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Richardsons on the East List, 42 : " " West List, 2 == 44
Wymans on the East List, 14: " West, 14=28
- 62 48=110
equal to more than one-third of all the resident persons in town, that were taxed that year.
And of the 326 residents taxed that year in Woburn, 44, or nearly 2-15ths of the whole number, were Richardsons.
RUSSELL. John, sen. See Chap. V. Concerning his family, however, it may here be added, that his first wife, Elizabeth, he doubtless married in England. She dying at Woburn, 16 Dec. 1644, he married for his second wife Elizabeth Baker, 13 May, 1645. She died his widow, 17 Jan. 1689-90. His daughter Mary md. Timothy Brooks, 21 Dec. 1659. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
RUSSELL. II. John Russell, jun., son of John Russell, sen. See Chapt. V.
He married Sarah Champney, of Cambridge, 31 Oct. 1661. Their chil- dren were: (1) John, born 1 Aug. 1662. (2) Joseph, b. 15 Jan. 1663-4. (3) Samuel, b. 3 Feb. 1667-8; died 1 Dec. 1668. (4) Sarah, b. 10 Feb. 1670-1. (5) Elizabeth, b. 19 Feb. 1672-3. [" Widow Elizabeth Peirce dyed June ye. 5th, 1743, in the 71st. year of her age. Her maiden name, Eliza Russell." Rec. of Deaths, etc.] (6) Jonathan, b. 6 Aug. 1675; died June 20, 1708, ["aged 32 years & 10 mos." Gravestone.] (7) Thomas, b. 5 Jan. 1677-8. Sarah Russell, widow, died ye. 25th of Apr. 1696.
RUSSELL. III. John, son of John Russell, jun., married Elizabeth Pal- mer, 21 Dec. 1682; by whom he had : (1) John, born 20 Sept. 1683. (2) Joseph, b. 3 Oct. 1685. (3) Stephen, b. 25 Aug. 1687. (4) Elizabeth, b. 21 June, 1690. (5) Samuel, b. 16 July, 1692. (6) Sarah, b. 15 Oct. 1694. (7) John, [name mistaken by Town Clerk ] born 19 Aug. and died 12 Sept. 1697. (8) Ruth, b. 16 Jan. 1698-9; married to Sam. Eaton, 20 Marchi, 1722. (9) Jonathan, b. 7 Nov. 1700. (10) Mary, b. 2 March, 1703; died 27 Nov. 1709. (11) Thomas, b. 26 June, 1705. John Russell died 26th July, 1717.
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" Widow Elizabeth Russell," named in Province Tax, 1723, but not in 1724. She died about 1723. [Wob. Records of Births, etc., etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
RUSSELL. IV. John Russell, son of III. John, and grandson of John Russell, jun., md. Joanna Winn, 27 Nov. 1711. Their children were: (1) Mary, b. 3 Oct. 1712; md. to Thomas Richardson, 1735; and died 11 Jan. 1741-2. (2) Elizabeth, b. 18 Dec. 1714. (3) Anne, b. 10 Feb. 1715-6; md. to John Coolidge, 1739. (4) John, b. 16 July, 1717. (5) Abigail, b. 22 Sept. 1719. (6) Edward, b. 7 April, 1722. (7) James, b. 22 Feb. 1723-4. (8) Daniel, b. 5 Apr. 1726.
Mr. Russell was Town Clerk, 1739, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 1745; and also chosen Clerk of First Parish at first Parish Meeting, 3 March, 1731-2, and constantly re-chosen every year till March 1741-2 : but the date of his death, and that of his wife are not found in the Records. ['T. Records, and Records of Births, etc.]
SEIRS. John Seirs (as the name is spelled in Woburn Records) was in Charlestown in 1639; subscribed there the "Town Orders" for Woburn, Dec. 1640; was admitted into the church at Charlestown, 28 March, 1641; made freeman the same year; was among the first who settled in Woburn ; taxed there in 1645; and chosen Selectman, 1667, 1669. His first wife, Susanna, dying 29 Aug. 1677, he married Esther Mason, 20 Nov. 1677; and quickly after the decease of this, his second wife, 14 Aug. 1680, he married Ann Farrar, widow of the first Jacob Farrar, 2 Nov. 1680. He died, leaving no children, 5 Oct. 1697. [Woburn Records. Charlestown Ch. Records. Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
SHELDON. John Sheldon was taxed in Woburn, in the rate for the secoml Meeting-House, 1672; which shows he was then an inhabitant of Woburn. He had previously, viz : 1 Feb. 1658-9, married, at Billerica, Mary Thompson, widow of Simon Thompson, of Woburn, who deceased in May, 1658. By her he had a son, John, born 24 April, 1660, who at his death, 27 Aug. 1724, was a deacon in the church of Billerica. John Sheldon, sen., died 24 May, 1690, aged about 63 years. [Woburn and Billerica Records.]
SIMONDS. William Simonds, sen., settled in Woburn about 1644, near a place still known by the name of Dry Brook. He married, 18 Jan. 1643-4, Judith Hayward, widow of James Hayward, who had married her, when Judith Phippen, a fellow passenger, and a fellow servant, on board the "Planter," from London, 1635. By her, Simonds had: (1) Sarah, born 28 July, 1644. , (2) Judith, b. 3 March, 1646. (3) Mary, b. 9 Dec. 1647. (4) Caleb, b. 16 Aug. 1649. (5) William, b. 15 Apr. 1651. (6) Joseph, b. 18 Oct. 1652. (7) Benjamin, b. 18 March, 1654. (8) Tabitha, b. 20 July ; died 20 Aug. 1655. (9) Joshua, b. -; died 16 July, 1657. (10) James, b. 1 Nov. 1658; married to Susanna Blogget, 29 Dec. 1685. (11) Bethiah, b. "9 : 3 mo," 9 May, [3: 9 mo : 3 Nov .? ] 1659; md. to John Walker, sen., 13 August, 1696. (12) Huldah, b. 20 Nov. 1660; md. to Samuel Blogget, jun., 1683.
William Simonds, sen., died 7 June, 1672 : Judith Simonds, widow, died
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3 Jan. 1689-90. [Woburn Records of Births, Marriages, etc., etc .; Savage's Geneal. Dict.]
SIMONDS. Caleb, eldest son of William and Judith Simonds, married Sarah Bacon, 25 Sept. 1677. To them were born : (1) Samuel, b. 30 June, 1678; died a pauper in 1757? [See Treasurer's Book, 29 July, 1757.] (2) James, b. 15 Jan. 1683-4. (3) Sarah, b. 11 Nov. died 16 Nov. 1687. Caleb Simonds died 4 Nov. 1712. "Widow Sarah Simonds died 11 Apr. 1627." [Woburn Records of Births, etc., etc.]
SIMONDS. I. James, son of the above Caleb and Sarah Simonds, had, by his wife Lydia : (1) James, born 22 April, 1714. (2) Caleb, b. 27 May, 1716. (3) Sarah, b. 2 March, 1718; died 25 Feb. 1745-6. (4) Lydia, b. 25 June, 1720; m. to Samuel Chamberlain 1744? (5) Abigail, b. 30 July, 1722; wife of James Thompson, of Wilmington, and mother of Mrs. John Flagg. (6) Susanna, b. 11 Sept. 1724. James Simonds died 28 Dec. 1733. Widow Lydia Simonds died 29 June, 1744. [Woburn Records of Births, etc., etc.]
SIMONDS. II. James Simonds, eldest son of James and Lydia, and once the owner, it is believed, of the " Jemmy Pasture," so called, in Bur- lington, now the property of Mr. Caleb Richardson, married Ann Convers, about Aug. 1745. To them were born: (1) Anne, 30 July, 1746; md. to Ebenezer Whitney, 1767. (2) Jude, b. 9 Jan. 1748-9. (3) Esther, b. 2 March, 1750. (4) Hazael [Asahel], b. 28 Dec. 1752. (5) Ebenezer, b. 4 March, 1755. (6) Keziah, b. 28 Jan. 1758. [Wob. Records of Births, etc.]
SIMONDS. II. Caleb Simonds, second son of the above James and Lydia, married Lydia Robinson, of Lexington, 1751. Their children were : (1) Jonathan, born 1 Jan. 1752; a farmer, and a deacon of the church in Burlington; died 27 May, 1827, æt. 76. (2) Caleb, a farmer, born 17 Feb. 1755; died 15 June, 1819, æt. 65. (3) James, b. 5 Dec. 1758. (4) Lydia, b. 28 Jan. 1761; md. to Amos Reed, butcher, of New Salem, 7 Oct. 1781; died at Salem, July or Aug. 1850, æt. 89.
Widow Lydia Simonds died 29 Jan. 1778, aged about 60. [Wob. Records of Births, etc. Rev. Mr. Marrett's Record of Deaths.]
SIMONDS. William Simonds, second son of William and Judith Simonds, it is presumed, removed from Woburn early, the records giving no information concerning him that has been observed, except the date of his birth, as presented above.
SIMONDS. Joseph Simonds, third son of William and Judith, was a carpenter. In 1679, he gave by deed to his brother James certain lands he owned in Woburn, on the road to Concord, with a new unfinished house thereon, barn, and land about it; and James gave to him in return, lands he owned in Cambridge Farms or Lexington, upon which Joseph Simonds soon settled, and became the father of the numerous families of his name, which in successive generations have been inhabitants of Lexington. [Original deed of Joseph Simonds.]
SIMONDS. I. Benjamin, fourth son of William and Judith Simonds, had by his wife Rebekah: (1) William, born 14 Feb. 1678-9; married
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Elizabeth -- , and lived in Billerica. a (2) Benjamin, b. 14 Jan. 1680-81. (3) Joseph, b. 1 March, 1683. (4) John, b. 22 March, 1685. (5) Rebekah, b. 6 June, 1687. (6) Daniel, b. 21 Feb. 1689-90. (7) Jacob, b. 26 May, 1692. (8) Judith, b. 5 Oct. 1695; married to Samuel Eames, 1717. (9) Huldah, b. 25 Oct. 1700; md. to Nathan Wyman, 1723.
Rebekah, wife of Benjamin Simonds, died -- April, 1713. Lieut. Benjamin Simonds died 21 Sept. 1726.
SIMONDS. II. Benjamin, jun., son of Benjamin and Rebekah Simonds, married Abigail, daughter of Josiah Wood, 7 Ang. 1723. Their children were : (1) Benjamin, born 1 June, 1724. (2) Abigail, b. 6 Nov. 1725; md. to Samuel Wood, 22 Oct. 1747. (3) Ruth, b. 14 May, 1727; md. to Zebedee Simonds, 30 May, 1749. Abigail, wife of Benjamin Simonds, died 1 Nov. 1739, aged 48 years. Mr. Benjamin Simonds, sen., died 13 Jan. 1748-9, " aged sixty-nine years wanting one day." [Manuscripts of Simonds' fam- ily. Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc.]
SIMONDS. III. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Abigail Simonds, was married to Susannah Simonds, daughter of III. James and Mary, and son of II. James and Susanna, 29 March, 1748. Their children were : (1) Su- sannah, born 11 Feb. 1749-50. (2) Benjamin, b. 30 Dec. 1751; died 24 Dec. 1753. (3) Benjamin, b. 20 May, 1754. (4) Zebedee, b. 23 Feb. 1756. (5) Nathan, b. 23 Oct. 1757. (6) Abigail, b. 31 May, 1759. (7) William, b. 6 March, 1761. (8) Mary, b. 5 Sept. 1762. (9) Martha, b. 5 Aug. 1764. (10) Lucy, b. 6 Apr. 1766. (11) Katharine, b. 16 Aug. 1769. Mr. Benja- min Simonds deceased 10 Dec. 1783, aged 59 years. Susanna Simonds, his widow, died 15 Nov. 1816, in her 91st year. Concerning their children, it may be added, that Zebedee died 2 July, 1778; William died 9 Apr. 1776; Mary died 18 June, 1776; Lucy died 15 Dec. 1792; and Katharine died 23 Aug. 1769. Susanna was married, 4 Dec, 1781, by Rev, Samuel Parker, of Boston, to Ebenezer Page, who died 10 June, 1784, when he was 47 years of age, [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc. Manuscripts of Simonds' family.]
SIMONDS, I. James, fifth son that lived to maturity of William and Judith Simonds, married Susanna, daughter of Samuel and Ruth Blogget, 29 Dec. 1685. Their children were: (1) James, born 1 Nov. 1686. (2) Susanna. b. 2 May, 1689. (3) Abigail, b. 17 Jan. 1691-2. (4) Sarah, b. 13 Dec. 1694 : md. to Samuel Wilson, 1719? (5) Nathan, b. 12 June, 1697, (6) Ruth, b. 12 Dec. 1699; md. to John Fowle, 3d, 1723.
Susanna, wife of James Simonds, died 9 Feb. 1714-5. James Simonds, sen., died 15 Sept. 1717. [Wob, Rec. Births, etc.]
SIMONDS. II. James Simonds, son of I. James and Susanna, married Mary, daughter of James and Mary Fowle, 17 June, 1714. Their children were : (1) Mary, born '27 Dec. 1715; md, to John Lawrence, 1736. (2) James, b. 10 March, 1717; md, Anna Lawrence, 12 May, 1740. (3) Joshua, b, 17 Oct. 1718. (4) Caleb, b. 27 Aug. 1720. (5) Zebedee, b. 4 Sept. 1723. (6)
& Billerica Rec. of Births, etc., etc. Woburn Rec, of Births, etg. Deeds of the Simonds' family.
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Susanna, b. 20 June, 1725 : md. to Benjamin Simonds, jun., 1748. (7) Na- than, b. 26 June, 1728. (8) Ruth, b. 10 Oct. 1730. Count Rumford's mother. (9) Abigail, b. 9 June, 1733; md. to Daniel Reed, jun., about 1754. Mary, wife of Lieut. James Simonds, died 9 March, 1762, " in her seventy-fourth year." [Gravestone. ] Should be seventy-third year. Lieut. James Simonds died 30 July, 1775, in his 89th year.
[Precinct Ch. Rec. of Marriages, and Wob. Rec. of Births. Simonds' Manuscripts.]
SIMONDS. III. Caleb Simonds, son of Lieut. James and Mary Simonds, married Susanna Convers, daughter of Capt. Robert and Mary Convers, 26 March, 1746; and had : (1) Jesse, b. 13 Oct. 1747; lived in Billerica. (2) Luther, b. 2 Oct. 1749 : killed by the rolling of a log upon him at mill, 2 April, 1792. (3) Calvin, b. 16 Oct. 1752; died at Burlington, 30 July, 1840, æt. 88. (4) Achsah, b. 12 March, 1755. (5) Gideon, b. 24 June, 1757; died at Burlington, suddenly, 12 June, 1835, æt. 78. (6) Sarah, b. 22 May, 1759. (7) Ruth, b. 13 Apr. 1763.
Mrs. Susanna Simonds, first wife of Mr. Caleb Simonds being dead, he married for his second wife, 6 Dec. 1774, Mrs. - Munroe, widow of Andrew Munroe, of Lexington. She was instantly killed by a horse, which ran over her, while standing by her own door, 3 Sept. 1783, aged 58. Mr. Caleb Simonds died of old age, 4 Jan. 1811, in his 91st year. [Woburn Rec. of Births, etc. Lexington Ch. Rec. Rev. Mr. Marrett's Records of Deaths, etc.]
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The Simonds family were formerly very numerous in Woburn and Bur- lington, and had spread much in Billerica, Bedford, and Lexington : and living representatives of it are yet to be found in most if not all of these towns.
SMITH. Matthew, supposed to be a son of Matthew Smith, cord- wainer, who came from Sandwich, Kent County, England, 1637, with wife Jane and four children, to Charlestown, and was that year admitted an inhabitant. a Matthew, jun., was in Woburn, 1658; was taxed there in 1666, and is numbered among those who had right in the common lands of the town in 1668. There were born to him in Woburn: (1) Elizabeth, born 15 Sept. 1658. (2) Matthew, 2 Sept. 1659. (3) John, b. 19 Jan. 1661; died 18 Oct. 1663. (4) Samuel, b. 29 April, 1662. (5) Samuel, b. 26 July, 1663. (6) Hannah, b. 21 Oct. 1664. (7) John, again, b. 28 March, 1667.
II. Matthew, son of the above? married Mary Cutler, 20 June, 1684. [Savage's Geneal. Dict. Wob. Records.]
SNOW. Richard Snow was the earliest inhabitant of Woburn bearing his name. He was taxed there in the Rate for the Country, assessed 8 Sept. 1645, which was the first tax in Woburn upon record. In 1647-8, land was granted him by the town. lle bought, 19 Nov. 1656, a house and 20 acres of land of George Farley, one of the original inhabitants of Woburn, then recently removed to Billerica; and in the general distribu-
a Frothingham's Charlestown, p. 88.
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tion of common lands and timber, made in 1668, he had a due proportion assigned him in the "fifth Eighth." He seems to have been an industrious, thriving husbandman, and to have maintained a respectable rank in society; but not being ambitious of honor and distinction, he never attained to any considerable office either in the church or town. He died 9 Nov. 1711. Beside John and James Snow, sons apparently his, born before he came to Woburn to reside, he had born to him afterwards: (1) Daniel, b. 4 Feb. 1644-5; died 18 July, 1646. (2) Samuel, b. 28 May, 1647. (3) Zechariah, b. 29 March, 1649; was wounded in the Swamp or Narraganset Fight with the Indians, 19 Dec. 1675,a and died 14 April, 1711. His (Zechariah's) homestead in Wyman Lane was sold after his death, July 11th, 1711, to Benj. Wyman, tanner. b
I. John Snow, referred to above, as being probably a son of Richard Snow, born before his father took up his residence in Woburn, had: (1) John, b. 13 May, 1668. (2) Zerubbabel, b. 14 May, 1672. (3) Timothy, b. 16 Feb. 1674-5. (4) Hannah, b. 6 June, 1677. (5) Mary, b. 4 Aug. 1680. (6) Ebenezer, b. 6 Oct. 1682; died 11 Feb. 1703-4. (7) Nathaniel, b. 17 Nov. 1684. John Snow died 25 Nov. 1706. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc.]
I. Zerubbabel Snow, son of John, married Jemima Cutler, Sept. 22, 1697. Their children were : (1) Zerubbabel, b. 19 July, 1698. (2) Josiah, b. 24 Jan. 1699-1700. (3) Jabez, b. 12 March, 1701; died 9 Dec. 1715. (4) Jemima, b. 19 Aug. 1702; md. to Abraham Josselyn, of Marlborough, 1728. (5) Ebenezer, b. 26 Apl. 1744. (6) John, b. 30 March, 1706. (7) William, b. 25 Jan. 1707-8? (8) Abigail, b. 29 March, 1711. (9) Jabez, again, b. 16 March, 1716. I. Zerubbabel Snow died 20 Nov. 1733.
II. Zerubbabel Snow, his son, married Elizabeth Wyman, Aug. 11, 1721; had by her 8 children, and died Sept. 1747. His widow, Elizabeth, died May, 1776.c [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc.]
I. Timothy, son of I. John Snow, md. Lydia Peirce, 16 Jan. 1705-6. Their children were: (1) Timothy, b. 19 Feb. 1706-7, and died Sept. 20, 1775, æt. 69. d (2) Isaac, b. 26 Feb. 1708-9. (3) Lydia, b. 20 Feb. 1710-11; md. to Jabez Thompson, 1735? (4) Jacob, b. 5 Sept. 1714. (5) Mary, b. 13 Apl. 1717. (6) Zachary, b. 15 Aug. 1719; died Sept. 21, 1754, aged 36.d (7) Abraham, b. 28 Dec. 1721; died at Charlestown, March 9, 1772. e Mr. Timothy Snow died 4 March, 1747-8, aged 74 years.f His widow died Apl. 27, 1764, æt. 81.f [Rec. of Births, etc.]
Isaac, son of Timothy Snow, md. Esther Convers, July 8, 1732; and she dying, May 30, 1737, he md. for his second wife, Phebe Richardson, 18 Apl. 1738. Their children were : (1) Phebe, b. 5 Jan. 1738-9; md. to Daniel Thompson, 1760. (2) Bridget, b. 17 July, 1742; md. to Hiram Thompson, 1767. (3) Anne, b. 19 March, 1744; md. to Ebenezer Reed, June 23, 1777. (4) Mary, b. 26 Apl. 1747; died Dec. 8, 1753. Mr. Isaac Snow died March 31, 1776, æt. 67. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc.]
a Hist. Chap. IV.
b Wyman Papers, No. 52. c Mem. of S. Thompson, Esq.
d Gravestone.
g Gravestone.
e Mem. of Saml. Thompson, Esq. f Gravestone.
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I. Samuel, son of Richard Snow, had by his wife Sarah : (1) Samuel, b. 8 Feb. 1669-70. (2) Sarah, b. 28 May, 1672. (3) Daniel,. b. 9 July, 1674. (4) Abigail, b. 4 April, 1677. (5) Richard, b. 10 Dec. 1683. (6) Hannah, b. 8 June, 1686. Sarah, wife of Samuel Snow, dying, probably in child- bed, 15 June, 1686, one week after her daughter Hannah's birth, he mar- ried, 9 August, of the same year, Sarah Parker, of "New Cambridge," or Newton. a By her he had : (1) Deborah, b. Oct. 1687; died 30 Dec. 1687. (2) Joanna, b. 10 Feb. 1688-9. (3) Ebenezer, b. 7 Oct. 1691.
Sarah, wife of Samuel Snow, died 28 Jan. 1694-5. "Samuel Snow, sen.," died 28 Nov. 1717. [Records of Births, etc., etc., in Wob.]
SNOW. II. Samuel Snow, son of I. Samuel, and grandson of Richard, the first settler in Woburn by the name of Snow, and often distinguished in after years by the title of Lieut. Samuel Snow, had born to him by his wife Abigail : (1) Samuel, born 24 Aug. 1692. (2) Abigail, b. 18 Nov. 1694. (3) Sarah, b. 14 Sept. 1697. (4) Ruth, b. 8 May, 1700. (5) Rebe- kah, b. 11 Feb. 1702-3. (6) Elizabeth, b. 29 Dec. 1705. (7) Benjamin, b. 29 Aug. 1708. (8) Joseph, b. 18 May, 1713.
SNOW. III. Samuel, son of Lieut. Samuel Snow, born 24 Aug. 1692, married, 10 Juue, 1718, Sarah Lock, of Lexington; and by her had: (1) Samuel, born 7 Dec. 1719. (2) Oliver, b. 28 Aug. 1721. (3) Sarah, b. 24 Jan. 1723-4.
In 1724, Lieut. Samuel Snow and his son Samuel Snow, jun., bought, each of them, a tract of land in Ashford, Ct., and immediately removed their residence thither from Woburn. At Ashford, Lieut. Snow became one of the principal men; was generally Moderator at their town meetings, a Selectman, Town Treasurer, etc., for many years. He died 19 Dec. 1743. His widow Abigail died 12 Jan. 1747. b
His son also, Samuel Snow, jun., became a prominent character in Ash- ford, and held there some of the more important town offices several years. His daughter Sarah, born in Woburn, died at Ashford, 17 May, 1726. By his wife Sarah, he had after his removal to Ashford : (1) Sarah, b. 29 April, 1726. (2) Stephen, b. 5 July, 1730. (3) Sylvanus, b. 17 March, 1732. (4) Elizabeth, b. 11 July, 1734; died 1 Apr. 1737. (5) Timothy, b. 20 Sept. 1737 ; died 9 Apr. 1749. (6) Elizabeth, b. 28 Sept. 1739. Mr. Samuel Snow, jun., died 24 Dec. 1756, at. 65. Sarah, his widow, dicd 16 Nov. 1790, æt. 95. ª [Wob. Town Records. Wob. Records of Births, etc.]
SUMMERS. Henry " Summers," [Somers ?] sen., is recorded as chosen, 23 Feb. 1663-4, as a Surveyor for Woburn; was taxed there in the Rate for the Country, 26 Ang. 1666; and is numbered with those who had right in the common lands of the town, 1668. " He married, 21 Nov. 1660, Mabel Reed, widow of William and mother of George Reed. She died, the widow of Summers, 15 June, 1690.
a County Records.
b Letter of Rev. Frederick P. Tracy, Williamsburg, Mass., 1845, descended from Lt. Snow, of Ashford.
c Town Records, Vol. I. pp. 43, 44.
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SUMMERS. Henry Summers, jun., son of the preceding, was taxed in Woburn, 1666 and 1672; and was allowed by the Selectmen "to keepe ordinary for the Towne of Wobourn from the first of May, 1682, he forth- with getting a license."a He died 6 March, 1724. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc.]
SUTTON. Lambert was first of Charlestown, where he was admitted into the church, 4 Apr. 1641; became soon after an inhabitant of Woburn, and was taxed there in the Rate for the Country, 8 Sept. 1645, and chosen a Surveyor, 1646. He was made freeman 1644, and died in Woburn, 27 Nov. 1649. [Charlestown Ch. Records : Colony Rec. Wob. Records of Births, etc.]
THOMPSON. James Thompson : born in England, probably in 1593; came with his wife to New England; was in Charlestown, 1632; and was admitted with her into the church of Charlestown in the autumn of 1633. He was made freeman 1634; subscribed at Charlestown, Dec. 1640, "Town Orders" for Woburn; and coming to Woburn to reside, he was chosen one of the first Board of Selectmen, 1644. His wife, Elizabeth, dying 13 Nov. 1643, he married for his second wife Susanna Blogget, widow of Thomas Blogget, of Cambridge, 15 Feb. 1643-4. This his second wife died 10 Feb. 1660-1 : James Thompson himself died in 1682. By his first wife, Elizabeth, he had three sons, all probably born in England, viz : Simon, the eldest, James, jun., who died in Woburn, 24 Jan. 1646-7; and Jonathan. [Savage's Geneal. Dict. Charlestown Ch. Rec. Col. Rec. Wob. Town Rec. and Records of Births, etc.]
Simon Thompson, the eldest son of the first James Thompson, married 19 Dec. 1643, Mary, daughter of Deacon Edward Convers; by whom he had : (1) John, born 4 Apr. and died 12 Apr. 1645. (2) Sarah, b. 20 Feb. 1646-7. (3) James, b. 20 March, 1649. (4) Mary, b. 25 Jan. 1651-2; died 2 Feb. 1661-2. (5) Ann, b. 30 July, 1655. (6) Rebecca, b. May 1658. He was made freeman, 1648; and became a purchaser of Chelmsford; but his plans were cut short by death, which arrested him when in early life, May 1658. In his will, made that month, he makes provision for his children; names his father and his wife, and her father and her two brothers, James and Josiah Convers. His widow married John Sheldon, of Woburn and Billerica. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc., etc. Savage's Geneal. Dict. Colo- ny Records. Billerica Records of Births, Marriages, etc., etc.]
I. Jonathan Thompson, youngest son of first James and Elizabeth Thompson, married, 28 Nov. 1655, Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Su- sanna Blodgett, of Cambridge, and born there in June 1637. By her, he had issue, as follows : (1) Susanna, born 4 July, 1661. (2) Jonathan, b. 28 Sept. 1663. (3) James, b. 1666; died soon. (4) James, again, b. 27 June, 1667. (5) Sarah, b. 1 June, 1670. (6) Simon, b. 15 June, 1673. (7) Eben- ezer, b. 18 Aug. 1676; died 19 Feb. 1697-8. Jonathan Thompson died 20 Qet. 1691. Susanna, his widow, died 6 Feb. 1697-8?
THOMPSON. II. Jonathan Thompson, jun., son of I. Jonathan and Susanna Thompson, born 28 Sept. 1663, married Frances Whittemore; by
a Town Records, Vol. I., p. 118.
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whom he had : (1) Jonathan, born 9 Feb. 1689-90. (2) Hannah, b. 28 Jan. 1691-2. (3) Joseph, b. 20 Oct. 1694. (4) James, b. 14 Dec. 1696; was living in Brimfield, 1758. (5) Susanna, b. 6 July, 1699; md. to Benjamin Mead, 1722? (6) Ebenezer, b. 30 March, 1701. (7) Mary, b. 18 Aug. 1703. (8) Samuel, b. 8 Sept. 1705. (9) Patience, b. 25 Oct. 1713; md. to Timothy Lamson, of Concord, 1734?
Ebenezer, son of II. Jonathan and Frances . Thompson, born 30 March, 1701; married Hannah Convers, 27 Sept. 1728; and had : (1) Benjamin, born 27 Nov. 1729. (2) Ebenezer, b. 15 Sept. 1731. (3) Hannah, b. 21 Sept. 1734. (4) Hiram, b. 17 May, 1743.
I. Benjamin, son of Ebenezer and Hannah Thompson, born 27 Nov. 1729, entered his Intentions of Marriage with Ruth Simonds, both of Wo- burn, 30 May, 1752. Being married shortly after, he had by her the next year :
II. Benjamin Thompson, born 26 March, 1753, who in after years gained a world wide reputation under the titles of Sir Benjamin Thompson, and Count Rumford. For account of him, see Chap. XII.
Benjamin Thompson, father of Count Rumford, died 7 Nov. 1755, in his 26th year. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc.]
I. Samuel Thompson, 5th son, 8th child, of II. Jonathan and Frances Thompson, born 8 Sept. 1705, married Ruth Wright, daughter of Josiah and Ruth Wright, 31 Dec. 1730. To them were born : (1) Samuel, 30 Oct. 1731. (2) Daniel, 9 March, 1734. (3) Ruth, 9 March, 1737; md. to Noah Wyman, 1755. (4) Abijah, 11 April, 1739. (5) Mary, 24 May, 1741. (6) Phebe, 5 Feb. 1743-4. (7) Lois, b. 12 Aug. 1746. (8) Jonathan, b. 10 Sept. 1748.
Samuel Thompson died 13 May, 1748, in his 43d year. His widow, Ruth Thompson, died in Oct. 1775, aged 69 years. [Wob. Rec. of Births, etc. Diary of Samuel Thompson, Esq.]
II. Samuel, eldest son of I. Samuel and Ruth Thompson, born 30 Oct. 1731, was a gentleman of note and influence in his day. In 1758, he went in an expedition against the French to Lake George. Of this expedition, he has left a minute and interesting account in manuscript; and when he returned from it at the close of the year, he had been advanced to be a lieutenant in the military service. See Appendix No. IX. For a long suc- cession of years afterwards, he was much employed as a Justice of the Peace, and as a Deacon of the Church, in the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the town. IIe was chosen Selectman in 1776, 77, 78, 1779; he repre- sented Woburn in the General Court in the years 1785, 86, 89, 92, 93, 98, 1805, 1806; and there were but few committees upon important town busi- ness, upon which, for many years, he was not appointed to serve. This highly respected citizen was thrice married. His first wife was Abigail Tidd, whom he married 15 May, 1753, and by her he had : (1) Samuel, born 7 April, 1754, and died at New York, a lieutenant in the military ser- vice of his country, of a putrid fever, 12 Aug. 1776, in his 23d year. (2) Abigail, b. 29 Dec. 1755; married to John Eames. (3) Mary, b. 13 Jan. 1758 ; died 6 Apr. 1759. (4) Jonathan, b. 26 Apr. 1760, father of the pres-
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