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appears uniformly among the antagonists of Mr. Parker, known as "Mr. Woodman's party." Conveyances of real estate from him appear in the Essex records in 1640-52-55-56- 66-69, in which he is described as "of New- bury." In conveyances appearing in 1647 and 1648, he is described as "of Haverhill," and in sundry of 1658, 1659, 1660 and 1661, as "of Salem." In these conveyances he is usually described a "glover," sometimes as "yeoman," and once as "leather-dresser." He seems to have been an active and public spirited man, held in respect by his fellow citizens in the several towns in which he lived, and his long life was evidently one of active usefulness. By trade a glover, he united with that employ- ment some practice as a surveyor, and his various public employments show him to have been a man of fair education and business qualifications. He died in Newbury, Decem- ber 21, 1682. His widow Thomasine survived him just forty days ("a widow's quaran- tine"), and died in Newbury, January 30, 1683. No will appears of record, nor any ad- ministration of his estate. Their children, the eldest said to have been born in England, the others all in Newbury, were: Thomas, John, Samuel and Apphia.
(III) Thomas (3), eldest child of Thomas (2) and Thomasine Hale, was born in Eng- land, November 18, 1633, and came to Amer- ica with his parents probably in 1637. He seems to have resided in Newbury, and died there October 22, 1688. One of the church dissensions, by no means uncommon in New England in those days, arose about 1670, and Thomas Hale took sides against the preacher, Parker, and was fined one noble by the court at Ipswich, May 29, 1671. All but two of the entire Woodman party were fined. Thomas Hale's will was executed March 20, 1687, and probated December 12, 1688. His wife Mary was executrix of the will, and swore to the inventory, the total of which, real and per- sonal, was £505 16s. 8d., the homestead having been deeded to son Thomas before his death. The amount of property left constituted what at that time and in that part of the world was considered a handsome estate. Mr. Hale was a man of local prominence, and filled numer- ous places in the public service. He was fence-viewer in Newbury in 1661-66-75-77- 78-80; was chosen to carry votes to Salem, 1665, 1674; was selectman, 1665-75-78; trial juror 1675-77-78-79 ; tythingman 1679-80-81 ; highway surveyor 1676-77; way-warden 1674-79; and on town committees 1673-74- 76-77-78-79-80. He married, at Salem, May
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26, 1657, Mary, daughter of Richard and Alice ( Bosworth) Hutchinson, of Salem, Mas- sachusetts. She was baptized at North Musk- ham, county of Notts, England, December 28, 1630. She married (second), February 5, 1695, William Watson, of Boxford, and died December 8, 1715, in Boxford, surviving her second husband five years. The children of Thomas and Mary ( Hutchinson) Hale were: A son (died young), Thomas, Mary, Abigail, Hannah, Lydia, Elizabeth, Joseph and Sam- uel.
(IV) Captain Joseph, eighth child and third son of Thomas (3) and Mary ( Hutchin- son ) Hale, was born in Newbury, February 20, 1671, and died in Boxford, February 13, 1761, aged ninety. He was settled in Boxford with his mother as early as 1692. June 28, 1692, Joseph, with his mother Mary, both described as of Newbury, received from Dan- iel Northend a deed of two hundred acres in Boxford, "in or near a place formerly called the Village Plains," and on "Pie Brook." November 13, 1693, he received from his mother Mary a deed of two hundred and eighty acres with buildings in Boxford, and six acres of marsh in Newbury, which she had lately purchased of Joseph Poor, of New- bury, he to come into immediate possession of one-half, and of the other one-half at her decease, provided he should marry Mary, daughter of William Watson, etc. February 17, 1703, he received of William Watson a deed of sixty acres of land in Boxford, re- citing that he received one-half of the same when he married said Watson's daughter Mary, and he now bought the other one-half, together with other land. In the following forty-five or more years he was grantor or grantee in many deeds, and is variously de- scribed as "yeoman," "house carpenter," "hus- bandman," and "gentleman," at different times. He was undoubtedly a man of means, active, ambitious, and well thought of, as is shown by the public positions he held. He was selectman of Boxford in 1702. Under the title of "Ensign Joseph Hale" he repre- sented Boxford in the general court in 1714- 15-16-17; under that of "Lieutenant Joseph Hale," also in 1720-21-22-23-24-25; under that of "Captain Joseph Hale," in 1728-29- 30-31-32; and as "Joseph Hale" simply, in 1735. Upon the record of town meetings in Boxford appears the following entry : "May 9, 1722. Voted that upon consideration of Lieutenant Hale's meeting with so much loss and damage the last year by reason of his having the small-pox, to give him ten pounds,
and let him have it as soon as may be." He may have received this allowance on account of having contracted the disease while serving as representative of the town in the legis- lature. He married, November 15, 1693, Mary, daughter of William and Sarah ( Per- ley ) Watson, of Boxford. She died February I, 1708; and he was published to Joanna Dodge, widow, at Ipswich, September 19, 1708. His children by the first wife were: Joseph, Jacob, Mary, Ambrose, Abner, Moses, and Sarah; and by the second wife: Hepzi- bah, Lydia, Margaret, Thomas, John, Han- nah and Benjamin.
(V) Ambrose, fourth child and third son of Captain Joseph and Mary ( Watson) Hale, was born in Boxford, July 16, 1699, and died in Harvard, April 13, 1767. He seems to have been a farmer, and is named as a party to various conveyances. May 23, 1722, he re- ceived from his father Joseph and wife Jo- anna, a deed of settlement of eighty-two acres of land in Boxford by the gate on the village road which leads from Piebrook to Andover Road. February, 1742, he deeded to Joseph Simmons, of Ipswich, his homestead in Box- ford, eighty-five acres; and after the making of this deed he disappears from the records of Essex county. Neither does he appear on the probate records. An Ambrose Hale, of Harvard, was a soldier in Captain John Church's company in 1759. Ambrose was then about sixty years old. He had sons Am- brose and Benjamin, and removed with them from Boxford to Harvard about 1742. A will of Ambrose Hale, of Harvard, signed Febru- ary 5, 1761, and again February 7, 1761, proved in Worcester probate office May 12, 1767, names children : Martha, Benjamin, Abigail, Adna, Moses, Hannah, Sarah and Ambrose. The inventory of his realty was £200, and of his personalty, £82 17s. 6d. Am- brose Hale married in Boxford, December II, 1722, Joanna Dodge. She died February 10, 1732. He then married (published December 10, 1732) Hannah, daughter of John and Han- nah (Hazen) Symonds, of Boxford. She was born in Boxford, April 13, 1709. His chil- dren by first wife Joanna were : Martha, David, Benjamin, Abigail and Ambrose ; and by wife Hannah: Jacob, Adna, Moses, Han- nah, Sarah, Ambrose, and one or two who died young.
(VI) Benjamin, eldest son of Ambrose and Joanna Hale, was born in Boxford, March 14, 1728, and died September 20, 1771, in Har- vard, to which town he had removed with his father. He served in the French war in
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1757-58, and was a corporal in Captain Haskell's company which marched from Har- vard for Fort William Henry in 1757. A Benjamin Hale was also in the expedition to Crown Point, enlisted September 7, 1755, in Captain Daniel. Fletcher's company, Colonel Josiah Brown's regiment. This was probably the Benjamin of this sketch. He died intestate, and Israel Taylor was administrator of his estate. His inventory dated October 5, 1771, enumerated realty of the value of £300; per- sonalty £105 4s. Iod. He married, in Harvard, October 6, 1757, Mary Taylor, of Harvard. She survived him, and March 3, 1784, was adiministratrix de bonis non of her late hus- band's estate. They had children: Israel, Oliver, Mary, Benjamin, Rachael, 'Joanna, Sarah and David.
(VII) David, eighth and youngest child of Benjamin and Mary (Taylor) Hale, was born in Harvard, March 22, 1772. He settled in Rutland, Massachusetts, and after living there some years removed to Turner, Maine, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying Feb- ruary 6, 1846. The homestead farm is still in possession of the family. He married Sarah Kingsbury, of Ellington, Connecticut, who was born in 1766, a daughter of Simon Kings- bury. Their children were: David, James Sullivan, Sophia, Marinda and Sarah Kings- bury.
(VIII) James Sullivan, second son and child of David and Sarah (Kingsbury) Hale, was born in Turner, December 13, 1806, and died December 17, 1880, aged seventy-four. He was a farmer by occupation, well to do in life, a man of marked individuality of character, possessing a keen wit and a lively sense of humor, but was not ambitious and spent his life in his native town. He married, Febru- ary II, 1835, Betsey Staples, who was born October 16, 1808, and died December 5, 1881. She was the eldest child of John Staples and Betsey Young Staples, of Turner. Their chil- dren were: I. Eugene, see forward. 2. Hor- tense, November 27, 1837, married, October 21, 1858, Dr. John T. Cushing, of Turner. 3. Frederick, October 21, 1839, graduated from Waterville College in 1862, studied and prac- ticed law in Ellsworth, and died May 6, 1868. 4. Augusta, February 19, 1842, married Au- gust 8, 1869, Hon. George Gifford, of Port- land, afterward consul at Basle, Switzerland. 5. Clarence, see forward.
(IX) Hon. Eugene Hale, son of James Sul- livan and Betsy (Staples) Hale was born June 9, 1836. "Representative Men of
Maine," published in 1893, gives the following account of Senator Hale :
He was born in Turner, June 9, 1836; at- tended the village district school and the gram- mar school endowed by the town, and went from Hebron Academy to the office of How- ard & Strout, in Portland, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1857. At the age of twenty he commenced the practice of law in Orland, but soon re- moved to Ellsworth and became a member of the firm of Robinson & Hale. Mr. Robinson soon died and Mr. Hale for ten years devoted himself closely to his profession and built up a large practice. He was a sound counselor and one of the most successful lawyers with both court and jury. He was for nine suc- cessive years county attorney for Hancock county. For many years he was senior mem- ber of the firm of Hale & Emery, and since the latter's elevation to the bench of the su- preme court, the firm has consisted of Mr. Hale and Hannibal E. Hamlin, a son of the late and venerated Hannibal Hamlin. In De- cember, 1871, Mr. Hale was married in Wash- ington to Mary Douglas Chandler, only daughter of Hon. Zachariah Chandler, long time a senator from Michigan, and afterwards Secretary of the Interior. Their children are : Chandler, Frederick and Eugene.
Mr. Hale was a member of the state legis- lature in 1867, 1868 and 1880. In that body he soon proved a ready debater, and remark- ably well versed in the political questions of the time. In 1880 he was appointed chairman of the committee of the legislature to investigate what has since become familiarly known as the "State Steal," and it is recognized as largely through his efforts that this scheme was thwarted and exposed. He was elected to the forty-first congress in 1868, and after- wards to the forty-second and forty-third con- gresses ; was appointed postmaster-general by President Grant in 1874, but declined; was re-elected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses ; was tendered a cabinet position as Secretary of the Navy by President Hayes, and declined ; was chairman of the Republican congressional committee for the forty-fifth congress ; was a delegate to the national con- vention in 1868 and the Cincinnati and Chi- cago conventions in 1876 and 1880, leading the Blaine forces in both conventions ; was elected to the United States senate to succeed Hanni- bal Hamlin, and took his seat March 4, 1881, and was re-elected in 1887, 1893, 1899 and 1905, and at the end of this term will have
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rounded out thirty years in the senate. For the . five elections he received the unanimous vote of his party in the legislature. He was a member of important committees in the House of Representatives, and upon his com- ing to the Senate, in 1881, he was given place on the committees of appropriation and naval affairs. He was also made chairman of the committee on the census, which position he continued to occupy till the Democrats gained control of that body in 1893. He is at present acting chairman of the committee on appro- priations, chairman of committee on naval affairs, and member of the finance, Philip- pines census, Canadian relations, and private land claims committees, and is now chairman of the Republican conference of the senate, and of the Republican steering committee. Senator Hale has always taken a prominent part in the legislation of the senate. Many of the most important appropriation bills have been passed under his management. Repre- senting both the appropriation and naval com- mittees, he has reported and managed every bill which has passed the senate for the build- ing of the new navy. He introduced the first amendment favoring reciprocity with the coun- tries of Central and South America, which he supported with speeches that received wide circulation. His speeches in the senate are sharp, but never ill-natured. His speech upon the free trade attitude of the Democratic con- vention in 1882, was as widely circulated as any speech during the campaign. He has taken a prominent part in the debates relating to the affairs of the District of Columbia, and has favored suitable appropriations for the necessary buildings for the public business there. Senator Hale is always recognized as a wise counselor in party politics. He is an easy and forcible speaker ; his words are care- fully selected, and ,his extemporaneous speeches require no revision. He is a popular after-dinner speaker; and on these occasions, both where great subjects are presented and where wit and merriment abound, he is in his element. He is a wide reader, keeping alive his love of books, and delights especially in poetry. His style has been formed on the best models in English literature. He has re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin and Bates Colleges and from Colby University. Senator Hale is a believer in Maine and her future. His investments testify to this, com- mencing with his beautiful home on the heights at Ellsworth, surrounded by several hundred acres of field and woodland, and con- tinuing in extensive purchases of timber lands
and sea-shore property, interests in cotton, woolen and pulp mills, and other manufactor- ies. He is known throughout the state and nation as a man of broad and genial social na- ture; and this, perhaps accounts for the close and cordial personal feeling which binds him to his friends. He is a liberal entertainer both in Washington and Ellsworth. At his house, "The Pines," during the summer vacation, many friends, both from within and without the state, gladly accept his hospitalities. Mrs. Hale is an accomplished hostess, and delights in nothing more than looking after a house full of friends.
(IX) Clarence, fifth and youngest child of James S. and Betsey ( Staples) Hale, was born in Turner, April 15, 1848. He attended the public schools of Turner, finished his prepara- tion for college at Norway Academy, and in 1865 entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated with honors in 1869. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and one of the first four of his class. After reading law at Ellsworth with his brother, Hon. Eugene Hale, and with Lucilius A. Emery, now chief justice of Maine, he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Portland in 1871. For thirty years he devoted his energies to the practice of his profession, and while yet a young man took rank as one of the leading lawyers of the state. His practice was exten- sive and profitable, and in the years of his pro- fessional career he was connected with many of the leading cases in the state. In 1879 he was elected city solicitor of Portland, and filled that office three years with credit to him- self and satisfaction to the citizens of the mu- nicipality. In the preparation of his papers Mr. Hale displayed a clear understanding of his cases and a terse and precise style of ex- pression in keeping with the busy age in which he lives; in his argument of matters of law to the court he made himself persona grata by a logically arranged and closely connected argu- ment that put the facts in the most telling form in the shortest time; before a jury he was a strong man, using good English clearly expressed, taking care to make all details in- telligible, yet speaking forcefully and often elo- quently. In 1902 his ability as a jurist was recognized in such a way as to make him con- spicuous in New England, where he was ap- pointed judge of the United States district court, a position in which he has since found ample opportunity to display the qualifications which have made him prominent. In the cam- paign when General Grant became a candidate for re-election to the presidency, Mr. Hale
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made his debut in politics, and from that time until he came to the bench he was an able advocate of the Republican party, speaking in every election year. From 1883 to 1885 he rep- resented the Portland district in the state legislature, where he displayed ability and knowledge which placed him among the lead- ers of the house. He is prominent in local financial circles, and is a director and trustee in various monetary institutions. He has an innate love for literature, which has grown and strengthened as it has been indulged. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, and takes a lively interest in that institution, to the success of which he has been a willing contributor. In religious faith he and his wife are Congregationalists and members of State Street Church.
Judge Clarence Hale married, March II, 1880, Margaret Rollins, who was born in Port- land, June 12, 1856, daughter of Franklin J. and Arabella C. Rollins, of Portland. (See Rollins.) They have two children: Kath- arine, born in Portland, March 30, 1884; mar- ried Philip G. Clifford, and has one daughter, Margaret Ellen Clifford, born March 16, 1908 (see Clifford) ; and Robert, born November 29, 1889, who is a student at Bowdoin Col- lege.
PAINE The name of Paine, in an early form, came to England with the Normans and William the Con- queror. In Normandy, a millenium ago, the Latin word "Paganus" had the meaning of "villager," and since the villagers resisted con- version to Christianity longer than the deni- zens of the cities, it acquired the added sig- nificance of "unbeliever." Having become a surname, it passed through the changes from Paganus to Pagan, Pagen, Payen, Payne, Paine, and as Pagen it is mentioned many times in William's Inventory of Domesday. The first two generations of the American family (Paines of the Ipswich branch), used the coat-of-arms known in English works of heraldry as "The Arms of Payne of Market Bosworth, county of Leicester, and of the county of Suffolk." They were in the fifteenth century those of Sir Thomas Payne, Knight of Market Bosworth, and of his family only. In the "Visitation" of Suffolk county, a work originally compiled in 1561, and subsequently extended, is found considerable matter treat- ing upon this and other old families. Accord- ing to various writers they were residents in Leicestershire, upon the famous field of Bos- worth, where the last great battle of the Roses
was fought, being one of the places where Pagen of Domesday fame had land.
(I) The first of the family, according to the list in the "Visitation," was Sir Thomas Payne, knight of Market Bosworth, who mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Pult- ney, knight. He must have been born in the early part of the fifteenth century, and had three sons, Robert, William and Edmund.
(II) Edmund, youngest son of Sir Thomas Payne, was alive in 1540, the thirty-second year of the reign of Henry VIII, at which time he had a grandson, then a rich and active man. His place of residence was undoubtedly at his place of birth, Bosworth. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Walton, of Leicester county, and had several sons.
(III) William, eldest son and heir of Ed- mund Paine, removed to Suffolk county, and took up his residence at Hengrave, in that shire. He carried with him the use of his grandfather's coat-of-arms, and which came to be known in heraldric history as a coat or crest of Lester, and Suffolk county, and is espe- cially known as belonging to "Payne of Hen- grave." He was bailiff of the manor in the service of Edward Strafford, Duke of Buck- ingham. After the death of the latter, he re- tired to private life. He married Marjorie, daughter of Thomas Ash; children: Henry, John, Thomas, George, Nicholas, Edward, An- thony, Agatha, Elizabeth, Agnes, Anna and Frances.
(IV) Anthony, seventh son of William and Marjorie (Ash) Paine, lived at Bury Saint Edmunds, at the manor of Nowton, settled upon him by his eldest brother, who never married. He was buried at Nowton, March 3, 1606. In his will made in the previous month he disposed of various properties. He mar- ried Martha Castell, who died June 28, 1603 ; children : John, Thomas, William and Ann.
(V) William (2), third son of Anthony and Martha (Castell) Paine, was baptized Decem- ber 2, 1555, at Saint Mary's Church, Now- ton. He lived at Nowton, parish of Bury Saint Edmunds, one of the principal towns of Suffolk county. He purchased the manor of Nowton for three thousand pounds, and thus became lord of the manor, and as such held his first court there October 6, 1609, in the sixth year of James VI. His last court was in [621, after which he sold out to Sir Daniel DeLigne. The public records show that he was buried November 21, 1648, and that his wife was buried April 29, previous. He must have been at the time of his death eighty-three years of age. The records do not establish the
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fact that the American ancestor was the son of this William Paine, but every circumstance points to that fact. Among the most conspicu- ous of these is the use of the coat-of-arms which belonged exclusively to the line.
(I) William (3), with whom the American history of the family begins, was born in Suf- folk, England, in 1598-99, probably in the parish of Nowton. He was presumably the son of William Payne, lord of the manor of that place, already stated. He came to Amer- ica in the ship "Increase," Robert Lee, master, which sailed from London in April, 1635. He was then thirty-seven years of age, and his wife Ann forty years of age. They were accom- panied by five children, the eldest eleven years of age and the youngest eight weeks old. They landed at Boston, and at once took up their residence in Watertown, where he was one of the earliest inhabitants and was allowed land July 25, 1636. This allotment consisted of seventy acres, which was the common share of each of the one hundred inhabitants. His location was on the present Washington street, about one-half mile west of Fresh pond. He soon acquired other tracts of land and became a large landholder. On July 4, 1639, with his brother Robert and some others, he procured a grant of land at Ipswich, with leave to settle a village, and they immediately removed thither, and he continued to reside there about sixteen years, aiding largely in building up the village and town. He was admitted freeman of the colony May 13, 1640, and had the title of "Mr.," which was rare among the colonists in those days. His name is found upon the legislative record of the colony from this time. In that year he was elected one of the tax commissioners ; in 1642 was appointed to es- tablish the limits of Northend, and about the same time to settle the bounds of Hampton and Colchester ; in 1643 was on a committee to determine the bounds of Exeter and Hamp- ton, and in 1646 and 1651 to settle matters in the latter town. In 1652, he was on a com- mittee to settle the line of Dover and Exeter, and in 1655 between Hampton and Salisbury. In 1645 he was a member of the company in- corporated by the general court, known as the "free adventurers," for the purpose of ad- vancing the settlement of various sections. This enterprise he prosecuted throughout his life, and it was afterward fostered by his son John. At its beginning a grant was made to the company of a township of land about fifty miles west of Springfield, near Fort Orange, on the Hudson river. The Dutch then held possession of the fort and river, and one of the
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