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I. LUCY DAVIS, b. at Shirley, Sept. 2, 1804, m. Robert G. Paterfield of Marietta, 1823. She removed to some town in Pennsylvania, and had seven children :
1. THEOPHILUS JAMES. 2. CLARA SLOAN.
3. LUCY J. 4. ROBERT AUSTIN. 5. ANNA.
6. MARY. 7. WILLIAM MARTIN.
„OMrs. Paterfield is now a widow, r. Eulinton, Venango county, Penn,e
IT .~ SARAH ANN, b. at Shirley, July 12, 1807, m .- - Leutner, d. in Cincinnati, 1836.
HI: CAROLINE CLARISSA, b. at Shirley, March 12, 1809, m. Euclid Warden, lived and d. at Milwaukie, Wis. She had two children :
1. LUCY Green.
2."ALBERT, is m. r. Chicago, Ill. (1879.)
IV.JOSEPH WILLARD, b. at Shirley, Dec. 4, 1810, m., lived and d. Tat Cincinnati. His widow and children r. in that city 101879) .- 18 903
Lai "AARON, b. at Shirley, Sept. 12, 1812, m. Mary Matilda Olney, June 1, 1834, r. Peoria; III. ( [ g) +070.). He has had five children, all b. at Cincinnati :
1. WILLARD SMITH, b, July 11, 1836, d-at Howe City, Ohio, Aug. 13,18510
ELIZA WESTON, b. Feb. 25, 18 0 hymn. Weston Arnold, Oct. 12, 1859.9
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VI. MARY JOHNSON, b. at Marietta, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1817. She has been twice m., (first) to William Henry Lee of Cincinnati, Dec. 15, 1834 ; m. (second) Alonzo P. Kendall, Feb. 5, 1849, r. Andersonville, Ind. (1879.) She has had two children :
1. CORDELIA R., b. at Cincinnati, July 15, 1837, m. Alonzo Cam- eron, June 24, 1856, d. at Andersonville, Oct. 8, 1878. She had two children.
2. WILLIAM HENRY LEE, JR., b. at Patriot, Ind., Sept. 9, 1839, m. Sarah J. McCallock of Hopkinsville, Ky., Dec. 14, 1866.
VII. JOHN, b. at Aurelius, July 15, 1820, d. at Aurelius, July 1, 1822.
VIII. ROSALINDA MARIA, b. at Marietta, June 17, 1822.
XI. HARRIET E., b. at Marietta on Saturday, d. Nov. 28, 1828.
McFARLAND.
Mcfarland, John. During the early part of the last half of the last century, John McFarland and Lydia, his wife, became resi- dents of Shirley. How long they remained cannot here be stated, but at least until three children were born unto them. No tradition has come down to the present generation from them.
I. DEBORAH, b. June 30, 1758.
II. LYDIA, b. June 16, 1759.
III. MARY, b. October 13, 1760.
McKENZEY.
Mackenzey, Roderit, and his wife, Polly, removed from Lan- caster to Shirley, April 6, 1785, and remained inhabitants of the latter town during their lives. He was a soldier in the American army during a portion of the Revolutionary war, and his wife was an assistant in camp and hospital. He d. Sept. 9, 1820. She d., a pauper, Aug. 17, 1838, aged eighty-three years.
McLAIN.
MacLain, Eymard, was an inhabitant of Shirley during a portion of the last quarter of the last century. The birth of one child, while he lived here has been entered upon the records of the town.
I. SARAH, b. Sept. 28, 1785. 71
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McLEOD.
McLeod, Dabid, was b. at Boston, May 26, 1740, m. Sarah Henry of Shirley, and became an inhabitant of the town as early as - 1778. His house was in the South Village, upon the hill at the corner of the streets just south of the engine house. His principal business was school-teaching, and he was so long engaged in this employment that an entire generation could refer back to him as their guide in obtaining a knowledge of letters. The active generation of fifty years since were among his pupils in childhood, and they retained many pleasant and some painful reminiscences of their ven- erated instructor, Master McLeod. They could say of him, as Goldsmith says of one (a predecessor of the craft) in his "Deserted Village :"
" He was kind, and if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was the fault."
He had, in early life, traveled in Europe, a privilege that few of American lineage experienced at that time. Upon the birth-records of Shirley are entered the names of four children :
I. THOMAS, b. at Boston, Dec. 28, 1772.
II. WILLIAM SCOTT, b. at Marlborough, March 5, 1776.
III. BRUCE, b. at Shirley, March 10, 1778, m. Timothy Vinton of Reading, pub. March 3, 1799. She had two children.
IV. MARY GILLISPIE, b. at Shirley, Aug. 5, 1781.
MILLS.
Mills, games, lived in a house which stood upon the farm owned and occupied by the late Luke Holden, in a westerly section of the town. He m. Mrs. Ruth Davis of Lunenburg, pub. Dec. 13, I 783. He had two children.
MOORS.
Moors, Jonathan, b. at Groton, Feb. 13, 1728, lived in a northerly part of Shirley, and was twice m., (first) to Sybil Tarbell, who d. June 18, 1763 ; (second) to Susanna, daughter of Capt. Francis Harris. He had five children, and d. at Shirley, July 18, 1765. Mr. Joseph Longley, who was made clerk of the town at its organization and for two or three years succeeding, enlisted as a soldier in the war with Canada, from whence he never returned ; and Mr. Moors was appointed clerk in his place, and had four successive
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elections. He held other important official positions. His children were :
I. JONATHAN, b. at Shirley, April 21, 1756.
II. JOSEPH, b. at Shirley, April 16, 1758, m. Amy Hubbard of Groton, and soon after the war of the Revolution removed to Rindge, N. H. He d. Feb. 26, 1844. Amy, his wife, d. March 20, 1838. He had one child :
1. HUBBARD, b. at Rindge, Nov. 11, 1788, m. Lucretia Emory. He resided in Boston several years, but returned to Rindge, 1823, and d. there Feb. 19, 1874. His wife, Lucretia, d. May 6, 1873. In his will Mr. Moors gave two thousand dollars to the Congregational society, and one thousand to the Methodist society of his native town.
III. SYBIL, b. at Shirley, June 26, 1760.
IV. PHINEHAS, b. at Shirley, Aug. 9, 1764, d. Oct. 12, 1764.
V. ABEL, b. at Shirley, Jan. 22, 1766, m., and had five children : 1. JOHN. 2. ABEL. 3. LOVELL. 4. HIRAM. 5. LAVINA.
While his children were minors Mr. Moors removed from this commonwealth, and established a home for himself and family in some town of New Hampshire.
Moors, John, b. at Groton, Dec. 25, 1747, m. Hannah, daugh- ter of Deacon Hezekiah Sawtell of Shirley, pub. March 31, 1770. He had seven children, all b. at Shirley :
I. JOHN, b. June 15, 1771, m. Ruth Coleman of Shirley, pub. July 6, -.
II. HANNAH, b. July 26, 1773.
III. HEZEKIAH, b. Dec. 3, 1775.
IV. LEVI, b. Feb. 17, 1781.
V. SYBIL, b. Sept. 5, 1783.
VI. TIMOTHY, b. July 7, 1785.
VII. LYDIA, b. June 25, 1787.
Mr. Moors was one of the patriots of '76. He enlisted as one of the eight months men, under Capt. Robert Longley, in 1775. He also enlisted, Dec. 2, 1777, for three years, and was in Capt. Smith's company of the Fifteenth Continental regiment, under Col. Timothy Bigelow.
Moors, Tugh, came to live in Shirley near the time of its incorporation, and owned a house and farm in a north-easterly sec- tion of the town, remote from any road, and surrounded by a dense
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forest. He had a family, but of their number or names no record has been found. In the "Boston News Letter," which Snow says (in his history of Boston,) was the first periodical paper that appeared on our continent, the following sad record was made June 22, 1758 : .
"We hear from the district of Shirley in the county of Middlesex, that on the 25th ult. the following accident happened there, viz. : As Mr. Hugh Moors of that place was cutting down a tree, but a little way from his house, and that just as the tree was falling he looked up and saw a son of his, about five years old, coming to him in the place where the tree was about to fall ; on which he ran and catched him in his arms ; but in turning about to save his child's life, (which he did,) he lost his own, by one of the limbs reaching his head, which killed him instantly. The child is hurt but little, and is like to do well. Mr. Moors is much lamented by all that knew him ; for he was a kind husband, a tender parent, and a good neighbor."
In the old cemetery there is a gravestone bearing the following record : "John Moore died May 8, 1758, Et. 96 years," which makes his birth-year 1662. "His wife, Agnes, d. July 23, 1757, Et. 89 years," which makes her birth-year 1668. Nothing further ever reached us concerning them, either through record or tradition.
NUTTING.
Nutting, Jonas, b. at Westford, April 7, 1802. He was a son of Jonas Nutting and Martha Gould, was not born in wedlock, and therefore could not know the benefits of parental instruction. At the age of five years he was put in charge of the Shaker communion at Shirley, where he remained through all the after stages of his life, and where he died. The Shakers opened to him a comfortable home in his helplessness, and he proved to them a faithful coadjutor in his strength. In his boyhood he was taken under the immediate super- intendence of their business agent-or deacon, as he is styled by his associates,-and was trained in a knowledge of farm husbandry, care of animals, traffic, and domestic economy ; in all of which he proved himself an apt scholar. When his foster-father had passed away, the well-taught pupil was exalted to the place of his patron, and entered upon its duties ; and during almost all of his after years he constituted the temporal lead of the Shakers in Shirley. Their business at home and abroad passed under his supervision, and he was regarded by . his business associates of the world,-even as he was known to be, by the brethren of his faith,-an honest man. He was slow of utterance, apparently dull in his movements, yet his judgment was so well ma- tured that his action was attended with few drawbacks or mistakes. For more than twenty of the last years of his life he was deeply afflicted with that apparently incurable disease termed asthma, and for many of these years his malady prevented his rest upon a bed, his sleep being obtained while seated in a chair and reclining forward upon pillows. Yet all this trial failed greatly to disturb the even
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tenor of his spirits, or prevent the regular discharge of his daily duties. He d. very suddenly, Aug. 26, 1875. His funeral was attended by a large concourse of people, composed of the members of his own faith and friends and strangers from abroad. All seemed anxious to exhibit their respect for the memory of one whose life had been filled with the virtues and usefulness that had characterized that of Deacon Jonas Nutting.
PAGE.
The Page families of Groton, Shirley, Lunenburg, Rindge, N. H., and many other New England towns, were descended, generally, from John Page, who immigrated to this country in 1630, and set- tled at Watertown. He came from Dedham, England, and brought his family, which consisted of his wife, Phebe, and three children, to which, according to Bond's history of Watertown, two were added after his settlement in America. He was the first constable of Watertown, being appointed in 1630, by the court. He was admitted freeman May 18, 1631. He d. Dec. 18, 1676 ; his widow d. Sept. 25, 1677. His children were scattered abroad, the fourth of whom, John, Jr., was the ancestor of the Groton and Shirley families.
John Page, Jr., was b. in 1630, took the oath of fidelity in 1652. About the year 1662 he removed to Groton, was a proprietor of the extensive territory that bore that name, and a distinguished settler of the place. He m. Faith Dunster, who is supposed to have been a niece of President Dunster of Harvard University. She d. April 3, 1699. He did not continue in Groton through life, but returned to Watertown about the year 1676, and d. about 171I. He was a selectman of Watertown in 1695, 1696, 1697 and 1698. He had three children b. at Groton, and one after his return to Watertown.
Samuel Page was a son of John Page, Jr., and Faith (Dunster) Page. He was b. at Groton, June 4, 1672. He m. Martha and had two children b. at Groton, but eventually removed to Lun- enburg, and was the first settler of that town, and, for a time his was the only family within its limits. "He received the title of 'Governor,' since he was presumed to control the whole town." His second born was the first of the name that was ever settled in Shirley.
Page, Daniel,4 (Samuel,3 John, Jr.,2 John,1) b. at Groton, Aug. 10, 1722, m. Ruth It is probable that he was proprietor of the estate afterward owned by Phinehas Page, and now by the heirs of the late Philemon Holden. The name of Daniel Page is on the list of petition'ers that Shirley have a corporate existence, and he had four children, all of whom were b. at Shirley :
I. RUTH, b. Aug. 25, 1746. She was twice m., (first) to Silas Davis, and had five children. She m., (second) James Mills of Shirley, pub. Dec. 13, 1783, and had two or three children.
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II. HULDAH, b. Jan. 31, 1748, m. in early womanhood, and removed from town.
III. MARTHA, b. Dec. 15, 1750, m. David Wilson, and had several children.
IV. DANIEL, b. Jan. 26, 1753, m. Mary Davis, 1777. He had two children b. at Shirley :
1. DANIEL, b. June 3, 1778.
2. JOHN, b. October 25, 1779.
Mr. Daniel Page was one of the eighty volunteers who marched under the lead of Capt. Haskell, the day after the fight at Concord, April 19, 1775.
Page, John, is supposed to have been a son of John and Mary (Parker) Page of Groton, (John,5 John,4 Jonathan,3 John, Jr.,2 John,1) was b. in Groton, June 9, 1743, m. Esther Lawrence of Groton, Oct. 29, 1767. She was a daughter of Jonathan and Esther Lawrence. He lived in Groton until after the birth of his first child, then removed to Shirley, where three children were born. In 1775 he removed to Rindge, N. H., where three other children were born. Stearns says, in his History of Rindge, that he served in Col. Bald- win's regiment, in the war of the Revolution, and that, Dec. 21, 1 788, himself and wife were dismissed from the church in Rindge and rec- ommended to the church in Reading ; that the state is not named in the record. No farther notice of him has been found. He had seven children :
I. MOLLY, b. at Groton, June 15, 1768, m. Josiah Sawtell.
II. ESTHER, b. at Shirley, Oct. 15, 1769, m. Jesse Davis.
III. THOMAS, b. at Shirley, Nov. 21, 1771.
IV. PRUDENCE, b. at Shirley, June 12, 1774.
V. JOHN, b. at Rindge, Sept. 9, 1776.
VI. EDMUND, b. at Rindge, Nov. 9, 1778.
VII. JONATHAN, b. at Rindge, May 3, 1781, m. Rebecca Sawtell.
Page, Simon, was b. at Groton ; but, owing to a defect in the town records, neither the date of his birth nor the names of his par- entage are preserved. He is, however, supposed to have been the son of Jonathan Page, (Simon,4 Jonathan,3 John, Jr.,2 John.1) He m. Han- nah Gilson, and his home was on territory that came within the limits of what was subsequently Shirley. His farm is situated on the eastern boundary of the town, and borders on the Nashua river ; the same estate is now the home of William and E. L. White. He had eleven children, all b. at the same home, but all that were b. previous to 1 753 were recorded at Groton, the remainder at Shirley.
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I. SIMON, b. at Groton, June 6, 1742. He was twice m., (first) to Elizabeth Moors of Groton, pub. Jan. 15, 1767; (second) to Elizabeth DeRumpell of Groton. He had eight children, all b. in Shirley. He d. at Shirley. He was one of the patriots of the Revolution, in 1775 ; was amongst the volunteers who marched from Shirley in the company of Capt. Haskell, on the alarm, April 19, 1775. On the 15th of the following July, he enlisted into the regular service for eight months.
1. EUNICE, b. Aug. 17, 1767, m. Abijah Nutting of Groton, Feb. 6, 1788, and made that town her life residence. She had six children, and d. Jan. 2, 1825. Her children were :
(1.) Abijah, b. Nov. 24, 1790.
(2.) Eunice, b. April 18, 1792.
(3.) Alpheus, b. March 10, 1798.
(4.) Levi, b. Feb. 18, 1801.
(5.) Lucinda, b. April 5, 1803.
(6.) Hannibal, b. March 17, 1805.
2. SYBIL, b. Sept. 5, 1769, d. at Shirley, Jan. 18, 1 784.
3. ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 12, 1771, m.
4. SUSIE, b. Jan. 8, 1774, m. Phinehas Nutting of Groton, 1793, and had seven children, all b. at Groton :
(I.) Sukey, b. Aug. 5, 1793.
(2.) Lydia, b. April 4, 1795.
(3.) Phinehas, b. June 5, 1797.
(4.) Simon, b. April 27, 1800, m. Sarah Huntress, Nov. 22, 1823.
(5.) Joel, b. April 3, 1802, m. Esther Lawrence, July 10, 1825, d. May 9, 1854.
(6.) Nancy, b. March 14, 1804.
(7.) William Stuart, b. Nov. 14, 1806.
5. LYDIA, b. Dec. 27, 1776, m. John Moors of Groton, removed to Mount Holly, Vt., lived and d. in that town.
6. HANNAH, b. Feb. 28, 1778, d. May 3, 1778.
7. SIMON, b. Oct. 30, 1780, m. Mary Kemp of Groton, Jan. 27, 1801. He lived on the farm now owned by the heirs of the late Porter Kittredge, and gained quite a reputation as a cultiva- tor of hops ; and in other ways he was a thrifty, industrious farmer. He died Sept. 11, 1839. His death was occasioned by the accidental discharge of a musket, the contents of which penetrated his lungs, and his life was closed in a few hours. He stood upon the stairs leading to the attic of his house ; the gun lay along the floor, and, as he drew it toward himself by its muz- zle, the lock came in contact with un uneven board, which caused the fatal discharge. His widow died at Pepperell, Dec. 27, 1855. He had eight children, all of whom were born in Shirley.
(1.) Richard Ransom, b. April 17, 1801, m. Ruth Messer of Londonderry, N. H., Jan., 1838. He had two children : I. "Charles Kimball," b. at Londonderry, June 27, 1832, m.
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Mary Ann Tucker of Lowell, Aug. 9, 1855 ; had one child : I. Hannah Maria, b. at Lowell, July 14, 1857. 2. "George," b. at Londonderry, April 1, 1838, d. at Shirley, Oct. 8, 1839. Ruth, the wife of Richard R. Page, d. at Shirley, Dec. 16, 1839. He d. at Pepperell, Feb. 22, 1863.
(2.) Simon Gilson, b. Jan. 15, 1803, m. Olive Hall of Shirley, pub. Nov. 25, 1830. He died at Shirley, Feb. 12, 1839. He had one child .- (See register Hall family, p. 430.)
(3.) Lucinda, b. April 28, 1805, m. Sumner Hopkins of Groton, Mar. 29, 1824. She has had seven children : I. "Lucinda Jane," b. at Shirley, June 5, 1825, m. Hugh O'Failing of Ar- cadia, Wayne Co., N. Y. 2. "Sumner Crosby," b. at Shirley, Jan. 1, 1827 ; 3. "Charles Bradley," b. at Shirley, Aug. 16, 1829 ; 4. "Mary Augusta," b. at Waterloo, N. Y., Jan. 25, 1835, m. Davis McCarn of Arcadia, Apr. 8, 1854 ; 5. "Emily Ann," b. Feb. 17, 1837, d. Mar., 1837 ; 6. "Edmund Theo- dore," b. in Galen, N. Y., May 31, 1838 ; 7. "Letitia Ann," b. at Arcadia, Sept. 1, 1840.
(4.) Edmund, b. June 25, 1807, d. at Shirley, Nov. 24, 1838, unm.
(5.) Adeline, b. June 25, 1807, m. Nathan Holden of Shirley, Dec. 8, 1840, r. Shirley (1883).
(6.) Hannah, b. Dec., 1809, d. Apr. 29, 1868, unm.
(7.) Edson, b. Aug. 28, 1813, d. Aug. 29, 1813.
(8.) Mary, b. June 13, 1816, m. Edmund F. Nutting of Pep- perell, May 3, 1838, r. Pepperell (1883). She has had seven children, all b. at Pepperell : I. "Mary Elizabeth," b. May 20, 1839, d. Nov. 18, 1841 ; 2. "Adeline Francina," b. Aug. 22, 1840, d. Nov. 21, 1841 ; 3. "George Henry," b. May 22, 1843, d. Sept. 1, 1846 ; 4. "Almira Frances," b. Feb. 28, 1845 ; 5. "Ellen A.," b. Feb. 9, 1847; 6. "Edmund Page," b. June 25, 1849 ; 7. "Charles Farnsworth," b. June 6, 1853.
8. JOEL, b. July 22, 1785, m. Leah Dickerson, June 9, 1803. He had seven children, all b. at Shirley. While his children were young and helpless he left his family, surrounded by want, to the care of their mother, and to such sympathizing friends as her forlorn condition might call up, and his whereabout has remained a mystery unto this day. His children were :
(1.) Almira, b. Nov. 7, 1804. Has been twice m., (first) to John Barnard of Stow, 1825 ; he d. Oct. 31, 1854; (second) to Ephraim Richards of Mexico, Me., r. Mexico (1879). She has had eight children, all b. at Mexico : I. "Jane Augusta," b. March 29, 1827, d Aug. 11, 1829 ; 2. "Elizabeth Leah," b. April 25, 1829, m. Jarvis Richards, and had eight children ; 3. "Sarah Jane," b. Sept. 17, 1832, m. Marvel Taylor, and had two children ; 4. "Mary Ann," b. Feb. 7, 1834, m. Henry McCollestor, and had two children; 5. "Stephen G.," b. July 23, 1836, m. Sarah Jane Barnard, and had three children ; 6. "Louisa Elmira," b. March 21, 1839, d. May 1, 1841 ; 7.
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" Hiram Abiff," b. Nov. 3, 1843, d. Aug. 15, 1864 ; 8. "Abby L. A.," b. Sept. 28, 1846, d. March 24, 1853.
(2.) Joel, b. March 17, 1806, d. 1822.
(3.) Louisa W., b. March 21, 1808. She has been twice m., (first) to Joel Foster of New Ipswich, N. H., Oct. 1, 1825 ; he d. March 22, 1839 ; m. (second) John Griffin, July 15, 1845 ; he d. Dec. 5, 1856 ; she is a widow, r. Shirley (1883). She has had seven children : 1. "Sarah Louisa," b. at Lowell, Nov. 16, 1827, d. Jan. 24, 1831 ; 2. "Mary Kendall," b. Nov. 30, 1828, d. at Lowell, Jan. 24, 1831 ; 3. "Mary Louisa," b. Jan. 15, 1831, m. William Turner of Plymouth, Vt., June, 1845, d. May 31, 1876 ; 4. "Joel," b. March 31, 1832 ; 5. "George Page," b. June 16, 1837 ; 6. "Alonzo Franklin," b. Feb. 7, 1848, m. Elizabeth F. Carkers, Sept. 5, 1867; 7. "Walter Eugene," b. Nov. 17, 1849, r. Shirley, unm. (1883.)
(4.) Simon Dickerson, b. 1810. In early manhood he left his family and went to parts unknown, in imitation of his father's example ; and his absence, like that of his father, has always remained a mystery.
(5.) Elizabeth, b. May 10, 1812. She has been twice m., (first) to Francis Harris of Shirley, Nov. 18, 1833 ; he d. May 20, 1860 ; she m. (second) Reuben Wyman, Nov. 18, 1861 ; he d. Dec. 5, 1868 ; she r. in Townsend (1879).
(6.) William, b. June 25, 1814, m. Elizabeth E. Davis of Lun- enburg, June 19, 1839, d. the same year.
(7.) George, b. Feb. 10, 1817, d. at Shirley, Nov. 16, 1838.
II. JAMES, b. April 22, 1744, d. Sept. 23, 1773.
III. HANNAH, b. May 31, 1746, died young.
IV. LYDIA, b. Dec. 10, 1748, m. Simon Holden of Shirley, April 20, 1794.
V. JONAS, b. Sept. 2, 1750, m. Lucy Holden of Shirley, pub. Nov. 23, 1775. He was one of the eighty patriots called out by the alarm of April 19, 1775. He d. at Shirley, Jan. 26, 1822. He had sixteen children :
1. LUCY, b. at Shirley, Jan. 13, 1777, m. Moses Chaplin, April 7, 1801, d. Feb. 25, 1846.
2. JONAS, b. at Shirley, Feb. 28, 1778, m. Eunice Wait of Ipswich, May 24, 1808. He d. at Shirley, Sept. 29, 1824 ; his widow d. at Dover, N. H., Sept. 15, 1826, aged 40 years. They had seven children :
(1.) Eunice Wait, b. at Shirley, May 2, 1809, m. Francis Kauffer, June 27, 1827. She d. at Lowell, Nov. 14, 1847. She had five children : I. "John Francis," b. at Andover, June 3, 1828, d. in Maine, Feb. 1859. He d. from inhaling steam. 2. "Clarissa Ann," b. at Andover, June 23, 1830 ; m. Dr. David Burbank of San Francisco, Cal .; 3. "Eunice Ade- line," b. at Roxbury, Dec. 13, 1832, d. at Concord, N. H., 72
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June 23, 1850 ; 4. "Mary Ann," b. at Boston, Oct. 13, 1836, d. at Lowell, Oct. 16, 1843 ; 5. "Hale Page," b. at Methuen, Dec. 31, 1839, m. Etta St. Clair of South Strafford, Vt., April 24, 1871 ; has one daughter : 1. Nellie M., b. Nov. 3, 1874. (2.) Jonas Augustine, b. at Groton, Nov. 15, 1810. He went into the Southern States in 1837, and has never since been heard from (1861).
(3.) Clarissa Ann, b. at Concord, N. H., April 17, 1812, d. Sept. 26, 1813.
(4.) John Oliver, b. at Concord, N. H., June 27, 1814, m. Elizabeth Frye of Andover, Sept. 29, 1836. He had eight children, the first two of whom were born at Andover-all the others at North Woburn : 1. "Oliver Hale," b. Sept. 30, 1837; 2. "Evelina Elizabeth," b. June 19, 1839 ; 3. "John Augustine," b. March 14, 1841 ; 4. "Theophilus Frye," b. Dec. 29, 1843, d. at Woburn, Feb. 8, 1883 ;- in 1861 he en- listed as private in the Union army ; was wounded and dis- charged for disability in 1862 ; recovered and re enlisted in 1863, and served through the war, retiring with a captain's commission. 5. " Herman Lovejoy" ; he enlisted in the Union army during the Rebellion, and was killed in battle. 6. "Mary Shattuck," b. June 1, 1845, d. at North Woburn. Feb. 19, 1859 ; 7. "Eunice Wait," b. Dec. 26, 1847; 8. "Clarence Henry," b. Sept. 14, 1850. Elizabeth (Frye), wife of John O. Page, d. at North Woburn, Feb. 20, 1859, and he was again m., Feb. 22, 1860, to Mrs. Harriet Frye of Lawrence.
(5.) Hale Wait, b. at Concord, N. H., June 12, 1816, m. Sarah M. Wheeler of Salem, N. H., Nov. 3, 1840. He had two children b. at Methuen ; in 1847 he removed to Fitchburg, where he established a successful business in the manufacture of piano-forte cases. He was a representative to the General Court in 1857 and in 1863, and held other responsible posi- tions in that town. In 1872 he removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he now resides (1883). Children : I. "Charles Eugene," b. Nov. 6, 1841, d. Nov. 13, 1841 ; 2. "Cynthia Maria," b. Sept. 4, 1844, m. Sept. 6, 1866, Rev. Kendall Brooks, D. D., (born in Roxbury, Sept. 3, 1821,) son of Kendall and Mary (Pettee) Brooks. Mr. Brooks graduated from Brown University, 1841 ; was ordained as Baptist minister, August 31, 1845 ; was pastor in Eastport, Me., from 1845 to 1852 ; was Professor of Mathematics in Waterville College from 1852 to 1855; was pastor in Fitchburg from 1855 to 1865 ; was editor of the Na- tional Baptist, Philadelphia, 1865 to 1868; and since 1868 has been President of Kalamazoo College, at Kalamazoo, Mich. He has one child : 1. Kendall Page, born in Kalamazoo, July 4, 1876.
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