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Lovi and Martha (Sever) Lincoln had seven children : First, Levi, died Sept. 1, 1845, aged 35. Second, Wm. Sever Lincoln, 44
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born Nov. 22, 1811 ; married Oct. 22, 1835, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of George A. and Louisa C. Trumbull ; has had four chil- dren ; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1830 ; practiced law in Millbury, Mass., and in Alton, Ill., where he was city attor- ney; then removed to Worcester, and occupied for a time the " mill farm" that was his great-grandfather's, (Judge John Chandler's, see page 72 at Quinsigamond Village) ; was Lieut. Colonel and afterwards Colonel of the 34th Massachusetts Regiment in the war of the rebellion, was wounded, taken pri- soner and escaped, and afterwards in the service, and breveted Brigadier General for meritorious service ; has been city mar- shal, alderman, and occupied other positions of trust. Third, Daniel Waldo Lincoln, born Jan. 16, 1813 ; married Frances Fish, daughter of Francis T. Merrick, and has had four chil- dren ; graduated at Harvard University in 1832; has given great attention to horticultural pursuits ; was representative in the Legislature in 1846, mayor of Worcester in 1863 and 1864, has been vice-president of the Boston and Albany railroad since the consolidation in 1867, and filled other prominent offices. Fourth, Penelope, married Dr. C. T. Canfield of New Jersey, and has a daughter Penelope. Fifth, Capt. George Lincoln, killed at the battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847, aged 30, while acting as adjutant general on the staff of General Wool ; married Naney, daughter of Silvius and Nancy (M. De Villers) Hoard, afterwards wife of Hon. Stephen Salisbury. Sixth, Anne Warren Lincoln, died July 24, 1846, aged 27. Seventh, Edward Winslow Lincoln, born December, 1820; graduated at Harvard University in 1839; has been twice married, the last time to Kate Von Weiver Marston of Bristol, R. I., daugh- ter of Lieut. Col. Ward Marston of the United States marine service, and has had eight children ; was editor and proprietor of the National Ægis in 1847 and 1848, postmaster from 1849 to 1854, and has been many years Commissioner of Public Grounds and Secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural Society.
Dr. Abraham Lincoln, (see page 47,) who came here not long after his brother, Levi Lincoln, senior, married, January 7, 1787, Nancy, daughter of Col. Timothy Bigelow. (See p. 46.)
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THE ALLEN FAMILY.
James Allen, merchant, of Boston, (grandfather of Rev. George Allen of Worcester,) married Mary, sister of Samuel Adams, and had five sons, James, William, Robert, Joseph and Samuel, (the two latter afterwards of Worcester,) all of whom were members of the Latin Grammar School of Boston under Master John Lovell, the most celebrated school-teacher of his time, and master of that school for over fifty years. These brothers had a younger sister Mary, who became the wife of Rev. Joseph Avery, minister of the old Congregational Church in Holden from 1774 to his death in 1824. Of these five broth- ers, one of whom was a graduate of Harvard College, the old- est, James, Jr., was in the class of 1754 with Gov. John Han- cock ; and Joseph and Samuel were afterwards of Worcester, the former becoming clerk of the courts, member of Congress, etc., and the latter county treasurer.
Hon. Joseph Allen, born Sept. 2, 1749, removed from Boston to Leicester, Nov. 17, 1771, after having served a regular mer- cantile apprenticeship in Mr. Bass' store, and subsequently kept a store on Leicester hill, near the site of the present Academy. Here he married Ann, daughter of Judge Thomas Steele, who died May 10, 1775. He married for his second wife Dorothy Kingsbury, daughter of Lemuel and Dorothy Kingsbury of East Hartford, Conn. While in Leicester, with Seth Washburn, the Henshaws, Dennys, etc., he was active in resisting the agressive measures of the British government. On the re- organization of the government under the provincial author- ities in 1776, he was appointed clerk of the courts for this county, and removed to Worcester, filling that position with remarkable fidelity for thirty-three years to 1810, when he was chosen representative in Congress, to succeed Hon. Jabez Upham of Brookfield, deceased. He was executive councillor from 1815 to 1818, and twice presidential elector. He was a member of the convention which framed the first State Constitution of 1780, with Gov. Levi Lincoln, senior, and Dca. David Bigelow; the first treasurer of Leicester Academy, from 1784 to 1819, preceding Hon. Abijah Bigelow ; and the first president of the Worcester County Bible Society ; be-
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sides filling many other positions of honor and trust. He died Sept. 1, 1827, aged 78. He early received the distinguished confidence of his uncle, Samuel Adams, the revolutionary patriot.
Hon. Joseph Allen had seven sons and three daughters be- sides several who died in infancy, of whom the two oldest, Joseph and Thomas, by his first wife, were born in Leices- ter, and the others, by his last wife, in Worcester. The oldest, Joseph, Jr., graduated at Harvard in 1792, began prac- tice as a lawyer in Worcester, afterwards in Warren and in Charlestown, N. H., and died in the latter place in 1806. Maj. Samuel Allen, born Nov. 22, 1789, and died Feb. 18, 1863, aged 73, married Maria A., sister of Judge Pliny Merrick, their daughter Frances M., is wife of Samuel F. Haven, Esq. Rev. George Allen, born Feb. 1, 1792, married Eliza (Allen) Pitkin of Enfield, Connecticut, and their son George, Jr., mar- ried Elizabeth Denny, daughter of late Rev. John Miles of Grafton. Rev. Mr. Allen was pastor in Shrewsbury from 1823 to 1839. Hon. Charles Allen, chief justice, member of Con- gress, senator, etc., born Aug. 9, 1797, married Eliza, daughter of Eleazer James, Esq., of Barre, their daughter Josephine, being wife of Henry C. Rice, Esq. Joseph and Dorothy Allen's daughter Ann married Robert M. Peck. Joseph Allen and his brother Samuel, their last wives, and four of Joseph's children were buried in the old Mechanic street Cemetery.
This family is a connection, genealogically, with that of Rev. Benjamin Allen, one of the earliest settlers here, in the south- east corner of the town, whose son Joseph, born Feb. 14, 1720, was the first person from Worcester on the Harvard College re- cord of students. Capt. Samuel Adams, (father of the cele- brated patriot of the revolution, and grandfather of Hon. Joseph Allen,) was a cousin of the father of President John Adams.
When Joseph Allen came here in 1776, he resided first in the house then just vacated by Attorney General James Putnam, corner of Main and Park streets. About 1780, he erected the dwelling on the north corner of Main and Thomas streets, which he sold to David Curtis in 1799, and then removed to the corner of Main and Pearl streets, (see page 260.)
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Rev. George Allen, now in his 86th year, graduated at Yale College in 1813, studied theology with Rev. Dr. Andrew Yates in Union College, and was ordained minister in Shrewsbury, Nov. 19, 1823, a colleague with Rev. Dr. Joseph Sumner until his death, and then he became sole pastor, remaining so until 1839, after which he officiated for nearly twenty years as chap- lain at the State Lunatic Hospital. It was a spirit allied to that of his distinguished kinsman, Samuel Adams, which prompted Rev. Mr. Allen to offer the celebrated resolution, quoted on page 287, which subsequently became the corner stone of political faith not merely of a party, through its conventions and presses, which endorsed that rallying cry " for free soil and free men,* for free speech and a free press, for a free land and a free world," but of the whole country, which established these noble principles.
Hon. Charles Allen, after completing his law studies with Hon. Samuel M. Burnside, was admitted to the bar in Worces- ter, in August, 1818, at the age of 21, and practiced in New Braintree till 1824, when he removed to Worcester, and was in partnership with Hon. John Davis till 1831. He was chairman of the board of selectmen in 1832 ; representative in the Gen- eral Court in 1830, 1833, 1835, and 1840 ; senator in 1836 and 1837 ; judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1842 to 1844 ; declined an appointment to the Supreme Bench ; was president- ial elector in 1844 ; representative in Congress from 1849 to 1853 ; and chief justice of the Superior Court from 1858 un-
* When the reference to this matter, on page 287, was penned, the writer was not aware that the paternity of this noble resolution had ever been claim- ed for any other party. He would as soon have expected some modern D. D. to lay claim to the authorship of the " Sermon on the Mount." The writer of this book was sitting within a few feet of Mr. Allen when the latter arose near the close of that meeting, and offered his resolution, in the same words here printed, the words coming into his mind as he was hurrying across the Com- mon on the way to the hall, which he entered just before the close of the speak- ing, having been detained by his duties at the hospital after nine o'clhck. Af- ter the regular resolutions of the meeting had been reported and adopted, Rev. Mr. Allen offered his, from memory, and it was received with so much favor that he was requested to commit it to writing, which he did in exactly the same words, after which it was adopted with the most unbounded enthusiasm, and subsequently adopted by various meetings and conventions during that campaign, including the State Convention held the following week in the same hall; and the main sentiment of it was incorporated in the platform of the Na- tional Free Soil Convention held the following month of August at Buffalo, where Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams were made the standard bearers of these " free soil" principles, then specially endorsed by them, and since become incorporated in the national government.
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til 1868. In 1842, Mr. Allen was appointed a member of the commission with Hon. Abbott Lawrence and Hon. John Mills, in behalf of Massachusetts in relation to the contemplated treaty of Washington respecting the North Eastern boundary of the United States, a member of the State Constitutional Con- vention of 1853, and of the National Peace Congress at Wash- ington in the beginning of 1816. Judge Allen was the acknowl- edged head of the bar in this section of the Commonwealth.
Judge Allen was a delegate to the Whig National Convention at Philadelphia in 1848, which nominated Gen. Taylor for the presidency, and as a member of that body exhibited the spirit of his illustrious relative, Samuel Adams of revolutionary fame, in daring to stand up, almost solitary and alone, in defence of his convictions, against the most formidable odds.
The closing words of Judge Allen's speech, made in that body after the nomination of Gen. Taylor, against which he protested, and pronounced " The Whig party of the country here and this day dissolved," for its " surrender to the slave power," were as follows, in which he defeated the contemplated nomination of a distinguished statesman of Massachusetts for the vice-presidency, (Hon. Abbott Lawrence,) as the condition of her giving her vote to Gen Taylor :
" You have put one ounce too much upon the strong back of northern en- durance. You have even presumed that the state which led on the first re- volution for liberty, will now desert that cause for the miserable boon of the vice-presidency. Sir, Massachusetts spurns the bribe !"
Millard Fillmore of New York was then nominated for the vice-presidency by the convention, he receiving 115 votes to 109 for Mr. Lawrence.
Samuel Allen, senior, born at Boston in 1757, came to Worces- ter in 1776. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. John Honeywood of Leicester, (an Englishman by birth, and sur- geon in the revolutionary army,) for his first wife, and a daughter of Gen. Timothy Newell of Sturbridge for his second wife. They left no children. Mr. Allen was the successor of Dea. Nathan Perry and the predecessor of Anthony Chase as county treasurer, from 1781 to his decease, Dec. 26, 1830, aged 73.
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THE MOWER FAMILY.
Samuel, Thomas and Joanna Mower, brothers and sister, came from the west of England, probably Devonshire, about 1708 or 1710, and settled in Malden.
Samuel Mower, who married Elizabeth Sprague, Jan. 4, 1716, and died in Worcester in 1760, aged 70, had seven children, all born in Worcester except the first : 1, Elizabeth, who mar- ried first a Lynde, from Malden, and married, second, Jed- ediah Tucker of Shrewsbury for his second wife ; 2, Abigail, married Jabez Sargent ; 3, Capt. Samuel, Jr., born October, 1720, and married Comfort Larned of Oxford, daughter of the celebrated Gen. Ebenezer Larned of revolutionary fame ; 4, Ephraim, born in 1723, married first Mary B. Wheeler of Worcester, and afterwards a Garfield ; 5, John, born in 1724, married Hannah Moore of Worcester ; 6, Lydia, born in 1726, married Henry Ward, son of Maj. Daniel Ward, (see page 31,) and afterwards married in 1779 James Trowbridge of Worces- ter for his second wife ; 7, Jonathan, born in 1730, married Elizabeth Bemis of Spencer.
Capt. Samuel and Comfort (Larned) Mower had seven chil- dren : 1, Martha, married Samuel Watson of Brookfield ; 2, Joanna, married Wm. Boyden of Auburn ; 3, Lucy, married Israel Barret of Paxton ; 4, Samuel, married Naney Ann Leach of Worcester ; 5, Henry, married Hannah Hale of Putney, Vt. ; 6, Aaron, of whose marriage and death there is no record ; 7, Ebenezer, born October 10, 1760, died February 14, 1761, married Sarah, daughter of Ephraim and Sarah Curtis, the youngest of their eleven children, Eliza, being wife of Walter R. Bigelow of Worcester ; and another daughter is widow of Thomas Nichols.
The first Ephraim Mower, who died in Leicester in 1790, aged 60, had the following children born in Worcester : 1, Timo- thy, born in 1745, removed to New York ; 2, Maj. Ephraim, hotel keeper, &c., born in 1748, died Dee. 20, 1810, married Thank- ful Hersey of Leicester ; 3, Thomas, born in 1750, married An- na Brown, parents of the late Capt. Ephraim Mower of Wor- cester.
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Thomas Mower, who was ten years old when he moved from Worcester to Leicester with his father, removed back to Wor. cester in 1792, residing probably on or near the old Mower homestead west of Tatnuck near the Leicester line. He had : 1, James B., born in 1773, died in New York in 1832 ; 2, Capt. Ephraim, born June 6, 1778, died Jan. 19, 1865, married first, Nancy, daughter of Col. Ebenezer Lovell, and married second, Caroline Cutler, daughter of Gen. John Cutler of Brookfield, and had two children, Ephraim, Jr., and Caroline C. ; 3, Sarah born in 1780, died in 1855, married John Thayer : 4, Huldah, born 1784, died in 1826 ; 5, Thomas G., born in 1790, died in New York, in 1853, was surgeon in the United States Army, and member of the American Philosophical Society of Phila- delphia.
Samuel and Nancy Ann (Leach) Mower had eleven children : 1, Sarah, born in 1771, and died in 1801, married Maj. Charles Chandler, son of Judge John Chandler, (see page 76); 2, John ; 3, Samuel ; 4, Levi ; 5, Nahum, printer, publisher of the " In- dependent Gazetteer," &c., (see page 321); 6, Nancy ; 7, Mary ; 8, Nathaniel, hatter, on the location, afterwards occupied by Daniel Waldo's " Granite Row" block of stores, was father of Gen. Joseph A. Mower, in the war of the rebellion, command- ing at one time near New Orleans ; 9, Ebenezer ; 10, Lyman, died at Woodstock, Vt., in 1876; 11, Benjamin F.
THE UPHAM FAMILY.
Isaac Upham, (son of Phinehas Upham, 3d, who married Tamsin Hill, noticed on page 102 as parents of Dr. Jabez Up- ham of Brookfield,) was father of Nathan Upham, born in Brookfield, July 13, 1750, who married Eleanor Gilbert of New Braintree, and died in 1828. This Nathan and Eleanor (Gil- bert) Upham were parents of Pliny Upham, born in Brookfield, April 1, 1771, and died in 1849, who married Catherine Hast- ings, Dec. 30, 1802, they being parents of Dea. Joel W. Upham of Worcester, who was born in Brookfield, Oct. 24, 1803. The latter married for his first wife, May 4, 1831, Seraphine Howe, daughter of Dennis Howe of Shrewsbury, who died Oct. 29, 1839, aged 35, and he married, second, Nov. 3, 1840, Lydia
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Wheeler of Holden. Their children are : Geo. D. Upham, born July 22, 1833, master mariner, Boston ; Henry P. Upham, born Jan. 26, 1837, banker, of St. Paul, Minn. ; and Emma E. Up- ham, born March 27, 1847.
THE BOYDEN FAMILY.
There was a John Boyden, lieutenant in the French war, who lived on Pakachoag Hill in that part of Worcester, now in Auburn, about 1740, on the estate afterwards owned and oc- cupied by Judge Joseph Dorr and William Emerson. He had three sons, Samuel, Joseph and Darius. Samuel, whose estate was between those of the original Daniel Bigelow and Ephraim Curtis, Jr., on the eastern slope of Pakachoag Hill, (see page 44, and map,) was father of the present Joseph, Jubal and Lewis Boyden. These have an older brother Samuel, a blacksmith, now residing in Oxford, nearly 90 years of age, whose residence, while in Worcester, occupied the site of the present Universalist Church on Pleasant street, and whose shop, afterwards owned and occupied by Leonard Poole, oc- cupied the site of Joseph Sauer's block on the south side of Mechanic street. He has a son, Samuel Boyden, Jr., deacon of the Congregational Church in Oxford. The first Samuel Boyden married Sarah Curtis, daughter of Samuel Curtis, senior, (see page 38.)
John Boyden of Worcester, formerly auctioneer, broker, &c., is son of John Boyden of Spencer, and grandson of Lieut. John Boyden of Holden, who held a lieutenant's commission, dated 1763, now in possession of his grandson. It is a singular coin- cidence that there should be at nearly the same time another Lieut. John Boyden, at the opposite extreme of the old town, on Pakachoag hill, above referred to. Lieut. John Boyden of Holden married Betsey Smith, daughter of Capt. David Smith of Holden.
Elbridge Boyden, for over thirty years, architect, in Worces- ter, is son of Amos Boyden, and grandson of Thomas Boyden of Sturbridge, the names of Amos, John and Thomas, being on the list of revolutionary soldiers from that town, corroborating the supposition that these are of the same family a few genera-
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tions back with the preceding, it may be descendants of Thomas Boyden, joiner, from England, who settled in Watertown, and had by his wife Francis, a son Thomas, born Sept. 26, 1639, who married Martha Holden, and had a daughter Martha, born in 1667, and a son John Boyden, born Dec. 6, 1672, in Groton. This first Thomas of Watertown had also a daughter Mary, born Oct. 15, 1641 ; Rebecca, born Nov. 1, 1643 ; and Nathan- iel, born in 1651. In 1650, the first Thomas removed to Gro- ton, and returned back to Watertown in 1666. The Bordens of Fall River, including Hon. Nathaniel B. Borden, member of Congress, State Senator, etc., between 1830 and 1850, were un- doubtedly of this family, the name having been slightly changed.
THE RICE FAMILY.
Hon. Win. Whitney Rice, member of Congress from this dis- trict, is son of Rev. Benjamin and Lucy (Whitney) Rice, for several years pastor of the old Congregational Church at Winchendon Centre ; grandson of Capt. Caleb and Sarah (Abbott) Rice of Brookfield ; and great-grandson of Capt. Ben- jamin and Sarah (Upham) Rice of Brookfield. Capt. Benjamin Rice, (who was one of the "Boston Tea Party" of Dec. 16, 1773, with Capt. Peter Slater of Worcester, Gen. John Spurr of Charlton, and others,) was great-grandson of Edward Rice, the latter being the second son of the original Edmund Rice, and uncle of Jonas and Gershom Rice, first permanent settlers in Worcester. (See page 40.) Capt. Benjamin Rice's wife was a descendent of Lieut. Phinehas Upham, (alluded to on page 101.)
Hon. George M. Rice and the late George T. Rice of Wor- cester were cousins, grandsons of Tilly and Mary (Buckmins- ter) Rice of Brookfield, great-grandsons of Obadiah and Esther (Merrick) Rice of Brookfield, and great-great-grandsons of Ed- ward Rice of Sudbury and Marlborough, who was uncle of the first Jonas and Gershom of Worcester.
Henry C. Rice of Worcester, (whose wife is a daughter of the late Chief Justice Charles Allen,) is son of Oliver and Cynthia (Parker) Rice of Millbury ; grandson of Daniel and Anna (Holbrook) Rice of Grafton ; and great-great-great-grand-
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son of Joseph Rice of Sudbury, sixth son of the original Ed- mund, and uncle of Jonas and Gershom of Worcester.
Charles W. Rice, for the last forty years watch-maker and jeweller in Worcester, is son of Elijah and Martha (Goddard) Rice of Shrewsbury, grandson of Elijah and Relief (Williams) Rice of Princeton, great-grandson of Elijah and Huldah (Keyes) Rice of Sudbury, and great-great-grandson of Elisha Rice, (brother of Jonas, Gershom, &c., see page 43,) who married Elizabeth Wheeler of Concord.
George F. Rice, for the last thirty years a resident of Wor- cester, whose wife was a daughter of the late William Hovey, is son of Loammi and Isabel (Fawcett) Rice of Westborough, and great-great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Rice of Sud- bury and Marlborough, who was the fifth son of the original Edmund Rice.
Benjamin P. Rice, for many years baker in Worcester, is great-great-grandson of Joshua Rice, spoken of on page 20.
The wives of Jonas Rice, and his brother James, original set- tlers, (see page 40,) were two sisters, respectively, Mary and Sarah Stone, daughters of Dea. Daniel and Mary (Moore) Stone of Sudbury, the latter being daughter of John and Eliza- beth Moore of Sudbury. Dea. Daniel Stone was son of Dea. John Stone, (born in England about 1619, and died at Cam- bridge in 1683,) and his wife Anna. Dea. John was son of Dea. Gregory Stone, born in England about 1590, who came over with his son John, and died at Cambridge in 1636, and died there in 1672, aged 82.
Fanny Rice, daughter of George Keith Rice and Fanny (Har- back) Rice of Sutton, afterwards of . Charlton, married Elijah Spurr, son of Gen. John Spurr of Charlton, and father of Zeph- aniah, George R., and the late Elijah Spurr of Worcester. This George Keith Rice, (whose sister Lydia was wife of Hon. Jonas Sibley of Sutton, State Senator, member of Congress, etc.,) was son of Asahel and Mary (Brownell) Rice of Sutton, grandson of Noah and Hannah (Warren) Rice of Westborough, and great-grandson of Thomas Rice of Sudbury and Marl- borough, the latter being brother of the original Jonas, Ger- shom, &c., of Worcester.
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THE GODDARD FAMILY.
William and Elizabeth (Miles) Goddard came from London, and settled in Watertown in 1636, where he died in 1691. His son Edward, born in 1675, and died in 1754, married in 1697, Susanna Stone of Framingham, and they had Edward, Jr., born in 1698, and died in 1777, who married in 1722, Hepzibah Hapgood of Shrewsbury, where he settled as did also his brothers Simon and Benjamin. Edward, Jr. and Hepzibah had Daniel Goddard, born in 1734 and died in 1807, who mar- ried in 1756, Mary Willard, they being parents of Elder Luther Goddard, (see page 150,) born in 1762, who married Elizabeth Dakin.
Elder Luther and Elizabeth (Dakin) Goddard had in Shrews- bury : Perley, born Jan. 3, 1787, died in Worcester, May 25, 1842, married Sarah Crosby of Brookfield, they being parents of Samuel B. I. Goddard of Worcester; Martha, born July 1, 1789, married Elijah Rice, (see page 355,) they being parents of Charles W. and Emerson K. Rice, and of Elizabeth G. who married Peregrine B. Gilbert of Worcester ; Dea. Daniel God- dard, born Feb. 11, 1796, married Sarah, daughter of Israel Whitney of Worcester, they being parents of Luther D. and Charles A. Goddard, and of Caroline E., widow of Rev. Amory Gale, of Sarah M. wife of Charles Ballard, and of Lucy N., first wife of the late Richard Fiske, all of Worcester ; Levina, born June 28, 1798, married Leonard W. Stowell of Worcester.
Rev. David Goddard, minister of the old Congregational Church in Leicester from 1736 to his death in 1754, was a brother of the first Edward Goddard above mentioned, who died in Framingham in 1754.
Hon. Calvin Goddard, judge of the Supreme Court of Con- necticut, member of Congress, and seventeen years mayor of Norwich, Conn., who died there in 1842, aged 74, was brother of Elder Luther Goddard, and uncle of Dea. Daniel Goddard of Worcester.
John Goddard, cordwainer, son of Benjamin and Martha (Palfrey) Goddard of Charlestown, and grandson of the origin- al William and Elizabeth (Miles) Goddard, above mentioned, (see page 261,) married February 19th, 1734, Elizabeth
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Frost, born in 1713, and they were parents of Stephen Goddard, wheelwright, of Cambridge, who married in 1769, Mary Goddard, born in 1744, daughter of Rev. David God- dard of Leicester. This Stephen and Mary Goddard of Cam- bridge were parents of the Stephen and Benjamin Goddard who came to Worcester in 1806, and the latter had a brother Isaac, who was father of Augustus N., John, and Wm. E. God- dard of Worcester, born respectively in 1811, 1816, and 1819, of whom John is now living here. Benjamin Goddard, who married in 1808 Persis Fullerton, had two sons, Benjamin, Jr., born in 1809, and Wm. A., born in 1814.
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