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SUMNER FAMILY.
William Sumner, son of William, was baptized at Bicester, England, Jan. 27, 1604-5, being, by his deposition given Dec. 23, 1685, eighty-one years old, or thereabouts.
William Sumner, and his wife, Mary West, settled in Dor- chester. He was made freeman in 1637, was admitted to the church 1652. He held many important offices. His wife, Mary, died June 7, 1676. Mr. Sumner's will was proved March 24, 1691-2.
His second son, Roger, was baptized at Bicester, England, Aug. 8, 1632; he married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Re- becca Josselyn, early settlers of Hingham, and afterwards of Lancaster. He was admitted to the Dorchester Church 1656, and was dismissed to assist in forming a church in Lancaster, whither he had removed. He continued there until the town was destroyed by the Indians, and then returned to Milton. He probably built the Sumner house, now standing on Brush Hill, about 1678, which has been enlarged, and perhaps en- tirely rebuilt; the will of Roger refers to " the old end of the dwelling-house." He was deacon of the Milton Church, and died here May 26, 1698, leaving a widow, Mary.
George Sumner, the third child of William, was baptized at Bicester, England, March 1, 1633-4. He married, Nov. 7, 1662, Mary, daughter of Edward Baker. George Sumner lived on Brush Hill, Milton, and was deacon of the Milton Church. His house stood below the old ferry house in the field; it was built about 1662. He died here Dec. 11, 1715, aged eighty- one.
Children of Roger and Mary : -
Waitstill, m. Manassah Tucker Dec. 29, 1676. Abigail. Samuel. William, b. 1673 ; d. Dec. 22, 1738 ; m. Esther, daughter of Mathias Puffer, June 2, 1697. Ebenezer, b. May 28, 1678; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Clap, March 14, 1699. Mary. Rebecca.
Children of George and Mary : -
Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1663. George, m. Ann Tucker, of Roxbury. Samuel and William, both lost in the Canadian expedition 1690.
Ebenezer and Joseph both settled in Mendon. Edward m. Elizabeth Clap; he was grandfather of Governor Increase Sumner. Benjamin, b. Dec. 15, 1683; m. Elizabeth Badcock May 3, 1706; settled in Milton and lived in his father's house. This house was burned April 10, 1748, with all the wearing apparel of the family. It was at once rebuilt. Benjamin's fourth child was Abijah, b. March 6, 1713; d. Feb. 2, 1797. He occupied the house of his father and grandfather.
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Children of William and Esther (Puffer) : -
Mary, b. May 2, 1698 ; m. Ephraim Tucker Oct. 22, 1719. Abigail, b. Jan. 31, 1699; m. Robert Vose Sept. 14, 1721. Roger, b. March 25, 1702; m. Sarah Badcock Feb. 20, 1724. William, b. Feb. 7, 1704; m. Eleanor Daniel Nov. 25, 1727. Gersom. Esther. Seth, b. Dec. 15, 1710; m., first, Hannah Badcock Oct. 17, 1734 ; she died Aug. 13, 1739. He married, second, Lydia Badcock, daughter of William and Elizabeth, in 1742. He died Nov. 11, 1771.
Children of Seth and Hannah : -
Seth and Roger.
Seth, b. July 4, 1735 ; m. Elizabeth Davis, of Dorchester; and, second, - Gay, of Dedham. His children were: Elisha, m. Nancy Vose, Aug. 3, 1792 ; he was the father of Edwin V. Sumner, major-general in our civil war. General Sumner lived during childhood in the Kendall house, on Canton avenue, and attended the West School and Milton Academy. Davis Sumner, m. Dolly Vose, Nov. 3, 1795, twin sister of Nancy, the wife of Elisha; they were daughters of Gen. Joseph Vose, and sisters of Col. Josiah H. Vose, the father of Mrs. E. V. Field and Miss Caroline Vose, now living on the old General Vose estate in Milton.
Seth, born in 1735, bought of Ebenezer Tucker, tanner, for £600, by deed dated May 30, 1781, two tracts of land : -
One containing four and a half acres, bounded south-east on Taunton road; east, on John Ruggles and New Lane; north-east, on brook and land of George Clark ; and north-west on land of Seth Sumner; with dwell- ing-house and shop standing thereon, and all said Tucker's interest in the barn, tan-house, and yard. Also, one-half of twenty-six acres on the south side of Taunton road.
This is what is now known as the "Kendall house," with the land belonging to the same, which descended to, and was occupied by, his sons Elisha and Davis.
Children of Seth and Lydia :-
Lydia, b. Dec. 6, 1743; m. George Clark.
Enos, b. Sept. 25, 1746, unmarried; was a physician in Milton ; d. June 3, 1796.
William, b. Aug. 6, 1748; m., first, Elizabeth Minot; second, Mary Pond; third, Sarah Thayer. His eleventh child was Rufus Pond Sumner, b. Jan. 17, 1799 ; m. Susan Kingsbury. He had ten sons and one daughter. Through his father, William, son of Seth, he inherited a part of the Roger Sumner estate, on Brush Hill, Milton, which is now occupied by his sons.
Esther. Clement. Job, b. April 23, 1754; graduated at Harvard Col- lege 1778. He was major in the Massachusetts Army of the Revolution ; d. Sept. 16, 1789. His death occurred on board a packet-ship on the passage fron Charleston, S.C., to New York. He was buried in New York by the Freemasons, with much ceremony, in the Trinity church-yard, Broadway, where may be seen a marble monument to his memory. He
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had a son, Job, b. at Milton Jan. 20, 1776, whose name was afterwards changed to Charles Pinckney; he graduated at Harvard 1796. He was High Sheriff of Suffolk for many years. He married Relief Jacobs, and died in 1839, aged sixty-three years. Charles Pinckney Sumner was the father of the Hon. Charles Sumner, b. at Boston Jan. 6, 1811; graduated at Harvard College 1830; the distinguished U.S. Senator from Massachu- setts. Rufus. Hannah. Abigail. Jesse.
The will of William Sumner, the ancestor, was executed June 23, 1681. In this he divided all his "land and housing " into six parts : one part each to his sons Roger, George, Samuel, and Increase, and his daughter Joane Way; the other sixth part to be divided amongst his eldest son William's children, there being nine of them. His four children last named to be executors.
The inventory of Roger Sumner estate, in Milton, taken by order of Court, June 29, 1698, by Thomas Vose, Ralph Houghton and Samuel Tris- cot. Mary, the widow of Roger, to have as her thirds the old end of the dwelling-house in Milton, valued at £18. 18s.
TUCKER FAMILY.
The genealogical tree traced by Arthur H. Tucker, and kindly presented for this work, brings to our view the root and branches of this extensive family for many generations.
The origin of Robert Tucker, the progenitor of the Milton- line of Tuckers, is considered under "Incorporation, Name, and Boundaries."
According to recent investigations he was born in Milton- next-Gravesend, County of Kent, England, June 7, 1604. He is supposed to have come to Wassagusset, afterwards Wey- mouth, about 1635; to have removed to Gloucester, and then back again to Weymouth, from which place he came to Milton about 1662, and soon after settled on Brush Hill. He occupied an important and highly useful position in the town and the church during the earliest years of the settlement, and his numerous descendants have been among the most active and influential of our citizens through the whole history of the town.
Members of the family have graced the pulpit, the army, and the representative halls of the country. From the beginning they have filled important offices of trust in the town and in the church. The following representatives of the Tucker name have held the office of deacon, making almost a continuous line from the formation of the church to the present day : Ephraim, Manasseh, Jaazaniah, William, Ebenezer, David, Isaac, Amariah, Atherton, Jesse, Nathan, Stillman L., and John A. Tucker.
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Since Ephraim Tucker was ordained deacon, in 1699, there has been, generally, a Deacon Tucker, Senior, and a Deacon Tucker, Junior, as at the present time.
Manasseh Tucker was born in Weymouth 1654. He re- moved with his father, Robert, to Milton, and died here April 8, 1743, aged eighty-nine years. Samuel Tucker, son of Ma- nasseh and Waitstill (Sumner) Tucker, was born in Milton March 15, 1686. Samuel, son of Samuel, first, and Rebecca (Leeds) Tucker, was born in Milton September 27, 1719. Samuel, son of Samuel, second, and Elizabeth (Haywood) Tucker, was born in Milton July 14, 1750, and died in Scott's Woods July 19, 1841, aged ninety-one years, being the oldest man then in Milton. His great-grandfather, Manasseh, who was here when the town was incorporated, lived until 1743, within about seven years of his birth, and his own life was pro- longed to the year 1841. Thus the lives of these two persons extended, with a little break, over the long period of one hun- dred and eighty years, embracing all of the history of Milton which is not within the knowledge of the present generation.
Manasseh Tucker was one of the four citizens who purchased the "Blue Hill Lands" in 1711. He was then fifty-seven years of age, and doubtless made the purchase for the benefit of his children, as he continued at the homestead, on Brush Hill, during life. His son Samuel, who was then twenty-five years old, married Rebecca Leeds, of Dorchester, March 2, 1711, and commenced life on the new purchase, which was at that time a wilderness, without roads, and remote from inhabitants. His father, Manasseh, who seems, from his inventory, to have had a large property for the times, probably built a house for them on or near the site now occupied by the house of Charles K. Hunt, as the present house of Mr. Hunt, in which Samuel, the third, lived, would hardly bear the age of one hundred and seventy years. In his will Manasseh makes the following be- quest : " I give to my son Samuel Tucker, besides the housing and lands and meadow that I have already given him by deed, the one-half of my lot of land in the third division of the Blue Hill Land, and all my rights in the land lately divided lying in Brantry."
A portion of these lands descended in direct line from his grandfather, through his father, to Samuel, the third, who died in the house, or in the near vicinity, 1841.
Capt. Nathaniel Tucker, brother of Samuel, the third, owned the adjoining estate, now belonging to Col. H. S. Russell. At his decease, February 10, 1838, he left a legacy of $1,000 to the poor of Milton, in trust of the minister and deacons of the First
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Esther
Nathaniel
Roberty
Richard D.
Lewis
Benjamin Jazeniah
Elizabeth Waitstill
Nathaniel
Josiah
Nathaniel Elicha
Thacher
Stilther Z.
Elizabeth
Nathaniel
seth
Miriam
Charles
Rebecca
Eunice
Ebenezer
Mary
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Elisha
Mary
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Samuel
Elizabeth
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Susannah
Joshua
Eunice
Sarah T.
Easter
Samuel
Susanna
Ebenezer
Samuel
Jean
Esther
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Manabseh
Isaiah
William
Katharine
Mary
Manassch
Weltstill
Manasseh
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Joanna
Winiom
Raehez
Rachel
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Ebenezer
Ebenezer
Benjamin
Charles
Elinha
William
Rachel
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Martha
Hannah
Elizabeth
George
Atherton
Hannah
John
Mary
Ephraim
Gershom
Eliza A.
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William
Jededich
Ebenezer
Ephraim
Midia
Sarah
John
Abigail
Susannas
Stephen
Samuel
Benjamin
Katharine
Eunice
Miriam
Mary
Betsey
Hannah
James
Mary
John
Elijah
Elijah
Ephraim
Ann
Dana
Joseph
Esther
Seth
Clarissa
Joseph
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Elizabeth
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Dorothy
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Esther
Ebenezer
Rebecca
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Mary
Betse
Ebenezer Seth
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Lucy
Timothy
Joseph
George
Susanna F.
James
Ebenezer
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Timothy
Susanna
Rebecca
Daniel
Phinehas
William Esther
Jeremiah
Betsee
Benjamin
James Abigail
Verret
Caty
Elijah
Betsey
Jeruska
Isaac
John
Ruth
Salley
Jesse
Isaac
Rebecca
Jeremiah
David
Ruth
Lidia
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James
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Evangelical Church ; he also gave to the above-named church a tract of land on Canton avenue and White's lane, on a part of which the meeting-house of this church now stands.
The children of Samuel Tucker, and their children, owned land in the vicinity of their father's estate, and some of them lived there until within twenty years. They have now died, or have removed, and their lands have passed into other hands. I know of but one in this line of the family, a grandchild of Samuel Tucker, now resident in Milton.
The Hon. David W. Tucker is now the sole representative of the name in Scott's Woods, where in former years it was so numerous.
On Brush Hill there are three families of the Tucker name, in the seventh and eighth generations, still proprietors of lands originally owned by Robert or his sons.
On Canton avenue three families represent the name in the sixth and seventh generations from Robert, one of which is on land owned by Manasseh Tucker.
VOSE FAMILY. Robert Vose,
The first in the line of the Milton Vose family, was born in Lancaster County, England, about 1599, and died in Milton Oct. 16, 1683, aged eighty-four years.
In July, 1654, he purchased of the heirs of the " Worshipful John Glover" one hundred and seventy-four acres of land on the easterly and southerly side of " Robert Badcocks River; " running easterly along the present line of Ruggles lane and School street to Churchill's lane, and beyond; stretching southerly and westerly as far as Brook road, White street, and the wall east of the house of Charles Breck, and thence to Pleasant street. Over this territory in subsequent years the descendants of Robert Vose were scattered along Canton avenue, in the vicinity of School street, on William Vose's lane (now Churchill's lane), on Gun Hill and Pleasant streets. A portion of this land, still occupied by his descendants, has remained in the family for nearly two and a half centuries. The purchase also embraced a tract on the south slope of Brush Hill, now in possession of the descendants of Thomas, son of Robert, who in- herited it from their ancestors.
When Robert Vose came to Dorchester he had three sons, Edward, Thomas, and Henry, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Martha. Edward was born 1636 ; died Jan. 29, 1716, aged eighty years. Thomas, born about 1641; died April 3, 1708,
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aged sixty-seven years. He was a man of note in his day. For many years he was town recorder, and under his management the town records assumed a systematic and business-like form. He married Waitstill Wyatt; she died 1727, aged eighty-four. Elizabeth, born 1639, married Thomas Swift Dec. 9, 1657; died Jan. 15, 1675, without issue. Martha married Lieut. John Sharp, of Muddy Brook (Brookline) ; he was killed by the Indians April 21, 1676, with Capt. Wadsworth, in the Sudbury fight. She married, second, Buckminster, and was referred to as widow Buckminster when her father died, in 1683.
Robert Vose was a man of influence and note among the early inhabitants of Milton. He lived in the old Glover house, near the junction of Canton avenue and Brook road. He was one of the three petitioners for the incorporation of Milton. By an indenture, drawn June 13, 1662, and executed May 18, 1664, he conveyed to the town through a board of eighteen men, probably embracing every church-member or freeman of the town, eight acres of land for church purposes, situated on or near Vose's lane and Centre street, now occupied in part by the house of Mrs. Blanchard.
On this lot a ministerial house was erected in 1663, and the second meeting-house in 1671, during the ministry of Rev. Mr. Mighill. Robert Vose was active and zealous in the effort to obtain a meeting-house and to secure the settlement of a per- manent ministry.
Thacher says : -
Sept. 24 1680 old goodman Vose gave me a barrel of cider and some honey.
May 7, went to pray with our Military Company and then went and dined with Sargent Vose [Thomas] at William Daniells.
March 1st, sister Vose [Mrs. Thomas] lodged here all night when Eliza- beth was born.
Robert Vose lived here through a long life, respected and honored by his fellow-citizens, and came to his grave "in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."
From this ancestry sprang a long line of honored citizens who have been conspicuous in the history of the town through its entire existence. It would be a pleasant duty to present the full record of this family in its various branches ; it is only pos- sible, however, to speak of individuals.
Nathaniel Vose,
The son of Edward, was born in Milton Nov: 17, 1672. He married Mary Belcher, by whom he had six children, and died
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here Oct. 9, 1753. He and his wife Mary were admitted to the church Dec. 4, 1698. According to Dr. Morison, -
Nathaniel was considered the patriarch of the family. He was a New England Puritan in faith and practice, using great self-denial, and educating his children in the most rigid manner of his sect. He ministered daily at the family altar, and continued to do so during the twilight of his life, which passed in the family of his youngest son. Early upon the Sabbath morning would he summon his daughters to the holy duties of the day by loudly pro- claiming at their doors that the holy women were early at the sepulchre. But upon other mornings he left them to their rest.
Among the last recollections of his favorite grandson, Col. Joseph Vose, was the seventeenth chapter of Jeremiah, which he used to repeat to his children as being the favorite morning lesson for the Sabbath; he had learned it some seventy years before, while sitting on the cricket at his grandfather's feet, listening to the family exercise. From his frequent reading and quoting from the Scriptures he was often called the "walking Bible." As a tiller of the soil he was so successful that his name has been handed down to the present generation as " Farmer Vose."
Elijah Vose,
The fifth child of Nathaniel, was born in Milton Jan. 1, 1708. He was married to Sarah Bent, Feb. 12, 1729-30, by Rev. John Taylor, and died in Milton Nov. 5, 1766, aged fifty-eight. Sarah, his widow, died April 5, 1802, aged ninety-two years. His four sons - Joseph, born Nov. 26, 1738 ; died May 22, 1816 ; Elijah, born Feb. 24, 1744 ; died March 19, 1822; Moses and Bill -were all military men enrolled in the army, and actively engaged through the long struggle of the Revolution. Their military record is given in the chapter on that war.
Gen. Joseph Vose
Was married to Sarah How, Dec. 27, 1761, by Rev. Mr. Robbins. About this time he built the " Vose house," on Canton avenue and Vose's lane, where his eleven children were born. All his children lived to maturity except Elijah, who died in infancy. Eight of the children were married. Solomon, the eldest, was a graduate of Harvard College ; he is spoken of with Milton law- yers. Isaac D., the second son, was a merchant in New Orleans ; he died in Boston, Oct. 12, 1835. Joseph was deranged from a child. He lived in the McLean Asylum, and died there in 1835. Josiah Howe, the youngest son, was a trader at Augusta, Me. At the commencement of the war of 1812 he entered the army as captain. He died at the commencement of the Mexican war.
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One of the daughters of Joseph Vose, Naomi, married a son of Major-General Heath. Margaret married Judge Savage, of Salem, Mass., and Sarah married Dr. Osgood, of Andover. The twin sisters, Dolly and Nancy, married the brothers Davis and Elisha Sumner. Nancy, who married Elisha Sumner, was the mother of Major-General Edwin Vose Sumner.
Elizabeth Eliot Vose was born in the Vose house in 1782, and lived there more than fifty years. She was named from Madame Eliot, who had a beautiful gold ring made for her, on which was engraved her full name. She was familiarly known by all her friends as " Aunt Betsey."
Joseph Vose served through the whole war of the Revolution. He had two horses shot under him, and at the close of the war held the office of colonel; he was afterwards promoted.
Rev. Dr. James G. Vose has in his possession his grandfather's commission as a brigadier-general, and also three letters from Lafayette to his grandfather. When General Vose left the army he was paid off in the currency of the times, which brought only two shillings on the pound.
Sarah How,
The wife of Joseph Vose, was a rare and excellent woman. She died in Milton June 15, 1824, aged eighty-three years.
A grandson, in a letter written 1863, says : -
She was noted for her piety, strength of character, and amiability. I knew her well, and many a time have sat by her while she related with thrilling interest incidents connected with the war of the Revolution. She would not eat poultry that had been killed by wringing the neck, upon the ground that St. Paul, in one of his epistles, commanded that things strangled should not be eaten.
Col. Elijah Vose,
Brother of Joseph, was also in the army during the whole period of the war. He is represented as a fine-looking man, of good proportions and pleasing countenance. He was not so severe a disciplinarian as his brother Joseph, and consequently was more popular with his command. He had two children, -- Hon. Elijah Vose, of Boston, who was a successful merchant, and a member of the Cincinnati Society, an honor which he inherited, through his father, from his grandfather, Elijah Vose, who was an original member. His sons, the Hon. Henry Vose and Francis Vose, were also successively members of the Cincinnati. Henry graduated at Harvard College in 1837, and was an eminent lawyer and Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He died in Boston Jan. 17, 1869. Francis
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Vose was a successful merchant, but suffered much from ill- health, and died in 1880. Ruth, the daughter of Col. Elijah Vose, married Eben Breed, of Charlestown.
Moses and Bill Vose
Were likewise patriotic and noble men, serving in the war with their brothers, both holding important stations, the latter a paymaster; and also meeting the duties of faithful citizens in the town during a long life.
Col. Josiah Howe Vose,
The youngest son of Gen. Joseph, was born in Milton Aug. 8, 1784. His military career is spoken of in the war of 1812. He married, May 3, 1808, Charlotte Cushing, of Scituate, a lady of rare qualities of heart and mind; meek and gentle as a child, and yet gifted with powers equal to the changes and emergencies of a military life.
Their eldest son, 1st Lieut. Josiah H. Vose, Jr., received a commission in the U.S.A., December, 1737, and served in Arkansas and in the Seminole war in Florida. His exposures brought on consumption. He left his station for home, and died in New York, June 20, 1841, just eighteen hours after his arrival there, aged twenty-five years.
Charlotte C. Vose, their eldest daughter, married Lieut. Thomas O. Barnwell, U.S.A. He graduated at West Point July 1, 1834; she died at Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, Sept. 9, 1836, aged twenty-five years.
Elizabeth Eliot, the second daughter, married Capt. George P. Field, U.S.A. He was born at Black Rock, near Buffalo, and graduated at West Point July 1, 1834. He was engaged in the war with the Seminoles, and afterwards in the Mexican war. He distinguished himself in the battles of the Rio Grande, and fell at the battle of Monterey while gallantly leading his company in the attack on that stronghold.
1st Lieut. Josiah Howe Vose Field, only son of Capt. Field mentioned above, was a Milton boy, and received his education at Milton Academy. He was born at Tampa Bay, Fla., in 1843. He graduated with honor at West Point in 1863, and was appointed to the Department of Ordnance. He was stationed at the Arsenal, Bridesburg, Pa., and afterwards was placed on the staff of Gen. David Hunter, where he was engaged in a dangerous expedition in the valley of the Shenan- doah. The fatigue and exposure were too much for his youth and delicate organization. He was attacked with typhoid fever,
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and died at Cumberland, Md., July 14, 1864, aged twenty-one years.
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