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MCCARTHY, JAMES F .. p. o. West Spring- field. Mass .. was born at Feeding Hills, August 14. 1861. a son of Jeremiah and May ( Ryan) Med'arthy. He was given a common school education. afterward learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1592 started for himself in contracting and building in West Springfield, in which he is still en- gaged with good success. Mr. Mccarthy is a director in the Co-operative bank of West Springfield. He married Mary G., daughter of Jeremiah Sullivan. To Mr. and Mrs. Mccarthy have been born three children : Walter. Christine and Rita Mic-
GOFF. BURRITT W., p. D. Merrick, Mass .. was born in Richford. Vt .. April 22. 1548, Carthy. a son of John A. and Wealthy { Cheney ) KRAGER. WILLIAM A .. p. o. Merrick, Mass .. was born in Northampton. November 13. 1865. a son of Henry and Henrietta M. Krager. Ilis father was a native of Ger- many and came to America in the 'forties, settling in Hampden county. William was educated in the common schools. and after- ward learned the machinist's trade having been apprenticed to Allen Smithwill. For two years he was in charge of the tool de- Goff. Ilis father was a native of Rkh- ford, and an influential farmer in his day. He was selectman of his town for a number of years, and died July 25. 1878. Burritt W Goff was given a good common school eduention, and after leaving school entered the army in 1865. Two years later he came to West Springfield and entered the employ of the B. & AA. R. R. as a fireman. After firing three years he was placed in partment of the Springfield Screw company.
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and in 1894 engaged with Barney & Berry. skate manufacturers. where he is still em- ployed. Mr. Krager is a member of the Forresters. and Nonotuck lodge 1. 0. 0. F. of Northampton. On July 25. 1890, he
married Margaret Keliher, daughter of Cornelius Keliher. of Mittineague. Of this marriage one son has been born. Earl Krager.
CUMMINGS, WILLIAMI, p. o. Merrick. Mass., was born in Mackeysburg, P'a., No- vember 9, 1864. a son of Philip and Mary (Smith) Cummings, both natives of Ireland. Ile arquired his education in the public schools in West Stockbridge. Mass .. and for five years was employed in a coal mine. In INS . he went on the B. & A. railroad as brakeman, and is now in the service of the N. Y., N. H. & H. company having been in their employ thirteen years. Mr. Cum- mings is a member of the United Order of Workmen. Hartford Division. On May 19. 1887. he married Margaret Cantwell, of Greenbury. Pa. Five children have been born of this marriage : Phillip. Thomas. Edward, Anna Mary and Burnett Vincent Cummings.
mer. flis later years of active business life were spent as partner in the firm of Holden & Fuller, in the manufacture of woolen goods. Mr. Holden died in 1899. George S. loiden was educated in the schools of Palmer and in Andover academy. He studied three years at Amherst and in 1891 received the degree of A. B. from the I'ni- versity of Michigan. Mr. Holden is a member of the Thomas lodge. F. & A. M .. and of the Reta Theta P. college fraternity. On March 25. 1896. he married Katherine Cramer. of Ann Arbor, Mich.
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ginbottom. Their children are Marjorie Helle. born July 17, ISTS (graduate of Wellesley ). married Frederick Otto von
Pfister. of Munich. Bavaria, Germany, where she now lives; Georgiana Cook, born May G. 1881 (graduate of Dana Ilall. Wel- lesley). and Alice, born July 17, 1890. On the paternal side. Mr. llemingway's an- cestor is believed to have settled in the I'dymonth colony in 1643, and on the ma- ternal side his grandfather was born in Frankfort-on-Main, Germany ,and came to America about 1820. His ancestors settled at New Haven, and one of them, Jacob Hemingway. was the first graduate of Yale college.
WHITE, LUTHER. attorney at law, resid- ing in Chicopee, is a native of Granby, Mass .. born September 2. 1841. He is de- scended from the earliest families of Spring- field. one of his paternal ancestors having been one of the Whites who came to the settlement soon after the colony was plant- rd. On his mother's side he is descended from the Clarks who were among the first settlers in Northampton. and also from the Stebbins family of early Springfield HOLDEN. GEORGE S., D. o. Palmer. Mass .. was born in Middlefield, Mass .. September 29. ISGS, a son of Henry P. and Mary A. ( Ilolmes) Holden. and grandson of Lewis A. Hlolden. Henry P. Holden was a native of Charlton and came to Palmer in 1871. purchasing the store of H. H. Bartlett & Co. history. Luther White acquired his educa- tion in the Granby district schools. the high school in Chicopee. Williston seminary in East Hampton and Brown university. Prov- idence. 1. 1. On October 12. 1871. he mar- ried Mary J., daughter of Moses C. and Adeline Hadley. Mr. and Mrs. White bave Ile also was interested in several of the une child. Mabel A. White. born January largest manufacturing enterprises in Pal- 5. 1873.
STEBBINS, LUTHER. son of Noah and de- spendant in the seventh generation of Row- land Stebbins (or Stebbing). was a lifelong resident of Hampden county. He died Au- gust I8. 1860. Ilis wife, whom he married November 7, 1805, was P'hebe Hitchcock. Their children were Orson, born July 9. 1607; Laura, born March 12. 1809 : Mar- garet, born February 1. 1512: Desire, born September 23. 1814, died March 2. 1845 ; Sally, born October 23, 1816; Milton, born .Inne S. 18ID: Phebe, born December 13. 1820; Hiram, born April 6. 1823: Lucia. HEMINGWAY CHARLES S., for twelve years principal of the Holyoke High school. and more recently engaged In manufacturing enterprises, present alder. man at large of our city. is a native of born June 28, 1825, married Stebbins Fos- kit. March 31. 1847. The children of Steb- bins and Lucla (Stebbins) Foskit are Rufus Stebbins, born April 21, 1818, and Rosella Elizabeth. born January 19. 1853. Row- New Haven, Conn., horn December 24. 1551. land Stebbins. the ancestral head of this He married. October 1. 1876. Allee Ing-
family in Amerien, was born in 1594. came
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to this country in 1634 and was the near dieted that event, naming the year and friend of William Pynchon, the founder of the colony at Springfield. He brought with him from England his wife, Sarah, and his children. Thomas. Sarah, John and Eliza- beth. He stopped for a time in Roxbury. where his wife died in 1649, upon which he came to Springfield, but, with his son John, soon removed to Northampton. where Rowland died December 11. 1671.
NEWELL, ALONZO BURNHAM, of Hampden (formerly South Wilbraham), is a native of the town, the son of John (born in Mon- son, March 10. 1792, died January 8, 1875 : married March 7. 1822. Paulinah Sophro- nia Bigelow. of Springfield. N. Y. She was born November 14. ISOI, and died June 4, 1862). John Newell was a direct descendant in the seventh generation of Abraham Newell, who came from England (probably from Essex) in 1634 in the ship "Ffrancis." John Cutting, master, bound for New England. Abraham, the settler. was a "taylor." and he was made a "free- man" in 1635. His wife "ffrances" was forty years old when she came to America. From them the line of descent comes through Isaac (2), Isaac (3), Benjamin (4), Abijah (5). Stephen (6), John (7), in successive generations to Alonzo Burnham Newell (S), of lampden. The pioneer of the family in Hampden county was Abijah Newell (5), who removed from Dudley to Monson about 1775. Soon afterward he was drafted for service during the revolu- tion, but as he had a large family depend- ent upon his efforts for their support the selectmen considerately released him and in his stead accepted his young son Stephen. who served faithfully and with courage. Abijah. the pioneer, was born January 9. 1731 : married Hepzibah Curtis. December 6. 1753. She died September 22. 1834. aged one hundred years, twleve days, and she lived to see a train of descendants down to the fifth generation. Stephen (6). of Monson, son of Abijah (5). was born In Imidley in 1758 ; married Louisa (or Lois) Sikes, January 12. 1781. He died in 184%. lle was the revolutionary patriot, taking his father's place in the service, although then hardly more than a boy. In subso- quent years he was a man of marked pe- ruliarities and a thoroughly upright cith- zen. Four years before he died he pre-
month and werk : and in contemplation of his end he aided In digging and stoning up the sides of his own grave, and also caused his gravestone to be prepared and lettered. except the exact date of death. Alonzo Burnham Newell (S), son of John (7), was born June 6. 1835 : warried Janu- ary 31. 1861. Elvira Keep, of Monson. Their children were: Irving Alonzo, born in South Wilbraham, October 26, 1861 : Annie Elvira, born October 14, 1865; Cora Pauline, born in Lockport. N. Y., July 19, IS6> : Ilerbert Damon, born in South Wil- braham. August 6, 1871 : John Marens, born November 17. 1874: Florence Julia. born in Hampden, March 12, 18SI, died March 51. 1896. Alonzo Burnham Newell pre- pared for college in Wilbraham academy. He entered Amherst in 1-59. but failing health compelled him to leave college before the end of his first year.
FOWLER, SAMUEL JONES, was born in Westfield. June 26, 1851. llis first Ameri- can ancestor was William Fowler. who came to Boston in 1637 and moved to Mil- ford. Conn., in 1639. He married Joan Al- vord. 1646, and died in 1704. His son, Ambrose. of Windsor, Conn., was the first Fowier of this line to settle in what is now Hampden county. That was in 1671, and he resided in Westfield. Samuel Jones Fowier's genealogy is as follows : William. referred to in the foregoing, married Joan Alvord. 1646; their son. Samuel. married Abigail Brown, 1683: their son Samnel married a wife whose name was Mercy ; Po the third Samnel. son of Samuel and Mercy, married Naomi Noble in 1734; the next in line, another Samnel married first, Ellza- beth Dwight. of Springfield, and second, .Iemima Lyman, of Northampton; the fourth Samnel's son, James, married first Iney Donglas, of Westfield, and second, Charlotte Whitney, of Stockbridge: James hitd a son. the fifth Samuel. who married Maria Jones, of Stockbridge, and they were the parents of Samnel Jones, Frances and Harold North Fowler. The latter married Helen Bell, of Exeter, N. H., and now re- sides in Cleveland, Ohio.
SHAW. EDWARD F., of Palmer, son of An- sel (. and Nancy Shaw, was born in Bel- chertown. August 28. 185S. Ile was edu- cated in the public schools of his native
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town, and at the age of about twenty years be began his business career as clerk in the Hovey in 1709. Ile was a son of Sergeant Joseph Smith, who married Rebecca Diek- store of J. R. Gould, of Belchertown. Two inson, of Hadley, in 1680. Sergeant Smith years later (1881) he purchased Mr. Gould's interest in the firm of Gould & Heath, at Three Rivers, and in the next year he suc- ceeded to the sole proprietorship of the business. In 1885 he took as partner his brother Hl. A. Shaw, with whom he was associated until 1889, when he again be- came sole owner and has so continued to the present time. Mr. Shaw was appointed postmaster at Three Rivers January 1, 1898. In 1884 he married Alice M. Holden, of Bondsville, by whom he has three children, Irving, Alice and Florence Shaw. was a son of Joseph Smith, who came from England to llartford in 1651, and there married Lydia Hewitt, daughter of Rev. Ephraim Hewitt, the second minister of the Windsor church. Other ancestors of Dr. Hannum are the Warrens of llatfield, and the Dickinsons of Hadley. Abial Squier, on his mother's side, was father of Capt. Sylvester Squier of revolutionary fame and one of the pioneers of Montgomery. Ahial Squier's wife was fthoda Lathrop, whose family were prominent early settlers in West Springfield. Capt. Squier's son, Lath- top Squier, married Elizabeth Letfingwell, granddaughter of Lieut. Thomas Leffing- well, of Norwich, Conn. Elisha Leffing- well, son of Lieut. Thomas, was one of the first settlers in what now is Huntington.
HANNUM, JAMES WILSON, whose name is frequently mentioned in the medical chapter of this work, and who, also, since 1855 has resided in flampden county ( in West- field until 1879 and subsequently in Lud- low), was born in Williamsburgh, Mass., September 24, 1851, and removed to East- hampton, where his father died in 1853; and thenee with his mother and brother to Westfield in 1855. Dr. llannum was edu- cated in the Westfield public schools ( tak- ing supplementary instruction in Latin and Greek), the medical department of the Uni- versity of Michigan, and the same depart- ment of Columbia college, New York city, graduating from the latter institution (best known as the College of Physicians and Sur- geons), in 1577. For two years he prac- ticed in Whateley and located permanently in Ludlow in 1879. In 1886 he n married Maria Lonise Miller, daughter of Wilbur Fisk Miller. Of this marriage these chil- dren have been born : Alice Louise, born December 30, 1887 ; John Squier, born May 1, 1990; William Porter, born December 16, 1900. On his father's side Dr. Han- num is a descendant in the seventh genera- tion from William Ilannum, who emigrated from England in 1630, settled first in the Dorchester colony, removed thence to Northampton, where he died in 1677. Aaron Hannum. great grandson of William and grandson of John, was born in 1722 ; mar- ried Rachel Smith (born In 1726), daughter of John Smith, one of the first settlers of Belchertown and a conspicuous figure in the early history of that town, both In civil and church affairs. John Smith was born in Hadley In IGSt, and married Elizabeth
DIBBLE, ALFRED, manufacturer of whip stocks in Westfield, a resident in that town since 1865 and a former resident in old historic Southwick, was born in the town last mentioned October 25, 1837. He ac- quired his early education in the South- wick schools and married there November 25, 1857. Philenia Fowler. On July 31, 1862, Mr. Dibble enlisted in the 34th regi- ment, Mass. Vol. Inf., and served with that notable command (the history of which is recorded in a preceding chapter), until the close of the war, when he was mustered out, holding and having won a lieutenant's com- mission. Returning home, Mr. Dibble de- voted himself to business pursuits and re- moved from Southwick to the larger and more enterprising town of Westfield in 1865. Ilis first wife having died, on November 24, 1868, he married Elizabeth Dickinson. llis children are Morton A., born October 30, 1858 ; Burton E., born October 6, 1862 ; Osear W., born November 15. 1569; Ger- trude C., born April 27, 1874, and Mary E., born September 14, 1877.
CHASE, HENRY ADAMS. postmaster at Hol- yoke and a resident In that city since 1848, is a native of Nashua, N. H., born August 4, 1840. He was educated In the Holyoke public schools and also in MeIndoe Falls ( Vermont) academy, and for more than forty years has been identified with the best Interests and history of our Industrial city. Mr. Chase is descended from old,
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substantial New England stock. In 1635. Thomas, William and Aquillo Chase, sons of Sir Robert Chase, of Cornwall, England. emigrated to America and settled. Thomas in Hampton. N. I., William in Yarmouth. Mass., and Aquilla In Newberry, Mass. Ed- BLISS. ETHELBERT, D. O. Wilbraham, Mass. was born January 28, 1852, a son win Chase, father of Henry A .. was born In Litchfield, N. 11 .. March 17, 1813, and of Albert and orpha ( Bishop) Bliss, and his wife. Maria Adams, was born in Nashua. received a common school education. Mr. l'liss purchased his present place in 1870 N. 11., June 24. 1819. He died September 27, 1842 and his widow April 27. 1895, and started his famous peach orchard in 1804. In 1873 Mr. Bliss married Abbie
Henry A. Chase married (June 19, 1866) Sarah J. Mayo, of Burlington. Vt .. and of Cross : they have three children, Walter M., this marriage six children have been born : 11. Estella. and Dora A. Edwin Mial. born February 15. 1568: Henry Mayo, born September 22. 1869: Charles Arthur, born June 3. 1873; Joseph Panl, born February IN, 1875: Laura. born December 27. 1876. and Richard Wade, born July 12. ISSO.
GREEN. THOMAS J .. contractor and build- er. member of the board of town assessors of Westfield. and a resident and business man In that town since 1557. was born in Lunenbury, Mass .. October 25. 1835. His early education was acquired in the pub- le schools of his native town. On October 23. 1861. Mr. Green married Alvira E. Loomis, a native of Russell and daughter of the late Orrin and Caroline Loomis, of Chleago. Il. The children of this marriage are Addison Loomis Green, born October 23. 1862. now a practicing lawyer of Holyoke : Lillian Isola Green. horn Inne 24, 1864. died February 5. ISGG: Lona Ella Green. born April 6, 1565. married and now living in Westfield, and Arthur Everett Green, born August 25. 1971. now living in Westfield. During the period of his active business life Mr. Green was one of the most extensive contractors in all Hampden county and he also dealt in humber at wholesale and re- tail. A few years ago these interests were disposed of and since that time he has practically retired from active business pur- suits. For the past three years he has been one of the town assessors and in other ways since his residence In our town he has been Identified with its civil as well as its so- cial and business history.
THOMPSON. ALFRED CLARK, Superintend ent of schools In Palmer since August. 1897. was born in Norwich. Conn .. Mareb 25. 1867. lle arquired his elementary education in Norwich Free academy (class of ISS). and was graduated from Yale university in 1802. On June 30, 1896, he married Lina
Miriam Cook and in the following year was called to the superintendency of the Palmer schools. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have one child, Miriam Cook Thompson, born September 13. 1899.
WHITNEY, MILTON BURRALL, attorney and counsellor at law. of Westfield, senior member of the llampden bar, was born in Granville October 6. 1825, son of Samuel Ilart and grandson of Samuel Platt Whit- ney. the latter the pioneer of the family in lampden county, he having removed from Simsbury. Conn., to Granville about the year 1800. Samuel Hart Whitney was the eldest son of Samuel Platt Whitney and was born in October, 1800. He married Marilla Lovisa Dickinson (daughter of Otis Dickinson. of Granville), by whom he had three children, Milton B. being the eldest child and only son. Milton lived in Granville until he entered college. lle was graduated at Williams in 1849, and after- ward read law with the late William G. Bates, of Westfield. According to the reg- ister of the Hampden bar (chapter xviii) he was admitted to practice in 1853, and from that time he has been closely identi- tied with professional and public life in this county, always maintaining a residence in Westheld, On October 2. 1901. Mr. Whit- ney married Florence Fuller, daughter of llenry Fuller. of Westfield.
PARKS. FRANCIS R. In the history of the towns of Montgomery and Russell, among the early settlers none were more promi- nently identified with the growth and devel- opment of the region, or of the administra- tion of town affairs, than the representatives of the Parks family : and what is true of pioneer times will apply to almost any sub- sequent period in the history of these towns. Jeremiah Parks appears to have been the pioneer of the family in what now is Hampden conuty. for he bought land in Montgomery in 1780 and sold it in 1783 to Elias Parks. in early town history Elias Parks took a more active part than did most of his descendants in later years.
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Jeremiah Parks, according to family rec- they have three children : Florence Aman- ords, was baptized at Preston, Conn., April da. born September 6, 1855; Carlos Car- 7, 1725, and became a resident of I'nion, penter, born December 5. 1856: and Ina Conn., in 1761. He served two months in the American army during the revolution. Elias Parks, son of Jeremiah, was born in 1762, or 1764, and died May 10, 1828 : he is buried in Russell. lle married, first, Isa- bella Lindsey, of Blandford, and second. Inldah Burt, of Southampton. Francis Robert Parks of Westfield, son of Robert William, grandson of Lyman, and great- grandson of Elias and Iluldab Parks. was born in Holyoke. April 10, 1876, and re- moved with his parents to Westfield in that year. lle is a descendant in the ninth generation of Robert Parks, born in 1580. and died in 1605. at Mystic, Conn .. who came from Preston. England, to Boston, in 1630, removed to Wethersfield. Conn., about 1639 and thence removed to New London (about 1650), where bis barn was the first place of worship for the townsmen. Hle was selectman in 1651 and representative in 1642 and 1652. lle married Martha Champ- lin, and from them the line of descent comes direct through eight successive generations to Francis Robert Parks of Westfield. Ile (Francis R.), graduated at the Westfield high school in 1895. from Yale university in 1899, and since that time has been asso- ciated in business with his father.
GIBBONS. MARTIN TINKER. D. o. Granville, farmer, mechanic, and for twenty-one years a teacher in the public schools, was born April 27, 1827. son of Carlos and Almira ( Tinker) Gibbons. Carlos Gibbons was born July 12, 1793. During his business life he was a farmer until 1840, when he became a merchant. In 1848 he represent- ed his town in the state legislature and at other times held various town offices. Ile was industrious, well-to-do, and popular, and died at the age of seventy-two years. The mother, Almira Tinker, was a woman of exceptional education for her time and lived to the ripe age of eighty-six years. Of their union twelve children were born : Nancy, Lucretia. Lnelna. Lydia, Elizabeth ( .. Martha N., ,Martin T., Charlotte .. , Edwin C .. John M., Phineas L., Nancy L., all born in Granville. Mass. On the 23rd of April, 1852. Martin T. Gibbons married Adelia Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Adella, born May 16, 1861. On April 15. 1879, Florence Amanda married, first. Ilarry A. MeGrath, of Holyoke, and they had one child, Claribelle Adelia. born May 20, 1880, died at the age of thirteen years: second. she married William Wells Bemis, November 9, 1895. who died December 13. 1896. Of this union she has one daughter. Wilhel- mina Wells Remis, born January 4, 1897. Florence died November 9. 1900. Carlos "., now vice-president of the First State bank of Bertrand. Nebraska, married, Novem- ber 13, 1890. liena Florence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bruce. of Bertrand. They have an adopted daughter, Wilhelmina Wells ( Bemis). Ina Adella married. October IS, 1882. Edwin N. Ilenry. Of this Gibbons family, the first to come to Hampden coun- ty was Peter Gibbons, the great-grandfather of Martin T. That was in 1756. and he was one of the first settlers in the south part of the town of Granville. Peter was born in Waltbam. Mass., April 20, 1730. In November. 1751. he married Sarah Green, with whom he lived fifty-nine years. They had twelve children and eighty-five grandchildren. one of the sons. Jedediah, born February 10. 1770, was the grandfath- er of Martin T., the subject. Jedediah married Elizabeth Cowdrey, who was born October 9. 1770. Their children were Car- los, father of Martin T., born July 12. 1793 ; Damaris. born April 13. 1796; Philura. born October 27. 1798: Amoret. horn Aug- ust 20, 1800, died June 4. 1802; Hiram, born September 26. 1802 ; Amoret, born Feb- ruary 19. 1804> Eliza, born October 10. 1806; Martha. born January 6. 1810, died July 13. 1810 ; and Watson, born February 18. 1812. On the twenty-third of April. 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Martin T. Gibbons cele- brated their golden wedding anniversary.
DEWEY, LOUIS MARINUS, of Westfield. assistant manager of the Loomis Automobile company, traces his ancestry in New Eng- land to heads of familles as follows : Thomas Dewey, from Sandwich, Kent coun- ty, England, settled at Dorchester, Mass .. about 1630. and later at Windsor, Conn .. where he died April 27. 1648: married March 22. 1638 9. Frances, widow of Joseph Mark. She afterward married George John D. Carpenter, of Granby, Conn,, and Phelps, and died In Westtleld, Sept. 27.
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1690. Peter Prary, at New London, Conn., 1663, lived on the Groton side ; died there in 170%; married bec., 1677, Christobel Gal- lup, bora about 1660. John Tillotsou, of Rowley, removed to Newbury, Mass., thea probably to Saybrook (Lyme), Conn. ; mar- ried May 24. 1655, at Newbury, Jane Evans. Robert Day died at Hartford, 1648 ; married Edatha Stebbins, who removed to Spring- field, where she died Det. 24, 1G88. Simeon Nackett, died at Cambridge, Mass,, 1635; married. John Warner, son of William. born 1616, probably the John Waruer who embarked at London in the Increase, 1635. aged 30 ; became one of the early settlers of Brookfield, about 1670, then at lladley, 1675 ; married, 1655, Priscilla Symonds. Mark Symonds of Ipswich, Mass., in 1634, aged 50 years : freeman May 2, 1638: died there April 28, 1659, aged 75 ; wife Joanna, died April 29, 1660. Thomas Ortou of Charlestown, Mass., father of Thomas Or- ton of Windsor and Farmington, Coan., who married June 1, 1641, Margaret Pall, or l'ell. Valeutiue Prentice of Roxbury, Mass., 1631, probably came with Eliot in the Lion. bringing wife Alice and son Joha ; freeman. August 7, 1632 : his widow married, April 3, 1634, John Watson.
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