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REPRESENTATIVES.
It seems that no representative was sent to the General Court until the " Old Government" was resumed after the downfall of Sir Edmund Andros in the spring of 1689. The first session con- vened May 8 of that. year. Until 1693, four sessions were held annually ; after this time an annual session convened in May, each year. The quarterly sessions commencing Oct. 24, 1689, May 28, 1690, April 14 and May 20, 1691, March 8 and May 4, 1692, were convened without a Boxford representative. Of the annual sessions, Boxford was not represented in the years 1693, '94, '96, '97, 1701, '05, '06, '08, '33, 1739-60 (why for so long a period we have never learned), '82, 1789-91, 1818, '22, '24, '25, '26, '29, '30, '37, '42, '44, '45, '48, 1851-56. In 1858 the State was divided into representative districts, from two to four, or more, towns constituting a district, and one representative being annually elected in each district ; the towns furnishing the repre- sentatives in turn. The fifteenth district is composed of Box- ford, Ipswich, and Rowley. Boxford is in the sixth Congressional district of Massachusetts. The following is a list of representatives from Boxford, viz. : --
I. JOHN PEABODY (1642-1720) ; b. in Topsfield; son of Lieut. Francis and Mary (Foster) Peabody. Was representative for the quarterly sessions commencing May 8, 1689, Oct. 8 and Dec. 10, 1690, Oct. 14 and December, 1691, and (with Thomas Perley) June 8, 1692 ; and of the annual sessions, 1695, '98, '99, (with Thomas Perley) 1700, and 1710-13.
2. JOHN PERLEY (1636-1729) ; b. in Ipswich ; son of Allan and Susanna (Bokeson) Perley. Was representative for the quarterly sessions commencing Feb. 12, 1690, and Feb. 3, 1691.
3. THOMAS PERLEY (1641-1709) ; b. in Ipswich; brother to the preceding. Was representative (with John Peabody) for the quarterly session commencing June 8, 1692.
4. THOMAS PERLEY (1668-1745); b. in Rowley; son of Thomas (the above) and Lydia (Peabody) Perley. Was repre- sentative, (with John Peabody) 1700, '02, (with William Foster) 1703, '07,' 09, '18, and '19.
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5. THOMAS PERLEY (1668-1740) ; b. in Ipswich ; son of John (above) and Mary (Howlet) Perley. Was representative, (with Stephen Peabody) 1727.
6. WILLIAM FOSTER (1670-1755) ; b. in Boxford; son of William and Mary (Jackson) Foster. Was representative, (with Lieut. Thomas Perley) 1703.
7. SAMUEL SYMONDS (1638-1722) ; was representative, 1704.
8. JOSEPH HALE (1671-1761) ; b. in Newbury ; son of Thomas and Mary (Hutchinson) Hale. Was representative, 1714-17, 1720-25, 1728-32, and 1735.
9. STEPHEN PEABODY (1685-1759) ; b. in Boxford; son of William and Hannah (Hale) Peabody. Was representative, 1726, (with Lieut. Thomas Perley) 1727.
10. JOHN SYMONDS (1674-17-) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Samuel (above) and Elizabeth (Andrews) Symonds. Was representative, 1734, 1736-38.
II. AARON WOOD (1719-1791) ; b. in Boxford ; son of John and Ruth (Peabody) Wood. Was representative, 1761-70, '73, '74, 1776-79.
12. ASA PERLEY (1716-1806) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Thomas and Sarah (Osgood) Perley. Was representative, 1771, '72, (member of the Provincial Congress) '75, 1780-81.
13. ISAAC ADAMS (1713-1797) ; b. in Rowley ; son of Isaac and Hannah (Spofford) Adams. Was representative, 1783-86, '88.
14. NATHAN ANDREWS (1726-1806) ; b. in Boxford; son of Robert and Deborah (Frye) Andrews. Was representative, 1787.
15. THOMAS PERLEY (1746-1831) ; b. in Boxford; son of Thomas and Eunice (Putnam) Perley. Was representative, 1792-1810, - nineteen years in all.
16. PARKER SPOFFORD (1755-1837); b. in Boxford; son of Samuel and Mary (Poor) Spofford. Was representative, 1811-14.
17. ISRAEL FOSTER (1765-18-); b. in Boxford; son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Dorman) Foster. Was representative, 1815-17.
18. MOSES DORMAN (1765-1850) ; b. in Boxford ; son of John and Hannah (Jackson) Dorman. Was representative, 1819-21.
19. SOLOMON LOWE (1782-1861); b. in Boxford ; son of
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Nathan and Lucy (Lord) Lowe. Was representative, 1823, '27, '28, and '41.
20. CHARLES PEABODY. Was representative, 1831-34.
2I. MOSES DORMAN (1803-1877) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Moses (above) and Huldah (Gould) Dorman. Was . representative, 1835-36.
22. JOSIAH KIMBALL (1803-1878) ; b. in Boxford ; son of David Kimball. Was representative, 1838.
23. MOSES KIMBALL (1798-1879) ; b. in Boxford ; son of John and Ruth (Eastman) Kimball. Was representative, 1839-40.
24. BENJAMIN PEABODY (1789-1879) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Pearl) Peabody. Was representative, 1843.
25. WILLIAM LOWE (1807-1870) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Gen. Solomon (above) and Huldah (Kimball) Lowe. Was repre- sentative, 1846-47.
26. ENOCH Wood (1797) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Jonathan and Abigail (Hale) Wood. Was representative, 1849, '50, and '58.
27. GEORGE PEARL (1798-1878) ; b. in Boxford ; son of John and Mehitable (Hall) Pearl. Was representative, 1857,-the last under the old system.
28. JOHN KIMBALL COLE (1814) ; b. in Boxford ; son of Kim- ball and Abigail (Runnells) Cole. Chosen representative, 1861.
29. JEFFERSON KIMBALL (1808-1879) ; b. in North Andover ; son of Thomas Kimball. Chosen representative, 1864.
30. ROSCOE W. GAGE (1839-1869) ; b. in Pelham, N.H .; son of Abel and Anna Gage. Chosen representative, 1868.
31. CHARLES PERLEY ; b. in Dunbarton, N.H. ; son of Benjamin and Ruth (Mills) Perley. Chosen representative, 1873.
32. WILLIAM SYMMES COGGIN (1812) ; b. in Tewksbury, Mass. ; son of Rev. Jacob and Mary (Symmes) Coggin. Chosen repre- sentative, 1878.
APPENDIX D.
MORTALITY, ETC.
Boxford has always been noted, on account of its rural advan- tages, temperance, and simple manner of living, as one of the most healthful places that can be found anywhere in our northern latitude. It has been a current remark, and one that is exceed- ingly full of meaning, that Boxford is without a doctor. The reason of this is, there is little for a doctor to do. Dr. George Moody, who was settled here for a few months, said : "I might as well practise in heaven." The inhabitants live generally to extreme old age. The prevalence of fatal diseases is almost unknown. Small-pox was first known in 1722 ; and it prevailed to a slight extent in 1760, and resulted in the deaths of Lydia, wife of Dr. Foster, Jan. 17, and Richard, son of Richard Pearl, Dec. 7, both of the West Parish. In a letter dated Aug. 26, 1776, Eunice, wife of John Pearl, says, "The small-pox has been at Richard Tyler's for several weeks past; those who have had it are likely to get well." Again, in 1854, we were visited by this dire disease ; this time resulting, Dec. 17, in the death of James Leach, a native of Taungend, Eng., and a laborer in the cotton- factory. In order to prevent the prevalence of this disease, Cor- nelius Gould, Stephen Peabody, and Israel Adams were appointed a committee April 15, 1811, to superintend inoculation.
Deaths by casualty have been very few, most of them being occasioned by drowning. Samuel Sessions, an old man of seventy years of age, was drowned Dec. 6, 1750, "in the brook near the house of John Chadwick." Amos, son of Samuel Spofford, was drowned in Hovey's Pond July 1, 1814, aged seven years. Wil- liam Runnells and Isaac Peabody were lost at sea about October, 1818. Mark Genness of the West Parish was drowned Jan. 15,
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1833, aged twenty-nine years. Within the last quarter of a century, several cases of drowning have occurred among our young men, - Samuel K. Coggin, Frank F. Russell, and others. Mr. John Fos- ter, jun., was killed by lightning, July 24, 1772. A few cases of suicide have occurred, most of them by hanging, among which are those of Moses Wood, Joseph Adams, Mrs. Tyler, Edward G. Batchelder, Edward Hussey, and Dudley Cummings.
The following is a list of those persons that have died in Box- ford at an age exceeding ninety years : -
I. JOHN PERLEY, widower ; d. 15 Dec., 1729, a. ninety-three years ; b. in Ipswich, Mass., 1636; son of Allan and Susanna (Bokeson) Perley ; buried in Boxford.
2. MARY DURIN, widow; d. 14 Feb., 1749, " between ninety and a hundred years old, as is supposed."
3. SUSANNA HOVEY, widow; d. 22 Dec., 1767, a. ninety years, ten months, twenty-one days; b. I Feb., 1677; dau. of Moses Pillsbury ; widow of Luke Hovey of Boxford. (See No. 8.)
4. HANNAH ADAMS, married ; d. 3 Sept., 1775, a. ninety-three years.
5. SUSANNA COLE, widow ; d. 29 July, 1785, a. ninety-five years ; widow of Samuel Cole of Boxford.
6. HANNAH KIMBALL, widow ; d. 16 April, 1786, a. ninety-nine years.
7. MARY SMITH, married; d. 23 May, 1792, a. ninety-two years. "Sarah Smith, widow; d. 9 July, 1792, a. ninety-three years." . Is this the same ?
8. DORCAS FOSTER, widow ; d. - Aug., 1793, a. ninety-two years, three months ; b. in Boxford, 10 May, 1701 ; dau. of Luke and Susanna (Pillsbury) [No. 3] Hovey ; widow of John Foster.
9. RICHARD PEARL, widower ; d. 20 Dec., 1793, a. ninety-one years, seven months ; b. in Bradford, 20 May, 1702 ; son of John and Elizabeth (Holmes) Pearl.
IO. THOMAS PERLEY, widower ; d. 28 Sept., 1795, a. ninety years, seven months, six days; b. in Boxford, 22 Feb., 1704-05 ; son of Thomas and Sarah (Osgood) Perley of Boxford ; buried in Boxford.
II. MARY CHADWICK, widow; d. 4 Oct., 1798, a. ninety-three years.
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12. PRUDENCE TYLER, d. 23 July, 1804, a. one hundred years.
13. MOSES PORTER, widower ; d. 3 Nov., 1811, a. ninety-one years, eleven months, fifteen days ; b. in Boxford, 18 Nov., 1719 ; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Tyler) Porter of Boxford.
14. MOLLY SMITH, " Mrs .; " d. - Oct., 1814, a. ninety years.
15. - BARKER, widow; d. 21 Dec., 1814, a. ninety years ; widow of John Barker of Andover.
16. MARY PORTER, widow ; d. I Jan., 1818, a. ninety-six years.
17. REBECCA YOUNG, married ; d. I June, 1819, a. ninety-four years. She was of Wellfleet when she died ; buried in Boxford.
18. ASA PARKER ; d. 29 May, 1820, a. ninety years.
19. - CHADWICK, widow ; d. 8 Nov., 1824, a. ninety-eight years ; widow of Ephraim Chadwick.
20. MARGARET WOOD, widow ; d. 10 Feb., 1830, a. one hun- dred and one years, ten months ; b. in Topsfield, 29 April, 1728 ; dau. of - Perkins ; widow of Thomas Wood of Boxford. (See No. 29.)
2I. JANE ANDREWS, widow ; d. 24 Feb., 1837, a. ninety years, seven months, twenty-four days; b. in Topsfield, 30 July, 1746 ; dau. of Simon and Jane (Palmer) Gould; widow of Jacob Andrews of Boxford.
22. LYDIA SPOFFORD, widow; d. 6 Sept., 1839, a. ninety-five years ; b. in Waltham, 18 Jan., 1745 ; dau. of Phineas and Grace (Hastings) Warren of Waltham ; widow of Benjamin Spofford of Boxford ; buried in Boxford.
23. BRADSTREET TYLER, widower ; d. 5 April, 1842, a. ninety- six years, seven months, eight days; b. in Boxford, 27 Aug., I745 ; son of Job and Elizabeth (Parker) Tyler. (See No. 37.)
24. SAMUEL CARLETON, widower ; d. 18 March, 1843, a. ninety- two years, six months, one day; b. in Boxford, 17 Sept., 1750; son of Samuel and Rebecca (Goodridge) Carleton of Boxford.
25. MARY DOLE, widow ; d. 26 Feb., 1844, a. ninety-two years.
26. MARY WOOD, widow; d. 21 Nov., 1844, a. ninety-two years.
27. - BARKER, widow; d. 30 April, 1845, a. ninety-one years ; widow of John Barker.
28. MARY SMITH, widow; d. 21 Nov., 1846, a. ninety-four years.
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29. MEHITABLE PERLEY, widow ; d. 15 March, 1853, a. ninety- one years, three months, nineteen days; b. in Boxford, 26 Nov., 1761 ; dau. of Thomas and Margaret (Perkins) [No. 20] Wood ; widow of Aaron Perley ; buried in Boxford.
30. JOHN CHAPMAN, unmarried ; d. 9 March, 1861, a. ninety- one years, seven months, nine days; b. in Boxford, I Aug., 1769 ; son of Daniel and Hepzibah Chapman of Boxford ; buried in Boxford.
31. EUNICE WILDES, widow ; d. 19 Sept., 1864, a. ninety-four years, eight months, twenty-four days; b. in Ipswich, 25 Dec., 1769 ; dau. of Lot and Eunice Conant of Ipswich, Mass .; widow of Dudley Wildes ; d. of dysentery ; buried in Topsfield.
32. HANNAH HOLYOKE, unmarried ; d. 5 Dec., 1865, a. ninety- one years, one month, nineteen days; b. in Boxford, 16 Oct., 1774; dau. of Rev. Elizur and Hannah (Peabody) Holyoke ; buried in Boxford.
33. WILLIAM TYLER, widower ; d. " of old age and fever," 25 Aug., 1867, a. ninety-two years, ten months, fifteen days; b. in Boxford, 10 Oct., 1774 ; son of Abraham and Abigail (Stickney) Tyler of Boxford ; buried in Boxford.
34. JOHN DAY, widower ; d. "of old age," 3 Aug., 1868, a. ninety-one years, seven months, twenty-three days; b. in Brad- ford, 10 Dec., 1776 ; son of John and Elizabeth (Ingersol) Day ; buried in Boxford.
35. MARY BATCHELDER, widow; d. of old age, 22 June, 1871, a. ninety-one years, nine months, twenty-two days; b. in Tops- field, 31 Aug., 1779; dau. of Joseph and Annie Cummings ; widow of Jacob Batchelder ; buried in Boxford.
36. MARY GOWEN, widow ; d. 6 Feb., 1872, a. ninety-two years, three months ; b. in " Boxford ;" dau. of Bimsley Peabody ; buried in Boxford.
37. JOHN TYLER, unmarried ; d. 12 Nov., 1872, a. ninety-one years, seven months ; b. in Boxford ; son of Bradstreet [No. 23] and Mary (Foster) Tyler ; buried in Boxford.
38. SALLY CLEMMENT, widow; d. of apoplexy, 2 Dec., 1877, a. ninety years, three months, eight days; b. in Boxford, 24 Aug., 1787 ; dau. of Simeon and Polly (Smith) Cole of Boxford ; widow of Samuel W. Clemment ; buried in Boxford.
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39. MEHITABLE BLANCHARD, widow ; d. 3 Feb., 1878, a. ninety- two years, nine months, twenty-eight days ; b. in Boxford, 5 April, 1785 ; dau. of Daniel and Sarah (Bradstreet) Gould ; widow of Rev. Abijah Blanchard ; buried in Boxford.
40. HANNAH FRIEND, unmarried ; d. 25 March, 1878, a. ninety- three years, five months, five days ; b. in Dracut, 20 Oct. 1784 ; dau. of John and Hannah (Wells) Friend of Wenham ; buried in Wenham.
41. NANCY R. FOWLER, widow; d. 15 June, 1878, a. ninety years, eleven months, fifteen days ; dau. of Jonathan Kavitt.
APPENDIX E.
LIST OF COLLEGE GRADUATES FROM BOXFORD.
NAMES.
NATIVE PLACE.
WHERE GRADUATED.
WHEN.
Chandler Braman Adams . Charles Israel Adams
Boxford. 66
Union .*
Dartmouth.
George W. Atherton .
Newburyport.
Amherst. Harvard.
1770. 1761. 1827.
Peter Sydney Eaton .
66
Harvard.
IS18. 1822.
Moses Hale .
William Augustus Herrick
66
Dartmouth
1722. 1854. 1789:
Joseph Hovey
Rufus Porter Hovey .
66
David Jewett
Walter Henry Kimball
66
Amherst.
Augustus Peabody
Oliver Peabody
Boxford.
Samuel Peabody
Dartmouth.
1803.
Stephen Peabody .
Harvard.
1769.
Daniel Perley
66
1828.
Humphrey Clark Perley
.€
1791. 1822.
Asa Porter
66
Harvard.
1762.
John Rogers
66
Dartmouth. Harvard.
1733.
Dean Tyler .
66
Harvard. Dartmouth.
1776.
Jacob Wood
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* Schenectady, N.Y.
1855- 1852. 1863.
Benjamin Chadwick .
Boxford. 66
John Cushing
John Hubbard Eaton
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Theo. Sem., Andover. Harvard.
Samuel Holyoke
Harvard.
ISO4. 1813. 1776. 1841. 1859. 1803. 1809. 1721.
William Peabody .
Dartmouth. 66
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Ira Perley Nathaniel Perley
66
66
1791.
66
1732.
Francis Savage
James Scales
Stephen Symonds .
Dartmouth.
Albert Bradstreet Peabody
( Dartmouth.
Harvard (Laureate). Harvard.
§ Yale.
APPENDIX F.
NEW SETTLERS, 1700-1725.
AMMEY. - John m. Abigail Daland, 2 Feb., 1721-22, and had two children born here : Abigail, 1723, and Michael, 1726. She joined the church in 1728; and they probably went to Haverhill shortly after, as a John " Amey " was there in 1732.
ARCHER. - Benjamin came from Rowley, 1716. By his wife Anna, one child was born here, - Mehitable, 1717. He had other children : Sarah, Benjamin, and Josiah. Was in Boxford as late as 1 720.
BALCH. - Cornelius came to Boxford, 1713. By his wife Mary, had two children born here : Mary, 1715, and Cornelius, 1717. Cornelius, jun., m. Martha Robinson of Topsfield, 1739, and settled in Topsfield.
BRADFORD. - William, by wife Grace, had several children ; first one born in 1723. He was here as late as 1740.
BROWN. - Cornelius was surveyor in 1707, and a selectman in IZII. Wife, Susanna. His dau. Susanna was admitted to First Church, 1705. He lived in the West Parish, and belonged to the church in Bradford till the Second Church was formed in Boxford. His wife d. in 1734, at the age of seventy-four years. He was in Boxford in 1737. Aaron ; wife, Susanna, by whom he had ch .: Aaron, b. 1720; Daniel, 1722 ; and Abigail, 1724. He was taxed here, 1717 and 1718. He d. before 1731, when she m. William Lakeman of Ipswich. Caleb was deacon of the Second Church. Wife, Elizabeth. First child b. 1724. Ch. : Sarah, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, Caleb, Susanna, Clark, Hepzi- bah, David, and Maximilian. Removed to Harvard, spring of I743.
BURBANK. - Caleb, b. in Rowley, I May, 1671 ; son of Caleb
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and Martha (Smith) Burbank. Came to Boxford before 171I. His wife was Hannah, by whom he had ch. b. in Boxford : Timothy, Margaret, Asa, and David. He d. "very suddenly," I Feb., 1749-50, a. seventy-nine years. Ebenezer, brother of Caleb, b. in Rowley, 28 June, 1687. Was taxed here 1715, 1716. Calls himself of Boxford, 1717, when he confirms to Samuel Cole of Lynn the farm occupied by the late Manly H. Cole. Wife, Sarah. Carpenter by trade.
BUTMAN. - Matthew ; m., Ist, Faith Jewett, 1716, who d. the following March, a. twenty-two years. He m., 2d, Hannah Cummings, 1720, by whom he had : Hannah, b. 1721 ; Ebenezer, 1724; Elizabeth, 1730; Mary, 1734; and Asa. Was constable in 1736.
CHAPMAN. - William m. Ann Jenks, 1704. Dau. Elizabeth baptized, 1706. "William Chapman, jun.," admitted to First Church, 1704.
CLARK. - William. Weaver. Wife, Jean. Son John b. 14 Feb., 1712 ; d. 30 July, 1714. For several years Mr. Clark was a pauper, and he was boarded out with different families until the winter of 1742-43, when, living with Benjamin Porter, he was taken sick, and was treated by Dr. Foster ; he d. Feb. 8, 1742-43. CLEAVES. - William. Wife, Rebecca. Son William b. 2 April, 1712.
COLE. - Fohn of Lynn (ante of Malden), cooper by trade ; m. Sarah -, and had ch .: Samuel, b. 27 Dec., 1687, and Anna, 5 Aug., 1690. In 1717 Samuel came to Boxford with his father, and, for one hundred and ten pounds, purchased of Ebenezer Burbank the farm on which his posterity have resided until within a few years (the farm of the late Mr. Manly H. Cole, in the West Parish). This was the tract of sixty-seven acres laid out to Thomas Leaver in 1666 .* John Cole, the father, d. " very suddenly," 1737, a. sixty-eight years. Samuel d. 1765, and his widow Susanna, 1785, a. ninety-five years. Samuel's children were : Samuel, John, Rebecca, Susanna, and Mary. The last-mentioned Samuel (who was great-grandfather of Mr. D. M. Cole) had a family of fifteen children. John removed to Amherst, N. H., about
* See page 42.
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1763. Jonathan m. Judith Brown, 1724. Lived in Boxford in 1738, and removed to Harvard in 1746.
CUMMINGS. - Thomas was b. in Topsfield, 27 June, 1670, and was son of Isaac Cummings, who m. Mary, dau. of Robert Andrews of Boxford. He came to Boxford before his marriage. March 20, 1705, he m. Mehitable Porter of Salem. By her he had four children born, one of whom, Jacob, lived here, and had seven children, two of whom were Dudley and Thomas, -two queer characters, whose non compos mentis state is well known to . our older inhabitants. They lived with Mr. John Sawyer - father
of our present resident of that name - until their death. Thomas was b. 12 Oct., 1765, and d. 29 May, 1834, at the age of sixty- eight years. Dudley was b. 18 Feb., 1748, and hung himself in Willis' Woods, in the East Parish, at a locality known as "The College," June 25, 1815, a. sixty-seven years. His mode of self- execution was novel. He went to "The College," which lies a short distance from the house, to gather herbs, carrying with him a line with which to tie his bundle. Taking the line, he stretched it from one tree to another, several feet from the ground, near a large ledge whose perpendicular side rose up in close proximity to the trees. Letting his feet lie on the top of the ledge, he placed his neck upon the line, and there lay till death ensued.
DORMAN. - Ephraim, b. in Topsfield, 17 Sept., 1677 ; was son of Ephraim and Mary Dorman. He settled in Boxford, 1710; and died in 1724. By his wife Martha, six children were born here. Fabez, also from Topsfield, m., Ist, Hepzibah Perley, 1715 ; had a son, Jabez, b. 1716 ; and mother and son d. same year. He m., 2d, Abial Foster, 1716, and had another son, Jabez, b. 1717.
FISK. - Samuel was here, 1705. Wife, Sarah. Ch. : Hannah, b. 1707; Mary, 1710 ; Sarah, 1713 ; and Samuel, 1716. Was taxed here till 1718. Fohn was taxed here as early as 1711. Wife, Abigail. He d. before 1727, when she m. Thomas Holt of Andover.
FOSTER. - Benjamin came from Topsfield about 1720. Father of Dr. Foster. Born in Ipswich, 1670. Weaver. Wife, Ann. Removed to Billerica about 1729, and d. at Lunenburg, 1735. Had several children.
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FRAME. - Fohn m. Elizabeth Stiles, 1719, and had ch. : Marcy and Mary (twins), b. 1720; John, 1723 ; and Lydia, 1726.
GALLUP. - Thomas was taxed here, 1716. By wife Love, he had children born in Boxford : Abigail, 1720; William, 1722; George, 1726; Jeremiah, 1728; Sarah, 1733; and Mary, 1739. Warned out of town in 1729, but came back again, and lived here many years afterwards.
GAR. - Thomas. By wife Ann, his son John was born, 1725.
GOULD. - Samuel, came from Topsfield, 1700. He was son of Capt. John and Sarah (Baker) Gould, and born in Topsfield, March 9, 1669-70. He married Margaret Stone, 1697, and had children : Sarah, Samuel, Moses, Patience, Jonathan, Margaret, Zaccheus, and Hubbard. The sons ultimately settled in Brook- field and Lunenburg. Mr. Gould died, 1724. In 1714 his house was destroyed by fire, and the town abated his tax for that reason.
HARDY. - Nathaniel. By wife Prudence, he had children born here : "Roos," 1707; Elizabeth, 1709 ; Keziah, 1711 ; Zacha- riah, 1713; Abigail, 1715 ; Richard, 1718; and Martha, 1720. He died before 1725.
HOWE. - Fohn. Lived in what is now Middleton. By wife Sarah Caves (whom he married in 1697, when they were both of Topsfield), he had children born here : Mark, 1701 ; Sarah, 1703 ; "-ey " (dau.), 1705-06 ; and Joseph, 1719.
ILES. - William; said to be a native of England ; m. Eliza- beth Curtis, 1719. Children born here : Elizabeth, William, John, Jacob, and Mary. William married, and lived here, as also another generation.
JEWETT. - Thomas was born in Rowley, 20 Sept., 1666, and was son of Ezekiel and Faith (Parrott) Jewett. He married Han- nah Swan, 1692, and had children born in Rowley : Ezekiel, 1693 ; Faith, 1694; and Mehitable, 1698. Came to Boxford about 1703, having married a second wife, Faith. He died in 1731. He probably settled where these lines are being written, and where his posterity resided till they removed to New Hampshire, a century ago.
KENNEY. - Daniel, by wife Mary, had children born here : Daniel, 1705; Isaac, 1707; Israel, 1712; Mary, 1715; Ruth,
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1717; and Eunice, 1719. He was selectman in 1724. Fona- than, by wife Rebecca, had children born here : Jonathan, 1712 ; Rebecca, 1714; and Thomas, 1716. Both of these settlers resided in that part of the town which was afterwards Middleton.
KILLAM. - Samuel. Came from Wilmington. Was taxed here many years. He married Grace Symonds, 1715, and had a son Samuel born in 1716. Thomas was taxed as early as 1711. By wife Sarah he had children born here : Ebenezer, 1714, and Sarah, 1716. Ebenezer also resided here. Fohn married Abi- gail Symonds, 1725, and probably erected the "old Killam house ;" had ch .: Abigail, b. 1725 ; John, 1729 ; and Mary, 1731. He died, 1738. John, jun., was the grandfather of Samuel, George, Oliver P., and the late William E. Killam.
KNOX. - Adam, by wife Jane, had children born here : Jane, 1721; John, 1724; Elizabeth, 1726; William, 1730; Adam, 1732; and Mary, 1734.
PERKINS. - Nathaniel owned land, and was taxed here as early as 1714. It is thought by the writer, that he built and resided in the "old Hood house," lately occupied by Mr. Benjamin Hood, in the East Parish. He married Hannah Hazen of Boxford, 1716, by whom he had several children born here: Nathaniel, Daniel, Israel, Mary, Benjamin, Hannah, Hepzibah, Eunice, and Jacob. The family were here as late as 1760.
PICKARD. - Samuel. He married Phebe Bixby, 1713 ; and his son Samuel was baptized in 1714. Thomas. He was here as early as 1714, and was chosen constable in 1740.
PORTER. - Benjamin, was born in Wenham in 1692, and was son of John and Lydia (Herrick) Porter. He married, 1716, and settled in Boxford. He was the ancestor of the Boxford Porters. He had children : Mary, Moses, Benjamin, Sarah, Tyler, and Lucy. He died, 1778, aged eighty-six years. Moses and Benjamin (great-grandfather of Capt. J. J. Porter) settled in Boxford. Among the descendants of this settler are Rufus King Porter, Bowdoin College, 1813, lawyer at Machias, Me., forty years ; John Cooper Porter, banker of St. Louis, Mo .; George Thatcher Por- ter, physician at Calais, Me. ; John C. Porter, professor of mathe- matics at New-York Central College ; Thomas W. Porter, lawyer
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