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There was an Elisha Smith here as early as 1740, (it may be a son or connection of the John Smith here about ten years earlier,) who owned an extensive tract of land in the north part of the town in the neighborhood of what is now the " North Worcester" station on the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad, the old farm house in which he resided being the very ancient dwelling on Holden street, near the depot, for many years past owned and occupied by J. L. Libby. This is one of the oldest farm houses in the city. This Smith had a son Elisha, Jr., and the latter had a son Elisha, who built on the opposite side of the road, the farm house afterwards owned and occupied by Walter H. Davis and Wm. F. Wheeler. The original Smith house was subsequently owned and oc- cupied by Benjamin Thaxter, from about 1785.
Since the reference was made on page 274 to the old " Ex- change Hotel," the remaining portion of it (comprising prob- ably the part first built in 1784,) comprising a frontage of about 60 feet on Main street, has been sold (Sept. 1, 1877) to E. L. Kennen, who will continue it as a hotel, for which purpose it is being refitted.
William Elder, who headed the noted list of fifty-two tory protesters against the patriotic movements of 1774 in Worces- ter, (see page 85,) resided on the north side of Webster street, between Hope Cemetery and Trowbridgeville, where he died July 27, 1786, aged 79. The cellar hole of the old residence still remains. He had a brother John, (also on that tory list of 1774,) who resided on Pakachoag hill on the estate after- wards owned and occupied by his son, Nathaniel Elder, and for many years past by A. W. Ward.
Hon. Edward Earle, (referred to on pages 63 and 64,) de- ceased May 25, 1877.
The venerable John Goulding, (see page 52,) born Dec. 21, 1791, died June 22, 1877.
Wm. Curtis, see page 38, died Jan. 15, 1877.
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THE DUNCAN FAMILY.
Simeon Duncan, (great-grandfather of the present William Duncan, machinist and engineer, of Worcester,) died June 19, 1781, on the original homestead estate of the family in Auburn, (formerly included in Worcester,) for one hundred years past owned and occupied by Joseph S. Clark and his ancestors. This Simeon Duncan, by his wife Bridget Duncan, who died April 4, 1807, had nine children : 1, Jonas Duncan, born Jan. 13, 1745, died Aug. 3, 1773 ; Samuel, born Jan. 9, 1747, died July 28, 1820, at Dummerston, Vt. ; Jason, born Dec. 30, 1749, died in 1837, at Dummerston, Vt., where he had been judge of probate ; 4, Rebecca, born April 23, 1753 ; 5, Simeon, Jr., captain, born Oct. 23, 1755, died Feb. 23, 1836, a cooper, lived on Mechanic street, and married Mary Blair, sister of Robert Blair, and aunt of Mrs. Gen. Thomas Chamberlain, Mrs. Henry Rogers, and Mrs. Cyrus Stockwell ; 6, Joanna, born Feb. 8, 1758, married a Stearns, and resided elsewhere ; 7, Persis, born Nov. 8, 1760, married Samuel Fullerton, and re- sided in an ancient dwelling which stood on the site of J. E. Bacon's present block on Lincoln street, where their daughter, Mrs. Sewell Hamilton, now a nonogenarian, was born ; 8, Sarah, born Oct. 4, 1763, married a French, and resided elsewhere ; 9, Azubah, born May 20, 1766, married John Gleason, they be- ing parents of the late Austin Gleason, and of Mrs. Stephen Taft.
Capt. Simeon and Mary (Blair) Duncan had ten children : 1, Charles, born in 1781, died in Warren ; 2, Mary, born in 1783, and died March 14, 1872, married Nathaniel Eaton, keeper of " The Elephant" hotel on Front street,* who died Jan. 30, 1833, aged 51 ; 3, Simeon, 3d, born in 1785, died about 1870 in Boston ; 4, Sally, born in 1788, died in Lunenburg, Vermont ; 5, Nancy, born in 1791, widow of the late Benjamin Thayer, and mother of the present Benjamin Thayer ; 6, Jason, born in 1793, resided on the estate on Lincoln street, now owned and occupied by his son, Andrew J. Duncan ; 7, Joseph
* This name was given to that hotel, which stood about on the site of the present " Waverly House," on account of its having the figure of a huge ele- phant on its swinging sign in front.
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B., born in 1797, went to Grafton ; 8, Eliza, born Sept. 27, 1800, resides in Worcester. The other two, Clarissa and Wil- liam, born in 1802 and 1805, died young.
There was a John Duncan, (Scotch-Presbyterian emigrant,) here, at the first organization of the town, (see pages 41 and 128,) who married Sarah, daughter of the first Gershom Rice, and they may be and most likely were parents of the first Simeon, above mentioned. The Andrew Duncan who married Dr. Joseph Lynde's sister, Sarah Lynde, about 1770, (see page 257,) was of another branch, the family connection not having been traced.
Robert Barber, one of the Scotch Presbyterian emigrants of 1718, (see page 127,) married Sarah Gray, daughter of anoth- er of those emigrants who came here at the same time, and among their children were Joseph Barber, who remained on the old homestead of his father in Northville, where his grand- son, Wm. T. Barber, now lives ; James Barber, who settled on the estate farther north on Brooks street, where his James also lived, afterwards owned and occupied by Isaac Lamb ; and Matthew Barber, who settled upon the estate in Northville since owned and occupied by Thomas Stowell, his son Samuel Stow- ell, and grandson Frederick T. Stowell. Joseph was father of the late William and Silas Barber, who resided upon the origin- al homestead where William's son, Wm. T., now lives.
Andrew McFarland, Presbyterian emigrant of 1718, had a son James, who settled on the estate of his father, near Tat- nuck, and a son William who settled on the estate on the east side of the old Rutland road, Salisbury street, just beyond Flagg street, where his son, William McFarland, Jr. also lived and died. James McFarland who married a daughter of Asa Moore, had (among other children) a son James, father of the late Ira McFarland. The two James McFarlands and Ira were all born and died on the old ancestral estate still in the family.
Robert Blair, another of these Presbyterian emigrants, who settled on the estate next west of the preceding, (see page 127.) had a son Joseph, the latter a son Robert, and the latter a son Charles, all of whom lived and died upon the old homestead.
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BURIAL PLACES.
In addition to what is related in the chapter on Burial Grounds, it may be stated that the town between 1832 and 1835, soon after the opening of the last previously purchased burial place on Pine street, in the effort to provide sufficiently for the future, purchased 28 1-2 acres for burial purposes, one of them a lot of twenty acres or more on Pleasant street, com- prising the main part of what was afterwards purchased by Wm. A. Wheeler, and subsequently by Joseph Mason and F. H. Dewey, Esqs., and divided by them into building lots. The other burial place purchased was a lot of six or seven acres on Cambridge street, on the opposite side from the Catholic Cem- etery. This last lot, which was situated between the railroad bridge and what was then a pine grove, was owned by the city until 1864. The lot on Pleasant street was sold again before any burials had been made ; in that on Cambridge street quite a number were buried, and the bodies, (including that of John Boyce, father of John F. Boyce,) removed to Hope Cemetery. The occasion of these two burial places being so soon given up, was the opposition made to the purchase of them at the time by those considered the most far-secing into the wants of the future, who thought there were then, without purchasing any more " sufficient accommodations for more than half a century to come," little dreaming of the unprecedented growth of the town from a population of 6,000 in 1835, to over 50,000 with- in forty years. The Hon. Isaac Davis, in his annual report as chairman of the board of selectmen for 1837, thought that the retaining of the 28 1-2 acres then recently purchased, calculat- ing from the past, would afford sufficient room for graves for 600 years to come ! and on the strength of this calculation re- commended the disuse and sale of the same, as not needed, especially as the Hon. Daniel Waldo had then just purchased a lot of about twelve acres for burial purposes for such as chose to purchase lots, a short distance north of the Court House, (this being the first part of the Rural Cemetery.)
Rev. David O. Mears from Cambridge was installed (July 3, 1877) as pastor of the Piedmont Congregational Church, suc- ceeding Rev. Dr. George H. Gould, (see page 176.)
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MILITARY.
For protection against the Indians, the early settlers had a sort of military organization, of which Daniel Heywood was the first captain, and the number of captains, as seen in the titles given to various prominent residents during the first half century after the permanent settlements, was very numerous. These organizations were more for practical use than for home show.
In 1760, there appear to have been two bodies of militia, one numbering 59, and the other 48, commanded respectively by Captains John Johnson and James Goodwin.
About 1783, the first regular martial association of the town, the famed " Worcester Artillery" organization, was formed, of volunteers, and William Treadwell, afterwards major, was its first captain. It was disbauded in 1838.
During the war with France in 1798, a military organization called the "Independent Cadets," was formed, with Thomas Chandler as captain, and disbanded after the difficulty with France was settled.
The WORCESTER LIGHT INFANTRY, chartered in 1804, paraded for the first time, at the annual May training, the last Wednes- day in May of that year, under Capt. Levi Thaxter. Its com- manding officers have been from the beginning :
Levi Thaxter, Enoch Flagg, Wm. E. Green, Isaac Sturtevant, John W. Lincoln, Sewall Hamilton, John Coolidge, Samuel Ward, Artemas Ward, John Whittemore, Charles A. Hamilton, Zenas Studley, Wm. S. Lincoln and Chas. H. Geer, to 1836. Henry Hobbs and Dana H. Fitch in 1837 ; D. Wal- doLincoln in 1838, 1839 and 1840; Ivers Phillips in 1841 ; Henry W. Conk- lin in 1842 ; Joseph B. Ripley in 1843 ; Edward Lamb, 1844 to 1848 ; Levi Barker in 1849 ; Edward Lamb in 1850 and 1851; Charles S. Childs in 1852 ; Samuel P. Russell and Geo. W. Barker, 1853-4: Geo. F. Peck, 1855; Edward Lamb, 1856 and 1857 ; Harrison W. Pratt, 1858 to 1862; Geo. W. Prouty, 1862 to 1865 : Jas. M. Drennan, to 1866 ; Geo. H. Conklin, to 1869 ; Joel H. Prouty, to 1871 ; John Callahan in 1872; John H. Upham in 1873 and 1874 ; Levi Lincoln in 1875 and 1876; Joseph P. Mason in 1877.
The first ensign of this company was Levi Lincoln, Jr., afterwards gov- ernor, and the last survivor but one of the original members ; the last one of them who deceased being Charles Tappan, alluded to on page 304, who died in 1876, aged over 90. The first orderly sergeant and clerk was Daniel Waldo Lincoln, brother of the governor. The company had its first public parade, June 6, 1804, and July 4, 1804, it performed escort duty at a cele- bration by the citizens of the town of Worcester. Its first anniversary was celebrated Oct. 5, 1804, at the house of Dea. Nathan Heard, then keeper of the stone jail and jail tavern.
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This company, under command of Capt. John W. Lincoln and Lieut. Sewall Hamilton and Ensign John Coolidge, marched for Boston under or- ders from Gov. Strong, Sept. 14, 1814, when news was received of the cap- ture of Washington by the British, at the same time of the march of the old " Worcester Artillery" under Capt. Samuel Graves, with Lieuts. Nathan Heard and Simeon Hastings. They remained at South Boston till Oet. 31, following, just eight days short of the two months necessary for the mem- bers to be afterwards entitled to a pension from the government. Edward D. Bangs was a sergeant on this occasion.
This company had a glorious record in the late war of the rebellion, being in the famous " march through Baltimore," April 19, 1861, attached to the " old sixth" regiment, when the first blood was shed, just eighty-six years to a day from the shedding of the first blood of the revolution. The com- pany was then commanded by Harrison W. Pratt. They were afterwards in the 34th and 51st regiments, under command of Capt. George W. Prouty and Lieuts. Luther Capron, Jr. and Joel H. Prouty.
Among the promotions of those in this company have been : Wm. S. Lincoln to be Lieut. Colonel in 1833, Colonel of the 34th volunteers in 1863 .and Brigadier General in 1865; Calvin Foster, Jr., (son of Calvin Foster, senior, one of the original members in 1804,) to be Adjutant, Major, Lieut. Colonel, and Colonel of the old ninth regiment in 1837 ; Charles H. Geer, Charles S. Childs and Albert H. Foster, Colonels of the old tenth regiment ; Win. A. Williams, Lieut. Colonel on the staff of Gov. Boutwell in 1851 ; Calvin E. Pratt, to be Colonel of the 31st New York volunteers in 1861, Brigadier General in 1862, wounded by a bullet in his head, and now judge of the Supreme Court of New York ; Dexter F. Parker to be Major in the regular army, and killed in the service ; Harrison W. Pratt to be Major of the 34th regiment, and died in the service ; Church Howe, Quarter Master of the 15th regiment, and aid to Maj. Gen. Sedgewick, U. S. A. in 1862; Frederick G. Stiles to be Major of the 42d Mass. volunteers in 1862; Ivers Phillips, Captain in 1841, was Colonel of the old ninth regiment in 1836; James M. Drennan, Major, Lieut. Colonel and Colonel of the tenth regi- ment M. V. M. ; John M. Studley, Lieut. Colonel of the 51st Mass. Vols. ; J. Stuart Brown, Adjutant of the 51st Mass. Vols. in 1862; J. Waldo Denny, Lieutenant, April 19, 1861, and afterwards Captain in the 25th Mass. Vols. ; John M. Thayer, Lieutenant in 1842 and 1843, has been U. S. Senator from Nebraska, and is now Governor of that State.
The WORCESTER RIFLE CORPS was started in 1823, and dis- banded in 1835. During the last year, fifty volunteers were on duty.
The " WORCESTER GUARDS" were organized in 1840, the name having been changed to " City Guards" after Worcester became a city. The commanding officers have been :
Capts. George Bowen, George Hobbs, Leonard Poole, George B. Conklin, Levi Lincoln Newton and Edwin Eaton to 1848; Charles W. Longley in 1849 ; John M. Goodhue, 1850 to 1852; George HI. Ward, 1852 to 1861; A. B. R. Sprague, Josiah Picket, and Edwin A. Wood during the war ; Robert H. Chamberlain, Joseph A. Titus, Wm. HI. King and E. f. Shumway from 1865 to 1877.
George W. Richardson who was lieutenant during the first year, was promoted colonel by going on to Gov. Davis' staff in 1841. Samuel H. Leon- ard was promoted from 2d lieut. to major, It. colonol, colonel, and general.
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The part taken by this company in the war of the rebellion, 1861-65, was as follows :
In the Third Battalion Rifles, three months; in the 51st regiment, nine months : 25th regiment, three years ; 61st regiment, one year ; 60th regi- ment, 100 days. Its officers at the commencement of the war were : Capt. A. B. R. Sprague, promoted Lieut .- Colonel of 25th regiment, Colonel of 51st, Colonel of 2d H. A., Brev. Brig. General ; Ist Lieut. Josiah Picket, Captain, and Major and Colonel of 25th, and Brev. Brig. General ; 2d Lieut. Geo. C. Joslin, Captain, Major and Lieut. Colonel of 15th ; 3d Lieut. Orson Moulton, Capt. and Lient. Col. of 25th ; 4th Lieut. E. A. Harkness, Ist Lieut. and Adjutant of 25th and Major of 51st. Nearly 150 of its past and active members at the outbreak of the war were in the union army, among whom were Brig. Gen. John B. Wyman, killed at Vicksburg ; Gen. George H. Ward, killed at Gettysburg : Capts. Shaw and Burdick, killed at Fort Wagner ; Lieuts. Charles H. Pelton and Henry Matthews, killed at Cold Harbor ; and Lieut. Bacon, killed at Chancellorsville. One of the original members of 1840, Frank Eaton, died at Andersonville, and several others were there, including the present captain and sergeant, A. W. Cunningham. Among those holding commissions in the army were five colonels, eight lieutenant colonels, two majors, thirty captains and twenty lieutenants. Twenty-three were killed or died in the service, and twenty-five others were wounded. Seven died in rebel prisons.
Maj. Gen. Geo. Hobbs, and Brig. Generals S. H. Leonard, George H. Ward and Robert H. Chamberlain of the Massachusetts militia were from the ranks of this company.
STATE GUARD. A military home organization during the ab- sence of the regular military in the war of the rebellion, was formed in 1861, called the "Home Guards," with Col. Ivers Phillips as captain, and Dana H. Fitch and John R. Greene as lieutenants. In 1863, the name was changed to State Guard. During the last year of its existence Dana H. Fitch was com- mander.
The company did good service at home during the war, both in guard duty and as military escort at funerals of deceased soldiers, and on other occa- sions. For the last few years of its existence it was not an active organiza- tion. The company paraded for the last time at the dedication of the soldiers' monument, July 15, 1875, under command of Col. Phillips.
EMMET GUARDS. An organization called the "Emmet Guards," was formed in 1852, composed of Irish citizens, un- der Michael O'Driscoll as commander, but they were disband- ed by Gov. Gardner in 1855. .
JACKSON GUARDS. In 1858, another organization of similar composition to the above was formed, under command of Mat- thew J. McCafferty as captain, succeeded by Michael McCon- ville. They entered the service as a body in the " Third Bat- talion of Rifles" at the outbreak of the rebellion, and at the expiration of their term of enlistment of three months, the organization ceased.
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OLDEST RESIDENTS OF WORCESTER.
ISRAEL RICE, born April 5, 1789, on the old original Gershom Rice home- stead on Pakachoag hill, (see page 42,) is the oldest male resident in Wor- cester, and hale, vigorous and hearty, though in his 89th year. Seventy years ago, when a young man, he worked for three years for Dr. William Paine on Lincoln street, on his farm. He afterwards resided for many years in Shrewsbury, but for several years past has resided with his son-in-law, Thomas M. Rogers, in Worcester. He is son of Jonathan Rice, grandson of Comfort Rice, great-grandson of Lieut. Gershom Rice, and great-great- grandson of the original Gershom Rice. (see page 42,) who died in 1761, aged 102, upon the same old ancestral spot on Pakachoag hill, where all his descendants above named, including Israel, were born. Israel Rice's wife, whom he married sixty-six years ago, is Charlotte, sister of the venerable James Campbell, also of nearly the same age. Israel Rice remembers at- tending nearly eighty-three years ago, the funeral of the widow of the first Benjamin Wiser, in Auburn, who died Dec. 14, 1794, (see page 215.v He states that she was a native Indian, her husband being one of the origin- al white settlers.
GEN. NATHAN HEARD, son of Dca. Nathan Heard, is the next oldest. Gen. Heard was born March 25, 1790, (see page 228.) He long ago passed through all the grades of military promotion from Corporal to Major General. He was second lieutenant of the company of Worcester Artillery (with Capt. Samuel Graves and First Lieut. Simeon Hastings) who marched from Wor- cester for Boston, on Sunday, Sept. 14, 1814, under orders from Gov. Caleb Strong, for the defence of the coast, during the then war with Great Britain. He was for a long time overseer of the jail and House of Correction after he had resigned the position of jailor. He was representative in the General Court, and chief engineer of the Worcester Fire Department from 1837 to 1840, and has occupied other prominent positions. Gen. Heard was born on the site now occupied by the Quinsigamond Bank, the estate being after- wards sold by his father, Dea. Heard, in 1806, to Capt. Peter Slater, who built his rope-walk in the rear of it, (see page 211.)
BENJAMIN FLAGG, born June 12, 1790, grandson of Col. Benjamin Flagg, and great-great-grandson of the first Benjamin Flagg, (see page 106.)
JAMES CAMPBELL, (son of James Campbell,) was born July 31, 1790, on Mechanic street, his wife (now deceased) being Relief, daughter of Eli Chapin, (see page 338.) He was born in a small cottage which stood on the site of the horse railroad barn on the south side of old Market street. He marched with Lieut. Nathan Heard and Levi Gates in Capt. Graves' com- pany of artillery for Boston, Sept. 14, 1814, on the receipt of the news that the city of Washington had been captured by the British.
CYRUS LOVELL, born Nov. 2, 1790, upon the old homestead of his grand- father, Jonathan Lovell, where he has always resided, (see page 341.)
LEVI GATES, farmer, (son of Nathaniel Gates,) was born November, 1790, on the old paternal homestead near Tatnuck. He is one of three surviving veterans of the war of 1812 in Worcester.
JONATHAN WOOD, born in Lunenburg, May 31, 1791, having now a twin brother, Ebenezer Wood, residing in Acton, both hale and active in their 86th year. Jonathan Wood, when he first came to Worcester in 1824, kept store a short time in the small wooden building on Court Hill, between the then two roads, in front of the Court House, where Dr. Abraham Lincoln and others had so long kept an apothecary store. He is the oldest book- binder in this section. His wife is daughter of Jeremiah Stiles, the princi- pal painter in Worcester seventy-five years ago, brother of John W. Stiles.
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ANTHONY CHASE, born in Paxton, June 16, 1791 ; came to Worcester in July, 1816, and entered into mercantile business with John Milton Earle, whose sister Lydia he married ; was agent of the Blackstone canal company for several years from 1828 ; county treasurer from 1831 to 1866 ; secretary of the old Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company from 1832 to 1852, and president of the latter since 1852.
CHARLES RICHARDSON, No. 7, Everett street, born in Sudbury, Oct. 10, 1791 ; has resided in Worcester since 1855.
REV. GEORGE ALLEN, born Feb. 1, 1792, upon the then residence of his father, IIon. Joseph Allen, on the north corner of Main and School streets, where his brothers Samuel and Charles were also born, (see page 349.)
CHARLES STAPLES, No. 51 Thomas street, machinist, was born in Mendon, Nov. 16, 1793, son of Simeon Staples. Came here in 1836.
EPHRAIM BEAMAN, NO. 1 Crown street, farmer, was born in Princeton, July 3, 1793.
SAMUEL D. BARKER, born in Arundill, Me., Sept. 2, 1793, fifty years ago kept a hotel, and was auctioneer in Leicester, and has since been hatter in Worcester for over forty years.
CAPT. ERASTU'S TUCKER, born in Shrewsbury, Oct. 3, 1793 ; came to Wor- cester in 1813, (see page 359.)
MICAH HOLBROOK, born in Princeton, August 15, 1794.
JOHN CHOLLAR, born in Pomfret, Conn., Aug. 3, 1795, blacksmith, been here about twenty years.
DEA. URIAH STONE, a farmer, born in Oxford, June 15, 1795 ; has resided at New Worcester since 1812, where he kept hotel for several years, (see page 39.)
WILLIAM WHIPPLE PATCH, miller, born January, 1795, on the old home- stead of his father. Joseph Patch, on May street, who was son of Nathan Patch, (see page 274.)
BENJAMIN C. CROSS, 72 Woodiand street, mechanic, was born in Charles- town, R. I., May 19, 1795. llas been in Worcester thirty years.
ROBERT W. FLAGG, carpenter, born in Grafton, Feb. 28, 1795 ; has resided in Worcester eighteen years.
DEA. SAMUEL PERRY, farmer, born on the old homestead of his father and grandfather on Vernon street, Nov., 1796, (see page 109.)
JOHN GOODWIN, shoe-maker, born in Holden, October, 1796; came to Worcester thirty-eight years ago; kept a boot and shoe store many years in the building now owned by him, opposite the Centre Church.
DANIEL SMITH, 38 Hermon street, was born in Middleborough, December 1, 1796 ; was twelve years provision dealer in New Bedford ; twenty-six years farmer in Rutland ; been in Worcester since 1872.
DANIEL GODDARD, born in Shrewsbury, Feb. 11, 1796, (see page 356.)
ARBA REED, farmer, No. 174 Austin street, was born in Royalston, April 10, 1796 ; been in Worcester since 1833. His father, Nathan Reed, was son of Dea. Jonas Reed of Rutland.
BENJAMIN H. BREWER, machinist, No. 53 Summer street, was born in Spencer, Dec. 14, 1796 ; has resided in Worcester since 1825.
AARON WINGATE, No. 179 Pleasant street, farmer, was born in Madbury, N. H., Dec. 21, 1796 ; has been here thirteen years. He has a brother Stephen, twelve years older, (93,) residing in Illinois.
ABSALOM CUTTING, No. 7 Webster street, railroad-man, was born in Leices- ter, Oct. 28, 1796, son of Capt. Darius Cutting.
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BERZALDA BUTLER, mechanic, (son of Benjamin Butler,) was born in Ash- ford, Ct., Aug. 12, 1797, and has resided in Worcester twenty-five years.
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