History of the town of Shirley, Massachusetts, from its early settlement to A.D. 1882, Part 59

Author: Chandler, Seth
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Shirley, Mass. : The Author
Number of Pages: 836


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day of his death, and his trade was very large, owing to an ex- tensive manufacture of palm-leaf hats.


Combined with his mercantile pursuits, agriculture came in for a share of his attention ; and in this he was not the passive fol- lower of time-worn custom, but a judicious and consistent experimenter. By care and diligence his lands had a yearly increase of productiveness, his barns were necessarily enlarged, and his example proved from year to year that farming is an occupation no less thrifty than healthy.


In addition to all these private cares, Mr. Whitney was largely engaged in the public interests. He was, in early manhood, a member of the Middlesex Agricultural Society, held for a time a commanding place in the state militia, and filled many situa- tions of trust within the town. He was a selectman for ten years, town clerk three years, represented the town in the state legislature for two sessions, and was twice appointed to the state senate. Now, as he died at the age of forty-five years, his period of responsible action was confined to twenty-four years ! Surely it must be said that his talents were devoted to a careful usury. He had one child :


(1.) Henrietta Parker, b. at Shirley, March 11, 1837, m. Andrew McFarland Davis of Worcester, Oct. 23, 1862, r. Cambridge (1883). She has had four children : 1. "Bancroft Gherardi," b. at New York, Oct. 6, 1864; 2. "Eleanor Whitney," b. at New Brighton, May 12, 1867 ; 3. "Frederica King," b. at New Brighton, March 15, 1869 ; 4. "Horace Andrew," b. at New Brighton, July 16, 1870.


3. GEORGE ALFRED, b. May 30, 1809, m. Mary D. Hayward of Boston, Nov. 16, 1841, and d. at Boston, March 25, 1860. The following notice of him appeared in a Boston newspaper soon after his death :


"Mr. Whitney was a grandson of Rev. Phinehas Whitney,- the first minister of Shirley, whose pastorate was continued fifty- eight years. In youth Mr. Whitney was placed in a mercantile house as clerk, at Boston, and from early manhood unto the time of his death was extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits. In his business relations he was universally regarded an upright and honorable man. He was remarkable for his indomitable energy and for his untiring activity. Though for many years he was eminently successful as a merchant, he was, during the season of 1857, when about to retire with a competency from the cares to which his strongest days had been devoted, unexpectedly over- taken by mercantile disaster. And here was displayed the unconquerable will and intense greatness of purpose so charac- teristic of him. Though most men of his time of life, after years of severe and unremitting toil, would have sunk under dis- appointment so unlooked for and so disheartening, yet with all the courage and buoyancy of early manhood he began his busi- ness life anew, and re-entered with cheerfulness and hope its toilsome and uncertain ways. It was from the midst of these


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busy scenes of his earthly re-engagements that he was suddenly summoned away. Now, when one in the prime of his manhood and usefulness is thus removed from his place, leaving to our short-sighted vision his work but half accomplished, we pause to acknowledge the wisdom of a higher power, and purposes reaching beyond human comprehension.


"In the every-day affairs and duties of life Mr. Whitney was upright, manly and enthusiastic ; in his social relations he was a gentleman in the best acceptation of the term ; dignified, cour- teous and polite to all, generous, warm-hearted and affectionate to his friends, he was universally respected and beloved. The poor and suffering found in him a benefactor, and the institutions of virtue and religion a zealous patron. He brought with him into the circle of private life all that sunshine of deportment and amiableness of character which ever secured for his presence a hearty welcome. But it was in his own cheerful home that all the finer traits of his character were conspicuous, his almost womanly gentleness, the sweetness of his temper, his wise coun- sels and prudent forethought, his deep religious sentiments. It was here in the midst of his cherished family, that he ever sought and found the full measure of his happiness. This deso- late home is still hallowed by his invisible presence and by all the precious memories of his many virtues."


" His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man !"


Mr. Whitney had two children, b. at Boston :


(1.) James Phinehas, b. Jan. 12, 1847, d. Sept. 6, 1871. The following notice of him is copied from the Necrology of Harvard College :


"He had always lived in Boston, and was fitted by private tutors for the Latin School, in which he accomplished the full course. He entered College as a freshman in 1865, and graduated in 1869, with special honors in the departments of history and political economy. After his graduation he went abroad in company with several of his classmates, but was recalled after a short stay, by the illness of his only brother. From that time until he entered the Institute of Technology, in October, 1870, his time was devoted to the care of an in- valid brother, for whom he had a deep affection. His father's sudden death, during a temporary absence of a few hours, was a sad blow to his spirits and health, and diminished his power to resist the illness from which he died after days of intense suffering. He was of a modest and unassuming dis- position, pure and high minded, and incapable of a mean action. All those who knew him best fully understood his generous and unselfish character."


(2.) George Alfred, b. Nov. 15, 1847, d. Dec. 9, 1870. Mr. Whitney was one of nature's artists, or he surely inherited a


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love of art which gave much pleasure to his short life. His merits are set forth in an account given of him in the "Old and New," a literary magazine published in Boston at the time of his death, from which the following sentences have been taken :


"He had just entered his twenty-fourth year when he died ; and, in the five years between eighteen and twenty-three, he had been kept from his favorite occupation by failing health many long months, either in an invalid's retirement or in travel. But in so short a time, so much broken, always fol- lowing with the caution of a modest student, he steadily wrought at portrait modelling ; and always the delicacy of taste and eye with which he was born showed itself, supported with more and more steadiness and precision of hand. We have a list of thirteen careful portrait busts which he finished at that time. Besides these he had wrought one and another study for works of imagination, which interested him, or had a place in his plan of education, and which gave cheering promise of what he might do if his life was spared.


"In all these portraits, and in all his artist life, Mr. Whitney showed much more than the mechanical power of taking a likeness, which is so often mistaken for artistic genius. The characteristic which one remembers first of all was a single- hearted purity or sincerity of disposition,-a trait which appears at once in his own portrait of himself; which, in the depths of his shrinking modesty, marked all that he said, and which in one way or another way, appears in all his work. There was no disguise of any sort about him. He knew only the most direct ways to achieve an object, and the most simple words to express an idea. There is an exquisite beauty result- ing from this simplicity or purity in his portraits of himself which he has left behind him. To our eye it marks all his works, and had he lived, would have given to his works of imagination an inestimable value.


"The conscientiousness of all his portraits of others gives to his work a peculiar value ; and the few persons who ever sat to him for a likeness will always cherish the memory of the ready, enthusiastic, silent boy, as he saw his work grow more perfect under his hand, as one of the exquisite pictures of triumphant spiritual power working its miracles over stupid clay.


"The tenderest care could not preserve for us this delicate life ; and such memories as we have been tracing are all that is left to us. He died at the home of his mother in Boston. It is much to ask, that God send us other young men of aspirations, organization so delicate, and character so pure. If so great a prayer can be answered, it is by that gift more than by any other that art will assume its function in the elevation and improvement of the land."


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II. NICHOLAS BOWES, b. March 21, 1772, m. Ann Adams of Acton, Nov. 13, 1800, ordained pastor of the Second Parish in Hingham, Jan. 1, 1800, d. Nov. 26, 1835. (See College Grad- uates.) He had three children :


1. ANN CATHARINE, b. at Hingham, Jan. 7, 1802, m. Caleb Hersey, Dec. 25, 1821.


2. LYDIA BOWES, b. at Hingham, Aug. 27, 1807, d. July 5, 1838.


3. BENJAMIN LINCOLN, b. at Hingham, June 24, 1810, m. Caroline C. Holmes, Aug. 28, 1837, d. May 30, 1855 ; had four children.


III. LYDIA, b. at Shirley, Sept. 8, 1773, m. John Watson of Amherst, N. H., June 8, 1804, d. at Albany, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1853. Mrs. Watson was a Christian professor, and in her life she honored the name of Christian. She lived respected, and died regretted. She had six children. The first four were sons, were b. at Amherst, and d. in early childhood. The fifth was a daughter, b. at Albany, N. Y., and d. in infancy.


6. REBECCA, b. at Albany, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1815, r. Albany, unm. She abounds in kindness and good deeds, and from her rela- tives and friends has received much and merited respect.


IV. ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 8, 1775, m. Dr. Amos Parker of Bolton, May 1, 1805, d. at Bolton, Jan. 12, 1864. She had three children :


1. ELIZABETH LYDIA BOWES, b. at Bolton, July 9, 1809, d. at Boston, April 1, 1882, unm.


2. LOUISA JANE, b. at Bolton, Jan. 10, 1812, r. Bolton (1883), unm.


3. JOHN GREEN, b. Jan. 18, 1814, d., aged six weeks.


V. WILLIAM, b. Oct. 3, 1778, was twice m., (first) to Betsey Fisk of Bradford, March 29, 1802; she d. Feb. 24, 1810; he m. (second) Martha Symons, March 29, 1819 ; she d. Jan. 23, 1837. Mr. Whitney d. Jan. 29, 1837. He had two children :


1. WILLIAM FISK, b. May 19, 1803, m. Frances A. Rice of Boston, Jan. 17, 1827, d. at Boston, Jan. 21, 1868. Mrs. Whitney d. Oct. 30, 1867. They had five children, all b. at Boston :


(I.) David Rice, b. Jan. 10, 1828, graduated from Harvard University, 1848, m. Sophia Paine Dunn, April 3, 1855, is en- gaged in merchandise in Boston. He has had two children : I. " Frances Elinor," b. June 21, 1857 ; 2. "Mabel Blanche," b. May 16, 1865.


(2.) Frances Ellen, b. Dec. 29, 1829, m. William S. Lewis of Philadelphia, Sept. 18, 1849. She has had four children, b. at Manchester, Eng. : 1. "William Whitney," b. Sept., 1850; 2. "Henry Ashmead," b. June 6, 1854 ; 3. "Lilly Maude," b. June 29, 1857 ; 4. "Abraham Jarrett," b. Jan. 7, 1861.


(3.) Frederick William, b. Jan. 21, 1833, d. April 6, 1834.


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(5.) William Fisk, b. March 26, 1850, graduated at Harvard University ; is now connected with Harvard Medical School as an instructor (1882).


2. GEORGE HOWE, b. at Bedford, March 24, 1809, m. Elizabeth B. White of St. Charles, Mo., March 19, 1838, d. Nov. 28, 1858. He had seven children, all b. at St. Charles :


(1.) Mary Henrietta, b. Aug. 15, 1840, d. Aug. 21, 1840.


(2.) Mary Frances, b. Sept. 5, 1841, d. Feb. 19, 1846.


(3.) William Fisk, b. Jan. 20, 1843, d. Jan. 26, 1843.


(4.) William Fisk, b. Nov. 34, 1844, m. a daughter of Judge Bukner of Missouri.


(5.) Julia Harriet, b. Oct. 2, 1847, d. March 4, 1848.


(6.) Martha Ellen, b. April 19, 1849, d. Aug. 28, 1881.


(7.) Francis White, b. April 8, 1852, d. March 9, 1881.


VI. REBECCA COOK, b. Sept. 2, 1781, m. William B. Merriam of Bedford, May 16, 1801, d. She had four children :


1. WILLIAM STRONG, b. Feb. 15, 1802, m. Jane Inman of Essex, Jan. 3, 1821, d. May, 1854.


2. REBECCA LOUISA, b. March 6, 1805, m. William Inman, 1820.


3. SUSANNA WRIGHT, b. May 1, 1807, m. William McIntire, Jan. 3, 1826, d. Nov. 28, 1855.


4. ALBERT L., b. Feb. 20, 1810, m., and had ten children.


VII. PHINEHAS SULLIVAN, b. July 6, 1785, was thrice m., (first) to Lucy Cobb of Boston ; she d. March 30, 1821 ; he m. (second) Julia Robinson ; m. (third) Eliza Collard of Alexandria, Va. ; d. May 3, 1855.


VIII. SARAH, b. Dec. 19, 1787, d. at Shirley, Sept. 23, 1867, unm.


IX. CLARISSA, b. Dec. 2, 1790, m. Henry Isaacs of Mason, May 4, 1815. She had three children, all b. at Mason, N. H. :


1. HENRY A., b. May 11, 1816, d. Aug. 26, 1856.


2. EDWARD MOSES, b. Oct. 19, 1818, d. at New Ipswich, N. H., unm.


3. CHARLES BARRETT, b. May 6, 1826, d. Sept. 21, 1828.


X. CHARLES, b. Jan. 2, 1794, m. Dolly Davenport of West Boylston, Sept. 12, 1815, d. Oct. 6, 1832. He had five children, all but one b. at Shirley :


1. CHARLES W., b. Aug. 25, 1817, d. Dec. 13, 1820.


2. ELIZABETH D., b. Oct. 23, 1819, d. Dec. 18, 1820.


3. CHARLES ADDINGTON, b. Oct. 10, 1821 ; was twice m., (first) to Mary F. Parker of Winchendon, May 11, 1862 ; m. (second) Mrs. E. V. Holman of New Ipswich, N. H., May 11, 1871. He d. May 23, 1878.


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4. HENRY A., b. Oct. 6, 1823, m. Lucretia Hall of Charlestown, Oct. 24, 1860, r. Boston (1883).


5. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. at Peterboro, N. H., Nov. 1, 1825, m. David Cotting of Boston, April 13, 1852, r. Boston, a widow. She has one child, b. at Southborough :


(1.) Hattie F., b. May 9, 1853.


WILDS.


This is not a common name. Among the numerous genealogies to which access has been gained, but very few families or even indi- viduals of the name have been found. Mr. Savage sets them down of kinship, though they appear under the different names of Wild, Wylde, Wildes, or Wilde. He supposes that John came over in the Elizabeth and Ann, in 1635, and another, William, came at the same time, with Alice, his wife, and their son John, and were settled at Ipswich, eventually. The same John was probably settled at Tops- field, 1660. It was probably from this family that the settlers of the name came who are found in the records of Groton and Shirley.


dailus, Elijah, was the ancestor of the families of the name whose genealogy claims a place in this registry. The town of his birth we have not ascertained. He was b. Jan. 4, 1718, m. Anna Hovey, and came to live in Shirley, then a part of Groton, about the year 1744. His estate lay on the southern boundary of the town, the place upon which the Shaker village has been built. It seems, by a traditional account that has come down to us, that previous to the advent of the strange prophetess, Elijah Wilds had settled his estate upon his two sons ; with the eldest, who inhabited the family mansion, himself and wife resided, while the other was provided with a dwell- ing near by. The ministry of Ann Lee was the means of converting the father and mother, and both the sons, with their families, to the new faith, and the society which she then formed has (1883) entered upon the second century of its existence. The house where " Mother Ann " preached is still standing, and the closet where she was con- cealed when she and her followers were mobbed, is still open for the inspection of visitors .*


Elijah Wilds d. at his home with the Shakers, April 6, 1791 ; his widow d. March 16, 1804. They were buried in the private ceme- tery of the order. They had eight children :


I. ELIJAH, b. Nov. 10, 1745, d. Dec. 27, 1745.


II. ELIJAH, b. Nov. 9, 1746, m. Eunice Safford of Harvard, July 4, 1771. They had five children before they entered upon their Shaker life, when, according to the rules of the order, their special


*See Appendix EE.


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family ties were severed, and they with their children were merged in the community whose distinguishing attribute is celibacy. Mr. Wilds was appointed elder at the organization of the society at Shirley, and was continued in the office while he lived. He d. March 14, 1829, aged eighty-three years. His wife (if taking the celibate vow had not abolished the title) d. Nov. 11, 1819. His death was received with the deepest grief by the members of the order. They had all been under his religious instruction and supervision, and they felt that their spiritual father was removed, and knew not upon whom his mantle should descend. A large concourse of people assembled at his burial, and were addressed by one of their number, substantially as follows :


" Brethren and sisters, friends and neighbors : The peaceful and tranquil influence which so manifestly pervades this sympathizing assembly may well bring to our hearts the impression that 'this is none other than the house of God and the gate of heaven.' This same spirit of living peace and undying joy was ever with our brother, the consolation of his mind and the strengthener of his hope to the latest day of his life.


"Our brother, we are told, had no special premonition of his departure ; and, hence, had no opportunity to administer to his friends his parting advice and blessing. May we not then consider this meeting his parting adieu? Could he speak from his coffin, would he not express the joy he realized at his peaceful deliver- ance from the weight of age and infirmity, and the renewal of that manhood which is destined 'to flourish in immortal youth?' That he could exchange his habitation of clay for 'a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens?' Might he not join his voice to that of the old prophet in the temple, 'Now lettest thou -thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation ?' All who have heard him speak of this salvation have noted with what delight and confidence he spoke. It would seem that if he had heard a voice from heaven, saying, 'I have set for thee an open door, and no man can shut it ;' or had he seen printed in letters of gold the words, 'Great peace have they who love thy law, and nothing shall offend them,'-he would not have exhibited greater faith and confidence. In view of which, who of us in this solemn assembly could fail to say, 'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.'


"But, could we command the open vision, and see him as he is, could we witness his reception and reunion with those blessed ones,-Mother Ann, and her little band, by whose inspired ministry our brother was brought into the light and power of this great sal- vation,-could we hear them say to him, as we have no doubt they will say at his first reception, 'Come ye blessed ; we were strangers. and ye took us in, hungry and ye fed us, thirsty and ye gave us drink ; and when imprisoned by the wrath of men, who sought to blot us out forever, then did ye stand by us !' 'Come ye blessed,' respond an innumerable company of angels and 'spirits of just men made perfect.' Must not his glad heart leap with joy at such a recognition ?


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"But, I forbear ; for this may seem trenching on holy ground, and yet let the thought flow in our every heart, that the true prepa- ration for such a reception must be 'Christ within, the hope of glory ;' the at-one-ment made in us by practical obedience to his inspiration and imitation of his example.


"We have spoken of our good brother as a disciple of Mother Ann ; in which connection, like many more of the same order, he could truly say with Job, 'When the ear heard me then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, then it gave witness unto me, be- cause I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not I searched out, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.' Few men ever lived of whom this could be more justly said.


"But our friends and neighbors will ask, might not all this have been truly said of him, even if he never had heard of this peculiar faith? Where then is the blessedness you speak of? And where the necessity of the self-denial and the daily cross? Well now, the simple experience of our departed friend will answer this ques- tion. The report which he has given of himself and those primitive believers in the word of this new revelation, which ex- posed, as they believed, the depravity of the worldly and carnal mind, is this : They felt that they could find no deliverance from the power of sin and its condemnation, until it came to them by the power of the Holy Spirit, which gave them deliverance from the bondage of sin and death; from the carnal mind which is death, to the spiritual mind which is life and peace. Such was the testimony of our departed friend, and such is the testimony of a ' cloud of witnesses.' The voice of Mother and the elders, those messengers of God, was, 'ALL THINGS NEW.' The promise was salvation, a present, practical, overcoming power. With their


leaders it was a living experience, which gave power to their sermon and their song. Their followers, with the New Testament in their hands, which taught that if a man will do the work he shall know of the doctrine, and knowing that if one come to God, he must believe not only that God is, but that he is the rewarder of them who diligently seek him, what could they do less than make this wise and heavenly experiment? In justice to their eternal in- terests, they did so. Of the blessed result you have heard to-day ; a present, practical salvation. I hope this sympathizing audience will candidly consider the testimony of those friends of our brother, who have so clearly explained the choice which he made and the life which he has lived.


"You will perceive that we claim this, that had he found in his former experience, the power of God unto salvation, 'Christ within the hope of glory,' he would never have given up all to follow the self-denying, persecuted leader of the sect 'everywhere spoken against.' Do not wonder that we thus speak, and sing of the glory, that we are assured is now revealed in him. The ground which his hands have tilled is a field which the Lord hath blessed. He has passed a virtuous life, and has long enjoyed the work of his hands, and during his hours of peaceful labor has given his thought


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and sympathy to that blessed work of God, which even in this world of care and toil, brings us into communion with the heavenly world.


"Father James* once declared, 'I am weaned from all terrestrial connections, and long to join the hosts of heaven. With open vision do I behold the angelic company of the spiritual world, and desire to unite in the melodious songs of the New Jerusalem.' Father Elijah might respond to the declaration. He sympathized, when in the flesh, with the worship and obedience of the spiritual order of believers with which he was connected, and this would seem to prepare him for the higher joys of the angelic world. His fellow-believers can realize that the devotional element is that which endows the spiritual man for heavenly employments. Our departed elder witnessed a good confession, not only for the daughter of Zion, but for the Son of Man ; he recommended their Gospel by his daily obedience to it. What a blessing, in a Christian Associa- tion like this, is the influence and example of such a believer ! More precious than the gold of Ophir. 'Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.'"


This discourse was spoken and written by Lorenzo D. Grosvenor, then a young man, yet still living (1883).


The children of Elijah Wilds were all b. at Shirley, and were :


1. EUNICE, b. Oct. 11, 1772, d. in the Shaker faith, May 29, 1855.


2. ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 1, 1774, m. Benjamin Willard of Harvard, d. Oct. 12, 1848. She had one child :


(1.) Jerome, b. Oct. 26, 1818, r. Sterling (1881).


3. OLIVE, b. Aug. 15, 1776. She remained a Shakeress for several years, when she broke the bond of celibacy, and m. Phinehas Ames (who had also been a Shaker), and rejoined the world. She d. at Cambridge, Aug. 10, 1872, aged ninety-six years. She . had one child :


(1.) Mary Ann, m. Ebenezer Parker of Boston, Oct. 7, 1829, and had two children : I. "George F.," b. at Shirley, July 2, 1830, m. Sarah L. Haynes, Jan. 23, 1856. He had one child : I. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 24, 1857. 2. "Mary," b. May 24, 1833, d. young.


4. ANNA, b. Feb. 15, 1779, m. Flavel Coolidge, 1806. She lived at Cambridge, had three children, and d. June 28, 1854. Her children were :


(1.) Herrick, b. Oct. 6, 1806, m. Sarah Ann Tucker, Nov., 1831, d. 1850. He had two children : I. "Herbert ;" 2. " Anna."


(2.) Helen, m. Charles Russ, r. Cambridge (1881).


(3.) Martha Ann, b. Jan. 19, 1814, m. Ira Stratton, Nov., 1835. She has had four children : I. "Flavel C.," b. Oct. 4, 1836,


*One of the first followers of Ann Lee.


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d .; 2. "Flavel C.," b. 1840; 3. "Annie C.," b. 1848; 4. " Martha Louisa," b. Nov. 4, 1851.


5. MARTHA, b. Dec. 20, 1781, d. Jan. 23, 1837.


III. ANNA, b. Feb. 15, 1749, m. Elijah Wheelock of Lancaster, July 14, 1774, and had one child, but afterwards, with her daughter, joined the Shakers, and both lived and died in that faith. She d. Sept. 28, 1838. Her daughter was :




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