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children : 1. "A Son," b. Aug. 16, 1848, d. Aug. 18, 1848. 2. " Lizzie A.," b. Sept. 1, 1850, d. Aug. 27, 1859. 3. "Mary E.," b. Jan. 3, 1852, m. George E. Kendall, Oct. 9, 1872, r. Worcester (1882) ; she has had two children : I. Gracia L., b. May 2, 1876 ; 2. Kate, b. July 2, 1878. 4. "Charles A.," b. June 25, 1856, r. Sandwich Islands, unm.
(6.) Sarah A., b. Jan. 22, 1831, d. Dec. 31, 1865, unm.
(7 Ellen S., b. May 19, 1834, m. C. A. Whitcomb of Leom- inster, Aug. 16, 1862, r. Leominster (1882).
7. SARAH, b. Sept. 22, 1798, m. Jonathan Kilburn of Lunenburg, Jan. 1, 1824. She had nine children, all b. at Shirley.
(I.) Martha, b. Dec. 26, 1825, m. Augustus Dyke of Shirley, June 26, 1862 ; she had two children, and d. at Ayer, Jan. 27, 1867. I. "Jenny Maria," b. at Shirley, April 12, 1863; 2. "Carrie Estella," b. at Ayer, Jan. 27, 1866.
(2.) George, b. Jan. 21, 1828, m. Lucy A. Lord, Jan. 3, 1860, r. Shirley (1882).
(3.) Joseph Albert, b. June 24, 1830, slain in battle, 1862, unm.
(4.) Sarah Jane, b. July 31, 1832, d. at Shirley, Jan. 25, 1859, unm.
(5.) Charles Edwin, b. Oct. 2, 1835, d. Dec. 11, 1882.
(6.) Cyrus Alden, b. March 9, 1837. He has been twice m., (first) to Maria L. Mitchell, Oct. 12, 1867; she d. Feb. 13, 1874 ; he m. (second) Mrs. Julia F. Tobey, April 18, 1875, r. Shirley (1882) ; he has two children : I. "Eva Maria," b. at Shirley, Sept. 4, 1868 ; 2. "Gracia Marion," b. at Shirley, Sept. 29, 1876.
(7.) Maria Elizabeth, b. March 17, 1839, m. George Billings of Lunenburg, Sept. 8, 1864 ; she d. Nov. 1, 1882 ; she had four children, all b. at Lunenburg : I. "George Alden," b. Nov. 24, 1867 ; 2. "Ida Maria," b. Jan. 16, 1870; 3. "Mary Amelia Longley," b. March 1, 1872 ; 4. "Arthur Pierce," b. May 8, 1875.
(8.) Lucy Angelina, b. July 7, 1843, m. Augustus Dyke, March 18, 1873, r. Worcester (1882).
(9.) David Pingree, b. July 10, 1847, r. Shirley (1880), unm.
8. SAMUEL, b. July 27, 1800, d. Aug. 10, 1820.
9. LUCY H., b. Oct. 10, 1802, m. Joseph Goodrich of Lunenburg, Dec. 6, 1825. She had seven children, and d. at Lunenburg, Oct. II, 1879 ; Mr. Goodrich d. May 20, 1881.
Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich possessed a home of natural richness and beauty. It was one that had been in the Goodrich family during the four Lucy El. Goodrich preceding gener- ations. Its soil, naturally fertile, had the advan-
tage of thorough cultivation at the hands of all its former occu- pants. It is productive of grass, grain, fruits, and indeed, well
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pays the cultivation of all those products that are grown on New England fields and Joseph Goodrich gardens. Such, too, is the altitude of the locality, that a salubrious and invigorating atmosphere is experienced at all seasons of the year. The buildings overlook a pleasant valley, at the bottom of which is a beautiful sheet of water, known as Masshapauge pond, but are, nevertheless, so far above this water as not to be incommoded by its damps and fogs. Here they lived, reared their family, and blessed their age by an example of industry and fidelity to duty. Their children, all b. at Lunenburg, were
(I.) Charles L., b. Sept. 7, 1831, d. Nov. 12, 1831.
(2.) Joseph Prescott, b. Aug. 24, 1832, d. July 13, 1859, unm.
(3.) Melora Frances, b. Oct. 3, 1834, m. Samuel Putnam of Leominster, Dec. 23, 1880, r. Leominster (1882).
(4.) Lewis Augustus, b. June 29, 1836, d. Jan. 6, 1865, unm.
(5.) Lucy Augusta; b. June 29, 1836, r. Lunenburg, unm. (1882).
(6.) George Edwin, b. Nov. 4, 1838, d. Sept. 2, 1847.
(7.) Mary Jane, b. Nov. 30, 1840, m. Charles G. Bigelow of Paxton, r. Leominster (1882). She has one child : I. "Nor- man G.," b. at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14, 1872.
VI. PHINEHAS, b. Aug. 27, 1764, m. Lydia Lowell of Millbury, June 3, 1804. He was a physician, and commenced the practice of his profession in his native town, but passed the most of his active life in Millbury, where he d. Jan. 4, 1831. He had one child :
1. ELVIRA, b. July 10, 1809, m. Rev. Willard M. Harding of Prov- incetown, Nov. 28, 1839 ; she is now a widow (1882).
VII. MIRIAM, b. April 24, 1767, m. Phinehas Holden of Shirley, Nov. 25, 1789, d. July 13, 181I.
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Longley, Joseph, son of Deacon John of Groton and Deb- orah (Houghton), his second wife, and half-brother of William, John and Jonas, who had previously become residents of Shirley. He (Joseph) was b. at Groton, Sept. 12, 1724, m. Mary Walker, and be- came an inhabitant of what is now Shirley, a few years before it was incorporated a town. He owned the farm which is now the home of William P. Wilbur, situated near the South Village. At the organiza- tion of the town, in 1753, he was appointed chairman of the board of selectmen, five in number, and was also chosen clerk of the town at the same meeting. He was four times elected to the first office, and was retained as clerk until 1758, when he entered his majesty's service, and was mortally wounded in the battle and defeat at Fort William. He d. at Greenbush, N. Y. He had seven children :
I. JOSEPH, b. at Groton, Aug. 6, 1744. He was twice m., (first) to Elizabeth Thayer, who d. Feb. 1, 1797 ; he m. (second) Lucy
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Shattuck, who d. May 20, 1834. He d. July 8, 1836. The fol- lowing obituary appeared in the Massachusetts Spy, Worcester, Aug. 24, 1836 :
"Died at Hawley, July 8, 1836, Mr. Joseph Longley, born at Groton, Mass., Aug. 6, 1744. He was a great-grandson to Wil- liam Longley, who, with a part of his family, were killed by the Indians, at Groton, in 1684,-grandson to John Longley, who was a captive five years in Canada,-and son to Joseph Longley, who was mortally wounded in the battle and defeat of Fort William, 1758.
"When he was sixteen years of age, he was in the French war one year, and helped to build the stone barracks at Crown Point, 1769. He was five years in the revolutionary war for indepen- dence ; in the first eight months, 1775 ; at Ticonderoga in 1776 ; at the capture of Burgoyne, 1777. In the December following, while in the van of one hundred volunteers, under Major Hull, pursuing a foraging party, eighty-two were cut off by the British cavalry, near Derby, deprived of their blankets, and put in prison at Philadelphia, where more than half died of cold, hunger and disease.
"In April, 1778, he, with others, were put on board a prison- ship for New York, where he was exchanged in July, and soon after joined his regiment and was in the battle that was fought in Rhode Island, and at that signal retreat under General Sullivan." He had five children, all b. at Shirley :
1. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 6, 1766, d. the same day.
2. JOHN, b. June 2, 1768, d. in Canada.
3. JOSEPH, b. May 9, 1770, m. Sally Parker of Pepperell, had eleven children, and d. at Rome, N. Y.
(1.) Fonas, b. at Hawley, Oct. 25, 1793, d. Sept. 14, 1794.
(2.) Sally, b. at Hawley, Aug. 28, 1795, d. Nov. 11, 1802.
(3.) Olive, b. at Hawley, May 22, 1797, d. Nov. 11, 1802.
(4.) Jonas Parker, b. at Hawley, June 27, 1799, m. Almira Crittenden, Dec. 5, 1819. Has had four children : 1. "Sally," b. Sept. 25, 1820 ; 2. "Olive," b. Sept. 5, 1822 ; 3. " Lyman," b. Aug. 30, 1824 ; 4. "Eliza," b. April 7, 1827.
., (5.) Lyman, b. March 14, 1801.
(6.) Olive, b. at Hawley, Jan. 20, 1803, m. Ira Holden, Oct. 7, 1828.
(7.) Calvin, b. at Hawley, Jan. 4, 1805.
(8.) Sally, b. May 5, 1806, m. C. W. Steward, Nov. 21, 1826, d. Jan. 12, 1876.
(9.) James Sullivan, b. at Hawley, March 4, 1808, m. S. Miles of Ashfield, Dec. 9, 1829. He has had three children : I. "Lewis," b. Dec. 24, 1830 ; 2. "Luther," b. April 14, 1832, d. May 14, 1832 ; 3. "Edwin," b. May 22, 1835.
(10.) Caroline, b. at Hawley, Sept. 24, 1810, m. I. T. Field, d. 1872.
(II.) Zachary, b. at Hawley, April 7, 1814, m. E. Kilbourn of Ashfield. He had one son, b. at Chester.
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4. ZIMRI, b. Jan. 8, 1772, m. Lucy Shattuck of Hawley, who d. July 31, 1805. He had three children :
(1.) Loren, b. at Hawley, March 22, 1794, m. Thankful Tripp, April 30, 1817. He had four children, all b. at Hawley : I. "Lucy," b. May 5, 1819 ; 2. "Elizabeth," b. April 28, 1821, d. July 8, 1822 ; 3. "Lorenzo," b. Oct. 14, 1824 ; 4. "Eliza- beth," b. April 30, 1826.
(2.) Daniel, b. Oct. 7, 1795, d. Oct. 9, 1795.
(3.) Elizabeth, b. June 2, 1797, d. Aug. 1, 1797.
5. MARY, b. March 2, 1773, m. Levi Holden of Langdon, N. H., d. Dec. 19, 1839.
II. EDMUND, b. at Groton, Nov. 11, 1746, m. Alice Lawrence of Pepperell, pub. Oct. 15, 1773; she was b. Sept. 13, 1749. The largest portion of his active life was passed in Hawley, and he d. there Nov. 29, 1842. His wife d. Feb. 21, 1842. As has been intimated, his father was an early settler in Shirley, and an organ- izer of the town, having removed there from Groton when Edmund was but two or three years of age. Edmund remained in Shirley until he was m. and had three children, when he took his pack upon his back and his axe upon his shoulder, and traveled into western Massachusetts. Here he located himself, on an estate which he had purchased in the wilderness, in what was subsequently a town corporation bearing the name of Hawley, and situated in what is now Franklin county. Having set up a log cabin, he returned to Shirley for his family, with whom he removed to his forest home, which has proved the abiding place of his posterity unto the present time.
He was tall, comely, and of a commanding aspect, well adapted to the position he held, that of a military colonel, and his appear- ance would mark him as one who could command armies as well as regiments. He was one of the eighty that volunteered at the call of April 19, 1775, and was one of the eight months men that were mustered the same year. He had eight children :
1. THOMAS, b. at Shirley, Sept. 4, 1774, m. Martha Ann Taylor of Buckland. He lived with his father at Hawley, and enjoyed a wide-spread reputation. In his boyhood he was-with the ex- ception of a few weeks-wholly deprived of the benefits of a public instruction ; but, knowing his wants, he became his own instructor, and no pupil could be placed in the care of a more devoted teacher. His geography, grammar, and, indeed, all the manuals of common-school acquirements, were his constant companions, when he could be for a moment released from physical labor. He was thus prepared for public trusts to which he was successively called in his town, county, and common- wealth. He was clerk of the town for several years, and was the representative of his townsmen in the state legislature at differ- ent times, and held that office at his death. He was a senator for the county of Franklin, and was a presidential elector in 1832 and 1836. For about twenty years he was in military life. He
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commanded a regiment in the war of 1812. Afterwards he was a brigadier-general. In all his military engagements he was never known to be behind time. He d. in 1848, as full of honors as of years. He had twelve children, all b. at Hawley : (I.) A Son, b. Sept. 11, 1805, d. Sept. 24, 1805.
(2.) Martha Ann, b. Sept. 30, 1806, d. Jan. 26, 1817.
(3.) Thomas Lawrence, b. Feb. 13, 1808, d. Jan. 4, 1821.
(4.) Alfred, b. Nov. 10, 1809, m. Julia M. Reed of Norton, Feb. 20, 1844. He has one child : I. "Charles Lawrence," b. at Hawley, May 29, 1845, r. Centre Framingham, Trumbull county, Ohio, and was for a time teacher and preacher (1879). (5.) Lucretia S., b. Oct. 4, 1811, m. Sedgwick Cooly.
(6.) Mary Ann, b. Nov. 10, 1813, m. Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, missionary to the Sioux Indians, Feb. 16, 1837 ; she d. while on her mission, and left two sons, ministers, and two daugh- ters, missionaries, who are yet in the Sioux country (1879).
(7.) Moses Maynard, b. June 14, 1815. In 1844 he took up a residence in Oberlin, Ohio, as a teacher.
(8.) Martha Ann, b. June 24, 1817, d. May 11, 1820.
(9.) Rhoda Olive, b. March 2, 1819, d. April 28, 1821.
(10.) Thomas Lawrence, b. Feb. 15, 1821, d. July 15, 1843. He was drowned in St. Peter's river, at Prairie des Sioux, where he had gone to aid his sister's husband, Rev. Mr. Riggs, in erecting a house, and to pass a year with his sister.
(II.) Joseph Grout, b. May 24, 1823. In 1844 he went to Stringsville, Ohio, as a religious teacher, and d. May 6, 1871. (12.) Henrietta Ann, b. July 12, 1826, d. Sept. 9, 1850.
2. OLIVE, b. at Shirley, Oct. 18, 1776, d. at Shirley, Jan. 22, 1778.
3. EDMUND, b. at Shirley, April 11, 1779, m. Olive Field of Haw- ley, 1805. Like others of his name and family, he took distinguished rank among his fellow-citizens. He held a military office, and many times represented the town in the legislature of the state. He d. Aug. 18, 1853. He had ten children, all b. at Hawley :
(I.) Edmund, b. Aug. 5, 1806, d. at Hawley, Oct. 28, 1829.
(2.) Calvin Cooley, b. Jan. 29, 1808, d. at Hawley, Nov. 17, 1825.
(3.) Elijah Field, b. May 13, 1810, m. Catharine Tolman of Cornelius, N. Y., and had two children : I. "Edmund," b. at Canandaigua, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1838 ; 2. "Calvin Elijah," b. at Hawley, Dec. 23, 1843.
(4.) Otis, b. June 19, 1812, m. G. Rebecca Mantor, Oct. 8, 1837, and had two children, both b. at Canandaigua : I. "Gratia C.," b. Jan. 6, 1839, d. Feb. 1, 1843 ; 2. "Angie K.," b. June 23, 1840. Mr. Longley was murdered in Lawrence, Kansas, Aug. 23, 1863, at the "Quantrell raid." His widow m. Samuel Williams of Hawley, June 4, 1866.
(5.) William Ferguson, b. Aug. 6, 1814, m. Lydia Bassett of Hawley.
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(6.) Freeman, b. Oct. 19, 1816, m. Millicent B. Ward of Hali- fax, Vt.
(7.) Wealthy Field, b. July 13, 1819, m. Franklin Howes of Hawley.
(8.) Abner T., b. Nov. 26, 1821.
(9.) Olive W., b. May 16, 1824.
(10.) Eliza H., b. Sept. 11, 1827.
4. OLIVE, b. June 28, 1781, m. Rev. Thomas H. Wood of Hali- fax, Vt., and d. there, March, 1817, leaving children.
5. RHODA, b. Oct. 20, 1783, d. Sept. 7, 1794.
6. LUTHER, b. Aug. 16, 1785, m. Harriet Shattuck of Hawley, Jan. 5, 1808 ; he d. June 12, 1832. He passed his life in Haw- ley, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and also received from his townsmen important official trusts. He was clerk of the town twenty-eight successive years, and for a quarter of a century he was post-master. His son-in-law, Edwin Scott, suc- ceeded Mr. Longley in the last-named office, and has held it for twenty-three years (1879), thus making it a family trust for almost half a century. Mr. Longley had nine children ; they were all b. at Hawley :
(1.) Calvin S., b. Nov. 29, 1809, m. Eliza Joy, Oct. 25, 1832. He had eight children : 1. "Ann Eliza," b. April 23, 1833, m. Edwin Scott, Sept. 10, 1854; she has had four children : I. George E., b. May 8, 1855, d. May 28, 1860 ; 2. Florence B., b. May 11, 1861 ; 3. Frank B., b. Sept. 10, 1865, d. Aug. 7, 1867 ; 4. Carrie L., b. Aug. 11, 1869. 2. "Sylvia Hawks," b. Sept. 30, 1835, m. J. H. Bassett, Sept. 8, 1859. 3. “Per- sis J.," b. Sept. 18, 1837, d. Dec. 20, 1837. 4. "A Son," b. April 19, 1839, d. same day. 5. "A Son," b. July 19, 1840, d. July 22, 1840. 6. "Carrie E.," b. Dec. 15, 1842, m. Na- thaniel Lamson, June 5, 1861, d. April 4, 1872. 7. "Julia H.," b. July 6, 1845. 8. "Flora A.," b. March 10, 1854, m. Nathaniel Lamson, Dec. 24, 1872.
(2.) Dan, b. March 25, 1812, d. March 27, 1812.
(3.) Luther, b. May 5, 1813, m. Elizabeth McDougal, 1842, d. April 1, 1875 ; he had one child : I. "Oscar E.," b. July 28, 1843.
(4.) Alice Lawrence, b. Aug. 13, 1815, d. June 3, 1862.
(5.) Harriet N., b. 1818, m. Melzor Hunt, June 25, 1856, d. Feb. 5, 1864.
(6.) Oliver S., b. July 23, 1820, m. Elizabeth Mickins, Nov. 26, 1844, d. March 11, 1876 ; he had three children : I. "Luther C.," b. May 12, 1849, d. Aug. 12, 1852 ; 2. "Sarah J.," b. Aug. 5, 1846, d. Feb. 20, 1878 ; 3. "Ella M.," b. May 16, 1854.
(7.) S. Newell, b. Feb. 7, 1823, m. Maria Bassett, Aug. 20, 1849 ; he had four children, and d. Dec. 4, 1864 : I. "Alice M.," b. Oct. 17, 1850, d. Dec. 15, 1872 ; 2. "Lizzie A.," b. Jan. 23, 1853, d. June 21, 1859 ; 3. "Abby L.," b. July 14, [855 ; 4. " Hattie L.," b. Jan. 17, 1860.
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(8.) R. Olivia, b. May 13, 1825, m. Uzal Bisbee, Oct. 6, 1842. She had four children : I. "Hattie L.," b. Jan. 8, 1846, d. Dec. 13, 1869 ; 2. "R. Alice," b. Aug. 9, 1849, d. March 3, 1879 ; 3. "Julia C.," b. May 3, 1856; 4. "Carrie L.," b. May 12, 1860.
(9.) Emily S., b. March 2, 1828.
7. JOSHUA, b. at Hawley, Aug, 26, 1787, m. Elizabeth Hawks of Charlemont, June 4, 1812. He d. Nov. 2, 1851 ; his widow d. 1862. Agricultural pursuits engaged his attention in early life, but at the age of twenty-four years he commenced a mercantile course, which he pursued for a quarter of a century. Like some of his ancestry he had a proclivity for military service, and was early led to accept of a command in that service. He event- ually became colonel of the regiment with which his town militia was connected. He removed from Hawley to Belchertown, Jan., 1838. He there held the office of post-master four years, an office that he had previously filled in his native town. He had ten children, all b. at Hawley :
(1.) Roswell Hawks, b. Feb. 27, 1813, d. Feb. 27, 1846, unm. . He was devoted to study, and worked hard during his boy- hood, that he might be early prepared for a college course. But a failure of health forced him to relinquish his long cher- ished plan. Yet he seemed happy only when he could be engaged in the study of some favorite branch of literature or science. And, notwithstanding his invalid state, he practised writing some and studied much, and had not ill-health cut short his prospects, he gave promise of distinguishment in whatever profession he might have chosen.
The town of Hawley forms a point of altitude above any other in Franklin county. It overlooks the beautiful valley of the Deerfield river, from which it is separated by a distance of about five miles, which space inclines from the Hawley heights to the bed of the river, forming a prospect grand and pictu- resque. While perambulating these heights and admiring this scenery in company with a friend, Mr. Longley was asked by his companion to write an acrostic which should spell the name of his native town. He responded in the following lines :
" Hung amid rocks and nature's battlements she stands, And toward high heaven she lifts her outstretched hands ; Waked by the eagle's cry, rocked by the stormy blast, Long may she proudly stand, to tell of ages past ; Earth hath no sturdier elms, no race of men more brave, Youth, age and beauty, there, but not one cringing slave." -
(2.) Henry Ashley, b. Jan. 5, 1814, m. Eliza O. Smith of Belch- ertown, Oct. 16, 1839. He has had two children : I. "Wil- lie Hide," b. Aug. 18, 1843, d. Sept. 13, 1852 ; 2. "S. Lizzie," b. June 24, 1846.
Mr. Longley left Hawley and settled at Belchertown in 1836, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he followed for
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twenty years. But he was one who could not escape official trusts if he would, and had no disposition to ignore duty, public or private, if he could. He was post-master four years, was clerk, treasurer and town tax-collector eleven years, and was a deputy sheriff ten years. He was appointed sheriff of the county of Hampshire in 1855, and has held that position until [1879]. He represented Belchertown in the lower de- partment of the state legislature in 1849, 1850, and in 1854; but his appointment to the office of county sheriff seemed to require that his residence should be in the shire-town, North- ampton, where he was commissioned to the charge of the jail and house of correction in the year 1861.
(3.) Sylvia Hawks, b. Aug. 27, 1815. She was for a time con- nected with a ladies' seminary at Philadelphia during early life, m. Lewis Bodman, Dec., 1837. She had one child that d. in infancy. She d. Oct. 22, 1838.
(4.) Olive Wood, b. July 29, 1817, d. April 22, 1820.
(5.) Joshua Grout, b. Aug. 27, 1819, was twice m., (first) to Delia Stacy, Oct. 1, 1846 ; she d. 1862 ; he m. (second) Maria D). Sakin, Nov. 22, 1871. He had five children : 1. "Jenny H.," b. June 2, 1850, d. Sept. 3, 1870 ; 2. "Herbert J.," b. Oct. 9, 1851 ; 3. "Kate," b. July, 1857; 4. "Hattie B.," b. June 3, 1862 ; 5. "Marion S.," b. Oct. 15, 1874. Mr. Long- ley was for a time a selectman in the town of Belchertown, and represented that town in the state legislature in 1864. He d. Jan. 20, 1874.
(6.) Samuel Worcester, b. May II, 1822. In early life he was apprenticed to a merchant in Charlemont during his minority, and afterward established himself in the same pursuit in Palmer. He, however, soon removed to Belchertown, where he d. July 9, 1882. He was appointed post-master during the Lincoln administration, and was for eighteen years deputy sheriff. He m. Delia L. Kingsbury of Williamsburg, 1846. He had five children : 1. "Ella J.," b. Nov. 6, 1847, d. Feb. 23, 1873; 2. "Eva J.," b. April 26, 1851, d. Jan. 30, 1874 ; 3. "George W.," b. June 8, 1855, r. Belchertown (1879) ; 4. "Susan L.," b. Jan. 26, 1857, d. Jan. 11, 1865 ; 5. "Julian," b. Nov. 23, 1864, d. Dec. 11, 1865.
(7.) Augustus Henry, b. Nov. 4, 1824, m. Julia Bartlett, June 29, 1853 ; she d. Sept. 15, 1855. He had one child : I. "Willie A.," b. April 21, 1854, d. Sept. 15, 1854.
(8.) Chalmers Payson, b. Jan. 30, 1827, m. Maria Shaw, who d. Aug. 15, 1875. He was for twenty years turnkey of the county jail, but retired from public life in 1877.
(9.) Elizabeth Brigham, b. Jan. 14, 1831, d.
(10.) Julia Aspatia, b. March 11, 1833, m. Edwin R. Bridgman, Oct. 26, 1852. She has had four children : 1. "Lizzie M.," b. Oct. 4, 1853, d. Oct. 4, 1854; 2. "Robert L.," b. Sept. 24, 1855 ; 3. "Gracie," b. May 6, 1862, d. Feb. 16, 1864 ; 4. " Bessie," b. Nov. 12, 1865.
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8. CALVIN, b. April 5, 1791, d. Sept. 11, 1794.
III. PHEBE, b. at Groton, Nov. 26, 1748.
IV. JOHN, b. at Groton, Feb. 17, 1750.
V. EUNICE, b. at Shirley, May 27, 1753.
VI. OLIVE; b. at Shirley, June 26, 1755, d. Jan. 8, 1857.
VII. OLIVE, b. at Shirley, Oct. 28, 1857.
LYON.
Lyon, Aaron, b. at Alstead, N. H., Aug. 11, 1781. His father and mother removed to that town from Grafton, Mass., soon after the birth of their eldest child, in the year 1769 or 1770. At this time the country was new, the roads but partially laid out,-and such as were established were designated by marked trees,-and deer, bears and wolves were still occupants of the forests. Mrs. Lyon assisted in planting the first orchard in Alstead, and the family remained there until they had four children, which constituted the entire household. Soon after the birth of the subject of this notice, the family returned to Massachusetts, and were favorably settled in Lancaster.
About this period, the Shakers, who had formed settlements at Shirley and Harvard, were in the enjoyment of their highest pros- perity. The Lyons, who had previously known something of these strange people, united with them in full communion, giving up their property, their children and themselves to the new order of things. In a short time, however, Mr. Lyon became weary of his Shaker life, and after having striven in vain to prevail on his wife to join him and go back to the world, left "the believers," and returned to Lancaster, where he remained until his death. The wife continued her con- nection with the Shakers until her death, which occurred March 27, 1843, in the ninety-second year of her age. The children had all followed their father's example and "returned to the world." The eldest three took up residences in Lancaster, while the youngest, the subject of this notice, became a resident of Shirley. This was not far from the commencement of the present century. He lived at first in the house which is the present residence of Rev. Eleazer Robbins. He was a carpenter by trade, and well understood the business of his craft ; but fortune did not favor his worldly efforts, which was his cause for seeking another field of operations. While he lived in town he built for his own use the house now owned and occupied by Mr. H. Brownson.
Aaron Lyon was twice m., (first) to Sally, daughter of John and Anna (Holden) Davis of Shirley, Aug. 1, 1802. She d. at Marietta, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1823. He m. (second) Elizabeth -, who d. at Marietta, Feb. 26, 1826. Mr. Lyon d. at Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1835. He had nine children.
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HISTORY OF SHIRLEY.
He left Shirley in 1814 or 1815, and became one of the colony that went from Shirley and settled in Marietta, Ohio. He, with his family and Mr. Zenas Davis, a brother of his wife, seven or eight in all, went the long and tiresome journey, through a western wilderness to their destined home, occupying in the route thirty-five days. Their transport was effected with a pair of horses and a large covered wagon.
After residing at Marietta a few years, he purchased a lot of land, containing one hundred and sixty acres, in or near Aurelius, Ohio, where he resided two years, and then returned to Marietta in 1823. Soon after the death of his second wife, in 1826, he removed to Cin- cinnati, and lived in the family of his youngest son, Aaron Lyon, Jr., where he d. His children were :
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