved
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for himself, as the story goes, a good farm at Unadilla, on which he settled and spent his subsequent life. He m. 1777, Phebe Tenney, he d. 29 Oct., 1813, she d. 25 April, 1813.
Benjamin's history is remarkable. Samuel M. Hopkins, Esq., once an eminent lawyer of Oxford, N. Y., wrote as follows : " One hundred and ten miles west from Catskill . . brought me to the village of Oxford, and to the house of Benjamin Hovey the founder of it, who eighteen months be- fore had cut the first tree to clear the ground where the village stood. Here I took up my residence. Hovey was a man of very strong natural sense and vigor of action, but of limited education. He started for New York, laid open the plans for the settlement to the proprietors, built Oxford on his own lands, and became the leading man of a very growing country."
A recent letter from Oxford, N. Y., says : " Gen. Hovey, who gave our vil- lage its name, was admirably fitted for the task of settlement, by early hablts, and was blessed with rare personal qualities for the arduous labors and hard- ships of pioneer life. In the year 1790 he came and built a log house on the site of Fort Hill, named thus from an old Indian fort which overlooked the river. To this house he removed his family the following year."
A granddaughter, recently living at Syracuse, N. Y., wrote : "they chose with taste, as the Chenango river passes through the town. Grandfather's log hut was directly on its banks. There they fought the Indians, went forty miles to mill in a canoe and to Onondaga County for salt, and had a pioneer life, but men were men in those days, true to their time and need."
The first frame building erected in the village was the academy, an in- stitution very early organized, with Hovey's name at the head of the list of trustees, which position he occupied during his residence in the town, a period of about ten years only. This institution held a festival on 2 Aug., 1854, at which an address was delivered by W. H. Hyde, Esq., from which we quote : " The shades of evening are gathering; what a sea of gorgeous- ness on the Autumn forest! We hear the light dip of paddles in the river and a canoe darts toward the landing on the shore. What strange beings are these? They seem regardless of the ruin that is gradually gathering over their race. Can it be that they do not think of the oncoming destruction that awaits them, while they see the little academy on the Common, the occa- sional dwelling, and hear the woodman's axe whose strokes for them 'Like muffled drums are beating funeral marches to the grave?' That tall man with whom they are talking, bartering with at the log house, is Benjamin Hovey, the senior trustee of the academy. .
" Few men have passed a more eventful life. Having seen the fruition of his labors, and the harvest of his early toil and suffering, in the flourishing village around him, rapidly increasing in population and wealth, he looked for new projects with an ambition fed by its own innate energy and a spirit of enterprise faltering at no point beyond which were seen new fields open for its gratification. We next find him among the active co-workers with Burr and Wilkinson in a project for canalling the Ohio near Louisville. The wild and restless ambition of Aaron Burr, however, led him to seek new objects on the lower Mississipi and amid the untold wealth and romance of Mexico, and the project in which Hovey had embarked with such ardor was suffered to dwin- dle in neglect." He having expended much of his private fortune in the en- terprise " retired at last in disgust . . . to find a grave on the shores of Lake Erie. remote from the village he had founded and the friends of his manhood. A life of more romantic reality seldom occurs in the history of man."
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[1813, Feb. 10, Moses Hovey and wife Phebe of Unadilla, N. Y., with other heirs of their father Daniel, deed to Daniel of Sutton, trader, the homestead. ]
EZEKIEL, of Sturbridge, w. Mercy, dau. of Benjamin Fitts, residence, Brimfield, large family. . . . Children : ELIZA, m. 14 May, 1845, Joshua Wood of Templeton; HIRAM, m. Streeter of Southbridge, long resided at North Ox., d. 17 June, 1860, aged 49; LOUISA, d. 8 Feb., 1843, aged 19. Mercy, the mother, d. 7 Nov., 1854, aged 78.
JOHN, and Deborah Hoyle, both of South Gore, m. int. 24 May, 1801.
HOWARD, CAPT. JOHN, b. about 1740, was of Ox. 1785, soldier in French and Indian war and also " an officer in the Revolutionary army" [Headstone, West Sutton], an intelligent, worthy and influential man, a Baptist, and con- stant Church goer at Sutton ; by trade a shoemaker ; one of the parties who pur- chased Dudley's farm north of the Sutton road, and settled at H. 10, where he d. 28 Sept., 1814, aged 74. He m. Huldah, dau. of Jonathan Sibley of Sutton, sister of Gideon Sibley, she m. (2) intentions 15 Feb., 1816, Daniel Harwood of Barre, no ch. . . . Children : JOHN, b. 22 May, 1766, m. 31 Oct., 1793, Hannah Carroll, resided with his father until 1814, removed to Orange; they had at Ox., John, b. 1794, d. 1796; Tamar, b. 10 June, 1797; Hannah, b. 6 Sept., 1799; Sally, b. 22 Aug., 1801; Huldah, b. 23 March, 1803; Salmon, b. 26 Feb., 1805; Cynthia, b. 2 May, 1810; he d. 15 July, 1857, aged 91, she d. 8 March, 1850, aged 82, both at Orange; HULDAH, b. 23 June, 1768, m. 25 Nov., 1790, John Waters, Jr., of Sutton, where she d. 26 Sept., 1795; they had Anne, b. 1791; Lucy, b. 1792; Lydia, b. 1793; Huldah, b. 24 Sept., 1795, m. Jesse Bige- low of Ox. ; STEPHEN, b. 8 Aug., 1770, m. 23 Dec., 1790, Betsey Cummings, settled at Sutton and had Parley, b. 1794; Jonathan, b. 1796; Stephen, b. 1798; Betsey, b. 1800; Silence, b. 1803; removed to Orange; RUTH, b. 14 March, 1772, m. Samuel Robinson (?) ; SIMEON, b. 7 May, 1775, m. Lucy, dau. of Barthol- omew Putnam of Sutton, b. 18 July, 1779, settled at Sutton, and had Simeon, Mary, Ruth, Artemas, Sumner, Lucy Ann, Cynthia, Miranda, Stillman, all these excepting Sumner and Lucy Ann settled at Athol; Lucy Ann m. at Orange, went West; HANNAH, b. 24 Aug., 1778; ABRAHAM and SARAH, b. 15 Dec., 1781; Abraham, m. 3 April, 1811, Sally, dau. of Moses Putnam of Sutton, and had Leonard; his w. d. he m. (2) Aug., 1815, Hannah, dau. of Ebenezer Davis, Jr., of Ox. and had child, removed to Orange, where he d .; Sarah, m. 11 Nov., 1824, Isaac King of Sutton, and d. 13 Jan., 1836, at Sutton, no ch .; LYDIA, b. 8 March, 1783, m. (1) May, 1803, Edward Putnam of Sutton, and had Edward; she m. (2) Capt. Elijah Bigelow of Douglas, and had ch., both d. at Douglas; LUCY, b. 27 May, 1786, m. Ebenezer Robbins, settled and d. at Ox., no ch.
2. SUMNER, son of Simeon, and grandson of John (1), m. 11 Nov., 1829, Adaline, dau. of Prentiss Billings, settled at Sutton, removed to Ox., where he d. . . . Children : EMELINE, b. 20 Dec., 1831, m. Ivers A., son of Learned Davis; SIMEON, b. 11 May, 1835, m. Emeline Chase of Webster, d. Feb., 1878, at Lonsdale, R. I., had ch .; SUSAN, b. 22 July, 1837, m. James Lovett; FRANKLIN, b. 13 March, 1840, m. Emily, dau. of Leander Putnam of Sutton, settled at Lonsdale, removed 1885 to Ox., H. 30, had ch .; LUCY S., b. 2 March, 1843, m. (1) George DeWolf of Cumberland, R. I .; had George; she m. (2) Charles Mathewson of Cumberland, resided at East Greenwich, R. I., had ch. ; MARIA, b. 22 Feb., 1845, m. John W., son of William Robinson; SARAH E., b. 1847, d. 1851; CELIA E., b. at Ox., 1850, d. 1858 ; EMMA, b. 1 June, 1853, d. 23 July, 1870; HENRY J., b. 29 Oct., 1855, at Ox.
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DOROTHY, of Killingly, Conn., and Solomon Shumway, m. intentions 17 Sept., 1768.
RUTH, and Samuel Robinson, m. intentions 6 April, 1793.
DAVID, of Charlton, and Priscilla Shehy (or Town), m. 26 Nov., 1794.
MOSES, and Phebe Clark, m. 28 Dec., 1794.
TAMAR, and Daniel Wakefield, m. intentions 22 Oct., 1814.
SARAH, of Douglas, and Smith Emerson of South Gore, m. intentions 5 Dec., 1815.
MRS. EMMA G., aged 30, d. 1 Sept., 1886.
HOWARTH, ANDREW, son of Charles, of Rochdale, Eng., b. 1820, came with his parents when six years old to Andover, where his father and uncles James and Isaac began the first making of fine flannels by machinery in America. He was thoroughly educated in the business; in 1844 went to Keeseville, N. Y., in charge of weaving, in 1846 to Waterbury, Vt., thence in 1847 to Bellingham, and in Aug. to Richmond, Va., where he was superin- tendent, remaining until 1854, when the mill burned, and he returned north, and was overseer of weaving at Hodges' mill in Ox. Four months later he removed to Little Falls, N. Y., where he was overseer until 1859, when he took the agency and managed successfully 13 years. In 1872 he bought a two-set flannel mill at Northfield, Vt., and was prospered for ten years. In 1882 he bought his present mill at Ox. and began business, having two mills on hand until 1884, when he sold at Vt. FRANCIS A., his son, is partner. Mr. H. is of good business capacity, closely following the detail of his operations, liberal in public matters and has the respect of his townsmen. He m. 26 Sept., 1846, Martha Moorcroft, who d. April, 1877, at Northfield. Vt. They had FRANCIS A., b. 1849, at Richmond, Va., was graduated 1872 at Brown University, m. Bertha A. Husy of Hoboken, N. J. ; had Andrew P., b. 1874, at Northfield, Vt.
ANN E., and James Cropper, m. intentions 31 July, 1847.
HOWE, HOW, LUCY, and Abner Shumway of Sutton, m. 19 April, 1770. ABEL, of Worcester, and Jerusha Williams, m. intentions 3 March, 1796. JOEL, of Jamaica, Vt., and Huldah Fitts, m. 15 Feb., 1802.
LOUISA, of Worcester, and Abner Alley, m. intentions 11 Jan., 1827. CALEB, and Ann Buck of Killingly, Conn., m. intentions 13 Sept., 1827. LYMAN, and Mary Sweetser, m. intentions 31 Jan., 1829.
ELBRIDGE, of Auburn, and Eleanor Newton, m. intentions 18 March, 1839. ELBRIDGE, aged 37, d. 21 Nov., 1850.
HOWELL, SUSAN, w. of William, d. aged 45, 29 Oct., 1855.
HOWLAND, SARAH C., widow, m. n. Mathewson, a. 55, d. 21 March, 1882. ENOCH, son of James, of Douglas(?), aged 83, d. 1 Nov., 1888.
E. HARRIS, b. 8 Feb., 1846, at Brookfield, son of Abner and Martha A., came to Ox. July, 1866, representative 1872, removed April, 1876, to Spencer, where he, 1891, resided.
HOYLE, WILLIAM, d. 4 Dec., 1827. ARTEMAS, aged 25, d. 24 Jan., 1859.
HUBBARD, DANIEL, son of William, of Brighton, a. 75, d. 13 Feb., 1880.
HUDSON, DANIEL, came to America 1639, brick maker at Watertown in 1640, removed to Lancaster 1664, with six ch .; WILLIAM, the seventh, was b.
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there 12 June, 1664, and later four others. On 11 Sept., 1697, Daniel, with his w. Joanna, two daughters and two ch. of his son NATHANIEL, were killed by the Indians. [Bond. Worcester Historical Magazine, II., 296.] WILLIAM, son or grandson of Daniel, came to Ox. as one of the 30 settlers, lived at the northeast part, H. 168, farm still in the possession of his descendants. He m. 17 May, 1721, Mary Farrington of Boston, who d. 28 March, 1769, aged 66. . . . Children : JOHN, b. 1 Jan., 1722; ELIZABETH, b. 28 Feb., 1723, d. 1741; JOSEPH, b. 23 Sept., 1725; BENJAMIN, b. 22 March, 1727; MARY, b. 1729, d. 1740; MERCY, b. 1730, d. 1741; SARAH, b. 1733, d. 1741; SAMUEL, b. 1735, d. 1740; EBENEZER, b. 1737, d. 1741; HOSEA, b. 1740, d. 1741; SAMUEL, b. 19 Feb., 1742; A DAU. m. Boyce of Mendon. [Of 12 ch. seven d. within 17 days.]
2. JOHN, son of William (1), m. 25 Nov., 1745, Thamazin Ellis of Med- way, settled on the hill south of his father and d. 12 Nov., 1765, she m. (2) intentions 27 Aug., 1768, Isaiah Blood of Charlton. . . . Children : MARY, b. 16 May, 1746, m. Joseph Pratt, 3d; EZEKIEL, b. 1749, d. 1751; WILLIAM, b. 2 Feb., 1751; THAMAZIN, b. 2 March, 1753, m. 17 Feb., 1774, Jonathan Under- wood; ELIZABETH, b. 1755, d. 1756; ELIZABETH, b. 25 June, 1757 ; BATHSHEBA, b. 18 Aug., 1759, m. John Mayo; DORCAS, b. 1762, d. 1767; PHEBE, b. 1764, d. 1768.
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