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Pepperell, November 26, 1767, Joshua Blood, son of Deacon David Blood. 3. Edith, born in Groton, January 4, 1752, died in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, October 23, 1848; married, in Town- send, Massachusetts, October 14, 1777, Abel Parker, a Revolutionary soldier. 4. Jedediah, born at Pepperell, April 22, 1754; died there 1840; married (first) in Townsend, May 8, 1776, Rachel Blood; (second) Sally Hall; served in the Revolution. 5. Edmund, of whom further. 6. Hepzibah, born in Pepperell, January 24, 1760, died in 1816; married, May 9, 1786, her cousin, Ezekiel Perham, of Pepperell, who mar- ried (second) Phebe Oaks.
(Ibid., pp. 100-101, 185-87.)
(VI) Deacon Edmund Jewett, son of Jede- diah and Elizabeth (Shattuck) Jewett, was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, February 11, 1757, and died there May 19, 1835. He was a farmer, and a deacon of the Congregational church. He also fought in the Revolutionary War, serv- ing as a private in Captain Isaac Wood's com- pany, Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment of guards. He married, at Pepperell, November 23, 1784, Maria Blood, who died May 2, 1853, daughter of Henry and Mary (Gibson) Blood, of Dunstable. Children, born in Pepperell,
Massachusetts: 1. Susan, born December 3, 1786, died in 1856; married, May 2, 1812, John Blood. 2. Edmund, born October 10, 1788, died April 3, 1870; married, at Groton, Massa- chusetts, May 14, 1815, Phebe Shepley. 3. Henry, of whom further. 4. Lucy, born April 2, 1795, died unmarried. 5. Ralph, born March 6, 1797, died without issue, January 29, 1850; married Mary Jewell.
(Ibid., pp. 187, 311; "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution," Vol. VIII.)
(VII) Deacon Henry Jewett, son of Deacon Edmund and Maria (Blood) Jewett, was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, October 28, 1792, and died in 1881. He was a deacon of the church and held many town offices. He mar- ried (first), in 1820, Rebecca Blood (Blood VII); (second) Eliza Tucker, who died in 1893. Children of first marriage, born in Pepperell,
Massachusetts: 1. Dr. Henry Alfred, died in Northboro, Massachusetts, August 26, 1895; married, in Hampton, New Hampshire, 1849, Sarah A. Lawrence. 2. Rev. John Edward Bullard, born December 9, 1821; married, at East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, January 10, 1854, Frances Hunt Lacy. 3. Dr. Frederick Augus- tus, born September 6, 1824; married, in Abing- ton, Massachusetts, June 2, 1854, Harriet Clem- entine Torrey. 4. Charles Franklin, of whom further. 5. Rebecca M., born in 1830, died without issue in 1852; married, in 1851, Filo Wilcox.
(F. C. Jewett: "History and Genealogy of the Jewetts in America," Vol. I, pp. 312, 549.)
(VIII) Charles Franklin Jewett, son of Deacon Henry and Rebecca (Blood) Jewett, was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, in 1828. He was a farmer. He married, August 26, 1855, Georgiana Shipley Loring. (Loring IX.) Children, born in Pepperell, Massachusetts: 1. George Franklin, of whom further. 2. Charles Henry, born in 1858. 3. Edgar Shipley, born December 14, 1863. 4. Edith Rebecca, born January 6, 1866. 5. William Loring, born April 19, 1870.
(Ibid., p. 550; C. H. Pope: "Loring Genealogy," p. 310.)
(IX) George Franklin Jewett, son of Charles Franklin and Georgiana Shipley (Loring) Jew- ett, was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts, March 19, 1857, and died April 25, 1926.
After having received his elementary educa- tion at the local schools of his native district, he attended the Bridgewater State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from which he was duly graduated. He then entered Harvard College, and upon the completion of his course there received the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1886. In 1911 he took advanced work at Harvard University and was given the degree of Master of Arts. Dr. Jewett also spent several years studying abroad at the University of Berlin.
Soon after his graduation from college Dr. Jewett began his career in educational work.
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Charles F. Jewett,
Georgiana P. Loving Jewell
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SENIOR RESIDENCE-JEWETT HALL
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He was appointed to the faculty of the Cam- bridge Latin School in 1887. Shortly there- after he was selected to become principal of the high school of Marlboro, Massachusetts, from which position he was called to teach in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and later in Youngs- town, Ohio. For a few years following, Dr. Jewett was assistant principal at Lasell Sem- inary at Auburndale, Massachusetts. In 1900, after these many years of intimate association with public and private schools, he determined to establish his own school to meet the needs of students in a closer and more individual manner. He found a good location in Newton, Massachusetts, on top of a small hill, and here he founded the Mount Ida School for Girls, which has grown into one of the most select and superior institutions of its kind in the coun- try. Dr. Jewett was a hard and diligent work- er, his school was his hobby, and his every energy was directed toward the advancement of the school, with a view to making it not a bigger but a better institution. Mrs. Jewett proved an ideal helpmate in this work. Under the devoted guidance of Dr. Jewett the Mount Ida School grew until it now enjoys an enviable rank among the schools of the country. Its student body includes about one hundred and forty girls from all parts of the United States, Europe, and even China. Dr. Jewett's own teaching included business management, chem- istry, physics, and sociology, while for other branches he secured the best teachers available. The position which the Mount Ida School now holds in educational circles is an adequate testi- mony to the success with which Dr. Jewett performed his task.
The following account of the history of the Mount Ida School is in Dr. Jewett's own words:
The early years of my professional life were given to teaching in the public school system. I came to see the necessity of a school in sec- ondary education which would supplement the work of the public school system in that it would offer a larger freedom in the arrange- ment of courses of study than is possible in a system of public education. There are, of course, also many girls and young women whose
needs are individual, which a system of public education is unable to meet. . I decided to establish a school of our own. One day in 1900 Mrs. Jewett and my daughters, Edith and Helen, visited with a horse and buggy, various localities in Newton and neighboring towns. They drove through Newton and over the hill on which the school is now located, found it unoccupied and admirable for a location for a school for girls and young women.
In August, 1900, we took up our abode on the newly acquired property. The name of the school had not been decided upon. The hill had been called for a long time Mount Ida. We decided to name our school Mount Ida School. What better name could we have chosen?
Although we had practically nothing in the shape of school equipment, we opened school that year with three pupils, besides our daugh- ters, Edith and Helen. The faculty consisted of two and myself. Cobb House was the only building the first year, the blue room was our only recitation room, the red room was our gymnasium. The next year we built a gymna- sium on the ground now occupied by the west end of the present school building. The second year we had seventeen students and added one teacher.
The fifth year we built the Mount Ida House. The school had increased to over forty students. In 1911 we moved the gymnasium and built a new school building. In 1921 the school acquired the magnificent Cobb Estate, and with the addition of this property, the out-door ath- letic work was increased to include horseman- ship. Our material equipment was completed to its present condition. The school now oc- cupies one of the most attractive locations in New England and has enough land to meet its present and future needs.
With the growth of the school in a material way there has been a continual and gradual advancement in the school educationally. From time to time there have been additions of courses in various departments of study. I do not see how there is anything educational that a young woman would want that she cannot
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obtain here at Mount Ida, including the work of the secondary school course and the work of the freshman and sophomore years of the average American college or university.
Mrs. Jewett, my daughter, and I do not anticipate making Mount Ida a bigger school; we have reached constructively our limit in respect to numbers. It will ever be our en- deavor to make the school a better school, but not a bigger school.
Dr. Jewett had been, throughout his life, a diligent student of educational needs, and a prodigious writer and reader, not so much for publication as for the contribution such labors could make to his store of knowledge and his understanding of the problems with which he had to cope. He was for some time affiliated with the local branch of the Royal Arcanum, and was a member of the Harvard Club and the Congregational Club. With his family he attended the Eliot Congregational Church at Newton, Massachusetts.
Dr. Jewett ably devoted his tireless activities to the advancement of American education and the important work of developing young women for their careers by individual attention to the personal problems of each. His commanding personality, his charming manner and courteous consideration for all won for him the deep ad- miration and reverence of his fellows. The tributes and resolutions adopted at the time of his passing indicate the position which he holds today in the minds and hearts of the many members of the community.
MY FRIEND
He was a man of nature rare, In whom so many traits could blend, But most of all, I like to think Of him, as only just "my friend."
He moved with dignity and ease Among the cultured and refined, But in the poor and ignorant
He had an interest most kind.
His loyalty to those he loved Impelled his every act and deed, His duty, just to labor hard, And thus provide for every need.
Courage was his that never quailed, He ne'er forsook a task begun, But earnestly and patiently "Stuck to the job" till it was done.
Of such a man we truly say: "His is a life that has no end." And so, with memory so dear, I'll think of him as still "my friend." -- WALTER LINCOLN COLBY.
Dr. George Franklin Jewett married, at Fre- mont, Ohio, June 8, 1882, Abigail Burgess Fay. (Fay VII.) Children: 1. Edgar Shipley (twin), born May 20, 1883, died July 3, 1883. 2. Edith Mehitable (twin), born May 20, 1883; married Professor F. Easton Carr of Oberlin College. 3. Helen Fay, born November 4, 1888; married C. Frederick MacGill, of Newton, Massachu- setts.
(F. C. Jewett: "History and Genealogy of the Jewetts in America," Vol. I, p. 550; O. P. Fay: "The Fay Genealogy," pp. 377, 389-90; Family data.)
(The Pierce Line).
Pierce is a baptismal name derived from the French personal name Pierre or Piers. A cer- tain Peire de Gaveston is mentioned in the time of Edward II (14th century); Peter Peirs was standard bearer to Richard III in 1485; and many others of the name occur promi- nently in English history, including John Piers, Dean of Salisbury and Christ Church, Oxford, who was made Bishop October 11, 1577, and Archbishop of York, February 1, 1589. The name is variously spelled Pirse, Pierse, Pieres, Pearce, Piers, Peires, Peirce, Pearse, Peers, etc. It occurs in many counties in England, includ- ing Gloucester, Kent, Devon, Norfolk, Bedford, Somerset and Suffolk, as well as London. The name is related to that of the famous Percy family of Northumberland, celebrated in his- tory and by Shakespeare, which took its name from Percy forest in Normandy, signifying a stony place, from pierre, a stone. Several Pierces were among the very early settlers of New England, and their descendants have often achieved distinction in this country.
(C. W. Peirce: "The Peirce Family of the Old Colony," pp. 1-2; F. C. Pierce: "Pierce Genealogy," pp. 6-7.)
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Peirce (Pierce) Arms-Argent, & fesse humettée gules between three ravens rising sable.
Crest-A dove with an olive branch in its beak. Motto-Dixit et fecit.
(Crozier: "General Armory.")
(I) John Pierce, or Pears, was born in Eng- land and died in Boston, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 17, 1661. He was a cooper by trade, and arrived in Boston soon after the original settlement of that place, as he was admitted as a freeman of the colony in 1631. He settled first in Dorchester, removing to Boston in 1642. He was a selectman in 1633, 1636, and 1641, and a landowner in 1656. In March, 1639, he was a representative to the General Court.
John Pierce married (first) Mary, who died July 12, 1647; (second), August 10, 1654, Mrs. Rebecca Wheeler, widow of Thomas Wheeler. Children (all by first marriage): 1. Nehemiah, born February 17, 1631-32. 2. Samuel.
3. Mehitable, married Jeremiah Rogers. 4. Mary, born March 6, 1638. 5. Mercy. 6. Exercise, of whom further.
(F. C. Pierce: "Pierce Genealogy," p. 11; "His- tory of Dorchester, Massachusetts," p. 71.)
(II) Exercise Pierce, daughter of John Pierce, died November 13, 1731. She married, at Lynn, Massachusetts, October 19, 1668, Ne- hemiah Jewett. (Jewett III.)
(F. C. Jewett: "History and Genealogy of the Jewetts in America," Vol. I, p. 30.)
(The Hazen Line).
The original spelling of this name, which has been known in New England for many genera- tions, is uncertain. The early settlers of America spelled their names in many different ways, all of them often unlike the spellings used in England. This freedom of orthography makes it difficult in some cases to trace the English background of a family. In New Eng- land Hazen was also spelled Hasen, Hassen, Hayson, and Hayzen. It is not unlikely that it is the same as the English name Haysom, which came from the place name of Heysham, a parish on the coast of Morecombe Bay, Lan-
cashire, and was also spelled Hessam. One au- thority derives Hayzen (French form, Azan) from the old German haso, meaning war.
(Ferguson : "Teutonic Surnames," p. 169; Bards- ley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames"; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Index.)
(I) Edward Hazen was probably born in England, and was buried in Rowley, Massa- chusetts, July 22, 1683. He first appeared in Rowley about 1648, and was known there as a man of substance and influence. He served as selectman at various times from 1650 to 1668, and his name is found often on the town rec- ords. Edward Hazen married (first) Elizabeth, who was buried in Rowley, September 18, 1649; (second), in March, 1650, Hannah Grant, daugh- ter of Thomas and Hannah Grant. She mar- ried (second), March 17, 1684, George Brown, of Haverhill. Children of second marriage, born in Rowley: 1. Elizabeth, born March 8, 1650-51; married, April 1, 1670, Nathaniel Harris. 2. Han- nah, born in September, 1653, died before 1683; married William Gibson. 3. John, born Septem- ber 22, 1655. 4. Thomas, born February 29, 1657- 58, died April 12, 1735, in Norwich, Connecticut; married, January 1, 1682-83, Mary Howlet. 5. Edward, of whom further. 6. Isabell, born July 21, 1662; married, January 16, 1680, John Wood, of Boxford. 7. Priscilla, born November 25, 1664; married, July 21, 1681, Jeremiah Pearson. 8. Edney (Edna), born June 20, 1667; married, August 2, 1686, Timothy Perkins, of Topsfield, Massachusetts. 9. Richard, born August 6, 1669, died September 25, 1733, in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts; married (first), December 5, 1694, Mary Peabody; (second), April 3, 1733, Mrs. Grace Kimball. 10. Hiphzebeth, born Decem- ber 22, 1671, died November 29, 1689; married in 1689. 11. Sarah, born August 22, 1673; mar- ried, June 27, 1690, Daniel Wicom, Jr.
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 229-31; Vol. LV, p. 241.)
(II)-Edward Hazen, Jr., son of Edward and Hannah (Grant) Hazen, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, September 10, 1660, and died in
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1748. His will was dated May 27 and probated December 26 of that year. He married, No- vember 6, 1684, Jane Pickard, daughter of John and Jane (Crosby) Pickard. Children, born in Rowley: 1. Jane, of whom further. 2. Ed- ward, born July 17, 1688, died April 19, 1723. without issue. 3. John, born in 1691, died No- vember 19, 1756, in Rowley; married, May 19, 1715, Sarah Nelson. 4. Benjamin (twin), born February 19, 1694-95; died in Groton, Massa- chusetts, September 18, 1755; married (first), July 25, 1717-18, Elizabeth Blanchard; (second), April 2, 1740, Betty Nutting. 5. Hephzibah (twin), born February 19, 1694-95; married Nathaniel Perkins. 6. Samuel, born July 20, 1698, died in Shirley, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 20, 1790; married, October 1, 1723, Sarah Harriman. 7. Israel, born July 20, 1701, died in Rowley, January 2, 1784; married (first), May 24, 1724, Hannah Chaplin; (second), June 18, 1761, Mrs. Jane Harriman. 8. Hannah, married a Greenleaf.
(Ibid., Vol. XXXIII, pp. 230-34.)
(III) Jane Hazen, daughter of Edward and Jane (Pickard) Hazen, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, October 11, 1685. She married, January 1, 1707-08, Joseph Jewett. (Jewett IV.)
(Ibid., p. 231.)
(The Shattuck Line).
The ancient surname of Shattuck is spelled in various ways-Shatac, Shattauk, Shathooke, Shadoc, Chaddock, Chadwyke and Chadioc. It is probably a name of Anglo-Saxon origin. As early as 1525 we find the names of Samuel and Alice Shattocke on the Parliament Subsidy Rolls of Assessments in Tolland, Somersetshire, Eng- land. As Chaddock, and Chadwick, the name appears in Lancashire and Worcestershire. Chadwick is a name of great antiquity in Eng- land. The first William de Chadwyke was of the fourteenth century. Among his contempo- raries were others of that same name. Uniting with different patrician families, they gave to England, as well as to America, a long line of noble descendants. Going back farther in the
records we find Sir John de Chydeoke (Chi- deoke or Chadeoke), who was one of the Barons of Somersetshire as early as the thirteenth cen- tury. When William Shattuck came to America, his name was spelled Shattocke. The names Chaddock and Chadwick and Shaddock were also used interchangeably in New Eng- land with Shattuck. The family here in America have produced a people of great value to the communities in which they have lived. Many of them have been graduated from the New England colleges and have taken their places in important walks of life.
(Shattuck, L .: "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck," pp. 8-15; Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames," p. 167.)
Chadock (Chattock) (Shattuck) Arms-Gules an inescutcheon argent charged with a plain cross of the field, within an orle of martlets of the second. Crest-A martlet argent.
(Burke: "General Armory.")
(The Family in America).
(I) William Shattuck was born about 1621 or 1622 in England. He evidently came from England to Ameriça in his minority, but no record of his arrival in America has been found. His father may have died on the voyage over, and his mother may have been the widow, Damaris Shattuck (Shattuck, L .: "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck," p. 361), who was admitted to the church at Salem in 1641. This, however, is not proven, as there is no full record of her children. Samuel Shat- tuck, the first son recorded, was born in Eng- land in 1620. William Shattuck may have been his brother or more probably was a near rela- tive. Damaris Shattuck married (second) Cap- tain Thomas Gardner, of Salem, Massachusetts. As early as 1642, William Shattuck's name is listed in Watertown, Massachusetts, when land was granted to "William Chattuck." By grants and purchases he added to his land possessions until by 1664 he was a man of considerable property. William Shattuck was a weaver, but it is evident that he was also a farmer. He died August 14, 1672, in Watertown, Massachusetts. He married, about 1642, Susanna. She mar-
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ried (second), November 18, 1673, Richard Nor- cross. Children, all of whom were born in Watertown, Massachusetts: 1. Susanna, born in 1643, died in Marlborough, Massachusetts; married (first), February 11 or April 12, 1661, Joseph Morse; (second), July 5, 1678, John Fay, of Marlborough (Fay I); (third) Thomas Brig- ham, Jr. (Brigham I). 2. Mary, born August 25, 1645, died October 23, 1732; married, Feb- ruary 11, 1662, Jonathan Browne, of Watertown. 3. John, of whom further. 4. Philip, born in 1648, died June 26, 1722, in Waltham, Massa- chusetts; married, November 9, 1670, Deborah Barstow; (second), February 11, 1680, Rebecca Chamberlain. 5. Joanna, died April 4, 1673; unmarried. 6. William, born in 1653, died Oc- tober 19, 1732; married, in 1678, Susanna Ran- dall. 7. Rebecca, born in 1655; married, Feb- ruary 7, 1672, Samuel Church. 8. Abigail, born in 1657, died in 1694, in Groton, Massachusetts; married, October 17, 1678, Jonathan Morse; (second), September 22, 1690, Joshua Parker. 9. Benjamin, died in his twentieth year. 10. Samuel, born February 28, 1666; married Abi- gail.
(Shattuck, L .: "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck," pp. 57-77; Fay, O. P .: "Fay Genealogy," p. 19.)
(II) John Shattuck, son of William and Susanna Shattuck, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, February 11, 1647. Crossing from Charlestown to Boston on a heavily laden ferryboat, on September 14, 1675, he was drowned with several others when the boat sank. Lands were granted to him in Groton in 1664, but he himself probably never lived there. In 1675 he was a sergeant performing important duty in King Philip's War. He married, June 20, 1664, Ruth Whitney, daughter of John and Elinor Whitney, born April 15, 1645. She mar- ried (second), March 6, 1677, Enook (or Enosh) Lawrence. She had four children by her first marriage and four children by her second. When she married again, she took her husband with her and occupied the estate of her first husband. Children, born in Watertown, Massa- chusetts: 1. John, of whom further. 2. Ruth,
born June 24, 1668; married (probably) Jona- than Farnsworth. 2. William, born September 11, 1670, died in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1744; married (first), March 19, 1688, Hannah Un- derwood, of Watertown, Massachusetts; (sec- ond), March 24, 1719, Deliverance Pease, in Groton. 4. Samuel, born in 1673, in Water- town, died in Groton, on July 22, 1758; mar- ried Elizabeth Blood.
(Shattuck, L .: "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck," pp. 68-83.)
(III) John Shattuck, son of John and Ruth (Whitney) Shattuck, was born June 4, 1666, in Watertown, Massachusetts. He and his eldest son were both murdered by the Indians on May 8, 1709. John Shattuck was a farmer. He bought part of his father-in-law's farm and lived on the Blood homestead. Both the Shattucks and the Bloods owned large tracts of land on either side of the Nashua River near some paper mills. Groton, a town less thickly populated than some of the older towns near Boston, was subject to Indian depredations. In about 1690 the Indians grew bold again and James Blood, John Shattuck's father-in-law, was killed by them October 13, 1692. Others were captured and the massacres and capturing continued in this "Reign of Terror" from 1690 to 1710. Many of the families left Groton because they were so afraid of the Indians, but John Shat- tuck remained, there to meet his death. In 1707 John Shattuck joined the church, his wife join- ing later, in 1721. John Shattuck married Mary Blood, the daughter of James and Elizabeth (Longley) Blood. (Blood III.).
(Shattuck, L .: "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck," pp. 77-81.)
Children, born in Groton, Massachusetts: 1. John, born January 6, 1691, died (killed by In- dians), May 8, 1709. 2. Jonathan, of whom further. 3. David, born April 28, 1696, died young, before his father. 4. Mary, born April 11, 1699; married, December 8, 1722, John Gil- son. 5. Sarah, born October 5, 1701. 6. Lydia, born March 1, 1704, died October 23, 1783, in Pepperell, Massachusetts; married, May 22,
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1723, Isaac Williams. 7. Elizabeth, married, January 2, 1726, Isaac Lakin. 8. Hannah, bap- tized May 2, 1707, died in infancy. 9. Patience, born February 18, 1709; probably died young.
(Shattuck, L .: "Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck," pp. 81-95.)
(IV) Jonathan Shattuck, son of John and Mary (Blood) Shattuck, was born at Groton, Massachusetts, on June 29, 1693, and died Sep- tember 18, 1771. He was left in charge of his mother and six younger children at the age of sixteen and proved himself unusually adequate to the situation, performing his duties in a manful, kindly way. He settled his father's estate in ten years-the court records have it March 26, 1719. He built a house for his mother, and in time acquired a comfortable estate as a farmer. He was greatly respected by his fel- low townsmen and held at times town offices. He married, June 25, 1719, Elizabeth Chamber- lain, who was born May 26, 1700. She was the daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Nutting) Chamberlain. Children, three eldest boys born in Groton, Massachusetts, the others in Pep- perell, Massachusetts: 1. Jonathan, born April 2, 1720, died September 20, 1804; married, Jan- uary 27, 1743, Kezia Farnsworth. 2. Elizabeth, of whom further. 3. John, born March 12, 1724, died December 31, 1807; married, August 16, 1750, Elizabeth Shattuck, second cousin. 4. Esther, born May 21, 1726, died April 5, 1759; married, May 10, 1750, Abel Parker. 5. Kezia, born June 19, 1728, died December 7, 1747; married, July 16, 1747, John Green. 6. Mary, born September 22, 1730, died June 27, 1810; married, September 12, 1753, Simeon Green. 7. Zaccheus, born March 26, 1734, died March 29, 1819; married, July 12, 1759, Anjubah Chamber- lain, his cousin. 8. Eunice, born March 5, 1736, died December 13, 1815, at Athens, Vermont; married (first) David Turner; (second), Febru- ary 15, 1759, Ezekiel Perham. 9. Timothy, born August 8, 1738, died at Lyndeboro, New Hamp- shire; married, January 7, 1762, Hannah Nut- ting.
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