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(2.) Esther Ann, b. at Shirley, May 28, 1827, m. Seth R. Hol- den of Shirley, Jan. 1, 1852, r. Shirley (1882).
2. EDMUND, b. at Shirley, Nov., 1804, m. Eunice Page of Shirley, April 10, 1828. He has had two children :
. (I.) Mary Ann, b. Feb. 10, 1830, d. Oct. 31, 1851.
(2.) E. Adolphus, b. Jan. 11, 1834, m. Amanda Cowdrey of Lunenburg, May 8, 1855, r. Shirley (1882). He has had three children : 1. "Frederick Henry," b. Oct. 2, 1855 ; 2. " Lizzie Caroline," b. at Shirley, June 2, 1861 ; 3. "Lillian," b. May 28, 1864.
3. MOSES, b. at Shirley, Jan. 7, 1807, m. Elizabeth A. Dwight, April 11, 1830, d. June 28, 1875. He had three children :
(1.) Henry, b. Dec. 10, 1834. He has been twice m., (first) to Elizabeth Tasker, Oct. 10, 1858 ; she d. Aug. 25, 1872; he m. (second) Sarah A. Lewis, March 1, 1873 ; he has had one child : 1. "Harry Dwight," b. at Acton, Oct. 30, 1876.
(2.) Lydia, b. April 10, 1837, m. William Tyler, Jan. 8, 1857, d. at Leominster, 1880. She had seven children : I. "Nelly F.," b. at Minora, Minn., Jan. 23, 1858 ; 2. "Franklin," b. at Minora, Feb. 8, 1859, d. Feb. 11, 1867 ; 3. "Benjamin," b. Jan. 24, 1863, d. at Milwaukie, Wis., Jan. 8, 1870 ; 4. "Alice," b. at Milwaukie, June 24, 1866, d .; 5. "Sherman L.," b. at Milwaukie, Feb. 24, 1868 ; 6. " William," b. at Leominster, Nov. 24, 1873, d .; 7. "Emma," b. at Leominster, Feb. 20, 1875. (3.) Edgar Alonzo, b. at Shirley, Feb. 4, 1839, m. Lucy Ann Richardson of Townsend, May 29, 1872, r. Shirley (1882).
4. JOEL, b. at Shirley, March 8, 1809, d. Nov. 18, 1812.
5. CAROLINE, b. at Shirley, May 25, 1811, m. Luther Lawton of Shirley, pub. Jan. 28, 1839, d. at Malden, Jan. 29, 1865.
6. ABIJAH, b. at Shirley, May 7, 1813. He has been twice m., (first) to Sarah Bartlett ; m. (second) Mrs. Sarah Ann Brown ; he had three children, d. Feb., 1877.
(1.) Anna Burr. (2.) Susan Brooks. (3.) Gertrude.
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7. PHENA, b. at Shirley, March 26, 1815, d. March 27, 1815.
8. DAVID, b. at Shirley, Sept. 15, 1816, m. Barbara W. Greenlow, Dec. 15, 1844, r. Boston (1877). He has had three children :
(1.) David A. B., b. at East Boston, Nov. 23, 1845.
(2.) John Q. A., b. at East Boston, March 2, 1847.
(3.) Ivory H, b. at East Boston, July 28, 1848, d. Jan. 2, 1851.
9. BENJAMIN, b. at Shirley, March 6, 1820, d. at Lowell, Feb. I, 186I.
10. SARAH, b. at Shirley, m. William Eastman of Concord, N. H.
II. JONAS LONGLEY, b. at Shirley, Oct. 27, 1782, m. Abigail Kemp, lived at Charlestown, and d. there Sept. 4, 1862. He had three children :
1. JONAS L., b. Nov. 7, 1807, d. Feb. 22, 1808.
He had, also, two daughters who grew up to womanhood and mar- 4 ried. The eldest married a sailor by the name of Smith, and boarded in her father's family, while her husband pursued his vocation upon the ocean. Between his visits home there were long intervals, and his visits were generally brief. On his final return from his wanderings he became the victim of poison, self-administered. There were several children belonging to this eldest daughter, one of whom-Josephine-was fitted for, and became a teacher in a public school. Another-Charles- had a position in a Boston bank.
The other daughter of J. L. Jennerson married Robert Kitcher, a barber, of Boston, and had two children. She was then sepa- rated from her husband, who went to reside at St. Louis, and she became a resident of New York.
III. ASA, b. at Shirley, March 19, 1785, m. Caroline Dean, became a sailor, and was lost at sea, as was supposed.
IV. THOMAS, b. at Shirley, Feb. 2, 1788, m. Maria Dickson of Groton, pub. Jan. 2, 1814, d. at Townsend, April, 1865. He had eight children :
1. ANNA MARIA, b. Jan. 12, 1816, d. April 4, 1816.
2. WALTER DICKSON, b. at Shirley, Feb. 6, 1820, m. Mrs. Fanny (Adams) Tenney of Townsend, June, 1849, and had children.
3. ANNA TUFTS, b. at Shirley, Oct. 31, 1823, m. William Henry Spear, June 17, 1852.
4. MARTHA MARIA, b. at Shirley, Sept. 11, 1825, d. Feb. 19, 1827.
5. JONAS LONGLEY, b. at Shirley, March 4, 1828, m. Nancy Louisa Adams, April 6, 1850.
6. CHARLES THOMAS, b. at Shirley, Sept. 20, 1830.
7. JANE LITTLE, b. at Shirley, May 9, 1833.
8. GEORGE HARRISON, b. at Shirley, Aug. 2, 1840.
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V. SARAH, b. at Shirley, Oct. 8, 1790, m. Dennis H. Page of Shirley, July 11, 1807, d. at Shirley, Feb. 17, 1862.
VI. EDMUND, b. at Shirley, June 28, 1795, d. at Townsend, April 13, 1865, unm.
VII. POLLY PHELPS, b. at Shirley, July 4, 1798, m. Oliver Law- ton of Shirley, Feb. 20, 1829, d. April 13, 1849.
JUPP.
Jupp, John, was an Englishman by birth, and a soldier of the British army that came here to enforce colonial obedience. He was connected with the military department under Governor Gage at Boston, previous to the outbreak of the American Revolution. He deserted from the service of the king and found his way to Shirley, which became his home for life. He was one of the eighty volun- teers called out by the alarm of April 19th, 1775. He afterward enlisted for three years, and is credited on the rolls at the state house as having served thirty-three months and twenty-two days. He married Mary Symonds of Shirley, pub. Nov. 12, 1774. Owing to the severities he endured in the discharge of his military duties, he sickened, and died in 1780.
He owned a small farming estate, situated near the center of the town, which was his home during the six years of his married life, and where his widow lived until her second marriage. His house was located on land owned at present by Seth Chandler, and stood about twenty rods westerly from the dwelling of said Chandler. He had one child :
I. MARY, b. at Shirley, Sept. 26, 1775, d. Jan. 5, 1871, unm. She had one child :
1. SUMNER HARTWELL, b. at Shirley, May 24, 1805, r. Shirley, unm. (1882.)
Mary, the widow of John Jupp, m. Nathan Smith for her second husband, in 1785, and resided at his home, in the Mulpus valley, until his death, when she purchased the farm now (1882) owned by her grandson, Sumner Hartwell, where she died Dec. 14, 1826.
KELLEY.
Rellen, Morris, became a resident of Shirley, at or immedi- ately before the war of the Revolution, and served as a soldier in that war, from Shirley, for over three years. He married Relief Haskell, pub. June 24, 1780 ; she was a daughter of Captain Henry Haskell, who commanded the Shirley volunteers called out by the alarm of April 19, 1775. There is no known record of Mr. Kelley's removal
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from town, or whither he went ; but the births of nine children have found a place of record, and are here given :
I. WILLIAM, b. Feb. 12, 1782, d. Oct. 4, 1814.
II. JOHN, b. Nov., 1784, d. Oct., 1814.
' III. REBECCA, b. July 11, 1786.
IV. RELIEF, b. Feb. 26, 1788 ..
V. JAMES, b. Dec. 27, 1789.
VI. ELEANOR, b. Oct. 20, 1791.
VII. MERCY, b. March 8, 1795.
VIII. DEXTER, b. March 7, 1797, d. Oct., 1836.
IX. HULDAH, b. July 31, 1799.
KELSEY.
The first of this name known in New England was William Kelsey, who was settled at Cambridge as early as 1632, and who probably immigrated to America in 1630. He had a wife, one son, and per- haps more children, while in Cambridge. In 1636, Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Cambridge, removed, with his congre- gation,-consisting of one hundred souls,-to the banks of the Con- necticut river, and settled what is now the city of Hartford. Mr. Kelsey was one of the followers of Hooker, and became a resident of the new colony while comparatively a young man. He had two sons and one daughter born at Hartford, and perhaps more. In 1663 he removed from Hartford to Killingworth, where he probably died. It is safe to presume that from this family was descended
Relsen, John, who lived at Harvard at an early period of the last century, but who came to Shirley sometime before the outbreak of the war of the Revolution, and settled on the estate now best known as the Balch farm, situated in a south-easterly part of the town. He was one of the petitioners that the town might be sepa- rated from Groton, in 1747. He m. Martha McFarland, and d. at Shirley, March 1, 1780. His wife died. Jan. 22, 1774. They had three children :
I. JOHN, JR., b. June 3, 1743, m. Molly Park of Groton, Aug. 29, 1770, d. at Shirley, Nov. 3, 1822. His widow d. Jan. 24, 1825. Mr. Kelsey possessed a cultivation of intellect far above an average of his time, and his merits were understood and appreciated by his fellow citizens of the town and vicinity ; hence he had frequent calls to prepare legal instruments, such as wills, deeds, etc., on account of the scarcity of persons adapted to such performances. He was much respected in town for his moral worth, Christian
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observances, and public ability. He was one of the selectmen of the town in 1786, and was town clerk in 1784 and 1786. At one period he commanded the town militia, which gave him a military title for life ; and such was his physical bearing that he might have been a commander of armies. He was a volunteer in Captain Haskell's company, raised on the alarm of the 19th of April, 1775, and was one of its corporals ; he also acted as sergeant in Captain Longley's company during a service of eight months the same year. He had eleven children :
1. JOHN, b. at Harvard, Oct. 16, 1770, m. Betsey King of Little- ton, pub. March 17, 1799, d. Dec., 1835 ; his widow d. March 6, 1850.
2. SARAH, b. at Shirley, Feb. 17, 1772, d. at Rockingham, Vt., Nov. 20, 1859, unm.
3. DANIEL, b. at Shirley, Feb. 15, 1774, m. Sarah Ordway of Fitchburg, 1810, d. July 26, 1821 ; his widow d. May 31, 1847. They had three children :
(1.) Albert, b. at Shirley, Oct. 30, 1811, m. Charlotte Upton of Fitchburg, March 2, 1837, r. Cambridge (1882) ; he has had two children : I. "Albert Warren," b. at Boston, Oct. 30, 1840, m. Jeannette G. Washburn, daughter of Governor Cad- wallader C. Washburn, of Lacrosse, Wis., June 23, 1869. They have had seven children : 1. Albert, b. at St. Louis, Mo., April 26, 1870 ; 2. Jeannette, b. at St. Louis, Nov. I, 1871, d. Aug. 3, 1872, at Madison, Wis .; 3. Charlotte, b. at Madison, Oct. 28, 1873 ; 4. Kate, b. at Madison, April 23, 1875 ; 5. Mary, b. at St. Louis, June 15, 1877 ; 6. Mabel, b. at Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 16, 1878 ; 7. Cadwallader, b. at Clarens-Monsreux, Switzerland, July 30, 1880. 2. "Char- lotte Lucena," b. at Boston, June 15, 1847, m. Joseph D. Estabrook of Belmont, June 16, 1869 ; he was b. at Holden, Mass., Jan. 24, 1845 ; they had four children : I. Harold Kelsey, b. at Cambridge, Oct. 21, 1870 ; 2. Robert Joseph, b. at Cambridge, Feb. 8, 1873 ; 3. Rena, b. at Cambridge, Jan. 12, 1877 ; 4. Albert Walter, b. at Cambridge, Nov. 20, 1878.
(2.) Artemas, b. at Shirley, Oct. 15, 1813, m. Abigail Marshall Barnard of New Boston, N. H., July 13, 1843, r. Nashua, N. H. (1882.) He has had two children : 1. "Frederick," b. at Nashua, Sept. 27, 1844; 2. "James Barnard," b. at Oxford, N. H., June 20, 1852, d. at Nashua, Jan. 8, 1863.
(3.) Aaron Ames, b. at Shirley, March 5, 1816. He has been twice m., (first) to Adeline Willard of Fitchburg, 1838 ; she d. Dec., 1849 ; m. (second) Mrs. Sarah Wheeler Whitney of Lincoln, 1851 ; he d. at Concord, Mass., Aug. 16, 1855.
4. MARY, b. at Shirley, April 14, 1776, m. Jonas Livermore of Shirley, d. at Marietta, Ohio, July 22, 1823.
5. LYDIA, b. at Shirley, March 5, 1778, m. Daniel Wilder of
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Lancaster, April 28, 1802, d. July 17, 1826; she had two children :
(1.) Daniel K., b. at Lancaster, Jan. 22, 1807, m. Mary M. Andrews, Aug. 7, 1838.
(2 ) Joel.
€. LUCY, b. at Shirley, March 5, 1778, m. Silas Dickerson of Keene, N. H., Feb. 21, 1801 ; she lived at Rockingham, Vt., and d. there June 29, 1867. She had five children :
(I.) Dexter, b. at Keene, 1803, m. Eliza Dickerson of Boston, d. at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1848. He was a soldier in the war with Mexico.
(2.) Persis Wheeler, b. at Rockingham, May 14, 1809, m. Waldo A. Evans of Rockingham, and d. April 15, 1830. She had one child : I. "Persis W.," b. March 30, 1830, m. David Bond Livermore of Shirley, June 15, 1850, r. Rockingham (1877).
(3.) Emily, b. at Rockingham, June 2, 1812; she has been twice m., (first) to George S. Willard of Rockingham. He was a soldier in the Florida war, and d. in that war. She m. (second) Henry May of Westminster, Vt., and d. in that town, Feb. 15, 1866.
(4.) Almira, b. at Rockingham, April 25, 1814, m. William S. Barry of Rockingham, Jan. 31, 1839; she has had five children : 1. "James W.," b. Nov. 17, 1839 ; 2. "John C.," b. May 23, 1845 ; 3. "William Walter," b. Feb. 3, 1848 ; 4. "Mary Almira," b. Dec. 30, 1851 ; 5. "Daniel K.," b. March 13, 1854.
(5.) John K., b. at Rockingham, June, 1816, m. Emeline Weaver of Rockingham, and d. at Alstead, N. H., 1863.
7. LUCINDA, b. at Shirley, Aug. 21, 1780, m. David Livermore of Shirley, Sept. 28, 1800, d. at Shirley, Oct. 4, 1847.
8. JOSEPH, b. at Shirley, July 24, 1782, m. Lucy Lufkin of Free- port, Me., Dec. 28, 1805, d. of small pox, at Foxcroft., Ill., July 16, 1861 ; his widow d. in the same place and of the same malady, Aug. 9, 1861. They had nine children :
(I.) Joseph Lufkin, b. July, 1807 ; he was twice m., (first) to Ann Comstock of Port Huron, Mich., May, 1830; she d. in March, 1837 ; he m. (second) Maria A. Canfield, Sept., 1845, d. at Charleston, S. C., March 24, 1873.
(2.) Eliza D., b. at Freeport, Me., May 20, 1809, m. Edward J. Sturgis of Guilford, Me., May, 1831. She is a widow, and a resident of some part of California (1877).
(3.) Joshua William, b. at Freeport, Oct. 21, 1811, m. Louisa Robinson, Jan., 1846, and d. at Saxonville, Jan., 1870.
(4.) Mary Park, b. at Freeport, May 13, 1814, m. Jabez True of Guilford, Aug., 1833 ; she is a widow, r. Portland, Me. (1877.)
(5.) Susan Rachel, b. at Guilford, March 12, 1816, m. Josiah H. Mitchell of Freeport, Feb., 1837, d. Oct., 1866.
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(6.) Joel Wilder, b. Dec. 17, 1819 ; he was twice m., (first) to Abby S. Moulton of Foxcroft, Me., Jan. 20, 1844; she d. at Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 16, 1845 ; he m., (second) Mary Jane Rider of Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1849, r. Toledo (1877). (7.) Aaron Lufkin, b. at Guilford, July 17, 1823, m. Helen McLawton of Toledo, Oct., 1854, r. Toledo (1877).
(8.) John William, b. July 8, 1825, m. Dorcas Edes of Guil- ford, March 28, 1852, r. Guilford (1877).
(9.) Priscilla Hyde, b. at Guilford, June 24, 1828, m. Edwin McHenry, Oct. 1, 1849, r. Cambridge (1877).
9. EUROPE, b. at Shirley, Jan. 3, 1785 ; he was thrice m., (first) to Desire Carter, 1815; (second) to Phebe Dunkam, 1819; (third) to Mary Soule. He left Shirley in 1804, and went to Freeport, Me., with his younger brother, Joel, and d. there, June, 1878 ; he had three children :
(1.) Albert W., b. 1817.
(2.) Hiram, b. at Freeport, 1823, d. 1856.
(3.) Elbridge S., b. at Freeport.
10. BETSEY, b. at Shirley, Oct. 27, 1787. She passed a life of retirement and solitude, yet set a worthy example of industry and neatness. She was a professor of religion, and adorned that profession by a well-ordered conduct. She d. at Shirley, June 8, 1874, unm.
11. JOEL, b. at Shirley, Nov. 16, 1789, m. Susan Lufkin of Free- port, 1818, and d. at Eastport, 1874. He had one child : (1.) John L., b. at Freeport, 1822, r. Freeport (1877).
II. MARTHA, b. at Harvard, m. George Conn of Harvard, pub. Nov. 24, 1770.
III. BETSEY, b. at Harvard. She was twice m., (first) to Peleg Crooker of Harvard, pub. April 4, 1778 ; m. (second) James Hill of Stoneham, Dec. 16, 1790. She d. March 21, 1839.
KENDALL.
Persons of this name have not been numerous in Shirley and vicinity. There has been but a single family resident here, viz. :
Rendall, Enoch. He was b. in 1766, m. Lydia -, who was b. in 1770. They came to town near the close of the last cen- tury, probably at the time of, or soon after their marriage ; owned and lived on the farm afterward the estate of Simon Page, but now the property of the heirs of the late Porter Kittridge. He was one of the first who cultivated hops in town, and one of the most suc- cessful who engaged in that cultivation. He d. at Shirley, Oct. 18, 1832. His widow d. July 18, 1842. They had two children b. and d. in Shirley.
I. JAMES, b. Sept., 1800, d. Feb. 21, 1801.
II. SALLY, b. Aug., 1812, d. Oct. 14, 1818.
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KEZER.
This is the orthography of the name received by the family entered upon this registry. It is, however, spelled Kezor, Keser, Kezar. According to Durrie's Index, Kezar is the spelling used in Canada, and the name is of very infrequent occurrence in the States.
Rezer, Moses, was b. 1710. He was twice m., (first) to Sarah , who was b. 1714 ; she d. June 6, 1766, and he m. (second) Lois Lamson of Pepperell, pub. Oct. 26, 1776. He was an early settler in the town, and was located in a northern section of it, on the farm now the property of William O'Meely. His children received it by inheritance, but it passed out of the family after the second generation. He d. May 7, 1778. He had five children :
I. A DAUGHTER, concerning whose name, birth, marriage and death, both record and tradition are silent.
II. NATHANIEL, b. Nov. 29, 1748, m. Harriet Morse, and had five children, all b. at Shirley.
1. NATHANIEL. 2. LUTHER.
3. HANNAH, m. Thomas Dodge, July 1, 1799.
4. MARY. 5. SARAH.
III. JONATHAN, b. Jan. 9, 1750. He was twice m., (first) to Abigail Snow ; she d. March, 1776 ; he m. (second) Bathsheba Alexander of Boston. She was a sister of the then proprietor of the "Lamb Tavern," (which now bears the name of "Adams House.") She passed her life in Shirley, and d. Feb. 12, 1825. He d. in 1829, at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Fuller, who lived in the house now occupied by Dexter B. Crosbee. He had eleven children :
1. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 19, 1776, d. at sea.
2. DANIEL, b. at Groton, Oct. 31, 1779, m. Dolly Nutting of Pep- perell, March 7, 1805, lived and d. in Shirley, d. Dec. 3, 1850. His widow d. March 27, 1870. They had six children :
(1.) Betsey, b. March 4, 1804, m. David Messer of Lunenburg, Feb. 11, 1836; she has had two children, r. Boylston, a widow (1882). I. "Cynthia," b. at Shirley, May 8, 1836, m. Theodore Hazard, a man of color, Nov., 1856, r. Boylston (1882), has had six children : I. George, b. Dec. 2, 1857 ; 2. Melissa, b. Dec. 5, 1859, d. Jan., 1860 ; 3. Franklin, b. May 7, 1861, d. May, 1865 ; 4. Frank, b. July 7, 1866 ; 5. Alpheus, b. May 12, 1869 ; 6. Willie, b. Nov. 12, 1871. 2. "Eme- line," b. at Shirley, Feb. 11, 1839, m. Oliver Hazard, also a man of color, r. Boylston (1882) ; she has had five children : I. Orissa Shipley, b. Jan. 28, 1858 ; 2. Francena, b. July 4, 1859 ; 3. Ida Lucretia Shipley, b. Dec. 31, 1861, d. Dec. 31, 1863 ; 4. Alfred O., b. Feb. 21, 1868; 5. George Albert, b. April 27, 1872, d. Aug. 10, 1873.
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(2.) Abigail, b. at Pepperell, Dec. 6, 1806. She was adopted by strangers, while yet a child, and carried to some town in Vermont, where she married Sheldon ; she d. before she had passed the period of middle life.
(3.) Fidelia, b. at Pepperell, Oct. 21, 1808 ; she has been twice m., (first) to Jonathan Messer of Lunenburg, Nov. 4, 1833 ; he d., and she m., (second) Henry Brannum of Groton ; she has had seven children, and is in her second widowhood, r. Pepperell (1877) ; her children : 1. "Jonathan," b. at Lunen- burg, and d. there Nov. 23, 1843 ; 2. "Sarah E.," b. at Lun- enburg, Feb. 4, 1835 ; 3. "Nancy," b. and d. at Lunenburg ; 4. "Mary A.," b. at Shirley, Nov. 24, 1840, d. Nov. 18, 1854; 5. "Eliza," b. at Shirley, and d. at Lunenburg ; 6. " Walter," b. at Townsend, Aug. 31, 1846 ; 7. " Lizzie A.," b. at Pepperell, Dec. 24, 1856.
(4.) Sybil, b. at Pepperell, Jan. 24, 1810, m. William Bolton of Shirley, Oct. 31, 1830.
(5.) Charles, b. at Pepperell, July 5, 1814, m. Lucy Holden of Shirley, Oct. 20, 1835. He had one child b. at Shirley, 1836, that d. in infancy. He removed to Swanzey, N. H., where he is supposed to r. now, if living ( 1882).
(6.) George, b. at Pepperell, Oct. 28, 1816, d. at Shirley, of small pox, Dec. 9, 1849, unm.
3. GILES, b. at Groton, July 13, 1781, m. Abigail Woodbury of Beverly, April 1, 1805, d. at Groton, Nov. 8, 1856. He had five children :
(I.) Joanna, b. at Groton, Aug. 21, 1805, m. William Neat, July 4, 1831 ; she resides at Shirley, is a widow (1882), and has had six children : I. "William Ruggles," b. June 1, 1833, d. Sept. 18, 1836 ; 2. " Hannah," b. Dec. 21, 1834, m. Charles Otis Adams, of Shirley, May 12, 1859, d. at Shirley, July 25, 1860 ; 3. "William," b. Jan. 16, 1839, r. Shirley, unm. (1882) ; 4. "Joel Cushing," b. Jan. 1, 1843 ; 5. "John," b. May 25, 1844 ; 6. " Mary Ann Victoria," b. Jan. 29, 1846. (2.) Giles Alexander, b. at Groton, May 21, 1813, m. Mary Butters of Waltham, r. Groton (1877).
(3.) Mary Adeline, b. at Groton, Oct. 3, 1815, m. Charles Em- erson of Waltham, 1840, r. Cambridgeport (1877) ; she has had two children : I. "Charles," b. May 5, 1841; 2. " Addie," b. Feb. 12, 1843.
(4.) Louisa, b. at Groton, Dec. 2, 1817, m. Augustus E. Smith of Natick, 1841, d. March 10, 1872 ; she had four children :
I. " Frances," b. Jan. 26, 1843, d. July 23, 1862 ; 2. " George," b. March 24, 1844 ; 3. "Edwin A.," b. May 2, 1845 ; 4. "Emma," b. June 28, 1848, m. Charles Evans, r. Chester, Vt.
(5.) William Loring, b. at Groton, May 11, 1820, r. Groton (1882). He has been twice m., (first) to Martha Stebbins of Groton, Nov. 7, 1860; she d. at Groton, Oct. 14, 1870 ; m. (second) Mary Blanchard of Shirley, Nov. 23, 1871 ; he has had one child : I. " William Blanchard," b. at Groton, March 25, 1878.
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4. WILLIAM, b. at Shirley, 1782, d. young.
5. MARY, b. at Groton, Sept. 16, 1783 ; she was thrice m., (first) to Simon Holden of Shirley, Nov. 11, 1804; he d. June 9, 1805 ; she m. (second) David Fuller, Oct. 12, 1811 ; he d. in 1823 ; she m. (third) Samuel Patch ; he d. May 28, 1869 ; she d. Dec. 7, 1875. During the last three years of her life she was bereft of the senses of taste, seeing and hearing. In this pitiable state she was under the nurse and care of her only daughter (Mrs. Crosbee), who piously attended her unto the end. She d. in the same house from which her father had been carried to the grave, to whose last years she imparted the same ministry of love which she received at the hand of a succeeding generation. She had five children :
(1.) Luther, b. July 12, 1812 ; he was thrice m., (first) to Har- riet Holden of Shirley, May 3, 1836 ; she d. May 19, 1852 ; he m. (second) Mrs. Mary M. Jewett, April II, 1856; m. (third) Mrs. Nancy Fairherst of New Ipswich, N. H., March 24, 1867, r. New Ipswich (1877). He has had seven chil- dren : I. "Harriet E.," b. at Fitchburg, Jan. 28, 1837, m. Ripley, d. May 27, 1867; 2. "George Luther Hol- den," b. at Fitchburg, Jan 24, 1838; 3. "Charles," b. at Fitchburg, Nov. 29, 1839, d. at Lunenburg, Oct. 9, 1849 ; 4. "Albert," b. at Fitchburg, June 1, 1843 ; he has been twice m., (first) to Harriet Caruth, March 4, 1868 ; she d. March 28, 1868; he m. (second) Mary E. Walker of Burlington, Dec. 26, 1868, r. Shirley (1877); 5. "Dexter Crosbee," b. at Lunenburg, Sept. 23, 1848 ; 6. "Simon Holden," b. at Lun- enburg, Nov. 14, 1850 ; 7. "Charles," b. at Lunenburg, May 18, 1852.
(2.) Nathaniel E., b. at Shirley, Jan. 21, 1814, d. Sept. 14, 1818.
(3.) George Washington, b. at Shirley, Dec. 12, 1816, d. Sept. 16, 1818.
(4.) Moses, b. at Shirley, Sept. 28, 1817, m. Lucy B. Tenney of New Ipswich, April, 1839, r. Westford (1877).
(5.) Hannah, b. at Shirley, Aug. 4, 1820, m. Dexter B. Crosbee of Smithfield, R. I., Nov. 6, 1838, r. Shirley (1882).
6. ABIGAIL, b. at Groton, d. young, being drowned in the Nashua river.
7. BETSEY, b. at Groton, Aug. 22, 1785. She was twice m., (first) to Simon Jenkins of Stoddard, N. H .; m. (second) Amos Fuller ; they r. at Providence, R. I., where she d. April 12, 1876.
8. HANNAH, b. at Shirley, July 25, 1788, m. Jonathan Burrage of Lunenburg, 1808 ; she is a widow, and has had seven children : (I.) Mary, b. at Lunenburg, July 31, 1809, r. Lunenburg, unm. (1882.)
(2.) John, b. at Lunenburg, May 3, 1814, m. Mary A. Kendall of Ashby, May 6, 1842, d. Jan. 23, 1848 ; he had three chil- dren : I. "Harriet A.," b. Jan. 31, 1844, m. Alfred Smith ; 2.
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"George F.," b. Feb., 1846; 3. "John W.," b. June 17, 1847, d. June 12, 1871.
(3.) Sarah Jackson, b. March 18, 1819, m. Asa Kilburn of Lunenburg, June 30, 1841 ; she is a widow, r. Lunenburg (1877). She has had five children, all b. at Lunenburg : I. " Ellen Frances," b. June 13, 1842 ; r. Lunenburg, unm. (1877); 2. "Lottie M.," b. Dec. 25, 1843, m. Curtis G. Morse of Leominster, May 22, 1867, r. Leominster (1877) ; 3. "Tryphena J.," b. July 4, 1849, m. Ambrose J. Shipton, of English birth, March 27, 1870; 4. "Frank G.," b. Jan. 6, 1854; 5. "Anna R.," b. Sept. 7, 1857.
(4.) Harriet, b. Oct. 25, 1821, r. Lunenburg, unm. (1877.)
(5.) Hannah, b. March 28, 1824, m. Samuel Lovering of Leominster, Dec. 25, 1851 ; he was mortally wounded May 6, 1864, in the battle of "the Wilderness," and died in hospital the 13th of the same month ; she died at Lunenburg, March 5, 1866 ; they had two children : I. "Ella F.," b. March 28, 1857 ; 2. "Addie E.," b. July 5, 1861, d. Jan., 1865.
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