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Alexander Bothwell, 2d, was Precinct Moderator in 1760, and Selectman of the Precinct in 1759 and 1762. He was the father of eight children, the first four born in Rutland: Rachel, August 8, 1742; Alexander, 3d, January 7, 1744; Mary, March 8, 1746, married in March, 1787, to Nehemiah Allen, Jr .; William, May 19, 1748; Prudence, July 20, 1750, married July 8, 1790, to Valentine Bullard; John, May 14, 1752; Sarah, October 15, 1755; James, September 1, 1758.
Oakham T. R., i, 187, 188, 215. M. S. R., ii, 300 (2) [Bothel], (9). Oakham V. R., 13, 60. Rev. D. Tomlinson's Notes. Rutland Church Records, 1729. Records, Worc. Co. Court of Sessions, 1758. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, liv, 202.
Alexander Bothwell, 3d.
Born in Rutland, January 7, 1744, eldest son of Alexander Bothwell, 2d, who was one of the first ten settlers of Oakham.
He marched as Second Lieutenant in Capt. John Crawford's company of minutemen on April 19, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm. When the 4th Worcester County Regiment was organized in Brookfield, May 14, 1776, he was chosen First Lieutenant in the 8th Company, under the command of Capt. John Crawford, and received his commission May 31, 1776. He served as Lieutenant in Capt. Crawford's company on the
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alarm at Rhode Island, July 23, 1777; on the alarm at Ben- nington, August 20, 1777 ; also in Capt. Joseph Cutler's company of volunteers which marched to join General Gates at the North- ward, September 24, 1777, and in Capt. Daniel Gilbert's Co., Col. Josiah Whitney's Regt., from July 30 to September 13, 1778, at Rhode Island.
Little is known of his family. His wife's name was Mary. He lived in Oakham till his death, which occurred in 1813.
Oakham T. R., i, 187, 188, 189, 214, 228, 229. M. S. R., ii, 300 (6) [Bothwel], (10). Oakham V. R., 13. Bothwell Family Records (MS.) in possession of Miss Florence Bothwell of Oakham. See John Crawford, p. 70.
James Bothwell.
Born in Oakham, September 1, 1758, the fourth son of Alexander Bothwell, 2d.
He enlisted September 7, 1777, in Capt. Crawford's company for a term of three months in the Stillwater campaign, and was made Corporal. He served also in Capt. Whipple's Co. on the Rhode Island alarm.
James Bothwell was married (1) to Mary Wilson, May 31, 1779; (2) to Sally Prouty, October 2, 1797.
M. S. R., ii, 300 (3) [Botherill], (II). Oakham V. R., 13, 59, 60.
John Bothwell.
Born in Oakham, May 14, 1752, third son of Alexander Bothwell, 2d.
He was one of the Oakham minutemen who marched with Capt. Crawford on the alarm of April 19, 1775. In the follow- ing year he served three months in New York. He was a member of Capt. Crawford's company which marched in 1777 on the Rhode Island and Bennington alarms, and of Capt. Cutler's company of volunteers sent September 24, 1777, to join General Gates at the Northward.
John Bothwell lived on the present Bothwell farm. In 1778 he purchased of Thomas Mann the grist mill on the Five Mile
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River, which has since remained in the possession of the Bothwell family.
He married Rebecca McFarland, daughter of Alexander Mc- Farland, one of the first ten settlers of Oakham. Children, born in Oakham: Susannah, July 8, 1773; John, Jr., September 25, 1775; Rebecka, May 23, 1780; Lucretia, October 1, 1784; Reuben, April 9, 1788; Cheney, October 17, 1790.
Cheney Bothwell married (1) Electa Rockwood of New Braintree in 1810. After her death, January 14, 1825, he mar- ried (2) Charlotte Rockwood. He was the father of Sylvander Bothwell, who served in the 42d Mass. Inf. in the Civil War.
John Bothwell died in Oakham, January 12, 1814. His widow, Rebecca, died October 28, 1848, aged ninety-seven years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188, 189. M. S. R., ii, 300 (7) [Bothwell], (12). Oakham V. R., 13 [Lucretia = Christie], 59, 112 [Jan. 12, 1814= Jan. II, 1812 (1822)]. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, 1776 [Alexander McFarland]. Bothwell Family Records (see above). John Robinson's Notes.
William Bothwell.
Born in Rutland, May 19, 1748, second son of Alexander Bothwell, 2d.
He was Private in the company which marched under the command of Capt. Crawford on the alarm of April 19, 1775, and served as Corporal in 1776 for a term of two months with Lieut. Asa French at Dobbs Ferry, Tarrytown and North Castle. July 23, 1777, he went as Corporal in the Oakham company on an alarm at Rhode Island. He served six months in Rhode Island in 1777, and guaranteed one half of the expense of hiring Jacob Adams for a term of six months at Boston in 1777.
William Bothwell was Selectman of Oakham in 1784, 1785, and 1791. He was married to Eunice, daughter of George Harper, April 27, 1769.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187, 188, 214. M. S. R., ii, 300 (13). Oakham V. R., 13, 59 [Bothel]. Bothwell Family Records (see above). Pay Roll, Capt. How's Co., 1776.
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The Boyd Family.
The Boyd family came from the north of Ireland. Samuel Boyd removed from Rutland to Oakham in 1762 and bought of Nathaniel Hatch of Dorchester for £76 4s. 4d., Lot W, two hundred and fifty acres, and also nineteen acres in Lot BB. He was Warden in 1764, and Chairman of the Selectmen of Oak- ham in 1765. He was a strong Presbyterian and was one of the committee appointed by the town that was directed to "aplie to the Prisberty for a minister and Now whare Eals." His sons James and John served in the Revolution.
Letter of Mrs. Alfred D. Parkman of North Brookfield. Oakham T. R., i, 31. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, xlv, 376.
James Boyd.
Served in seven campaigns. He enlisted (1) May 2, 1775, for eight months' service at Roxbury under Capt. Hazeltine; (2) May 5, 1777, for two months at Rhode Island under Capt. Hodges ; (3) August 27, 1777, for four months under Capt. Earll; (4) July 5, 1780, for three months under Capt. Paige at West Point; (5) August 27, 1781, for service of three months at West Point under Capt. Cutler. He was also detailed (6) to go with the company which guarded Burgoyne's troops on their march from Rutland to Enfield, Conn., November 3, 1778; and (7) marched with Capt. Crawford on the Rhode Island alarm. In the second, fourth and sixth campaigns he served as Corporal.
He married Janet Bell in 1780, and had three sons, William, John, and Cheney, and four daughters, Mehetabel, Mary, Rebekah, and Lucretia, all born in Oakham.
Cheney was born in 1797, and married Susan Flint of Oak- ham. His son, Isaac M., born in Oakham, July 7, 1821, was the father of John Flint Boyd, a soldier in the Civil War.
Mrs. Janet Boyd was buried in the south part of the burying ground in the center of the town. The new meeting-house, which was erected in 1814, covered her grave, and this led her
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husband to lay out the Boyd cemetery, in which he and seven of his family were buried.
James Boyd died October 14, 1824, aged seventy-two years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187, 214, 252, 280. M. S. R., ii, 358 (6), (7), 368 (5) [Boyed]. Oakham V. R., 60, 112. Temple, Hist. of No. Brook- field, 534, 535. Letter of Mrs. Parkman (see above).
John Boyd.
Corporal in the company of Oakham minutemen who marched April 19, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm. He was also a private in Capt. Hamilton's company which served from August 3 to September 30, 1776, at Ticonderoga and Fort Edward. October 14, 1779, he enlisted for a term of three months at Claverack, and was placed in Col. Denny's regiment. He has credit on the town records for the Rhode Island alarm, and for a term of six months in Rhode Island in 1777.
John Boyd became Captain of the Oakham company of Mas- sachusetts militia in 1794. He was a man of much ability and of good education, and was employed by the town for many years to make tax rates. He was often Assessor, was eight times Selectman of Oakham (in the years 1781, 1788, 1791, 1794, 1797, 1799, 1801, and 1802), and in 1798 represented the town in the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1781 he was married to Judith Hall of Cornish.
Capt. Boyd died in Oakham, August 12, 1833, at the age of eighty-two years.
Oakham T. R., i, 171, 188, 242, ii, 287. M. S. R., ii, 358 (8), (9). Oakham V. R., 60, 113.
Asa Briggs.
Marched in Capt. John Crawford's company on the alarm at Bennington, August 20, 1777. He enlisted September 7, 1777, for the Stillwater campaign, served with the army that captured Burgoyne, and was discharged November 29, 1777.
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In 1783 he purchased land on East Hill, near Jacob Adams and Joseph Osborn. At a church meeting held June 17, 1779, he was chosen Chorister. He was one of the early signers of the church covenant, but probably was not in town in 1773, when the Congregational church was organized.
Asa Briggs married Levina Chaddock, of Oakham, November 12, 1778.
Oakham T. R., i, 188. M. S. R., ii, 499 (2). Oakham V. R., 61. Oakham Church Records, i, I, 3, 6. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, xcił, 407.
James Brown.
Marched with Capt. Crawford on the Bennington alarm, and has credit on the town records for six months at Brookfield. He also guaranteed one-half the expense of hiring a man for a campaign to New York for five months, and to Boston for two months.
He came from Paxton to Oakham with his sister, Thankful Brown, Spinster, and purchased, March 26, 1765, from Seth Metcalf of Paxton, for £150, one hundred and fifteen acres in Lot No. 2, the farm on East Hill owned by the late William E. Keep. He was Selectman of Oakham four years, member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety seven years, and was one of the signers of the petition of June 23, 1773, for the organization of a Congregational church in Oakham.
His first wife's name was Mary. She died September 28, 1795, aged fifty-five years. He was again married, in 1796, to Widow Rhoda Clark of Rutland. Mr. Brown died June 12, 1819, aged seventy-eight years. Four children are mentioned in his will, which was filed July 6, 1819:
Moses, born April 10, 1773, Town Clerk of Oakham in 1812. His daughter, Esther Brown, was a well-known local revivalist.
Thankful, married in 1810 to Jacob Evans of Rutland. Some of her writings on religious subjects, intended for publication but never printed, are still preserved.
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Aaron, who married Azubah Green in 1786, and Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Pratt. The last two died before April 8, 1818, when the will was written.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 188, 189, 214. M. S. R., ii, 685 (12) [Samuel Brown]. Oakham V. R., 14. Oakham Church Records, i, I. Note of Dea. Jesse Allen. Recollections of Miss Amanda Crawford. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, July 6, 1819. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, liii, 171, xcviii, 528.
John Brown.
Marched in Capt. Crawford's company on the Rhode Island and Bennington alarms, and paid one-half the expense of sending a man to New York for a term of five months.
June 23, 1773, he signed the petition to the Council for the organization of the Oakham church in Congregational form.
December 17, 1764, John Brown of Marlboro was married in Bolton to Phebe Fosket. Children: Phebe, born March 15, 1765, in Bolton; Elisabeth, born in Oakham August 30, 1770; Lucy, born in Oakham September 14, 1773.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187, 188. M. S. R., ii, 646 (11). Oakham V. R., 14. Bolton V. R., 114. Oakham Church Records, i, I.
Isaac Bullard.
Born in Weston, Mass., April 2, 1749, the second son of Jonathan and Anna (Harrington) Bullard.
He marched in Capt. John Crawford's company on the alarm at Rhode Island, July 23, 1777, and served from July 26, 1777, to January 4, 1778, in Rhode Island, in Capt. Earll's Co., Col. Keyes's Regt.
He removed to Maine, where he was married and had several children, but the records of his family are not preserved.
Oakham T. R., i, 188. M. S. R., ii, 773 (8) [Bulard], 782 (10). Bond, Geneal. and Hist. of Watertown, 148. Letter of J. H. Bullard of Springfield, Mass.
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Jonathan Bullard.
Born in Watertown, March 29, 1727, son of Jonathan and Ruth (Harrington) Bullard and descendant in the fifth generation of George Bullard, who died in Watertown, January 14, 1688.
He was commissioned in 1771 First Lieutenant in the militia company of Oakham, of which James Craige, Jr., was Captain. In 1775 he had the title of Captain on the town records, and had no doubt by that time received his commission as Captain. He has credit on the town records for five months' service in the Revolutionary War, in New York in 1776.
About 1750 he removed from Weston to Rutland, where he was innholder. His house was near White Hall, and on the county road from Rutland to Brookfield. In 1757 he removed to Oakham and purchased from Thomas Allen of Dorchester, for £54, the northerly half of Lot No. 13, containing one hundred and forty- five acres, the farm which is still occupied by Henry Bullard and on which seven generations of Bullards have lived. He increased his landed estates till he became the largest landholder in Oakham, owning a tract extending from near the northern boundary of the town to the road which runs from the present village of Oakham to New Braintree. He built a house on his original purchase, set on high land and commanding a fine view toward the north and northwest. This house stood practically unchanged till 1865, when it was remodeled by his great-grand- son, Avery Bullard.
Jonathan Bullard held all the important offices in the gift of his fellow-citizens. He was often Assessor, Collector, and Treasurer; served twenty-three times as Moderator and four- teen times as Selectman, having been chosen on the first Board elected after the incorporation of Oakham; was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1775 and 1776; represented the town in the Great and General Court in 1787, 1788 and 1789; and was Delegate to the Pro- vincial Congress which convened at Salem, October 7, 1774.
He was married to Anna Harrington in 1745. After her death in 1753, he was again married, May 22, 1755, to Lydia,
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daughter of Ebenezer Foster of Rutland, and sister of Lieut. Ebenezer Foster, the well-known innholder of Oakham.
Children of Jonathan and Anna (Harrington) Bullard: Silas, born in Weston, May 24, 1746; Isaac, born in Weston, April 2, 1749; Sybilla, born in Rutland, November 3, 1750; Hannah, born in Rutland, February 3, 1752; Samuel, born in Rutland, November 20, 1753.
Children of Jonathan and Lydia (Foster) Bullard: Dorothy, born in Rutland, October 26, 1755; Ruth, born in Rutland, February 21, 1757; Jonathan, Jr., born in Oakham, December 24, 1758; Abigail, born in Oakham, March, 1761; Patty, born in Oakham in 1763; Phineas, born in Oakham in July, 1764, baptized August 14, 1764; Moses, baptized April 4, 1767; Valentine, born in Oakham in 1769; Ebenezer, baptized August 8, 1773; Hepsebath, born in Oakham in 1776; Lydia, born in Oakham in 1778. There were two daughters, Anna and Sarah, the dates of whose birth are not now known. Anna married Col. Isaac Hagar in Waltham, April 26, 1770; her son, David Hagar, born October 14, 1781, was father of Mrs. Horace Wilbur.
Capt. Jonathan Bullard died in Oakham, November 26, 1796, aged seventy years. He was buried either on his own land or in the churchyard in the center of the town. His monument stands in Pine Grove Cemetery, but this was not laid out till 1812. On his monument are the following inscriptions. That of his widow was added several years after the stone dedicated to his memory was erected, and is cut mostly between the lines of the original inscription :
IN MEMORY OF CAPT. JON BULLARD & Mrs. Lydia Bullard, his wife. She died WHO DIED May 11th, 1819 NOV. 26TH, A. D. 1796 Aged 84 IN YE 70 YR OF HIS AGE
"'Tis but a few whose days amount To three score years and ten And all beyond that short account Is sorrow, toil and pain."
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Oakham T. R., i, 138, 168. Lieutenancy and Congressional Certificates in possession of J. H. Bullard (see above). Oakham V. R., 113. Rev. J. Dana's Notes. Rutland V. R., 23, 121. Waltham V. R., 44, 162. Bond, Geneal. and Hist. of Watertown, 148. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, xxiv, 502, x1, 167.
Jonathan Bullard, Jr.
Born in Oakham, December 24, 1758, the fourth son of Jonathan Bullard, and the eldest son of his second wife, Lydia Foster.
He marched with Capt. Crawford on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777, and has credit on the town records for six weeks in Rhode Island in response to the call of June 16, 1778.
Jonathan Bullard, Jr., was a farmer and lived in a house at the Fairbank place from 1791 till 1800. This farm belonged to his father till November, 1796, when the son purchased from his father seventy acres of the farm, with the buildings thereon. February 4, 1800, he sold this property to Artemas Howe. Some- time after 1800, he removed to Maine and lived for many years in the town of Turner, and later in Foxcroft.
He was married June 13, 1781, to Ruth Whittemore of Spencer, Mass., and had twelve children. The eldest was Jonathan, born in Oakham September 18, 1800, married October 3, 1824, to Nancy Bradford. He died June 4, 1879, in Foxcroft, Maine.
The other children were : Isaac, Hepsebeth, Ruth (died young), Asa, Ebenezer, Ruth, Nathan, Joseph, Marshall, Lucy, Sally.
Jonathan Bullard, father of the above children, died in Fox- croft, Maine, December 28, 1854, aged ninety-six years.
Oakham T. R., i, 188, 214. M. S. R., ii, 773 (12) [Bulard]. Rutland V. R., 23. Letter of J. H. Bullard (see above). Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, cxxx, 138, cxxxi, 237, cxxxviii, 596.
Samuel Bullard.
Born in Rutland, November 20, 1753, third son and fifth child of Jonathan and Anna (Harrington) Bullard.
He enlisted June 5, 1775, and served eight months at Roxbury, in Capt. Hazeltine's Co., Col. Fellows' Regt. He also marched
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with the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777, and enlisted August 28, 1777, in Capt. Hodges's Co., Col. Cushing's Regt., for service at the Northward.
He was married to Abigail Furness, sister of Mary Furness, the wife of his brother Silas. They had seven children. Samuel Bullard removed to Onondaga, N. Y., where he was killed in 1802, at the raising of a building at a place called "The Lord's Corners." Mrs. Bullard died in 1840, aged ninety-six years.
Oakham T. R., i, 168, 187. M. S. R., ii, 788 (2), (5). Rutland V. R., 23. Letter of J. H. Bullard (see above).
Silas Bullard.
Born in Weston, May 24, 1746, eldest child of Jonathan and Anna (Harrington) Bullard.
He was Corporal of the Oakham company of minutemen which marched April 19, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm; served two months in 1776 with Lieut. Asa French at Tarrytown, N. Y., in Col. James Converse's Regt .; marched with Capt. Crawford on the Bennington alarm, August 20, 1777; and with Lieut. Alexander Bothwell, 3d, September 25, 1777, to join General Gates at the Northward.
He was a farmer and large landholder. He built the original house, and owned the farm where the late Sanford H. Bullard lived and which is still in possession of his descendants. He subscribed fI Ios. toward building the house of Mr. Tomlinson in 1786, to be paid in brick, probably of his own manufacture. He was Selectman of Oakham for twelve years, and Treasurer of the town eight years.
Silas Bullard was married, April 4, 1770, to Mary Furness, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Furness, who came to Oakham from Lynn in 1765. Children, all born in Oakham: Bettey, June 7, 1771; Benjamin, March 16, 1773; Alpha, March 22, 1775, Ruth, December 5, 1777; Adin, October 11, 1779; William, Jan- uary 3, 1782; Moley, May 9, 1784; Silas, Jr., April 15, 1787;
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Editha, June II, 1789; Melissa, June II, 1792; Calvin, Septem- ber 26, 1794; Joel, October 7, 1796.
Two great-grandsons of Silas Bullard, Sergeant George A. Bullard and his brother Silas, were soldiers in Co. E, 4th Michigan Cavalry, and shared in the capture of Jefferson Davis and his party on May 10, 1865, near Irwinsville, Ga., Sergeant Bullard being the second, and Silas being among the first six that entered his camp.
Silas Bullard died February 9, 1826, aged seventy-nine. His wife, born in 1751, died February I, 1821.
Oakham T. R., i, 37 [Furnish], 168, 188, 189. M. S. R., i, 552 (1) [ Ballard], ii, 774 (2) [Bulard], 789 (2). Oakham V. R., 14, 15, 62, 114. Letter of J. H. Bullard (see above). Subscription Paper for Mr. Tomlinson, May 3, 1786 (MS.). Bond, Geneal. and Hist. of Watertown, 148. Pay Roll, Capt. How's Co., 1776.
Isaiah Butler.
Has credit on the town records for three months' service in New York in the latter half of 1776.
He came from Hardwick. February 7, 1771, he was married, in New Braintree, to Abigail Thresher. Children, born in Oak- ham: Prudence, April 5, 1772; Daniel, May 3, 1775.
Oakham T. R., i, 168. Oakham V. R., 16. New Braintree V. R., 73.
John Butler.
Was one of the Oakham minutemen that marched with Capt. Crawford on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He was sent as guard to Boston April 1, 1778, and was detailed by Capt. Crawford to serve, in November of that year, with the company that guarded Burgoyne's troops on their march from Rutland to Enfield, Conn. From October 14 to November 22, 1779, he was in Col. Gerrish's Regt., which was sent to reinforce the army under General Washington.
He was married to Grace Black in 1775. Children, all born in Oakham: Alice, June 9, 1775; John, Jr., June 23, 1777; Lucretia, March 27, 1779; Molly, October 27, 1780; Sarah,
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October 24, 1782; James, January 22, 1785; Walter, December 20, 1786; Elias, November 19, 1788; Melina, April 23, 1793; Melissa, May 1, 1795; Walter, April 27, 1798.
John Butler hired a private tutor to teach his children in his own house. His daughter Alice became a woman of much intelligence and culture. She was married to Jonas Munroe, in August, 1801. Their son James, born in Oakham, January 25, 1818, was graduated from Yale College in 1845. He taught as Principal of schools in Georgia, in eastern Massachusetts, and in Rockville, Cal., where he died March 19, 1861.
John Butler died October 9, 1813. His widow, Grace, died January 12, 1818. The old Butler house was on the east side of the East Hill road, near where Edmund Dean afterward lived.
Oakham T. R., i, 189, 214. M. S. R., ii, 949 (7), 950 (7). Oakham V. R., 16, 63 [Butlar], 114. Record of the Class of 1845, Yale College (1881), 142-146. Recollections of Miss Amanda Crawford. Worc. Co. Prob. Records, Nov. 20, 1813. John Robinson's Notes.
George Caswell.
Was one of the minutemen in the Oakham company that marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. He has also credit on the town records for five months' service in New York in 1776. In October, 1775, he enlisted as a substitute for John Fisher, of New Braintree, in Capt. John Grainger's Co., Col. Learned's Regt., and was made Corporal. In March, 1780, he was detailed by Capt. Crawford to serve four months as guard at Rutland.
He came from New Braintree in October, 1770, and purchased in 1771, for £81, eighty-nine acres in Lot No. 31, near the middle of said Lot, south of Isaiah Butler and west of the Widow Furbush. In 1773 he sold thirty-two acres, the northerly part of this lot, to Nathaniel Weeks for £44, retaining what became a part of the Percival Hall farm.
March 28, 1771, he was married in New Braintree to Weltha Richmond. Children, born in Oakham: George, February 10, 1772; Hannah, March 25, 1775; Luceba, March 16, 1777; Weltha, February 28, 1779; Lucena, March 22, 1781.
George Caswell was living in Oakham in 1790.
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Oakham T. R., i, 168, 255. M. S. R., iii, 195 (6) [Castle], 196 (14) [Caswel]. Oakham V. R., 16 [Castle, Castwell], 17. New Braintree V. R., 73. U. S. Census (1790), Mass., 230. Worc. Co. Reg. of Deeds, 1xxxi, 25, xcv, 448.
Bowman Chaddock.
Born March 12, 1762, in Brookfield, son of Joseph and Sarah Chaddock.
He was mustered in, July 17, 1779, for a term of nine months in the Continental Army, in Capt. Wadsworth's Co., Col. Brad- ford's Regt., which served under General Benedict Arnold; age 17, stature 5 feet 6, complexion light, residence Oakham. In his application for a pension, dated August, 1832, he wrote: "In summer of 1780 sent to White Plains with detachment of 300. We were attacked by Soo infantry and 200 light horse, and two- fifths of the command were killed or taken prisoners."
September 5, 1782, he was married in New Braintree to Marcy, daughter of Ebenezer Nye, of Oakham. He was chosen Chorister at a church meeting in Oakham held December 18, 1782.
He removed to Eaton, Sherbroke Co., Province of Lower Canada, where he died August 10, 1832, a few days after the date of his application for pension.
Oakham T. R., i, 242. M. S. R., iii, 232 (6), 373 (9) [Chddock]. Oak- ham V. R., 63. Brookfield V. R., 58. Oakham Church Records, i, 6. Pension Application, Aug., 1832.
Joseph Chaddock.
Marched with a detachment from the Oakham company on the Rhode Island alarm, July 23, 1777.
He came to Oakham from Brookfield in 1777, and purchased on May 8 of that year the whole of Lot T, with the buildings, at the Reed Corner, on the spot where the Mullett house now stands. Here he kept an inn from 1777 to 1796. This house was destroyed by fire on the evening of December II, 1798, and the one erected by Mr. Chaddock in its place was also burned, April II, 1874.
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