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i. JOSEPH-REED, b. July 28, 1838, m. Nov. 26, 1863, Isabella Mary Turner Putnam. Chn .: (1) CLARENCE, (II) ISABELLA, (III) GEORGE. He d. Oct. 26, 1905.
ii. CHARLES-EDWARD, b. Aug. 14, 1840, m. Adelaide L' Baron. Chn .: (I) ISABELLA, (II) CARRIE, (III) ALICE. Both parents and children d. leaving no descendants.
iii. MALEK-ADHEL, b. Oct. 8, 1842, m. in N. Y. City, Sept. 11, 1883, Martha Amelia Jones Balch. He d. in Chicago, Ill., April 24, 1907.
iv. LEANDER-JEROME, b. Feb. 10, 1846, d. March 5, 1846.
v. MARY-ALICIA, b. April 6, 1848, m. Andrew L. Manley, b. Boston, Mass., Dec. 30, 1838, d. Nov. 13, 1897, in Collinsville, Conn., she d. in Malden, Mass., March 6, 1897. I child: (I) CHARLES.
LYON.
LYON Seth came to Princeton from Sterling in 1789, married (int.) Oct. 4, 1789, Sophia Standley. His brother Lawson also of Sterling, pub. Oct. 4, 1789, Lucretia Standley, prob. sister of Sophia. There is no record of Lawson being a resident
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of Princeton. Church records give, "Seth Lyon and Sophia his wife dismissed from church to Peru, Vt., Feb. 26, 1809, with Thomas Wyman." Children of Seth and Sophia were:
i. FREEMAN, b. March 30, 1790.
ii. SOPHIA, b. April 5, 1792.
iii. SETH, b. Feb. 16, 1794.
iv. DORCAS, b. Sept. 21, 1797.
v. JOEL, b. April 4, 1800.
MASON.
Thomas2 Mason, son of ROBERT1 of Dedham, is said to have come over from England with his father.
He was one of the first settlers of Medfield. When the town was burned by the Indians in Feb., 1676, his house was burned and he and his two young sons - thirteen and fifteen years old - were killed. His wife escaped to the garrison with her two little girls and baby son Ebenezer3. Ebenezer3 was the father of Thomas4 Mason, who married Mary Sadey.
MASON Thomas5 (Lieut.) (Thomas4, Ebenezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Thomas4 and Mary (Sadey) Mason, born June 14, 1733. He received land of his father and was a proprietor in Rutland 1756, Princeton 1758; married, Aug. 31, 1763, Mary Baxter, of Medfield, daughter of John and Rebecca (Fisher) Baxter, she died April 8, 1824. He died Nov. 28, 1814. Their children were:
i. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 19, 1764, d. March 24, 1847.
ii. SARAH, b. May 23, 1767, m. Nov. 19, 1793, Jos. Eustis of Rutland, she d. May II, 1845.
iii. REV-THOMAS, b. May 28, 1769, grad. Harvard, 1796, ordained and settled at Northfield, Nov. 6, 1799, d. Jany. 3, 1851. He married Dec. 11, 1800, Lydia Kendall of Sterling, who died Aug. 23, 1805, ae. 26, and (2d) Jany. 24, 1804, Sophia Barnard of Sterling, who died April 29, 1842, ae. 66. He had nine children among them, Joseph, Clerk of Courts, Worcester.
iv. MARY, b. Oct. 16, 1771, m. (int.) April 10, 1793, John Read of Rut- land, she d. Feb. 7, 1852.
v. ELIZABETH, b. March 17, 1774, m. Nov. 10, 1817, Joseph Clark of Medfield, d. May 8, 1853.
vi. HORATIO, b. July 30, 1776.
1. vii. JOSEPH, b. July 3, 1778, m. Sally Foster. viii. JOHN, b. Dec. 19, 1780, d. April 6, 1795.
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1. MASON Joseph6 (Lieut .- Thomas5, Thomas4, Ebenezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Thomas" and Mary (Baxter) Mason, born July 3, 1778, married Sally Foster daughter of Abraham and Sally Foster of Ashburnham, Oct. 27, 1814. She died April 30, 1837. He d. Jany. 16, 1865. Their children were:
i. ELIZABETH, b. Jany. 20, 1816.
ii. SARAH, b. Oct. 12, 1817.
iii. MARY, b. Jany. 2, 1819, d. May II, 1826.
iv. JOHN, b. Sept. 28, 1821.
v. HARRIET, b. Feb. 26, 1822, d. April 4, 1842.
vi. GEORGE, b. Dec. 7, 1826, m. Sophia A. Welch of Bolton. She d.
July 19, 1879. He d. April 7, 1903.
vii. Mary, b. March 31, 1828, d. Aug. 2, 1847.
viii. MARIA, TWINS b. March 31, 1828, m. Joseph D. Daniels, res. Worcester, Mass.
ix. HORATIO, b. bapt. Oct. 23, 1831, d. March 30, 1832.
x. CATHERINE, b. Sept. 25, 1832, d. May 31, 1836.
xi. JOSEPH, b. Feb. 2, 1836, d. March 31, 1841.
MASON Ensign-Sadey5 (Thomas4, Ebenezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Thomas4 and Mary (Sadey) Mason, born Nov. 1, 1734, was of Rutland, 1756, a proprietor in Princeton, 1758. Married Sarah Ellis of Medfield, and settled in Rutland in 1756. He died Sept. 4, 1804. His wife died in 1823. Their children were:
i. SARAH, b .-.
ii. PAUL, b. Feb. 15, 1761, m. July 24, 1786, Betsey Priest of Rutland.
2. iii. SILAS, b. May 10, 1765, m. Sept. 26, 1786, Susanna Underwood. iv. ABIGAIL, b. March 25, (between 1765 and 1774), m. Sept. 12, 1790, Moses Garfield.
v. HANNAH, b. Oct. 5, 1774.
2. MASON Silas6 (Ensign-Sadey5, Thomas4, Ebenezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Sadey and Sarah (Ellis) Mason, born May 10, 1765, m. Sept. 26, 1786, Susanna Underwood, born in Hub- bardston, lived near Benjamin Holden's, where he died Feb. 4, 1830, she died March 6, 1856, ae. 89. Their children were:
3. i. JOSEPH b. Feb. 14 (15) 1787.
ii. BENJAMIN TWINS { b. Feb. 14 (15) 1787, had a family, a son Benj. and dau. Lucy.
4. iii. LEONARD, b. Jany. 25, 1789.
iv. SILAS, b. March 8, 1792, a violinist.
v. BARACHIAS, b. April 6, 1794, d. Sept. 25, 1795.
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5. vi. ASA, b. Aug. 1, 1798.
vii. LUCY, b. Oct. 3, 1802, m. 1820, Jonas Brooks.
viii. LUTHER, TWINS { b. Oct. 3, 1802, a violinist, last heard from at New Orleans, La.
ix. MARY, b. July 21, 1806, d. young.
X. SUKEY, b. - , d. June 23, 1804.
3. MASON Joseph7 (Silas6, Ensign-Sadey5, Thomas4, Ebenezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Silas6 and Susanna (Underwood) Mason, born Feb. 14, 1787, married Oct. 16, 1816. He d. Oct. 3, 1865. Their children were:
i. ABIGAIL, b. April 26, 1818, d. May 2, 1851.
ii. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 22, 1821, in Barre.
iii. LOUISA, b. May 1, 1827, d. March 1, 1858.
iv. SARAH-ANN, b. Jany. 25, 1828, m. Sept. 28, 1841, Capt. Asa Brooks, of Westminster.
v. CHARLES, b. Sept. 7, 1829, res. Worcester.
vi. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 5, 1832.
vii. MYRA, b. April 4, 1835, d. July 18, 1855.
viii. HORACE H., b. Dec. 8, 1838, d. Feb. 20, 186 -.
4. MASON Leonard7 (Silas6, Ensign-Sadey5, Thomas4, Ebe- nezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Silas6 and brother of the above Joseph7, born Jany. 25, 1789, married Sept. 30, 1816 in Sterling, Priscilla Whitney, who died Feb. 7, 1853, ae. 56. He died April 5, 1879. Their children were:
i. MARY, b. Dec. 28, 1817, in Sterling, m. May 17, 1837, Amos E. Kendall, res. E. Princeton.
ii. BETSEY, b. Jany. 26, 1820, m. Lysander B. Barnes, d. Oct. 31, 1853. He of Stamford, Vt.
iii. JOEL, b. Oct. 30, 1821, m. Mary Thomas of N. Y. City, 8 children, res. N. Y.
iv. FANNY, b. Sept. 30, 1823, m. Peter Kendall Keyes, E. Princeton. v. SILAS, b. April 6, 1826, m. July 6, 1852, Clemantine Ballou. She d. July 12, 1878. They had 8 children. He married a second wife, and rem. to Hartwellsville, Vt.
vi. JONATHAN-W., b. July 20, 1827, d. Aug. 26, 1827.
vii. JONAS-B., b. July 15, 1828, d. July 30, 1832.
viii. MARSHALL, b. May 25, 1830, pub. March 14, 1854, in St. Albans, Vt., to Lucina Janes, she d. March 4, 1862. He m. (2d) Eliza- beth Persis Safford, April 8, 1863, res. St. Albans, Vt.
ix. LOUISA-E., b. July 3.
x. HEZEKIAH-W., b. June 12, 1833, m. in N. Y., May 7, 1854, Augusta Hunt of N. Y., res. Baldwinsville.
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5. MASON Asa7 (Silas6, Ensign-Sadey5, Thomas4, Ebenezer3, Thomas2, Robert1), son of Silas, and brother of the above Leonard7, born Aug. 1, 1798, married Sept. 5, 1821, Sophia Foster, daughter of Abraham and Sally Foster, born Sept. 21, 1800, in Ashburnham, died July 15, 1846. Their children were:
i. HANNAH-W., b. Jany. 24, 1824.
ii. BENJAMIN, b. Aug. 24, 1825, d. June 10, 1826.
iii. MARY-F., b. March 6, 1827, d. May 24, 1830.
iv. BENJAMIN (2ª) b. April 15, 1828, d. Dec. 3, 1879, at Gardner. v. LUCY-S., b. Aug. 6, 1829.
vi. ELIZA-C., b. Aug. 26, 1831, d. April 30, 1832.
vii. SUSAN-E., b. March 27, 1833, d. June 7, 1833.
MATTHEWS.
MATTHEWS Paul of Marlboro was born 1734, in Southboro, son of John and Jerusha (Bigelow) Matthews. He married in Marlboro, August 30, 1759, Lucy Rice, born June 6, 1738, daughter of Abraham and Persis, she died July 22, 1778. He married (2ª) April 12, 1780, Mrs. Ellen or Eleanor (Chaffin) Gilbert, daughter of John and Eleanor Chaffin of Acton, Mass. We have no record of his death, or of the death of his second wife, or where the children afterwards resided. The Matth- ews place was near Henry Boyles. The house was subse- quently moved back about twenty-five rods and the road changed.
Children of first wife:
1. i. PAUL, b. Jany. 5, 1762, m. (Ist) Susannah Parker, (2d) Sally Lyon. ii. JOEL, b. Aug. 2, 1763.
iii. SAMUEL, b. May 9, 1768, m. Susanna Cowdin in Rutland, Nov. 30, 1790. Two children were born in Princeton, Daniel in 1791 and Susanna 1794 and then all trace is lost.
iv. EMANUEL, b. July 28, 1773, d. Jany. 29, 1786.
v. LUCY, b. Aug. 18, 1775.
Children of second wife:
vi. STEPHEN, b. Feb. 14, 1781, d. Jany. 28, 1786.
vii. NANCY, b. Sept. 26, 1782, d. Nov. 30, 1786.
viii. SALLY, b. Feby. 26, 1784.
ix. ABRAHAM, b. Aug. 24, 1785, d. March 26, 1786.
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1. MATTHEWS Paul-Jr. son of the above Paul of Marlboro and Lucy (Rice) Matthews, born Jany. 5, 1762, married Nov. I, 1784, Susannah Parker, who died June 22, 1786. He married (2ª) Feby. 5, 1787, Sally Lyon of Hubbardston, daughter of Bezaliel and Mary. He died July 20, 1794, and his widow married Luke Warren and died Jany. 30, 1805. One child of Paul Jr. and Lucy born in Princeton.
i. JOHN, b. Sept. 22, 1785, died Dec. 1, 1785.
MAYNARD.
MAYNARD Artemas, son of Elisha and Huldah of Shrewsbury, a Revolutionary soldier. He was born, Oct. 31, 1734, married May 27, 1762 (then of Princeton), Miriam Keyes, daughter of Jonathan and Patience. He was in Temple, N. H. in 1769, a "Retailer of Spirits " and was there in 1778, is said to have resided in Sterling and died there in 1808. Children of Artemas and Miriam were:
i. LUCY, b. March II, 1763, d. July 18, 1764.
ii. THOMAS, b. Dec. 18, 1764, lost in Temple, N. H., Aug. 7, 1769. The family say, "Murdered by a bitter enemy of Artemas the father." (Compare this with account of Lucy Keyes, the lost child of Wachusett Mountain, in Vol. I.)
iii. ASA, b. Nov. 23, 1766, m. in Phillipston, July 3, 1791, Chloe Lamb of Gerry and had 7 children, lived in Northfield and in Winchen- don, where he died, July 25, 1848.
iv. LUCY (2d), b. July 19, 1769, m. Phineas Wilder and res. in Sterling.
v. MIRIAM (ANNA), b. Feb. 5, 1771, d. March 18, 1816 in Sterling.
vi. THOMAS (2d), b. May 13, 1773.
vii. LEVI, b. Jany. 21, 1775, res. Gardner, Mass., and Fairfield, Me., m. in China, Me., April 20, 1809, Betsey Spratt.
MAYNARD Azor, of Northboro, Mass., ancestry untraced, married (Ist) April 3, 1811, Mary Richardson. She died Sept. 14, 1822. He married (2d) Persis Keyes of Temple, N. H., May 24, 1823. Children:
i. NANCY-MOORE, b. Jany. 3, 1812.
ii. SUSAN-RICHARDSON, b. April 24, 1814, d. June 29, 1822.
iii. WILLIAM, b. Jany. 6, 1816.
iv. PERSIS-FIDELIA, b. Oct. 22, 1817.
v. MARY, b. May 26, 1819.
vi. LINCOLN, b. March 5, 1821.
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MELVIN.
MELVIN Robert, son of William and Jane (Jackson) Melvin, born Aug. 13, 1830 in Ayershire, Scotland, married Anna Lachlan in Scotland. She was the daughter of Douglas and Mary (Macallum) Lachlan and was born May 26, 1826 in Scotland. Their children were:
i. WILLIAM-J., b. Aug. 3, 1853 in Ayershire, Scotland, m. (Ist) Agnes E. Tallman of Oakdale, Mass., June 7, 1876. She d. Dec. 22, 1882. Their children were: (I) GRACE-D., b. Oct. 3, 1879 in Warren, Mass., (II) CORA-A., b. Feb. 22, 1882 in Warren, Mass., d. Feb. 21, 1884; m. (2ª) Dollie A. Brigham of Clinton, Mass., Oct. 3, 1883. Their children were: (III) ROBERT-L., b. in Boston, Dec. 22, 1889, (IV) WILLIAM-P., b. in Wakefield, Mass., Nov. 4, 1902.
ii. MARY-M., b. July 12, 1855 in Ayrshire, Scotland, m. Charles J. Hartshorn of Sterling, Mass., Jan. 22, 1876. Their children were: (I) ELLSWORTH M., b. Sept. 27, 1880 in Warren, Mass., d. May 15, 1892, (II) ROBERT J., b. Dec. 3, 1883, m. Dec. 23, 1902, Theresa C. Drury of Princeton, Mass. Their children were: (i) Mary Louise, b. in Somerville, Mass., Dec. 28, 1908, (ii) Ellsworth-J., b. May 12, 1910 in Somerville, Mass., (iii) Catharine-M., b. Feb. 2, 1912, d. Sept. 27, 1913 in Somerville, Mass.
iii. DUNCAN-L., b. Oct. 7, 1857 in Ayrshire, Scotland, m. Minnie P. Farnsworth of E. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 24, 1884. Their children were: (1) WILLIAM FRANCIS, b. in Princeton, Dec. 12, 1885, (II) ARCHIBALD-D., b. in N. Brookfield, Mass., Dec. Io, 1892.
iv. ROBERT, born June 18, 1861 in Ayrshire, Scotland.
v. CATHARINE, born Feb. 5, 1864 in Ayrshire, Scotland, died Sept. 17, 1890 in Princeton.
MERRIAM.
JOSEPH1 MERRIAM was one of three brothers who settled early in Concord, Mass. He died Jany. 1, 1640, leaving a widow, Sarah, who afterwards married Jos. Wheeler. John2 a son of Joseph1, was born at Concord, Mass. July 9, 1641, married Oct. 21, 1663, Mary Cooper and died Feb. 2, 1703, Joseph3, born at Concord, Aug. 16, 1677, married March 24, 1705, Dorothy Brooks, and died Dec. 10, 1750, Nathan4, born in Concord, May 12, 1720, married Jany. 11, 1742-3, Abigail Wheeler, and died Nov. II, 1782, Amos5, also born in Concord, Oct. 13, 1760.
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MERRIAM Amos5 ( Nathan4, Joseph3, John2, Joseph1), son of Nathan4 and Abigail (Wheeler) Merriam, married in Lincoln Dec. 25, 1783, Deborah daughter of John Brooks, and in May 1788 came to Princeton, with wife, two children, and maid, Betsey Barnes, from Concord. He died Sept. 16, 1804, ae. 44, and she married (2ª) Dec. 2, 1813, Capt. Stephen Mirick, and died Nov. 10, 1844, ae. 80. Children of Amos5 and Betsey were:
i. HANNAH-BROOKS, b. March II, 1785, in Concord, m. Feb. 27, 1806, Ebenezer Parker, Jr.
ii. PHEBE, b. April 28, 1786, m. Jany. 26, 1804, Phineas Beaman, Jr. iii. ABIGAIL, b. July 17, 1789, d. Nov. 7, 1792.
1. iv. NATHAN, b. March 21, 1791, m. (Ist) Polly Brooks (2d) Mary Louisa Nicholson.
2. v. AMOS, b. Dec. 15, 1792, m. Catharine Whittaker.
3. vi. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 19, 1794, m. Mary Binney.
vii. JOHN, b. April 4, 1797, d. March 24, 1801.
4. viii. JOSEPH, b. Feb. 24, 1799, m. Ruth Harrington.
5. ix. MARSHALL, b. April 17, 1802, m. Susan M. Wood.
x. LYDIA, b. Oct. 4, 1804, m. Joel Howe, Oct. 1, 1822.
1. MERRIAM Nathan6 (Amos5, Nathan4, Joseph3, John2, Joseph1), son of Amos5 and Betsey (Barnes) Merriam, born in Princeton, March 21, 1791, married (int.) April 9, 1814, Polly Brooks of Sterling. She died Jany. 21, 1839, and he married (2ª) Sept. 12, 1839, Mary Louisa Nicholson, daughter of John and Mary, born in Camden, Me., and died March 18, 1845, ae. 31. He died March 28, 1845. Children of first wife were:
i. GEORGE, b. Oct. 28, 1814, d. Jany. 7, 1845.
ii. MARY-FRENCH, b. June 10, 1816, m. May 25, 1837, A. Wheeler Benjamin, b. Jan. 15, 1810, d. May 7, 1889, she d. March 21, 1901. Children: (I) GEORGE F., b. April 25, 1840, (II) MARY M., b. May 24, 1845, d. July 28, 1845, (III) NATHAN M., b. July 2, 1846, m. Florence Cowee, child (i) Hazel-E., (IV) FRANK-E., b. Dec. 16, 1851, (v) WILLIAM-H., b. March 28, 1857.
iii. DARWIN, b. May 16, 1818, d. Feb. 21, 1820.
iv. CAROLINE, b. April 23, 1820, m. April 15, 1841, George O. Skinner. v. JULIA-ANN, b. May 21, 1822, m. April 10, 1842, Miranda Page of Marlboro.
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vi. SARAH, b. June 28, 1824, m. Jonas-Hartwell-Temple, E. Princeton, Dec. 15, 1842.
vii. FIDELIA, b. Aug. 15, 1826, m. W. E. Rice, Westminster.
viii. GARDNER (DEA.), b. July 3, 1828, m. Oct. 28, 1852, Mary Jane Miles, Westminster, children: (I) NELSON CURTIS, b. July 31, 1853, (II) NELLIE G., b. April 10, 1858, (III) ANNA M., July 10, 1860, m. Sept. 3, 1884, Leonard C. King, children: (i) Harold Merriam, b. March 28, 1888, (ii) Gardner Leonard, b. May 17, 1893, (IV) SARAH M., m. June 25, 1895, Eugene A. Woodbury. ix. JOSEPH EDWIN, b. April 29, 1830, m. Hannah E. Brooks, dau. of Enoch Jr. and Polly (Gregory) Brooks. Chn: (I) MARY FIDELIA, b. May 4, 1857, d. 1875, (II) ALICE, b. May 22, 1861. x. HARRIET-ORZELIA, b. July 20, 1832, m. Griffin, children.
xi. HARTWELL, b. July 9, 1834, m. Adaline.
Children of second wife were:
xiii. JOHN-NICHOLSON, b. June 28, 1840, enlisted as private in Co. G. 36th Mass. Regt., mustered in Aug. 8, 1862, discharged Feb. 16, 1864, for disability, went west and there died.
xiv. ABIGAIL-LOUISA, b. Oct. 21, 1841, d. March 28, 1845.
XV. NATHAN-ALBERT, b. Feb. 16, 1843, d. March 10, 1845.
xvi. JOANNA-ANNETTA, b. Aug. 3, 1844, m. Sept. 20, 1866, Ansel H. Howard, removed to Gardner, Mass., one daughter GERTRUDE HOWARD, m. Edward Coburn.
2. MERRIAM Amos6 (Amos5, Nathan4, Joseph3, John2, Joseph1) brother of the above Nathan, born Dec. 15, 1792, married Sept. 17, 1814, Catharine Whittaker (Katharine in int.). He was a surveyor and made a map of Princeton for the State, Oct., 1830. Their children were:
i. AMOS-AUGUSTUS, b. Aug. 31, 1816.
ii. CATHARINE-AUGUSTA, b. April 20, 1818.
iii. JOSEPH-FRANKLIN, b. March 15, 1820, d. July 15, 1834.
iv. CHARLES-WHITTAKER, b. Jany. 7, 1822 (bapt. Thomas-Wheeler).
v. LYDIA-SOPHIA, b. April 10, 1824.
vi. SUSAN-MARIA, b. Feb. 4, 1827 (bapt. Susan-Elizabeth).
vii. LEVI-PEARSONS, b. Sept. 1, 1829.
3. MERRIAM William6 (Amos5, Nathan4, Joseph3, John2, Joseph1), brother of the above Amos6, born Nov. 19, 1794, married April 12, 1819, Mary Binney, daughter of John, Jr. and Anna (Walker) Binney, b. New Ipswich, June 19, 1798. He died March 1834. Their children were:
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i. WILLIAM-GAINS, b. Jany. 21, 1820, d. Aug. 16, 1822.
ii. JOHN-NEWTON, b. March 25, 1822, m. Aug. 20, 1845, Dorcas J. Carr, and lived in Cambridge, Mass., where he was a man of note, d. Dec. 20, 1882.
iii. ANNA-E., b. Dec. 27, 1827, d. Oct. 30, 1841.
iv. WILLIAM-WARD, b. Sept. 15, 1830, m. Sept. 1, 1858, Susan Dimand. He went as a missionary to European Turkey, was shot and killed, by robbers, while on his way from Constantinople to Philopolis, July 3, 1862. His wife died from the shock July 25, 1862, leaving a child, Mary, who graduated at Wellesley College, and married C. W. Cowan.
v. AMOS-E., b. Sept. 26, 1832, d. Aug. 26, 1878.
4. MERRIAM Joseph6, (Amos5, Nathan4, Joseph3, John2, Joseph1), brother of the above William6, born Feb. 24, 1799, married Jany. 17, 1821, Ruth Harrington. Children:
i. MARY-M., b. Aug. 18, 1821, m. Wm. H. Wyman of Princeton, Nov. 24, 1841, d. Boston, July 19, 1867.
ii. WILLIAM-WHEELER, b. April 14, 1824, d. March 12, 1826.
iii. JOSEPH-WHEELER, b. Sept. 11, 1825, d. Aug. 24, 1826.
iv. LOIS-LEWELLYN, b. Aug. 6, 1828.
v. WILLIAM-WHEELER (2d) b. April 12, 1830.
vi. SUSAN-ELIZABETH, b. Jany. 20, 1832.
vii. JOSEPH-FRANKLIN, b. April 4, 1833, d. July 15, 1834.
viii. FRANCES-ANN, b. April 15, 1835.
ix. JOHN-DANIEL-WEBSTER, b. Dec. 10, 1836, d. July 7, 1837.
x. WALTON-GREENOUGH, b. June 25, 1838.
5. MERRIAM Marshall (Amos5, Nathan4, Joseph3, John2, Joseph1), brother of the above Joseph6, born April 17, 1802, married (int.) Oct. II, 1829, Susan M. Wood of Westminster. He died Nov. 21, 1845, she died in Hopkinton, Iowa, Nov. 15, 1860. Children:
i. GUSTAVUS, b. Oct. 4, 1830, m. (Ist) April 6, 1851, Fidelia M. Gregory, (2d) Oct. 16, 1860, Emily Somes, children: (I) CLARA M., b. Feb. 8, 1852, (II) MARY S., b. May 10, 1855, (III) LYMAN, b. March 14, 1858, d. May, 1858, (IV) FRED E., b. April 30, 1863, d. Sept. 23, 1865 (v) LEWIS P., b. July 30, 1868.
ii JOSEPH, b. Dec. 6, 1833, m. Sept. 30, 1863, Marinda W. Rugg, children: (I) HENRY G., b. July 30, 1864, (II) MARY L., b. Aug. I, 1865, (III) CHARLES E., b. Nov. 6, 1866, (IV) CARRIE A., b. Sept. II, 1872, (v) JENNIE M., b. June 1, 1875, (VI) JOSEPH C., b. April 1, 1878.
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iii. MARY - TWINS - (b. Feb. 25, 1836, d. (" about 1861 ").
iv. MARIA
(b. Feb. 25, 1836, d. April 3, 1844.
v. HENRY-CLAY, b. Dec. 18, 1838, d. Hopkington, Iowa, April 6, 1888, m. March 16, 1865, Anna E. Finley, children: (I) FRANK F., b. Dec. 22, 1865, (II) ROBERT M., b. July 13, 1867, (III) EDITH L., b. Dec. 19, 1869, (IV) SUSAN M., b. Aug. 14, 1872, (v) JENNIE B., b. July 9, 1874, d. Oct. 31, 1877, (VI) AZELLA, b. Feb. 23, 1876, (VII) HENRY-C., b. March 2, 1878 (VIII) MINNIE-M., b. March 8, 1880.
vi. CHARLES-EDWARD, b. Jany. 22, 1845, m. April 15, 1868, Margaret C. Kirkwood, children: (I) JOHN-C., b. Oct. 20, 1869, (II) CHARLES-E., b. Nov. 15, 1874, (III) SUSAN A, b. Sept. 4, 1876.
MERRIAM Asa7 (Jonas6, John5, John4, John3, John2, Joseph1), son of Jonas6, descended from Joseph1 through John2 and Mary Cooper, John3 and Sarah Wheeler, John4 and Abigail Norcross, John5, and Sarah Jones, Jonas6 and - Asa, who married in Hubbardston, May 12, 1825, Sally Warren, daugh- ter of Luke and Sarah (Matthews) Warren, she died Sept. 18, 1859. Children :
i. CALVIN, b. March 20, 1826, rem. to Cohassett, and there d. 1872.
ii. ADALINE, b. Dec. 10, 1827.
iii. FRANCIS, b. Nov. 27, 1829., d. March 17, 1830.
iv. AMANDA, b. Aug. 9, 1830, m. William Matthews.
v. FARWELL, b. Jany. 14, 1832, res, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
vi. JOHN-FLAVEL, b. Jany. 16, 1834, res, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
METCALF.
METCALF Joseph and wife Lucy lived on the R. P. Whitney place. Soon after 1820 they removed to Holden. Children born in Princeton:
i. LASYLVIA, b. Aug. 13, 1815.
ii. MARY-JANE, b. July 19, 1820.
MIRICK.
The family of this name (spelled variously, Merrick, Meyrick, Myrick and Mirick) according to genealogists of the family traces back through a long line of distinguished Welsh ancestors to Cadvan or Catamanus who was King of North Wales at the end of the sixth century, having his seat of government at Aberffraw, North Wales. The emigrant ancestor of the Princeton Miricks,
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JOHN1, son of Rev. William Mirick of St. Davids, Wales, born in Wales in 1614, was the third of four brothers who came from Bristol, England, in ship James S., in the fall of 1635 arriving in Boston in the winter of 1635-6. He married Hopestill
at Charlestown in 1641, and died Feb. 15, 1675, leaving an estate to his wife Hopestill and ten surviving children. The date of Hopestill's death is not on record but she was alive in 1669 and was then admitted to the church in Charlestown as the wife of John Mirick, and her age was given as fifty years. Their home was near the " Old ferry," and their children were recorded in Charlestown.
John Mirick2, son and fifth child of John1 and Hopestill, was born in 1655. Married Elizabeth Trowbridge, Feb. 9, 1682 and died July II, 1706 in Newton, Mass. Bond, in his history of Watertown, says he was killed by Indians on that date. Eliza- beth died in 1734 at Newton, Mass., aged 74. Their son John3 born Nov. 3, 1693 at Newton, married Abigail Harrington, another son James3, born Oct. 26, 1696, married Mary Woolson.
MIRICK John4 (John3, John2, John1), son of the above John3 and Abigail (Harrington) Mirick, born in Weston, Mass., Nov. 18, 1722. Married March 19, 1748, Keziah Stratton. They with Children: Stephen, Eunice, John, Sally and Lucy from West- minster, came to Princeton, May, 1777. He died at West- minster while on a visit there Jany. 7, 1782, she died July 12, 1804, ae. 81. Their children as recorded were:
i. LYDIA, b. May 15, 1749, m. Nov. 29, 1769, Phineas Upham.
ii. JOSEPH, b. March 10, 1750-I, d. Jany. II, 1753.
1. iii. EPHRAIM, b. Feb. 23, 1753, m. Deborah Gleason.
iv. ABIGAIL, b. March 17, 1755, m. March 5, 1778, Elias Bigelow.
3. v. STEPHEN, b. April 24, 1757, m. Abigail Griffin.
vi. EUNICE, b. May 7, 1759, m. Feb. 9, 1786, Isaac Hartwell, she d. June 28, 1823.
10. vii. JOHN, b. Aug. 5, 1762, m. Lois Hobbs.
viii. SALLY (SARAH), b. Aug. 14, 1763, m. (int.) May 24, 1785, James Wilder of Sterling.
ix. LUCY, b. March 10, 1766, m. (Ist) Sept. 30, 1784, Samuel Richard- son (2d) Wm. Everett and d. Jany. 16, 1850.
1. MIRICK Ephraim5 Lieut. (John4, John3, John2, John1), son of John4 and Keziah (Stratton) Mirick, born at Weston, Mass., Feb. 23, 1753, married in Princeton, Oct. 26, 1775, Deborah
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Gleason. He died Aug. 4, 1826 and his widow Nov. 2, 1841, ae. 88. Their children were:
i. JERUSHA, b. Dec. 30, 1776, m. (int.) Jany. 9, 1802, Abner How, Jr.
ii. ELIZABETH, b. March 21, 1778, m. (int.) Nov. 28, 1801, Adonijah How, d. May 29, 1820.
iii. JOSEPH, b. March 26, 1780.
iv. DEBORAH, b. Nov. 4, 1782, m. (int.) July 12, 1805, Nathaniel Dill- ingham of Camden.
2. v. EPHRAIM, b. March 25, 1785, m. Lucinda Newton.
vi. PRUDENCE, b. May 26, 1787, m. - Wood of Camden.
vii. KEZIA, b. Aug. 31, 1789, m. Carlton of Camden.
viii. CYNTHIA, b. Jany. 6, 1792, m. Oct. 8, 1815, Joshua Dillingham, Jr. of Camden, Me.
ix. SALLY, b. April 5, 1794, d. Aug. 2, 1816.
x. HARRIET, b. April 9, 1796, d. April 5, 1823.
xi. MARIA, b. Feb. 27, 1799, d. Aug. 26, 1817.
2. MIRICK Ephraim6 (Lieut. Ephraim5, John4, John3, John2, John1), son of the above Lieut. Ephraim5 and Deborah (Glea- son) Mirick, born March 25, 1785, married Nov. 2, 1819, Lucinda Newton of Royalston. He was accidently killed by being thrown from his wagon. He died May 21, 1828. She died May 23, 1832, ae. 35. Their children were:
i. GEORGE-DILLINGHAM-NEWTON, b. Sept. 2, 1820, d. in Royalston, Nov. 30, 1843, ae. 23.
ii. DELIA, b. - -, m. Geo. W. Holman of Fitchburg.
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