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Middle Haddam, Conn., July 7, 1799, she was a daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (Belden) Stocking. Her parents were married April 17, 1789. Samuel Stocking, her father, was son of Reuben3 and Sarah (Hurlbut) Stocking and a descendant in the sixth generation of George1 Stocking, who came to New England about 1633, was admitted freeman at Cambridge in May, 1635, removed with first settlers to Hartford in 1636. The line was: George.1 Deacon Samuel,2 George,3 Captain George," Reuben," Samuel." Deacon Samuel Stocking. born in England, married at Hartford, in 1652, Bethia, daughter of John Hopkins, and settled in Middletown, Conn. He was Representative seven years, and he served in King Philip's War, probably as Sergeant.
Bethia Hopkins, wife of Deacon Samuel Stock- ing, was grand-daughter of Samuel Hopkins, who was a member of Captain Miles Standish's company, 1621 ; was sent by Governor Bradford with Edward Winslow. (afterward Governor) on a special mission to Massasoit, the Indian chief; member of Governor's Council, 1632-36; volun- teer in 1637 in aid of Massachusetts and Connect- icut colonists against the Pequots: member of Council of War for Plymouth, 1643. (Stocking Ancestry, p. 4.)
George3 Stocking, born in Middletown, 1665, died in East Middletown; now Portland, Conn., in 1714. Captain George' Stocking married Mercy Savage and settled in Middle Haddam before 1740. He served in the Lexington alarm in Captain Eleazur Hubbard's company.
Reuben® Stocking, baptized February 12, 1744, married September 19, 1765, Sarah Hurlbut, daughter of Stephen+ Hurlbut and his wife Su- sannah. Stephen+ Hurlbut was son of David3 and Mary (Savage) Hurlbut, David3 being son of John? Hurlbut, of Wethersfield and Middletown, and grandson of Thomas' Hurlbut, who was an early settler of Wethersfield, Conn.
Reuben Stocking served as Lieutenant on the privateer "Sampson" in the Revolutionary War, was taken prisoner and confined in a British prison-ship in New York Harbor, and finally re- leased after suffering great hardships. He was subsequently captured by Algerine pirates in the Mediterranean, loaded with chains, and held for a ransom, being eventually released through |
the vigorous operations of Commodore Decatur. (Stocking Ancestry, p. 19.)
Mary Ann Belden, wife of Samuel Stocking, was a niece of Sir Thomas Belden, of England, who spent some years in Hartford, Conn., and built the old Belden house on the north side of the city. Had his niece survived him, she would have inherited his estates as Lady Mary Ann. (Stocking Ancestry, p. 39.)
Jacob" Carter and his wife Caroline had four children, namely: Caroline Elizabeth, born May 3, 1826: Abiel, born November 6, 1827; Clara Anna, born December 9, 1837; and John William Dodge, born, as stated above, April 30, 1840.
Caroline Elizabeth Carter married September 7, 1847, William Wallace Taylor, of Concord, N.H. Abiel Carter married Martha Vesta Emery October 24, 1850, and resided in Port- land, Me. He died July 3, 1898. Clara Anna Carter married December 4, 1873, George Ed- ward Tinker, of Lyme, Conn.
John William Dodge Carter of Portland, Me., married October 3, 1870, Agnes Hudson, of Air- drie, Scotland, daughter of Thomas Hudson and his wife, Jane Anderson, of Rawyards, Scotland.
Thomas Hudson was son of Alexander Hudson, a native of Fife, Scotland. Jane Anderson was daughter of John Anderson, who was born in Airdrie, Scotland.
EWELLYN BROWN, M.D., of Nor- ridgewock, was born in Clinton, Ken- nebec County, Me., February 7, 1835, son of Moses and Rebecca (Tobey) Brown. His paternal grandfather was Jona- than Brown, one of the first settlers of Clinton, in which town Moses Brown, the Doctor's father, was born. Mrs. Rebecca Brown was a native of Fairfield, Me.
The subject of this sketch passed his boyhood until the age of seven years in his native town of Clinton. He then accompanied his parents to Norridgewock, the family settling on a farm. Here young Llewellyn acquired his elementary education in the common schools. He sub- sequently attended Bloomfield Academy at Bloomfield (now Skowhegan, Me.), and for several winter terms thereafter was engaged
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in teaching school. After accumulating a small supply of money, he entered as a student the medical school connected with Harvard Uni- versity, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in April, 1862.
In the same year he located himself for prac- tice in Norridgewock, where he has since re- mained. A careful and conscientious physi- cian, well-grounded in the twin sciences of medieine and surgery, he has built up a good practice and gained in a high degree the con- fidence of his fellow-townsmen. He is a mem- ber of the Somerset County Medical Society. A good citizen, he takes an intelligent interest in town affairs, and, though he has not held public office, his vote and influence are ever cast on the side of progress, sound morality, and improved conditions in local government. In national politics he is a Republican.
Dr. Brown was first married in 1867 to Sarah A. White, of Skowhegan, Me., a daughter of David and Cynthia (Wickwire) White, of Skowhegan. She died in 1897. The Doctor married for his second wife, March 12, 1901, Mrs. Mary A. Jewell, widow of James Jewell and daughter of William and Hannah (Went- worth) Warren, of Skowhegan.
LPHEUS RICHARDSON, of Clinton, Kennebec County, was born in this town, May 12, 1853, son of Thomas and Emily G. (Goodridge) Richard- son. He is a grandson of Samuel Richardson (Jr.), a former resident of Clinton, Me. (born in 1793, died in 1856), and his wife, Rachel Flye. It is stated .in the History of Kennebec County that Samuel Richardson (Sr.) eame from Berwick to Clinton in 1797, and that at his death he left five sons, one being Samuel (Jr.), above named. According to the "Rich- ardson Memorial," "Samuel" Richardson (of the sixth generation in descent from Thomas1 Richardson, who with his brothers Ezekiel and Samuel' was among the founders of Woburn, Mass., in 1641) was born in Billerica, Mass., in 1767, son of Samuel Richardson and his wife Martha, and was living in Clinton, Me., in 1815." The History of Billerica states that he married Tamizon Jaquith, January 25,
1795. His descent from Thomas,' of Woburn, was through Thomas,2 Nathaniel,3 Samuel,' and Samuel.5
Thomas Richardson, son of the first named Samuel (or Samuel' Richardson) and his wife Rachel, was born in Clinton, and became a prominent citizen of the town, being Select- inan for several terms. He carried on farming here for many years, and died in 1SSS. His wife, Emily, was a daughter of Oliver and Mary (Bigelow) Goodridge, of Clinton, and a grand-daughter of Samuel Goodridge, an early settler of Canaan, Me., who lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and four years. The children of Thomas and Emily G. Good- ridge Richardson were: Ward, who died in in- fancy; and Alpheus.
Alpheus Richardson was reared to man's estate in the town of Clinton, acquiring his education in the public schools and at the Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Me. His youth was spent on his father's farm in Clinton, and after his marriage in 1872 he became man- ager of the farm, residing thereon until 189S. He then removed to Clinton village, and en- gaged in his present business as a general mer- chant and as proprietor of a grist-mill. Ile
still retains a practical interest in agricultural matters, having a good farm of one hundred acres of land. He belongs to Pine Tree Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Clinton. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He is numbered among the wide-awake and progressive citizens who have the best interests of the town at heart, and who may always be depended upon to support any worthy cause.
On August 29, 1872, Mr. Richardson mar- ried Miss Florence Burns, a native of Clin- ton, Me., and daughter of David and Emily (Whitten) Burns. Of this union there is one child, Lura, now the wife of John E. Prescott, of Clinton.
1 SAAC MEIGS BRAGG, who died in Ball- gor, February 17, 1891, was born in China, Me., November 16, 1812. He was the second son of Isaac and Hannalı (Meigs) Bragg and a descendant in the fifth generation of Thomas Bragg, the line being:
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Thomas,1 John,2 Nathaniel,3 Isaac,4 Isaac Meigs.5
Thomas1 Bragg and his wife Mary came, it is said, from England to Massachusetts in the colonial period, and settled in Attleboro. Evi- dently their arrival was later than 1730, as the name Bragg is not found in the list of settlers prior to that date given in Daggett's History of Attleboro. John Bragg, born Janu- ary 20, 1717, married a Miss Patton. Na- thaniel Bragg, born February 19, 1743, mar- ried a Miss Moore and resided in Attleboro, Mass. Isaae+ Bragg, born in Attleboro, Mass., September 6, 1780, died August 4, 1844, in China, Me. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Meigs, was born in Barnstable, Mass., October 17, 1778, and died in Bangor, Me., October 16, 1852. Her father, Nathaniel Meigs, was of the sixth generation of the family founded by Vincent Meigs, who emigrated from Dorsetshire, England, in 1635, and settled in Guilford, Conn., the line of descent being as follows: Vincent.1 John,2 John,3 Ebenezer,+ Ebenezer,5 Nathaniel6 (a soldier in the Revo- lutionary War). Ebenezer+ Meigs was born September 19, 1675. Nathaniel was married at Falmouth, Mass., to Mary Wyatt.
Isaac+ Bragg and his wife, Hannah Meigs Bragg, had seven children, namely-Elijah, Caroline, Emeline, Isaac Meigs, Norris Hub- bard, Emily Ann, and Flavilla Taber. Elijah Bragg, born September 30, 1802, married Lydia Fairfield, and died August 17, 1872. Caroline, born May 17, 1808, died January 3, 1846. She married Joseph Parmeter, by whom she had two children, Isaac and Ann. Eme- line Bragg, born April 24, 1810, died February 19, 1891. She married John Spaulding, and had four children-Norris, William H., Sophia, and John. Norris Hubbard Bragg was born November 21, 1815, and died May 5, 1867. He married Sophia Crocker, by whom he had two children, Norris Everett and Charles Fred- erick. Emily A. Bragg, born December 1, 1818, died in September, 1898. She married Robert Thompson (of Scotch origin), and had two sons, namely: Robert, who died unmarried; and the Rev. Isaac Meigs Bragg Thompson, a Baptist minister, who married Elizabeth Parmeley, is settled at Wayne, Pa., and
has one child, Evelyn. Flavilla T. Bragg was born January 4, 1822, and died August 26, 1876. She married Orison Parmeter.
Isaac Meigs Bragg settled first as a business man in Orono, Me., but subsequently removed to Bangor, where he embarked in the West India trade, in which he was very successful. He subsequently became prominently identi- fied with the lumber interests of the Penob- scot Valley. In 1859 he shipped on the "Bre- men," of Bremen, Germany, the first cargo of timber ever sent from Bangor to a foreign port. He also had the distinction of charter- ing the first ship that ever left this port loaded with deals for Liverpool, England. For sex- eral years prior to his death he lived retired from aetive pursuits, having accumulated a competency. A man of strict integrity, sound judgment, and good financial ability, he was often called upon to settle estates, and in the discharge of such trusts always gave satisfac- tion. He served at different times in both branches of the city government, and was offered many political positions, but declined to hold office. He was a member of the Hammond Street Congregational Church and a trustee of the Bangor Theological Seminary.
Mr. Bragg married first, May 2, 1841, Sarah Ann Babcock, of St. Andrews, N.B. She died March 22, 1849, aged thirty years, eleven months, and twenty-six days. Of their two children, one, William Augustus, died in in- fancy. The other child, Caroline Augusta. born in Bangor, June 9, 1843, married June 4. 1867, William E. Mann, of Bangor, by whom she has one child, Roland W., born July 3. 186S. Roland W. Mann married September 25, 1894, Mary Emerson Young, of Bruns- wick. Me. They have three children-Stephen Jewett, Mary Caroline, and William Meigs.
Mr. Bragg married second, in 1850, Augusta Haywood Taylor. She was a daughter of Abner Taylor, one of the earlier merchants of Bangor. Abner Taylor, born in Dunstable (now Nashua), N.H., April 20, 1779, died in Bangor, Me., March 28, 1851. His parents were Captain Benjamin and Martha (Lyon) Taylor, the father a Revolutionary soldier. Abner Taylor came to Maine. in 1806, and set- tled in Bangor, where he was successfully en-
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gaged in mercantile pursuits for many years. He was a man of high character and unblem- ished integrity. For some time he was County Treasurer. On June 1, 1828, he was admitted to the First Church, and in 1833 he was one of the founders of the Hammond Street Church. Mr. Taylor married, first, Anna, daughter of Captain William and Relief (Baldwin) Ham- mond, of Bangor. She was admitted to the First Church, July 25, 1815, and died Decem- ber 21, 1832. Mr. Taylor married, second, Harriet Hammond, a sister of his first wife. She was born in Newton, Mass., March 3, 1786, and died in Bangor, Me., February 10, 1865.
Captain William Hammond served as com- missary in the Revolutionary War, enlisting from Newton, Mass., where he was then living. He was the son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Pren- tice) Hammond and a lineal descendant of Thomas1 and Elizabeth (Cason) Hammond, of Hingham, Mass. (in 1636, later of Newton), the line being continued through their son, Thomas2 Hammond, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Stedman, and lived in Newton, Mass .: Thomas3 who married Mehitable Bacon; John+ Hammond, who married Margaret Wilson; to their son Joshua,5 the father above named. Margaret Wilson, wife of John Hammond, was a daugh- ter of Samuel Wilson and his wife Experi- ence, who was daughter of Deacon James and Margaret (Jackson) Trowbridge and grand- daughter of Thomas Trowbridge, of Taunton, England. Samuel Wilson was son of Nathan- iel Wilson and his wife Hannah, daughter of Griffith and Alice Crafts, of Roxbury, Mass. Margaret Jackson, wife of Dr. Trowbridge, was daughter of Deacon John Jackson and his wife Margaret Atherton. Elizabeth Prentice, wife of Joshua Hammond and mother of Captain William, was born in Newton in 1714, daugh- ter of Captain Thomas3 and Elizabeth (Jack- son) Prentice. Her father was son of Thomas? Prentice, Jr., and his wife, Sarah (daugh- ter of Captain Thomas Stanton, the famous Indian interpreter), and grandson of Captain . Thomas1 Prentice, who came from England in 1639, and settled in Newton, then a part of Cambridge, Mass. He commanded a troop
of horse in King Philip's War. In 1689 he was ordered to Rhode Island to arrest and bring back to Boston Sir Edmund Andros. which he did. Relief Baldwin, the second wife of Captain William Hammond, was born December 7, 1750, daughter of Henry and Abi- gal Baldwin, and died September 29, 1829. Her father was a great-grandson of Deacon Henry Baldwin, who married Phoebe Richardson. and built in 1641 the famous old Bald- win House of Woburn, Mass. The follow- ing is a brief record of the children of Cap- tain William Hanmond and Relief (Baldwin) Hammond: Charles, born September 6, 1779. married Elizabeth Brown, of Concord, Mass .. in 1805, and died in Bangor, Me., April 12, 1815; Elisha, born April 14, 1781, died un- married in Bangor, Me., November 23, 1S15: Mary, born in Newton, Mass., October 11. 1782, married Dr. John Abbot, of Hampden. Me., in September, 1815, and died in Bangor. Me., November 18, 1841; Anna, born in New- ton, Mass., May 29, 1784, married Abner Tay- lor, 1809; Harriet, born March 3, 1786, in Newton, Mass., married Abner Taylor in 1833; Relief, born November 27, 1787, died unmar- ried in Bangor, July 20, 1814; Sophia, born November 23, 1790, married George Brown, of Concord, Mass., in 1816, and died in Bangor in 1881; Marinda, born January 11, 1793. married Charles Rice, 1814. Prentice died when three weeks old.
Abner Taylor's twelve children were all by his first wife, Anna' Hammond, and were all born in Bangor, namely-Anna Sophia. Har- riet Hammond, Thomas Augustus, William Hammond, Martha Maria, Mary, Elizabeth Prentice, Charles Elisha, Augusta Haywood. Loomis, Frances Pomeroy, and Caroline Cor- nelia. Anna Sophia, born January 27. 1510. married May 30, 1833, George S. French. of Bangor. He died January 15, 1849. She died August 6, 1895. Harriet Hammond, born April 5, 1811, married in 1829, at Bangor. John O. Kendrick. He died in 1869. She died January 9, 1892. Thomas Augustus. born May 4, 1812, died October 15, 1879. He was a merchant in Bangor. He married July 27, 1835, Nancy R. Clark. William Hammond, born November 20, 1813, died December 5,
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1859. He, too, was engaged in mercantile business in Bangor. He married in October, 1839, Anna M. Shaw, of Gardiner. She died June 3, 1895. Martha Maria, born October 24, 1815, married May 14, 1845, Charles F. Barstow, of Boston. Mass. She died November 11, 1893. Mary, born October 5, 1817, mar- ried November 29, 1854, William H. Pogg, of Brooklyn, N.Y. He died November 27. 1884. She died September 28, 1895. Elizabeth Pren- tice was born September 18, 1819, and died September 5, 1876. On June 3, 1846. she mar- ried Captain Thomas B. Sanford, of New York. He died March 4, 1858. Charles Elisha, born January 21, 1822, married April 22, 1852, in Mexico, Josefa Garcia. He died December 12, 1893. Augusta Haywood, born November 13, 1823, married Isaac Meigs5 Bragg, December 19, 1850, and died February 28, 1902. Loomis, born June 26, 1825, died February 19, 18S0. He was a merchant in Bangor for a number of years, and was also interested in steam- boating. On August 31, 1854, he married Lucy E., daughter of Jeremiah Curtis, of New York. She died July 23, 1879. Frances Pome- roy, born April IS, 1829, died July 20, 1858. On January 20, 1850, she married Captain Charles B. Sanford. Caroline Cornelia, born August 28, 1832, died unmarried May 24, 1871.
The only child of Isaac Meigs5 and Augusta Haywood Taylor Bragg was a daughter, Flor- ence Eleanor" Bragg. She married, Decem- ber 10, 1874, James Cushman Buzzell. Mr. Buzzell was born in Fryeburg, Me .. September 6, 1844. He is a son of John Evans Buzzell, a native of Effingham, N.H., and a grandson of Isaiah Buzzell, of Effingham. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Jane Guernsey, was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Guern- sey, a Baptist minister. Mr. Buzzell came to Bangor when a young man, and for many years was interested in the hardware business.
LFRED S. WRIGHT, widely known in former years as a teacher of superior qualifications, successfully engaged in his profession for more than a quarter of a century, died in Norridgewock, Me., No- vember 26, 1895. His native place was Lew-
iston, Me. He was born February 11, 1831, son of Deacon Timothy and Susannah R. (Blaisdell) Wright. His father's birthplace was Lewiston; his mother's, New Gloucester, Me.
The Wright family of New England dates back to early colonial times in Massachusetts. Among the immigrants may here be mentioned Deacon John Wright, one of the first settlers of Woburn, Mass., and Edward Wright, who came to Concord, Mass., about 1650.
The History of Androscoggin County, Maine, states that Jesse Wright, of Dracut, Mass., settled at Lewiston, Me., in 1774, his brothers Joel and Timothy coming about three years later.
Ralph' Blaisdell, probably the common an- cestor of most, if not all, of this surname in New England, was in York, Me,, in 1637. He received land in Salisbury, Mass., in 1640 and in later years. His son Henry,2 who settled in Amesbury, married and left descendants.
Inheriting from his parents a love of learn- ing, together with many sterling traits of char- acter, Alfred S. Wright, exempt in his early years by the delicate state of his health from sharing the labors of the home farm, devoted much time to books and study, and while still a youth taught school in the neighboring towns of Webster and Greene with marked success. A little later he went to Maryland, following the example of his brothers, also teachers, who had preceded him to that State. He con- tinued teaching in public schools and acade- mies in Maryland and Delaware for several years, in his leisure time pursuing the study of law. Returning to Maine, he was admitted to the bar in Bangor and subsequently in Wa- verley, Ia., but made no serious attempt to prac- tise law as a profession. After his marriage, in 1858, he resided for a few years in his native city, Lewiston, and then returning South re- sumed the teacher's vocation. For three and a half years, 1873-77, he was in Port Penn, Del., and during the next ten years he was the principal of a large public school in Middle- town, Del., his wife, Mrs. Ellen F. T. Wright, being associated with him in teaching. He there achieved, through his untiring energy and superior administrative ability, a most gratifying measure of success, the place being
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one in which previously only "select schools" had flourished. The decade spent in Middle- town is thought to have been productive of the richest fruitage of his life. In after years he often received, from his pupils of that period who had profited by his thorough training in the class-room, letters of grateful aeknowl- edgment. In 1SS7, deeply to the regret of the people of Middletown, he removed to Nor- ridgewoek, where he had business interests that required his presence. Settling at "The Elms." he accepted the position of principal of the Eaton and Norridgewock High School, as repeatedly he had been urged to do, and retained it four years. He then resigned, and during the re- mainder of his earthly life engaged in agri- culture at "The Elms."
Mr. Wright's first wife was Arvesta Labaree. of Wales, Me. She died in 1872, having been the mother of two children, Ida M. (deceased) and Jennie S., now the wife of Dr. J. L. Pepper, of Madison, Me.
Mr. Wright married, secondly, September 17, 1873, Ellen Frances Taylor, a native of Nor- ridgewock, Me., and daughter of Nathaniel and Olive (Whitten) Taylor. Her father was born in Lyman, Me., and her mother in Kenne- bunkport, Me. . Nathaniel Taylor removed from Lyman to Norridgewoek with an ox team in 1827. He was son of Jediah (or Jedediah) Taylor, a native of Kennebunkport, Me., who in his day was Captain of a company in the Maine State militia.
Israel Whitten, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Wright, was a Revolutionary soldier, as also were several of his brothers.
Mrs. Ellen F. T. Wright since the death of her husband continues to reside at the Wright homestead in Norridgewock, "The Elms." A graduate of the State Normal School at Farm- ington in the class of 1868, she has taught one hundred and five terms of school, some in the State of Maine and some in Delaware, and is therefore entitled to be placed on the honor rolls of veteran teachers in New England. A sister, Miss Sarah E. Taylor, who makes her home with Mrs. Wright at "The Elms," has taught fifty terms of school, having been thus engaged at different times in Norridgewock, Me., Minneapolis, Minn., and Middletown, Del. +
FC ON. EDWIN CHICK BURLEIGH, one of the foremost of Maine statesmen, now serving his fourth term as a member of Congress, is a native of Aroostook County, having been born in the town of Linneus, five miles from Houlton, November 27, 1843. His parents were Parker Prescott and Caroline Peabody (Chick) Bur- leigh. On the paternal side he can boast of seven generations of New England ancestry, he being a lineal descendant in the eighth gen- eration of Giles1 Burley, or Burleigh, who was an inhabitant of Ipswich, Mass., in 1648, and a commoner in 1664. The lineage is: Giles,1 James,2 Josiah,3 Thomas,+ Benjamin," Moses," Parker P.,7 Edwin C.8
James2 Burleigh, born February 10, 1659, died in Exeter, N.H., about 1721. His first wife, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Susan- nah (Worcester) Stacy, died October 21, 1686.
Josiah3 Burleigh, born in 1701, son of James2 by his second wife, Elizabeth, died in New- market, N.H. He married Hannah Wiggin, daughter of the Hon. Andrew3 Wiggin by his first wife, whose name is not known, his second wife being Rebecca, daughter of Joseph2 Chase. Andrew Wiggin was a Judge of Probate. He was son of Andrew2 and Hannah (Bradstreet) Wiggin, his father a son of Thomas1 Wiggin, who first came to New England in 1631, as agent for the proprietors of New Hampshire, and his mother a daughter of Governor Simon and Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet and grand-daugh- ter of Governor Thomas Dudley. These two colonial governors and this early literary gentle- woman of New England, learned in varied lore, flatteringly termed in her day the " tenth muse." are therefore numbered among the ancestors of the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh. In 1781 Josiah3 Burleigh received thirty acres of land. assigned to him by a committee at Exeter. He, like his father, was a native of Massachusetts.
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