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(XI) Nathan Bliss, son of Abel and Nicena (Ballou) Bliss, born Sept. 15, 1808, married Emily, daughter of James and Freelove Lovett of Shutesbury in 1832. They had seven children only one of whom was born in Royalston. They resided for a time in Winhall, Vt., and removed to the old Bliss homestead in Royalston about 1856.
Frederick J. Bliss, son of Nathan and Emily (Lovett) Bliss was born at Winhall, Vt., June 21, 1844. When a young man he was employed for several years in the Estey Organ factory at Brattleboro, Vt., and in 1870 went to Michigan where he engaged in business under the firm name of Holt & Bliss, general buyers of farm products and shippers at wholesale, their business being mostly in wheat and wool. In 1875, his father being in years and left alone on the old farm, he returned to the old home in Royalston, which has since been his home. He married Dec. 19, 1870, Maria L. Cooke of Worcester. Their children were Florence J. and Roland N., born in Corrunna, Mich., the former in 1872, and the latter in 1873, and Amy May and Edith both of whom were born in Royalston, the former in 1877, and the latter in 1888. Roland Bliss is settled in Stillwater, Mich., where he has a position with the Donnelly Shoe Co.
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of that place, is married and has three children. Amy May married C. A. Eddy and lives in Milford, Conn.
(XII) Edward M. Bliss, youngest son of Nathan and Emily (Lovett) Bliss, was born at Winhall, Vt., Nov. 25, 1846. He worked on the farm during the summer months and attended common and high school at Winhall, Vt., and Royalston, Mass., during the winter months completing his studies at Powers Institute in Bernardston. He was ten years old when his parents removed to the old Bliss homestead in Royalston where his father and grandfather were born. In early manhood he taught school and learned the trade of a cabinet maker, which he fol- lowed for several years. He was employed at the Estey Organ works in Brattleboro, Vt., for three years. In 1876 he engaged in canvassing for books with signal success, later turned his attention to life insurance business and Jan. 14, 1882, he settled in Worcester, and in 1883 entered into partnership with John C. Bickford in the manufacture of lambswool soles and hand crocheted slippers. Business was successful from the start. Mr. Bliss purchased the interest of his partner Feb. 1, 1894, and continued the business alone under his own name until his death. Some thirty hands were employed on the machines in the shop and about one hundred and fifty at their homes. Mr. Bliss made a specialty of this hand work on his goods for many years, and was the first to introduce the hand crocheted worsted slippers on the market in this country. He died Nov. 24, 1903, after an illness of only a few days. He attained a position of honor and usefulness. He attended the Central Congregational Church, was a member of the Worcester Congregational Club, the Econo- mic Club and the Worcester Board of Trade. He married at Royalston Jan. 1, 1870, Sarah A. Buffum, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Buffum, born in Royalston Oct. 11, 1840, and died in September, 1878. He married (second) Feb. 1, 1882, Elizabeth A. Heywood of Indianapolis, Ind., who died March 17, 1884. He married (3) July 14, 1883, Louise M. Lawrence, daughter of Charles S. and Maria (Hervey) Lawrence of Oxford, Mass.
The other children of Nathan and Emily (Lovett) Bliss were: Amelia Lucretia, born Oct. 7, 1834; Helen Jane, born April 9, 1836, died Nov. 9, 1898; Julia Louisa, born Jan. 4, 1838, married William F. Jordan; Nicena Jane, born May 1, 1840, married Azro K. Green; Alfreda Maria, born May 7, 1842, married
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Charles P. Hoppin. Mrs. Emily (Lovett) Bliss died March 16, 1865.
Harrison Bliss, son of Abel and Nicena (Ballou) Bliss was born in Royalston Oct. 9, 1812. What education he received in school was obtained in his native town. He started out at the age of eighteen to make his own living, and landed in Worcester with just seventeen cents in his pockets. He went to work first for Dr. Oliver Fiske at the very place where he afterwards bought one of the finest houses in the city. He worked four years in the Worcester Post-Office, after which he went into business with Deacon Alexander Harris in the Salisbury block in Lincoln Square dealing in groceries and flour. He sold his interest in the store in 1850, and later opened a flour store in partnership with T. and J. Sutton under the name of Bliss, Sutton & Co., on Mechanic street, Worcester, and in 1857 sold out to his partners. From that time to his death he was occupied with his real estate and banking business. Mr. Bliss was Presi- dent of the New Bedford & Taunton Branch of the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg railroad, Vice-president of the Framingham and Lowell Branch. In company with the late Francis H. Dewey he founded the Mechanics National Bank in 1848, of which he was President from 1860 to his death in 1882. He was interested in the Mechanics Savings Bank from its organization in 1851, and was President from 1864 to his death. He was also interested in the old Music Hall corporation and in the Bay State House Corporation. He was prominent in city affairs, represented the City of Worcester in the General Court in 1855, 1865 and 1874, and was an alderman in 1861, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1875 and 1876. He was the chief owner of the Oriental Powder Co., manufacturing gunpowders near Portland, Me. During the Franco Prussian war he made a large sum of money selling powder to the belligerents. He married Sarah H. Howe, daughter of Wm. Howe of Worcester, April 5, 1836. Mrs. Bliss died July 24, 1882, a few weeks after her husband. She was a very capable woman and famous for her charities. Mr. Bliss died July 7, 1882. Their children were: Harrison, Jr., born July 30, 1843, he married Amy Brown of Dighton, Nov. 6, 1864, and died May 12, 1868; Sarah, born Sept. 22, 1845, died Nov. 18, 1849; William Howe, born Sept. 23, 1850, married (first) Nellie J. Winch May 31, 1883, married (second) Florence E. W. Weston April 15, 1891; Pamelia Washburn, born May 21, 1854, died
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Sept. 9, 1854; Lizzie Davis, born March 12, 1856, married Francis H. Dewey Dec. 12, 1878. They have one son and one daughter.
TIMOTHY BLISS BRANCH OF THE BLISS FAMILY
Timothy Bliss, son of Capt. Nathaniel Bliss and Mehitable Whitaker of Rehoboth, Mass., was born in Rehoboth Jan. 4, 1733. He settled on the Warwick road west of the Baptist Common where he made a purchase of six hundred acres which must have covered a part of the Moore Grant. He married Anna Hale Kingsley of Rehoboth Aug 23, 1752. They had twelve children, of whom only three were born in Royalston. He settled his son, Israel, with him on the homestead, who had a family of eleven children and removed to New York state, when the place became incorporated with other farms. Timothy Bliss died Jan. 4, 1822, age 89, and his wife Anna Hale Bliss Jan. 8, 1829, aged 92.
Aaron Bliss, son of Timothy Bliss and Anna Hale Kingsley, was born Sept. 20, 1753. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. He married Mary Woodbury Dec. 8, 1778, and died at Royalston Sept. 13, 1849, at the age of 96 years. His wife died Feb. 16, 1829, 70 years of age. Their children were: Aaron, born Feb. 10, 1792, married Olive Frazy of Gill, March 7, 1830; Andrew, born March 13, 1790, died March 26, 1795; Stephen, born Jan. 21, 1786, died Sept. 14, 1835; Benjamin W., born June 7, 1795; Anna, born May 3, 1779; Betty, born July 17, 1782, married Jonathan Woodbury Jan. 21, 1802; Mary, born Jan. 16, 1781; and Rhoda, born March 13, 1788, and died March 23, 1795.
Aaron was succeeded on his farm by his son Benjamin W. Bliss, born June 7, 1795. He served in the War of 1812-1815 and lived and died on the old homestead. He was married Nov. 10, 1816, to Lois Walker, daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Garfield) Walker. He died of typhoid fever July 24, 1869. She died at Royalston Dec. 6, 1874, aged 77 years. Their children were: Andrew Jackson, born April 8, 1820; Benjamin W., Jr., born Nov. 12, 1824; Mary Ann, born Sept. 12, 1831, married Nov. 9, 1849, Amos Martin, farmer, of Richmond, N. H .; Persis Ann Lucretia, born July 26, 1835, married Nov. 4, 1855, Lemuel H. Rawson, farmer, of Orange, Mass.
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Phillip Harrison Bliss, son of Benjamin W. Bliss, was born in Royalston Sept. 21, 1841, in the same house that his father was born in, on June 6, 1795. He received his education in the common schools of Royalston, High School in Winchester, N. H., Bernardston, Mass., and the Athol High School. He com- menced teaching school in 1862, which he continued until 1879, living on the farm where he was born until 1880, when he moved to Athol, and entered the grocery store of S. E. Fay & Co., as clerk where he remained eight years. He then entered the shoe shop of the C. M. Lee Co., where he was employed as a cutter for twelve years. after which he worked for the L. S. Starrett Co. for eleven years, when he removed to West Acton, Mass., which has since been his home. He united with the Baptist Church in West Royalston in 1858, of which he was a member until he joined the Athol Baptist Church in 1884, and the West Acton Church in 1911. He was chosen a Deacon in the Royalston church in 1868, and has held that office in the several churches of which he has been a member to the present time. He sang in the church choir forty-seven years and was chorister twenty- one years. He was for three years a member of the Royalston School Committee, has been clerk of the churches and Sunday schools of which he has been a member and clerk of the Millers River Baptist Association of Churches for eleven years.
He was married in 1868, to Julia H. Hill, daughter of Charles and Sarah P. Hill of West Royalston. She was born Aug. 31, 1846. Their children are: Bessie E., born July 1, 1872; Grace I., born Jan. 27, 1875; and May J., born Oct. 27, 1880.
Daniel Bliss, son of Timothy and Tammy (Wait) Bliss was born July 17, 1797. He married Harriet Peck, daughter of Lt. Daniel Peck, Oct. 11, 1821, and died Sept. 6, 1863. They had seven children: Lucy Ann, Elmer Wait, Hervey Winchell, Emily Augusta, Mary Amanda, Timothy Warner, Delia Jose- phine.
Hervey Winchell Bliss, son of Daniel and Harriet (Peck) Bliss, was born in Royalston Sept. 19, 1827. He married Sarah M. Tower, who was born in Lancaster, Mass., June 21, 1827. She died at Royalston March 31, 1865, being thrown from a carriage on Jacobs Hill. They had three children: Kate Maria, born March 14, 1858, died Feb. 26, 1865; James Henry, born Sept. 2, 1860, and Julia Tower, born May 24, 1863. Julia married Dr. E. G. Fosgate in 1888, and died at Ashburnham, Mass., June,
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1901. She left one daughter, Hazel Ella, born Sept. 26, 1892, who graduated at Mt. Holyoke College.
Mr. Bliss married (second) Nov. 7, 1866, Mrs. Nancy T. Tucker of Barre, Mass. There were no children by the second marriage that lived. He moved to a farm near Royalston Centre in April, 1866, which he owned and occupied some ten years, and moved to Winchester, N. H., in the spring of 1876. He was a member of the School Committee of Royalston and served the town of Winchester as Selectman one year. He joined the Congregational Church at the age of fourteen years, and was for many years a deacon of the Congregational Church in Win- chester. He died in Winchester Sept. 20, 1902.
James Hervey Bliss, son of Hervey W. and Sarah (Tower) Bliss, was born in Royalston Sept. 2, 1860. He graduated from the Winchester High School in 1878, and soon after began clerking in the general store of F. Weeks & Co. After about eight years in the store he bought out the grocery, crockery and shoe departments, which he carried on for twenty years, selling out in 1907 when he went into the manufacture of boxes in which he is now engaged. He was elected to the New Hampshire Legislature in 1901. He is a member of the Winchester Grange, and has held several minor town offices. He joined the Congre- gational church in 1884, and has been Superintendent of the Sun- day school. He married Feb. 14, 1888, Ella L. Gates of Winches- ter, formerly of Wendell, Mass. She died in October of the same year. In March, 1890, he married Alice R. Foster of Winchester. She died Feb. 22, 1901. Three children were born to them: Olive S., born Jan. 20, 1892; Hervey G., born April 20, 1893; and E. Palmer, born Dec. 26, 1894.
Elmer Wait Bliss, oldest son of Daniel and Harriet (Peck) Bliss, was born in Royalston May 31, 1824. His early life was spent in his native town. In 1850 he went to California in search of gold via the Isthmus of Panama. He spent six years in California and Oregon. In 1857 he married Elizabeth God- dard of Petersham. For some years he was engaged in the manu- facture of furniture in the firm of Dwinnell & Bliss of Brattle- boro, Vt., and for a time was employed in the Estey Organ shops. He with several others formed the Burdett Organ Co. in Brattle- boro; they removed their business to Chicago, where they lost everything in the great fire of 1871. The business was then re-established in Erie, Pa., where it was carried on for many
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years. He retired from business about 1890. In 1904 he sold his home in Erie and returned to Brattleboro, to live with his daughter, who that year was married to Walter F. Goddard. He died Aug. 18, 1911, aged 87 years two months and 18 days. His wife died some sixteen years before. He was survived by his daughter, Mrs. W. F. Goddard and one grand-daughter, Miss Elizabeth Taylor of Brattleboro. He was a man of strong character, industrious, thorough and conscientious in all he did. Timothy Warner Bliss and Delia Josephine Bliss, youngest children of Daniel and Harriet (Peck) Bliss, died in infancy.
Timothy Bliss, Jr., second son of Timothy and Anne Hale (Kingsley) Bliss was born Jan. 10, 1756. He was a wheelwright and farmer. He married Tammy Wait May 18, 1780. She was born at Cape Ann June 15, 1759, and died Oct. 16, 1850. He died Feb. 9, 1815. They had ten children, only three of whom are recorded as born in Royalston. The family probably removed to Vermont.
THE WOODBURY FAMILY
One of the very earliest families to settle in Royalston, and which for more than a century was prominently identified with the public, social and religious life of the town, was the Woodbury family. It was a large family and through its descendants became connected with many of the most promi- nent families of the town. The immigrant ancestor of this family, John Woodbury, came to America from England in 1624.
Benjamin, of the fourth generation, had children as follows: Joseph, born Sept. 27, 1722; Benjamin, born Feb. 5, 1726; Joshua, born March 25, 1728; Elizabeth, born Oct. 28, 1730; Lot, born Oct. 11, 1733; Peter, born May 20, 1736; Jonathan and brother, born Nov. 10, 1740; Ruth, born Oct. 15, 1745. The father of these children died Aug. 22, 1781, in the 84th year of his age; the mother died Des. 10, 1786 in the 85th year of her age.
Captain Peter Woodbury, fifth son of Benjamin Woodbury, was born May 20, 1736, and moved with his family from Sutton, Mass. to Royalston about the year 1763, and settled on the farm where a fifth generation was born, and which
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was in possession of the Woodbury family until Feb. 15, 1904, when it was sold to Emory A. Holden, the present owner. The houses on the place were burned.
Captain Peter Woodbury had a large family of sons and daughters, ten of whom lived to have families of their own. He was one of the most prominent men in the early history of the tow .: was the first Town Treasurer, serving from 1765 to 1770 inclusive, Town Clerk ten years, between 1782 and 1794, Selectman sixteen years, Assessor three years, and Representa- tive to the Great and General Court in 1788, '89. He was captain of a Royalston company in the Revolution, and it is related of him, probably on the occasion of the Burgoyne alarm, that he marched into the meetinghouse in time of divine service and gave out this military order: "Every man belonging to my company turn out." He kept a public house for many years. He married first, Ruth Sibley, Dec. 16, 1754, who died March 23, 1755; he married, second, Zerviah Greenwood, Jan. 18, 1759; both of these marriages were in Sutton before he removed to Royalston; he married a third time, Mrs. Mary Chase of Royalston, April 5, 1792. He died Feb. 24, 1806, at the age of seventy years.
The children of Captain Peter Woodbury were: Peter, born March 14, 1755; Lot, born March 15, 1760; Daniel, born March 22, 1762; Sally, born Aug. 31, 1764; Jonathan, born Jan. 26, 1767; Ruth, born March 3, 1769; Zerviah, born May 25, 1771; John, born Sept. 12, 1773; Benjamin, born March 6, 1776; James, born Dec. 31, 1778; Ruth, born Jan. 7, 1781; Joseph, born July 7, 1784.
Lot, James, Jonathan and John removed to Bethlehem, N. H .; Sally Woodbury married Deacon Ebenezer Pierce of Warwick, Mass. She was survived by four sons and one daughter. Three of the sons were deacons of the church.
The first Ruth died Sept. 15, 1777; the second Ruth married Samuel Greenwood of Wendell, May 29, 1800, and surviving him, married Hon. Joseph Estabrook of Royalston, June 17, 1810. She died Sept. 16, 1814 in her 38th year; Zerviah married John Wood of Royalston, April 26, 1792; Joseph died at Stoddard, N. H., Aug. 20, 1812.
Capt. Daniel Woodbury, second son of Capt. Peter Wood- bury, was born Nov. 22, 1762. He married Esther Waite July 25, 1785. The record says, "I was 23 the 22nd day of
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the March before, and my wife 21, the 28th of the January. before."
The children of Daniel and Esther (Waite) Woodbury were: George, born March 1, 1786, died Nov. 27, 1801; Daniel, born Nov. 25, 1789, died Aug. 9, 1803; Jonathan, born May 30, 1792, died Sept. 7, 1795; Polly, born Oct. 24, 1796, died Aug. 20, 1803; Peter, born July 31, 1799, died Nov. 17, 1884; Daniel, born May 17, 1812, died Feb. 29, 1813. Esther (Waite) Woodbury, the mother of these children, died April 7, 1824.
Capt. Daniel married, second, Mrs. Persis Chase of War- wick, March 21, 1825; she died Oct. 16, 1856. Capt. Daniel Woodbury died Oct. 13, 1843.
Peter Woodbury, the only child of Capt. Daniel and Esther (Waite) Woodbury to grow to manhood, was born July 31, 1799. He married Oct. 29, 1822, Amanda Faulkner, daughter of Ammi and Anna (Towne) Faulkner, who was born Oct. 16, 1800.
The children of Peter and Amanda (Faulkner) Woodbury were: George, born July 31, 1823; Abigail Mayo, born Nov. 27, 1824, and an infant son, who lived only a few days. Amanda (Faulkner) Woodbury died Jan. 29, 1827, and Peter Woodbury married, second, Lucinda Raymond of Winchendon Dec. 13, 1827. The children of Peter and Lucinda (Ray- mond) Woodbury were: Daniel Raymond, born Sept. 17, 1828, died April 18, 1903; James Peter, born Dec. 28, 1831; Amanda Lucinda, born Nov. 21, 1836.
Lucinda (Raymond) Woodbury died April 14, 1877 and Peter Woodbury Nov. 17, 1884.
George Woodbury, son of Peter and Amanda (Faulkner) Woodbury was the first child born in the house built by Capt. Daniel Woodbury, and was born July 31, 1823, the 24th birthday of his father. He was an active man in public affairs, was Town Treasurer from 1855 to 1857 inclusive, and clerk of the parish for many years. He sang in the church choir forty years, and was for twenty-five years a member of Star Lodge F. & A. M. of Athol. He married July 4, 1849, Almira Greenwood Chase of Warwick, who was born Dec. 25, 1826. She held the pen of a ready writer in verse, and often furnished verses for many occasions, the Royalston Centennial Hymn having been written by her
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George Woodbury died Nov. 18, 1895.
Children of George and Almira (Chase) Woodbury were: Antoinette Hemans, born June 16, 1850, died April 27, 1865; Martha Almira, born July 29, 1853; George Edward, born Dec. 8, 1855; William Arthur, born Nov. 14, 1863, died May 11, 1865; Leslie Hanks, born Feb. 3, 1866. These children are the ninth generation from the first Peter, who came from England, and the fifth generation bearing the name of Wood- bury born on the old farm at Royalston.
Martha Almira Woodbury, second child of George and Almira (Chase) Woodbury, married William A. Brodie of Geneseo, N. Y., July 24, 1889 and resides in that city.
George Edward Woodbury, oldest son of George and Almira (Chase) Woodbury, married Miss Cora J. Fisher of Royalston, April 7, 1881. They had one child, Chester Leslie, born Jan. 28, 1885. Mrs. Cora J. Woodbury died in Malden in 1914, and her remains were brought to Royalston for burial.
Leslie Hanks Woodbury, married Mrs. Cora A. (Nelson) Wetherbee of Royalston, March 31, 1894. They reside in Tacoma, Washington. George Woodbury their son, is the wireless operator on the United States Steamer Dirigo, plying between Alaska and Unalaska.
James Peter Woodbury, son of Peter and Lucinda (Ray- mond) Woodbury, was born in Royalston, Dec. 28, 1831. He married Martha Abigail Brown of Winchendon, June 20, 1859. He was a well-known farmer in Royalston, living on the old Woodbury homestead. His wife died Oct. 31, 1886, and he removed to Springfield, Vt., Dec. 20, 1887. He married, second, Julia Stephens of Springfield, Vt., Sept. 12, 1888. His occupation while living in Springfield was that of coachman and landscape gardening. He died Aug. 4, 1907, and was buried in Royalston.
Amanda Lucinda Woodbury, daughter of Peter and Lucinda (Raymond) Woodbury, was born in Royalston Nov. 21, 1836. She married Benjamin Franklin Wyman, June 23, 1869. They resided in Chester, Vt., where Mr. Wyman was a cabinet-maker by trade. He was a member of the Congre- gational Church, in which he held several offices, and of Henry Post, G. A. R., of which he was commander. He served in the Civil War three years, being a member of Co. K, 123d
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New York Regiment, and received a medal from the New York State Commission as a survivor of the battle of Gettys- burg. He died in July, 1909. They had no children.
Deacon Benjamin Woodbury, brother of Capt. Peter Woodbury, was also an early settler. He came from Sutton, and settled the next place south of the Wilson Bragg place on the Athol road. He organized with the First Congregational Church Oct. 13, 1766, and was one of its first deacons, serving . from 1768 to 1779. He was one of the Selectmen of the town for ten years, between 1765 and 1781. He died Oct. 17, 1793 at the age of 68.
Benajah Woodbury, another brother, also from Sutton, settled at the foot of the hill on the Athol road on the place once known as the Artemas Raymond place. He died Feb. 22, 1802, at the age of 55 years. Neither of the last-named families have had representatives in town for more than half a century.
THE WALKER FAMILY
The emigrant ancestor of the Obadiah Walker family of Sutton, from whom the Royalston Walkers are descended, was Thomas Walker, who came from London to Boston in 1650. His mother's will reads as follows: "Hannah Walker of London, widow, April 10, 1675.
"I give and bequeath unto my son, Thomas Walker of Sudbury in New England, in the parts beyond the seas, merchant, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to him or his assigns within twelve months next after my decease. In case of his death before it becomes payable, I give the said sum to his wife, Mary, for the use of their children, if she be then living, but if dead then to the Executors of my son Thomas for the use of the children."
II. Thomas Walker, Jr., son of Thomas and Mary was born May 22, 1664. He lived in Framingham, where he was held in great respect; he was Town Treasurer in 1700 and constable in 1703, and was an original member of the Framing- ahm Church. He married Martha How, daughter of Samuel How, born Oct. 9, 1669. He died Oct. 25, 1717, and Mr.
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Swift notices his burial, October 27, as follows: "Hodie Sopultus Tho. Walker; proh: dolor!" He had ten children.
III. Lieut. Obadiah Walker, son of Thomas A. Jr., and Martha, married first, May 2, 1715, Hannah Learned. They lived in Marlboro and Sutton. She died July 6, 1744. He married second, Oct. 28, 1845, in Uxbridge, Mrs. Eunice White of Uxbridge. He had six children by his first wife and one by his second.
IV. Lieut. Obadiah Walker, son of Obadiah and Hannah (Learned) Walker, born June 8, 1721, married Nov. 12, 1741, Hepzibah Shumway of Oxford. He was the Obadiah Jr., in the list of officers and men from Sutton in the Colonial Service, 1755-1761 for various lengths of time. This is the Obadiah who came to Royalston from Sutton and Douglas. He had eight children. He died in Croydon, N. H., in 1810 at the age of 90 years.
V. Obadiah Walker, son of Obadiah and Hepzibah Walker, born Jan. 2, 1745, married Agnes Mccullough of Barre, Aug. 24, 1775. He was a Revolutionary soldier, enlisting as a private from Barre in Captain Black's Company of Minute Men on the alarm of April 19, 1775; also Corporal in Capt. Wm. Henry's Company, Colonel Whitney's Regiment. He had eight children.
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