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Dea. John Smith died in Andover, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 25, ISS6, at the great age of eighty-nine years and nine months. But few men of his generation have grappled as earnestly with the great problems of the last half century. The story of his career is of great interest, and should be a source of inspiration to all men.
REV. SAMUEL JONES SPALDING, D. D.
SAMUEL JONES SPALDING, son of Abijah and Hannah (Eastman) Spald- ing, was born Dec. 11, 1820, in Lyndeborough, N. H. He graduated in IS42 from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., and in IS45 from the Theo- logical Seminary in Andover, Mass. He was ordained, Oct. 2S. 1846, pastor in Salmon Falls, N. H. He resigned June 9, IS51, and was installed June 30, 1851, over the Whitfield Congregational Church in Newburyport, Mass .. where he was pastor more than thirty years. He was Chaplain of the 48th Massachusetts Regiment, entered service Dec. 29, 1862, mustered out Aug. 30, 1863. Previous to his graduation from college he taught the public and also a select school in Medway Village, and June 27, IS4S, he was married to Sarah Lydia Metcalf, of Medway, youngest daughter of Hon. Luther and
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Sarah Brown (Phipps) Metcalf. She died Sept. 1, 1849. in Salmon Falls, N. H. The Rev. Mr. Spalding married, Sept. 16, 1851, Sarah Jane Parker Toppan, daughter of the Hon. Edmund and Mary (Chase) Toppan, of Hampton, N. H. The children were : Mary Toppan, born December, I856 ; Annie Toppan, born March 23, IS60 : Edmund Samuel, born Jan. 5, 1865. Vid. The Spalding Memorial.
CEPHAS THAYER, ESQ.
CEPHAS THAYER, son of Calvin and Abigail Thayer, was born Feb. 16. 1789, in Bellingham, Mass. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed in the trade of cabinet making, to Maj. Luther Metcalf, of Medway. In IS13, he joined with Luther Metcalf, Jr., and Joel Hunt, in establishing the manu- facture of machinery for cotton and woolen goods, at the Charles River water privilege in West Medway. Fourteen years later, Mr. Thayer bought the land surrounding the Chicken Brook privileges, and there, in IS40, with his son, Mr. Addison P. Thayer, built the machine shop which still goes by the name of " the stone mill." He served for a short time as a volunteer in the War of IS12, but always declined public office. As a citizen he was unob- trusive and thoroughly respected. He died April 16, ISS2, in West Medway.
ADDISON PARSONS THAYER, ESQ.
ADDISON PARSONS THAYER, son of Cephas and Lavinia (Adams) Thayer, was born May 31, 1814, in Medway, Mass. While a young man, he found employment for several years in Boston and New York. In IS51 he trav- eled in Europe, and, not long after, spent two years in Iowa and other west- ern states. For the greater part of the time since IS40, he has been engaged in this town in the manufacture of thread, of machinery for straw goods, and of raw-hide mallets. He was appointed, in 1866, a Justice of the Peace.
ADDISON SANFORD THAYER, A. M.
ADDISON SANFORD THAYER, son of Addison Parsons and Lydia San- ford (Partridge) Thayer, was born Aug. 5, 1858. He graduated, in 1877, from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in ISSI, from Harvard Col- lege. Mr. Thayer was for two years a teacher in the High School in Port- land, Me., and then devoted himself to the study of medicine.
GEORGE BREED THRASHER, ESQ.
GEORGE BREED THRASHER. son of Elkanah and Lydia (Codding) Thrasher, was born Jan. 26, 1816, in Taunton Mass. He was the youngest of seven children, and commenced working out for wages in a brick yard, when nine years of age. At first, all his wages, except enough to clothe himself scantily, went for the support of the family. He came to Medway at the age of eighteen years, to take charge of the brick yard of Capt. Simon H. Mason. on the farm now owned by Patrick Crowley. He lived with Captain Mason for ten years. and then went to Dedham, where he carried on a farm one season, and held for a year the position of a turnkey in the county jail. He then returned to Medway, and commenced the manufacture of bricks on his own account, on the farm of Mr. Elisha Adams, which is now owned by C. K. Brackett, Esq.
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After some two years he purchased five acres of land of Mr. Jonathan Adams, and in IS4S, erected a house which was subsequently his home. Mr. Thrasher married, Oct. 13, 1847, Laura F. Ward, of Oxford, Mass. Mr. Thrasher was an industrious and thrifty business man, whose judgment was much sought and valued. He was genial, and always had a word of good cheer. In ISS2 he was persuaded to accept the office of selectman, and ful- filled its duties with great acceptance. He was taken suddenly ill, and on town-meeting day, Monday, March 5, ISS3, he died. On the very day of his death he was unanimously reelected selectman. Mrs. Thrasher and a son, Mr. George C. Thrasher, survive him.
REV. DAVID THURSTON.
DAVID THURSTON, son of Daniel and Deborah (Pond) Thurston, was born May 6, 1726, in Wrentham, afterwards Franklin, Mass. He graduated in 1751 from Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., and became the first pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Medway. After a ministry of seventeen years he resigned and removed to Oxford, Mass., where he settled upon a farm. Subsequently he removed to Auburn, N. Y., and afterwards to Sutton, Mass., where he died May 5, 1777, at the age of fifty years.
WILLIAM SMITH TILDEN, ESQ.
WILLIAM S TILDEN, son of Eleazar P. and Catherine (Smith) Tilden, was born April 4, 1830, in Medfield, Mass. Having completed his earlier . education, he prepared himself for a teacher of music. He commenced in 1854 to teach evening classes in singing, and continued this until 186S. Since then he has been a director of musical instruction in the public schools in Salem, Norton, West Roxbury, Mass., and in other places. He is now in charge of the musical instruction of the State Normal School in Framingham, Mass. Mr. Tilden has been for eight years a member of the school committee of Medfield, where he resides. In IS79 he represented the Ninth Norfolk District in the Legislature of Massachusetts. He has devoted much time and labor in collecting materials for The History of Medfield, soon to be published. Mr. Tilden married, Nov. 6, 1853, Olive N. Babcock, daughter of Lowell and Thankful B. (Sanger) Babcock, of East Medway.
ALDIS L. WAITE, ESQ.
ALDIS L. WAITE, son of Amos and Betsey (Stow) Waite, was born June 2, 1820, in Weston, Vt. In early manhood he engaged in business in Lowell, Mass. From IS44 for six years he was a grocer, and from IS50 to 1870 he was a wholesale produce dealer. He was married at the age of twenty-eight, and came to be widely known and much respected in the business, social, and religious circles in the young but enterprising city of Lowell where he resided. He was chosen a director in one of the city banks, and elected in 1861, a member of the Board of Aldermen ; reelected in 1862, with only three dissenting votes in the whole city, a rare honor. He was a valued member of the Kirk Street Church. Mr. Waite was a nephew of Mrs. Abigail (Stow) Abbe, widow of Amos Abbe, Esq., of Rockville, and in IS78 removed to
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ALDIS L. WAITE, ESQ.
Medway to care for his aged aunt, who survived but a few years. Upon her death he came into possession of a dwelling-house beautifully located on the
THE RESIDENCE OF ALDIS L. WAITE, ESQ.
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bend of the Charles River. Mr. and Mrs. Waite with her mother, Mrs. Gilman, have continued to reside in Medway. Although Mr. Waite's busi- ness is largely in Boston, he has taken much interest in the local affairs of his adopted place of residence, and after its incorporation became an active citizen of Millis.
REV. HORACE DEAN WALKER.
HORACE DEAN WALKER, son of Dean and Rebecca (Wright) Walker, was born Sept. 15, 1815, in Framingham, Mass. He was in the seventh generation from Dea. Philip Walker, who, with his brother James and their mother, came from England about 1632, and settled in Rehoboth, Mass. Mr. Walker pursued his preparatory studies in Wrentham and Leicester academies, and graduated in 1841 from Yale College, New Haven, Conn.
In the fall of that year he taught in East Medway for three months then studied theology with Dr. Ide and graduated in IS43 from the Bangor Theo- logical Seminary. He soon settled in the ministry in East Abington, Mass .. where he continued for nearly twenty-five years. He accepted, in IS68, a call to Bridgewater, where he had a prosperous pastorate of twelve years. After closing his labors in Bridgewater, because of failing health, he pur- chased a residence in Palatine Bridge, N. Y., which was his home at the time of his sudden death, Nov. 4, ISS5. The Rev. Mr. Walker fulfilled a vigor- ous and useful ministry, extending over a period of forty years. He was an interesting preacher, an excellent pastor, a warm friend of the poor and unfortunate, and has been characterized as "a man of broad culture, and literary attainments." On Saturday, Oct. 31, 1SS5, Mr. Walker met with a fall and received injuries which resulted fatally the following Wednesday. The funeral services occurred Nov. 6, ISS5, in Rockland, Mass. Tender commemorative addresses were made by the Rev. Messrs. J. C. Labaree, R. K. Harlow, and F. R. Abbe, and the remains were deposited in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Abington, Mass.
REV. AUGUSTUS WALKER.
AUGUSTUS WALKER, son of Dean and Rebecca (Wright) Walker, was born Oct. 30, IS22, in Medway. He graduated from Yale in IS49, and from the Theological Seminary, at Andover, in IS52, was ordained Oct. 16, IS52, and on the same day married Eliza M. Harding, of Auburndale, and soon after sailed as a missionary of the American Board, to Diarbeker, in Syria, where the remaining years of his life were chiefly spent. He was a devoted and earnest man, giving himself wholly to his work, and his death, which oc- curred Sept. 13, 1866, was felt to be a public loss both to his own people and the residents of the city where so much of his life was passed. His wife and children, after his death, returned, in the spring of 1867, to this country, and have resided in Auburndale, where she has established a successful school for the training of missionary children sent to this country for their education.
REV. GEORGE FREDERIC WALKER.
GEORGE FREDERIC WALKER. son of Dea. Timothy and Louisa (Turner) Walker, was born May 31, IS25. He fitted for college in the academy in
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Leicester, Mass., and graduated, in 1849, from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. After graduation, he founded and became the Principal of the Mount Hollis Seminary, in Holliston, Mass. From IS55 to I858 he was. an assistant teacher in the Riverside Institute, Auburndale, Mass. Having studied theology under the instruction of the Rev. J. T. Tucker, D. D., of Holliston, he was licensed to preach, in 1863, by the Mendon Association. He was ordained and installed, July 3, 1863, as pastor of the Congregational Church, in Wellfleet, Mass. He resigned, was installed, and settled from June 30, 1867, to Aug. 1, 1872, in Little Compton, R. I., and from March 9, 1873, to Nov. 7, 1875, in Ashby, Mass. Subsequently he was acting pastor from April 9, 1876, to June 30, ISSo, in Blackstone, and from Oct. 30, 18So, to the present time, in Freetown, Mass. The Rev. Mr. Walker married, Jan. 1, 1852, Esther Amelia Bullard, of Holliston, Mass. Mrs. Walker died Nov. 7, 1861, and Mr. Walker subsequently married Mary A. K. Atwood, of Wellfleet, Mass.
WILLIAM GOODRICH WARE, M. D.
WILLIAM G. WARE, son of Josiah H. and Huldah G. (Hale) Ware, was born Feb. 1, 1832, in East Medway, now Millis, Mass. His father was. a church organ builder, son of Dea. Joseph Ware, of North Wrentham, now Norfolk, Mass. Dr. Ware was educated in the public schools and in 1849 entered Leicester Academy. In IS51 he began to turn his attention to the study of medicine, but not having the pecuniary means necessary, he resolved to devote himself to the organ business until he could command the funds to complete his medical education. He was married, Feb. 7, IS56, to Angeline E. Ellis, daughter of Henry and Jane Ellis, of Medway, who died a few weeks after, March 29, 1856, of consumption. He married, June 7, 1857, Mrs. Jane F. Daniels, widow of the late Francis P. Daniels, of Medway. In 1860 he commenced a more thorough study of medicine with C. Emory Morse, M. D., of Cambridgeport, Mass., and in the spring of 1866 graduated at the Western Homeophathic Medical College of Cleveland, O., and soon after was elected member of the Hahnemannian Society of Cleveland. The following May he located in Medfield. In the spring of 1867 he removed to East Boston ; but not liking the city and preferring a country residence, he removed, Nov. I, 1867, to East Dedham, Mass. In IS6S he was admitted to membership in the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, and in 1869 became a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He has been very suc- cessful in his profession and won the confidence of the community where he lives as a faithful disciple of Hahnemann, who established the Homeopathic law of cure : " Similia similibus curantur."
JOHN S. WHITE, PH. D.
JOHN S. WHITE, son of the Rev. John S. and Anna (Richardson) White, and grandson of Dea. Silas and Mary (Carlton) Richardson, of East Med- way, was born Feb. 3, 1847, in Wrentham, Mass. He graduated from the Chapman Grammar, English High, and Boston Latin schools, Boston, and was admitted June, 1866, to Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. He took a high stand in scholarship, and his senior year on occasion of the inaugura-
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tion of Prof. Charles W. Eliot as President of the college, he was selected by the faculty to deliver the Latin oration of welcome. Mr. White, on graduation, was elected Sub-Master of the Boston Latin School, and in a few months became Master by promotion. This position he filled for three years, when he resigned, in order to spend a year in Europe. Meanwhile he mar- ried, Feb. 28, 1871, Miss Georgie A. Read, of Boston, a graduate in IS70 of Mount Holyoke Seminary. While abroad Mr. White was a popular correspondent of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Upon his return he be- came, Sept. 30, IS74, Master of the Brooks School in Cleveland, O., which under his management had a wonderful development and popularity. Mr. White resigned. and in ISSo established the Berkley School in New York City, of which he is the Head Master. Dr. White has had a most successful career as a teacher, and won an eminence in preparing students for college.
As a memorial of his affection for his grandfather, Dea. Silas Richardson, the oldest resident of the town. Mr. White has presented a clock to the Church of Christ in Millis, which is to be in position on or before the ninety- fourth birthday of his venerable and honored grandfather.
DUNCAN WRIGHT, ESQ.
DUNCAN WRIGHT was born in the year 1770. in Delmarkly, Argyle- shire, Scotland. He married Janet Wilson, a sister of Alexander Wilson, . the celebrated ornithologist. They had three sons, Peter, Alexander, and John. He came to America in 1812, intending to locate in Philadelphia, but was taken prisoner by the privateer " Yankee," James De Wolfe. owner, and taken into Bristol harbor. His business being that of a bleacher, De Wolfe secured his services in an establishment of which he was the owner, as super- intendent of bleaching. He was the first person to establish chemical bleach- ing in America. In 1815 his wife and sons joined him in this country. He then located in Smithfield, R. I., where he remained two years. From there he went to Waltham, where he set up bleaching on his own account. After he had been there about three years, the Boston Manufacturing Company bought the site upon which his works were located. He then removed to Medway where he set up another bleachery near Charles River. living in the Amos Fisher house upon Paul's Hill. He resided here with his family five years. He afterwards had a bleachery in Milk Row, Boston. Then went to Fall River, and with his brother Daniel and two others, did the first calico printing in that city. He afterwards retired to a farm in Tewksbury, near Lowell, and died in IS37, at the age of sixty-seven years. His oldest son, Peter Wright, was employed in the Lowell Carpet Company factory until 1857, when he removed to Westminster. Mass., where he resided in ISS2 at the age of eighty-four years. The second son was the Hon. Alexander Wright. John Wright, the youngest son, died in 1874 at Jamaica Plain. Boston, Mass.
HON. ALEXANDER WRIGHT.
ALEXANDER WRIGHT, son of Duncan and Janet (Wilson) Wright, was born in the year ISoo, in Renfrewshire, Scotland. When a lad he attended school at Paisley, afterwards at a place near Glasgow, where he was considered the most prominent scholar, and always at the head of his class. When fifteen
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years of age he came to this country, his father, Duncan Wright, having come over some years earlier, and was employed as a bleacher at Smithfield, R. I. He worked with his father in Waltham and in Medway at bleaching until he was twenty-one years of age, when he commenced. on his own account the manufacture of coach lace at Medway Village where the family lived until he began with Burdett the manufacture of carpets in West Medway, on Win- throp Street near the Cutler place, on Chicken Brook. This was the first carpet factory in Massachusetts and the second in America, the first being in Philadelphia, Penn. In a published pamphlet by the " Old Residents His- torical Association" of Lowell, Mass., there is found mention of Mr. Wright in the following connection :
" In ISoo a Frenchman named Jacquard invented a machine attached to looms at first for weaving silks and muslins and was found of great value in the fabrication of figured goods. Soon after a Mr. Morton, a Scotchman, applied it to a carpet loom and found it a great success. In the course of a few years small mills were started for the manufacture of carpets in the United States. One was located in Medway,-first owned by a Mr. Henry Burdett and Mr. Alexander Wright, who was the real manager.
" In 1825, Mr. Wright attempted to gain information by visiting a small mill in Philadelphia. Failing in this, he went to Scotland and purchased looms, returning in 1826, with Glaude and William Wilson, whom he em- ployed to aid in operating.
" Narrowly escaping shipwreck as nearing the American shores, he soon began to operate his looms, in Medway, with success. He found the 'loca- tion not favorable to enlargement, and sold his interest to Mr. Burdett, who soon sold to Frederic Cabot and Patrick T. Jackson, of Boston, who organ- ized the Lowell Manufacturing Company, Feb. 22, 182S. Cabot & Jackson sold the mill and machinery, in Medway, to the new company, which consti- tuted the foundation of the great and world renowned carpet works in Lowell, Mass. Prior to the removal, Mr. Wright operated the machinery in Medway."
Peter Lawson was his designer, who afterward continued the same rela- tion to the new company, and he and Mr. Wright became very prominent in business and public life in later years, in the city of Lowell.
The country probably owes as much to Mr. Wright's skill and persever- ance in perfecting the industry of carpet manufacturing, as to any other man.
The following is a duplicate bill of sale of a Medway carpet and rug :
" MEDWAY, Jan. 15, IS28. Bot of MEDWAY CARPET MANUF. CO.
" Miss SARAH B. PHIPPS
25 yds. Superfine Carpeting, c. 7-6 per yd., $31 25
I Rug,
. 7 50 . .
$38 75
" Received Payment, "ALEX" WRIGHT, Agt."
The Hon. Alexander Wright died in Lowell. on the 7th of June, IS52, suddenly, and was interred at Mount Auburn. He was eminently social and intelligent, public spirited, naturally modest ; was elected Alderman in 1836, to the Legislature in IS38, and though often urged, positively declined to accept the office of the mayor of the city.
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REV. LUTHER WRIGHT.
LUTHER WRIGHT was born in 1770 in Acton, Mass. He graduated in 1796 from Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. In November. 1796, he united with the First Church of Cambridge, of which the Rev. Abiel Holmes was the pastor. Mr. Wright studied for the ministry and was settled in 179S pastor of the First Church of Christ in Medway. He married. December 23, Nancy Bridge, daughter of the Rev. Josiah Bridge, of East Sudbury, Mass. His pastorate continued until IS15. when he resigned. He was installed, Jan. 29, IS17, over the Congregational Church in Barrington. R. I., where he labored some four years and was dismissed in IS21. Subsequently he supplied vacant pulpits in various places. He was the stated minister from IS25 to IS2S in Tiverton, R. I. The last twenty-five or thirty years of his life were spent in Woburn, Mass., where he died June 21, IS5S. Mrs. Wright died Feb. 23, IS61. The Rev. and Mrs. Wright had no children. They were interred side by side in the cemetery in Woburn, Mass.
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MEDWAY GENEALOGIES.
THE ADAMS FAMILY.
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS erected a monument in the Old Burying-Ground in Quincy Mass., to the memory of his ancestor, Henry Adams, which bears this inscription :
" IN,MEMORY OF HENRY ADAMS, who took his flight from the dragon, persecution, in Devonshire, and alighted, with eight sons, near Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England : and, after taking time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield, one of the neighboring towns; two to Chelmsford, one only, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand, remained here, who was the original proprietor of the Town- ship of Braintree, incorporated in 1639."
HENRY ADAMS, immigrant, with his eight sons, or, as some accounts have it, nine sons and a daughter, arrived. in 1632, in America. He settled in that part of Brain- tree which became Quincy, Mass. Four of his sons, Henry, Peter, Edward and Jona- than, were among the proprietors and the earliest settlers of Medfield, Mass. They drew land dividends on the west side of the Charles River. Their children and de- scendants were among the first, and have been numerous among the inhabitants of Medway. Vid. The Adams Genealogy, The Morse Genealogical Register, and The New England Genealogical Register, April, ISS3.
[1] HENRY] ADAMS came, in 1632, from Devonshire, England, and settled in that part of Massachusetts Bay Colony which became Quincy, Mass. He died in 1646.
The children were: HENRY [2], b. 1604. SAMUEL, res. in Chelmsford, Mass., d. 1666. JOSEPH, m. Abigail Baxter, res. in Braintree, Mass. THOMAS, res. in Chelms- ford, Mass. PETER [3]. EDWARD [+]. JONATHAN [5]. JOHN. CHRISTOPHER, re- turned to England. URSULA.
[2] HENRY? ADAMS (HENRY1), son of Henry [1] Adams, was born. in 1604. in England. He married, Oct. 17. 1543, Elizabeth Paine. They resided in Braintree, but removed, in 1649, to Medfield, Mass. Mr. Adams died Feb. 21. 1676, being massacred at his own door, by the Indians. Mrs. Adams died Feb. 29. 16;6, from the effects of being shot by the accidental discharge of a gun, the bullet passing up through the ceil- ing, and producing a fatal wound, as she lay ill upon her bed. in the chamber overhead.
The children were : ELEAZAR, b. Aug. 5. 1644. m. Elizabeth -, res. in Medfield, Mass., d. April 14, 1701. JASPER, b. April 23, 1647, unm., d. July 1, 1742. ELIZABETH,
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b. Nov. 11, 1649, m. Dec 16, 1668, Dea. John Harding, vid. JOHN, b. July 14, 1652, m. Michal -, d. April 11. 172S. HENRY, b. July 14, 1652, d. July 10, 1653. MOSES, b. Oct. 26, 1654, m. Lydia Whitney, res. in Holliston, Mass., d. 1724 HENRY [6], b. Nov. 15, 1657. SAMUEL. b. Nov. 2. 1661, m. Mary -, res. in Medfield, Mass.
Memoranda. Henry2 Adams was a Lieutenant of the training band, Clerk of Writs, and Representative in 1659. 1665, 1674, and 1675, to the General Court. Jasper2 Adams lived a bachelor to great age; his heirs were Sarah Rockwood, George Adams, Jona- than, James, and Stephen Partridge.
[3] PETER' ADAMS (HENRY1), son of Henry [1] Adams, was born in England. He married and settled in Medfield, Mass. Mr. Adams died about 1690.
The children were : PETER [7], b. 1653. HANNAH, b. 1655. MARY, b. 1661. JONATHAN, b. 1663. RUTH, b. 1665. JOSEPH, b. 1668, res. in Canterbury, Conn. SAMUEL, res. in Medfield, Mass. HENRY, b. 1673.
Memoranda. Peter? Adams drew land dividend in the New Grant, which was after- wards owned by Joseph Curtis. Samuel3 Adams was a physician.
[4] EDWARD2 ADAMS (HENRY1), son of Henry [1] Adams, was born in Eng- land. He married Lydia -. They resided in Medfield, Mass.
The children were : LYDIA, b. 1653, m. 1James Allen; m. 2Joseph Daniell, vid .; d. Dec. 26, 1731. JONATHAN, b. 1655. JOHN [8], b. 1657. ELIZABETH, b. 165S. SARAH, b. 1660. JAMES, b. 1661, res. in Barrington, R. I. HENRY, res. in Canterbury, Conn. ELISHA, b. 1666, res. in Bristol, R. I. EDWARD, b. 1668, res. in Bristol, R. I. ELIASHIB, res. in Bristol, R. I. BETHIA, b. 1671, d. BETHIA, b. 1672. ABIGAIL, b. 1674. MIRIAM, b. 1675.
Memoranda. Edward? Adams drew a land dividend in the New Grant, which was afterward occupied by his son, John3 Adams.
[5] JONATHAN2 ADAMS (HENRY1), son of Henry [1] Adams, was born in Eng- land. He married Elizabeth Fussell, daughter of John and Elizabeth Fussell. They resided in Medfield. now Millis, Mass. Mr. Adams died in 1692.
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