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(V) John, eldest son and second child of Thomas (2) and Sarah ( Broughton) Cotton, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Oc- tober 28, 1750, died at Gilford, New Hamp- shire, August 14, 1820. He was brought up on his father's farm in Portsmouth and re- moved with him to the new farm in North Hampton in 1767. He was a soldier in the American revolution in 1778. He married, in 1773, Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (Drake) Taylor, of Hampton. She was born April 15, 1775, became the mother of eight children, and died May 1, 1790. He married (second) August 9, 1790, Hannah, daughter of Simon and Sarah ( Robie) Lane, of Hamp- ton, born March 1, 1768; had by this marriage ten children. Children of John and Abigail (Taylor) Cotton were: I. Edward Chapman (q. v.). 2. Thomas, born and died 1776. 3. John, June 10, 1778, married, July 23, 1805,
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Sarah Philbrick, of Sanbornton, New Hamp- shire ; was a farmer in Meredith, New Hamp- shire ; had eleven children : John, David Phil- brick, Abigail, Sally, Mary, Nathan, Hannah, Isaac, Ruth, Mary Fernald and Nancy. 4. Abigail, August 7, 1780, died May 8, 1802. 5. Sally, April 12, 1783, died October 30, 1803. 6. Polly, August 10, 1785, married, February 9, 1812, Jonathan James, of Gilmanton, and had three children. 7. Elizabeth (known as Betsey ), February 21, 1788, married, Novem- ber 17, 18II, Henry Hoit, of Gilford; lived in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where eight children were born to them. 8. Hannah, April 9, 1790, died February 8, 1814. Children of John and Hannah (Lane) Cotton were born in Gilford, New Hampshire, as follows : 9. Ruth, May 1, 1791, died the same day. 10. Simon, June 1, 1792, was brought up on his father's farm in Gilford, which he inherited; married. December 13, 1813, his cousin, Susanna Lane, of Hampton, and had ten children. II. Com- fort, February 8, 1794, married Daniel Avery and died childless. 12. Samuel, November 28, 1795, was an apothecary's clerk in Dover, New Hampshire; was twice married and had three children by first and two by second marriage. 13. Nathaniel, November 28, 1795, was a car- penter and lived in Gilford, Ellsworth, Rumney and Nashua, New Hampshire, and New Bed- ford, Massachusetts ; married twice and had seven children. 14. Jeremiah, November 21, 1797, lived in Meredith and Rumney, New Hampshire; married Lavinia Peace and had six children. 15. Nancy, December 2, 1800, married and died October 10, 1852. 16. Cyn- thia, August 17, 1802. 17. Morris, August 22, 1805, a farmer in Gilford, New Hamp- . shire, married Hannah Libby Bartlett, of Cen- tre Harbor, and had two children. 18. Oliver, October II, 18II, master mechanic in Berlin and Portsmouth navy yards; postmaster of Northend, New Hampshire ; married, April 7, 1836, Sarah Furber, of Northend, and had six children.
(VI) Edward Chapman, eldest child of John and Abigail (Taylor) Cotton, was born in Northampton, New Hampshire, December 19, 1773. He was brought up on his father's farm and was by occupation a miller. He was married in 1805 to Jane (Jellison) Robinson, a widow, and he lived in Saco, Maine, where he carried on an extensive flouring mill and where he remained during his lifetime. Chil- dren, born in Saco, Maine, were: John, Mary Batchelder, Abigail Taylor, Edward, Benja- min Robinson (q. v.), Thomas Cutts, Sarah Hannah.
(VII) Benjamin Robinson, third son and fifth child of Edward Chapman and Jane (Jellison) (Robinson) Cotton, was born in Saco, Maine, about 1812-13. He was a master- mechanic and iron worker in mill machinery, and was living in Woodstock, Connecticut, at the time of his marriage to Abby Jane Pike, of Saco, Maine. He subsequently removed to Clinton, Massachusetts, and thence to Lew- istown, Maine, where he died Mareh, 1867, and his wife died March, 1873. Their son, John Bradbury (q. v.), was born in Woodstock, Connecticut.
(VIII) John Bradbury, son of Benjamin Robinson and Abby J. (Pike) Cotton, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, August 3, 1841, died January 5, 1909. He received his name as a compliment to his father's friend, John Cotton Bradbury, who was cashier of the York Bank in Saco for many years. He attended school in Clinton, Massachusetts, and Lewiston, Maine, preparing for college at the Lewiston Falls Academy, Auburn, Maine, and was enabled to take his college course through the kindness and liberality of his father's friend, John Cotton Bradbury, who always manifested a special interest in his namesake, prophesying for him a brilliant career and whose own life was a succession of good deeds. While at college he studied law in the office of Fessenden & Frye, of Lewiston, both Thomas A. D. Fessenden and William P. Frye being his instructors. He was gradu- ated at Bowdoin, A. B., 1865, A. M., 1868, and on leaving college went into the law office of Fessenden & Frye as clerk, and the next June was admitted to the Maine bar in 1867 and to the bar of the United States supreme court in 1899. On the death of Mr. Fessen- den in 1868, he was made junior partner in the newly formed firm of Frye & Cotton, and later, when Mr. White was admitted as jun- ior partner, the firm became Frye, Cotton & White. In June, 1889, the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Cotton accepted the position of assist- ant attorney-general of the United States by appointment of President Harrison, made in May, 1889, and his position gave him charge of the interests of the United States govern- ment in the court of claims at Washington. While practicing law in Lewiston, he was at- torney for most of the manufacturing cor- porations of that city and vicinity and of the Maine Central Railroad Company. He retired from the attorney-general's office in June. 1893, to engage in the general practice of law in Washington, District of Columbia. His long residence in the National capital made
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him a familiar personage in government circles and at the Cosmos Club, of which he was early made a member, and at the University Club, where lie met many of his fellows of the Kappa Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity of Bowdoin College, and he was also a mem- ber of the Maine Society of Washington. In the Masonic fraternity he became a Knight Templar and a Scottish Rite Mason. While a citizen of Lewiston, he served one term on the board of the common council of the city and as a member of the Lewiston school board. He was a member and attendant, with his family, of the Congregational church. Mr. Cotton married, December 5, 1866, Amanda Gorham, born March 10, 1842, daughter of Mark Lowell, of Lewiston, Maine, and their only child, Ethel Bradbury, was born at Lew- iston, Maine, March 24, 1877, and married, October, 1899, F. Willard Carlisle, a banker of New York City. Their daughter, Marjorie Cotton Carlisle, was born in Washington, March 5, 1904, being of the tenth generation from William Cotton, the immigrant, Ports. mouth, New Hampshire, 1650. Mr. and Mrs. John Bradbury Cotton have their home at 1355 Euclid street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
The head of all the Win- WINCHESTER chesters in America is claimed by good genealo- gists to have been John, who came to Hing- ham, Massachusetts, in 1635, then nineteen years old, in the ship "Elizabeth," from Lon- don, William Stagg, master. John had one and one-half acres granted to him in 1665, and twelve acres in the same year. In 1637 the freeman's oath was administered to him, and he removed to Muddy River (now Brook- line, Massachusetts) in 1650. His children were: John, Josiah and Mary. He died in 1694, his will being dated in 1691.
(I) Josiah, son of John Winchester, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and had David and nine other children.
(V) Daniel Winchester, born in Fayette, Kennebec county, Maine, March, 1768, was probably a great-grandson of Josiah. He married Martha, daughter of John and Lucy (Wood) Pritchard, and had Benjamin P. He was drowned in the Androscoggin, in 1795.
(VI) Rev. Benjamin P., third son of Daniel and Martha ( Pritchard) Winchester, was born in Fayette, Maine, January 17, 1793. He was three years old when his father was drowned, and was adopted by Captain Benjamin Palmer. He received a rudimentary education in the country schools, and came to Corinna in 1816.
Mr. Winchester joined the Free Baptist Church, and was settled over the Baptist church in Corinna, remaining in that connection for thirty-seven years, a remarkably long pastor- ate. In addition to his ministerial duties, he taught school, and followed that fundamental industry, farming. Elder Winchester was an ardent patriot, and sent two of his sons to the South in the troublesome times of the sixties. He was an active temperance worker, and engaged in all good causes tending to the re- formation and betterment of mankind. He was a Whig, and because of the cloth was not averse to participating in public affairs, and considered it the duty of every citizen to bear his part of the burdens of local government. He served as selectman for eight years, town clerk fourteen years, also as town treasurer, and was a faithful public servant. He mar- ried Eliza Knowles, born in Fayette, Maine, in 1794. Children: Harriet, Mary Ann, Mar- tha, John, Benjamin, Sarah, Oren and Betsy. This good man, kind neighbor, true patriot, and capable official, servant of the Lord, who wrought in various ways and succeeded in them all, was called to his reward above, No- vember 26, 1865, just as the war in which he had taken so much interest had terminated. Mrs. Winchester lived to mourn his loss four years, succumbing to mortal illness in 1869.
(VII) John, eldest son of Rev. Benjamin P. and Eliza (Knowles) Winchester, was born in Corinna, Maine, January 25, 1822, and died September 27, 1891. The country school af- forded him his early training, and he took up farming as a livelihood. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the Grange, of the Baptist church, and of the Independent Order of Good Templars. He married Elizabeth M. Stewart, of Corinna, May 14, 1844, and their children were: Mary, married Gilman W. Hilliker, of New York; Charles; Olive M., married George F. Thurston, of Corinna ; John Howard. Mr. Winchester enlisted in the Fourth Maine Battery in the civil war, and then contracted disease for which he drew a liberal pension.
(VIII) John Howard, third son of John and Elizabeth (Stewart) Winchester, was born in Corinna, April 14, 1845. The schools of his native town, Corinna Union Academy and the Maine Central Institute of Pittsfield, was the academical route he followed. He taught school for a time, afterward engaged in the meat business, and subsequently became station agent and telegraph operator at Cor- inna. Since 1898 he has been librarian of Corinna Library, president of the Maine State
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Library Association, and is at present president of the Eastern Maine Library Club. He is well posted on library matters, and interested in books and good literature. Mr. Winchester votes with the Republicans, and is one of the local leaders in his town, and has been a mem- ber of the school board. He is noble grand of Stone Eagle Lodge, No. 139, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has been a mem- ber of Twilight Grange for thirty years. Mr. Winchester is one of the bright, stirring men of Corinna and has the elements that go to the making of a substantial citizen.
Mr. Winchester married Sadie B., daugh- ter of Daniel B. and Phebe A. (Brown) Dole, of Exeter, Maine, in 1886. Their children : Sidney Hodge, born July 17, 1887, a grad- uate of Corinna Union Academy, now a stu- dent at the University of Maine; Jeanette, born April 15, 1888, a graduate of Corinna Union Academy, and now a student at Colby College.
Elizabeth M. (Stewart) Winchester, wife of the late John Winchester, and mother of John Howard Winchester, of Corinna, Maine, is supposed to be a descendant of that family of Stewards that consisted of the brothers who came over from Scotland at an early date. The proof of this is lacking, but this branch of the Stewards, or Stewarts, trace to Dun- can Steward, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who settled there in 1658. He joined the church in Rowley, September 26, 1723 ; his wife Anne joined September 17, 1721. Both Duncan and Anne Steward lived to be nearly one hundred years old ; they made their home in Newbury, Massachusetts, where Duncan was a ship- builder; in 1680 they were living in Rowley. They had nine children: I. Katherine, born in Ipswich, June 8, 1658. 2. Martha, April 4, 1659. 3. Charles, November 5, 1661. 4. Elizabeth, November 2, 1662. 5. James, Oc- tober 8, 1664. 6. John, March, 1666. 7. Henry, May 1, 1669. 8. Samuel, settled in Wells, Maine. 9. Ebenezer, 1676. All but the eldest child was born in Newbury. Some of the branches of the family spell their name Stewart, others Stuart, but it is positively known that Duncan spelled his Steward.
(II) James, son of Duncan and Anne Stew- ard, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, October 8, 1664, died September 1, 1750. He was a carpenter, and acquired quite a property. He resided at different times in Newbury, Bradford, Boxford and Rowley, Massachu- setts. He joined the church in Rowley, De- cember 12, 1698. His second wife joined Oc- tober 13, 1695. He was twice married, both
wives being named Elizabeth. He was the father of eleven children : I. James, born July 19, 1688. 2. Charles, January 16, 1690. 3. Edward, September 20, 1693. 4. Abigail, No- vember 26, 1695. 5. Solomon, July 24, 1696. All of the above were born in Rowley, of the first marriage. The following were of the second marriage, and all were born in Rowley, with the exception of the youngest, who was born in Boxford: 6. Benjamin, March 3, 1700. 7. David, January 9, 1702. 8. Hannah, 1703. 9. Elizabeth, 1706. 10. Mehitable. II. Moses, July 9, 1712.
(III) Solomon, son of James and Elizabeth (first wife) Steward, was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, July 24, 1696, died in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, about 1758. He resided for a time in Bradford, where he kept a store and where he and his wife joined the church, December 31, 1727. Later they moved to Sa- lem precinct (now Peabody, Massachusetts), and in 1738 to Lunenburg, where Solomon died. Solomon Steward married (intentions published in Andover, June 10, 1727) Martha, born 1702, in Andover, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Edward and Martha (Brown) Har- rington. Children : 1. Benjamin, born in Box- ford, January 26, 1729. 2. Solomon, Boxford, January 14, 1730. 3. Phineas, Boxford, March 24, 1732. 4. Daniel, Salem, Novem- ber 24, 1734. 5. William, Salem, March, 1737. 6. Mary, Lunenburg, September 7, 1740. 7. Jacob, Lunenburg, April 22, 1743.
(IV) William, son of Solomon and Mar- tha (Harrington) Steward, was born in Sa- lem, Massachusetts, March, 1737. He re- moved to Bloomfield, Maine, with his two brothers, Solomon and Phineas, about 1776. Later he lived in Canaan, where he was known as Deacon William. He married Abigail Ire- land, July 25, 1758. Children: I. Abigail, born in Lunenburg, May 19, 1762. 2. Will- iam, Fitchburg, January 27, 1765. 3. Susan- na, Fitchburg, October 19, 1766. 4. Jonathan, Fitchburg, July 13, 1769. 5. James, Fitch- burg, December 25, 1773.
(V) Jonathan, son of William and Abigai (Ireland) Steward, was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, July 13, 1769, died in Bloom- field, Maine, July 31, 1848. He was a farmer of Bloomfield, and a Baptist minister. He married (first) Hannah Jewett; children : Esther and Hannah. He married (second) Mrs. Lucy Bates; children: David, James, Lucy, Naomi, Stephen, Ruth. All the above- named children were born in Bloomfield, Maine.
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( Bates) Stewart, was born in Bloomfield, Maine. He was fairly well educated, and in addition to farming was a Baptist minister, possessing more than ordinary ability as a preacher. He was a man of broad mind, and was chosen to serve his town for several years as school committeeman and also as selectman. He was an earnest temperance worker and al- ways first in every movement along that line. He organized debating clubs for men and boys, and in fact was always interested and fore- most in any movement tending to improve the morals and enlarge the minds of young people. He and his wife were school teachers in their younger days, and were always deeply interested in the education of the youth of their vicinity. Although a man of moderate means, he gave his children a liberal educa- tion. He married, December 19, 1822, Eliza Merrick of Pittsfield, Maine. They settled in Corinna, Maine, where their children were born. Eliza (Merrick) Stewart died in Cor- inna, March 29, 1873. David Stewart mar- ried a second time. He died in Corinna, April 6, 1884. Children of David and Eliza (Mer- rick ) Stewart : 1. David Dinsmore, born Oc- tober 22, 1823 ; studied law, and is considered one of the ablest lawyers in the state; he married Ariminta Merrick, and resides in St. Albans. 2. Elizabeth Merrick, born January 7, 1825, married, May 14, 1844, John Win- chester (see Winchester VII). 3. Levi Mer- rick, born December 10, 1827, mentioned be- low. 4. Charles Miller, born April 24, 1829, was educated in the academy at Corinna and at Corinth, and was prepared to, enter college, but having an opportunity to go to Australia with some friends at a good salary, he ac- cepted; the climate, however, was too un- healthy for his constitution and he died after a four months' residence. He possessed more than ordinary natural ability and every pros- pect was bright for his future. He and his descendants have used the Stewart form of the family name.
(VII) Levi Merrick, son of David and Eliza (Merrick) Stewart, was born in Corinna, Maine, December 10, 1827. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and later from Harvard Law School. In 1856, through the influence of a former resident of Corinna, Dr. Jacob Elliot, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was persuaded to go to that city. There he engaged in the practice of law very successfully. In connection with his law business he engaged in land speculation, pur- chasing large tracts, which with the rapid growth of that wonderful city soon became
very valuable. In 1895 he began the erection of a town hall and public library building in Corinna, which was completed at a cost of seventy-two thousand dollars, and was pre- sented to the town in memory of the first set- tlers there, among whom were his own par- ents. The building was dedicated and pre- sented to the town September 1, 1898, and is known as the Stewart Library Building. The site is an ideal one, on an eminence in the center of the town. The building, which is one any city might be proud of, is two stories high, of brick and stone, with tower equipped with clock and bell to strike the hours. The first floor, finished in fine oak, comprises li- brary, reading rooms and offices, and the sec- ond floor is a hall with seating capacity for seven hundred people. The library, also the gift of Mr. Stewart, contains 4,800 choice vol- umes. He also presented the city of Minne- apolis with the lot which their Public Library stands on, and gave largely to deserving in- stitutions in a very quiet way. Among his in- timate friends Mr. Stewart is known as "El- der Steward." He has no religious preferences and is not a member of any societies and clubs.
CLEAVES The surname Cleaves, Cleves, Cleve, Cleeves and Clive, vari- ously spelled, is derived from
local names. Parishes of this name are found in the counties of Gloucester, Somerset and Worcester. The Cleve coat-of-arms is: A wolf's head erased per pale dancette art sable. The family bearing this armorial has its seat in Walford, county Salop. Another ancient ar- morial of the family is: Argent an escarbuncle sable. The following is used by the family at Huxley, Chester, who descend from the Clives of Syche: Argent on a fesse between three wolves' heads erased sable as many mul- lets or. Crest : A griffin passant with wings endorsed ducally gorged or. The London family has the same device. A coat-of-arms in general use, perhaps the original of the above: Argent on a fesse between three foxes heads erased sable, as many mullets or. Crest : A fox's head erased sable.
(I) George Cleeves, the first of the name in this country, was born in England about 1576, and came from Plymouth in Devonshire in 1630 and settled first at Spurwink, or Scar- borough, Maine. After two years he moved farther eastward and is said to have been the first settler at Falmouth, now the city of Port- land, drawn thither, it is said, by the mag- nificent harbor. He served on the grand jury in 1640. He united with Richard Tucker, of
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Saco, both in trade and land speculation, "thereby promoting great discord among patentees." Cleeves and Tucker took a lease of fifteen hundred acres of land, including Hog Island in Casco Bay, from Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the patentee of Maine, January 27, 1636. They conveyed Hog Island by lease to Alexander Rigby, May 23, 1643. George Cleeves granted to Edward Rigby a thousand acres near Casco Bay. Cleeves sold a lot at Black Point, September 30, 1648, to Henry Watts; one hundred acres to Nicholas Bart- lett, on Falmouth Neck, adjoining land of Cleeves and his son-in-law, Michael Britton : to Michael Mitton a tract fronting Casco river from Mitton's dwelling house to land of Rich- ard Tucker, Falmouth Neck, on Back Cove, May 1, 1658; to Nathaniel Mitton fifty acres on Back Cove, May 20, 1658; to John Bush four hundred acres at Cape Porpoise, May 14, 1661 ; to Hope Allen four hundred acres at Falmouth; to Michael Britton a tract at Casco Bay, February 24, 1650; to Thomas Kimball, Hog Island, in Casco Bay, May 15, 1658; grants to various neighbors to establish bounds April 12, 1664. Cleeves was admitted a free- man in 1658; was deputy to the general court in 1663. He died in 1667, probably very old, as his wife Joan, who died in 1663, was eighty- seven. (See histories of Willis and Folsom, Winthrop i., p. 237, ii., p. 256; Sullivan, 312- 16.) Cleeves had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Michael Mitton, and (second) Harvey, and died in 1681, and probably other children. The family probably left Maine at the time of King Philip's war.
(II) William Cleaves, ancestor of all of the old families of the name in New England, was born about 1650. It is not likely that he was the son of George, unless we have estimated his age too great or the birth of William at too late a date. But he owned property in York county, Maine, and it seems impossible that he could have been unrelated to George Cleeves, the first settler. On June 12, 1688, William was one of the grantees of a tract six miles by four, called Cokshall, adjoining Wells and Cape Porpoise, Maine, from Har- laakanden Symonds, of Ipswich. This terri- tory is now the town of Lyman, Maine. We find his son Robert in Arundel (Kennebunk- port), where he bought land of James Smith, November II, 1732. But William Cleaves made his home in Beverly, Massachusetts, where his descendants have lived to the pres- ent time. He married (first) Martha Corey, and (second) her sister Margaret. They were daughters of Giles Corey, who met the most
cruel death of any of the innocent victims of the Rev. Cotton Mather and his fellow per- secutors during the witchcraft delusion. Corey was a man of excellent character, a watchman by occupation, born in England about 1617, according to his own deposition June 17, 1672. Corey married (first) Margaret -, who
was the mother of his children; ( second) Mary "who was bought out of a Lon- don ship in Virginia by the father of Caleb More, who testified to this and to her good character when she was accused in 1678" (of witchcraft ). She died August 27, 1684. (See gravestone at Salem.) Corey was tortured to death after being found guilty by the court at Salem. Stones were piled upon him until he was slowly crushed to death by the weight. Even Nero devised no more cruel death for his innocent victims. All the Cleaves family are descendants of this martyr. Children of Giles and Margaret Corey: Martha, Mar- garet ; Deliverance, born August 5, 1658. Margaret (Corey) Cleaves married ( second) May 3, 1716, Jonathan Byles. Children of William Cleaves, born at Beverly, by first wife: I. John, October 11, 1676; died Sep- tember 14, 1753; married (first) June 26, 1699, Mercy Eaton, daughter of Joseph ( sec- ond) August 22, 1723, Rebecca Corning; (third) August 21, 1725. 2. Elinor, 1678. 3. Martha, 1680, baptized with the two older children, July 24, 1681. Children of second wife: 4. William, born July 23, 1686; mar- ried Rebecca Whitridge, daughter of Thomas; sons Joseph and William. 5. Hannah, born March 31, 1688. 6. Robert, born July 21, 1689. 7. Ebenezer, born October 13, 1691 ; married January 15, 1713, Sarah Stone, daughter of John. 8. Benjamin, mentioned below.
(III) Lieutenant Benjamin, son of William Cleaves, was born in Beverly, October 23, 1693, and died there September 14, 1775. He was a prominent citizen, and lieutenant of the military company. He married, June 2, 1719, at Beverly, Rebecca Conant, born March 29, 1696, died September 13, 1770, daughter of John and Bethia ( Mansfield) Conant. Her father was born December 15, 1652, at Bev- erly, inherited a lot given his father in 1666 by his grandfather, Governor Roger Conant, and followed farming; was a soldier in Cap- tain Samuel Appleton's company in King Philip's war; deacon of First Church of Bev- erly, August 23, 1691 ; died September 30, 1724. Lot Conant, father of John Conant, was born in 1624, at Nantasket or Cape Ann: resided early at Marblehead and was a grantee
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