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a Wob. Town Records. b Mr. John A. Boutelle, Woburn.
c Wob. Rec. of Births, etc. Mem. of Saml. Thompson, Esq.
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FARLEY. George, an early inhabitant of Woburn, his name being on the List of the Country Tax assessed there 8 Sept. 1645, the first on rec- ord. He there married Christian Births, 9 April, 1641; by whom he had : (1) James, born 23 Nov. 1643; died 10 Dec. following. (2) Caleb, born 1 Apr. 1645. (3) Mary, born 27 Feb. 1646-7. a Not long after, he removed to Billerica, where he had: (1) Samuel, born the "last weeke" in Sept. 1654. (2) Mehetabel, born the "last weeke" in Apr. 1656, " and departed this life" 1 Feb. 1672-3.b On the 19th of Nov. 1656, George Farley, "of Billerica," sold his house and land, 20 acres, in Woburn, to Richard Snow.c "George Farley, sen., departed this life" 27 Dec. 1693. "Christian Far- ley, widdow of Georg Farley," died 27 March, 1702. b
N. B. The name Farley is sometimes spelt Farlow, and Farlo. See Savage's Geneal. Dict.
FARRAR. John, was admitted an inhabitant of Woburn, at Town Meeting (February 1655-6?), to choose town officers for 1656.d He is pre- sumed to have been a brother of Jacob Farrar, of Lancaster, who appears, from the following record in Woburn Town Book, to have died at Woburn : " Jacob Ffarer, sen., died 14 August, 1677." His widow, Ann, was married to Jolin " Seirs," of Woburn, as his second wife, 2 Nov. 1680.e To John Farrar were born: (1) Mary, 10 Apr. 1656. (2) Jacob, 22 Oct. 1657; died of the small-pox June 1679.a (3) Isaac, 16 Dec. 1659, and died in a fort- night after. (4) Joanna, 9 Apr. 1661 ; married to Robert Dayle, 1680. (5) Mercy, 1 April, 1663. (6) Hannah, 22 Jan. 1667-8; married to John Wyman, wheelwright, 14 Dec. 1685. (7) Isaac, 1 July, 1671.
John Farrar died 11 July, 1690. His wife's name, and the date of her death are not known.
FARRAR. Isaac Farrar, his son, had by his wife Mary : (1) Mary, born 6 Dec. 1699. (2) Isaac, b. 2 Apr. 1702. (3) John, b. 7 Jan. 1703-4. (4) Jacob, b. 11 June, 1705. (5) Anne, b. 13 Aug. 1707. (6) Jonathan, b. 28 Apr. 1709. (7) Joanna, b. 17 March, 1711. · daughter of Isaac Farrar, died ye .. . . . . March 1713."
Isaac Farrar's name not occurring on the Woburn Province Tax Lists for 1714, 1715, he is supposed to have previously removed from the town.
FLAGG. Gershom, was born at Watertown, 16 April, 1641, the eldest son of Thomas and Mary of Watertown, where the name was originally spelled Flegg. f He came to Woburn about 1668, where he married Han- nah Lepingwell, 15 April, 1668, a daughter of Michael "Lepingwell." He was a tanner by trade; and in 1673 had his dwelling-house, and tanning establishments, with about an acre of land attached, in High Street, near the site of the first meeting-house, having Rev. Mr. Carter's house on the West, the Old Burying Place on the East, and the Training Field on the
a Woburn Records of Births, etc. b Billerica Records. c Wyman Papers.
d Town Records, Vol. I., p. 23.
e Rec. of Births, etc., etc.
f Dr. Henry Bond's Letters; also Bond's Watertown.
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South. a His children were: (1) Gershom, born 10 March, 1669. (2) Eleazer, b. 1 Aug. 1670. (3) John, b. 25 May, 1673. (4) Hannah, b. 12 March, 1675; married to Israel Walker, 1696? (5) Thomas, b. 22 June, 1677 ; died the next day. (6) Ebenezer, b. 21 Dec. 1678. (7) Abigail, b. 8. Jan. 1681-2; md. to David "Cuttler," 12 Dec. 1700; 2dly, to Stephen Wright, 12 Apr. 1704. (8) Mary, b. 2 Feb. 1682-3. (9) Thomas, b. 19 Apl. 1685. (10) Benoni, b. 19 Aug. 1687; and died the same day.
Lieut. Gershom Flagg was killed, with Wiswall his captain and others, by the Indians at Wheelwright's Pond, in the town of Lee, N. H., 6 July, 1690. b His widow was married, Dec. 10, 1696, to Ensign Israel Walker. c Descendants from Gershom Flagg have been numerous and respectable, both in Woburn and in Wilmington. Col. Eleazer Flagg, (or, Flegg, as he preferred to write his name,) a gentleman of note and influence in Woburn in the early part of the last century, was his second son. Rev. Ebenezer Flagg, a graduate of Harvard College 1725, was a grandson, by his son Ebenezer. He was born 18 Oct. 1704; ordained at Chester, N. H., in 1736; and died there, 14 Nov. 1796, aged 92. Dr. John Flagg of Lynn was son of Rev. Ebenezer.
FOSTER. Hopestill; was in Woburn 1672, where his name is on the Tax List for building the new meeting-house that year.d He md. Eliza- beth, widow of the second Thomas Whittemore, 15 Oct. 1670,e by whom he had : (1) Thomas, b. 17 Apr. 1672; died Ist May following. (2) Abi- gail, b. 12 March, 1673; md. to Timothy "Farlow" [Farley] of Billerica. (3) John, b. 14 Feb. 1676-7. (4) Mercy, b. 26 Feb. 1677-8. Time of Mr. Foster's decease is not on record in Woburn. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc.]
FOWLE. I. James was taxed in Woburn 1666; and is registered as one of those who had right in the common lands of the town in 1668.f He was a cordwainer by trade ; and had liberty granted him by the town, 26 Feb. 1678, "to take in a little piece of land [to set a shop on, not improba- bly ] behind the Bell Hill," provided it should be laid out by the Select- men.b Bell Hill was probably the elevation West of the old Fowle Tavern stand, near the centre of the town; and appears to have been so called because the bell that called the people to public worship in the first meeting-house was hung on its top.
James Fowle is supposed to have been a son of George, of Concord. By his wife Abigail, he had : (1) James, born 4 March, 1667. (2) Abigail, b. 15 Oct. 1669; md. to Jonathan Wyman 1689. (3) John, b. 12 March, 1671. (4) Samuel; b. 17 Sept. 1674. (5) Jacob, b. 3 Apl. 1677. (6) Elizabeth, b. 28 Sept. 1681; md. to Timothy Walker 1699. (7) Hannah, b. 23 Jan. 1683-4; md. 1705 to Samuel Trumbull, of Charlestown. (8) Mary, b. 18 July, 1687.
a Woburn Records, Vol. I., inverted, p. 21.
b Belknap's N. II., one vol., p. 134.
c Savage's Geneal. Dict .: Wob. Records of Marriages.
d Town Records, Vol. I., pp. 38, 39, 40.
e Savage's Geneal Dict. f Town Records.
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"Lt. James ffoull" died 17 Dec. 1690, [aged 49 years. Gravestone.] His widow, Abigail, married to Ensign Samuel Walker, 18 Apr. 1692, as his second wife. a
FOWLE. II. James Fowle, son of Lieut. James, married Mary, (daugh- ter of Joseph Richardson), 2 Oct. 1688. Their children were: (1) Mary, born 18 June, 1689; m. to James Simonds, 1714. (2) James, b. 20 July, 1691; died 11 Oct. 1706. (3) Abigail, b. 22 Aug. 1693. (4) John, b. 11 Nov. 1695. (5) Hannah, b. 13 Sept. 1697. (6) Elizabeth, b. 9 Aug. 1699. (7) Ruth, b. 16 Apr. 1701 ; d. 3 March, 1713, [aged 11 years. Gravestone.] (8) Sarah, b. 29 July, 1703 : m. to James Richardson, 1728? (9) Samuel, b. 10 June, 1705. (10) Esther, b. 29 May, 1707; md. to Nathan Simonds, 2 Nov. 1726. (11) Martha, b. 12 March, 1709; md. to Rev. Supply Clap, of Wo- burn Precinct, 1737. (12) Catharine, b. 20 Sept. 1711; md. to Josiah Whit- temore, of Charlestown, 1730. Capt. James Fowle d. 19 March, 1714, [aged 47 years & 14 days. Gravestone.] His widow was afterwards md. to II. Samuel Walker, deacon, first of Woburn Church, and then, in 1735, of the Precinct Church, now Burlington. She died his widow, at Charles- town, [23 Oct. 1748, aged 80. Gravestone.]
FOWLE. I. John, son of Lieut. James and Abigail Fowle, married Elizabeth Prescott, of Concord, 1 July, 1696. Their children were: (1) Elizabeth, b. 19 Sept. 1698; died 4 March, 1699. (2) John, b. 7 Jan. 1699- 1700. (3) Elizabeth, b. 16 Dec. 1701. (4) Dorothy, b. 9 Aug. 1703; died 28 May, 1704. (5) Dorothy, b. 14 March, 1705; d. 14 Sept. 1732. (6) Rebec- ca, b. 21 Nov. 1706; m. to Phineas Richardson, 1728? (7) Abigail, b. 15 Dec. 1707. (8) Hannah, b. 30 Aug. and d. 3 Oct. 1710 [1709 ?] (9) James, b. 16 July, 1710. (10) Jonathan, b. 29 Aug. 1712; d. 21 Nov. 1714. (11) Mary, b. 14 Dec. 1713; md. to Alexander Cochran of Boston, 1736? (12) Hannah, b. 10 Aug. 1715. (13) Ruth, b. 9 Feb. 1716-17; d. 18 Feb. 1720-21. (14) Lucy, b. 28 July, 1720; md. to Henry Gardner. (15) Ruth, b. 10 Apr. 1722. Capt. John Fowle d. 13 June, 1744. His widow, Elizabeth Fowle, died 14 May, 1753.
FOWLE. I. Jacob, son of Lieut. James Fowle, md. Mary Brough- ton, [granddaughter of first Rev. John Rayner of Dover, N. H., ] 3 Nov. 1701. Their children were: (1) Jacob, boru 12 June, 1703, died soon. (2) Mary, b. 28 Nov. 1704. (3) Jacob, b. 24 Feb. 1706-7. (4) Abigail, b. 6 March, 1709. (5) Dorothy, b. 5 Feb. 1710-11. (6) Timothy, b. 28 Aug. 1713; died 5 July, 1741. (7) Elizabeth, b. 3 Feb. 1715-16. (8) Judith, b. 14 Jan. 1718-19. (9) Ruth, b. 2 July, 1721.
FOWLE. II. John, son of Capt. James and Mary Fowle, married Mary Convers, both of Woburn, 25 Dec. 1718. Their children were : (1) James, b. 13 June, 1720. (2) John [Master Fowle], b. 1 Feb. 1726-7; died 15 Oct. 1786, æt. 61. (3) Josiah, b. 14 July, 1731. (4) Mary, b. 12 May, 1734; md. to Joshua Wyman, jun., 1760. (5) Leonard, b. 8 Jan. 1737-8.
Major John Fowle died 28 Sept. 1775. [Memorandum of Samuel Thompson, Esq.]
a Rec. of Births, Marriages, etc., etc.
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The Fowles of Woburn have always been a highly distinguished family : and the office of Town Clerk, they seemed for many years to hold by pre- scription. Capt. James Fowle was chosen Clerk in 1701, and was annually re-chosen till 1714, when he died in office. His brother, Capt. John Fowle, was immediately appointed his successor, and served the town in that capacity twenty-five years. In 1744, Cornet John Fowle, apparently Capt. John's son, was chosen Clerk; but his death, in 1745, prevented his being re-chosen. From 1746, James Fowle, Esq., was chosen Clerk every year, without interruption, for 34 years ; and died in office, 1779. His sou, James Fowle, jun., immediately succeeded him in his labors for 11 years more. And in 1814, Marshall Fowle, Esq., son of James Fowle, jun., was chosen Clerk, and was uniformly re-chosen for 19 years more, when he died in office, in 1833. So that during the 132 years which elapsed between the election of Capt. James Fowle, in 1701, and the death of Marshall Fowle, Esq., in 1833, Woburn had a Fowle for its Clerk 103 years, or more than three-fourths of the time.
FULLER. Thomas: a subscriber to the Town Orders for Woburn drawn up at Charlestown in Dec. 1640; was a smith .by trade; and had meadow granted him in Woburn at Ragg Rock, 1648; and also 4 poles square of swamp "next his shop," Dec. 28th. He bore the title of "Sargeant" in 1656, and of Lieutenant in 1685. He was a Selectman in 1663, 1664, and again in 1685; and a petitioner with others to the General Court, 1664, for an additional grant of land to the town.
He married, 13 June, 1643, Elizabeth Tidd, by whom he had: (1) Thomas, born 30 April, 1644. (2) Elizabeth, b. 12 Sept. 1645. (3) Ruth, b. 17 May, 1648. (4) Deborah, b. 12 May, 1650; md. to Isaac Richardson. (5) John, b. 1 March, 1653. (6) Jacob, b. 14 May, 1655. (7) Joseph, b. 8 Ang. 1658. (8) Benjamin, b. 15 Apr. 1660. (9) Samuel, b. 9 May, 1662.
His wife Elizabeth dying, he appears to have left Woburn for Salem Village (Danvers) about 1664; whence (leaving his sons, it is likely, to spread into Wills Hill, or Middleton,) he returned to Woburn in 1684; married Sarah, widow of Lieut. John Wyman, and daughter of Miles Nutt, 25 Aug. 1684 : and she dying, 24 May, 1688, he seems to have again removed from Woburn to Danvers, married Hannah -, and to have died abroad. After his death, his widow came to Woburn, to reside with her married daughters, wives of James Proctor, Aaron Cleveland, John Wilson, etc., etc., whom the Selectmen compelled to give bonds for her maintenance, 21 June, 1697. [Town Records, Vol. III., p. 97; also, Records of Births, Marriages, etc., etc., and letter of Henry H. Fuller, Esq., Boston.]
GARDNER. Richard, came, says family tradition, from the County of Surry, England; settled first within the bounds of Woburn, having his house nearly opposite to the mansion of the late Luke Reed, Esq., in Wo- burn West End, about 40 rods from the road, where remains of the cellar and well were still discernible in 1857a; but between 1661 and 1667, he removed into "Charlestown End," to the spot where the two maiden ladies,
·Capt. Joseph Gardner, of Woburn, now deceased.
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Miss Patience Gardner and her sister, had their habitation. And hence the births of his last four children are not recorded in Woburn Records, but must be looked for in those of Charlestown. He married Anna Blanch- ard, of Acton, (Savage says of Charlestown, widow of Thomas, of Mystic, or Malden side,) 18 Oct. 1651, by whom he had : (1) John, born 14 Aug. 1652. (2) Anna, b. 17 Jan. 1654-5; died before her father. (3) Benjamin, b. 26 Dec. 1656; died also before his father. (4) Henry, b. 12 Feb. 1657-8. (5) Esther, b. 15 Oct. 1659 ; md. William, eldest son of Major William John- son and Esther his wife; and died 17 Dec. 1706, æt. 48. (6) Ruth, b. 1 Apr. 1661, and md. to John Gypson [Gibson?]. (7) Hannah, born md. Coddington. (8) Abigail, born
md. to James Thompson. (9) Rebecca,
born m. Samuel Whittemore, of Cambridge, 13 (?) Feb. 1686. (10)
Mehetabel, born md. [John] Conuett. Richard Gardner died 29 May (al. March 4), 1698, aged about 79 years. Gravestone.
I. Henry Gardner married, first, Elizabeth -, by whom he had : (1) John, born 22 July, 1695. (2) Henry, b. 2 Aug. 1698. (3) Samuel, b. 10 Sept. 1700; died unmarried, 3 March [al. 3 Dec.], 1723. (4) Elizabeth, b. 25 Dec. 1702; md. - , Sawyer. (5) Mary, b. 28 May, 1705; " Do. of Charlestown," md. to Zechariah Flagg, of Woburn, 2 Jan. 1733. After the death of his first wife, Elizabeth, who died 3 June, [1703, aged 43, Gravestone.] Henry Gardner md. Hannah Prescott, who survived him. He died 20 Feb. 1713-14, æt. 57, while his son John was in college.
GARDNER. II. John, son of Henry and Elizabeth Gardner, was graduated at Harvard College, 1715; ordained at Stow, in 1718; and died, the minister of that town, 10 Jan. 1775, æt. 80. He was the father of Hon. Henry Gardner, treasurer of Massachusetts in the time of the Revo- lution; and of Rev. Francis Gardner, minister of Leominster. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc.]
GRAVES. Mr. Thomas : See Chapt. II.
GLAZIER. John was in Woburn, 1663; was taxed here in 1666; and, to encourage him to remain in the town, fourteen inhabitants, at a general meeting, 8th August, 1672, agreed to give him an acre of land each, one gave two acres, and eight gave half an acre each, twenty acres in all, to be deducted from their several proportions of the common lands about to be divided, and to be laid out at the Wyman Bridge, some on each side of the brook. a By his wife, Elizabeth, (daughter of John George, of Charles- town; b) John Glazier had : (1) John, born, --- , 1663. (2) Zechariah, b. 20 Apr. 1666. (3) Elizabeth, b. 4 Aug. 1668. (4) John, b. 15 Dec. 1669. (5) Ruth, b. 30 May, 1671. (6) Samuel, b. 5 July, 1672. (7) George, b. 3 June, 1676. c
GREEN. I. William was of Charlestown, 1640, and a subscriber that year to "Town Orders " for Woburn, and among its earliest inhabitants. He was made freeman 1644. By his wife Hannah, he had: (1) Mary, born 20 Jan. 1644. (2) Hannah, born 7 Feb. 1646-7; married to Joseph
" Town Records, Vol. I., p. 40. b Savage's Geneal. Dict. County Records. See also Wob. Records of Births, etc., etc.
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Richardson. (3) John, b. 11 Oct. 1649. (4) William, b. 22 Oct. 1651. William Green, sen., died 7 Jan. 1653-4. By him, or by one of his sons, was probably owned the lot in the centre of Burlington known as the Green Lot; and the ruins of the house once attached to it are still to be seen.
John Green, a brother probably of the above William, taxed with him at Woburn in 1645; but was not taxed there in 1646, and seems to have soon left the town.
GREEN. John, son of the above William Green, married, 3 July, 1671, Sarah, daughter of John Bateman, of Boston; by whom he had : Sarah, born 6 June, 1672. (2) Samuel, b. 29 Jan. 1673-4. (3) John, b. 6 Jan. 1676-7. (4) Hannah, b. 4 March, 1679. He was taxed in a Town Rate, 22 Dec. 1679; and in 1680 he was numbered among those who were appointed by the Selectmen, 5 July, to be under the inspection of Sergeant Matthew John- son, as tythingmana. But in a tax made for the minister for 1687 his name does not occur; whence it is concluded, that at the last mentioned date he was dead, or removed from the town.
GREEN. II. William Green, jun., son of William Green, sen., had, by his wife Mary, William, born 9 Aug. 1675. His first wife dying, 3 June, 1676, he married for his second wife Hannah, daughter of Francis Kendall, by whom he had: (1) Francis, b. 30 Nov. 1678. (2) Ebenezer, b. 18 July, 1680. (3) Mehetabel, b. 30 June, 1682; died 27 March, 1698. (4) Hannah, b. 7 Oct. 1684. (5) Mary, b. 1 Nov. 1686. (6) Samuel, b. 18th July, 1689. (7) Jacob, b. 14 Oct. 1691. (8) Joseph, b. 14 Apr. 1694. (9) Abigail, b. . . . . 1699. William Green, jun., died 1 Dec. 1717. [Woburn Rec. of Births, etc., Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
HALL. Thomas : (or Hale, in County Records) taxed in the Meeting- House rate, 1672a. By his wife -, he had: (1) Elizabeth, boru 14 Dec. 1674; died a fortnight after. (2) Abigail, b. 20 Aug. and died 30 Oct. 1681.
HENSHAW. I. Thomas : His name occurs in the List for the Meet- ing-house Rate, 1672; but not in the Tax List for 1666, nor among those who had right in the common lands of Woburn, 1668. c He was married 24 Sept. 1677, to Hannah, daughter of Moses Cleaveland. Their children were : (1) Elizabeth, born 30 July, 1678; md. to John "Manser," Charles- town, 3 June, 1701. (2) Thomas, b. 17 Nov. 1680. (3) Hannah, b. 21 May, 1683. (4) William, b. 25 Nov. 1685. (5) Samuel, b. 13 March, 1688. (6) Ebenezer, b. 1 March, 1691; died a pauper, 28 Feb. 1756. (7) Josiah, b. 1 March, 1695.
Thomas "Hensher" died 16 Jan. 1699, [1699-1700.]
HENSHAW. II. Thomas "Hincher," son of the preceding, and Mary Brooks, married 26 May, 1712. By her he had: (1) Thomas, born 1 Sept. 1713. (2) William, b. 21 Dec. 1715. (3) Isaac, b. 22 Aug. 1719.
a T. R., Vol. II., p. 153-4.
c Woburn Records, Vol. I., pp. 38, 39, 40.
b T. R. Vol. I., pp. 38, 39, 40.
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"Mr. Isaac Hincher died Jan. 3, 1756." (4) Joshua, b. 1 Oct. 1751. (5) Mary, b. 7 Feb. 1723, (1723-4). (6) Oliver, b. 14 March, 1726.
Thomas Hincher died 11 Sept. 1726. [N. B. The name Henshaw but seldom occurs in Woburn Records: it is there almost invariably spelt "Henshow," "Hensher," or "Hincher."]
HILL. Ralph : was originally of Plymouth, where he married Margaret Toothaker, probably a widow, 1638. Removing to Woburn, he was taxed there as an inhabitant, 1645, 1646 : and there had a son born to him, viz : Jonathan, 20 Apl. 1646. He was made freeman, 1647; was Select- man of Woburn, 1651; but in 1653, he removed to Billerica, and became one of its earliest settlers; and in 1659 he sold his house and land in Woburn to Richard Snow. He died at Billerica, 29 Apl. 1663. His widow died there 22 Nov. 1683, aged "about 88." In his Will, 10 Nov. 1662, he names his son Nathaniel, (born probably at Plymouth) Jonathan, Ralph, Martha, Rebecca, his widow Margaret, his son-in-law, Roger Toothaker, etc., etc., etc. [Savage's Geneal. Dict., Woburn Records, Billerica Records, Wyman Papers, No. 53.]
HOLLAND. Christopher was one of the earliest settlers of Woburn, being taxed there in the "Rate for the Country," levied 8 Sept. 1645. But he soon removed, being of Boston, in 1652. [Wob. Town Records, Vol. I., p. 8, Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
Nothing more is found of him in Woburn.
IVONS. Edward was taxed as an inhabitant of Woburn, in 1666 a; had once a grant of land made to him in the centre of the town, near the Training Field b; and at the general distribution of land and timber among the proprietors, in 1668, he had a share assigned him in the "4th Eighth."c But becoming deranged, and rendered poor thereby, and incapable of tak- ing care of himself, the Selectmen took him under their protection, and provided for his comfort. d He died about 1683, and was buried at the town's expense. e
JOHNSON. Capt. Edward: See Chapter II. Major William : See Chapt. V.
JOHNSON. Matthew, son of Capt. Edward, and brother of Major William : born in England : came from Charlestown to Woburn to reside; was taxed there in Country Rate of 26 Aug. 1666; and had a share in the common lands of Woburn assigned him, 1668, in the " 8th Eighth."e He m. Hannah, daughter of Peter Palfrey, 12 Nov. 1656; and, she dying, 1 Aug. 1662, he took for his second wife, 23 Oct. 1662, Rebekah, daughter of John Wiswall, of Dorchester, then of Boston, and ruling elder of First Church there. By her he had: (1) Rebekah, b. 1 March, 1665; m. to Samuel Wyman, 1692. (2) Matthew, b. 18 March, 1667. (3) Hannah, b. 23 Apr. 1669. (4) Samuel, b. 28 April, 1672. (5) Ruth, b. 1
& T. R., Vol. I., pp. 43, 44. b T. R., Vol. I., p. 31. c T. R., Vol. I., p. 46. d T. R., Vol. I., p. 113; Vol. II., p. 150; Vol. III., pp. 3, 36. His name is spelt by Mr. Savage, in his Geneal. Dict., Ines.
e T. R., Vol. I. p. 47.
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Jan. 1674-5; m. to John Reed, 2d, 1697? (6) Sarah, b. 14 April, 1677; md. to Daniel Reed, 1699. (7) Henry, b. 7 Apr. 1683.
Lieut. Matthew Johnson was a carpenter by trade; and was employed in building the house erected by the town for Rev. Jabez Fox, in 1680. He represented Woburn in the General Court, 1689, 1690, '91 and 92'; and died 19 July, 1696, aged 62 [Gravestone.] His widow, Rebekah, died 25 Dec. 1709. [Wob. Rec., Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
JOHNSON. John, brother of Matthew, was a miller, and proprietor of a saw-mill in Woburn; married Bethiah Reed, daughter of William and Mabel Reed, 28 Apr. 1657; had : (1) John, born 24 Jan. 1657-8. (2) Be- thiah, b. 20 Jan. 1659-60; m. to-, Wolcott, Cambridge. (3) William b. 29 Sept. 1662; removed to Plainfield (Canterbury), Ct. (+) Obadiah, b 15 June, 1664; removed to Canterbury, Ct. 1690. a (5) Samuel, b. 29 Oct. 1670. (6) Nathaniel, b. 15 May, 1673.
John Johnson, becoming sick, enfeebled and poor in his latter years, he and his wife Bethiah were taken by their sons, William and Obadiah, in 1712, to Canterbury, Ct., and there maintained by them during life at the charge of Woburn.b Mrs. Bethiah Johnson died about 1717.e Her hus- band survived till 1720.º [Woburn Rec. of Births, etc. Savage's Geneal Dict.]
JEFTS. Henry, a subscriber to the "Town Orders" for Woburn in 1640; taxed in the Country Rate of Sept. 1645; had grants of land made to him in Woburn. He married " Anna Stowars" (Ann Stowers) 13 Sept. 1647; and she dying, he md. for his 2d wife, Hannah Births, 21 May, 1649; by whom he had John, born 11 May, 1651. In 1653, he had become an inhabitant of Billerica, where a daughter Hannah died in " the first weeke" of May, 1653. Ilis children, born afterwards, were : (1) Hanualı, b. 4 Feb. 1654-5. (2) Joanna, b. 24 May, 1656. (3) Henry, b. 21 March, 1658-9, Hannah, his wife, dying 15 Sept. 1662, he md. for his 3d wife, 3 Oct. 1666, Mary Bird, widow; and after her decease, 1 April, 1679, he married a 4th wife, Mary Baker, of Concord, widow, 5 May, 1681.
" Henry Jefts, sen., departed this life, aged about 94 years, 24 May, 1700." [Billerica Rec., Woburn Rec., Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
JAQUITH. I. Abraham, son of Abraham Jaquith, of Charlestown, and of Ann, his wife, a daughter of James Jordan, of Dedham. He was born 19 Dec. 1644; took up his residence in Woburn (viz : that part of it which is now Wilmington) ; was taxed there 1666; md. Mary Adford, 13 March, 1671; had : (1) Abraham, born 17 Feb. 1672-3. (2) Elizabeth, b. 19 May, 1675. (3)Sarah, b. 21 Sept. 1677.
JAQUITHI. II. Abraham, son of the preceding, married Sarah Jones 26 Dec. 1700. To them were born; (1) Abraham, 30 Dec. 1701. (2) Sarah, 8 March, 1703; md. to Samuel Butter, Jan. 29, 1726-7? (3) Jolin, 7 Oct. 1704. (4) Mary, 1 Sept. 1706. (5) Elizabeth, 5 June, 1708. (6) Adford, 15 Apl. 1710. (7) Abigail, 10 June, 1712. (8) Ebenezer, 3 June, 1714. (9)
* Letter from Rev. E. R. Johnson, New Carlisle, Clark Co., Ohio, Sept. 1852, a descendant from Obadiah Johnson. Town Records, Vol. V., p. 220. ºTown Ree., Vol. VI., pp. 44, 133.
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Benjamin, b. 27 June, 1716. (10, 11) William and Lydia, twins, b. 1 May, 1718 : both died the same month. (12) Hannah, 19 July, 1719. (13) Ruth, 10 April, and died 30th Apl. 1722. (14) Susanna, 23 June, and died 5 July, 1723. (15) Seth, 5 June, and died 16 July, 1724.
[Woburn Records of Birthis, etc., etc .; Savage's Geneal. Dict. ]
Kendall is a family name of local derivation, borrowed from Kent-dale, that is, a dale in the County of Kent, England; or, as may be thought by some, from Kendal, a noted town in Westmoreland County, on the borders of the river Ken. From one or the other of these sources, the Kendal's or Kendall's in England probably derived their origin and their name.
KENDALL. Francis, born in England, is supposed to have been the common ancestor of all of his name in New England. He was in Charles- town, 1640, where he subscribed the "Town Orders" for Woburn in December of that year; and was taxed among the earliest inhabitants of Woburn, 1645. The record of his marriage there reads thus : "Ffrances Kendall, alias Miles, and Mary Tedd, [Tidd] maryed 24th. of 10 mo. [24 Dec.] 1644;" which lends support to a family tradition, communicated many years ago by Rev. Dr. Kendall, of Weston, that in order to conceal from his parents his intentions to emigrate to this country, he embarked in England under a feigned name. His children by his wife Mary were : (1) John, born 2 July, 1646. (2) Thomas, b. 10 Jan. 1648-9. (3) Mary, b. 20 Jan. 1650-1; married to Israel Reed about 1669. (4) Elizabeth, b. 15 Jan. 1652-3; md. to James Peirce. (5) Hannah, b. 26 Jan. 1654-5; md. to William Green, jun., as his second wife. (6) Rebekah, b. 2 March, 1657; md. to Joshua Eaton; deceased in 1706. (7) Samuel, b. 8 March, 1659. (8) Jacob, b. 25 Jan. 1660-1. (9) Abigail, b. 6 Apr. 1666; md. to William "Read," 24 May, 1686.
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