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^ Letter of Silvester Judd, Esq., Northampton.
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2. Rev. Aaron Cleveland of Norwich, son of the preceding, was born at Haddam, Ct. 3 Feb. 1744. His father dying when he was only thirteen years of age, the plan for giving him an education at college was defeated ; and he was put by his friends iu Connecticut to learn the hatter's trade, and followed that business many years. In 1779, he was a member of the Legislature of Connecticut; was ordained soon after to the Congrega- tional ministry ; and continued to perform his clerical functions in various places till his death. He was for some time resident in Norwich, Weath- ersfield, and West Hartford; but never had a settlement in any congrega- tion. He performed missionary services in Hartford County and vicinity, and preached frequently as a supply in almost all its towns; and long afterwards was spoken of with profound respect by those who had heard him. And his wit, too, and agreeableness in company, became proverbial. He published in 1775, a "Poem against Slavery ; " and two sermons against War, preached just after the news of the battle of Waterloo, 1815. In the "Poets of Connecticut," were published in 1844, two poems of his " which show what he might have been with better advantages." He died of dysentery in New Haven, 21 Sept. 1815, at the house of a relative, Mrs. Porter; and lies buried in New Haven. [Allen's Biography ; Letters of Professor C. D. Cleveland, 1846; and of Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, 1847.]
N. B. The mother of Rev. Mr. Coxe, just referred to, was Abiah Hyde, daughter of Rev. A. Cleveland, of Norwich, by his second wife, a Clement, of Norwich.a The father of Professor C. D. Cleveland is the venerable Rev. Charles Cleveland of Boston, son of Rev. Mr. Cleveland of Norwich, who, people of Woburn will remember, was present there on a late memo- rable occasion, 22d February, 1867; and who, though upwards of 95 years of age, still paces the streets of Boston in his pious and benevolent labors.
3. Rev. John Cleveland of Chebacco. He was a great-grandson of Moses and Ann of Woburn, a grandson of Samuel and Persis Cleveland of Chelmsford and Canterbury, Ct., and a son of Josiah Cleveland of Canter- bury, and of Abigail (Paine) Cleveland, his wife. He was born at Canter- bury, 22 April, 1722; was graduated at Yale College, 1745; and settled over Chebacco Parish in Ipswich, now the town of Essex, 1747. He married for his first wife Mary Dodge (Choate?) daughter of Parker Dodge, by whom he had 4 sons and 3 daughters. And she dying in 1768, he next md. widow Mary Neal Forster, of Manchester, with whom his connection, as also that with his first wife, was eminently happy.
In the French war, 1758, he went as Chaplain, and at the commencement of the Revolutionary struggle he served as a Chaplain at Cambridge; and with him at that time were two of his brothers and all four of his sons. In 1763, he was rejoiced to witness a powerful revival among his people. In his preaching, he was not confined to written sermons. It was said of him by Rev. Dr. Emmons that " he was a pattern of piety, and an orna- ment to the Christian and clerical profession." His faithful labors were
^Letter of Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, 1847.
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crowned with great success; at one period in about six months, one hun- dred persons were added to his church. He died in peace and hope, 22 April, 1799, on his seventy-seventh birth-day.
4. Rev. Ebenezer Cleveland, brother of the preceding, was born in Canterbury, 1725; received a degree at Yale College, 1748; married Abi- gail Stevens of Canterbury, 1746; commenced preaching at Sandy Bay, Gloucester (now Rockport), in 1751 or 1752, and was ordained their first minister, 1755. During much of his time in the Revolutionary War, he was absent from his people, as a chaplain in the army. In 1780, he left the army, and removed to Coos, N. H., on some land he had received, and also as superintendent of the Dartmouth College lands. While he resided here, his daughter Mary was married to Professor John Smith, of Dart- month College; and he spent seven or eight years, preaching as he could, part of the time in a barn. Subsequently, he was for a year or two employed as an evangelist in Maine. Returning from Maine, he was set- tled in the ministry at Amesbury, where he remained four or five years. He then went back to Rockport, and there spent the remainder of his days. Rev. Dr. Allen observes of him, " His lot was cast in hard places, and in hard times ; and he had a large family and domestic causes of uneasiness, so that his life was that of a worthy man struggling with adversity." He died 4 July, 1805, in the 79th year of his age, in the hope of immortal glory. Ilis wife deceased 25th Dec. 1804, æt. 77. A monument has been erected to their memory in Rockport, upon which appropriate epitaphs have been inscribed to them both. [Allen's Biog. Dict., Letter from Rev. O. A. Taylor, 23d April, 1846.]
5. Rev. John Cleveland, eldest son of Rev. John Cleveland, of Chebacco, was born in 1750, and was fitted for College, but prevented by ill health from entering. At the commencement of the Revolution, he enlisted in the army, obtained a lieutenant's commission, and continued in the ser- vice during the war. Having had from his youth a strong inclination for the Christian ministry, his wishes in this respect were at length gratified. He was called to the pastoral office in Stoneham, 1785; and being dis- missed from there in 1794, he was re-rettled in 1798, over the North Parish in Wrentham, where, after a faithful and exemplary discharge of ministe- rial duty, he died, 1818, aged 68. [Allen's Biography.]
6. Parker Cleveland, M. D., son of Rev. Jolin Cleveland, of Chebacco, born 1751, settled as a physician in Byfield at the age of 19; and during the first year of the war of the Revolution was the surgeon of a regiment .. He was skilful as a physician; often represented Rowley (to which Byfield belonged) in the Legislature ; and was eminently pious, devout, and benev- olent, as a Christian. He married, for his first wife, E. Jackman, in 1772, by whom he had Parker Cleveland, a graduate 1799, and subsequently a tutor of Harvard College, and an eminent professor of natural philosophy, chemistry, etc., etc., for many years in Bowdoin College. For his second wife, lie md. Abigail Cleveland of Canterbury, Ct., by whom he had Rev. . John l'. Cleveland, D. D., successively of Salem, Cincinnati, Providence, Northampton, Mass., and Lowell.
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Dr. Parker Cleveland died iu Feb. 1826, aged 74. [Letter of Rev. O. A. Taylor. Allen's Biog. Dict.]
7. Nehemiah Cleveland, youngest son of Rev. John Cleveland, of Che- bacco, was born 1760. He accompanied his father, at the age of 16, dur- ing the siege of Boston, and enlisted in the army for about a year. Hav- ing studied medicine with his brother, and with Dr. Manning, of Ipswich, he entered on the practice in Topsfield, 1783. He was also much employed in his day in various honorable public offices. For his first wife, he md. Lucy, daughter of Dr. Manning, of Ipswich, who died 1791, leaving no children. By his second wife, Experience Lord, daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord, of Pomfret, Ct., he had nine children ; (1) Nehemiah, who died soon. (2) Experience, who died young, (3) Nehemiah, of Brooklyn, N. Y., late preceptor of Dummer Academy, Byfield, born 1796. (4) William, b. 1798, now [1846] in Topsfield. (5) Lucy, born 1800, died 1838. (6) Mary, born 1802, wife of Rev. Oliver Alden Taylor, of Manchester, Mass. (7,8) twins, born 1804, of whom one died ; the other, John, the present John Cleveland, Esq., of New York city. (9) Rev. Elisha Lord Cleveland, of New Haven, born in 1806.
Dr. Nehemiah Cleveland died 26 Feb. 1837, aged 76, sustained by the consolations of the religion which he had professed and adorned. His widow, Experience, died at the house of her son-in-law, in Manchester, Rev. Mr. Taylor, (who has himself since deceased) 21 Jan. 1845, in the 81st year of her age. [Allen's Biog. Dict. Letter of Rev. Mr. Taylor, 23 Apl. 1846.]
COLE. Isaac, son of Isaac, of Charlestown, who came to this country 1635, with wife Joanna and two children, in the Hercules, from Sandwich, County of Kent, England.a This son of his was born in 1637, at Charles- town, came to Woburn to reside, and had granted him by the town, 25 April, 1662, a lot of land in the centre, 50 poles, bounded by the high way [High Street] on the east, and by the high way to the burying place on the north.b He married Jane, widow of James Britten, or Britton, 1 Feb. 1659, but had no children. He was one of those eight members of Woburn church who were presented by the grand jury in Oct. 1671, for refusing to commune with the church on the ground of certain alleged scruples of conscience, and whose case was commended by the court to the consideration of a council of neighboring churches, to assemble March, 1672, before the court should come to a final decision. [See Chapt. V.] What the result of the council was, and what the decision of the court, is not known.
Isaac Cole died 10 June, 1674 : his widow, Jane, died 10 March, 1687.c
CONVERS. Edward, Deacon. See Chapt. II.
CONVERS. James, Ensign. See Chapt. V.
CONVERS. Josiah, Deacon, eldest son of Dea. Edward Convers; born in England; came with his father to New England in 1630; abode awhile at · Charlestown, and came with his father to Woburn to dwell, about 1641. He
a Savage's Geneal. Dict.
b Town Rec. Vol. I., p. 51.
· Rec. of Deaths.
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married, 26 March 1651, Esther Champney, daughter of Richard Champney, of Cambridge, a ruling elder of the church there, in 1658.a By his wife Esther, Dea. Convers had a son Josiah, boru 15 March, 1660, who married, 8 Oct. 1685, Ruth Marshall, and had children by her. In after times, this son of his was much employed in town business, was familiarly known by the title of " Captain Josiah," and died 15 July, 1717, aged 58.b
Deacon Josiah Convers was a deacon of the Church of Woburn in 1674, and died 3 Feb. 1689-90, aged 72 years.b [Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths ; Savage's Geneal. Dict. a Cambridge Ch. Records. b Gravestone.]
CONVERS. Samuel, Son of Dea. Edward Convers, born in Charles- town; baptized in the church there 12 March, 1637-8,a settled at Woburn; made freeman 1666; married Judith, daughter of Rev. Thomas Carter, 8 June, (14 Oct .? ) 1660; by whom he had a son Samuel, born 4 Apl. 1662. [Wob. Rec., Savage's Geneal. Dict., ª Charlestown, Ch. Records.]
CONVERS. Allen Convers, called by Dea. Edward in his Will a " kins- man," and made an overseer thereof. He is supposed on his arrival in this country to have gone first to Salem; and is said by Felt to have had land granted him there in 1639. He was in Woburn as early as 1642; was taxed there in the Country Rate of 1645; and was made freeman in 1644. He was appointed Commissioner of the Rate in Woburn, 1666; and taught school there in 1676. By his wife, Sarah, he had borne to him 11 Oct. 1642, a son Zechariah; and after him several other children. He died 19 Apl. 1679. His wife died only three days after him, (it is supposed) of the small-pox, which was then spread in the town, and among its victims there is numbered "Goodwife Conuars."a [Savage; Town Records. a Town Rec., Vol. II., inverted, p. 163.]
CONVERS. James, jun., Major. See Chapt. V. and Woburn Records of Marriages and Deaths.
Two of his sons, Robert and Josiah, were men of distinction and influ- ence in their day. Robert, born 29 Dec. 1677, married Mary Sawyer, 19 Dec. 1698, and by her had twelve children; but his male posterity in Woburn, it is believed, are now extinct. "Capt. Robert Conuarse" died 20 July, 1736.
Josiah, his son, born 12 Sept. 1684, md. Hannah, daughter of Joshua Sawyer of Woburn, 30 Dee. 1706; and by her, and by Dorothy, a second wife, he had 8 children.
Josiah, son of Josiah and Hannah Convers, born 2 March, 1710, md. Sarah Evans, of Reading, about 1732, had 4 children, and died 17 June, 1748.
Josiah, son of Josiah and Sarah Convers, born 27 Jan. 1733, [1733-4 ?] md. llephzibah Brooks, 28 March, 1758, and had issue as follows: (1) Josiah, born 14 March, 1759. (2) John, b. 3 March, 1761. (3) Jesse, born 9 Feb. 1765. (4) Joshua, born 20 Jan. 1767. (5) Luther, born 26 Jan. 1777, died 11 March, 1861.
Of the sons of Josiah and Hephzibah Convers, two were instances of very remarkable longevity. Jesse died in 1864, when he lacked but a few
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months of being 100 years old. Joshua completed his century of exist- ence 20th Jan. 1867; and there were highly interesting services performed in his presence (and in which he himself took part) in celebration of the event, 22d Feb. 1867, in Lyceum Hall, Woburn.
"CRAGGIN," or CRAGIN. John, was taxed in the Country Rate, made 26 Aug. 1666; and is numbered 3 April, 1668, with those who had right in the common lands of Woburn a. He married Sarah Dawes, 4 Nov. 1661; and by her had 8 children; two of whom, twins, Rachel and Leah, were born 14 March, 1680, and both died 4 days after. He died 27 Oct. 1708; his widow, Sarah, died 23 Dec. 1725.
"CRAGGIN, or CRAGIN. John Craggin, jun., his son, entered his intentions of marriage with Deborah Skelton, 13 April, 1700: and to them were born twins, John and Anna, 25 March, 1701 ; and, secondly, Benjamin, born 27 Nov. 1702. John Craggin, jun., died 26 Jan. 1703-4. [Woburn Records of Births, &c. ª Town Records, Vol. I., pp. 43, 44. ]
CUTLER. John was probably one of three brothers, Robert, James and Jolin, who are supposed to have emigrated from Hingham, Norfolk County, England; and to be the ancestors, one or other of them, of all, or most of their name in New England. James, dwelt first at Watertown, then at "Cambridge North Farms," now Lexington; Robert, was of Charlestown, a deacon of the church there, and ancestor of that distin- guished scholar and divine, Rev. Dr. Timothy Cutler, President of Yale College, 1719; and afterwards, becoming an Episcopalian, Rector of Christ's Church, Boston, where he died, 17 Aug. 1765, æt. 82.
John Cutler was in Woburn 1646, being taxed there for the first time in December of that year. He married in Woburn, 3 Sept. 1650, Olive Thompson, born probably in England, a daughter of James Thompson, one of the original settlers of Woburn, and a member of the first Board of Selectmen, chosen in 1644. His first wife dying, he married a second, the widow of Mr. John Lewis, of Lynn, who also had deceased in 1666. In the mean while, becoming providentially deranged, he was, by order of the County Court, 3 April, 1666, put under the guardianship of the Select- men for the disposal of him and his property for his own benefit and that of his children. In a suit at law, in 1678, against his trustees, judgment was obtained in favor of the town, in satisfaction of the expense the town had been at for his maintenance the twelve years previous. But the Selectmen agreed to give up by deed to his son John, a large portion of the lands which had once belonged to his father, for a very moderate con- sideration ; he promising not to sell, except to his sisters to live on, or to the town; in which latter case, he was to receive back from the town as much as he had paid for them. [Wob. Records.]
I. John Cutler died of the small-pox in 1678-9. The dates of the death of his two wives are not known. His children, who were probably all by his first wife, were : (1) Mary, born 7 Aug. 1651; died 3 May, 1655. (2) Susanna, b. 22 March, 1653-4. (3) John. (4) Mary (or "Marah,") b. 5 May, 1663; married to Matthew Smith of Woburn as his second wife, 20 June, 1684. [Woburn Town Rec .; Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc.]
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II. John Cutler, only son of John & Olive (Thompson) Cutler, was born about 1656; married for his first wife Anna -, who died 24 July, 1681, having borne him a daughter, Susanna, who seems likewise to have died young. For his second wife, he married Susanna, daughter of John and Susanna (Martin) Baker, in 1682, by whom he had : (1) John, born 15 Jan. 1682-3, and died the 2d day from his birth. (2) John, born 7 Dec. 1684, and died the same day. (3) John, born 4 Jan. 1685-6; married, first, Lydia Burnap, who died 27 Apr. 1743; secondly, Rachel Poodney of Wilmington, 24 Nov. 1743. He lived, much respected, within the limits of Woburn Precinct; died 10 Jan. 1767, aged 81, and lies buried (as does also his widow Rachel, who died 22 Aug. 1784, in her 84th year) in the Precinct, or Burlington burying ground. By neither of his two wives, does this III. Mr. John Cutler appear to have had children. (4) Susanna, born 8 Nov. 1687. Susanna, the second wife of II. John Cutler, being dead, he married, 14 Oct. 1692, for his third wife, Elizabeth Reed, daughter of the first Deacon George Reed of Woburn, and Elizabeth (Jennings, or Jennison) Reed, his wife, born 29 July, 1653; by whom he had children as follows : (1) Hannah, or Anna, born 5 July, 1694, and died, a single woman, apparently, 6 Feb. 1737-8. (2) Rebekah, born 8 Aug. 1697. (3) Nathaniel, born 23 May, 1700. (4) Sarah, born 22 Apr. 1702.
II. John Cutler died 25 Nov. 1709 : Elizabeth, his widow, died 9 Jan. 1709-10. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc.]
CUTLER. III. Nathaniel, only son of II. John Cutler and Elizabeth his wife, married Abigail Bruce of Woburn, 21 March, 1723. Their children were : (1) Nathaniel, born 26 May, 1724. (2) John, b. 21 July, 1726. (3) Sarah, b. 26 May, 1729. (4) Abigail, b. 6 Sept. 1731. (5) Eliza- betli, b. 30 Nov. 1735. (6) William, born 7 Feb. 1737-8; married Mary Trask, 17 Apl. 1760. (7) Mary, born 26 Feb. 1739-40; married to Shubael Johnson, 1760. (8) Silas, born 30 May, 1743; married Ruth John- son, 31 Oct. 1765; removed to Templeton, Mass., and there died. (9) Ruth, born 9 Jan. 1745, (1745-6?) "Lieut. Nathaniel Cutler," in his 49th year ; died 25 Aug. 1748. Gravestone in Precinct Bur. Ground.
Of the posterity of John Cutler, the first settler of the name in Woburn about 1646, four entire generations have passed away from this stage of existence; one or two individuals of the fifth generation still linger behind, and from the numerous ranks of the sixth and seventh generations, a considerable number upon reckoning are found missing; but a goodly remnant is left, resident in Burlington, Chicopee, and various other places in New England, and in the West.
DAVIS. Nicholas came in "the Planter," early in 1635, aged 40, with his wife Sarah, 48, and his " cossen" (cousin), meaning, probably his nephew, William Locke, aged 6, and others, his servants.a His wife Sarah dying 24 May, 1643, he married, 12 July following, Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Isaacs, of Cambridge. He was active in promoting the settlement of Woburn, the Town Orders for which he subscribed at Charlestown in
" Savage's Geneal. Dict.
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Dec. 1640; was taxed there in the first "Country Rate," levied 8 Sept. 1645; and also in the first Town Rate, assessed 22 Dec. 1646. But his name is not found in any subsequent tax list in Woburn. He probably removed to York, and was there in 1652. "His will of 27 April, 1667, proved 12 Mareh, 1670," refers not to any son, but presents the names of many remote relations.
DEAN or "DAINE." William, "married at Billerica, 1 Sept. 1670, Martha Bateman, of Concord," by whom he had : (1) Martha, born 17 Aug. 1671. (2) William, born 5 July, 1673. (3) Samuel, born 26 July, 1675. (4) John, b. 25 June, 1677. (5) Sarah, b. 1687, died 6 March, 1688. His name appears for the first time on any recorded Tax List for Woburn, in the new Meeting Rate, 1672. [Town Rec. Vol. I, pp. 38, 39.] His death is not on record. Martha Dean [wife or daughter ?] died 1711.
[Woburn Rec. of Births; Savage's Geneal. Diet.]
In a list of soldiers stationed [about 1695?] at Fort Mary, Saco Falls, where John Hill was Captain, are recorded " William Dean, Woburn," and " Samuel Dean, Woburn." These were doubtless the sons by those names of William and Martha Dean, above mentioned. There is evidence to make it probable that one of these two brothers was taken prisoner and carried off. One or both of them probably settled in that region.a
John, son of William and Martha Dean, had by his wife Mary : (1) John, born 10 Jan. 1704-5. (2) William, born 7 May, 1706. (3) Edward, born 14 Sept. 1707. (+) Ebenezer, born 28 Jan. 1708-9; embarked at Boston about 1739, and was never heard of afterwards. By his wife Mary, he had a son Ebenezer, and a daughter. The son, born 7 Oet. 1733, was a shoemaker, removed to Maine, and died at Lincolnville, 1810, æt. 77; had 15 children, a numerous posterity in Maine and at the West. a (5) Thomas, born 23 Nov. 1712. (6) Molly, born 16 Apl. 1715, died 20 July, 1739. (7) Samuel, born 24 Feb. 1716-7.
Mr. John Dean died February 1751. All his sons had families of chil- dren.
Edward, son of John and Mary Dean, married for his first wife Patience, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Wyman, 1 May, 1740; and she dying, 15 June, 1741, he entered his Intentions of Marriage with "Sarah Robie" of Billerica, 14 Ap. 1753; by whom he had (1) Jesse, that well known citizen of Burlington, born 17 Feb. 1754 : and (2) Sarah, born 3 June, 1756, wife of Major John Radford.
EAMES. Robert, was of Charlestown (1651) b; but removing to Wo- burn, he was taxed there, 1666, and had right in the common lands of Woburn allowed him in 1668.c By his wife Elizabeth, he had born to him in Woburn, (1) Samuel, 7 Apr. 1653, and died 14 Apr. same year. (2) John, born ..... and died 18 Jan. 1654. (3) Elizabeth, born 4 June, 1659. (4) Mary, 11 June, 1661; married to Abraham Cozzens, 1684. (5) Priscilla, 2 May, 1663. (6) Samuel, 2 Sept. 1664. (7) Abigail, 22 Sept. 1666. (8) John, 9 May, 1668. d
& Letter of John Dean, Esq., Boston.
b Savage's Geneal. Dict .. " Wob. Town Records. d Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc.
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Elizabeth, wife of Robert Eames, died 22 March, 1710. Robert Eames died 30 July, 1712. a But Mr. Savage remarks in Geneal. Dict. of this Robert Eames. " I suppose he removed to Chelmsford, in the part called . Dracut, and died, 25 Apr. 1671. His will, made 3 days before, names " brother John and cousin Richard, son of sister Dorothy Newman, of Farn- ham, in Co. Surrey ; and adds no more to our knowledge."
EAMES. Samuel, married Mary -, by whom he had : (1) Samnel, born 8 Sept. 1692. (2) Lydia, b. 28 Oct. 1692 [1694?]; m. to Ebenezer Buck, 1713. (3) Daniel, b. 10 Jan. 1696 (1696-7?) (4) Jacob, b. 11 July, 1699, " Jacob, son of Samuell Eames, died of the small pox," Jan. 1721 (1721-2 ?) (5) Hephzibah, b. 7 March, 1702. (6) Joshua, b. 8 May, 1705. (7) Caleb, b. 17 March, 1708. (8) Elizabeth, b. 26 March, 1711. (9) Robert, b. 6 Oct. 1712; died the same day. (10) Abigail, b. 11 Apr. 1714. (11) Jona- than, b. 18 Aug. 1716. N. B. Samuel and Mary Eames appear, by deed of land in Woburn to Daniel Fisk, 14 Oct. 1740, to belong at that date, to Wilmington, set off from Woburn 1730. [Rec. of Births, etc ]
EAMES. Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary Eames, married Judith Simonds, both of Woburn, 2 July, 1717. To them were born: (1) Judith, 22 March, 1718; md. to Zach. Symmes, 1741. (2) Samuel, 13 Feb. 1719 (1719-20); died 13 April, 1727. (3) Jacob, 10 Aug. 1723. (4) Sam- uel, 28 June, 1727. "Deacon Eames' son Samuel died 12 Dec. 1756." (5) Rebekah, a daughter, died 21 Apr. 1728. (6) Huldah, b. 4 March, 1733, m. to Elijah Wyman, 1765. Dea. Samuel Eames died 20 Jan. 1775, [aged 84. Gravestone : 83d year.] Judith, wife of Dea. Samuel Eames, died 10 Jan. 1766, [aged 71 : Gravestone.]
Daniel, son of Samuel and Mary Eames, md. Abigail Nourse of Reading, 8 March, 1720. Had a son Daniel born at Reading, 30 March, 1721. (2) Mary, b. 12 Apr. 1723. (3) John, b. at Woburn, 19 Apr. 1727. (4) Jonathan, b. at Wilmington, 9 Nov. 1730; graduated at Harvard Col- lege, 1752; minister of Newtown, N. H. (5) Jacob, b. 12 June, 1732, at Wilmington. (6) Samuel, b. at Wilmington, 24 Jan. 1734-5. Afterwards, Capt. Daniel Eames removed to Haverhill, and md. for a second wife, Mary Chadwick, of Bradford, 9 Aug. 1748; and for a third wife, Priscilla Kim- ball, widow, 2 Feb. 1756. b
EAMES. Caleb, son of Samuel and Mary Eames, md. Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Simonds, both of Woburn, 5 Apr. 1732. Their children were : (1) Caleb, born 7 Nov. 1732. (2) Jonas, b. 15 March, 1734; died 10 Feb. 1736-7. (3) Caleb, b. 26 Dec. 1737. (4) Jonas, b. 2 Feb. 1742-3. (5) John, b. 25 Oct. 1746; md. Abigail, daughter of Samuel Thompson, Esq.c
EAMES. Jacob, son of Dea. Samuel and Judith Eames, entered his Intentions of Marriage with Rachel, daughter of Nathan and Huldah Wyman, both of Woburn, 15 March, 1748. Their children were : (1) Rachel, born 5 Nov. 1749. (2) Jacob, b. 6 June, 1751. (3) Nathan, b. 11 April, 1753; died 21 July, 1773, æt. 21; Gr. St. (4) Ruth, born 28 May, 1758. [Rec. of Births, etc.]
N.B. Oflate years, the name of Eames is written and spelled by some Ames.
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