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Mary, his wife, died in 1705. "Francis Kendall, sen., died . . . . 1708," when, according to a testimony given by him in Court, 1700, he must have been 88 years old. He was a gentleman of great respectability and influ- ence in the place of his residence. He served the town, at different times, 18 years on the Board of Selectmen; and was often appointed on import- ant committees, especially on one for distributing the common lands of the town, 1664;ª and on another, respecting the erection of the second meet- ing-house, 1672a.
In his Will, dated 9 May, 1706, when he was "stricken in years," (he "writes), "and expecting daily his change," he styles himself a miller; and gives one-half of his mill, with a proportionate interest in the streams, dams and utensils thereto belonging, to his son John; one-quarter to Thomas, and one-quarter to Samuel. This mill has ever since been in the possession of his posterity. Its present owner and occupant, Mr. Joseph R. Kendall, a descendant from Thomas, second son of Francis, is of the 6th generation from its original proprietor. [Kendall Family Papers.]
Francis Kendall remembers likewise in his Will the eight children of his brother Thomas, (one of the first settlers of Reading, and a deacon of
a T. R., Vol. I., pp. 24, 36.
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the church there) who were living, when he, his said brother died. It seems that this brother of Francis Kendall, of Woburn, Deacon Thomas Kendall, of Reading, and Rebecca, his wife, had had teu daughters, but no son that lived. But these daughters, in order to preserve their maiden name, Kendall, among their posterity, directed, each of them, when mar- ried, that her first born son should have the given name, Kendall, prefixed to his surname; as Kendall Peirson, Kendall Boutwell, Kendall Eaton, Kendall Briant, etc., etc., etc., which gave occasion to the following lines respecting these daughters in a Poem written by Lillie Eaton, Esq., of South Reading, and published with Flint's Historical Address upon the 200th Anniversary of the founding of Reading. In mentioning the vener- able matron, their mother, he observes :
"She had ten daughters ; and each one, When married, christened her first son Kendall; and thus we may infer Why 'tis these names so oft occur."
Flint's Address, p. 64.
The children of John, Thomas, Samuel, and Jacob Kendall, the four sons of Francis the first, were as follows :
John, eldest son of Francis Kendall, married, 29 Jan. 1668, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Bartlett. Their children were: (1) Mary, born 1 Sept. 1671. (2) Lydia, b. 23 Apr. 1674. (3) Francis, b. 4 Dec. 1678; died soon. His first wife, Hannah, dying, John Kendall md. Elizabeth Comey, 29 March, 1681, and had by her : (1) Francis, b. 11 Apr. 1682. (2) John, b. 7 Oct. 1684; died young. (3) David, b. 14 Nov. 1686. (4) Elizabeth, b. 23 Feb. 1688-9 ; md. to Amos Knight, 1720? (5) Jonathan, b. 28 Nov. 1690. (6) Rebekah, b. 22 March, 1693. (7) Nathaniel, b. 27 Feb. 1694-5. (8) John, 2d, b. 8 July, 1699. Elizabeth, wife of John Kendall, died in Decem- ber 1701. After her death, he married, for his 3d wife, Eunice, widow of Mr. Samuel Carter, and daughter of John Brooks. She was living in 1706. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
Thomas, second son of Francis Kendall, married Ruth-,1673. Their children were : (1) Ruth, b. 17 Feb. 1674-5; married to John Walker, jun., son of first Dea. Samuel Walker. (2) Thomas, b. 19 May, 1677. (3) Mary, b. 27 Feb. 1680; md. to Joseph Whittmore, 1698-9. (4) Samuel, b. 29 Oct. 1682. (5) Ralph, b. 4 May, 1685. (6) Eleazer, b. 16 Nov. 1687. (7, 8) Jabez and Jane, twins, b. 10 Sept. 1692. Jane md. to Josephi Russell, 1712. (9) a still-born son, boru 16 Dec. 1695. Ruth, wife of Thomas Kendall, died 18th of the same month and year. Thomas Kendall md. for his 2d wife Abigail Broughton, March 30, 1696, who died 31 Dec. 1716. IIe died himself, 25 May, 1730.
Samuel, third son of Francis Kendall, married 13 Nov. 1683, Rebekah, daughter of Isaac Mixer. Their children were : (1) Samuel, born 13 Aug. 1684. (2) Isaac, b. 13 Sept. 1686. (3) Joshua, b. 14 March, 1689. (4) Rebekah, b. 6 July, 1691; died 25 Nov. 1691. Rebekah, wife of Samuel Kendall, dying 25 Oct. 1691, he married, for his second wife, Mary, daugh-
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ter of William Locke, 30 March, 1692. By her he had : (1) Mary, b. 3 Feb. 1692-3; who died 14 Aug. 1727. (2) Rebekah, b. 26 Jan. 1694-5; wife of Samuel Russell. (3) Abigail, b. 31 March, 1697; md. to William Nichols, of Reading, 1719-20. (4) Ebenezer, b. 16 May, 1700. (5) Ruth, b. 23 Apr. 1703; md. to - Bancroft. (6) Tabitha, b. 22 Jan. 1706-7; md. to Nathan Richardson, 1729, and died 25 Nov. 1739. Samuel Kendall finally removed, we are told, to Lancaster.a He probably remained in Woburn till the sum- mer of 1742, being taxed there in a Parish tax assessed Jan. 28, 1741-2, but not in one assessed in February, 1742-3. b His Will, written 6 Dec. 1742, when he was " advanced in years," is subscribed with his own hand, " Samuel Kendal."c But it is said not to have been proved till 1749. ª [Woburn Records of Births, etc., etc. ]
Jacob, youngest son of Francis Kendall, married Persis "Heywood," or " Hayward," 2 Jan. 1683-4. Their children were : (1) Persis, born 24 Aug. 1685. (2) Jacob, b. 12 Jan. 1686-7. (3) Joseph, b. 7 Dec. 1688. (4) Jona- than, b. 2 Nov. and died 11 Nov. 1690. (5) Daniel, b. 23. Oct. 1691. Persis, wife of Jacob Kendall, died 19 Oct. 1694, and he married for his second wife Alice Temple, 10 Jan. 1694-5. By her he had : (1) Ebenezer, b. 9 Nov. 1695; died young. (2) John, b. 19 Jan. 1696-7; died 17 Oct. 1697. (3) Sarah, b. 18 July, 1698. (4) Esther, b. 20 Nov. 1699. (5) Hezekiah, b. 26 May, 1701. (6) Nathan, b. 12 Dec. 1702. (7) Susanna, b. 27 Oct. 1704. (8) Phebe, b. 19 Dec. 1706. (9) David, b. 28 Sept. 1708. (9) Ebenezer, again, b. 5 Apr. 1710. (10) Alice, b. 31 Jan. 1711-12. (11) Abraham, b. 26 Apr. 1712. [This, or the preceding record, or both, obviously erroneous.] (12) Jacob, again, b. 22 Apr. 1714; died 1 June, 1714. (13) Persis, again, b. 23 Aug. 1715.
[Woburn Records of Births, etc., etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
Descendants of these four brothers, who made Woburn their place of permanent residence, were formerly very numerous. Individuals of the name and connection still remain in the town, but have much dwindled of late in respect to numbers. But multitudes of Kendalls have gone forth from Woburn, to replenish other towns of the Commonwealth. Tewks- bury and Sherborn, in Middlesex County, and Athol, Lancaster, Leomin- ster, and Sterling, in Worcester County, have all been more or less indebted to Woburn for her many sons and daughters, Kendalls by name or birth, whom she has contributed to help settle those towns, or when settled already, to increase their number of inhabitants.d And no family of Ken- dalls in Woburn has done more to swell the tide of emigration towards the towns above mentioned than that of Samuel Kendall, grandson of Francis, and son of Thomas and Ruth Kendall, born in Woburn, 29 Octo- ber, 1682. He was a carpenter by trade; and formerly known far and wide beyond his native place as Lieutenant Kendall, from having received a Lieutenant's commission from Governor Belcher, 5 Oct. 1732.e He was a very active, enterprising, public spirited man, often employed in town
Savage's Geneal. Dict. b Rec. of First Parish, Woburn. ºWill, among Kendall Papers. Mr. Calvin Kendall of Athol, son of Mr. Jesse of that town, 1846. . Kendall Papers;
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business, and much engaged in promoting both the civil and the religious prosperity of Woburn. He was an original proprietor of North Town, or Townsend, and as such, became involved in a controversy with the heirs of Major Hathorne, of Salem, who claimed a portion of the lands in that town, under a prior grant from the General Court_a He was also a princi- ple settler of Paguaige, or Athol; in the settlement of which he and sev- eral of his sons suffered much from floods, and from the depredations of Indians during the French wars between 1744 and 1760.ª By his wife Elizabeth, Lieut. Kendall had fifteen children, as follows :
1. Samuel, born 30 June, 1708. Minister of New Salem.
2. James, " 28 April, 1710. Lived and died in Sterling, once a part of Lancaster.
3. Josiah, 1 September, 1712. Lived and died in Sterling.
4. Ezekiel, 14 March, 1715. An inhabitant of Sterling ; lived and died there.
5. Timothy, " 23 March, 1717. Lived and died at Leominster.
6. Elizabeth,“ 3 September, 1719. Wife of John Brooks, of Sterling, then Lancaster.
7. Jonas, 10 March, 1721. Leominster.
8. Sarah, 16 April, 1723. Wife of John Kendall of Leominster, a son of II. Francis, born 11 April, 1682, a grandson of I. John, and great grandson of I. Francis Kendall.
9. Susanna, " 5 July, 1724. Lived single.
10. Obadiah,“ at Woburn, 3 September, 1725. Occupant of the paternal mill : deacon of the church of Woburn.
11. Jesse, " 15 May, 1727. Lived at Athol, a husbandman and miller ; one of the first settlers of Athol : married Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew and Mary Evans, of Woburn, about 1751, and had by her twelve children. .
12. Seth, " 4 January, 1728-9. Lived at Athol.
13. Abigail, " 27 February, 1730-1. Wife of Jacob Peirce, of Woburn.
14. Ephraim," 9 November, 1732. Died 16 February, 1732-3.
15. Jerusha, " 13 February, 1734-5. Wife of Reuben Richardson, jun., of Woburn.b
Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Samuel Kendall, died 10 January, 1741-2. He ap- pears then to have married a second wife. The following probably is a record of his Intentions of Marriage : "Samuel Kendall entered his Inten- tions of Marriage with Mehitabel Asmore [Hosmer?] of Concord, July 6, 1751."b
" Lt. Kendall's wife died " 24 Angust, 1755. "Lieut. Samuel Kendall " died 13 December, 1764.
Among thie descendants of the Kendalls who went from Woburn and set-
@Kendall Papers.
b Woburn Records of Births, etc., etc.
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tled in other places were several gentlemen of distinction and great respectability of character, of whom it seems proper here to give a passing notice.
1. Rev. Samuel Kendall (or Kendal, as he preferred to spell his name), D. D., son of Elisha Kendall, of Sherborn, who was the 12th son of II. Thomas and Sarah (Cheever) Kendall of Woburn and Sherborn, a grand- son of I. Thomas and Ruth Kendall, of Woburn, and a great grandson of Francis Kendall, the first settler of the name. He was born at Sherborne, 11 July, 1753; graduated at Harvard College, 1782; ordained at Weston, 5 Nov. 1783; and died there, 16 Feb. 1815, æt. 62. Elisha Kendall, his father, who spent his latter days with him at Weston, outlived him, dying 1824, aged 99. [Rev. Dr. Kendall's Century Sermon, pp. 44, 45 : Allen's Biog. Dict.]
2. Rev. Samuel Kendall, eldest son of Lieut. Samuel, was born at Wo- burn, 30 June, 1708; graduated at Harvard College, 1731; ordained at New Salem, Franklin County, Mass. at the gathering of the church there, 15 Dec. 1742; dismissed, 1776; and died, 31 Jan. 1792, aged 84. [Woburn Records of Births, etc. Allen's Biog. Dict.]
3. Rev. James Kendall, D. D., of Plymouth. He was the youngest son of Major James Kendall, of Sterling, Worc. County, Mass., whose father, James Kendall, was the second son of Lieut. Samuel Kendall, of Woburn; married Sarah Richardson of Woburn, 21 July, 1735, and removed to Sterling (then Lancaster) to reside. Rev. James, his grandson, was born at Sterling, 3 Nov. 1769; grd. at H. C., 1796; ordained at Plymouth, 1 Jan. 1800; and died there, 17 March, 1859, aged 89 years, 4 months, 14 days ; and in the 60th year of his ministry. [Mr. Calvin Kendall of Athol, Funeral Sermon of, etc.]
4. Hon. Jonas Kendall. He was son of Jonas, 6th son of Lieut. Samuel Kendall, of Woburn, and an early settler in Leominster. He was born at Leominster, his father's residence, 27 Oct. 1757; was largely engaged, it is believed, in the manufacturing business at Leominster; was sometime member of the Senate of Massachusetts; and at death was nearly 80 years of age. [Mr. Calvin Kendall of Athol : Letter of Hon. Joseph G. Kendall, his son, etc., etc. ]
5. Hon. Joseph Gowing Kendall, son of the preceding, was a native of Leominster; a graduate, 1810, and subsequently a tutor of Harvard Col- lege; was a lawyer by profession; a Clerk of the Courts, resident at Worcester; and once represented that district in the Congress of the United States. He died in 1847. [Letter from him, 1846 : College Cata- logue, etc., etc.]
6. Rev. David Kendall was a son of Jesse Kendall, of Athol, who was the 8th son of Lieut. Samuel Kendall of Woburn. He was grd. at H. C., 1794 ; was minister of Hubbardston from 1802 to 1809. He then removed to Augusta, Oneida County, N. Y., where he continued in the pastoral office till his death, 19 Feb. 1853, at the age of 85. [Mr. Calvin Kendall of Athol : Allen's Biog. Dict.]
KNIGHT. I. Joseph, sen., was originally of Watertown. . He sold his
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house there, Dec. 10, 1649 ; and soon after, with his wife, Hannah, removed to Woburn. a He was made freeman 1652, was taxed in Woburn, 1666; and was numbered among those who had right in the common lands of Woburn, 1668. At Woburn, he had born to him, by his wife, Hannah : (1) Sarah, born 8 March, 1651. (2) Samuel, b. 8 Sept. 1652, and died, 26 Dec. 1653. (3) Hannah, b. 25 March, 1654. (4) John, b. 16 Jan. 1665-6. (5) Elizabeth, b. 7 Apr. 1658. (6) Mary, b. 6 June, 1660; died, 10 Apr. 1661. (7) Dinah, b. 4 July, 1661 ; md. to John Morse, of Watertown, 1686. (8) Samuel, again, b. 18 March, 1663. (9) Mary, b. 12 Dec. 1672; died, 1 March, 1673. (10) Joseph, b. 12 Dec. 1673. (11) Edward, b. 31 Aug. 1677. (12) Isaac, b. 24 Feb. 1679-80; died, 4 March, 1679-80. (13) James, b. 22 Apr. 1681, and died the next day.
Joseph Knight [ .. Sen." County Records] died 13 Aug. 1687." " Hannah, relict of Joseph Knight, sen., died 13 Jan. 1694-5."
II. "Josephi Knight, jun." Among those made freemen at the Court in May, 1675, and "re-admitted to freedome, 21 Feb. 1675-6," is found ' Jo- seph Knight, Wob."b Ile was taxed in the rate for the second Meeting- house in Woburn, 1672; married Martha Lilley, 4 Apr. 1699; and in his will, 16 Jan. 1733, names wife Martha and six daughters.
I. John Knight was taxed in Woburn, 1666; married there, 2 March, 1681, " Abigail, daughter of John and Sarah Craggen; " and had by her : (1) Abigail, born 27 Dec. 1681. (2) John, b. 31 Jan. 1683-4; died 21 June, 1685. (3) John, b. 3 March, 1686. (4) Benjamin, b. 20 March, 1688; died Sept. 1697. (5) Samuel, b. 27 Sept. 1690. (6) Mercy, b. 3 Feb. 1692-3. (7) Ebenezer, b. 20 Aug. 1695. (8) Rebekah, b. 14 May, 1698. (9) Benja- min, b. 20 Oct. 1700. (10) Joseph, b. 9 Nov. and died 19 Dec. 1702. (11) Amaziah, b. 14 Dec. 1703. Abigail, wife of Jolin Knight, died 17 June, 1707. "John Knight, sen." died 9 Nov. 1735. [Woburn Records.]
II. John, his son, born 3 March, 1686, is probably the John Knight who sold his homestead, 3 Feb. 1735-6, in Woburn Precinct, to Rev. Mr. Sup- ply Clap ; vacated the house 19 May, 1736; and seems to have removed from the town, as no further mention of him has been observed. [Wo- burn Records. Rev. Mr. Clap's papers, etc.]
Michael Knight had right in common lands of Woburn assigned him, 1668; was admitted freeman, 1654; married Mary Bullard, 20 Oct. 1657; and had : (1) Mary, born 14 Oct. 1658; md. to George Polly, jun., 1677. (2) Jonathan, b. 23 March, 1662. (3) Joseph,c b. 10 Jan. 1664-5. (4) Lydia, b. 29 Sept. 1674. [Woburn Rec. Colony Rec.]
LEARNED. William, born in England; admitted freeman of the Colo- ny, 1634; received with Goodeth, his wife, into the present First Church, Charlestown, G Dec. 1632; subscribed at Charlestown the "Town Or- ders" for Woburn, 1640; was one of the first seven members of the
& Bond's Watertown, pp. 328, 816. Col. Records. Woburn Town Records, and Records of Marriages, cte., etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict.
Col. Rec. Wob. Rec. Rec. of Births, etc., in Wob. Savage's Geneal, Dict.
" " Joshua " according to Savage, b. 20 Jan. 1664-5.
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church of Woburn at its gathering, in 1642, and one of the first Board of Selectmen in Woburn, chosen 1644. He died, 1 March, 1646.
LEARNED. Isaac, apparently an only child of William Learned, was born in England; married, 9 July, 1646, Mary Stearns, eldest child of Isaac and Mary Stearns, of Watertown. He settled first in Woburn; but, April 2, 1652, he sold his house and lands in Woburn to Bartholomew Peirson, of Watertown, and removed to Chelmsford, where he was at one time Selectman, and where he died, 27 Nov. 1657. He had born to him at Woburn : (1) Mary, b. 7 Aug. 1647. (2) Hannah, b. 24 Aug. 1649. (3) William, " eldest son," birth not recorded, but probably born in Woburn; died, 1684, unmarried. a At Chelmsford, were born: (1) Sarah, 28 b, Oct. 1653. ª (2) Isaac, b. 16 Sept. 1655.a (3) Benoni, born 2 days after his father's death, 29 Nov. 1657. a [Bond's Hist. Watertown;" Colony Records, Charlestown First Ch. Records; Woburn Town Records; Woburn Re- cords of Births, Marriages, etc., etc.]
LEPINGWELL. Michael was an early inhabitant of Woburn, and taxed in the first rate levied there for the Country, 8 Sept. 1645. By his wife, Isabel, he had : (1) Hannah, born 1 Sept. 1642; died 10 Feb. 1642-3. (2) Hannah, b. 6 Jan. 1645-6; md. Gershom Flagg. (3) Sarah ["Mary," County Records ], b. 10 March, 1647. (4) Thomas, b. 13 Jan. 1648-9. (5) Ruth, b. 2 Jan. 1649-50. (6) Michael, b. 8 June, and died 15 June, 1651. (7) Rachel, b. 4 March, 1653. (8) Abigail, b. 24 May, 1655. (9) Esther, b. 16 May, 1657. (10) Tabitha, b. 8 May, 1661. Isabel Lepingwell died 17 Nov. 1671. Michael Lepingwell died 22 March, 1687.
[Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc. The Lepingwells have been extinct from Woburn a century, or more. Descendants or relations, apparently, are found elsewhere; but they spell their name Leffingwell. See Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
LITTLEFIELD. Francis. His name first appears in Woburn in the Town Rate assessed 22 Dec. 1646; but not in any subsequent List. By his wife Jane, he had a daughter Mary, born 14 Dec. 1646; but the mother died, 20 Dec. 1646, within a week from the daughter's birth; and the father himself probably soon removed from the town. [Records of the Town. Wob. Rec. of Births, Deaths, etc.]
LOWDEN. Richard was of Charlestown, 1638, and there subscribed the "Town Orders" for Woburn, Dec. 1640; but it does not appear that he ever changed his residence for Woburn. [Savage : Town Records of Wob.]
LOCKE. William Locke, sen., was probably born in London, 13 Dec. 1628; came from there in the "Planter," 1635, being then a child 6 years old, with Nicholas Davis, who calls him in his Will "cossen," meaning probably, his nephew. He doubtless lived at first with his uncle at Charlestown, where his uncle subscribed the Town Orders for Woburn, Dec. 1640, and became one of the first planters of this new settlement. Locke seated himself down with him at Woburn; married 27 Nov. 1655,
& Bond's Watertown, p. 334.
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Mary, daughter of William Clark, of Watertown; lived in Woburn, at the place well known as Capt. Fox's place; was chosen deacon of the church of Woburn about 1700; and died 16th of June, 1720. His wife, Mary, died before him, 18 July, 1715. His children were : (1) William, born 27 Dec. 1657, and died 9 Jan. following. (2) William, b. 18 Jan 1658-9. (3) John, b. 1 Aug. 1661. (4) Joseph, b. 8 March, 1664; to whom his father gave by deed lands in "Cambridge ffarmes " (now Lexington) 26 March, 1695, and who was doubtless the founder of the numerous families named Locke in that town. (5) Mary, b. 16 Oct. 1666; md. to Samuel Kendall, 30 March, 1692. (6) Samuel, b. 14 Oct. 1669. (7) Ebenezer, b. 8 Jan. 1673-4. (8) James, b. 14 Nov. 1677. (9) Elizabeth, b. 4 Jan. 1680-1; md. to James Markham, 14 Oct. 1700. [Wob. Town Records : Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
LOCKE. II. William Locke, jun., lived at the Thos. Locke place, so called, formerly in Woburn, now in Lexington. He md. 29 May, 1683, Sarah, daughter of Francis and Isabel Whitmore, of Cambridge, who was born 2 March, 1662 a; by whom he had : (1) William, b. 28 June, 1684, buried 29 Jan. 1767, aged 83 b. (2) Francis, b. 25 July, 1690; lived in West Cambridge, a tanner c. (3) Daniel, b. 9 July, 1693, of Woburn, a weaver c. His wife, Sarah, dying, he md. Abigail Heywood (Hayward) 8 June, 1698; by whom he had : (1) Ebenezer - -, who md. Elizabeth -. (2) Abi- gail, b. 22 June, 1710; md. to Jonas Merriam, of Lexington, housewright. William Locke, jun., was deacon of the church of Woburn, 1709, and died 8 July, 1738. His widow survived him, and died, probably, 1748 or '49.
LOCKE. John, son of William Locke, sen., md. 31 May, 1683, Elizabeth Plympton, a daughter of Thomas Plympton, of Sudbury, who was an emi- grant from England, and was killed by the Indians in fight at Sudbury 18 [21st.] April, 1676. She was born 23 Dec. 1658, and by her he had: (1) Thomas, b. 20 March, and died 23 March, 1684. (2) Marah [Mary, County Rec.] b. 1 April, 1685. (3) John, b. 14 May, 1686; died. 15 Feb. 1709-10. (4) Thomas, b. 5 April, 1688; died 27 Nov. 1717. ("aged 29" Gravestone.) (5) A daughter, b. 11 June, 1693. (6) Abigail, b. 2 April, 1694; md. to Nath. Kendall, 1720. (7) Peter, b. 10 Sept. 1678; died 25 Dec. 1709. Eliza- beth, wife of John Lock, dying 23 Feb. 1719-20, he married Mary Wyman, widow of Nath. Wyman, and daughter of Increase Winn, 30 Nov. 1720. He died April 1756; and his widow about the same time. [Woburn Rec. of Births, etc. Savage's General Dict. ]
LOCKE. I. Samuel, son of William Locke, sen., lived in Lexington; had a wife Ruth, who died 14 Dec. 1714; and for a second wife he took Mary Day, of Ipswich, by whom he had an ouly child, Samuel, b. 5 July 1718, of whom it is only told, " that he had good estate from his father, and spent it." [Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
LOCKE. Ebenezer, son of William Locke, sen., md. Susanna, daughter of Israel Walker, 18 Oct. 1697: by whom he had: (1) Ebenezer, b. 28 April, 1699. His wife Susanna dying, 13 June, 1699, he married, 14 Oct. 1701,
a Book of the Lockes. b Lexington Ch. Rec. c Old Deed, 1738.
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Hannah Mead, daughter of David Mead, by whom he had : (1) Samuel, b. 24 Aug.1702. (2) Josiah, b. 15 March, 1705. (3) Joshua, b. 21 Aug. 1709. (4) Nathan, b. 20 March, 1713. (5) Hannah, born 11 April, 1716, md. to Asa Richardson, 1739.
Ebenezer Locke, sen. died 24 Dec. 1723 : Hannah, his widow, died 24 July, 1739. [Woburn Rec. of Births, etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
LOCKE. II. Samuel Locke, eldest son of Ebenezer and Hannah Locke, md. Rebecca Richardson, both of Woburn, 2 March, 1730. Their eldest son, Samuel Locke, born 23 Nov. 1731, graduated at Harvard College, 1755; early called to be President of that Institution in 1770; " was a fine scholar, but by untoward circumstances required to resign his office," in 1773; re- turned to Sherborn, where he had been previously settled in the ministry, and died there, of apoplexy, 15 Jan. 1778. [Woburn Records of Births, etc. Savage's General Dict.]
MOUSALL. Deacon John Mousall : See Chapt. II.
II. John Mousall, his son, married Sarah Brooks, 13 May, 1650 : died 2 April, 1698. [Woburn Recds. of Births, etc., etc.]
NEVERS. Richard Nevers (or Neverds, as his name is often written) is first mentioned as an inhabitant of Woburn in the Country Rate of 26 Aug. 1666.ª By his wife Martha, he had three children : (1) Samuel, born 16 Dec. 1689. (2) Mary, b. 9 July, 1694. (3) Martha, b. 20 July, 1698.
Richard "Neverds " dieu the . Nov. 1709. "The widow Neuards " died 15 March, 1720.
NEVERS. I. Samuel Nevers, his son, had by his wife Deborah: (1) Samuel, born 20 June, 1715. (2) William, b. 16 Aug. 1716. (3) Hannah, b. 4 Feb. 1717-18 : md. to David Evans, of Reading, 1740. (4) Richard, b. 29 Dec. 1719. (5) Joshua, b. 13 June, 1721. (6) Deborah, b. 27 April, 1723. (7) Mary, b. 24 Oct. 1728.
NEVERS. II. Samuel Nevers, jun., son of Samuel, married Susanna Williams, 2 August, 1739. To them was born " Samuel Williams," son of Samuel and Susanna Nevers, born 2 Nov. 1741, died 22 Jan. 1741-2.
NEVERS. III. Samuel Nevers, whom II. Mr. Samuel Nevers adopted for his own, shortly after the death of his son, Samuel Williams, was originally named Thomas Marshall, son of William Marshall, a seafaring man of Scotch descent, and was born March 2, 1741-2. When taken into the family of Mr. Nevers, he grew up under his care, and went into the French War in. 1758, and was present at the death of Gen. Wolf before Quebec. He was twice married; and died May 24, 1826, leaving a very numerous family of children.
NUTT. Myles was made freeman, 1637; was a proprietor of Watertown 1636-7, and in 1642. In Woburn, he was taxed iu the first town rate on record, levied 22 Dec. 1646; and order also was given about the same time for enlarging his house lot. He was Selectman in Woburn, in 1647, and during seven of the nine years immediately succeeding. In 1644, Novem- ber 5th, his daughter Sarah, whom he had brought with him from England,
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