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Governor Bullock married Elvira, daughter of Col. A. G. Hazard of Enfield, Conn., founder of the Hazard Gunpowder Manufacturing Co. Their children were: Augustus George; Isabel, who married Nelson S. Bartlett of Boston; and Fanny, who married Dr. William H. Workman of Worcester.
Augustus George Bullock, only son of Alexander and Elvira (Hazard) Bullock, was born in Enfield, Conn., June 2d, 1847. His early education was received in private schools, and he graduated from Harvard college in 1868. After traveling a year in Europe he commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar in Worcester, where he went into practice occupying offices with Senator Hoar. In January, 1883, he was elected president and treasurer of the state Mutual Life Insurance com- pany, which position he has held to the present time. He is also a director in a number of the financial and business insti- tutions of Worcester and sustains a high reputation for financial skill and ability. He has also been a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital and of the Free Public Library of Worcester, and is a member of the American Antiquarian society.
He was united in marriage Oct. 4, 1871, with Mary Chandler, daughter of Dr. George and Josephine Rose Chandler, and they have had four sons, one of whom died in infancy.
Louisa Maria Bullock, oldest daughter of Rufus and Sarah (Davis) Bullock, married Hiram M. Albee Jan. 25, 1838. Mr. Albee was a merchant and postmaster at South Royalston. They had four children. Mrs. Albee died Dec. 18, 1848.
Emily Bullock, married William D. Ripley, a native of Norwich, Conn., and their home for many years was at the old Bullock mansion on Royalston Common. Mr. Ripley died in 1880 and Mrs. Ripley died in Philadelphia.
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Rebecca Bullock, youngest daughter of Rufus and Sarah (Davis) Bullock, married Nelson Wheeler a graduate of Yale college and a teacher of prominence. They lived in Worcester, Mass.
Rufus Henry Bullock, youngest son of Rufus and Sarah (Davis) Bullock prepared for College at Northfield and was two years in Amherst College, 1838 and 1839. He then engaged in trade at Royalston, where he died in June, 1855.
Barnet Bullock was of the fifth generation from Richard Bullock, the immigrant ancestor. He was born in the west part of Royalston June 9, 1798, and during his active life he followed the business of a merchant in that town. He held for a long time the commission of Justice of the Peace, doing most of the public business in that line in the town for many years, besides filling various responsible town offices. He was town clerk from 1837 to 1847; selectman 1840, 1844 and 1845, and representative to the General Court in 1844. One of the oldest and most prom- inent citizens of Royalston he died Sept. 1, 1884, being the last survivor of the four sons of Hugh Bullock, who came from Rehoboth and settled in Royalston during the Revolution. He married Nov. 27, 1828, Lucy Newton, daughter of Nathan Brigham Newton. Their children were: Calvin, born Sept. 21, 1829, died March 5, 1870; Brigham Newton, born April 6, 1831, died Feb. 20, 1906; Barnet Ellis, born March 22, 1833, died Feb. 12, 1913; Lucy Lee, born May 25, 1835, died Sept. 18, 1882; Elizabeth Candace, born Oct. 16, 1838, died March 4, 1843; Charles Stuart, born Jan. 20, 1841; James Frederick, born July 21, 1842, died May 28, 1870; Mary Elizabeth, born Dec. 18, 1847, died March 21, 1869.
Calvin Bullock, oldest son of Barnet and Lucy (Newton) Bullock, was born Sept. 20, 1830. His education was obtained at Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass., after which he was for a short time engaged in business with his father. He married Mary E. Miller of Royalston, daughter of George F. Miller, June 1, 1859. About the time of his marriage he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he was with the Wabash R. R. Co., and was assis- tant treasurer at the time of his death which occurred March 5, 1870. His widow returned to Royalston where she made her home.
They had one son Calvin Bullock. He attended school in Arlington, Mass., in 1883; attended Worcester Academy from
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1884 to 1888, and afterwards graduated from Williams college in the class of 1892. The next year he went to Denver, Col., where he has been ever since engaged in the bond business. He married Alice K. Mallory of Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 28, 1892, and they have two children.
Brigham Newton Bullock, second son of Barnet and Lucy (Newton) Bullock, was born in Royalston April 6, 1831. He spent his early life in his native town, where he attended the common schools. In February, 1849, at the age of sixteen he started out in life by entering the employ of Joseph Estabrook, who kept a country store and the postoffice. He remained with Mr. Estabrook until the fall of 1851 when he attended the high school kept by Cundell Bros. On October 20, of the same year, he left Royalston and the High School to enter the passenger department of the office of the Vermont & Massachusetts Rail- road in Fitchburg where he remained until January, 1874. He then went to Boston where he was cashier of the Boston, Hart- ford & Erie Railroad from March, 1874, until August, 1874. From there he went to the Home Savings Bank, Boston, Aug. 6, 1874, and remained until Feb. 27, 1882, when he returned to Fitchburg and entered the Fitchburg National Bank as cashier, holding that office until he was made president in 1888, which position he held the remainder of his life. In July, 1894, he was elected treasurer of the Fitchburg Savings Bank and remained treasurer until the law separating national and savings banks went into operation in 1904, when he was chosen chairman of the Board of Investment which position he held as long as he lived. He was also a director in the Fitchburg Railroad Co.,
the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Grant Yarn Co., and the Simonds Manufacturing Co., of Fitchburg. He was a mem- ber of the First Unitarian Parish of Fitchburg. A successful financier and a man of sterling character, he was one of the best products of the New England country town. He always re- tained his affection for his native town of Royalston, and spent a portion of each summer there. He married Nov. 13, 1888, Flora Belle Ripley of Fitchburg. He died in Boston, Feb. 20, 1906. Their only child is Richard Bullock, born May 3, 1892.
Barnet Ellis Bullock, was born in Royalston March 22, 1833, and died at Samaria, Mich, Feb. 12, 1913. Mr. Bullock spent nearly all the earlier part of his life railroading, then becoming a contractor for railroad supplies, and at the time of his death was
CALVIN BULLOCK
BRIGHAM NEWTON BULLOCK
BARNET ELLIS BULLOCK
CHARLES STUART BULLOCK
JAMES FREDERICK BULLOCK
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the owner of several large farms in Michigan, although be kept his winter home in Toledo, Ohio. He married Mary R. Osborne, who died in 1914.
Charles S. Bullock, son of Barnet and Lucy (Newton) Bul- lock was born in Royalston Jan. 20, 1841. When a young man he went to work for the old Vermont and Massachusetts R. R. Co., in their general freight office. He went to Kill Buck, N. Y., in 1877, and engaged in the business of a general store and lumber business for a time. Has not been engaged in business since 1900. He married Harriet Bullard, daughter of Rev. E. W. Bullard. They have two sons, Stuart D. Bullock, born Sept. 23, 1875, in Arlington, Mass., now living at Highland Park, Detroit, Mich., and Hugh Bullock, born June 22, 1880, now living in Medford, Mass.
James Frederick Bullock, youngest son of Barnet and Lucy (Newton) Bullock, was born July 21, 1842, and died May 28, 1870. At the time of his death he held a responsible position in a bank in Toledo, Ohio, a profession for which he seemed eminently fitted, and in which he was making rapid strides at the time of his death.
THE FRYE FAMILY
Captain John Frye, one of the earliest settlers in the town of Royalston, was a descendant in the fourth generation of John Frye, who emigrated from Basing Hants, England, in May, 1638. He sailed from Southampton in the good ship "Bevis," and about seven years after his arrival settled in Andover, Mass. This John Frye was also an ancestor of Senator Frye of Maine, who has served as President of the Senate of the United States.
It was in the town of Andover that Captain John Frye was born April 7, 1719. While a young man, he resided for a time in Sutton, where he was married on Nov. 2, 1748, to Elizabeth Woodbury, a lady of worth. In this town he operated a grist mill, and conducted a grain business. He accumulated some means and became well-known in that section, so that when, some time previous to 1765, he decided to settle in Royalston, quite a number of families from Sutton were induced to do the same. He seems to have been connected with Col. Royal in the enterprise of opening up this new territory, and a relative of his by the
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same name was previously engaged by the Colonel to survey the township now known as Durham, Maine. This town was at first called Royalston; that section then belonged to Massa- chusetts, and at a meeting of the citizens later, it was decided to change the name, as they said there was a town in Worcester county called Royalston. From that day to this, the people of Royalston have had the exclusive use of the name in the United States.
In his selection of a location for a home he certainly did well, for that beautiful situation, marked by more modern buildings, and occupied by his great-grandson, still speaks for itself to-day.
Governor Bullock in his centennial address describes Captain John as follows: "John Frye, a lineal descendant of one who came from England, moved from Sutton to Royalston, and resided on yonder eminence. He was called here "the Esquire," but he brought with him a distinction of arms. I have had placed at my use by one of his kinsmen the original commission under the king, which he received as first lieutenant from Gov- ernor Shirley, in 1745, and under which he fought before Louis- burg, and entered the fort to the music of the same drum which thirty years later beat still better sounds at Bunker Hill. Ten years afterwards, he bore royal commission as Captain for ser- vice at Crown Point. He was passed the time for military activ- ity when the Revolution opened, and was obliged to suppress his soldierly instincts in the home life of a good deacon and model citizen. He lived here nearly fifty years and died at ninety-six. Captain John Frye was known as the "Hero of Crown Point," but his service as a soldier was only a small part of his life work, as by far the larger part of his life was spent in peaceful pur- suits. He was a deacon in the local church, and was the first man chosen to look after the prudential affairs of the town, serving in this capacity seven years. He was the first town clerk, being elected in 1765, and serving till 1781; he was a delegate at the ratification of the constitution of the United States in 1788; he represented the town in the legislature of 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785 and 1787. Captain John Frye died March 18, 1814, at his home in Royalston, and was buried in the old burying ground. His descendants have been good citizens, and have filled important positions in the service of the state and cities in which they have resided. They have been fortunate also in
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their connections with other families, and have made alliances with those holding important positions themselves or those who were from noted families. One was the wife of Gov. John McLane of New Hampshire, and one married a direct descendant of Gov. Bradstreet of Massachusetts, and the poetess, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, daughter of Gov. Dudley, and known in New England as the "tenth muse." It is interesting that two of the descendants of these men, Simon Bradstreet and John Frye, who were friends at Andover, two hundred and fifty years later should meet, become acquainted, and decide to become life partners. One has recently graduated from a Boston school with high honors; one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and another from Boston University. One was a teacher in the public schools of Cambridge for thirty-seven years, and one now a resident of Granville, Mass., has given splendid service to the cause of education. A young man, bearing the same family name, has recently served as deacon in the same church of which John Frye was the first deacon.
His military qualities have also passed down. His great- grandson, George E. Frye, lost his life in the battle of Chancel- lorsville; and Benjamin A. Frye also served in the Civil war three years, and still lives on the old homestead. And here is one who deserves mention no less, who gave up his own plans for which he had splendid abilities and remained at the old home to care for his sweet spirited mother, who by war, sickness and death was left in need of just this service. We refer to William W. Frye. In this care he was aided by his sisters.
One branch of the family, years ago, moved to New York state, where they have taken an important part in the develop- ment of the section in which they reside.
Descendants of Capt. John and Elizabeth (Woodbury) Frye. Children:
1. John, born Sept. 27, 1749, died Jan., 1832.
2. Elizabeth, born July 12, 1751.
3. Ebenezer, born July 4, 1754, died May 8, 1832.
4. Mary, born Feb. 18, 1757.
5. Hannah, born Feb. 10, 1760.
6. Mehitable, born Aug. 12, 1762.
7. Ruth, born Aug. 8, 1765.
8. David, born July 28, 1768.
9. Deborah, born April 7, 1772.
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The six first were born in Sutton and the last three in Royal- ston.
(3) Ebenezer Frye, second son of Capt. John and Elizabeth (Woodbury) Frye, was born in Sutton July 4, 1754; he married Mary Waite June 17, 1783, who was born March 18, 1761, and died Aug. 26, 1798.
He came to Royalston at the age of ten years, and lived the remainder of his life on the old home place. Both he and his wife were devoted Christian people. He was Selectman in Royalston 1793 to 1799, 1805, 1806, 1808, and was Town Treasurer 1809 to 1824. He died May 8, 1832. The children of Ebenezer and Mary (Waite) Frye were:
1. Betsey, born April 28, 1784, died Jan. 6, 1819.
2. Asa, born Oct. 26, 1786.
3. Daniel, born Aug. 23, 1789, died suddenly Aug. 30, 1791.
4. Polly, born July 21, 1791, died Jan. 15, 1836.
She acted as housekeeper at the old home for a number of years until the time of her death; made a "sampler" containing a valuable family record and an illustration of the old homestead as it appeared at that time, and where it is still preserved (1913).
5. Benjamin, born Aug. 6, 1793, died Sept. 29, 1861.
6. John, born May 16, 1796, died Feb. 18, 1866.
7. Ebenezer, born June 30, 1798, died June 25, 1818.
(1) Betsey Frye, oldest daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Waite) Frye was born April 28, 1784. She married William Blood of Fitzwilliam, N. H., Sept. 2, 1807. They had six children none of whom were born in Royalston.
Mary Blood, oldest daughter of William and Betsey (Frye) Blood was born April 26, 1808. She married Horace Pierce Oct. 23, 1828. They had three children. (See Pierce family.)
(2) Asa Frye, oldest son of Ebenezer and Mary (Waite) Frye was born Oct. 26, 1786. He married Rebecca Wilman in October, 1820. He moved with his family to New York state. They had five children.
(5) Benjamin Frye, third son of Ebenezer and Mary (Waite) Frye, was born in Royalston Aug. 6, 1793. He married Oct. 24, 1836, Miranda Barton of Croyden, N. H. She was born April 26, 1815. She was a teacher and a woman of splendid character and ability and came from a prominent New Hamp- shire family. An uncle was editor of the "New Hampshire Statesman;" one brother was a wealthy merchant; another
MRS. BENJ. (MIRANDA BARTON) FRYE
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a well-known official in Sullivan County. She died March 25, 1890.
Benjamin Frye was a prominent citizen and official of Royal- ston. He was Town Treasurer from 1838 to 1854 with the exception of one year, Selectman four years, Representative in the Legislature, 1838, 1840, 1854. He was a farmer, born on the old home place, late in the eighteenth century. His youngest son was born in the nineteenth century, and his youngest grand- daughter in the twentieth century (March 28, 1901). He died in Royalston Sept. 29, 1861. The children of Benjamin and Miranda (Barton) Frye were:
1. George Ebenezer, born Aug. 18, 1837. Married Aurilla Howard of Croyden, N. H. Served in the Fifth New Hampshire Regiment in the Civil War. Was killed in action at Chancellors- ville, Va., May 2, 1863.
2. Rosette Miranda, born Dec. 14, 1839, at the old homestead. Educated in the public schools and Meriden Academy. Teacher in public schools and member of the board of education in Fitzwilliam, N. H. Married Nov. 1, 1865, to Deacon Leonard Byam. She died Dec. 3, 1892.
3. Benjamin Alexander, born May 10, 1841.
4. Mary Jane, born June 29, 1843, died Aug. 28, 1862. Was a teacher in the public schools.
5. Martha Anne Elizabeth, born March 26, 1846, died Dec. 20, 1892.
6. William Watson, born Nov. 30, 1848, was born, lived and died on the old home place; called at the age of twelve by the death of his father and the absence of his older brothers in the war, to care for the home. He died Feb. 2, 1892.
Benjamin Alexander Frye, second son of Benjamin and Miranda (Barton) Frye was born in Royalston May 10, 1841. Enlisted in the 36th Mass. Regiment in the Civil war, Aug. 27, 1862. Mustered out June 8, 1865. Married in Boston May 15, 1867, to Alice Morrison Giggie. She was born July 1, 1840. He occupies the old home place to which he has added many modern improvements. They had five children: Harriet Miranda, George A., Myra Elizabeth, William Alexander, Mary Ellen.
1. Harriet Miranda Frye, oldest child of Benjamin Alexander and Alice (Giggie) Frye was born in Royalston March 28, 1868, married William H. Shepard Sept. 1, 1890. They have three
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children: Walter Earl, born June 11, 1891; Olive Mildred, born Dec. 19, 1896; Freda Elizabeth, born Aug. 22, 1898.
2. George A. Frye, born Jan. 18, 1870, died Feb. 9, 1870.
3. Myra Elizabeth Frye, born Jan. 20, 1871, married Clarence Hamilton of Athol.
4. William Alexander Frye, youngest son of Benjamin Alex- ander and Alice (Giggie) Frye, was born Dec. 21, 1872, married July 10, 1899, to Alice Russell Fairbanks, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Francis J. Fairbanks of Royalston. Has served as chair- man of the School Committee of Royalston and in other town offices, and as deacon of the First Congregational Church. Children: Richard Fairbanks, born Sept. 7, 1900 and William Russell, born April 5, 1906.
5. Mary Ellen Frye, born Dec. 8, 1875, died Feb. 13, 1896. Martha Anne Elizabeth Frye, youngest daughter of Benjamin and Miranda (Barton) Frye, was born in Royalston March 26, 1846, married Jan. 10, 1878, to James Lewis Brigham of Templeton, school teacher, died Dec. 20, 1892. Children: George L. and Emma W.
1. George L. Brigham, son of James Lewis and Martha Anne (Frye) Brigham was born Jan. 6, 1879, married June 19, 1908, to Katherine Condy. He graduated from the Sherwin School, Boston, class of 1896, and is an electrician. They have one daughter, Jeanne Winnefred, born March 22, 1909.
2. Emma W. Brigham, daughter of George L. and Martha Anne (Frye) Brigham, was born Sept. 14, 1881. She graduated as valedictorian from the Hyde School, Boston, class of 1896, and is an expert stenographer.
(7) Frank Barton Frye, youngest child of Benjamin and Miranda (Barton) Frye, was born in Royalston, April 13, 1856. He married Nov. 17, 1886, Elsie Willetta Merrill, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. William Merrill of Beverly. She was born June 11, 1861, at Northbridge, Mass. She was a teacher.
He has been engaged in mercantile business and manufac- turing. Served in Fitzwilliam, N. H., as collector 1884, and as Selectman and assessor in 1885 and 1886. Resides in Waltham, Mass., and has a summer home on Fitzwilliam road, Royalston. Children :
1. Royal Merrill, born May 27, 1890. Graduated from Wal- tham High School as valedictorian, class of 1908; received degree of A. B. with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Boston University,
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1911; A. M., Boston University, 1912; member of Harvard Graduate School in Chemistry, 1912; 1913 as Jacob Sleeper Fellow of Boston University. At present in charge of the department of Physics, Boston University.
2. Merton Benjamin, born March 4, 1893. Graduated from Waltham High School, class of 1913. At present organist and choirmaster of St. John's church, Newport, R. I.
3. William Bixby, born Nov. 15, 1895. Senior in Waltham High school and editor-in-chief of the "Mirror."
4. Elsie Frances, born March 28, 1901. Student in Grammar school.
John Frye, sixth child of Ebenezer and Mary (Waite) Frye, and grandson of Capt. John Frye, was born May 16, 1796. He was married Jan. 30, 1823, to Lucinda Kendall. She was born April 25, 1798, in Phillipston, Mass., and died Jan. 10, 1871, in Cambridge, Mass. He lived nearly all his life on a part of the old homestead, in a house built by himself. He died Feb. 18, 1866, in Somerville, Mass. Their children all born in Royalston:
1. Ardelia Betsey, born Nov. 16, 1823, died Jan. 7, 1862.
2. Emeline Clarissa, born May 8, 1826, died Sept. 20, 1908, unmarried. Died in Cambridge, burial in Royalston.
3. John Kendall Frye, born Sept. 29, 1831, died Oct. 15, 1908. He was a member of the furniture house of Barnum, Frye & Co., of Boston. Buried in Royalston.
Ardelia Betsey Frye, married Ezra Adams Cheney of Barre, Mass., May 7, 1846. Their children : Ellen Ardelia, born Sept. 17, 1848, in Royalston. Graduated from Cambridge High School, class of 1869. Teacher in public schools of Cambridge for thirty- seven years. Retired June, 1908. Edward Francis, born Oct. 28, 1850, in Royalston, died March 11, 1855; Henrietta Frye, born Feb. 14, 1852, in Royalston, married Oct. 19, 1876, to George C. Allen of Barre, Mass., died Feb. 6, 1881; Emma Elizabeth, born Feb. 17, 1856, in Fitchburg, Mass.
Emma Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Ardelia Betsey (Frye) Cheney, born Feb. 17, 1856, graduated from Cambridge High School, class of 1875, married Feb. 17, 1885, to Howard A. Allison of Boston.
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THE BLISS FAMILY
The Bliss family of Royalston, which was exceeded in number by only one of the old Royalston families during the first century of the town, traces its origin back to England somewhere be- tween the years 1150 and 1250, when the name of Bliss was first given to some man who had as his predominent characteristic a blissful state of mind, according to Charles Arthur Hoppin, the author of a recent work called "The Bliss Book." Mr. Hoppin demolishes some of the romantic fallacies of an earlier work on the Bliss Genealogy, prominent among which was the belief that the family was of Norman descent, having come to England with William the Conqueror. On the contrary Mr. Hoppin contends that the Blisses were unquestionably of pure Saxon origin possibly with some Danish admixture, and points out that the part of England in which they dwelt was one that held out longest against the Normans.
The Bliss coat-of-arms dates back to the time of Elizabeth, and capped by a sheaf of grain, it bears the honest motto, "Quod severis metes"-"You reap what you sow."
The last English ancestor of the Bliss family of Royalston was one Thomas Bliss. He resided in Belston, England, and was a man of property. He was a Puritan and his wealth and promi- nence perhaps invited the persecution he suffered and through which he lost both his wealth and health. He was imprisoned for his religious and political views. Two of his children, Thomas and George, emigrated to America to escape persecution.
Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth, Mass., was a grandson of Thomas of Belston, England, and emigrated from Northamptonshire about the year 1635, and was one who in 1643 with others made the settlement of Rehoboth. The first of the Bliss family to come to Royalston was Nathan Bliss of the ninth generation from Thomas Bliss of Belston.
(IX) Nathan Bliss, son of Nathan (8) and Joanna Bliss was born at Rehoboth Dec. 19, 1761. He removed to Royalston between 1770 and 1775, and married Ruth Briggs of Dighton, who was born at Dighton Dec. 22, 1765, and died at Royalston Nov. 28, 1862. He was a farmer and died at Royalston Jan. 31, 1852. Their children were Abel Ballou, born Aug. 23, 1785, at Dighton; Polly, born Sept. 10, 1788; Anna, born June 14,
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1791; Nathan, born April 25, 1797; Ruth, born Oct. 6, 1802 and Sally, born Nov. 15, 1806.
(X) Abel Bliss, oldest child of Nathan and Ruth (Briggs) Bliss was born in Dighton Aug. 23, 1785, and when six weeks old was carried on horse back in his mother's arms from Dighton to their new home in Royalston. He was a shoemaker by trade and married Nicena Ballou of Richmond, N. H., Oct. 12, 1806. She was born March 6, 1788, and died April 7, 1847. Their children were: Nathan, born Sept. 15, 1808, married Emily Lovett in 1832; Abel Ballou, born Feb. 22, 1811. Went to Worcester and married Rebecca S. Flint of Royalston April 6, 1835. He died Aug. 4, 1852; Harrison, born Oct. 9, 1812; Russell, born Dec. 5, 1815, married Mary May March 8, 1835, and died June 15, 1852; James, born July 16, 1818, married Julia Drury, daughter of Ephraim and Betsey Drury, she was born Oct. 24, 1820 and died Oct. 18, 1844; he died Jan. 16, 1842. They left no issue. He kept a restaurant at Troy, N. Y .; Nicena J., born Dec. 12, 1823, and died Jan. 7, 1845, unmarried; Olive Lucena, born July 3, 1825, married May 9, 1847, Charles C. Balch, carpenter and resided in Shirley, Mass.
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