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1. EZRA, b. at Shirley, Jan. 27, 1783. He left home in early active life, and became a seaman, but soon found his last voyage, from which he never returned.
2. REBECCAH, (or Beccah, as she was familiarly known in early life,) was b. at Shirley, Jan. 21, 1786. Her father d. when she was seven years of age, at which time she went to live with her uncle, Nathan Smith, where she remained many years, and where the children of her first husband were born. She was twice m., (first) to Artemas Whitney of Shirley, and (second) to James Page (see Page record, p. 572). Rebeccah had four children by Mr. Whitney, all b. at Shirley :
(1.) Albert, b. Sept. 4, 1813, m. Lucy Conant, April 19, 1836, d. Feb. 26, 1864. He had two children : I. "Charles Albert,"
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b. Sept. 15, 1838, d. June 5, 1841 ; 2. "James Tyler," b. Feb. 9, 1842, r. Leominster (1881), unm.
(2.) Prescott, b. April 29, 1816, d. July 10, 1827.
(3.) Varnum, b. May 26, 1818, m. Abigail C. Parker of Lunen- burg, d. Oct. 6, 1850. He had four children, all b. at Lunenburg : I. "Albert J.," b. May, 1844, d. within a year ; 2. "Henry Hays," b. July 27, 1845 ; he was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, d. at Memphis, Aug. 22, 1863; 3. "Thomas P.," b. May 24, 1848, r. Lunenburg, unm. (1881) ; 4. "Abbie F.," b. Oct. 6, 1850, m. John F. Howard, Aug. 18, 1866, r. Lunenburg (1881); she has two children : I. Lulu E., b. April 13, 1867 ; 2. Minnie S., b. Jan. 23, 1870. (4.) Sally, d. July 11, 1827.
V. ANNA, b. at Shirley, May 13, 1757, m. William Reed of Ches- terfield, N. H., 1778.
VI. DANIEL, b. at Shirley, Oct. 31, 1762, m. - McDaniels.
VII. PRISCILLA, m. Jonathan Farewell of Harvard.
Smith, Edward, m. Annie Blood of Groton, Nov. 24, 1786. He had three children b. at Shirley :
I. ANNIE DAMON, b. Oct. 28, 1787.
II. EDWARD, b. Aug. 23, 1789.
III. JANET, b. Nov. 14, 1791.
Smith, Ebenezer, m. Hannah Farnsworth. He had three children, b. at Shirley :
I. ESTHER SHROVE, b. April 15, 1782.
II. EBENEZER, b. Sept. 26, 1783.
III. JOSEPH, b. March 22, 1785.
SOLENDINE.
Solendine, John, b. at Groton, April 28, 1725. He became a resident of Shirley at early manhood, and after having been here for a time, removed to the northern part of Lancaster. He m. Dorcas Whipple of Groton, June 17, 1752. In 1753, (May 22 and 23,) his wife gave birth to twins, and d. a few hours afterward. His children were :
I. JOHN, b. May 22, 1753.
II. DORCAS, b. May 23, 1753.
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SPAULDING.
We cannot learn that more than one family of this name resided in Shirley before the present century. The head of that family was
Spaulding, Dezekiah. He was b. at Townsend, Feb. 27, 1774, m. March 27, 1798, Sally Lewis, (who was b. at Groton, Feb. 26, 1776.) They settled on the farm which had been the home of Dea. John Heald, whose family has been registered in this history. It is located at the extreme north section of the town, is excellent land, and has been under skilful cultivation from the beginning. Mr. Spaulding was a farmer, and well understood his calling ; he had a large family, and was forced to expend much in building, and en- larging his boundaries ; yet he kept free from debt, and yearly increased the sum total of his finances, while he lived. His wife, too, was a pattern of industry, economy, and maternal wisdom. She trained up children who were ever ready to call her blessed ; she lived to old age, and retained the use of her faculties unto the last. She d. Jan. 2, 1871, aged almost ninety-five years. Mr. Spaulding was called before her to the spirit-world. He d. April 23, 1856. They had eleven children :
I. ELIZA, b. Jan. 25, 1799, m. Dea. John Spaulding, May 3, 1830. She d. March 28, 1832. She had one child :
1. ABEL, b. Sept. 21, 1831, m. Sarah E. Twining, Nov. 11, 1862.
II. JOHN, b. Nov. 30, 1800. He has been twice m., (first) to Catharine Kendall of Dunstable; m. (second) Mrs. Adeline McMartin.
III. ABEL, b. Nov. 20, 1802. He has been twice m., (first) to Elizabeth Kendall, May 28, 1829; m. (second) Mary J. Risker, Nov. 20, 1856. He has had two children, r. Groton (1883).
1. SARAH O., b. Sept. 1, 1830, m. N. W. Perkins, Dec. 27, 1865.
2. ARTHUR K., b. Sept. 21, 1861.
IV. EDWARD, b. July 24, 1804, d. Aug. 30, 1804.
V. SALLY, b. Aug. 1, 1805, d. Dec. 28, 1825.
VI. GEORGE, b. Jan. 4, 1807, m. Lovinia Conant, d. June 12, 1847. He had three children :
1. CHARLES L., b. May 8, 1831, m. Mary E. Williams, d. Oct. 15, 1864.
2. SARAH L., b. Dec. 26, 1836, d. April 17, 1859.
3. LORENZO W., b. Sept. 8, 1838, m. Eliza Parker, July 24, 1866.
VII. HANNAH, b. Oct. 10, 1809, m. Moses P. Moulton of Boston, d. Jan. 17, 1855. She had one child .:
1. ANGELINE A. M., b. Dec. 26, 1833, d. July 23, 1867, unm.
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VIII. ELIZABETH, b. March 31, 1813, m. Anselm Lothrop, May 26, 1844, d. March 31, 1878. She had five children :
1. HARRIET S. L., b. May 7, 1845, m. Edward A. Talbot, July 7, 1873.
2. CHARLES L. L., b. Oct. 11, 1846, m. Mary Heustis, Sept. 1, 1869.
3. CLARA M. L., b. April 4, 1848.
4. EMMA F. L., b. Nov. 12, 1849, m. Melzar Farnsworth, April 19, 1871, r. Shirley (1883).
5. ANGELINE M., b. Feb. 25, 1852, m. R. Fenno Caverly, Feb. 1, 1876. IX. NANCY, b. June 14, 1815, d. March 5, 1847, unm.
X. HEZEKIAH, b. June 14, 1818, m. Lucy A. Hartwell of Shirley, Nov. 2, 1844. He r. in Shirley (1883), and has had six children :
1. KATE L., b. April 1, 1845, r. Shirley, unm. (1883.)
2. ABBIE A., b. Jan. 20, 1847, m. Albert D. Turner, June 1, 1871.
3. JUSTIN, b. Aug. 21, 1849.
4. JOHN E., b. July 11, 1852.
5. NATHANIEL H., b. Sept. 28, 1854, d. Sept. 13, 1855.
6. HEZZIE, b. Aug. 2, 1858.
XI. HARRIET, b. June 14, 1818, m. Abram H. Fairbanks, April 15, 1846, r. Shirley (1883). She has had two children, both b. at Shirley :
1. GRANVILLE, b. Feb. 1, 1847, m. Martha S. Spaulding, Sept. 26, 1874.
2. EDWIN L., b. March 17, 1849, m. Augusta A. Cook of Lunen- burg, Aug. 7, 1872.
STICKNEY.
Stickney, Peter, lived at Shirley before the present century. All that is known of him is in the following entry copied from the records of the town :
"Peter Stickney of Shirley and Eunice Carlton, intend marriage. Nov. 7, 1780. Obadiah Sawtell, Town Clerk."
STIMSON.
Stimson, Stephen. It cannot be here recorded when or where he was born, but he married Maria Lawrence of Pepperell, lived for a time at Templeton, and afterward at Groton ; whence he removed to Shirley at a period previous to 1777. He lived at the South Village of the town, at what was the residence of the late
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Eleazer Davis, (now the property of George Davis, Esq.,) and had a farm connected with his home. He was jestingly called "the gov- ernor." He removed from the town, and from the Commonwealth, for a distant home, while many of his children were yet in their minority. He had eleven children :
I. ASA, b. at Templeton, April 27, 1773.
II. THIRSA, b. at Groton, April 28, 1775, m. William Shaw of Shirley, Nov. 28, 1799.
III. RUTH, b. at Shirley, Feb. 7, 1777, m. James Dodge of Lunen- burg, pub. March 2, 1794.
IV. THOMAS LAWRENCE, b. at Shirley, Jan. 1, 1779.
V. MARIA, b. at Shirley, Feb. 25, 1781.
VI. STEPHEN, b. at Shirley, July 12, 1783.
VII. DAVID, b. at Shirley, Oct. 11, 1785.
VIII. SALLY, b. at Shirley, Jan. 20, 1 788.
IX. NABBY, b. at Shirley, April 12, 1791.
X. SOLOMON, b. at Shirley, May 4, 1793.
XI. LUCY, b. at Shirley, April 4, 1799.
STONE.
The following entry appears in the Shirley registry, which shows that a family of the above name has resided here :
"David Stone, and Lydia, his wife, and their daughter, Molly, and their grandson, John Stone, came from Townsend to reside in Shirley, Dec. ye 9, 1773. The selectmen refuse to admit them as inhabitants of Shirley. Obadiah Sawtell, Dist. Clerk."
TROWBRIDGE.
On the second day of March, 1714, Rev. Caleb Trowbridge was ordained over the church at Groton-of which town Shirley was then a part. He was a son of James Trowbridge of Watertown, and was b. Nov. 7, 1692, was twice m., and had nine children. The eighth in the family lived in Shirley for a season, and is therefore entitled to a place in this registry.
Trowbridge, Thomas, b. at Groton, March 12, 1739, was twice m., (first) to Lucy Woods of Groton, Oct. 29, 1761, by whom he had three children. He m. (second) Ruth Nevers, and had seven children. It was with his first wife that he lived while a resident of Shirley, two of whose children were born here :
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I. LYDIA, b. Dec. 25, 1763.
II. OLIVER, b. Oct. 23, 1764.
WALKER.
The ancestry of the Walker families of Groton and Shirley may be traced with reasonable certainty to Capt. Richard Walker, who came from England in 1630, and settled at Lynn. He was born in 1592, was admitted a freeman of the colony in 1634, and lived a long, active and useful life, much respected by his townsmen. He was chosen ensign of the military company of Lynn in 1630, and after- wards successively its lieutenant and captain.+ In 1638 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and the same year was chosen by the town one of a Committee to divide the common lands, or, as it was termed, "to lay out ffarmes." In this division Richard Walker's allotment was 200 acres of "upland and meadow."-( Hist. of Lynn, pp. 171, 172.) In 1640 and 1641, and again in 1648 and 1649, he was selected the deputy of Lynn to the General Court.
Lewis, the historian of Lynn, gives the following incident concern- ing him. In 1630, the people of Lynn becoming alarmed by a report that hostile Indians were meditating an attack on the town, appointed men for a night watch. "Once, about midnight, Ensign Richard Walker, who was on the guard, heard the bushes break near him, and felt an arrow pass through his coat and 'buff waistcoat.' As the night was dark, he could see no one, but he discharged his gun, which, being heavily loaded, split in pieces. He then called the guard, and returned to the place, when he had another arrow shot through his clothes. Deeming it imprudent to proceed in the dark against a concealed enemy, he desisted from further search till morning. The people then assembled and discharged their cannon into the woods ; after which the Indians gave them no further mo- lestation."
Capt. Richard Walker died at Lynn, May, 1687, at the great age of ninety-five years. Judge Sewall, in his Diary, thus briefly mentions his burial : "Monday, May 16, 1687. I go to Reading to visit Mr. Brock, and so to Salem. This day Capt. Walker, a very aged planter, buried at Lin." He had children, two sons and two daughters, viz. : Richard, born 1611, who came over in 1635, and settled at Reading, -noted for his bravery as a captain in the Indian wars; Samuel, born 1615, who came with his father in 1630; Tabitha, who married Daniel King, March 11, 1662; and Elizabeth, who married Ralph King, March 2, 1663.
Samuel Walker, Senior, of Woburn, is supposed to have been the son of Capt. Richard Walker, of Lynn .- ( Hist. of Woburn, p. 170.) He was born in England, 1615, accompanied his father to New England in 1630, and after residing for a while at Lynn, removed
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with his brother Richard to Reading-originally Lynn Village. To whom he was married has not been ascertained-nor for how long a time he was a resident of Reading. He had children-Samuel, born 1643 ; Joseph, 1645 ; a daughter, 1647; Israel and Hannah, (twins,) 1648; John, 1650; and Benjamin, 1651, (died soon) ; all of whom were probably born in Reading,-as we find the name of Samuel Walker and wife in a list of members of the Reading church in 1650 or soon after. In 1652 the name of Samuel Walker also appears in a division of land by order of the town of Reading, in which he drew a "lotte" of fourteen acres of "playne land." "Previous to the year 1662 he removed to Woburn,-his name being first mentioned in the records of Woburn in that year, as one of the highway surveyors of the town. By occupation he was a maltster. He was approved by the selectmen of Woburn in 1675, for a license to keep a tavern,- being the first person known to have followed that business in the town. Sewall, the historian of Woburn, says "he appears to have been much respected in his day, being chosen selectman in 1668, and appointed by the town the year before on a very important com- mittee for taking 'a List of the persons and estates of the right Pro- prietors,' among whom it had been voted to divide a large portion of the common lands of the town." He died Nov. 6, 1684; when (agreeably to a testimony given by him in court in 1658) he must have been sixty-nine years of age.
Joseph Walker, born 1645, son of Samuel Walker, Senior, of Woburn, and grandson of Richard Walker of Lynn, became a resi- dent of Billerica in 1667, and made that town his home for life. The date of his settlement is shown by the following extract from the records of the town : "26. 6m. 67. The town of Billerica granted to Joseph Walker liberty to be an inhabitant in their town, in case hee can provide for his owne comfortable subsistance ; also, the towne do declare willingness to gratify him with some convenience of land, as they shall see meet afterward." The next year the following record appears : "22 March, 1668. The towne did grant to Joseph Walker priviledge upon our towne comons for the future, in all lands that are not divided nor agreed upon for division before this day, to the pro- portion of a five-acre lot, or half a single share." He received several grants of land from the town, and made purchase of more,- from the location of which it is inferred that he lived in the easterly part of Billerica, near Woburn line .- (See Hazen's Hist. Billerica.)
His name appears as tythingman of Billerica in 1667 ; he was ad- mitted a freeman 1678, and was a representative to the General Court in 1689. He married, Dec. 15, 1669, Sarah Wyman, (b. April 15, 1650,) daughter of John and Sarah (Nutt) Wyman of Woburn. His wife died Jan. 26, 1 728-9, aged seventy-eight ; and he died July, 1 729, at the age of eighty-four. Their children were Sarah, b. 1670, (d. in infancy) ; Joseph, 1673, (died) ; Sarah, 1676, (m. Benjamin Johnson of Woburn) ; Elizabeth, 1678, (m. Samuel Fitch of Billerica) ; Hannah, 1680, (m. Nathaniel Hill of Billerica) ; Susanna, 1682, (d. in infancy) ; John, 1684 ; Benjamin, 1686 ; Jacob, 1689, and Seth, Oct. 12, 1691.
Seth Walker, the youngest of the ten children above named, married, April 4, 1716, Eleanor Chandler, of Concord, (born 1695,)
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daughter of William and Eleanor (Phelps) Chandler of Andover, and became a resident of Groton as early as 1734. The births of their two youngest children, only, appear on the records of Groton ; but four others are supposed to have been born previous to their settlement in that town. In 1741 Mr. Walker removed from Groton to the new township of Narraganset No. 2, now Westminster, and located at the outlet of Westminster Pond, where he erected a grist- mill-the first ever built in the town. Previous to the year 1750 he removed to Number Four, (afterwards called Charlestown, N. H.) In that year his name appears in the roll of Captain Phinehas Stevens' company, raised for the protection of that frontier settlement against the French and Indians. He was one of the grantees of Charles- town under the New-Hampshire charter in 1753,-was one of a committee the same year to provide a place for public worship, and in 1754 was appointed one of a committee to attend to the build- ing of a dwelling-house for the first settled minister of the town. He was an active and useful citizen, and his name often appears in the records of the municipal affairs of the settlement.
The children of Seth and Eleanor (Chandler) Walker were Seth, b. April 16, 1717 ; Eleanor, b. March 11, 1719, (who m. May 25, 1741, Nathaniel Parker, Jr., of Groton) ; Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1721 ; Lucy, (who m. Jan. 10, 1751, Philemon Holden of Shirley,)-see Holden family, p. 462 ; Abel,* b. at Groton, April 20, 1734 ; and Sybil, b. at Groton, March 23, 1736 ;- and perhaps there were others.
*Abel Walker, son of Seth and Eleanor, became a resident of Charlestown (No. 4) in early life, and was a prominent and leading man in the town. He m. Feb. 26, 1767, Elizabeth, widow of Phinehas Graves and daughter of Isaac Parker, Jr., of Groton. He kept a tavern or house of entertainment, in Charles- town, from 1760, for upwards of thirty years. He took an active part in the military as well as municipal affairs of the town, was one of a committee of safety in 1775, held a captain's commission during the exciting times of the Revo- lution, and was often called into active service in the cause of independence. In the winter of 1776 he went with a company to the relief of the Continental forces at Quebec, after the disastrous failure of Arnold's expedition ;- was repeatedly called to the defence of Ticonderoga, and in 1777 participated in the battle of Bennington, under the gallant Stark,-his company and regiment being in the most fiercely contested part of the field. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, which gave him the title by which he was afterwards known. Col. Walker was treasurer of the town of Charlestown for a period of eight years, from 1772, and was selectman in 1787 and 1789. He d. in Charles- town, March 14, 1815, aged eighty-one. His wife, Elizabeth, d. Oct. 8, 1806, aged sixty-two.
They had ten children, of whom only four lived to maturity. A daughter- 1. PHILA, b. Jan. 19, 1773, m. Col. Aaron Dean of Charlestown ; of her chil- dren, Nathaniel d. unmarried ; a daughter, Sally Walker, m. Hon. Henry Hub- bard of Charlestown, afterwards governor of New Hampshire; another, Catherine, m. Waldo Flint of Boston, and d. without issue; Rebecca Scott m. Hon. Stephen Salisbury of Worcester-had one son, Stephen Salisbury, Jr. 2. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 7, 1778, m. Thomas Melville of Charlestown-had two children, Nancy and George. 3. ABEL, JR., b. Sept. 11, 1783, m. Sally Doolittle of Westmoreland, N. H .; was a useful and esteemed citizen of Charlestown- had three children, Mary D., Phinehas, and Samuel-and d. Oct. 3, 1827. 4. ELEUTHERA, b. July 21, 1786, m. John Willard, Jr., of Charlestown-had twelve children, ten of whom lived to manhood and womanhood, and have numerous descendants. Mrs. Willard d. April 12, 1862. He d. April 9, 1852 .- [See San- derson's History of Charlestown.]
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Tradition says that Eleanor Chandler, wife of Seth Walker, was a small but a very strong woman. "She could set barrels of cyder into the cart as fast as a man could roll them up to her." She died Nov. 6, 1769, aged seventy-four. Mr. Walker died July 7, 1772, at the age of eighty years. Both died in Charlestown, and their remains sleep in the village cemetery, where suitable stones, erected to their memo- ry, mark their last resting-places.
Their two eldest sons, Seth and Samuel, became residents of Shir- ley, and the latter made it his home for life. They lived on farms in the south-east part of the town, bordering on the Nashua river.
Walter, Seth,5 (Seth,4 Joseph,3 Samuel,2 Richard,1) b. April 16, 1717, m. Jan. 14, 1742, Abigail Holden, (b. Sept. 15, 1719,) daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Stone) Holden of Groton. He was a resident of Shirley in 1753, the year of its incorporation, and prob- ably had resided on the same farm in the south-east part of the town, from the date of his marriage,-the births of four of his children, born previous to 1753, being recorded in Groton. He remained here till about the year 1760, when he removed to Charlestown, N. H., and settled on one of the rich meadow farms of that town, afterwards occupied by his son-in-law, Peter Evans. His wife, Abigail, died in Charlestown, Jan. 31, 1762, and he married (second) Jemima He was injured by a fall from his house, while making repairs, and died Jan. 4, 1794. His wife, Jemima, died in Charlestown, March 22, 1807, aged seventy-seven. He had eight children by first marriage, and three by the second. Children :
I. NATHANIEL, b. in Groton, Nov. 6, 1742, d. Sept. 23, 1753, in Shirley.
II. SYBIL, b. in Groton, March 3, 1745.
III. SETH, b. in Groton, April 5, 1747. He was the first settler in that part of Charlestown, N. H., afterwards set off and incorporated as Langdon. He went to the place in 1773, fifteen years before the organization of the town, and died there, Nov., 1804 ;- being
. drowned in a well, at his home, into which he is supposed to have accidentally fallen. The name of Seth Walker appears, in 1777, as sergeant in Capt. Abel Walker's company, called from Charles- town to the defence of Ticonderoga,-and is also found on impor- tant committees in the municipal records of Langdon. He was married and had children, but no account of his family has been obtained, beyond the fact that he had a son, named-
1. SOLOMON, who was living at the time of his father's death.
IV. ABIGAIL, b. in Groton, June 10, 1750, mar. Eliab Gleason of Charlestown, N. H. ; died there, May 20, 1788.
V. ASA, b. in Shirley, Sept. 8, 1753, settled in the south-easterly part of Charlestown, (afterwards Langdon, N. H.) ; was twice mar- ried, and died Nov. 8, 1804. Mr. Walker was one of the peti- tioners for the incorporation of Langdon. His first wife was Sally -, who died Feb. 19, 1793, aged forty-two. He m. (second) -
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Jan. 2, 1794, Sarah Perry of Langdon, by whom he had six chil- dren. (After Mr. Walker's death his widow m. - Brown.) Mr. Walker's children, by second marriage, were-
1. THEDA, mar. Josiah Crosby of Alstead, N. H. ; died Jan. 6, 1881, aged eighty-seven. Mr. Crosby d. Dec. 7, 1852, aged sixty-four. They had no children.
2. ALVAH, b. 1795, married Harriet Blake of Charlestown, N. H., (adopted daughter of Peter Evans.) He was in trade for a while at Drewsville, N. H., afterwards kept a hotel at Charlestown, and later became proprietor of the Cheshire House, at Keene, N. H., where he died Oct. 25, 1842. His widow, Harriet Blake, died at the residence of her son, in Corning, N. Y., 1881. Children : I. James Evans, born at Drewsville, became a member of the large iron firm, Corning & Company, of Troy, N. Y., and died in Albany.
2. John, died young.
3. Charles C. C. Brainard, removed to Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y., where he entered upon a successful business career, and in 1874 was elected a member of the 44th Congress. He re- sides in Corning,-is married, and has had two sons and two daughters.
4. Harriet, m. Dr. Troup, of Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., had one child, a daughter, who was left an orphan at a tender age, and adopted by her uncle, Charles C. C. B. Walker, of Corning.
3. CLARA, b. in Langdon, married John Ingalls, son of John and Hannah (Massie) Ingalls, of Walpole, N. H. They had nine children,-all but one b. in Walpole. The family removed about 1832 to Dansville, Steuben Co., N. Y., where Mr. and Mrs. In- galls died. Children :
I. Eliza, born 1817, died unmarried, aged twenty-one.
2. Maria, born Oct. 31, 1819, m. King Belding Chapman, born Sept. 11, 1808, son of Calvin Chapman of Keene, N. H. They reside in Keene, (1883) ;- have no children.
3. Cynthia, b. 1821, m. Austin Rollins, a farmer, of Steuben Co., N. Y., and died in Dansville. They had two children : I. " George," is m. and has children ; 2. " A son," d. æ. two yrs.
4. Newcomb, b. 1823, m. Elizabeth Preston, r. Steuben Co., N. Y., (1883)-a farmer. Has had three children : I. "Frank," and a son and daughter, both of whom died in infancy.
5. Lucy, b. 1825, m. Lewis Robinson, and died in Steuben Co., N. Y., aged forty-two, leaving no children.
6. Albert, m. Lois Gilbert of Steuben Co., N. Y. ; two children : I. "Merriam ;" 2. " Fred."
7. Caroline, m. -- Osborne, a farmer, of Steuben Co., N. Y. They have two children : 1. "Albert ;" 2. "Clara."
8. Helen, m. George Flint, a farmer of Steuben Co., N. Y. ;- one child-1. " Mary."
9. Harriet, born in Danville, Steuben Co., N. Y., died unmar- ried, aged twenty.
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4. ORPHA, b. 1799, m. Dec. 28, 1817, Samuel Waldo, of Langdon. Removed, 1852, to Iowa, where Mrs. Waldo d. Nov. 1857 ; he d. June, 1876, aged eighty. They had ten children, b. in Langdon : (1.) Sarah E., b. Dec. 1818, m. J. Heywood of Iowa ; d. Nov. '57. (2.) Maria, b. May 1821, m. Leonard Buckminster, d. June, 1842. (3.) Asa P., b. April, 1823, m. Mary Allen, of Vt., d. Feb. 1883. (4.) Sam'l F., b. Nov. 1826, m. Harriet Blanchard, Cavendish, Vt.
(5.) Rosamond, b. 1829, m. Sept. 22, 1846, Amos R. Hubbard, son of Jacob P. Hubbard of Chesterfield, N. H. Mr. Hubbard is a farmer of Chesterfield,-selectman 1872, '73 and '76. Children : 1. "Rawson W.," b. Jan. 27, 1848, d. unm., April 8, 1881 ; 2. "Flora A.," b. Sept. 3, 1851, m. Nov. 21, 1873, Levi B. Ware of Westmoreland, N. H., and d. Feb. 3, 1881 ; 3. "Clara M.," b. Oct. 4, 1853, m. Nov. 21, 1871, Charles M. Davis of Chesterfield, N. H., and d. March 16, 1879; 4. "Etta L.," b. Nov. 16, 1866 ; 5. "Luna B.," b. April 25, 1870.
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