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56. James Lloyd, who died at Boston about 1693, married, first, Gri- selda, daughter of Nathaniel Sylvester, and secondly Rebecca Leverett. He had sons Joseph and Henry, the latter marrying Rebecca, daughter of John Nelson. Of their ten children, Henry was the ancestor of the Lloyds of Lloyd's Neck, L. I .; while the youngest was Dr. James' L., of Boston, who died in 1810, aged eighty-two. Dr. James Lloyd married Sarah Curwin, and had, besides a daughter Sarah (wife of Leonard Vassall Borland), a son James. This last was an eminent merchant, senator from Massachu- setts, etc .; he married Hannah Breck, and died in 1831 without issue. His grand-nephew, James Lloyd Borland, dropped the last name, and died in 1849, aged twenty-eight.
57. The Borlands begin with John, of Boston, who died in 1726, whose brother Francis was minister at Glasford, Scotland. John left an only son Francis, who married Jane Lindall, and had, with two sons, a daughter Jane, wife of John Still Winthrop. John Borland, son of Francis, married Anna Vassall, and had twelve children, of whom Leonard Vassall Borland married Sarah Lloyd. Their son John was father of James Lloyd, M. Woolsey Bor- land, and Dr. J. Nelson Borland, of Boston.
58. John and Samuel Vassall, of London, brothers, were among the first patentees of Massachusetts, though neither came here. John's son was William, who came over here, but left in 1646. Samuel, by a son John, had grandsons William and Leonard, born at Jamaica; and Florentius, son of this latter William, though never here, owned a-large tract of land in Maine. Major Leonard Vassall, above noted, came here before 1723, and was one of the founders of Trinity Church. His first wife was Ruth Gale, by whom he had seventeen children; his second wife was Widow Phebe (Penhallow) Gross, who survived him, and married, thirdly, Hon. Thomas Greaves, and fourthly Francis Borland. The surviving children were sons John, Wil- liam, and Henry; also daughters married to Dr. Benjamin Steadman, John Miller, Jonathan Prescott, George Ruggles, John Borland, and William Knight. The three sons of Leonard Vassall were prominent in Boston and Cambridge.1 Colonel John Vassall married, first, a daughter of Lieut .- Gov- ernor Spencer Phips ; and his son John married Elizabeth, sister of Lieut .- Governor Thomas Oliver, to whom his sister Elizabeth was married. He was a refugee. William, second son of Leonard Vassall, married Ann Davis, and secondly Margaret Hubbard. He was sheriff of Middlesex
1 [See the Introduction, p. xxxi. - ED.]
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County, and a mandamus councillor; he had sixteen children, and was a loyalist at the time of the Revolution. Colonel Henry Vassall, third son of Leonard, married Penelope, daughter of Isaac Royall, and left Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Charles Russell.
59. The Lindalls 1 were a Salem family, whereof Timothy was a mer- chant here from 1704 to 1715, and had several children born here. He had three wives and seven children, but only one daughter lived to marry. This was Jane, who married Francis Borland; and, as she was an heiress, the name of Lindall has been preserved through her descendants. It is presumed, but not ascertained, that the wife of James Pitts, of Boston, be- longed to this family.
60. The Brinleys, of Boston, are derived from Francis Brinley, of New- port, R. I., whose son Thomas settled in Boston, married Mary Apthorp, and died in London in 1693, leaving children, - Elizabeth (wife of William Hutchinson) and Francis. This last named settled in Roxbury,2 and mar- ried Deborah Lyde, and had five sons and two daughters; the latter married Colonel John Murray and Godfrey Malbone. Of the sons, Thomas was a mandamus councillor, and lived on Harvard Street; he married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of George Cradock, was a refugee, and left no children. Another son, Edward, married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Tyler, and left many descendants. A third son, Nathaniel, also married his cousin Catharine Cradock, was a resident in South Street, and was of Tory pro- clivities. He removed to Tyngsborough, where his son Robert married Elizabeth, daughter of John Pitts.
61. James Pitts seems to have been rather a late comer to Boston, though he was an eminent merchant, and a graduate of Harvard in 1731. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Bowdoin, and had sons John, Samuel, and Lindall. The eldest son, John, married a daughter of John Tyng. The second son, Samuel, married a daughter of William Davis, and had five sons and two daughters. The third son, Lindall, married Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy Fitch, of Medford, and left issue. All three of the sons were prominent on the side of the patriots at the Revolution, and the name is preserved in one of our streets to the present day.3
62. Charles Apthorp, who died in Boston in 1758, aged sixty years, was born in England and educated at Eton; he was a merchant here, and pay- master and commissary to the British troops. He married Grisel, daughter of John and Griselda (Lloyd) Eastwick, whose mother was daughter of Sir John Lloyd. The family chronicler says that our James Lloyd was of the same family. Charles Apthorp had eighteen children, of whom fifteen sur- vived him, and eleven married. The sons were Charles Ward Apthorp, of New York; John, who went to England and married a sister of Sir Horace Mann, and, returning to Boston, married secondly Hannah Greenleaf; James, Thomas, William, and, the most noted one, the Rev. East Apthorp,
1 [See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., vii. 15 .- ED.]
2 [See F. S. Drake's Town of Roxbury, p. 327 .- ED.] 8 [See Introduction, p. xlviii. - ED.] VOL. II .- 69.
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Episcopal minister at our Cambridge. He married here a daughter of Foster Hutchinson, and took a second wife after his return to England. The daughters of Charles Apthorp married Barlow Trecothick, Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, Nathaniel Wheelwright, James McEvers, and Robert Bayard. The name is still represented among us.
63. Samuel Salisbury, son of Nicholas and Martha (Saunders) Salisbury, was born in 1739, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Sewall. He was a deacon of the Old South. They had ten children, of whom two sons and six daughters married. The latter married Stephen Higginson, John Leverett, Jonathan Phillips, John Tappan, Aaron P. Cleveland, and Edward Phillips. Many descendants of this worthy couple remain.1
64. The Marions were long in public service here. John Marion, who died in 1705, aged eighty-five, by his wife Sarah had five sons and three daughters. His oldest son, John, was deacon of the First Church, and was twice married; by his first wife, Ann, he had a son Joseph, and by his second wife, Prudence Balston, he had none; he died in 1728, aged seventy-seven. Joseph, son of John, Jr., was a notary public, register of probate, and, in 1714, secretary pro tem. He married Ellen, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Bridge of the First Church; and had daughters married to Theodore Cooke, William Story, Thomas Dodge, and John Jenkins. Samuel Marion, another son of the first John, was twice married, - his second wife being Mary, daughter of Deacon Edward Wilson, - and had three sons, who left issue. These were Samuel (whose three wives were Mary Ellis, Mary Moss, and Ann Phillips), Isaac, who married Rebecca Knight, and John, who married Dorothy Tudor.
65. The Rev. Thomas Bridge, who came here in 1704, was installed as colleague at the First Church in the year following. Besides the daughter, Ellen, who married Joseph Marion as above noted, he had Elizabeth (wife of Bryant Parrot), Lydia (married Benjamin Gray), Copia (married Richie Love), and Sarah (married John Gorman).
66. The Quincy family has been so long identified with Boston, that we are apt to forget that it was not with us from the start. Edmund, the emi- grant, settled at Mount Wollaston, now Quincy, and had a daughter, besides an only son Edmund, who married Joanna Hoar. The latter had daughters married to John Hull, David Hubbard, Ephraim Savage, the Rev. John Ray- ner, Jr., the Rev. D. Gookin, John Hunt, William Savil, and the Rev. D. Baker. The eldest son of Edmund, Jr., Daniel, married Ann Shepard, and had a son John, councillor and speaker, who married Elizabeth Norton. A daughter of this John married the Rev. William Smith, whose daughter married President John Adams. The line of Daniel continued only in female branches. Judge Edmund Quincy, son of Edmund, Jr., by a second wife (daughter of Major-General Gookin, and widow of the Rev. John Eliot, Jr.), married Dorothy Flynt. He was agent of the colony to England, and died there in 1738, leaving sons Edmund and Josiah, and daughters
1 [See Sewall Papers, i. xxxiv .- ED.]
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married to John Wendell and Edward Jackson. Of these, Edmund married Elizabeth Wendell and had nine children, from whom there are numerous descendants, both of the Quincy name and of Attest. t. Edm Quincy Tpm other families. Josiah Quincy,1 younger son of Judge Edmund, married three times; his second son, Samuel, was the solicitor general, and a refugee. His third son, Josiah, Jr., was an ardent patriot, and died on his return from Europe in 1775, leaving by his wife, Abigail Phillips, an only child, Josiah.2 This latter, the well-known mayor of Boston from 1823 to 1828, who died in 1864 aged ninety-two, was long the best known and most evident representative citizen here. By his wife, Eliza S. Morton, he had Josiah, Jr., also mayor of Boston (whose children are Josiah P. and General Samuel M.), and Edmund, known as an able writer and an ardent abolitionist.
67. Colonel Thomas Fitch, a representative and councillor, who died in 1736, was son of Thomas and Martha (Fiske) Fitch, and probably grandson of Zachary Fitch, of Dedham. Thomas Fitch married Abiel, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Danforth, and had a son (who married Martha, but died s. p. be- fore the father), and also a daughter Mary, wife of Lieut .- Governor Andrew Oliver. Fitch's heirs were his daughter, Martha-Allen, and grandson Ed- ·
ward, alias Thomas Fitch Oliver; his other relatives were his sister Sarah, wife of Thomas Warren, and Mary, wife of Thomas Hunt. Colonel Fitch deserves mention as having owned a large section of Boston Common, lying on the northerly side of Boylston Street.3
68. Mention has already been made of the Clark family (Vol. I. p. 586, No. 37), following Savage's account. This proves to be erroneous in some respects. Colonel Thomas Clark, the speaker and assistant, married Mary, sister of Israel Stoughton, and had only two children, - Mehitable Warren and Elizabeth, wife successively of John Freke and Elisha Hutchinson. The other Thomas Clark, his contemporary, was captain in Colonel T. C.'s regiment, owned land on Boylston Street, was a locksmith or blacksmith, and a reputable citizen. He had an only son Thomas, and daughters Leah Baker, Deborah Byfield, and Elizabeth Stevens. Thomas Clark, Jr., mari- ner, had a daughter Hannah, wife of John Maudsley, of Dorchester; went to England and married again, Judith (who remarried - Grafton), and had a daughter Theodosia, who married a Sherman. Elizabeth-Stevens above named, died a childless widow. Leah, wife of Thomas Baker, had four children, - Thomas and John, Rachel (wife of George Waldron) and Mary. In noticing the John Clarks an omission was also made. The Dr.
1 [See his portrait, p. 121 .- ED.]
2 [Portraits of the second and third Josiahs will be given in a later volume - ED.]
3 [See Introduction, p. xxxvii, where the transmission of these estates, now a part of the Common, is traced. - ED.]
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John C. who married Martha Whittingham was son of an earlier Dr. John, of Newbury, who married Martha, sister of Sir Richard Saltonstall, and came to Boston to practise; he died in 1664. The second Dr. John Clark, besides the son Dr. John who was speaker, etc., had a son William-born in 1670, died in 1742 - who was a great merchant. He lived in Clark Square, in a fine house afterward bought and occupied by Sir Henry Frankland.1 He left a widow Sarah, sons Robert and Benjamin, and daughters John Jhar Bo Sarah, Rebecca, and Martha. The third Dr. John Clark, speaker, etc., had three wives, - Sarah Shrimpton, Elizabeth Hutchinson, and Sarah Crisp. His son Dr. John (4) had sons John Plath Speaker John and William, and a daughter who married the Rev. Jonathan May- hew. The son John, the fifth doctor, had a son AUTOGRAPHS.2 Dr. John, sixth, who married Abigail Tailer, and was father of the seventh Dr. John Clark, who had an only daughter Emily, wife of Joseph Merriam, of Lexington. Another family of Clarks may be here mentioned. The Rev. Jonas Clark, of Lexington, who married Lucy Bowes, granddaughter of the Rev. John Hancock, had sons Thomas (town clerk of Boston 1809-22, and clerk of the common council 1822-32), John (a distinguished physician), and Henry, whose son Henry G. was city physician for many years. This family springs from Hugh Clark of Watertown and Roxbury.
69. Edward Bromfield, third son of Henry Bromfield, of Haywood House, co. Hants, was born in 1648, and came to Boston in 1675, where he was a representative and councillor. His second wife was the daughter of the Rev. Samuel Danforth, by whom he had a daughter, married to the Rev. John Webb, and a son Edward. The latter married Abigail Coney, and was a representative for the town on the liberal side. His sons were Edward, who died at the age of twenty-three, a youth of great promise, Thomas, an eminent merchant in London, and John; his daughters married William Phillips, Jeremiah Powell, and William Powell. The son John married Ann Roberts in 1774, and was father of John Bromfield, a Boston merchant who died in 1849, and who, besides giving twenty-five thousand dollars to the Boston Athenæum, left over one hundred thousand dollars to charitable purposes.3
1 [See Introduction, p. xi. - ED.]
2 [These are respectively of the Boston Chi- rurgeon, dated 1684, and of the speaker of 1709. See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., April, 1860, P. 171 .- ED.]
8 [There is an account of the Bromfield family, by D. D. Slade, in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1871 ; see also Heraldic Journal, iii. 187. A view of the Bromfield Mansion on Beacon Street is given in Mr. Bynner's chapter. - ED.]
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70. We have briefly mentioned the Payne family (Vol. I. p. 581, No. 22), but it deserves a further notice. Tobias Payne, of Fownhope, co. Here- ford, was bred as a merchant in Hamburg; then went to Barbadoes, and came here in 1666. He married Sarah, daughter of John Winslow and widow of Miles Standish, by whom he had an only child, William. The widow married, thirdly, Richard Middlecott. William Payne married, first, Mary, daughter of James Taylor, and Diehard & brott secondly Margaret Stewart, of Ips- wich ; he was col- lector, sheriff, and commissioner of the excise, and died in 1735, leaving a large family. The daughters married Jonathan Sewall, John Colman, Jr., and John Phillips; of the sons, Tobias married Sarah, daughter of Kenelm Winslow, and had an only daughter; John was register of probate, and Edward was a merchant. This last-named Edward married Rebecca Amory, and had Rebecca, wife of Governor Christopher Gore, and William, who married Lucy, daughter of Ellis Gray and widow of Dr. William J. B. Dobell; he left twin sons, Edward W. and William E., who both died un- married. Mary and Sarah, twins, sisters of Edward, lived with him in the large double house on Beacon Street, next west of the Boston Athenaeum. We have already noted that the widow of Tobias Payne married, thirdly, Richard Middlecott. They had children, - Edward, who went to England, " where he purchased his Father's Life in an estate at Wormister of £300 per ann., which was entailed on him by his Uncle;" Mary, who married Henry Gibbs, "son of Counsellor Gibbs of Barbados; " Jane, who married Louis Boucher $ Elisha Cooke; and Sarah, who mar- ried Louis Boucher, a merchant, who had children, - Ann, Sarah, and Jane, besides three who died young. He was lost at sea in 1715, but there was a Louis Boucher in 1742, member of the First Baptist Church.
71. James Taylor, long treasurer of the province, was the son of Chris- topher Taylor, leather-dresser of London. He left two sons, Christopher and William, and daughters married to John Kellsoll, of New York, David Craigie, Edward Pell, William Payne, William Robie, Samuel Phips, and Christopher Jacob Lawton. Christopher died unmarried; William moved to Lynn, where his father had a large estate, and had only two daughters, - Rebecca, wife of Timothy Orne, and Anne, wife of Benjamin Parker. This family, so soon extinct in the male line, seems not to be related to that of Lieut .- Governor William Tailer. (See ante, No. 42.)
72. The Eliots are certainly entitled to mention here, although that old landmark, Eliot Street, is likely to lose its name. The famous " Apostle to the Indians," the Rev. John Eliot,1 had brothers Philip, Jacob, of Boston,
1 [It may be worth while to record here that Small, of the Indian Primer of 1669 (see Vol. I. a second edition, 1880, of the reprint edited by p. 478) has been issued with an account and fac-
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and Francis, of Braintree. John left descendants now mostly in Connecticut. Philip had only daughters married to John Smith, Richard Withington, and John Aldis; Francis had only daughters married to Caleb Hobart, John Poulter, John Whitmore, and Stephen Willis. Jacob had sons Jacob and Asaph, and daughters who married Theophilus Frary, Thomas Wyborne, Jacob Frist Beny, Eliot John Eliot Peter Hobart, and Thomas Downes. Asaph Eliot married Elizabeth, daughter of Rich- ard Davenport, and had Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Royall, and John, who married Sarah Downes. Jacob Eliot, Jr., married Mary, widow of William Wilcox of Cam- bridge, and had, with daughters married to Elizur Holyoke and William Davis, three sons, Joseph, Benjamin, and Jacob. The last two died without issue. Joseph THE SOUTH END ELIOTS.1 married Silence, and had Deacon John and Rev. Jacob; of whom John married thrice, and had a son Joseph, of Needham, and two daughters. The Rev. Jacob Eliot, of Lebanon, Connecticut, died in 1766, aged sixty-five, leaving sons from whom there may be issue of the name. These Eliots and their relatives owned a large tract at what was then the South End of the town. The Eliot house was where the Boylston Market2 is, and their land reached from Washington Street west to the Back Bay. Through it Eliot Street was laid out, and the Frarys, Downes, Lowders, and other allied names will be found on deeds of all that property. There was another noted family whose name is more properly spelled Elliott, but later generations have adopted the shorter spelling. Two generations of Andrew Elliotts were of Beverly; the third was a bookseller of Boston, and died in 1749. His son, Samuel Eliot, married Elizabeth Marshall, and had Samuel, a noted merchant here. The latter was father of William H. and our late mayor, Samuel A. Eliot. Charles W., the son of the mayor, is President of Harvard College; and Samuel, son of William H., was President of Trinity College, Hartford, and later was Superintendent of Schools in this city. The Rev. Andrew Eliot, uncle of the mayor, was minister of the New North Church; and his son, the Rev. John Eliot, was the author of the well known biographical dictionary.
73. Andrew Belcher of Cambridge (son of Andrew B., who married Elizabeth Danforth) married at Hartford the daughter of Jonathan Gilbert. He came to Boston, was a prosperous merchant, and a councillor. He
simile of A Christian Covenanting Confession, fol- is owned, as stated in Vol. I. p. 467, by the Con- lowing a copy of the broadside, in Indian and gregational Library in Boston. - ED.] English, preserved in the University Library at 1 [These autographs are respectively of date, 1685, 1708, and 1732. There is an account of the Eliot family in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July, 1869, p. 336. - ED.] Edinburgh, and which is marked as having been brought from New England in 1690. Mr. Small supposes it unique, and it may be in that form, for it varies typographically and textually from the only copy known to us heretofore, and which 2 See Introduction, p. xxxvii.
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married, secondly, Hannah, widow of Isaac Walker and daughter of The- ophilus Frary, and owned land next to the Eliots on Washington Street. His daughters married George Vaughan, Daniel Oliver, Oliver Noyes; his son Jonathan was Governor of Massachusetts, 1730-41, and Payfield Lyde died Governor of New Jersey. The governor married, first, a daughter of Lieut .- Governor Par- tridge, of New Hampshire, and had a daughter married to Byfield Lyde, besides sons Andrew and Jonathan, the latter of whom was Chief-Justice of Nova Scotia. There was an early settler named Edward Belcher, who lived on Boylston Street, and who had a son Edward, Jr.1 Edward, Sr., married, secondly, Christian, sister of William Talmage, and their only daughter married Samuel Flack. All these parties are to be found on our early deeds, but no relationship is known between Edward Belcher and the family at Cambridge.
74. Nathaniel Williams, H. C. 1693, whose father and grandfather bore the same names, was fitted for the ministry, but he became the successor of Master Cheever of the Boston school. He served from 1703 to 1734, and was succeeded by John Lovell, who served till the Revolution. Nathaniel Williams married Anne, only surviving child of Dr. Samuel Bradstreet, of Jamaica, who was the oldest son of Governor Simon Bradstreet. Deacon Jonathan Williams of the First Church, who died in 1737, was the son of Deacon Robert Williams. He married Mary Hunlock, granddaughter of Samuel Sendall, and had sons Jonathan and Sendall; his second wife was the widow of James Townsend, by whom he had a daughter Rebecca, wife of Thaddeus Mason. The grandson of this latter was the late Rev. Thad- deus Mason Harris of Dorchester; and his grandsons, Charles and Edward D., are well known to the present generation of Bostonians. Many other bearers of the name have lived here, but most of them are probably descendants of Robert Williams, of Roxbury.2 That branch, indeed, has been prolific in distinguished scions, but their history is outside our limits.
75. Although much has been written about the Winslows, little can be found in print about the Boston line. John, brother of Governor Edward, married Mary Chilton ; was a merchant in Boston, and died in 1674. His daughters married Robert Latham, Edward Gray, Miles Standish, Tobias Payne, and Richard Middlecott; his surviving sons were John, Edward, Jo- seph, Samuel, Isaac, and Benjamin. Of these, Edward married, first, Sarah Hilton, and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Hutchinson. He had sons John and Edward, the latter of whom married Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Joshua Moody. He was sheriff of Suffolk County, 1722-41, and judge C. C. P. His sons were Joshua, William, Samuel, Isaac, and John,
1 [See Introduction, p. xxxv. - ED.] minuteness in a volume, The Genealogy and His- tory of the Family of Williams, by Stephen W. Williams, published at Greenfield in 1847 .- Er.]
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all prominent citizens of Boston from 1740 to 1770. His son Isaac, a loyal- ist, was father of Isaac, who married Mary Davis; and had sons George, Benjamin, and Edward, all merchants in Boston within the memory of the present generation.1 Many other branches of the family have been resident among us, and Rev. Hubbard Winslow and Rev. Miron Winslow are espe- cially worthy of remembrance.
76. The Rev. Samuel Willard, pastor of the Old South, died in 1707, having had by his two wives, Abigail Sherman and Eunice Tyng, twenty- one children. Yet of all this large family the only descendants of the name are to be traced to his son John Willard, of Jamaica, through his son the Rev. Samuel Willard of Biddeford, Me. Another son of Rev. Samuel was Josiah Willard, secretary of the province for many years, who married Katherine Allen and Hannah Clark, but left no sons. Daniel, brother of Rev. Samuel, had a son Edward of Jamaica, whose daughter Mary married Dr. Edward Ellis, of Boston; her sister married a Mr. Hope. Henry Hope, son of this last, having lost his parents, was placed in charge of his aunts here, and thence went to London and Amsterdam. He succeeded his uncle, Adrian Hope, in the great banking-house in the latter city, and died in London, unmarried, in 1811. His sister, Mrs. Harriet Goddard, left three daughters. The Rev. Samuel Willard of Biddeford, above-noted, married Abigail Wright, and died in 1741, leaving four children, - Rev. John, William, Rev. Joseph, and Eunice. Of these Rev. John had three sons, ministers, and William had one son, a minister; Rev. Joseph was President of Harvard, and had sons Augustus, Sidney, and Joseph, clerk of the superior court 1856-65. The son of the last was Major Sidney Wil- lard, who fell at Fredericksburg, well known to and deeply lamented by our citizens.
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