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Children:
I. John, b. September 18, 1762.
2. Mitchell, b. June 19, 1764; int. pub. to Lydia Davis of Harvard, December 23, 1785. Banns forbidden by Mitchell Richards, Sr. The marriage finally took place in Har- vard on August 24, 1786. Lydia must have died quite soon, for he married, 2, Molly Darling, May 22, 1792. Children:
i. Polly, bapt. June 8, 1795.
ii. James, bapt. November, 1795.
3. Joanna, b. January 4, 1768, in Lunenburg. Perhaps the Jane who m. Asa Miller Wyman in Lancaster, pub. Sep- tember 9, 1785.
4. Esther, b. March II, 1773, in Shirley.
5. Elizabeth, b. May 28, 1775.
6. Martha, b. January 27, 1780.
V. EDWARD, b. August 25, 1740, in Lunenburg; m. Mary -, and lived in Lunenburg until 1779, when he and his wife and four children were warned from Shirley. They came to Shirley, how- ever, under the auspices of Jonas Parker and there a fifth child was born to them. James Parker mentions them in his diary in 1781.
Children:
I. Edward, b. July 27, 1766, at Kingsbridge; d. e.
2. Molly, b. July 10, 1767, at Lunenburg; d. e.
3. Edward, b. May 1, 1768.
4. Molly, b. February 8, 1771.
5. Gershom, b. August 31, 1773; d. e.
6. Aaron, b. August 24, 1774; d. e.
7. Eleanor, b. September 21, 1775.
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8. Margaret, b. May 21, 1778.
9. Moses, b. December 29, 1780, in Shirley.
10. Stephen, b. June 1, 1783, in Lunenburg.
II. Charles, b. June 13, 1784.
12. Nancy, b. May 30, 1787.
VI. ELIZABETH, b. February 22, 1743, in Shirley.
VII. MOSES, b. May 24, 1745; m. Ruth Willard in Harvard, February 18, 1768. In 1778, he sat in the "fore seat" in the side gallery in the church at Harvard.
Children:
I. Lurana, b. May 26, 1769 in Harvard.
2. Anna Willard, b. February 7, 1771.
VIII. ELEANOR, b. April 26, 1748.
IX. SURAINA, b. September 17, 1750.
RITTER
MOSES RITTER, of Shirley, was the son of Moses and Hannah (Jack- man) Ritter of Lunenburg. He was born in Newbury February 17, 1742. He married September 5, 1771, Mary Goodridge. She died on December 15, 1785, aged thirty nine, and he married, second, Lydia (Hale) Diggins, the widow of James Diggins of Shirley (q. v.). Moses Ritter bought the Burkmar land in 1784, an acre and a quarter "with a Mansion house, Barn and shop thereon." Here he lived for some years, presumably until his death, April 20, 1810, aged sixty eight. His widow married, June 28, 1811, Ezra Clapp of Lunenburg and continued to live in the house with her third husband until she died September 5, 1822, at the age of seventy two. The house was so near to the Lunenburg Line that it must often have caused ambiguity in the minds of many. The road on which it stands was lately named Clapp Road from Ezra.
Children :
I. MARY, bapt. April 24, 1774; m. April 9, 1795, Captain Isaac Spald- ing.
II. ELIZABETH, bapt. May 22, 1774; m. July 12, 1801, William Pearson.
III. PRISCILLA, bapt. February 4, 1776; m. 1815, Daniel Fisher.
IV. MOSES, bapt. January 18, 1778; d. June 5, 1780.
V. THOMAS, bapt. April 2, 1780; m. before May 26, 1803, Nancy Brown in Lunenburg; he lived part of his life on the farm be- longing to William Bolton, Jr., on the Great Road, Shirley, and in 1812, bought twelve acres of the Bolton farm. He died Sep- tember 20, 1820, aged forty one.
Children:
I. Priscilla, b. August 23, 1803; d. October 31, 1820.
2. Mary, b. September 4, 1805.
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3. Betsy Parsons, b. August 26, 1807.
4. Thomas Sullivan, b. January 29, 1810. 5. - , son, b. February 17, 1812, in Shirley.
VI. MOSES, bapt. January 20, 1782; removed to New York City.
VII. HANNAH, bapt. January 20, 1782; m. - - Burr.
VIII. ZEBADIAH, bapt. July 1, 1789; d. e.
RUSSELL
WILLIAM RUSSELL, of Shirley, was born in Littleton, March 4, 1737-8, the son of Nathaniel Russell and his wife Marah, who was the sister of James Brooks of Shirley. He married on November 16, 1758, Lucy Goldsmith and had seven children, all born in Littleton. In 1772, they moved to Shirley, and were warned out by the selectmen in Septem- ber of that year.
Children :
I. LUCY, b. May 6, 1759; m. John Ivory, Jr., pub., March 14, 1778, in Shirley.
II. WILLIAM, b. December 23, 1760.
III. LYDIA, b. February 8, 1763.
IV. HANNAH, b. March 23, 1765.
V. PETER, b. October 16, 1767; d. April 1, 1768.
VI. PETER, b. April 2, 1769.
VII. RICHARD, b. June 8, 1772.
SHAVE
EDWARD SHAVE bought land in Shirley as early as 1761. He is then called of Newton, but it has not been possible to trace him there. He married, in Cambridge, December 1, 1756, Esther Seaver, who was born in Cambridge, November 13, 1712, the daughter of John and Sarah Seaver. They lived near the junction of Groton and Townsend Roads. Mr. Shave's name is very puzzling, as he was married as Edward Sheaff, he signed himself Shave, and his farm was mortgaged to Squiers Shove of Danvers, who belonged to a Dighton family. The Christian name of Edward is common both among the Sheaff family and the Shove family. The name also is varied into Shawe in the 1790 census. Mr. and Mrs. Shave had no children and so upon the death of her mother, they took Mrs. Shave's niece Elizabeth Seaver to bring up. She was the daughter of An- drew and Elizabeth Seaver of Cambridge, born March 25, 1738. On June 16, 1768, she married Ephraim Burridge in Cambridge, and the young married pair came to Shirley, and passed the remainder of their life on the
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Shave farm. They had two children, Andrew and Elizabeth, and prob- ably John, as John Barrage is mentioned as in Shirley in 1790. Andrew Burrage was still living in Shirley in 1820. "I at vandue at Whitney's, Andrew Burridges, oxen, ploughs, hoops & other articles, a Number." J. P.
SIMONDS
WILLIAM SIMONDS, of Shirley, son of William Simonds of Billerica, was born November 4, 1707. The first ancestor of William of Shirley was William Simonds of Woburn who settled near Dry Brook in 1644. He married, in 1643, Judith Phippen, widow of James Hayward. Their son, Lieutenant Benjamin Simonds, was also of Woburn. His wife's name was Rebecca. Their son William, the father of William of Shirley, was born in Woburn, February 14, 1679. He married in Concord, Elizabeth Wilson of Billerica, who died September 5, 1712. His second wife was Sarah Baldwin.
William Simonds, of Shirley, published his intention of marriage to Mercy Page, in Lunenburg, March 13, 1755. She was, of course, not the mother of his children. He was a member of the Board of Selectmen the first two years of the town's incorporation. When he died on April 18, 1758, he left a widow, Mary, who the same year, December 19, 1758, married Samuel Larrabee of Shirley. They lived on the Simonds farm. Children:
I. ABIGAIL, bapt. July 14, 1737, in Groton; m. Ebenezer Going, April 27, 1757.
II. WILLIAM, b. 1739; m. March 11, 1760, Abigail Larrabee, of Lunen- burg; m. 2, March 21, 1765, Sarah Wilson, of Shirley.
III. JOHN, b. about 1741; m. Susanna Butterfield of Pepperell, October 19, 1761 ; m. 2, (?) Widow Mary Stuart, in Leominster, May 2, 1782.
Children:
I. Susanna, bapt. December 11, 1763, in Groton.
2. Joseph, bapt. July 20, 1766, in Groton. (See Leominster Vital Records.)
IV. DAVID, b. about 1743.
. V. JOSEPH, b. January 30, 1746; m. Mary Martin of Lunenburg; int. October 17, 1767, being then of Fitchburg; m. 2, Mitty Cum- mings of Groton, October 10, 1770.
Children:
1. Joseph, b. September 25, 1771, in Groton; m. I, Hannah Dodge, January 9, 1794; m. 2, Mrs. Esther (Maynard) Baldwin; m. 3, Susan Wright. Later of New Ipswich and Hancock, N. H.
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2. Mitty, b. March 23, 1774, in Groton; m. Peter Fox.
3. Asa, b. April 6, 1776. Dismissed from Groton Church, to Hancock, N. H .; m. in Hancock, Betsy Russell, 1805; m. 2, Clarissa W. Newhall.
4. Melia, b. October 24, 1778, in New Ipswich; m. Captain Jacob Ames.
5. Charles, b. March 23, 1785, in Hancock, N. H .; m. Sally Dennis, 1809.
6. Lucy, b. May 21, 1791; m. Charles Wasson, residence, Hud- son; d. about 1850. (See Hayward's History of Hancock, N. H., p. 886 seq.)
VI. REBECCA, b. about 1748; m. (?) Josiah White of Charlemont, in Leominster, March 2, 1786.
VII. ELIJAH, b. about 1749. He married Abigail -- , about 1772, and lived in Gardner, Mass., where his children were born.
Children:
I. Elizabeth, b. April 7, 1774; d. June 29, 1776.
2. Elijah, b. January 28, 1777; d. September 10, 1777.
3. Elijah, b. November 14, 1778; m. Persis - and had Children:
i. Asa Rolf, b. February 6, 1812.
ii. Mary Jane, bapt. November 3, 1816.
iii. Sumner Jackson, b. February 13, 1817.
4. Jonathan, b. December 9, 1780.
5. Ezekiel, b. February 25, 1783.
6. David, b. March 6, 1786.
7. Abigail, b. July 11, 1788; d. August 5, 1791.
8. Asa, b. November 7, 1790.
9. Abigail, b. August 5, 1793.
10. Lucy, b. November 11, 1797. (See Vital Records of Gardner.) VIII. MARY, b. about 1754; pub. November 12, 1774, to John Jupp, of Shirley; pub. 2, April 23, 1785, to Nathan Smith of Shirley (q. v.).
1773, July 13. "Thos Simons was reapin for me at the mill Pond." James Parker's diary.
SMITH
For a complete account of the Smith family, of Shirley, reference can be had to Volume LV, and page 267 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
SMYLIE
HUGH SMYLIE, * of Shirley, was the son of Francis Smylie, a Scotch- Irish settler of Londonderry, N. H. Francis Smylie was born about 1689,
*This material was given me by Mrs. Mary Lovering Holman.
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and died March 16, 1763, in Windham, N. H. He married Agnes before 1720. She died in Old Dunstable, now South Nashua, N. H., De- cember 23, 1786, in her ninety ninth year.
Hugh Smylie was born about 1724. He married Mary, daughter of Alexander Park, between 1740 and 1744. Hugh Smylie, after serving in the French War from Londonderry, began the rovings which make him so difficult to trace. Before coming to Shirley he was of Windham, Exeter, Pelham, Wilton and Westford. In 1764, he bought land in Shirley of Asa Holden and Jerahmeel Powers. His house stood in the southeast corner of the crossroads of the Old Townsend Road, now Garrison Road and Groton Road. (No. 21.) In 1869, he added land which he bought of Obadiah Sawtell and Joseph Wilson. He sold his farm in Shirley to Benjamin Woodbury, and went to Vassalboro, Me., where he died some time after 1790.
Children:
I. JOHN, probably son of Hugh, as a Francis Smylie prayer book con- tains the entry "to John from Mother Mary Smylie 1772." Hugh was the only Smylie of the time who had a wife Mary.
Children:
I. William, b. 1774; m. Anna Julia Lightall, February 12, 1793. Their son, Edward, born in 1794, married Elizabeth Hardie in 1816, and had eight children: Mary, b.November 28, 1817; Charles Edward, b. June 17, 1820; Mariah Theresa, b. June 12, 1824; Elizabeth, b. August 18, 1825; Charles Albert, b. June 17, 1827; William, b. August 7, 1829 ; Catherine, b. April 30, 1831; Edward Thomas, b. March 15, 1834. The prayer book spoken of above descended, William 1798; Edward Smylie, 1816; Charles A. Smylie, 1849, and is now in the possession of his son Dr. Arthur E. Smylie.
2. Charles Albert, b. 1775.
3. Francis, b. 1781, and others.
II. THOMAS, In the 1790 census he had a wife, four daughters and a son under sixteen.
III. SARAH.
IV. WILLIAM, b. November 12, 1751, in Windham, N. H .; d. November 6, 1756.
V. MARY.
VI. DAVID. In the census for 1790, he had a wife, three daughters, and a son under sixteen.
VII. WILLIAM. In the census for 1790, he had a wife, two daughters, and two sons under sixteen.
VIII. ALEXANDER. In the 1790 census he had a wife, one daughter, and two sons under sixteen. In 1782 he petitioned to be made com- mander of the brigantine Iris, a privateer. The commission was issued.
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SOLENDINE
JOHN SOLENDINE, of "Nonacoicus farm," was born in Dunstable, May 8, 1683, and came to Nonacoicus, now the western part of Ayer, but part of Shirley for many years, about 1718. He and Henry Farwell bought the farm from Jonathan Tyng, and settled there. He married Susanna Woods in 1718. Later was the holder of much land in Shirley, for he owned the farms now occupied by Mr. C. W. Marshall and Mr. Frank B. White, then and for many years known as "Solendine Meadows." He died in 1738, and his widow married John Haughton of Bolton the following year .* Children :
I. SUSANNA, b. February II, 1718; m. Manassah Divol, of Lancaster, June 19, 1740.
II. WILLIAM, b. April 23, 1721; d. e.
III. JOHN, b. April 28, 1725; d. e.
IV. SARAH, b. May 8, 1727; alive in 1757.
V. JOHN, b. November 10, 1729; m. Dorcas Whipple in Groton on June 17, 1752. He built a house on "Solendine Meadows," and there spent his brief married life. Mrs. Solendine died in 1753, and he died April 17, 1766, in Lancaster.
Children:
I. Dorcas, b. May 23, 1753; d. August 18, 1753.
2. John, b. May 23, 1753; m. Susanna Farwell of Shirley, pub. May 8, 1773; d. February 25, 1807, in Lancaster. Children:
i. John, b. 1774; d. November 2, 1825.
ii. Susanna, m. Calvin Wilder, December 17, 1795.
iii. Manassah, b. 1780. He married Deborah Fairbanks of Bolton and had six children. His daughter, Adeline, came to Shirley and worked for James Parker. In 1825 she married Abraham Durant of Westford, the marriage taking place at the Parker house.
iv. Mary Ann, b. 1795; d. February 25, 1807.
VI. ISAAC, b. April 18, 1732; he never married, but bought much real estate, particularly in Shirley. He owned and lived upon the farm now that of Mrs. James P. Tolman until 1762, when he fol- lowed his brother John to Lancaster. He died September 16, 1806.
WILSON
JOSEPH WILSON, one of the earliest settlers of Shirley, lived in the northern part of town, just west of the great Holden Grant. He was
*For a more extended account see the New England Historical and Genealogical Regis- ter, Vol. LX, p. 369.
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in Shirley as early as 1731. Joseph and his wife Sarah were received into full communion of the church at Groton, May 3, 1733. Sarah died Decem- ber 30, 1762. All their children were born in Shirley.
Children:
I. JOSEPH, b. January 23, 1733-4; m. Hepzibah Warren of Groton, May 2, 1765.
II. SARAH, b. July 27, 1736; m. William Simonds of Shirley, March 21, 1765.
III. ELIZABETH, b. July 4, 1739; m. Stephen Bennett of Groton, int. October 5, 1774.
IV. JOHN, b. September 7, 1742.
V. DAVID, b. June 3, 1745; m. I, Sarah Bolton, pub. February 4, 1780; m. 2, Martha Page, pub. March 21, 1784. David Wilson served through the Revolutionary war. On January 26, 1781, James Parker writes "David Wilson & Isaac Williams Inlisted for 3 years." He was in Shirley in 1790 when the census was taken and is credited with three boys under sixteen, a wife and daugh- ter, though no births are recorded in Shirley.
VI. ESTHER, b. June 14, 1748.
VII. SUSANNA, b. August 14, 1751 ; m. Samuel Druery, pub. September 30, 1782.
1796. July 18. "Warren Wilson, Abner Pierce, by ye Mill Pond." James Parker's diary.
ABEL WILSON, of Shirley, from Dr. Benjamin Hartwell's Records. Children:
I. -, daughter, b. May 21, 1820.
II. -- , daughter, b. May 19, 1822.
ZWIERS
REUBEN ZWIERS, of Shirley, came from Lancaster to the southern part of town early in the nineteenth century. He was probably the son of Jacob and Abigail Zwiers, and grandson of Daniel and Margaret Zwiers, of Lancaster, and was born about 1775. He lived in a house just north of the Brick Tavern in Lancaster. About 1820, the house came into the posssession of Squire James Parker and he records the fact that "Josiah Hazen's wife moved out of my Zweir house" in that year. In April of the same year Reuben Zwier and his family moved onto the Frost farm in Shirley, at that time owned by Parker, "to carry it on." Reuben mar- ried in Lancaster, August 20, 1798, Lovisa Phillips, and had six children, all born in Lancaster. He worked for James Parker in 1799. Zwiers evidently had money troubles, for, having lost his farm and moved to
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Shirley, his difficulties seem to have continued. In October, 1820, Par- ker "went to Frost Farm with Swears to Save his effects." Reuben Zwiers died in October, 1822, and his widow married a second Zwiers, William of Townsend, on June 10, 1824. Before that Parker writes Jan- uary 18, 1823 "the whole family moved off my Frost Farm."
Children:
I. ARTEMAS, b. April 19, 1799; 1820, May 15, "Artimas Swears made my Garden." J. P.
II. REUBEN, b. May 25, 1801; m. Nancy Newcombe Phillips, June 4, 1820. She m. Dexter Gleason in Lunenburg, April 17, 1823. He lived on the road through the Shaker Village about half a mile over the Lancaster line.
Child:
I. Nancy, b. July 25, 1822, in Lunenburg.
III. CHARLES, b. August 17, 1803. Helped James Parker in May, 1824. IV. LEONARD, b. July 20, 1806; lived as a hired man with James Parker. 1823, January 16, "this day Leonard Swears went off."
V. WILLIAM, m. Rebecca Dutton, in Shirley, September 10, 1828, by Thomas Whitney, Esq. He rented oxen of James Parker in 1825 (see page 36), and in April he and his wife moved onto the Frost farm.
VI. SUSAN, b. March 17, 1819.
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"PERSONS OF COLOR."
In the economic history of each town the necessity for cheap labor draws the most available to that locality. Early in our history the demand for linen called many Scotch-Irish to Lunenburg. The Littles, Richards, Moors, Gordons, McKenzeys and a few others over- flowed into Shirley and were the first aliens to people our farms. About 1800, the great hop fever came to Shirley, as it did to nearby towns, and the call for cheap labor brought the influx of negroes whose history is here inadequately portrayed. James Parker and Wallis Lit- tle were the most prominent in those early days in hop growing, and that in some measure accounts for the fact that most of the negroes lived along the Great Road on Little's land, and the Smith land opposite, owned by Parker. Later Peter Tarbell was active in the same pursuit, and a few settled near him. After the hop growing had ceased, the remains of our negro popula- tion braided palm leaf hats for a living, which Major Brown of Lunenburg carried south and sold. The next migration to Shirley was of the Irish, who came with the Fitchburg Railroad between 1840 and 1850, but who proved a more permanent population than either of their predecessors. Some twenty years later, when the mills demanded more labor than our population could supply, the French Canadians began to come in to fill the need, and they have been lately followed by the Poles and Russians, whose names make the office of town clerk a nightmare.
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PHILIP BOSTON, of Littleton, married at Littleton, Elizabeth Oliver, of Lincoln, February 4, 1762. Many of his children married and came to Shirley.
Children :
I. ENos, b. cir. 1764; m. Polly Parks, of Acton, January 7, 1786.
II. POLLY, b. cir. 1765; d. February 16, 1792, aged twenty seven.
III. PHILIP, of Raby, or Brookline, N. H., in the 1790 census. He had a wife and one child.
IV. ELIZABETH, b. cir. 1766; m. Thomas Hazard of Shirley; q. v.
V. LUCY, b. cir. 1778; m. Mentus Fageaus of Littleton, in Shirley, July 28, 1799.
VI. PETER, b. cir. 1780. He married Hannah Moffett, and lived on Lunenburg Road in house No. 83, and there Dr. Hartwell visited him professionally many times.
Children:
I. Hiram, perhaps b. September 21, 1803; d. at Woodstock, Vt.
2. Nahum, perhaps b. March 7, 1805; d. in Shirley.
3. Saloma Adeline, b. December 2, 1806; m. I, Solomon Harris, int. August 28, 1823; m. 2, Abel Shed of Lunenburg.
4. Caira, b. 1806; m. I, Emerson Hazard, June 24, 1829; m. 2, Benjamin Henesy. June 13, 1841; q. v. She died Febru- ary 23, 1889, aged 83.
5. Oliver, perhaps b. November 20, 1810; d. in Shirley in house No. 83.
6. son, b. May 14, 1814.
7. Lucy, b. . 1820, August 7, "I carried Lucy Boston home and paid her off." J. P.
8. Louisa, "Lovisy," m. Abraham Hazard, April 23, 1834; q. v.
-, child, b. cir. 1789; d. April 29, 1792, aged about three years.
VII.
GIGER
DANIEL GIGER, of Shirley, was a Natick Indian, and probably the son of Daniel Speen, and Lucy (Partuck) Giger, and grandson of Nichode- mus and Beulah (Speen) Giger. He was married to Almira Travis on June 14, 1828. Four years before, she and Hiram Hazard had had an unfor- tunate love affair. He died in Barre, Mass.
Children:
I. DEXTER, b. December 21, 1828; m. Lizzie Freeman; s. p .; d. at Townsend Harbor.
II. ELBRIDGE, m. Katy Phillis, daughter of Peter, in Townsend. Children:
I. Levi.
2. Gerry.
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III. ELIZA, m. (?) Henry V. Hemenway, May 8, 1849. She was then of South Gardner.
IV. DANIEL. A soldier in the Civil War. He never returned.
HASTENCLEVER
FRANCIS HASTENCLEVER. Mr. Chandler in his history of Shir- ley, mentions the singular name of Hasteneleven. It has been found that Francis was a colored man and that he married Phebe Wood in Lunen- burg, January 5, 1791. The Lunenburg records give the name Hosen- clever or Hostencleaver.
HAZARD
THOMAS HAZARD, of Littleton, married Elizabeth Boston, May 25, 1786, in Littleton. She was probably the daughter of Philip Boston, and a sister of Peter Boston who afterward settled in Shirley. He died January 10, 1839, in Littleton.
Children:
I. PETER, who says he was born August 8, 1779. He died in Groton November 10, 1880, having celebrated his one hundredth birth- day the year before. He was married to Roseanna Tuttle, Octo- ber 21, 1813, by Thomas Whitney, Esq., of Shirley. His children were born in Shirley.
Children:
I. Harry, b. April 2, 1814. Died in the Civil War.
2. Thomas, b. January 28, 1816. Died in Leominster, Mass.
3. Jane, b. January 16, 1818. Married a southerner and had one son. They lived in Groton.
4. Peter, b. April 13, 1820; m. I, Mahaly Lew, of Littleton, August 27, 1842; m. 2, Olive Freeman, May 9, 1849.
5. Lindy, lived in Lowell, Mass., and died unmarried.
6. Luciny, m. Daniel Corey of Lancaster, Mass.
II. BETSY, m. Abraham Freeman, pub. November 24, 1805; she had twins, a son and a daughter, born in Shirley, August 14, 1806, and a son born November 14, 1807. They lived in house No. 66, the original Little house.
1829, January 5, "Freeman fetched his boy to live with me." J. P.
Children:
I. Abraham.
2. Olive.
III. THOMAS, of Shirley. He married Betsy Jackson, sister of Jacob Mitchell's wife, and lived in Oliver Holden's birthplace in 1830. He died in Boxborough at the home of his son, Tower.
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Children:
I. Rufus, b. May 7, 1803; m. to Mary Newell, a French girl, May 4, 1823, by Stephen Longley, Esq. He lived near Spectacle Pond in Littleton.
Children:
i. Emerson, b. November 23, 1823, in Shirley.
ii. Francis N., b. March 17, 1834.
iii. James C., b. May 10, 1843. All three lived at Sandy Pond in Littleton and died without issue.
iv. Tower, m. Delina Clark, and d. in Ayer of consump- tion. s. p.
2. Hiram, b. November 19, 1805; he published his intention to Almira Travis, February 15, 1824. The banns were for- bidden by his father, Thomas, because he was under 21 years. He married twice and had William, of Ayer, by his first wife, and James by his second.
3. Emerson, b. October 15, 1807; m. Caira Boston, June 24, 1829; his widow married Benjamin Henesy (q. v.) June 13, 1841. He lived at first in the Oliver Holden birthplace on Squann- acook road. His widow later lived on the slope of Flat Hill.
Children:
i. Nahum Gardner, b. September 26, 1830; m. Harriet Phillis, daughter of Peter Phillis, of Pepperill. She d. January 15, 1892 aged 60 yrs. 7 mos. 6 days. He lived in Leominister until his death in 1912. He had nine children. His photograph hangs in the Town Hall at Shirley Centre, and a daguerreotype taken about 1861 is owned by the author.
ii. Betsy, b. August 25, 1832; m. Joseph Franklin Mitchell, s. p. Living at Townsend Harbor, 1914.
iii. Horace O., b. September 22, 1834; m. Josephine Berry, of Richmond, Va. She was half white, the daughter of a sea captain and born at sea. He d. June 25, 1895, aged 60 yrs. 9 mos. 3 days. Their daughter Betsy married Arthur Blood, a white man.
iv. Oliver, b. September 23, 1836; m. Betsey Messer, the daughter of the widow Betsy Messer who lived in the house west of Peter Tarbell's on Groton Road; they lived in Leominster and had three children.
4. Abraham, b. October 10, 1809; m. 1, Caroline Oxford of Box- borough, int. July 30, 1830; m. 2, Louisa "Lovisy" Bos- ton, April 23, 1834. He had four children, all born in Shirley, the children of his second wife. He and his wife died in Shirley.
Children:
i. Lucy, d. unm. At Pratt's Junction.
ii. Theodore, d. in the war.
iii. Henry, went to the war and died on his return.
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5. Mary, m. Henry Henesy, November 4, 1829. They had four children, born on Longley Road, Shirley.
6. Tower, m. Catherine Freeman of Gardner.
He lived in Box- borough.
Children:
i. Tower. Lived in Harvard and had issue.
ii. Elizabeth, d. in Harvard.
HENESY
JOHN HENESY, of Shirley, was married by the Reverend Phinehas Whitney, to Phyllis Temple on December 11, 1803. John Henesy was half Irish, and his wife Phyllis had been brought from Africa as a small child. Parker's diary for November 13, 1802, reads: "I dug and drawed stone. Jack Henesy Layd wall for me."
Children :
I. HENRY, b. 180 -; m. Mary Hazard, November 14, 1829, in Lunen- burg, and lived on Longley Road in a small house opposite where Howard Hatch now lives. He is said to have moved to West Boylston. He had four children, born in Shirley before 1836.
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