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served thirty-one days on a secret expedition to Rhode Island in September and October, 1777. He was also a private in Captain Al- len's company, of Colonel Jeremiah Hall's regiment. This company marched December 8, 1776, to Bristol, Rhode Island, and was in service ninety-two days. He was also in Cap- tain John Barrow's company, Colonel Ebenezer Sproutt's regiment, serving from September 6 to September 12, 1778; the company marched from Middleboro to Dartmouth on two alarms ; one in May and one in September, 1778. Seth Morton was commissioned, October 28, 1778, second lieutenant in Captain Robert Finney's (Eleventh) company, Colonel Theophilus Cot- ton's (First Plymouth County) regiment of Massachusetts militia. His residence was al- ways in Middleboro. He married (first) No- vember 20, 1783, Rosamond Finney ; (second) May 21, 1789, his cousin, Priscilla Morton, fifth child of Ebenezer (2) and Sarah ( Cobb) Morton, who was born October 4, 1763, and died February 19, 1847. The only child by the first wife was Virtue. The children by the second wife were: Samuel, Phebe, Seth, Hepsibah, Ebenezer, Livy, Lydia and Elias.
(VII) Phebe, second child and eldest daugh- ter of Seth (2) and Priscilla ( Morton) Mor- ton, was born in Middleboro, May 15, 1791. She married, in Middleboro, January 14, 1809, Samuel Jennings, of Wayne, Maine. (See Jennings V.)
LOBDELL From two immigrant ances- tors, Simon Lobdell, of Mil- ford, Connecticut, and Nicho- las Lobdell, of Hingham, Massachusetts, are descended so far as known, all those of that name in this country. No relationship is traced between these men, although relationship is thought to have existed. The descendants of Nicholas, with only a few exceptions, have their homes in the eastern states. The name in various public records is spelled : Lobdale, Lobden, Lobdle, Lobdel, Lobdill and Lop- dell.
(I) Nicholas Lobden, the compiler of the "Lobdell Genealogy," assumes that Nicholas Lobden (as the name was then spelled) came from Hastings, Kent county, England. "Nich- olas Lobden, a retainer of Captain James Lasher, Baron to Parliament, arrested on a plea for debt, prayed to be discharged, 22 Sept., 1621." Letters from Sir Thomas Rich- ardson secured his pardon 3 Oct., 1621. James Lasher was mayor of the ville and port of Hastings, Kent, England. Nicholas Lobden had grants of land in Hingham, Massachusetts,
in 1635-36, but whether he was a resident of the town for any time appears doubtful. Ho- bart's diary states "Goodman Lobdell's wife died 1641." Nicholas is supposed to have married (second) Bridget Pierce, sister of Michael Pierce, of Hingham, but this is only conjecture, and to have died about 1645-46. Mrs. Bridget Lobdell married (second) 1647- 48, Nathaniel Bosworth, who left bequests in his will to Mary, Sarah, John and Nathan Lob- dell. These, together with Isaac, are supposed to be the children of Nicholas Lobden.
(II) Isaac, son of Nicholas Lobden, with his brother John, was admitted freeman in 1673. In 1681, Isaac Lobdell, in behalf of the selectmen of Hull, petitioned that Sergeant Na- thaniel Bosworth, of Hull, be empowered to arlminister oaths and to marry persons, and in 1683 served on the grand jury at Plymouth. Isaac Lobdell, of Hull, Massachusetts, mar- ried Martha Ward, daughter of Samuel Ward, a wealthy citizen of Charlestown, then of Hingham, proprietor of large tracts of land in these towns and in Hull. Copy of a deed of land in Hull given by Isaac Lobdell and Mar- tha, his wife, to John Lobdell, May 17, 1670, is found in Suffolk deeds, page 314. In the same records is found : "Isaac Lobdell of Hull (Yoeman) and wife, Martha, for love and af- fection to son Joseph of Boston (mariner ) messuage in Hull and balance of lease for eighteen years in Bumpus Island; also his negro slave, Sambo, etc .; in consideration of support for life and sundry payments (yearly rent), March 15, 1702." Isaac Lobdell "well stricken in years," made his will March 22, 1710, and it was probated May 4, 1718. He appointed son Joseph and Perry, ex- ecutors. The children of Isaac and Martha (Ward) Lobdell, were : Isaac, Samuel, Nicholas, Joseph, Mary, Abigail, Rebecca, Elizabeth and a daughter who married Mr. Lendall.
(III) Isaac (2), eldest child of Isaac (I) and Martha (Ward) Lobdell, was born June 28, 1657. He was a soldier in Samuel Wads- worth's company in King Philip's war, 1675- 76. In 1686 he took the oath at Plymouth and became a freeman. He died before 1718, at which time his father's will was proved and mentions children of "My son Isaac, deceased." He married (first) Sarah King, a daughter of Samuel King, of Plymouth. She was born January 31, 1666, and died March 27, 1697. On August 12, 1697, Isaac Lobdell was mar- ried to Hannah Bishop by Cotton Mather. The children, all by wife Sarah, and all but the youngest born at Plymouth, were : A daughter
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(died young), Sarah, Martha, Samuel, and Ebenezer, whose sketch follows.
(IV) Ebenezer, youngest child of Isaac (2) and Sarah (King) Lobdell, was baptized at Hull, November 1, 1694, died March 18, 1748. He was married (first) July 12, 1715, by Mr. Cushman to Lydia Shaw, who was born No- vember 2, 1697, at Plympton and died August 15, 1745. She was the daughter of Benoni and Lydia ( Waterman) Shaw, of Plympton. He married (second) December 18, 1745, Mercy, daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Sturtevant ) Standish, and great-grand- daughter of Myles Standish. As Widow Lob- dell she married Benjamin Weston, and died February 22, 1794, aged seventy-seven. The children of Ebenezer and Lydia (Shaw) Lob- dell were: Isaac, Sarah, Lydia and Ezekiel.
(V) Isaac (3), eldest child of Ebenezer and Lydia (Shaw) Lobdell, was born December 26, 1716, and resided at Plympton, where his children were born. He married, February 24, 1741, Ruth Clark, daughter of Thomas and Alice (Rogers) Clark. She died November 26, 1797, in the eighty-third year of her age, and the following spring Mr. Lobdell removed to Falmouth, Maine, to make his home with his son Isaac. He died January 26, 1802, as shown by the stone that marks his grave at Stroudwater. Children : Samuel, Sarah, De- borah, Hannah, Ebenezer, and Isaac, whose sketch follows.
(VI) Captain Isaac (4), youngest child of Isaac (3) and Ruth (Clark) Lobdell, was born October 5, 1755, and died June 18, 1806. He settled in Maine and lived for years in Stroudwater, where he was buried. He was a soldier in the war of independence, and the following is his record as found in "The Sol- diers and Sailors of Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War": "Isaac Lobdill, Pri- vate, Captain John Bradford's company, Colo-
nel Theophilus Cotton's regiment, which marched April 19, 1775, to Marshfield; service twelve days; reported enlisted into the army ; company probably belonged to Halifax and Plympton. Isaac Lobdell, Plympton. Pri- vate, Captain John Bradford's company, Colo- nel Theophilus Cotton's regiment ; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 2, 1775; service three months seven days. Isaac Lob- den, private. Captain Thomas Samson's com- pany, Colonel Thomas Lothrop's brigade, serv- ice, ten days ; reported, left service before being discharged; company marched to ~ Bristol, Rhode Island, on an alarm in December, 1776. Roll dated Plympton. Isaac Lobdell, sergeant, Lieutenant Ephraim Bowman's detachment
from Captain Andrew Lusk's company, Colo- nel Asa Burn's regiment; entered service Oc- tober 14, 1781 ; discharged October 22, 1781 ; service eight days; detachment marched to join the army at Saratoga by order of Gen- eral Fellows on the alarm at the northward of October 14, 1781." By deed dated May 9, 1795, on record in Cumberland registry, Mary Billings, widow, of Falmouth, Alexander Nichols, Esq., of Bristol, and Margaret, his wife, in consideration of two hundred pounds conveyed to Isaac Lobdell, late of Kingston, Plymouth county, trader, a lot of land in Fal- mouth, being the same conveyed to James Forder by Samuel Waldo and Thomas West- brook. The house is now occupied by Augus- tus Tate, Stroudwater. He was called captain, and may have held office in the militia, but he is more likely to have got his title from his connection with the shipping industry. The tradition is that he brought his family to Fal- mouth in his own vessel. He must have been a stirring business man, and undoubtedly at- tracted to Falmouth by the great growth Port- land was having at that time. He had a farm in Scarboro, and is credited with many trans- actions in real estate, while his store in Stroud- water was the center of a large business. He contributed liberally toward the settlement and support of Rev. Caleb Bradley, frequently en- tertaining the pastor at his house, and served the parish in the office of treasurer. Isaac Lobdell married, December 21, 1776, Polly (Mary) Stetson, who was born September 7, 1759, daughter of Caleb and Abigail (Brad- ford) Stetson, of Scituate. Mary Stetson was descended from William Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth Colony, as follows : Mary Stetson was the daughter of Abigail Bradford, who was the daughter of Samuel Bradford, who was the son of William (4), who was the son of William (3), the gov- ernor (see Bradford III, IV). Samuel Brad- ford married Sarah Gray, a native of Rhode Island, born June 10, 1737. Mrs. Lobdell oc- cupied the homestead at Stroudwater several years after the death of her husband, but be- fore 1820 she removed to Minot, where her home was the mecca of children and grand- children until her death, September 3, 1843, be- loved by her children, worshipped by her grandchildren, and respected by all who knew her. The children of Captain Isaac and Polly, his wife, were: Abigail, Nancy, Stetson, Mary Gray, Deborah, Isaac, Marcia, Charles and Edward Gray (twins).
(VII) Isaac (5), second son of Captain Isaac (4) and Polly (Stetson) Lobdell, was
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born May 17, 1789, and died July 31, 1832. He resided in Cape Elizabeth in the brick house on the State Reform School farm, which was taken down about 1900. Both he and his wife are buried in the cemetery at Stroudwater. He married Charlotte Pratt, who was born in 1791 or 1793, in Cape Elizabeth, daughter of Zenas and Nancy ( Thomas) Pratt, of Cape Elizabeth. She died February 27, 1840, aged forty-seven or forty-nine. Their children were: Theodore, Ann, Isaac, Charles, Mary, Edward and Elizabeth Gordon.
(VIII) Mary, fifth child of Isaac (5) and Charlotte ( Pratt) Lobdell, was born in West- brook, December 12, 1819, and married, March, 1842, Samuel Morton Jennings, of Wayne. (See Jennings VI.) She died at Oakland, September 15, 1893, and was buried at North Wayne.
PITTS From early times the male mem- bers of the family of Pitts in Taunton, Massachusetts, were en- gaged in manufacturing, and among them have been men whose inventive genius and me- chanical skill have produced machines that have been of inestimable value to the world.
(I) Peter Pitts, of Taunton, who came from England and settled there before 1643, was the pioneer ancestor of the well-known family of this surname of whom different members have been distinguished as manufacturers in Fitch- burg, Leominster and Lancaster, Massachu- setts, Springfield, Ohio, Alton and Chicago, Illinois, Albany, Rochester and Buffalo, New York. Peter Pitts married Mary Hodges, widow of William Hodges, and daughter of Henry Andrews, about 1651. His will was made at Bristol, Rhode Island, where he died in 1692, and it was proved January 12, 1692- 93. His children named in his will were: Samuel, Peter, Alice, Mary and Sarah.
(II) Samuel, eldest son of Peter and Mary (Andrews) (Hodges) Pitts, was born about 1660, and married, March 25, 1680, Sarah Bobbett, daughter of Edward Bobbett. Chil- dren : Sarah, born March 10, 1681; Mary, March 10, 1685; Henry, July 13, 1687; Abi- gail, February 3, 1689 ; Peter, August 8, 1692 ; and Ebenezer, next mentioned.
(III) Ebenezer, youngest child of Samuel and Sarah ( Bobbett) Pitts, was born Novem- ber 27, 1694. He resided in Taunton and was a well-known manufacturer of clocks. The destruction of the town records of Taun- ton render it impossible to give the names of all his children.
(IV) Seth, probably a son of Ebenezer Pitts,
was born about 1734 in Taunton, Massachu- setts, and died in Maine. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war and held the rank sergeant. In the "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" there are six entries of service by Seth Pitts, the first being August 12, 1775, and the others being in the years 1776-78-80-81. Whether all these terms of service can be credited to one man is doubtful, but as Seth Pitts is noted as "of Taunton" in three cases, and as the roll was sworn to at Taunton in another case, there is little room to doubt that Seth Pitts of this sketch assisted in establishing the independ- ence of his country. The records are as fol- lows: I. Seth Pitts, private, Captain James Perry's company, Colonel Paul Dudley Sar- gent's regiment ; muster roll dated August 12, 1775; enlisted August 20, 1775 (service not given) ; also, company return dated October 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Camp before Bos- ton, November 14, 1775. 2. Seth Pitts, Taun- ton, private, Captain Matthew Randell's com- pany, Colonel Thomas Marshall's regiment ; abstract for advance pay, mileage, etc., dated Camp at Hull, June 18, 1776; also, same com- pany and regiment; enlisted June 1, 1776; service to November 1, 1776, five months ; also, same company and regiment ; pay roll for November, 1776; service one month two days including travel home. 3. Seth Pitts, private, Captain Matthew Randal's company, Colonel John Daggett's regiment, enlisted January 7, 1778; discharged April 1, 1778; service, two months. twenty-six days, at Rhode Island; regiment raised to serve for three months from January 1, 1778. 4. Seth Pitts, private, Captain Josiah King's company, Colonel John Daggett's regiment ; entered service August 25, 1778; discharged September 1, 1778; service, eight days, at Rhode Island; company de- tached from militia. Roll sworn to at Taun- ton. 5. Seth Pitts, private, Captain Israel Trow's company, Colonel Isaac Dean's ( Bris- tol County) regiment ; entered service August I, 1780; discharged August 7, 1780; service nine days, at Rhode Island on the alarm of August 1, 1780, including travel (2 days) home. Roll dated Norton (eight miles from Taunton). Family tradition says he was a captain and took his third son Shubael, aged nine years, as his servant. After the revo- lution, Maine offered a promising field for ambitious men who wanted to avail themselves of the advantages of its virgin soil and oppor- tunities to build homes and factories. Seth Pitts was a man of energy and foresight and
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saw opportunities in the new territory that caused him to settle there. Seth Pitts, senior, was taxed in Hallowell or Augusta in 1785. His son Ichabod was taxed there in 1786 and son Shubael in 1796. In 1788 the record in the Kennebec Registry of Deeds shows that Seth Pitts bought land in Win- throp, and the tax list of 1790 shows that he was assessed in Winthrop that year. In 1797 he bought about three hundred acres in Sidney. Seth Pitts made a will which was proved in the Probate Court of Kennebec County, and in the will is found the names of his children as follows: Seth, Ichabod, Shubael, Abiel, Elizabeth, Rosanna, Celia, Polly, Abigail and Sally.
(V) Abiel, fourth son of Seth Pitts, was a blacksmith and resided in Clinton, Maine, where he died March 1, 1837. He married Abiah Wade, and they were the parents of : Olive, born 1792, died October 10, 1818. John Avery and Hiram Abial (twins) (see below). Calvin Wade, born April 25, 1802, married (second) Margaret Melcher. Betsey, mar- ried, 1826, Peter Trask, of Dixfield. Par- thenia, married, 1826, Thomas Eustis, of Jay. Selah, born February 10, 1807. ' Lydia, June 10, 1810. Mary, December 12, 1812. Sarah, September 15, 1815.
(VI) John Avery, eldest son of Abiel and Abiah (Wade) Pitts, and twin brother of Hiram Abial Pitts, was born in Clinton, Maine, December 8, 1799, died in Buffalo, New York, July 1, 1859. Both sons received common school educations and learned the blacksmith trade in their father's shop. They lived in Winthrop for some years, where they carried on their trade in a stone building on the main street, near the cemetery. This building is still standing. Abiel Pitts went to Winthrop in 1806, and in 1811 bought land at the head of Bowdoin street, where in 1813 he built the two-story house now standing, and still known as the "Pitts house." This continued to be his home the remainder of his life. In the cem- etery rest the remains of Olive Pitts, and several of her brothers and sisters. The brothers early developed mechanical and in- ventive abilities. In 1830 they patented a threshing machine with an improved railway or tread power, which consisted in the sub- stitution under the movable platform, con- nected by an endless chain of rollers, for the leather belt. They began the manufacture of this device, introducing it in the New Eng- land states, in connection with the common thresher, or "ground hog," as it was some- times called. Later they conceived the idea of
combining this improvement, applied to the old-fashioned thresher, with the common fan- ning mill, in a portable form, and after years of labor, produced in 1834, the first practicable separating thresher put to actual use. Other improvements were gradually added by the two brothers, and on December 29, 1847, a joint patent was granted to them for the new machine ; which was the original of the great family of "endless apron" separators. These machines were capable of threshing from three hundred to five hundred bushels of wheat in a day. John A. Pitts left Maine, and engaged in manufacturing threshing machines first in Albany, New York, then in Rochester, later in Springfield, Ohio, and finally in Buffalo, New York, where he organized the Pitts Agricul- tural Works in 1837. This was the oldest company making threshing machines in the country and it is still in existence, having been incorporated in 1877 as the Buffalo Pitts Com- pany. He subsequently invented an attach- ment for measuring and registering the num- ber of bushels threshed and bagged, and re- ceived a gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1855. Hiram A. Pitts, went to Alton, Illi- nois, in 1847, and began to manufacture his machine in the shops of a brother-in-law, but becoming dissatisfied with the conditions, soon constructed a new thresher, a number of which he sold on plantations along the Missouri river. He settled in Chicago, Illinois, in October, 1851, and there continued the manufacture of his machine, making many valuable improve- ments to it. He secured in all fourteen dif- ferent patents, among them one "for a chain pump," one for a machine for breaking hemp and separating the stalks from the fiber, and several for corn and cob mills. He died in Chicago, Illinois, September, 1860, leaving his business to his four sons. John A. Pitts mar- ried at North Wayne, March 22, 1826, Mary Jennings, of Wayne, who was born in Wayne, October 20, 1801, daughter of Nathaniel and Tabitha (Ford) Jennings (see Jennings IV). She died at Buffalo, New York, September 15, 1876. Their children were: I. Horatio, born March 31, 1827, died in Havana, Cuba. 2. John Beman, born February 22, 1833, mar- ried Belle Perrin, and they had two children, John and Belle. 3. Mary Ann, mentioned be- low. 4. Emma, born November 13, 1829. 5. George W., died young. 6. George W., died young.
(VII) Mary Ann, daughter of John A. and Mary (Jennings) Pitts, was born in Win- throp, January 8, 1831, and died December II, 1890, in Buffalo, New York. She married, at
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Springfield, Ohio, April 7, 1851, James Bray- ley, who was born in Exeter, England, in the parish of Swinbridge, county Devon, April 6, 1817, and died in New York, April 17, 1883. Mary Pitts inherited from her father a large interest in the Buffalo Pitts Company. This she transmitted to her three daughters, who became the owners of the establishment, which employs nine hundred persons. The children of this union were: Mary Pitts, Carrie, Os- mond, Alice, John and Grace B. I. Mary Pitts, born February 3, 1854, married, August 24, 1876, John R. Gomez, of Malaga, Spain, born November 15, 1849, died July 19, 1902. They had six children : i. John, born Septem- ber, 1877, died young; ii. Mary, born 1879, died young; iii. Guillermo Jorge, born April 28, 1881, resides in Buffalo, New York; he married Louise Griffin, November 28, 1907; iv. Carlos Eduardo, born December 20, 1882, married Evelyn Bell, April 22, 1908, and lives in Buffalo; v. Rafael Meliton, born July 31, 1884, is in Malaga; vi. Juan, born February 22, 1888, is in Buffalo. 2. Carrie, born March 26, 1858, died April 1, 1859. 3. Osmond, born June 21, 1859, died February 16, 1859. 4. Alice, February 27, 1861, married, April 17, 1883, Carleton Sprague, of Buffalo, born December 24, 1858. 6. John, born November 16, 1862, died December 3, 1863. 6. Grace, born August 17, 1864, married, December 14, 1893, Francis Root Keating, who was born in Buffalo, April 25, 1862, and died in Buffalo, January 7, 1901. They had three children : i. Alice, born November 12, 1894; ii. Mary Caroline, born June 10, 1898; iii. Francis Ruth, born June 10, 1900.
COBURN Edward Colborne, immigrant ancestor, came to New Eng- land in 1635, in the ship "De- fense," at the age of seventeen. He settled in Ipswich and remained there for more than thirty years. In this town he married Han- nah -, and there all his children were born. In 1668 he purchased from John Evered, alias Webb, sixteen hundred acres of land in "Draycott upon the Mirrimack," and removed with his family to Dracut. In 1671 he purchased more land in the same town. He and Samuel Varnum, who had been neigh- bors in Ipswich, were the earliest settlers of Dracut, and as Varnum lived until 1676 on the Chelmsford side of the river, Edward Co- burn is believed to have been the first perma- nent settler in the town of Dracut. There has never been a time since when representa- tives of these two families, Coburn and Var-
num, have not occupied lands handed down from father to son from the earliest settlers. Edward Coburn's six sons built themselves houses on the portions of land allotted to them, and there removed their young families. As they occupied an outpost of the frontier the father built a garrison house for the com- mon defense against the savages. Edward Co- burn died in Dracut, February 17, 1700, hav- ing deeded his lands to his sons while living. Children : I. Edward, born 1642, killed at Brookfield, August 2, 1675. 2. John, born 1644, died January 31, 1695; married, March 16, 1671, Susannah Read, of Salem; married (second), Elizabeth Richardson, who died January 3, 1740. 3. Robert, born 1647, died in Concord, June 7, 1701; married, March 16, 1671, Mary Bishop. 4. Thomas, born 1648; married, August 6, 1672, Hannah Rouf, of Chelmsford; married (second) November 17, 1681, Mary Richardson, daughter of Captain Josiah Richardson, of Chelmsford. 5. Dan- iel, born 1654, died in Dracut, August 1, 1712, lived at Dracut and Concord; married, in Con- cord, June 18, 1685, Sarah Blood, daughter of Robert, who was born August 1, 1658, and died in Dracut, June 1, 1741. 6. Ezra, born March 16, 1658, died June, 1739; married, November 22, 1681, Hannah, daughter of Sam- uel Varnum, born May 22, 1661. 7. Joseph, born June 12, 1661, mentioned below. 8. Han- nah, born 1664; married, September 28, 1682, Thomas Richardson; married (second) John Wright. 9. Lydia, born August 20, 1666.
(II) Deacon Joseph, son of Edward Co- burn, was born in Ipswich, June 12, 1661, and died at Dracut, November 13, 1733. He re- moved with his father to the Dracut purchase, and July 8th, after his twenty-first birthday, received from his father the title to one- eighth of the Evered-Webb land. November 7, 1699, his father gave him a deed to the homestead and the garrison house. He filled several public offices, being selectman of Dra- cut 1712-16, 1721. He married (first) Han- nah -, who died September 22, 1722; (second) intention recorded December 8, 1722, Deborah Wright, widow of Joseph Wright, daughter of John Stevens, of Chelmsford. Children, all by first wife, born in Dracut: I. Hannah, September 9, 1684. 2. Mary, Octo- ber 22, 1688; married, in Concord, May 6, 1714, Ezekiel Richardson, son of Thomas and Hannah (Coburn) Richardson. 3. Sarah, Oc- tober 18, 1690. 4. Lydia, January 18, 1692. 5. Joseph, born April 4, 1695; married in Con- cord, January 26, 1709, Hannah Harwood, died September 21, 1758; she died November
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14, 1760. 6. Edward, born July 9, 1697. 7.
Aaron, May 27, 1700, mentioned below. 8.
Moses, January 1, 1703, married, July 7, 1730, Deborah Wright, daughter of Joseph and De- borah (Stevens) Wright, the latter being his stepmother. He died June 5, 1742, and she married second Deacon Edward Coburn.
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