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On the 12th of August, next following, 16 females were dis- missed from Mr. Cushing's church, at their request, and recom- mended to the North Church, most of them the wives of the brethren there. Their request bears date July 16, 1744, and was signed by them in the order following.
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To their names I have appended their husbands, as explanatory of their families.
SARAH KEYES,
wife of Dea. John.
MARTHA BENNET, Jonathan.
REBECCA KEYES,
Oliver.
SARAH HASTINGS,
David.
RUTH KEYES,
Henry.
PATIENCE KEYES,
Jonathan.
HEPZIBAH KEYES, 66 Dea. Cyprian.
HANNAH TAYLOR,
66 Eleazer.
ABIGAIL HOWE,
Phineas.
SARAH SMITH, Bezaleel.
SARAH GOODALE, 66 Edward.
HANNAH BENNET,
Josiah.
HULDAH MAYNARD,
Elisha.
PHEBE KEYES, D. of Dea. John,
ABIGAIL KEYES, wife of Jolin, Jr.
BULAH TAYLOR, " Ebenezer.
" Oct. 15, 1775. (Rev. Dr. Sumner's records.) I commu- nicated a letter from the Second Church and Precinct in this town, desiring us to join with them in a fast, and to join with other churches in a council to advise, in their present broken state." The pastor and two delegates attended.
" March 25, 1777. The former council convened again at the North Precinct. 26th. The council for the ordination of Mr. Fairbank convened. The day was spent in hearing Mr. Morse's objections, &c. The 27th, Mr. Fairbank was ordained." Mr. Davenport says his ordination took place March 26th.
The church records furnish nothing more on this subject.
Mr. Davenport says, "in the beginning of the year 1771 things appear to have been approaching a crisis, and in June a meeting was called," &c., reasons submitted to it for dismissing Mr. Morse, as drawn up by the church ; one of them was, that he was unfriendly to the common cause, &c. ; that the town of Shrewsbury had to call him to an account ; that when so doing,
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" he did so conduct and word himself, that the town did vote the said Morse be disarmed," &c. Now Mr. Morse's people did not proceed against him, certainly the town did not, until May, 1775. It was then the town voted to disarm Mr. Morse. (See page 39.) His conduct and speech, when under examina- tion, and before the assembled town, and, that too, after the Committee had reported so leniently respecting him, as not to recommend any measures to be taken against him, as conclusively show his temper and disposition, as " his independent and un- yielding spirit."
And although his church did not specify what that conduct and speech were, yet their declaration respecting him in that particular is important in forming an opinion of the proceedings of the church and town against him. The sentence passed upon him by the town seemed uncalled for, inasmuch as the Commit- tee did not recommend any thing of the kind, but merely ex- pressed their opinion of his political sentiments. The fact is now disclosed. He was offensive in town meeting, and his independ- ent spirit procured for him on the spot a sentence from which there was no appeal, and privations, which he was compelled to undergo, with the bare consolation, that he was serving his royal master, and little good in the end did that do him.
Independent and unyielding spirits, lacking prudence, are sure to involve themselves in trouble. Mr. Morse was a combatant, and with the temper but not the skill of one, he took sides against the land of his birth. His country was invaded, her chartered rights assailed, and her citizens slaughtered for asserting their rights to what God and Mr. Morse's king had given them. The fate of his parishioners, his townsmen, his countrymen, all were involved in the momentous struggle. It was a contest for liberty at the risk of life. His townsmen had long hung out their ban- ner, " We will die freemen. We will maintain our rights or fall with them." Such too was the voice of the whole land. All this and more was well known by Mr. Morse. Yet having more zeal than knowledge, his independent and unyielding spirit rose in opposition to public sentiment in the same ratio that grew higher and stronger.
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He could not brook the idea, that others should manifest an independent spirit, no matter their number or the cause, if they were not for submission to king and parliament ; he coukl not, or would not be politically quiet, consequently he raised the town and parish storm in which he perished. " He sowed to the wind, and reaped the whirlwind," and, in his fall, added one more to the number of those, who were, in that day, crushed by the om- nipotence of the public will.
Before his settlement, he read law in Worcester, a year or more, in the office of John Chandler, a Gamaliel Royalist of the straitest seet, and with whom we may suppose an intimacy, a strengthening of hands and encouraging of hearts, existed at this period. Congenial spirits, alike independent and unyielding, and alike destitute of foresight, to say nothing of their want of pa- triotism. But yield they did ; yield they had to; there was no alternative. Both teacher and pupil lived to see their error, and each other's downfall ; and the latter to know the former was compelled to relinquish his office, and with uncovered head to walk between files of armed freemen, and read aloud his recan- tation and regret for opposing the people, while contending for their rights.
That Mr. Morse had a perfect right to enjoy his opinions, no one will deny ; but it was the use he made of them that gave offence. He did not consider himself unsettled by the parish proceedings against him, although they were backed up by advice of an ecelesiastical council, and the settlement of another pastor in his stead - for in a certificate of his having solemnized a marriage some year's after his dismission, he signed his name, &c., thus : " Ebenezer Morse, SETTLED minister of God's word in Boylston."
He was a man of more than ordinary talents, and a skilful physician ; in which calling he practised until near the close of his life.
He was published for marriage Jan. 1, 1790, to Rebecca Symms, of Shrewsbury, widow of Thomas Symms, an officer in the Commissary Department, who died in Shrewsbury during the war of the Revolution. The match was broken off by her-
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self or her friends, of whom she had many. For the widow of a patriot to be yoked with Mr. Morse was more than revolution- ary blood could bear. It had not then cooled sufficiently for such an event to be looked upon with indifference.
Of the other religious societies in Shrewsbury, the Baptist and Restoration, I am not possessed of later or other information than what appeared in the history published in 1826.
The " Platform," spoken of in the Ecclesiastical History of the South Parish, was a publication of 40 pages, entitled, " A PLATFORM of Church Discipline; Gathered out of the WORD of GOD, and agreed upon by the ELDERS and MESSENGERS of the Churches, assembled in the Synod at Cambridge, in N. E. Anno, 1648." "That Synod was com- posed of many Great, Learned and Pious Persons from the Four famous Colonies in New England.
" At a Synod, at Boston, New England, Sept. 10, 1679,"
" It was put to vote, whether the Assembly did approve of the Platform of Church Discipline ? And both Elders and Brethren did unanimously lift up their hands in the affimative, not one appearing, when the vote was propounded, in the negative ; but it jointly passed in these words :" " A Synod of the Churches, in the Colony of Massachusetts, being called by the Honored Gen. Court, to convene at Boston, the 10th of Sept., 1679. Having read and considered the Platform of Church Discipline, agreed upon by the Synod assembled at Cambridge, 1648, do unanimously ap- prove of the said Platform, for the substance of it, desiring that the churches may continue stedfast in the order of the Gospel, according to what is therein declared from the Word of GOD."
"The Gen. Court, May 19, 1680, having taken into serious consideration the request, that had been presented by several of the Reverend Elders, in the name of the late Synod, do approve thereof, and order the Confes- sion of Faith, agreed upon at their second session, and the Platform of Discipline, consented unto by the Synod at Cambridge, Anno, 1648, to be printed, for the benefit of these churches in present and after times."
That work, reprinted in Boston, 1717, has become very scarce. It was recommendatory only. Many churches adopted it in whole, in faith and in practice ; others but in part, especially the Platform of Church Disci- pline was not, in some of its details, recognized in all the churches; some of which had, and others never had, Ruling Elders distinct from the Pastor and Deucons.
FAMILY REGISTER
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GENEALOGICAL TABLE.
The people of New England, for many years after its first settlement, called the days of the week by numbers, and not by the names we have for them ; beginning with the Sabbath, which they called the first, the next day the second, and Saturday the seventh.
They used no names for the months. These also were called by numbers, beginning with March, which was the first month, and February, the twelfth and last in the year ; "because (says Lechford) they would avoid all memory of heathenish and idol's names."
The manner of computing time by the Julian Calendar was in use from the year 325 to 1751. By that Calendar, every fourth year was a leap year of 366 days, and, at length, was found to be erroneous ; as the spring equinox, which happened on the twenty-first of March, 325, happened on the ninth of March, in 1751; when, by Stat. Geo. II., for regulating the commence- ment of the year, &c., the style was changed, the year to begin on the first day of January, 1752, and the third day in Septem- ber, 1752, to be called the fourteenth ; and every fourth year to be leap year of 366 days, excepting each hundredth year. Eleven days were thus omitted, and a leap year being omitted in 1800, one day is to be added, making 12 days, the difference now between old and new style.
Pope Gregory XIII. corrected the Julian Calendar in 1582. The Catholic countries immediately adopted the correction ; and, to conform to it, England and her colonies adopted double dating, until 1752.
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Previous to that Stat., the year was considered as beginning on the 25th of March, and, according to ancient reckoning, March was the first and February the last month in the year. Thus, for instance, what we write 22d Feb. 1732, was then written, 22, 12, 1731-2. In this compilation, where the dates occur be- tween Jan. 1, and March 25, the year conforms to the new style, while the days of the months remain unaltered.
ABBREVIATIONS.
D. for daughter, b. born, m. married, d. died, s. son, w. wife, grad. graduate, H. U. Harvard University, D. C. Dartmouth Col- lege, B. U. Brown University, bap. baptized, chh. church, sup. supposed, chil. children, pub. published for marriage, and others which will be understood by the reader. Names of children are in italic.
ADAMS, JONATHAN, sup. from Dracut, m. Hepzibah Ba- ker, of Westboro', 1755, lived near Northboro' town line, on the old post road, d. April 22, 1802, aged 80, his wid. Hepzibah, May 19, 1S02, aged 79. Chil. Mary, b. March 9, 1756, and d. June 9, 1759; Jonathan, Feb. 13, 1758; Mary, Sept. 12, 1761, and m. Timothy Underwood, 1791; Sarah, May 23, 1763, and m. Jasper Rand, May 15, 1803, his second w. ; Hepzibah, April 7, 1768. Daniel Adams, brother of Jonathan, Sen. m. Abigail Hardy, of Westboro', May 21. 1752, and settled there.
ADAMS, JONATHAN, Jr. (s. of Jona.) m. Dorothy, D. of Dr. Edward Flint, Feb. 16, 1790. Child, Andrew, b. Jan. 24, 1791 and d. 7 days old. They removed to Barre, where she was recently living at the age of 85 years.
Mary Adams, called of Worcester, sister of Jona. Sen. m. Lewis Allen, 1770.
ALEXANDER, JAMES,* m. Deborah Thompson, of Bos- ton ; she d. March 7, 1786. Chil. William Thompson, b. Sept.
* Scotchman, naturalized by Mass. Legislature, March 3, 1786, a private soldier in Burgoyne's army, from which, while on their march through this town to Boston,
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5, 1780 ; Ruth Thompson, Dec. 21, 1782, and m. in Boston. He next m. Hannah Hager, of S. Sept. 12, 1786. (Her D. Lovisa Howe, b. previous to her mother's marriage, m. Benjamin Morse, of Boylston, March 30, 1807.) Chil. James, b. June 19, 1787; David, July 28, 1788; Warren, Feb. 20, 1790, and d. unmarried, May 9, 1836 ; Abraham, Jan. 5, 1792 ; Elisha, May 3, 1793 ; John, who d. June 2, 1794, 6 mo .; Hannah, Nov. 4, 1797, and m. Cyrus Drake, Sept. 22, 1819. His wid. Hannah, d. Dec. 19, 1818, aged 62. He m. wid. Elizabeth Floyd, of Southboro', Sept. 14, 1819. She d. May 25, 1834, aged 76. He d. May 18, 1841, aged 87.
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM THOMPSON, (s. of James,) went to Worcester, there m. Anna, lived there some years and then returned ; their D. Eliza, b. June 30, 1807, and Charlotte, who d. Oct. 21, 1821, aged 16. He m. Lucy, D. of Asa Par- ker, April 2, 1822, and removed from town.
ALEXANDER, JAMES, Jr. (s. of James,) went to Graf- ton, there m. Sarah Leland, and had a family of children, lived some years in Southboro', returned and d. here Sept. 29, 1838, aged 51.
ALEXANDER, DAVID, (s. of James,) m. Harriet, D. of Fortunatus Nichols, of Westboro'. Chil. David Hartley Phipps, b. Nov. 8, 1814 ; Cincinnatus Nichols, May 20, 1817; Harriet Kemble, Sept. 18, 1820, and d. Oct. 14, 1821 ; Mury Sophia, Jan. 9, 1810; Harrict Kemble, Nov. 29, 1822. His w., Har- riet, d. Oct. 4, 1830, aged 38.
as prisoners, he strolled away, and was found by the Rev. Mr. Sumner, early in the morning, in his barn, on the haymow. Mr. Sumner took him into his house, where, being relieved of his hunger, and appearing intelligent, and desirous of employ- ment. a cordwainer by trade, he remained for some time, working at his trade. Before the close of the war, to so low an ebb had paper money fallen, Mr. Sumner, having a large family, proposed to give him the amount of his salary in continental money, if he would keep his family well shod. He was a great reader ; well versed in ancient history, and a member of the church 55 years.
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ALEXANDER, ABRAHAM, (s. of James,) m. - , lived here a short time, and removed. Their D. Nancy, d. here in 1822, aged 18 months.
ARNOLD, REBECCA, m. Unity Brown, of Dorchester, Canada, now Ashburnham, Aug. 16, 1759.
ABBOT. Families of this name had arrived and settled in Massachusetts, as early as 1630 ; some of them from Yorkshire, England.
ABBOT, EBENEZER, from Andover, whose w. was Mar- tha, lived on the road leading from the post road towards Simon Maynard's. His house stood on the hill, northerly of the brook ; he was a miller. The remains of his mill-dam, &c., on the brook, are yet visible. Chil. Susanna, b. Oct. 13, 1759, and d. Aug. 31, 1770; Sarah, Sept. 10, 1763, and d. Sept. 3, 1770 ; Moody, June 29, 1765, and d. Sept. 4, 1770; John, Sept. 22, 1767, and d. Nov. 22, 1770; Lewis, Sept. 26, 1769; John Moody, March 2, 1771; Isaac, who d. Nov. 5, 1773; Isaac, Dec. 9, 1773. Their chil. d. of the dysentery, which prevailed in the town to an alarming degree in 1770. The father survived these repeated shocks but a short time. He d. July 21, 1775, aged 54. His wid. Martha, m. Henry Baldwin, Sen. 1778.
ABBOT, SAMUEL. What connection of Ebenezer, if any, is unknown. He m. Bathsheba Dustin, of Andover, 1758. Chil. Olive, b. March 30, 1760 ; Ebenezer, Feb. 8, 1762; Molly, June 3, 1764; Lucinda and Eusebia, twins, April 20, 1766; Asa, Nov. 20, 1763; Ward, April 15, 1771.
ABBOT MARTHA, m. Nymphas Stacy, 1781.
ALLEN, SILAS,* (s. of Noah,) came from Medfield with a family, and lived on the Elijah Rawson farm, so called. His
* Ancient records have the name, Allyne, Allyn, Alline and Allen; probably all one, originally.
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wife was Priscilla Plympton. She d. Feb. 26, 1824, aged 71 ; and he, April 6, 1831, aged 84. Chil. who came to S. Asahel, Noah, Silas and Elizabeth Cunningham, who m. Ephraim Hap- good, 1796.
ALLEN, ASAHEL, (s. of Silas,) m. Lucy, D. of Jonas Hemenway, May S, 1800. She d. Feb. 24, 1801, aged 23. He next m. Mary Jennison Harrington, wid. of Josiah, and D. of Hollis Parker, April 9, ISC5. Chil. by last w., Asahel, Plympton, b. 1806 ; Lucy Hemenway, Feb. 15, 1809; Daniel Waldo, May 17, 1811 ; Elizabeth Waldo, Aug. 17, 1813. He with his family removed to New Hampshire.
ALLEN, Capt. NOAH, (s. of Silas,) m. Irene, D. of Jonas Hemenway, Jan. 1, 1804, and d. Jan. 4, 1845, aged 652. Chil. Lucy, b. Oct. 23, 1804, and m. Uriah Bartlett ; Jonas Hemenway, Jan. 14, 1807; Hannah Almira, July, 1811, and m. Jobn Baxter Plympton, Sept. 4, 1732 ; Asa Henry, Nov. 22, 1815, and m. Catharine Black, of Holden. Chil. Eliza Lamb, Marion E. and Cyrus Bullard.
ALLEN, JONAS H. (s. of Capt. Noah,) m. Clarinda, D. of Lyman Howe, Dec. 4, 1831. Chil. Charles L. b. March 12, 1834 ; Jonas H. Aug. 21, 1836.
ALLEN, Capt. SILAS, Jr. (s. of Silas,) m. Elizabeth Lamb, of Spencer, and lives on the homestead. Chil. on record, Cyrus Bullard, b. Jan. 31, 1807, and d. unmarried in Philadelphia, some years since, of small pox ; Arnold Lamb, March 25, 1808 ; Simon Hapgood, Nov. 8, 1811.
ALLEN, ARNOLD L. (s. of Silas, Jr.) m. Caroline Maria, D. of Erastus Sumner, Feb. 26, 1833, and removed to St. Louis, Missouri.
ALLEN, SIMON H. (s. of Silas, Jr.) m. Abigail, D. of Nymphas Pratt, Esq. July 7, 1835. Their D. Mary E. b. Nov. 10, 1833, d. Feb. 27, 1840. They removed to St. Louis.
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ALLEN, Capt. NATHANIEL, of sea-faring life, from Bos- ton, settled here as early as 1757, on the place where Col. Jos. Henshaw afterwards lived and died. He d. Nov. 1, 1770, aged 71. His wid. (her name does not appear on the town records,) removed soon after his decease, to Leicester, and d. there. He left sons, but none of their names are on record. Lewis is the only one whose name has come to my knowledge.
ALLEN, LEWIS, (s. of Nathaniel,) m. Mary Adams, of Worcester, sister of Jonathan, Sen. of S. 1770. He was a rank tory in the early part of the Revolution, but, the place growing too hot for him, he removed to Leicester, and d. there.
ALLEN, EPHRAIM, from Rutland, m. Huldah Chesnut, July 12, 1757. Chil. Ephraim, b. April 9, 1763; Elisha, March 7, 1765. Huldah was probably the wid. of William Chesnut, and D. of Elisha Maynard.
ALLEN, SIMEON, m. Candace, D. of Capt. Nathan Howe, Sen. 1772, and had John b. July 20, 1772. Removed to Princeton, and there had Candace and others. Candace m. Jo- nah Howe, Esq.
ALLEN, ELNATHAN,* admitted to the church here from that in Hopkinton, Oct. 11, 1730, and d. in 1734, as mentioned
* In a letter, of which I have had the perusal, from Madam Allen, widow of the late Rev. Wilkes Allen, deceased, it is said, " Matthew Allen came with Hooker's company, 1632, and settled at Mount Wollaston - thence to Newtown, now Cam- bridge " - that " Elnathan Allen, with his brother, Obadiah, removed from Hopkin- ton to Shrewsbury. That they were admitted to the chh. in S. from that in H., 1730, and that Elnathan died, 1734, by falling from a load of hay ; " " and that El- nathan had one son, Israel, and five daughters," &c. Hence, it may be inferred, that Matthew Allen was considered by the Rev. Wilkes Allen, (for what of geneal- ogy is in the letter, purports to have been taken from his papers,) the ancestor of the family that came from Hopkinton to Shrewsbury. After a long and extensive search. I have come to the conclusion, and I think correctly, that Elnathan was the grandson of Matthew, and son of Daniel and Mary Allen, who had David b. July 1, 1659, and Rebecca, Jan. 15, 166], in Charlestown ; Samuel, April 17, 1664, and Elnathan, Feb. 11, 1666, in Lancaster, and Ebenezer, Dec. 26, 1674, in Watertown, whither they may have retired for safety, as did many families, to that and other towns, from Lancaster, before and at the time of its destruction by the Indians.
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in note below. His wife's name was Mary, but, as it does not appear on church or town record, she had probably deceased before he came to Shrewsbury. His children appear, all of them; to have been of adult age at that time ; although not on the town record, I have the births of some of them. They were, Obediah, Israel, b. Dec. 20, 1705; Elizabeth, who m. Edward Newton ; Anna, who m. Amos Pratt, 1722, grandfather of " Master" Nathan Pratt ; Mary, b. July 14, 1711, and d. unmarried ; Thankful, Dec. 9, 1713, and m. Daniel Whitney, whose D. Sarah, m. Nathan Bannister.
ALLEN, OBEDIAH, (s. of Elnathan,) and his wife, Su- sanna, came here with a family of children, chh. 1730. His wife, Susanna, d. Feb. 16, 1740. Chil. as on town and church rec. ; perhaps not all of theni b. here ; Daniel, b. April 8, 1721 ; Obediah, May 6, 1723 ; Jonathan, June 10, 1725; Lucy, Aug. 4, 1728; Miriam, Nov. 4, 1730; Persis, Aug. 4, 1735. He
What was Elnathan's age, who d. in 1734, does not appear; if he was the son of Daniel, as I suppose, his age was 68.
There is a record in Boston. of George and Susannah Allen having a son, Elna- than, b. Dec. 26, 1653, and, had he died in 1734, would then have been 81 ; an age, that renders it improbable, that he would be on a load of hay at that tinic of life. These two are the only Allens, born out of this town, that I have found in all the records 1 have seen and examined, running through a period of 175 years, who were called Elnathan. That the Elnathan who came to Shrewsbury, was the son of Daniel, and he, of Matthew, does not militate with any known opinion enter- tained by any of their descendants, real or supposed. That Elnathan was the father, and not the brother, of Obediah, can hardly adinit of a doubt. The church record, without designating the relation they stood in to each other, says, " Elna- than and Obediah Allen were admitted, &c., to full church privilege, Oct. 11, 1730, by virtue of a letter of recommendation from the church of Christ in Hopkinton."
Elnathan had sons, Obediah and Israel, and Obediah, in 1736, after the death of their father, makes a conveyance, in which he calls himself of Shrewsbury, and says, " I acquit and discharge my brother, Israel Allen, of the same town, of all dues, legaeies," &c., " or land, which was formerly my Hon. father's, Elnathan Allen, late of Shrewsbury, deceased, and now in the possession of the said Israel." That farm has been in the possession of Israel's decendant's to this day. Obediah lived on the farm now owned by Henry Cary. On the first organization of the town militia, he was one of the four first appointed sergeants. The others were William Taylor, Simon Maynard, and Gershom Wheelock. Their first names gave place to their military title, and they were afterwards known and called through life, Sergeant Allen, Sergeant Taylor, Sergeant Maynard and Sergeant Wheelock ; a title of more regard in that period, than that of Colonel at the present day.
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m. Jemima, D. of Isaac Tomlin, of Westboro', May 19, 1741. She was admitted from the chh. in Marlboro', 1746. Chil, Silas, March 11, 1742; Israel, April 21, 1745 ; Susanna, May 20, 1747, and d. April 25, 1752. It is said, he d. here at an advanced age.
ALLEN, DANIEL, (s. of Obediah,) m. Lydia Cutting, Feb. 4, 1747. Chil. Henry, b. March 30, 1748; Lydia, Aug. 23, 1749; Daniel, April 20, 1753, and m. Martha Maynard, of Northboro', 1775, and removed to New Marlboro'. (Their child, " Vicey, bap. here, Feb. 8, 1778, while the parents were here on a visit.") Solomon, or Salmon, June 9, 1757, and, perhaps, Simeon, who m. Candace Howe, 1772.
ALLEN, ISRAEL, (s. of Obediah,) called Jun. on the record, instead of 2d, (his unele Israel then living,) m. Thankful Greenwood, of Framingham, 1768. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and fought bravely in the battle of Bunker Hill. He removed to Spencer, 1783, where his wife, Thankful, d. Oct. 5, 1805, aged 60. He m. wid. Sarah Bennet, 1807. She d. 1818, and he, July 17, 1833, aged S8. The births of his chil- dren, recorded here, are, Silas, b. Dec. 24, 1768; Ivory, Dec. 25, 1770; Jemima, May 22, 1773; Junius, Aug. 24, 1775; Ashbel, July 30, 1778, and m. Nelly Mixer, 1799; Oshea, so called in the town, but Otis, in the chh. record, b. Jan. 21, 1781, and bap. May 25, 1781.
ALLEN, ISRAEL, (s. of Elnathan,) m. Elizabeth, D. of Dea. Samuel Wheelock, Feb. 14, 1728. Chil. Elnathan, b. Nov. 18, 1728; Lois, Nov. 21, 1732, and m. Isaac Tomlin, of Westboro', June 7, 1757, and went to Spencer. He m. Catha- rine Joslin, of Westboro', May 3, 1764. She was living in 1771 ; admitted to the chh. in that year. Neither his own, nor the death of either of his wives is on record.
ALLEN, ELNATHAN, (s. of Israel,) m. Thankful Has- tings, of Waltham, May 31, 1753, and d. Oct. 2, 1805, aged 77 ;
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his wid. Thankful, March 29, 1807, aged 71. Chil. Elnathan, b. May 13, 1754; Israel, Aug. 6, 1756; Rhoda, Feb. 22, 1759, and m. Jonathan Peirks,* 1780, and d. 1789 ; Silas, Jan. 24, 1762; Elizabeth, March 13, 1765, and m. Russell Under- wood, Jan. 1, 1789, and went to Vt .; Arunah, Aug. 18, 1767 ; Luther, Dec. 26, 1770; 2d Luther, Sept. 18, 1772; Wilkes, July 10, 1775; Liberty, Nov. 30, 1777.t
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