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iii. BENJAMIN, b. April 21, 1774 at Newton, grad. Dartmouth Col. 1800, moved to N. Y. and joined the "Friends." He was known as the "Quaker Lawyer," m. Deborah Morris Franklin of New York, July 12, 1810 and d. March 21, 1840, was referred to as "a distinguished man,“ 4 children.
iv. SARAH, b. April 28, 1776, m. Jos. Wiswell of Newton, Aug. 13, 1807, rem. Clarksville, N. H., and d. Sept. 3, 1861.
Children by second wife:
v. MARY or POLLY, b. April 8, 1787, a Governess of French Asylum, New Orleans, d. there Nov. 25, 1819.
vi. NATHANIEL, b. July 15, 1788, rem. to Owen Co., Indiana.
Children by third wife:
vii. SAMUEL, b. March 4, 1799.
viii. AMASA-CRAFTS, b. Feb. 7, 1802, rem. Colesburg, Iowa, unmarried.
CLARK Benjamin, with wife Eunice and children, Polly, David and Aaron from Hubbardston, 1791. Record of a Benj. taxed 1790 and Benj. Jr., 1795, possibly the same person. He died April 20, 1810. His children were:
i. POLLY.
1. ii. DAVID, b. 1788, m. (I) Anna Gates, m. (2) Aditha (Diantha in Rec.) Merritt.
iii. AARON, m. March 8, 1812, Elizabeth Brooks, sister of David Brooks. Children: (I) MARY ABBOT, Oct. 28, 1812, (II) WARD- NICHOLAS-BOYLSTON, b. Nov. 18, 1813.
iv. BETSEY, b. May 9, 1791 at Hubbardston.
v. ASA, b. Nov. 5, 1794.
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vi. PHINEAS, b. May 11, 1797 at Bolton, Mass.
2. vii. JACOB-SAFFORD, b. April 17, 1799, m. (Ist) Sarah -, (2ª) Hannah Sawin.
viii. ELI, b. Jany. I, 1802, d. Sept. 7, 1818.
1. CLARK David, son of above Benj. and Eunice, had ten chil- dren all said to have been born in Princeton except Stillman. Married (1) March 21, 1805, Anna Gates, daughter of Henry, who died Feb. 24, 1831 (Feb. 25, a. 43, G.R.), he married (2ª) Sept. 23, 1832, Mrs. Aditha (Merritt) Stone (Diantha in Rec.). He d. April 22, 1841, ae. 53, she died in Leominster, July -, 1841, ae. 54. Record in Princeton, "Wid. of David brought from Leominster and buried in Princeton, July 20, 1841." Their children were:
i. ELMIRA, b. - , 1814, d. Sept. 7, 1831 (Sept. 8, d. ae. 17, P.R.).
ii. FREEMAN, b. - , m. Mehitable Fuller, dau. John Fuller, Sheffield, Vt., I child: (I) NATHANIEL-FULLER, b. Aug. 3, 1844.
iii. ELI, b. - -.
iv. LAURINDA (LORINDA), b. - , m. Sept. 1, 1830, Clark Merriam of Westminster.
v. ELSEY, b. --.
vi. EMILY, b. --.
vii. BENJAMIN, b. Oct. 22, 1818, m. (I) Nov. 26, 1840, Sarah M. Alden, she d. Sept. 7, 1861, ae. 41. He m. (2ª) Lydia Battles, Nov. 13, 1862. He d. June 17, 1864 in Hubbardston.
viii. STILLMAN, b. - , m. in Hubbardston, Nov. 3, 1840, Miranda J. Newton, and rem. to Jamaica, Vt., 1856.
ix. EUNICE ANN, b. - , m. 1842, Joshua Francis of Barre.
x. MARY, b. - -.
xi. HARRIET, b. -.
2. CLARK Jacob-Safford2, son of Benj.1 and Eunice, born April 17, 1799, married (Ist) Sarah -, married (2ª) Hannah Sawin.
Children of first wife:
i. ELIZA-ANN, b. Aug. 6, 1826, m. Charles Huntoon (int.) Nov. I, I845.
ii. BENJ .- RICE, b. Feb. 7, 1828.
Children of second wife:
iii. FLORINTIN-CHRISTOPHER, b. Aug. 10, 1836.
iv. GILBERT-SMITH, b. Aug. 30, 1838.
v. EMILY-MARION, b. Dec. 27, 1840.
vi. HENRY-WALKER, b. May 10, 1843.
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CLARK George-P.5, son of Peter of Bolton and Elizabeth (Brown) Clark, married (Ist) Martha Bartlett of Sterling, Oct. 18, 1836, she died Nov. 3, 1849, ae. 36 (g.s., Nov. 4, 1850, ae. 35). He married (2ª) Sept. 26, 1860, Catherine Elizabeth Wheeler of Orange, 3 children born in Princeton.
i. GEORGE-ERVING, b. Nov. 5, 1840, d. Dec. 5, 1841.
ii. WENDELL-P., b. Oct. 25, 1842.
iii. ELLEN-E., b. April 28, 1845.
CLARK Simeon, born April 30, 1820, married Mary Morse of Hubbardston, Mass., Dec. 17, 1846, died Oct. 31, 1901. She d. Aug. 23, 1905. Children all born in Princeton were:
i. LUCY-ELECTA, b. April 9, 1848, d. Aug. 14, 1850.
ii. GEORGE-ALMON, b. Aug. 19, 1849.
iii. WILLIS-H., b. Nov. 7, 1853, m. Bella D. Hixon of Worcester, Dec. 20, 1881. She d. Jany. 27, 1906. Children: (I) HESTER- W., b. March 5, 1884, (II) FLORENCE-H., b. Jany. 19, 1886.
iv. MARY-JANE, b. Sept. 27, 1851, m. Oct. 23, 1879, George A. Battles, b. Dec. 8, 1850, in Westminster, Mass.
v. JUSTIN-M., b. Feb. 9, 1855, m. Oct. 27, 1886, Nellie Louise Clark, b. at Wilton, N. H., July 28, 1861. One adopted daughter, BERTHA-LOUISE-SAWYER, b. at Boston, Dec. 4, 1893, adopted July 15, 1907.
vi. ELMIRA-LOUISE, b. Nov. 3, 1856, m. Oct. 17, 1891, Stillman Whitney, b. April II, 1833, Westminster, Mass.
vii. CHARLES-EDWARD, b. July 16, 1859, m. Nov. 4, 1890, Ida May, b. Nov. 10, 1864 of West Dennis, Mass.
viii. CORA-ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 27, 1861.
ix. HATTIE-MORSE, b. Jan. 8, 1865.
x. FLORA-EMMA, b. Nov. 28, 1870.
CLARKE.
1. CLARKE Rev .- Samuel, son of Ninian and Margaret (Ram- say) Clarke, born at New Boston, N. H., April 21, 1791. His family, according to the New Boston History " belonged to a strongly marked class of immigrants, who took up and reclaimed the townships along the upper Merrimac and its tributary streams. They were originally from Scotland, full of Scotch blood and trained in the sternest dogmas of the Presbyterian Church. A marked seriousness and thought- fulness, the old Scottish reverence for the clergy, sobriety of demeanor and strictness of discipline lingered long in the
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Colony and went down from generation to generation." Mr. Clarke was born and reared in the midst of these influences. Aug. 13, 1819 he married (int.) Sarah Wigglesworth of New- buryport, born March 29, 1799, daughter of Michael and Charlotte (Goldsmith), died in Uxbridge, Sept. 1, 1856.
He was prepared for Dartmouth College by Rev. Mr. Beede of Wilton; entered and was graduated in 1812, was ordained June 18, 1817 over the Unitarian Church in Princeton where he remained fifteen years, was installed over the Uni- tarian Church in Uxbridge, Mass., January 9, 1833, where he remained twenty-seven years, making a ministry of forty- two years. Mr. Clark survived his wife but a few years. He died Nov. 19, 1859 at Uxbridge. Their children were:
i. CHARLOTTE-RAMSAY, b. Aug. 18, 1820, m. Aug. 19, 1839, H. H. Chamberlain of Worcester.
ii. HENRY-WARE, b. May 10, 1822, m. (Ist) Abby Fisher, m. (2ª) Mary C. Whiting, res. Boston.
iii. ANN-FRANCES, b. Aug. 24, 1828, unmarried.
COBB.
No satisfactory account of the earlier generations of this family have been found. The record begins with SAMUEL1 of Rutland, who seems to have dropped into Rutland East-Wing (now Prince- ton) in 1787. The tradition is that he came from Weston, Middlesex County, before that date, that he was there a tenant of Moses Gill, who owned at that time (latter part of 1700) large tracts of land in Weston and induced many English and Scotch people to settle there. He afterwards acquired large possessions in Princeton and Samuel Cobb followed him from Weston there and settled on this land.
COBB Samuel1 of Rutland, progenitor of the Princeton family of that name, married Oct. 31, 1787, Azubah Newton sister of Ezra Newton who came from Cape Cod to Princeton. He, Samuel, lived on the homestead near the town line dividing Rutland from Princeton in the southwestern part of the town until the time of his death Sept. 12, 1810.
It seems that his widow Azubah contemplated marriage with Elijah Stearns of Alstead, N. H., but " postponed by Cobb till further orders " she married (2d) Oct. 6, 1813, Samuel Rice of Northboro. Children of Samuel and Azubah Cobb were:
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1. i. CHARLES, b. - , m. (Ist) Hannah Butterick, (2d) Anna B. Hastings, (3d) Miranda Marshall.
2. ii. ELIAS-HULL, b. - , 1796 in Princeton, m. Rebecca B. Gill.
iii. SAMUEL, b. - , m. Polly Clark of Hubbardston.
iv. AZUBAH, m. June 20, 1811, Jonas Cowdin of Rutland.
v. JOHN.
vi. NANCY, m. Oct. 13, 1816, Timothy Fay, of Camden, Me.
vii. EZRA, prob. bapt. March 7, 1819 (adult) to Camden, Me.
viii. SALLY, m. Joseph Hartwell, Dec. 4, 1821.
ix. WILLIAM.
x. GEORGE-W.
xi. ELIZA.
1. COBB Charles2, son of Samuel1 and Azubah (Newton) Cobb, married (int.) (Ist) Hannah Butterick of Concord, June 8, 1816, who died June 16, 1825. He married (2d) Nov. 9, 1826, Anna B. Hastings, who died March 12, 1830. He married (3d) int. Sept. 25, 1831, Miranda Marshall of Princeton. He and his family removed from Princeton to Lancaster, Mass. in 1835, where he with his son Charles Augustus engaged in the manu- facture of pocket books.
2. COBB Elias-Hull2, son of Samuel1 and Azubah (Newton) Cobb born 1796 in Princeton, married Aug. 23, 1820, Rebecca B. Gill daughter of Moses Gill, born in Princeton, died at Dor- chester, Mass., Jany. 15, 1858. He died at Chicopee Falls, Sept. 5, 1843. Children:
3. i. MOSES-HULL, b. Nov. 24, 1820, m. Sophie Munroe.
ii. SUSAN-BUTTERICK, b. Jany. 16, 1824 in Princeton, m. in Boston, -, who d. in Boston, m. (2) J. E. Sweetser, who d. in Brook- -
lyn, N. Y.
iii. ASENATH-BABCOCK, b. Jany. 21, 1826 in Princeton, m. Hon. Geo. S. Taylor of Chicopee Falls.
iv. REBECCA-WARD, b. April 22, 1828, m. Enoch V. B. Holcomb. She d. in Brooklyn, N. Y. March 12, 1888.
v. SARAH-CLARK, b. Aug., 1830 in Princeton, m. Rev. Wm. Bradford in New York about 1850 and d. there Nov. 15, 1853.
vi. ELIZABETH WAITY, b. Dec. 1, 1832 in Princeton, unmarried.
vii. MARTHA ANN, b. 1834 in Groton, m. 1866, Charles E. Pinkham and rem. to California.
3. COBB Moses-Hull3, son of Elias-Hull2 and Rebecca B. (Gill) Cobb, married Oct. 14, 1846, Sophie Munroe, daughter of
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Edmund Munroe of Boston. Moses H., Harvard University 1846, practiced law in Charlestown and Boston 1846-1861. Raised a Company of Light Artillery for U. S. Army, rem. to California July, 1862. Was member of Governor's Coun- cil 1857, also on the School Board of Dorchester and in Stock- ton, Cal. Children :
i. EDMUND-M., b. March 24, 1848, educated West Point, grad. 1870, annexed to 2d U. S. Artillery Regt., d. 1886, Washington, D. C.
ii. GEORGE-D., b. March 28, 1850, educated U. of Cal., grad. 1872, adm. practice of law, 1875, d. Feb., 1880.
iii. MARY-C., b. - , 1854, m. Harold Holderman, 1876, d. St. Johns, New Brunswick, 1887.
iv. SARAH-M., b. 1856, d. March, 1884.
v. HENRY-GARDNER, b. Oct. 16, 1866 in California, res. San Francisco.
COLBURN.
COLBURN Ebenezer, son of Joseph and Mehitable (Whitney) of Dedham, born May 15, 1738, married Feb. 5, 1763, Mercy, daughter of Edw. and Mary (Allen) Everett, born June 20, 1741. The Princeton records give two wives apparently, Mary and Mercy, but they were probably the same. She died at Rindge, N. H., March 25, 1828, ae. 87. They had three chil- dren in Dedham, five in Princeton and the last three in Rindge where the father died Sept. 17, 1824 ae. 86. The children were:
i. ANNA, b. Sept. 20, 1763, m. Dr. Stephen Jewett, Rindge, N. H.
ii. EBENEZER, b. April 2, 1765, m. Hannah Jewett.
iii. ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 21, 1767, m. Hosea Ballou of R. I.
iv. EDWARD-EVERETT b. March 30, 1769, d. April 2, 1769.
b. March 30, 1769. The parents gave to the living twin both names
Twins Edward and Everett but Edward never used the Everett. He res. Plainfield, Otsego Co., N. Y. and d. 1850.
v. EDWARD
vi. DAVID, b. Feb. 13, 1771, res. in Otsego and Chataqua Co.'s, N. Y. vii. MARY, b. June 4, 1773, m. Tolman Jennings, Rindge, N. H., d. 1837.
viii. ELLIS b. March 17, 1775, res. Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y.
Twins !
ix. LEWIS b. March 17, 1775, res. Sackett Harbor, N. Y.
x. GEORGE, b. Sept. 5, 1777, d. unmarried.
xi. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 9, 1780, d. 1798.
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COPELAND.
COPELAND Eliphaz, lived on the Randall place, married Feb. 10, 1788, Hailey Wheeler, who died Jany. 4, 1815. He married (2ª) Nov. 26, 1815, widow Elizabeth Rice.
Children of first wife:
i. LUCY, m. March 23, 1815, Samuel Randall of Shrewsbury.
ii. BILLY, b. Feb. 6, 1791, d. in Princeton 1814-15.
iii. HAILEY, b. July 19, 1793, m. Moses Rice of Worcester, June 28, 1812.
iv. MOSES W., b. May 15, 1796, removed to Boston, d. about 1860.
v. ASA, b. Sept. 3, 1798, went to Sea and was never heard from.
vi. CHARLES, b. Aug. 15, 1800.
vii. ELISHA, b. July 27, 1804.
Child of second wife:
viii. MARY-DELISHA, b. Oct. 12, 1819.
COWDIN.
The Cowdins of Princeton were of Scotch-Irish descent, JAMES1 COWDIN father of Robert2 of Princeton, was born in Ireland in 1695, and was probably a son of Thomas Cowdin who went from Scotland to Ireland about 1688. Tradition says "He was a barrister in his own country and some time resident in Dublin." He married probably (Ist) Lady Polly Connor who could not have long survived for "early in 1720" he married (2ª) Janet Craige. In 1728, with his wife and four or five children he came to America and in 1731 purchased land in North Worcester and made a homestead there. In 1740 he was one of the petitioners asking that North Worcester be made a separate town. The act of incorporation was passed and the town named Holden.
The children of James1 and Janet at length numbered seven sons and two daughters.
Oct. I, 1748, James died and his widow Janet married (2ª) Capt. James Craige of Rutland, Mass., April 16, 1755, she died Feb. 19, 1776.
COWDIN Samuel2, son of James1 and Janet (Craige) Cowdin, was born in 1726, married Dec. II, 1755, Margaret Gillmore of Pelham, lived in Worcester then in Rutland, the first house above Brook's Station. He died Nov. 11, 1812. Five children were born in Worcester. Their children were:
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i. JAMES, b. Sept. 21, 1756, m. Persis Goodnow, Sept. 1, 1785, d. Rutland, Feb. 10, 1848.
ii. POLLY (MOLLY), b. Feb. 16, 1758, m. Phineas Gregory, Jany. 21, 1789.
iii. MARGARET, b. Dec. 27, 1761, m. David Hoyt, June 19, 1786.
iv. SUSANNAH, b. Oct. 9, 1763, m. Samuel Matthews, Nov. 30, 1790.
v. SAMUEL, b. July 22, 1770, d. Oct. 4, 1777.
COWDIN Lieut .- Robert2, son of James1 and Janet (Craige) Cowdin was born in 1731, married Nov. 10, 1756, Elizabeth Work, born in Hopkinton, Dec. 8, 1736, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Osborn) Work. He lived on what was later the Warren Griffin place. At the time of his death Oct. 3, 1785 he is recorded as owning " a pew south on Brigham E. Sargent N. on men's body seats W. on alley." His widow Elizabeth, died Jany. 24, 1819. They had a son ROBERT; guardian appointed 1785.
COWDIN James2, son of James1 and Janet (Craige) Cowdin, married Oct. 1, 1760, Olive Wilson, born in Petersham, Feb. 13, 1739, daughter of Samuel Wilson. He removed to Cambridge, New York, where he was a prominent and influential citizen, town officer, Mayor, etc. He married 2d Widow Sarah Long. He died at Cambridge, July 39, 1800. Several children, but record of only one obtainable:
i. JAMES-SIMPSON, b. Sept. 27, 1762.
COWDIN John2, son of James and Janet (Craige) Cowdin, married Nov. 6, 1760, Molly Wilson, born at Petersham, Dec. 13, 1742, daughter of Samuel Wilson. One child born in Princeton, one in Pelham and others in Canada:
i. HEBER, b. in Princeton, Oct. 17, 1761.
ii. SUSANNAH, b. in Pelham, Sept. 7, 1763.
CRAFTS.
CRAFTS Rev .- Thomas6 (Dr .- John-S.5, Moses4, Samuel3, Samuel2, Griffin1), son of Dr. John S. Crafts of Newton, born 1759, married (int.) Polly Porter of Bridgewater, Nov. 29, 1786. He graduated from Harvard College 1783 and settled in Princeton, removed to Bridgewater then to Weymouth and in 1802 to Middleboro, where he died Jany. 19, 1819 ae. 60. He was descended from Griffin Crafts one of the first settlers
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of Roxbury as above. Two children born in Princeton; others elsewhere.
i. POLLY-SIBYLE, b. Jan. 5, 1788.
ii. THOMAS-PRINCE, b. July 8, 1789.
CRAWFORD.
CRAWFORD Luther, son of Samuel and Huldah Crawford, born in Oakham, Mass., April 2, 1801; married (Ist) Temperance Rice of Oakham. She died Dec. 21, 1833. He married (2d) July 27, 1834, Sophronia Woodis, born in Oakham, April 20, 1801; died March 13, 1887. He died, June 22, 1884. One child :
i. MARY-ANN, b. June 19, 1832, m. George L. Godfrey, Nov. 24, 1853, d. June 25, 1909. They had one child: GENEVA GODFREY, b. in Milford, Mass., March 2, 1857, m. Frank Quackenbush, May I, 1878.
CRONIN.
CRONIN Bartholomew, son of Patrick and Mary Cronin, born in Kerry, Ireland, March 4, 1853, married Feb. 7, 1878, Esther Morrison, daughter of John and Julia Morrison, born in Belvidere, Illinois, Jany. I, 1859. Children:
i. JOHN-F., b. Feb. 26, 1880, in Worcester, m. Dec. 9, 1909, Florence V. Allard. Chn .: (I) ELSIE LOUISE, b. Sept. 10, 1910, d. Sept. 24, 1910, (II) GERTRUDE-MARY, b. Sept. 13, 1913.
ii. BARTHOLOMEW, b. May 1, 1883, d. Oct. 4, 1886.
iii. MARY, b. Jany. II, 1886, d. June II, 1897.
iv. JULIA-ELLEN, b. Feb. 21, 1889, m. Sept. 1, 1909, Ralph E. Mat- thews, I child: RALPH EMMETT MATTHEWS, b. Jany. 9, 1912. v. KATHARINE-J., b. Feb. 10, 1891.
CUTTER.
RICHARD1 CUTTER the progenitor of this family in New England emigrated to this country with his mother Elizabeth, his father having died previous to their departure. He was a cooper by trade, and probably under twenty years of age, upon his arrival.
He was made a freeman June 2, 1641 and about 1644, married his first wife Elizabeth whose surname is unknown. She died March 5th, 1661, and Feb. 14, 1662-3 Richard married (2ª) Frances (Perriman) Amsden, the widow of Isaac Amsden of Cambridge. He died June 16, 1693.
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Nathaniel2 son of Richard1 and Frances, by his wife Mary Fillebrown, had a son John3, who married Hepzibah Brooks the daughter of Jabez and Hepzibah (Cutter) Brooks of Woburn.
CUTTER Nathaniel4 (John3, Nathaniel2, Richard1), son of John3 and Hepzibah (Brooks) Cutter, was born in Charlestown, now Winchester, Mass., Aug. 6, 1739, Bapt. Aug. 12 at Menotomy; m. Oct. 24, 1758, Sarah daughter of Benjamin and Esther (Richardson) Wyman of Woburn. He resided in Woburn and Lexington, and afterwards in Princeton. His wife Sarah died May 6, 1777, ae. 39, and Nov. 20, 1777, Nathaniel, then of Princeton, married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Butterfield) Locke of Menotomy. From Princeton he re- moved to Rindge, N. H., selling his farm in Princeton he received payment in Continental money, which eventually became worthless. Children of first wife were:
i. NATHANIEL, b. April 27, 1760, in Woburn, m. May 3, 1786, Sarah, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Hunter, of Marlboro. He was a farmer and a Revolutionary Pensioner, d. Grafton, Vt., Sept. 4, 1841, his grand-daughter Mary Ann, married Joshua T. Everett. ii. BENJAMIN, b. April 26, 1762, m. Elizabeth , d. at Fort Ann, N. Y., March 5, 1846. Revolutionary Soldier.
iii. HEPZIBAH, b. -.
CUTTING.
CUTTING Josiah, son of Josiah and Lydia (Merriam) Cutting, born in Westminster, Nov. II, 1762, married June 7, 1787, Ruth Norcross, daughter of Noah, born June 21, 1767, died March 29, 1835, ae. 68. He died Oct. 15, 1803, ae. 41. Their children were:
1. i. DEA .- JOSIAH, b. May 5, 1788, m. Mary Moore.
ii. JOHN, b. July 17, 1790.
iii. RUTH, b. Aug. 8, 1792, d. Oct. 2, 1852, unmarried.
iv. LYDIA, b. April 14, 1795, d. Jany. 14, 1833.
v. EPHRAIM, b. April 9, 1797.
vi. MARY, b. Aug. 7, 1800, d. May 8, 1834.
vii. THOMAS-U., b. Aug. 9, 1803, d. March 8, 1831, ae. 28.
1. CUTTING Dea .- Josiah, son of the above Josiah and Ruth (Norcross) Cutting, born May 5, 1788, married Oct. 13, 1819, Mary Moore daughter of Uriah and Abigail, born Sept. II, 1795. She died March 6, 1845, ae. 49 and he Aug. 18, 1847. Their children were:
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i. ABIGAIL-MERIAM, b. July 2, 1819, m. Warren E. Moore of North- boro, May 26, 1841, d. Feb. 3, 1865.
ii. JOSIAH-ADDISON, b. June 8, 1822, d. in Hubbardston, April 22, 1859, m. Harty Chase, 1851.
iii. MARY-JANE, b. May II, 1824, d. Sept. 23, 1839.
iv. LEVI-BAILEY, b. Jany. 5, 1829, m. Lizzie H. Edwards, May 6, 1852, res. Wisconsin.
v. LUCRETIA-DAY, b. Jany. 27, 1835, m. John M. Edwards, res. Wisconsin.
DADMAN.
DADMAN Samuel3, son of Samuel2 and Lois (Pratt) Dadman, married at Framingham, Oct. 1787, Dorcas Stone, died in Templeton, 1821. He was a cloth dresser, and had a mill in the southeast part of the town, near Sterling. He lost one child in Princeton by choking with a head of herds grass. Children:
i. BETTY-STONE, b. Aug. I, 1788.
ii. DORCAS, b. Feby. 7, 1791.
iii. SAMUEL, b. June 16, 1793.
iv. JOHN, b. Sept. 28, 1795.
v. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 8, 1798.
DANA.
RICHARD1 DANA the progenitor of the Dana Family in America was a French Protestant, who, by the way of England came to this country about 1640, and had his large estate in what is now the center of Brighton, then and until 1807, a part of the town of Cambridge. He died there by a fall in his barn, April 2, 1690. He married, 164-, Ann Bullard in Cambridge, they had four daughters and seven sons, of whom the seventh child, and sixth son, was Benjamin Dana2, who married Mary Buckminster. Benjamin3 Jr. married Anna Francis and had a son John4 who married Abigail Smith.
DANA Capt .- John5 (John4, Benjamin3, Benjamin2, Richard1), son of John4 and Abigail (Smith) Dana, born May 25, 1756, came from Brighton to Princeton about January 1781 and with Andrew Whitney bought land in letter B, 1782, of Eben Jones, also " a pew in the M.H. the 2ª east from the pulpit." Sub- sequently he bought on the Rutland Road, the farm now owned by James G. Meaney. Married April 3, 1791, Lucinda Mirick, who died Dec. 7, 1834. He died July II, 1818, making three of the family who died that year. Children:
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i. LUCINDA, b. March 14, 1792, d. Jany. 23, 1826.
ii. JOHN, b. Dec. 17, 1793, d. July 6, 1818.
iii. EUNICE-JONES, b. July 9, 1795, m. Jonathan Flagg and d. at Orange, Mass., Oct. 27, 1825.
1. iv. CALEB (CAPT.), b. Dec. 24, 1797, m. Laurenda Hartwell.
v. ELEANOR-B., b. May 18, 1800, d. Sept. 9, 1820.
vi. SALLY b. Aug. 19, 1802, m. April 18, 1826, Pynson Blake.
Twins d. Boston May 18, 1848.
vii. SOPHIA b. Aug. 19, 1802, d. Dec. 13, 1818.
1. DANA Capt .- Caleb6 (John5, John4, Benjamin3, Benjamin2, Richard1), son of the above John and Lucinda (Mirick) Dana, born Dec. 24, 1797, married March 21, 1821, Laurenda Hart- well. She died in Worcester, Aug. 21, 1882. He lived on his father's farm, was a surveyor and captain of an independent military Co. and active in the Congregational Church. In 1846 he moved to Worcester, Mass, where for many years he was the confidential clerk of Hon. Isaac Davis. He died Worcester, March 5, 1871. Their children were:
i. SARAH-SOPHIA, b. Feb. 19, 1822, d. Sept. 27, 1843.
ii. JOHN-ADAMS, b. March 10, 1823, graduate of Yale 1844, Lawyer in Worcester, Assistant Clerk of Courts 1864-76, and Clerk of Courts 1876-81, m. Nov. 26, 1860, Mrs. Eliza Henshaw Bates Smith. She d. March 19, 1900. He d. Sept. 6, 1900. One dau. MARTHA HENSHAW b. Sept. 11, 1862. d. in infancy. The three sons of Mrs. Smith, Alfred Fuller Smith, Charles Henshaw Smith and Isaac Chapman Bates Smith, assumed the name of Dana.
iii. MARY-LOUISA, b. April 14, 1825, Worcester, d. May 1, 1900.
DANA John-Trowbridge5 (Richard4, Thomas3, Daniel2, Richard1), son of Richard4 and Mary (Trowbridge) Dana of Newton, Mass., born May 18, 1768. Richard4 Dana born Aug. 6, 1735, married August, 1763, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Jemima (Bright) Trowbridge. Richard died in the Revolu- tionary Army of smallpox, 1776. His widow Mary born in New- ton, July 5, 1743, married (2ª) Josiah Fuller of Newton in 1778, and died in Princeton Aug. 24, 1800. John Trowbridge Dana married Rebecca Gill born in Princeton Dec. 17, 1782, daughter of John and Hannah Gill. She died in Princeton April 26, 1802 and he Oct. 15, 1802, ae. 34. No issue. Mr. Dana was for several years a store keeper near Russell's Corner, in Princeton.
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DANFORTH.
DANFORTH Nathan, born April 15, 1811, in Boston, came to Princeton when a boy, to live with Captain Benjamin Har- · rington; he married Jan. 8, 1836, Harriet E. Eveleth, who was born Mar. 23, 1809. He died in 1881, ae. 73. She died Nov. 2, 1889. Their children were:
i. ELLEN-MARIA, b. Oct. 29, 1836, d. May, 1907, ae. 70.
ii. HORACE-BLAKE, b. Nov. 17, 1837, d. Sept. 12, 19II.
iii. BENJAMIN-NATHAN, b. Mar. 30, 1839.
iv. CHARLOTTE-EUGENIA, b. Aug. 4, 1840.
v. CHARLES-ALBERT, b. Apr. 30, 1842.
vi. THEODORE-WHITING, b. Jan. 13, 1844.
DARLING.
DARLING Elijah, born at Grantham, N. H., 1792, married Dec. 3, 1818, Mary or Betsey Cheever. She (" Polly " in C.R.) died Aug. 5, 1875, ae. 80, daughter of Daniel and Betsey (Keyes) Cheever. He worked for the Boylstons coming to Princeton in 1817, was taxed 1819, rem. in 1818 to Roxbury but returned the following year and died in Princeton, July 2, 1868, ae. 76. His children were:
i. ABIGAIL, b. July 5, 1819, m. (Ist.) - Tyrrell, m. (2d.) John R. Miller.
ii. DARIUS, b. May 11, 1821, m. Emily Darling, d. Sept. 13, 1884.
iii. GEORGE, b. - , 1823, m. (I) Caroline Howe, m. (2) Abigail Holden, sister of Benjamin, res. Boston. She d. Jany. 18, 1886, ae. 65.
iv. JOHN-L., b. 1825, d. Oct. 7, 1875 in Somerville, ae. 48-9.
v. MARY-E., b. March 16, 1830, m. Elijah L. Kennan.
vi. VIOLA-H., b. May -, 1832, m. William Parmenter.
vii. MYRA-W., b. May 24, 1842, m. Andrew W. Lilly.
DAVIDSON.
DAVIDSON Brigham of Auburn, Mass., married (Ist) Olive Eliza Newton, Sept. 1840. She died Nov. 20, 1840. He mar- ried (2nd) Lydia M. Gregory, Sept. 1, 1841. She died Aug. 24, 1843. He married (3rd) Elmira Gregory, Jan. I, 1845. She died Oct. 1, 1861. He married (4th) Almira Wheelock of Barre, Dec. 31, 1862. She died Nov. 18, 1895 in Barre. He died in Barre, Mass., Oct. II, 1889. Children:
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