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R. I., Sept. 30, 1828, had several children.
XIX. OLIVE, b. Oct. 24, 1804, d. young.
PHELPS.
There are numerous families of this name scattered through the towns of New England, but their early history is imperfectly known to us.
Phelps, Timothy, is the original of the Shirley families of the name. He was the second son of Francis and Phebe Phelps of Hollis, N. H. He was b. in that town, Sept. 10, 1745, m. Sally Farnsworth of Harvard, and lived there until about the year 1 780, when he removed to Shirley, and was the occupant of a house situ- ated on land now a part of the farm owned by Mr. Joseph Hazen. He d. at Shirley, Dec. 26, 1826. He had five children :
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I. SALLY, b. at Harvard, 1768, m. William Conant of Shirley, Nov. 17, 1796, and d. at Shirley, Jan. 1, 1848.
II. JOHN, b. at Harvard, March 8, 1769, m. Polly Brown, daughter of Dea. Joseph Brown, May 13, 1794. He had two children, and d. at Marietta, Ohio.
1. ANNA, b. at Shirley, April 8, 1800, m. Jonas Longley of Shirley, June 5, 1830, d. March 24, 1850.
2. JOHN, b. at Shirley, Dec. 18, 1802, m. Julia Ayers, May 29, 1826, d. April 29, 1844. He had seven children :
(1.) Mary, b. April 15, 1827, m. Edward Allen, Jan. 15, 1851.
2.) Julia, b. Aug. 8, 1829, m. Lewis Washburn, Nov. 27, 1851.
(3.) William, b. Nov. 27, 1832, m. Celia Cromwell, July 14, 1855.
(4.) John, b. May 14, 1834.
(5.) Joseph, b. Feb. 1, 1835.
(6.) Sarah, b. March 31, 1837.
(7.) Katie, b. Nov. 15, 1839.
III. JACOB, b. at Harvard, May 8, 1775, m. Susanna Dickerson, Nov. 29, 1798. He d. at Shirley, Aug. 29, 1857. He had six children, all b. at Shirley : .
1. SUSAN, b. Dec. 13, 1799, m. Merrick Andrews, 1822. She d. at Shirley, July 18, 1837. She had one child :
(1.) James, b. Feb. 26, 1823, m. Rebecca A. Blood of Pep- perell, Feb. 4, 1851. He has had four children : I. “Elmer H.," b. July 21, 1857 ; 2. "Edward E.," b. July 2, 1861 ; 3. "Jonas E.," b. March 24, 1865 ; 4. "Charles A.," b. Dec. 29, I868.
2. SALLY, b. Aug. 25, 1801, m. July 4, 1825, George Farrar, who was b. at Concord in 1795. Mr. Farrar was by trade a blacksmith. About the year 1830 he came to Shirley and established his business at the north part of the town, where he r. till 1868. He then removed to Lunenburg, where he r. till his death, which took place Jan. 5, 1881, at the age of eighty-six years. He wrought at his anvil till past the age of three-score and ten, when, having secured a competency, he laid down the implements of his trade and devoted his time and strength to horticulture. His industry, honesty and obliging habits secured for him the respect and good- will of his townsmen. His widow r. Lunenburg (1883). She has had four children :
(1.) George, b. at Concord, Sept. 25, 1825, m. March 29, 1852, Emily Perkins Bowker of Lyndon, Vt. She d. at Fitchburg, Oct. 15, 1877. He is a machinist, and r. at Fitchburg (1883). He has had two children : I. " Lizzie Estelle," b. at Fitchburg, May 29, 1855, m. Oct. 12, 1880, George H. Johnson, of North Andover, and has one child : 1. May Louise, b. Nov. 12, 1882 ; r. Fitchburg ; 2. " Freddie A.," b. Oct. 1859, d. March 22, 1862.
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(2.) Amos Wright, b. at Concord, Feb. 19, 1827. He has been twice m., (first) to Mary Ann Farrar, Nov. 26, 1846 ; she d. Jan. 31, 1856 ; he m. (second) Mary Harris of Shirley, April 10, 1857, r. Shirley. He has had four children : 1. " Eva Frances," b. at Shirley, Jan. 1, 1856, m. Daniel Adams of Concord ; 2. "John W.," b. at Shirley, May 30, 1858 ; 3. "Henry W.," b. at Shirley, Oct. 23, 1859 ; 4. "George," b. at Shirley, Nov. 4, 1862.
(3.) Ephraim Elisha, b. at Concord, Feb. 5, 1829, m. Ida May Putney, daughter of L. D. Putney of Fitchburg. She d. Nov. 21, 1875. Mr. Farrar r. Fitchburg (1883).
(4.) Charles Stillman, b. at Shirley, Nov. 14, 1831, m. Augusta Taylor, Nov. 29, 1859, r. Lunenburg (1883). He has had one child : I. "Charles Augustus," b. Sept. 20, 1864, d. in Lunen- burg, Dec., 1881.
3. JACOB, b. March 29, 1803, m. Hannah Nutting of Pepperell, Sept. 17, 1839. She d. at Shirley, Aug. 26, 1853. He d. Nov. 24, 1854.
4. CLARISSA, b. Feb. 9, 1804, m. John Taylor, Dec. 16, 1835. Her husband d. May 4, 1854. She is a widow, r. Shirley (1883). She has had five children :
(I.) John, b. April 8, 1838, d. Oct. 19, 1841.
(2.) Henry, b. Aug. 30, 1839.
(3.) Augustus, b. Jan. 30, 1843, r. Lunenburg (1883).
(4.) Augusta, b. Jan. 30, 1843, m. Charles S. Farrar of Shirley, Nov. 29, 1859.
(5.) Walter, b. Sept. 18, 1844, m. Amelia Sherman.
5. LUCY D., b. March 2, 1809, m. Luther Holden of Shirley, May 26, 1835, r. Shirley (1883), a widow.
6. STEWART, b. Sept. 26, 1811, m. Priscilla B. Winslow, Jan. 16, 1840, r. Shirley (1883). He has had eleven children, all b. in Shirley :
(1.) Luther S., b. May 17, 1840, r. Lunenburg (1883), unm.
(2.) Stillman P., b. May 3, 1842, d. at Lunenburg, Aug., 1869.
(3.) Susie, b. Jan. 6, 1843, d. Nov. 8, 1847.
(4.) Sarah Jane, b. March 31, 1844, d. March 23, 1856.
(5.) Lucy Ann, b. March 12, 1851, d. July 1, 1868.
(6.) Clara W., b. Dec. 13, 1853.
(7.) Mary Elizabeth, b. May 5, 1855, m. Anson Spaulding of Lunenburg, May 1, 1875, r. Townsend (1883). She has had one child : I. "William S.," b. at Townsend, May 29, 1876.
(8.) Annie, b. April 30, 1857, m. Charles Andrews of Shirley, Feb. 2, 1876, r. Shirley (1883). She has one child : 1. "Jennie F.," b. Jan. 19, 1877.
(9.) Susie, b. Nov. 27, 1858, r. Shirley (1883), unm.
10.) Herbert, b. Sept. 25, 1860.
(II.) Hattie F., b. Jan. 23, 1863.
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IV. JOSHUA, b. at Harvard, Oct. 11, 1779, m. Nancy Holman of Salem, and had four children. He was a privateersman in the war of 1812, and d. in Kentucky.
V. POLLY, b. at Shirley, Jan. 9, 1787, m. Levi Crouch of Groton, and had two children.
PHILLIPS.
Phillips, Nehemiah, son of Samuel and Abigail (Frost) Phillips, was b. at Groton, Feb. 28, 1744, m. Patience , and removed to Shirley, April 3, 1774, with four children, viz. : Moses, Patience, Mary and Abigail. How long they remained cannot be told, but the authorities of the town refused to admit them as legal inhabitants.
Deborah Phillips, a sister of Nehemiah, b. at Groton, April 6, 1746, came to reside at Shirley, Feb., 1782, but was warned out of town by order of the selectmen.
Phillips, Jonathan, became an inhabitant of Shirley pre- vious to 1800, and left the birth-date of one child upon its records :
I. JONATHAN AMASA MYCALL, b. at Shirley, June 12, 1801.
PHIPPS.
Mr. Savage gives no early immigrant of this name, and hence we have supposed it a corruption of Phips, a name often found among the New England colonists. He says the names Phipps and Phips . were both used and repudiated by persons of the same kindred ; and on the whole supposes it one and the same name. The original in this country was James Phips, who came from Bristol, England, and settled on the Kennebec river in Maine. He brought his family with him, which, with the addition of those born in this country, con- sisted of twenty-one sons and five daughters,-and all the children of one mother ! So Cotton Mather says in his Magnalia, page 152, I vol., Hartford ed. One of the youngest of these children, only a few months old when his father died, was the celebrated Sir William Phips, who was knighted by James II.
From James Phips descended the early New England families of the name, but to what place in the general record should be assigned the humble family of Phipps that settled in Groton, in the first half of the last century, cannot here be told. Charles Phipps m. Hannah Pierce of Groton, and had one child :
Phipps, Charles, b. at Groton, Sept. 9, 1751, m. Hannah, daughter of George Chase of Shirley, pub. Jan. 13, 1774. He came
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to reside in Shirley, Dec., 1773, but was refused legal citizenship by the town authorities. He remained, however, for some years, and proved himself of considerable advantage to those who rejected him, as he helped make up the town quota of soldiers for the war of the Revolution. He enlisted in Captain Longley's company, April 29, 1 775, for a service of eight months, when it was one of the hardest periods to secure recruits.
PIERCE.
There was a John Pierce settled at Watertown as early as 1637. His grandson, Daniel Pierce, was one of the original proprietors of Groton,-having a ten-acre right ;- and probably lived there as early as 1662. From him descended the families of Groton and vicinity that bear his name. Among these was one John, (supposed to have been a great-grandson of Daniel,) who settled on that part of the territory now known as Shirley.
Pierce, John, b. at Groton, Oct. 4, 1720. He was a son of Daniel and Eleanor (Boyton) Pierce, and m. Hannah - -. He had four (and probably six) children :
I. HANNAH, b. at Groton (afterward Shirley), Jan. 5, 1743, d. young.
II. JOHN, b. at Shirley, May 12, 1753, m. Sally -, and had two children, b. in Shirley :
1. JOHN, b. March 31, 1777.
2. SOLOMON, b. March 15, 1779.
III. HANNAH, b. at Shirley, April 27, 1756.
IV. SOLOMON, b. at Shirley, Nov. 18, 1759. He enlisted in the war of the Revolution, in Captain Sylvanus Smith's company, of the Fifteenth Continental Regiment, for three years.
There were two other persons by the name of Pierce, who held residences in Shirley, and were married here,-the dates of whose marriage render it highly probable that they belonged to the family of John and Hannah Pierce ; as no other family of the name is known to have lived here before the present century. So strong is this pre- sumption that their names are here entered, in connection with the above explanation.
V. ABNER, was m. to Lydia Hartwell, March 13, 1794, both of Shirley.
VI. JOSHUA, was m. to Betty Warren, April 13, 1794, both of Shirley.
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PORTER.
Porter, dalilliam, and his wife, Mary, removed from Lunen- burg to Shirley sometime between the years 1750 and 1753. They had the births of three children entered upon the records of Shirley :
I. JOHN, b. at Lunenburg, Dec. 1, 1747.
II. MARY, b. at Lunenburg, Feb. 3, 1750.
III. WILLIAM, b. at Shirley, July 20, 1753.
POWERS.
Among the settlers upon the territory now known as the town of Shirley stands the honored name of
Powers, Merahmeel. He lived on a farm in a northern section of the town, and was distinguished for his enterprise and fidelity to public trusts. He was a signer of the petition to make Shirley an independent township, and was one of the first and ablest laborers in behalf of its infant interests. He was chairman of the selectmen of the town from 1758 to 1763, and filled other important civil positions. He was also a military official. He removed from town sometime previous to 1769, and lived in Springfield, Vt. From there he removed to what was then regarded the "far west," since which little has been heard from him or his family. He was m. to Eunice Bennett of Groton, Feb. 9, 1748. He had eight children, whose births stand upon the records of Shirley, and tradition says that two were subsequently born.
I. DAVID, b. at Groton, (afterward Shirley,) Sept. 13, 1751.
II. EUNICE, b. at Shirley, July 26, 1754, d. April 20, 1756.
III. EUNICE, b. at Shirley, June 19, 1757.
IV. ASAHEL, b. at Shirley, Sept. 29, 1759.
V. PETER, b. at Shirley, Aug. 24, 1762.
VI. MOSES, b. at Shirley, Aug. 27, 1764.
VII. BLANCHARD, b. at Winchester, May 16, 1769.
VIII. ANNE, b. at Springfield, Vt., Oct. 2, 1774.
IX. CYNTHIA. X. PATTY.
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PRATT.
Pratt, David, a son of John and Hannah Pratt, b. at Groton, Oct. 29, 1748, m. Susanna Hartwell of Shirley, pub. Dec. 28, 1771.
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At that date he became an inhabitant of Shirley. He was one of the eighty volunteers called out by the alarm of the 19th of April, 1775, and was one of the eight months men enlisted the same year. He had three children, b. at Shirley :
I. ANNA, b. June 27, 1772.
II. HANNAH, b. Feb. 11, 1774.
III. DAVID, b. Oct. 18, 1775.
Pratt, Ebenezer, removed to Shirley from Weymouth about the year 1785. His family consisted of a wife and six children, (b. at Weymouth.) He became the owner and occupant of the farm where Dr. James O. Parker now lives. After remaining there a few years he exchanged estates with Mr. John Kelsey, who lived in the south-easterly part of the town, on the farm more recently known as the Balch place, where he passed the residue of his life. He d. in the year 1800. His children were :
I. ROBERT.
II. SOLOMON, m. Hannah, daughter of Capt. Francis Harris of Shirley, pub. Aug. 1, 1782. He was a blacksmith and edged-tool maker,-carried on his business at the water-privilege now owned by George Kilburn,-and lived in the house which is at present owned and occupied by his grandson, Sumner E. Hopkins. He eventually left his family, took a residence somewhere in the State of Maine, and never returned to his early kindred. He had seven children, all of whom were b. in Shirley :
1. SALLY LOVELL, born March 21, 1783, m. Joshua Durgin of Fryeburg, Me. She had fifteen children, and d. 1855.
2. MARY, b. Nov. 1, 1784, m. Jesse Reed of Westford, removed to Concord, N. H., where she d. She had four children.
3. FRANCIS H., b. June 5, 1786, m. Beetle, r. in northern New Hampshire, and has been twice m.
4. HANNAH, b. Jan. 20, 1789, has been twice m., (first) to Spencer Gordon of Watertown, Nov. 27, 1806 ; m. (second) Columbus Warren ; d. at Newmarket, N. H., Aug., 1857.
5. MATILDA, b. Sept. 10, 1791, d. June 3, 1818.
6. SUSAN DWIGHT, b. July 4, 1795, m. Ebenezer Hopkins, May 14, 1818. She d. at Shirley, Sept. 10, 1882. She had two children : (I.) Ebenezer, b. Nov. 1, 1818, d. Jan. 14, 1823.
(2.) Sumner E., b. July 18, 1823. He has been twice m., (first) to Almira J. Sawtell, May 4, 1843; she d. Oct. 12, 1847; he m. (second) Harriet C. Adams of Pepperell, Dec. 19, 1849, r. Shirley. They occupy the same dwelling that had been the home of the two preceding generations of the Pratt family. He has had two children, b. in Shirley : I. "Ella Jane," b. April 1, 1850, m. John W. Bean of Portland, Me.,
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April 1, 1877, r. Portland (1883) ; 2. "Fannie S.," b. Aug. 21, 1852, m. Charles Ramsdale of Shirley, Oct. 3, 1872, r. Salem (1883).
7. SOLOMON, b. April 30, 1797, was a soldier in the last American war with Great Britain, and d. at Sackett's Harbor, June 3, 1813.
III. EDWARD, left town at early manhood, and never returned.
IV. EBENEZER, m. Eunice Farewell, pub. Dec. 7, 1778, had one child :
1. JOHN, b. at Shirley, d. June 16, 1789. Eunice (Farewell) Pratt d. Dec. 27, 1782.
V. POLLY, m. Joseph Longley, Feb. 15, 1787.
VI. LORINNA, m. William Gleason of Shirley, Sept. 29, 1 799.
PRESTON.
Preston, aMilliam. There was a man of this name who in 1 747 resided in what was afterwards Shirley. He signed the petition to have the territory of Groton divided, and a new town incorporated ; but his name appears in no other record, nor yet in any living tra- dition.
RANDALL.
Randall, Samuel, lived in Shirley as early as 1776. His residence was in a northerly section of the town, and the births of three children have been entered upon the records :
I. IVORY, b. Aug. 13, 1776.
II. CYNTHIA, b. June 24, 1778.
III. SAMUEL, b. April 16, 1780.
RICHARDS.
Richards, Charles, and his wife, were natives of Ireland, and emigrated to America, probably, at the time of his marriage or soon after,-as his first child was b. in this country. He resided in Marblehead, Wenham and Lunenburg, before he came to Shirley, -- which was about the year 1741, a few years before its incorpora- tion. He lived upon an estate near Lunenburg line, which has not retained a separate existence, but has been united with others. He
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had a fair standing in town, notwithstanding his outlandish birth, and was a selectman for the years 1763 and 1764. He and his wife d. in Shirley. They had nine children :
I. JOHN, b. at Marblehead, Jan. 13, 1729.
II. MARGARET, b. at Wenham, June 24, 1732, d. at Shirley, Aug. 28, 1752.
III. CHARLES, b. at Wenham, May 27, 1735, m. Anna 一 and had three children whose birth-dates have found a place on the records of Shirley :
1. CHARLES, b. Sept. 5, 1757.
2. MARY, b. Aug. 20, 1759.
3. DANIEL, b. at Groton, Aug. 23, 1761.
IV. MITCHEL, b. at Wenham, May 27, 1737, m. Esther and had six children, five of whom were b. at Shirley :
1. JOHN, b. Sept. 18, 1762.
2. MITCHEL, b. June 19, 1764, attempted to m. Lydia Davis of Harvard, but his father appeared personally and forbade the bans.
3. JOANNA, b. at Lunenburg, May 4, 1768.
4. ESTHER, b. at Shirley, March 11, 1773.
5. ELIZABETH, b. May 28, 1775.
6. MARTHA, b. Jan. 27, 1780.
V. EDWARD, b. at Lunenburg, Aug. 25, 1740, m. Mary and had four children b. at Lunenburg. In 1779 he proposed to remove to Shirley (with his wife and children, viz., Edward, Molly, Eleanor, and Margaret,)-under the auspices of Mr. Jonas Parker ; but the selectmen of Shirley refused, June 2nd of that year, to admit them as legal inhabitants.
VI. ELIZABETH, b. at Groton, (afterward Shirley,) Feb. 22, 1742.
VII. MOSES, b. at Groton, (afterward Shirley,) May 24, 1745.
VIII. ELEANOR, b. at Groton, (afterward Shirley,) April 26, 1748.
IX. SURAINA, b. at Groton, (afterward Shirley,) Sept. 15, 1850.
RITTER.
This is a very uncommon name. It does not appear in the Gene- alogical Dictionary of Mr. Savage, nor in any published genealogy that has come in our way ; but the name is found on the records of Shirley. In the latter part of the last century,
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Ritter, Moses, lived in the northwesterly part of the town, near the present residence of Abram Fairbanks. Dec. 8, 1791, he was m. to Elizabeth Diggins ; and Lydia Ritter, supposed to be his daughter, was m. to Ezra Clapp of Lunenburg, June 28, 1811. This is all that is known of them.
ROBBINS.
Mr. Stearns, the historian of Rindge, says there are several families in New England bearing the name of Robbins ;- meaning, we sup- pose, that there have been several distinct immigrations of persons of the name, who claim no relationship, one with the other ;- and their posterity have spread themselves through a large portion of the Eastern States. Savage says that thirteen of the name have gradu- ated from Yale College, nine from Harvard University, and seven from other New-England colleges. This shows that they have been both numerous and distinguished. Butler says, in his History of Groton, that a family by the name of Robbins was settled in that town as early as 1697, and were probably the immediate posterity of immigrants. From this Groton family descended the Robbins family of Shirley,-descendants of the name still being residents in the town.
Robbins, Eleazer, was b. at Harvard, May 15, 1751. He was a son of Eleazer Robbins of Harvard, who, it is supposed, was a son of Eleazer Robbins of Groton, and b. there, July 18, 1714.
The subject of this notice served his country in the Revolutionary war, and is said to have been engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was twice m. ; (first) to Martha Warner of Guilford, Vt., by whom he had one child, a daughter, who d. in infancy, or while very young. He then, with his wife, united with the Shaker community, and be- came, as he then supposed, a permanent receiver of their faith and church polity ; so much so as to freely incorporate his private property with the general funds of the order,-a step which he was led subse- quently to regret. Mrs. Robbins d. while with the Shakers-and her widowed husband soon after renounced his faith in their mysteries, and again mingled himself with the outside world. He m. a second wife, Mrs. Polly Warren, widow of Benjamin Warren of Shirley, Oct. 15, 1797. At the time of his second marriage he resided at Lancas- ter, but he subsequently lived in Shirley and other places, and died at Groton, Jan. 30, 1819. His widow then came to Shirley, and passed the residue of her years in the house now occupied by her eldest son, Elder Eleazer Robbins. She d. at Cambridge, June 17, 1845, and was interred ,in the old cemetery at Shirley. She had ten children :
I. HANNAH B., b. at Lancaster, May 27, 1798, m. John Cham- berlain, June, 1839. Their home was in Hartford, Conn., and they had one child :
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II. AEROBA, b. at Lancaster, Nov. 16, 1799, m. Jotham Keys of Princeton, Jan. 15, 1824. Her home was at Princeton, and she d. there, April 2, 1876. She had six children, b. at Princeton :
1. GEORGE, b. 1826.
2. EDWIN, b. 1828, d. 1829.
3. JOHN H., b. 1830, d. 1833.
4. EDWIN, b. 1832, d. 1834.
5. MARY R., b. 1835.
6. WILLIAM, b. 1837, d. 1844.
III. SARAH MANNING, b. at Lancaster, Sept. 25, 1801, m. Maurice O'Connor, April 10, 1823. He was b. at Wexford county, Ireland, June 18, 1795. She has had nine children :
1. JOHN RODERICK, b. Jan. 16, 1824.
2. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 28, 1826, d. July 22, 1826.
3. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 27, 1827.
4. CORNELIA ROSALINDA, b. March 23, 1830, d. June 17, 1830.
5. WILLIAM EDWIN, b. May 5, 1831, d. June 30, 1831.
6. JEROME ALONZO, b. Aug. 5, 1832.
7. LUCY AEROBA, b. April 1, 1835.
8. CHARLES BENJAMIN CLINTON, b. April 20, 1838.
9. MARTHA ANGELINA, b. Dec. 8, 1839.
IV. ROSALINDA DAVIS, b. at Shirley, July 5, 1803, m. John Parsons, b. March 27, 1806, a son of John and Lucy Parsons of Alfred, Maine. They were m. Oct. 16, 1834. Their first home was in Chesterfield, Maine, but they have since lived at Charles- town, and now reside in Shirley (1883). She has had four children :
1. JOHN ELEAZER, b. at Chesterfield, Maine, Nov. 20, 1835. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, March 11, 1863. He was enrolled as surgeon in the United States navy three years, and held the same position in the army for one year, which kept him in the public service during the rebel war. He is now a settled physician in Ayer (1883), and is fast advancing his repu- tation as a skilful and trustworthy medical adviser.
2. WILLIAM USHER, b. at Chesterfield, July 20, 1838, d. at Alfred, Feb 1, 1840.
3. CHARLES OLIVER, b. at Chesterfield, May 25, 1842, d. at Cher- ryfield, Me., Aug. 24, 1844.
4. CHARLES OLIVER, b. Dec. 25, 1846.
V. MARY, b. June 24, 1805, m. James Hall of Cambridge, a native of Scotland, April 3, 1838, d. Oct. 31, 1858.
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VI. ELEAZER, b. at Chesterfield, N. H., May 30, 1807. He has been thrice m., (first) to Huldah H. Leavell of Effingham, N. H., Jan. 29, 1837 ; she d. at Waterborough, Me., Oct. 5, 1846 ; he m. (second) Arabella Frances Baker of Portland, June 29, 1847 ; she d. at Shirley, March 13, 1875 ; he m. (third) Mrs. Roxanna Hart- well of Hartford, Conn., Nov. 4, 1878, r. at Shirley (1883). Mr. Robbins is a clergyman of the Baptist denomination, and has been located in different places as a preacher of that faith. He has manifested an earnestness in his pulpit and pastoral labors, such as rarely fails of producing salutary results. He has had five children :
1. MARY CORDELIA, b. at Effingham, April 21, 1838, d. at Shirley, Sept. 23, 1863.
2. JAMES NEWTON, b. at Waterborough, Maine, Aug. 8, 1840, died Feb. 21, 1842.
3. CHARLES FREEMAN, b. at Waterborough, Sept. 10, 1843. He was a soldier of the Federal army during the war of the Rebellion. While out on a foraging expedition he was siezed by a gang of Mosby's border ruffians, and was eventually incarcerated in Libby prison, where he was suffered to die of starvation, Dec. 7, 1864.
4. FRANK HALL, b. at Waterborough, Nov. 17, 1845, d. at Shirley, March 13, 1875.
5. ARABELLA FRANCES, b. at Waterborough, Sept. 7, 1848, m. Rev. Ernest Scott of Stoughton. He was b. there, March 5, 1850, and graduated from Tufts College, Medford, June 17, 1874. They have lived in Brentwood and South Hampton, N. H., and in 1881 removed to Centerville, Mass. They have had four children :
(I.) Ethel Arabella Mc Collester, b. at Harvard, Sept. 1, 1875.
(2.) Ernest Robbins, b. at Brentwood, Aug. 5, 1877.
3.) Walter Erving, b. at South Hampton, Sept. 29, 1878.
(4.) Olive Jewell, b. at South Hampton, Feb. 17, 1880.
VII. MARTHA W., b. at Hinsdale, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1809, m. Henry F. Magee of Cambridge, May 12, 1835. She r. Cambridge (1881), has had three children, and is a widow.
1. MARSTON E., b. at Cambridge, Dec. 12, 1835, d. Feb. 15, 1867.
2. GEORGE E., (called George E. Hall,) b. at Shirley, Dec. 30, 1837.
3. WASHINGTON WEBSTER, b. at Roxbury, Nov. 10, 1839, d. Feb. II, 1875.
VIII. BENJAMIN WARREN, b. at Lancaster, April 19, 1812. He has been twice m., (first) to Lucy K. Farnsworth of Groton, June 1, 1836 ; she d. March 1, 1873 ; he m. (second) Melinda Smith, May 13, 1877, r. Shirley (1881). He has had eleven chil- dren :
1. DANIEL O., b. at Cambridge, April 18, 1837, d. Sept. 27, 1837.
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HISTORY OF SHIRLEY.
2. BENJAMIN W., b. at Cambridge, Aug. 11, 1838.
3. CHARLES H., b. at Waterborough, Me., April 18, 1841.
4. MARTHA A., b. at Waterborough, May 30, 1842.
5. ALBERT F., b. Oct. 17, 1843.
6. MARY, b. Feb. 17, 1845.
7. FREDERICK N., b. Jan. 3, 1847.
8. JAMES H., b. July 9, 1848.
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