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Leonard T. Pierce, fifth son of George and Delia Pierce, was born in Royalston, July 25, 1874. He went to work for his brother Lyman E. in Boston, and after five or six years returned to Royalston.
He was a locomotive engineer and was employed on the Fitchburg Railroad for about ten years.
Webster E. Pierce, youngest child of George and Delia Pierce, was born in 1851. He has always been engaged in the chair business. Previous to the great fire of 1871, he was in business in Chicago; since that time has been connected with his brother, Edwin F., in Boston. He married Sadie E. Sanborn; they have no children.
THE PERKINS FAMILY
A family that has exerted a great influence for good, not only on the people of Royalston and their sons and daughters, but has carried cheer and help to the uttermost parts of the world, is the family of the loved second pastor of the old First Congregational Church of Royalston, Rev. Ebenezer Perkins. Probably in no other family connected with Royal- ston history is the great principle of heredity more strikingly illustrated than in various members of this family. The ancestors of this family, David Perkins and Nabby Conant of Beverly, Mass., were married there Nov. 2, 1783. Ebenezer Perkins was their fourth child, and was born in Topsfield, Mass., July 4, 1794. He was graduated at Dartmouth College and afterwards studied for the ministry. He was ordained, and settled at Royalston in 1819. That same year he had married Amelia Parish, the daughter of Rev. Ariel Parish, D.D. of Manchester, Mass. He lived in Royalston all the rest of his life, having no other pastorate than the one at this place. He was minister of the church for twenty- eight years.
A granddaughter in writing of him says:"It may be interesting to note that this pastor, whose salary never exceeded $600 a year, sent three of his sons through college. After his eldest boy reached the age of seven, his salary was reduced to $500, so that the children 'should not grow up in idleness.' " ' " The children of Rev. Ebenezer and Amelia
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{Parish) Perkins were: Ariel Ebenezer Parish, born Oct. 11, 1820; Hannah Amelia, born Jan. 10, 1822; Mary Colman, born June 14, 1823; Daniel Choate, born Nov. 10, 1825; Benjamin Conant, born Jan. 23, 1827; Joseph Lee, born Nov. 20, 1828; Annette Greenleaf, born April 29, 1832.
Rev. Dr. Ariel E. P. Perkins, the oldest son of Rev. Ebenezer and Amelia (Parish) Perkins, was born in Royalston, Oct. 11, 1820. He attended the town schools, studied with his father, and entered Phillips Andover Academy, was graduated at Amherst College in 1840, and prepared for the ministry in the theological school at Andover, Mass. He was teacher in an academy at Keene, N. H., after spending a year of study with his father. While in Keene he was tutored by Rev. Z. L. Barstow, D.D., who gave him the fruit of his years of experience. He was ordained at Phillipston, Mass., and settled as pastor over the Congregational church of that town Sept. 18, 1844, which he served until May, 1855. In September of that year he received a call to the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Ware, Mass., which he accepted and commenced his pastorate Dec. 5, 1855, and after a service of thirty years as pastor retired, and went to Worcester to live, where he died June 27, 1899.
Dr. Perkins was a type of the old-fashioned New Eng- lander, thoroughly orthodox, but not dogmatic or illiberal, and his sermons were of the kind that became thoroughly instilled into the minds of his hearers. He was one of the corporate members of the American Board of Foreign Missions. He received the degree of D.D. from Williams College in 1870. In 1851 he married Emily Pearson of Hanover, N. H., who died four years later, and in 1856 he married Susan O. Poor, daughter of Henry Poor of Peabody, Mass.
His children by Emily (Pearson) Perkins were: Edward, born Sept. 17, 1851, died Oct. 2, 1851; Herbert Boardman, born June 24, 1853, he was graduated at the Mass. Institute of Technology, was Professor of Mathematics in Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., and later Throop Institute, Pasadena, Cal., where he still lives, having retired from teaching.
Children by Susan (Poor) Perkins: Henry Poor, born Dec. 24, 1856, was graduated at Williams College and Hartford Theological Seminary, missionary in North China until 1910;
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now living in Arkansas with a son; Charles Albert, born Oct. 31, 1858, was graduated at Williams College and Johns Hopkins University, Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Tennesee. Rose Standish, married Dr. L. M. Nason and with him living in Worcester; Daniel Choate, born July 21, 1864, died Jan 1, 1870; Franklin Parish, born Aug. 15, 1866, died March 8, 1870; Alfred Pearson, born Sept. 15, 1868, was graduated at Williams College, Field Secretary of National U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
Sketches of Daniel Choate Perkins and Benjamin Conant Perkins will be found in the chapter on Medical and Legal Profession.
Hannah Amelia Perkins, oldest daughter of Rev. Ebenezer and Amelia (Parish) Perkins married Rev. Charles Louis Woodworth, Nov. 28, 1854. He was a graduate of Amherst College, a teacher in the Royalston schools, and became a prominent Congregational minister. He was Chaplain of the 27th Mass. Regiment in the Civil War, Secretary of the American Missionary Association and the author of several books. They had five children, and resided for many years in Watertown, Mass. Mr. Woodworth was present at the Centennial Anniversary in 1865 and responded to the toast, "the fellows who stole the hearts of our daughters."
Annette Greenleaf Perkins, youngest child of Rev. Ebenezer Perkins, born April 29, 1832, married Nov. 25, 1854 Horatio Danforth Newton. They had four children.
Joseph Lee Perkins, youngest son of Rev. Ebenezer and Amelia (Parish) Perkins, was born in Royalston, Nov. 20, 1828. He was the only one of the four sons to remain in Royalston. He attended school in his native town and at Phillipston. He was married Jan. 3, 1855 to Flora H. Perry of Royalston. When a young man he worked in Phillipston and Athol. In Royalston he was engaged in the lumber business. He moved to Fitchburg in 1870, where he was bookkeeper for the New England Machine Co., managed by Sylvanus Sawyer, and later he was engaged in the real estate business with Asa S. Lawton for twenty years. He was a member of the Rollstone Congregational Church, and a constant attendant at its services. He died Dec. 5, 1890, and his wife Flora H. Perkins died July 23, 1907. The
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children of Joseph Lee and Flora H. (Perry) Perkins, all of whom were born in Royalston were:
Josephine L. Perkins, born in Royalston Jan. 22, 1856. She was for a number of years a teacher in South Africa. She married Rev. Wm. O. Ballantine, M.D. of India, where they have been engaged in missionary work ever since. They have five children, Joseph H., Alice J., Benj. D., Henry F., and John P.
Joseph H. and Alice who married Max David Kerjassoff, live in Tokio, Japan; the other boys are, one in the Philippines, a second attending school in Boston and the third is a student in Harvard College. Julia A. Perkins, born in Royalston, June 30, 1858, married Nov. 20, 1889 Charles A. Willey of New York, and their home is in Flushing, N. Y .; they have no children.
Benjamin H. Perkins, born Jan. 18, 1863, married May W. Brown of Nantucket, Jan. 6, 1897; they have three children: Benj. C., Henry C., and Mary C. Mr Perkins is one of the leading boot and shoe dealers of Fitchburg.
Joseph Frederick Perkins, was born in Royalston, Feb. 2, 1865. He was educated at Williams College and Hartford Theological Seminary. He was for four years a Missionary of the Presbyterian Board in Brazil, South America, and married in 1893 Gertrude Storrs of Hartford, Conn. He died Sept. 23, 1895.
THE NEWTON FAMILY
Richard Newton, the immigrant ancester of the Newton family of Royalston, was born in England about 1601. He was one of the early settlers of Sudbury, Mass., and was a proprietor of that town as early as 1639.
Nathan Brigham Newton, son of Hezekiah Newton, was the first of the Newton family to settle in Royalston. He was born in Rutland, Mass., March 28, 1760. When young he resided at Rutland and Paxton. He was a cordwainer or shoemaker by trade, and was a soldier in the Revolution, a fifer in Captain Joshua Whitney's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment, in 1778, at the Rhode Island campaign. In 1786 he bought a farm of fifty-one acres of
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Nathan and Nabby Wheeler in Royalston, and probably moved there soon after. The Royalston Memorial of 1865, says that he "first settled on the west bank of the Lawrence, near where Deacon Partridge now lives. He afterwards removed and located on the highlands east of the river where now stands the goodly farmhouse and buildings of his son, Col. Elmer Newton."
He married Mary Stewart, and had a family of twelve children as follows: Danforth, born Sept. 13, 1781, died Sept. 19, 1803; Willard, born March 6, 1783; George, born May 16, 1785; Hezekiah, born Feb. 12, 1787; Harriet, born Jan. 25, 1789; Sophia, born June 1, 1791; Elmer, born April 17, 1793; Phinehas, born Feb. 28, 1795; Lucinda, born July 8, 1797, married Ephraim Mirick, Jr., of Princeton, Nov. 2, 1819; Mary, born July 15, 1800, married John Whitney of Prince- ton, Sept. 17, 1822; Horatio, born June 11, 1803; Lucy, born June 16, 1804, married Barnett Bullock Nov. 27, 1828. Nathan Brigham Newton, died Dec. 18, 1843; his wife died Dec. 15, 1842, aged 82 years.
George Newton, third son of Nathan Brigham, born May 16, 1785, died June 6, 1817, and Horatio died in infancy; Harriet, the oldest daughter of Nathan Brigham and Mary (Stewart) Newton, married Calvin Bullock of Princeton, Nov. 13, 1813; Sophia married John Fay of Camden, District of Maine, Oct. 8, 1816.
Willard Newton, second son of Nathan Brigham and Mary (Stewart) Newton, was born March 6, 1783. He married, Dec. 10, 1811, Phebe Emerson of Royalston. Their children born in Royalston were: Horatio Danforth, Nancy Emerson, Lucy, who married Wheeler Poland of Winchendon, George, who went to Missouri, and Phoebe, who dropped dead while combing her hair when she was nineteen years old.
Horatio Danforth Newton, son of Willard Newton, was born in Royalston, Oct. 5, 1812. He married Nov. 25, 1851, Annette Perkins, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Perkins. Their children were: Willard Hazen, Ebenezer Perkins, Horatio Standish, Annette G.
Willard Hazen Newton, son of Horatio Danforth Newton, was born in Royalston, Oct. 18, 1857. He attended the public schools of his native town. During his youth he assisted his father in farming and lumbering, and later in
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life became a farmer and lumberman, carrying on a large business in the manufacture and selling of lumber and wood; he is a member of the firm of Newton & Davis. He has served on the board of school committee, and been road commissioner. He married Oct. 1, 1878, Stella Partridge, daughter of J. Milton Partridge of Royalston. They have one son, Leon Willard, born Dec. 27, 1884. He attended Cushing Academy, and is engaged in the teaming business.
Ebenezer Perkins Newton, born Aug. 18, 1858, always lived on the home place; he was married Aug. 23, 1911, to Florence M. Robbins of Worcester. He died Dec. 28, 1912.
Horatio Standish Newton, born May 11, 1866, married April 22, 1894, Mary E. Russell, and they have one son, Edgar Horatio, born March 31, 1898. Annette G. Newton, born June 25, 1868, married Charles L. Mayne; they live in Coffeeville, Kansas, and have one son, Joseph Ford Mayne, born July 19, 1897.
Col. Elmer Newton, fifth son of Nathan Brigham and Mary (Stewart) Newton, was born at Royalston, April 17, 1793. He succeeded to the fine farm of his father, which was his home during a long life, in which he was identified with the interests of the town and church, and was one of Royal- ston's worthiest citizens, holding many positions of trust and honor. He died March 26, 1880 at the age of almost eighty-seven years. Resolutions on his death were voted at the annual town meeting as follows:
"Whereas Divine Providence has just removed from us by death one of our oldest, best known and worthiest townsmen, Col. Elmer Newton, therefore, Resolved that we the citizens of Royalston in town meeting assembled on the fifth day of April, 1880, do hereby express our sincere sense of a great loss in the decease of so valuable a fellow citizen, so long and so thoroughly identified with the interests of the town."
He married Adaline Estabrook of Holden, Dec. 30, 1822. Their children, all born in Royalston were: Sophia Fay, born Oct. 25, 1824; Charles Homer, born May 13, 1828; Phinehas Stewart, born Aug. 20, 1832; Martha Jones, born May 28, 1836; Edward Elmer, born Feb. 5, 1841; George Mirick, born Sept. 7, 1843. Martha Jones Newton and George Mirick Newton both died young.
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Charles H. Newton, oldest son of. Col. Elmer Newton, was born May 13, 1828. He received his education in the public schools of Royalston, at Westminster Academy and a school at Worcester. After completing his education and soon after becoming of age he bought out the general store of Joseph Estabrook on the Common and associated his brother Phinehas S. Newton with him, and they conducted for many years the store and a palm leaf hat business, Charles looking after the home business and Phinehas driving a team through quite a number of Massachusetts and New Hampshire towns, dealing with the women and children who braided hats and wove shaker hoods. He was postmaster of the Royalston Post Office from 1856 to 1870 and town clerk 1855 to 1865. In 1870 the store was sold to Obadiah Walker, and Charles H. Newton moved to Fitchburg, becoming a member of the Fitchburg Flour Co., in which he remained as long as the company continued in business. He then entered the Beovil mills as bookkeeper, and later became treasurer of the company, remaining in the company until the mill was sold to the American Woolen Co., a period of twenty-three years. He was beloved and respected by many friends and was an esteemed member of the Rollstone Congregational Church of Fitchburg. He married Harriet Meade of Worcester, who died April 11, 1886. He married, second, Aug. 4, 1889, Adelle Estabrook, daughter of Samuel Estabrook of Ashby, Mass. The children of Charles H. and Harriet (Meade) Newton were: Charles M., born June 20, 1856; Homer E., born May 10, 1860, died June 5, 1876 and Llewellyn, born July 20, 1865, died March 21, 1871. The children of Charles H. and Adelle (Estabrook) Newton were Ruth, Doris and Phinehas Stewart. Mr. Newton died
Phinehas S. Newton, third son of Col. Elmer and Adaline (Estabrook) Newton, was born in Royalston, Aug. 20, 1833, and was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Westminster Academy. He was associated with his brother Charles H. in a general store business on the Common for many years, and also in the palm leaf hat business; when the store was sold in 1870 Phinehas retained the palm leaf business, and had a factory near the blacksmith shop. For many years he drove a team through the neighboring towns of Massachusetts and the towns of southern New Hampshire,
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delivering palm leaf to the women folks who braided it into hats. He was also connected with George B. Burnett in the palm leaf business with a factory in Amherst, Mass. and a store in New York City. He has always lived on the home place, which is one of the few farms in town owned and occupied by a member of the family originally settling the place. He is a Republican and was elected Represen- tative to the Legislature for this district in 1898. In 1911 he presented the town of Royalston with a public library building which cost $10,000, and which bears the name of the Phinehas S. Newton Library. He was never married.
Edward Elmer Newton, was born Feb. 5, 1841. He married Martha Cole of Westmoreland, N. H., and was settled on the home farm where he spent his life. He died March 17, 1887.
Hezekiah Newton, son of Nathan B. and Mary (Stewart) Newton, was born in Royalston, Feb. 12, 1787. He left his Royalston home about 1808 and went to Boston, where he was engaged in mercantile business until 1832 when he returned to Royalston, and bought the place now the summer home of Miss Edith Metcalf; the original owner of this farm was Major John Norton. Although having but a limited school education he acquired by reading and association with educated people a large fund of available knowledge, which made him a valuable and respected citizen. He was very fond of farming; and working with more vigor than discretion, became disabled in his fifty-fifth year. He died ten years later, Oct. 26, 1852, at his home in Royalston. He was married in Boston, July 20, 1817 to Eliza Lewis; she was born in Danvers, July 29, 1788 and died in Leominster, Jan. 7, 1862.
Their children were: Eliza Lewis, born in Boston, Feb. 23, 1819; she died in Leominster, April 8, 1861, unmarried; Harriet Bullock, born in Boston, March 31, 1821, died in Boston, May 14, 1825; George Brigham, born in Boston, March 17, 1823, married Jane Stone, Marblehead, Feb. 26, 1852, died in Marblehead, Jan. 12, 1897; Mary Stewart, born in Boston, May 16, 1825, died in Brookline, Mass. June 25, 1877, unmarried; William Lewis, born in Boston, Jan. 5. 1828, died in Boston Oct. 12, 1829; Wm. Lewis born in Boston, June 13, 1830, died in Boston, Sept. 23, 1830; Harriet Bullock, born in Royalston, April 13, 1832 married
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Daniel W. Phelps of Leominster, Aug. 26, 1857, died in Brookline, Mass., Jan. 5, 1890; Gorham Palfrey, born in Royalston, June 3, 1874, died in Royalston, May 27, 1850; Sara Derby, born in Royalston, Mar. 11, 1837. Died in 1915. George Brigham Newton, son of Hezekiah Newton, was born March 17, 1823. The limitations of his early years for- bade his having a liberal education, and he chose a mercan- tile life; after spending four years -preparing for it in the country stores of Royalston he went to Boston where he had a position in the same line of business. Later he engaged in the shoe industry in Marblehead, Mass. He died Jan. 12, 1897.
THE CUTLER FAMILY
An old Royalston family of which there are no representa- tives bearing the family name in town to-day, but which by marriage became interwoven with many of the old and prominent families of the town, and has sent out members, who have become distinguished in other communities, is the Cutler family. The first of the family to become connected with Royalston history was Jonathan Cutler, second child of Ebenezer Cutler of Sutton, and who was baptized there Oct. 3, 1737. He married Elizabeth Holman, daughter of Stephen Holman of Sutton, Oct. 20, 1757. He settled in Royalston sometime between 1764 and 1768. He died in Royalston, Sept. 27, 1826, nearly 90 years of age. His wife Elizabeth died Feb. 9, 1819 at the age of 84. He and his eldest son, Ebenezer Cutler, were both soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
The children of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Holman) Cutler were: Mary, born Dec. 28, 1758 in Sutton, married Nathan Thompson, Nov. 22, 1781, and settled in western New York; Ebenezer, born 1760 in Sutton, died in Huntington, Vermont, 1843; Elizabeth, born Oct. 26, 1762 in Sutton, married Isaac Gale of Royalston, Nov. 16, 1782, and had seven children; Jonathan, born Oct. 6, 1764 at Sutton, died July 9, 1842; Sarah, born April 25, 1768 in Royalston, married Judah Stockwell of Royalston, and had nine children; Hannah (twin of the preceding), born April 25, 1768, died May 12, following; Tarrant, born Sept. 10, 1771 in Royalston; Hannah,
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born Feb., 1774, died Aug. 6, 1778; Mehitable, born July 1, 1776 in Royalston, married Moses Nichols of Royalston, May 19, 1802, and had six children.
Tarrant Cutler, seventh child of Jonathan Cutler was born in Royalston, Sept. 10, 1771. He settled there and was a farmer. He was one of the assessors of the town for ten years, between 1815 and 1829 inclusive.
He married Lydia, daughter of Levi Whitney, of Harvard, Mass., in 1796. He died at Royalston, June 13, 1842 at the age of 70 years. The children of Tarrant and Lydia (Whitney) Cutler were: Sarah, born April 19, 1798; she married Benjamin Heywood at Royalston, Sept. 7, 1819. She died Aug. 14, 1860. She had seven children: Melinda, born March 16, 1800, married Abijah Richardson at Royalston April 1, 1834; he died June 26, 1869, and she married (second) Benoni Peck; she had three children by her first husband; John, born Oct. 13, 1802, died Feb. 9, 1861; Lysander, born Feb. 16, 1807, died July 30, 1866; Lydia, born March 27, 1809, died Sept. 6, 1812, unmarried; Levi, born Aug. 7, 1811, died Aug. 13, 1881; Tarrant, born Sept. 8, 1813; George, born July 20, 1815, resided at Bangor, Maine, and died May 19, 1906; Otis, born Oct. 17, 1817, died May 27, 1868.
Tarrant Cutler, seventh child of Tarrant and Lydia (Whitney) Cutler, was born in Royalston, Sept. 8, 1813. He was educated and brought up in his native town, where he was engaged most of his life as a farmer. He represented the town in the Legislature of 1855, and also served the town as Selectman and in other town offices. He died June 11, 1898, in Fitchburg.
In 1869 he removed to Fitchburg and entered the grocery business with his son, George H., under the firm name of G. H. & T. Cutler. He married first, Harriet Fairbanks of Athol, March 25, 1839. He married (second) Mary P. Gale, daughter of Jonathan and Martha P. Gale of Royalston, June 25, 1849. Children of Tarrant and Harriet (Fairbanks) Cutler were: Jane L., born Sept. 26, 1840, died Aug. 22, 1869; she was a teacher in the public schools; George H., born April 2, 1845. Children of Tarrant and Mary P. (Gale) Cutler were: Charles E., born April 26, 1850, died Aug. 23, 1852; Mary E., born July 20, 1861.
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George H. Cutler, second child of Tarrant and Harriet (Fairbanks) Cutler, was born in Royalston, April 2, 1845. He attended the district schools of his native town, and when a young man went to Fitchburg and started in the fish business. After a few years his father came to Fitchburg, and they became partners in the grocery business. Since the death of his father in 1898, he has carried on the business alone. He is a trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank, a director in the Orswell Mills, Nockege Mills, and the Brown Bag Machine Co. He attends the Congregational Church and is a member of the Order of Knights of Pythias. He never married.
John Cutler, oldest son of Tarrant and Lydia (Whitney) Cutler, married Elizabeth Jacobs, March 7, 1828. He went to Bangor Me., where he became a prominent business man. His son, Hon. John L. Cutler, was a large lumber dealer, was Representative in the Maine Legislature, also in the Senate, of which he was president in 1883.
George Cutler, fifth son of Tarrant and Lydia (Whitney) Cutler, went to Bangor, Me., where he was a prominent business man and active politician. He was a Representative in the Maine Legislature, and was noted as a campaign orator.
Otis Cutler, youngest son of Tarrant and Lydia (Whitney) Cutler, also went to Maine where he became a prominent business man and was Customs House appraiser in Portland.
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CHAPTER XII
OLD ROYALSTON FAMILIES
THE PECK FAMILY
The Peck family of Royalston is one of the most extensive families of the town, the number of Pecks born in Royalston during the first one hundred years of its history being ex- ceeded by only one or two families in town; and from its members have come some of the most distinguished sons of Royalston.
The family dates back through over twenty generations to John Peck of Belton, Yorkshire, England, and the motto on the family coat-of-arms, "Probitatem quam divitos" - "probity rather than riches" - has characterized many of the descendants. The first American ancestor was Joseph Peck, who, fleeing from Hingham, England, to avoid religious persecution, came to Plymouth Colony in 1638, and settled in Rehoboth, Mass. The first member of the family to settle in Royalston was Daniel Peck, a descendant of Joseph Peck. He came to Royalston from Rehoboth about 1775, and settled in the west part of the town on what has since been known as the Harvey W. Bliss place. He was an in- dustrious and enterprising farmer. Married Relief Joy of Rehoboth, Nov. 7, 1771, and died in Royalston in 1814. She died in 1832. They had thirteen children: Daniel, Ichabod, Sally, Solomon, Royal, Calvin, Sally, Moses, Rebeckah, Charlott, Lydia, Relief and Huldah. Daniel Peck, son of Daniel and Relief (Joy) Peck was born in Rehoboth, Feb. 6, 1772, and came to Royalston with his parents about 1775. He was a farmer and married Delia Gale of Royalston, April 27, 1795. They had thirteen children, all born in Royalston: Rulina, born Feb. 13, 1796; Chauncey, born March 2, 1797; Pomroy, born Feb. 16, 1799; Harriet, born Sept. 13, 1800; Mary, born Oct. 19, 1803; Lyman, born Feb. 11, 1804; Sullivan, born March 27, 1806; Hannah F., born May 30, 1809; Elvira, born May 14, 1811; Elsa S., born March 11, 1813; Delia, born Jan. 14, 1815; Huldah C., born Feb. 9,
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