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May 20, 1859, daughter of Nathan West and Jeanette (Stetson) West, of Lewiston, Maine. They had one child, who died in infancy.
Among the finest families DENNISON that first trod the soil of New England and bore a conspicuous part in subduing the savage and the establishment of the civilization of its time was that of Denison. Its representatives are now found in every part of the United States, and noted for fine minds and fine characters. The ancestor of most of those bearing the name had a romantic career, and left an in- delible impress upon the formative history of New England. He was of vigorous physical as well as mental makeup, and his posterity is numerous and of credit to its noble origin.
(I) John Denyson was living in Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, in 1567, and died there of the plague, in 1582.
(II) William, son of John Denyson, was baptized at Stortford, February 3, 1571, and married November 7, 1603, Margaret ( Chand- ler) Monck. He was well seated at Stort- ford, but hearing of the promise of the New England colonies, decided to cast his lot with the Puritans there. His eldest son, James Denyson, was a clergyman, and remained in England. The parents, with three sons-Dan- iel, Edward and George-crossed the ocean in 1631 and settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1634. They bore a prominent part in social and religious life there. John Eliot, the apos- tle, was a tutor in their family. William Denison died at Roxbury, January 25, 1653, and his wife, February 23, 1645.
(III) Captain George, fourth son of Will- iam and Margaret C. (Monck) Denison, was born in Stortford, in 1618, and was baptized there December 10, 1620. He married, about 1640, Bridget Thompson, born September II, 1622, daughter of John and Alice Thompson, of Preston, Northamptonshire, England. Bridget died in 1643, leaving daughters Sarah and Hannah, born 1641 and 1643, respectively. After the death of his wife, Captain Denison went to England and joined Cromwell's army. He was severely wounded in the battle of Naseby, and was nursed back to health by Lady Ann Borodel, at the home of her father, John Borodel. As soon as his strength was restored he married her, and in 1645 they came to New England and lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts, continuing their residence there until 1651, when they located with their family in New London, Connecticut. Captain
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Denison distinguished himself as a soldier in the Pequot war, and again rendered valuable service to the colony after his return from England, rising to the rank of colonel. Hc was also prominent in civil life. His children, horn of the second marriage, were : John, Ann, Borodel, George William, Margaret and Mary.
(IV) Captain William (2) fourth son of Captain George and Ann ( Borodel ) Denison, was born in 1655, and married Mrs. Sarah (Stanton) Prentice, widow of Thomas Pren- tice (2) and daughter of Thomas Stanton. Captain Denison served in King Philip's war, and died March 2, 1715, and his wife died August 7, 1713. Children: William, Sarah, George and others.
(V) George (2), son of Captain William (2) and Sarah (Stanton) Dennison, was born in 1699, and died March 14, 1748, in Glouces- ter, Massachusetts, where he settled early in life. He first appears of record in that town at his marriage, January 14, 1725, to Abigail, daughter of Edward and Hannah (York) Haraden. She was born in 1706, and died May 1, 1753. George Dennison was one of the original proprietors of the township of New Gloucester, in what is now Maine, and also owned wild land in the present town of Freeport, where his sons, Abner and David, settled about 1757. He was a man of energy and influence and accumulated much prop- erty. He sent vessels to the banks and was very successful in business, leaving an estate valued at 1,532 pounds. Children: George, Abner, Isaac, David, Jonathan, Abigail and Susanna.
(VI) David, fourth son of George (2) and Abigail (Haraden) Dennison, was born Au- gust 6, 1734, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and died March 5, 1799, in Freeport, Maine, where he settled about 1757. He and his brother were men of much enterprise. They built a sawmill and vessel and did a large trade in lumber, along the coast. He married, about 1757, Jenny, daughter of Joseph and Joanna ( Emerson) Haraden, born October 18. 1742, died October, 1813. Children: David (died young), David, George, Jenny, Joanna, Esther. Timothy, Lucretia. John, Abigail, Jo- seph, Jonathan and Priscilla.
(VII) George (3), third son of David and Joanna ( Haraden) Dennison, was born May 19, 1762, in Freeport, and resided in that town. He married, August 21, 1783, Dorcas Soule, born March II, 1766, and was of the sixth generation in descent from George Soule. passenger on the "Mayflower," in 1620. Chil-
dren : Emerson, Betsey, George Washington, Timothy, Dorcas (died young), Bradbury, Jonathan and Dorcas.
(VIII) Betsey, eldest daughter of George (3) and Dorcas (Soule) Dennison, was born December 2, 1785, in Freeport, and was mar- ried August 13, 1813, to Stephen Stetson, of Durham, Maine. (See Stetson VII.)
Stephen Stetson ( see preced- STETSON ing sketch) was descended from Robert Stetson, the im- migrant (q. v.), through Joseph ( 11), Robert (III) and
(IV) Anthony, eldest child of Robert (2) and Mary (Collamore) Stetson, was born September 12, 1693, probably in Scituate, and lived in that town, where he was a cordwainer, and died in 1747. He was married March 28, 1717, to Anna Smith. Children: Mary, Isaac, Joseph, Ann, Charles, Ezra, Elisha, Thomas, Benjamin, Abiel and Martha.
(V) Isaac, eldest son of Anthony and Anna (Smith) Stetson, was born October 19, 1719, in Scituate, and resided south of George Moore's Pond in that town, where he died June 8, 1811. He was very much respected and beloved. He was married November 16, 1749, to Ruth Prouty, of Scituate, who died September 18, 1805. Children : Isaac, Ruth, Elizabeth, Anne, Eunice (died young) Elisha, Eunice, Abigail, Mary, Chloe and David.
(VI) Elisha, second son of Isaac and Ruth Prouty Stetson, was born April 8, 1759, in Scituate, and settled in Durham, Maine, in 1784. He was married in the last-named year to Rebecca Curtis, of Scituate. Children : Ruth, Sally, Elisha, Stephen, Isaac, Clarissa and Abigail (twins), David, Mary, Charles and Anthony.
(VII) Stephen, second son of Elisha and Rebecca (Curtis) Stetson, was born May 28, 1791, in Durham, Maine, where he resided. He was married August 13, 1813, to Betsey Dennison, daughter of George (3) and Dorcas Soule. (See Dennison VII.) Children : Jennet Betsey, George D., Pamelia H., Elisha and Andrew J.
(VIII) Jeanette, eldest child of Stephen and Betsey (Dennison) Stetson, was born Sep- tember 22. 1815, and became the wife of Nathan A. West, of Lewiston, later of Bath, Maine.
(IX) Nettie Aldea, daughter of Nathan and Jeanette ( Stetson) West, was born Mav 20, 1859, in Bath, and became the wife of John I. Brown. ( See Brown IX.)
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SNOW Among the earliest settlers in New England were persons named Snow. Nicholas Snow was a pas- senger in the "Ann," 1623, and settled in Plymouth ; Thomas was of Boston, 1636; An- thony was of Plymouth, 1638; William was of Plymouth, 1643; and various others of the name were in Eastham and Woburn. The Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls show over two hundred and fifty enlistments under this name.
(I) Richard Snow was the earliest inhabi- tant bearing his name in Woburn. He was taxed there in the rate for the county, as- sessed September 8, 1645, which was the first tax in Woburn upon record. In 1648 land was granted him by the town. November 19, 1656. he bought a house and twenty acres of land of George Farley, one of the original inhabitants of Woburn, then recently removed to Billerica; and in general distribution of common lands and timber, made in 1668, he had a due proportion assigned him in the
"'fifth Eighth." He seems to have been an industrious, thriving husbandman, and to have maintained a respectable rank in society ; but not being ambitious of honor and distinction, he never attained any considerable office either in the church or the town. In 1659 Richard Snow was dismissed from ordinary training in consideration of his inefficiency to bear arms. The History of Woburn says he died November 9, 17II, but that must be a mis- take, as the Middlesex county court records state that the will of Richard Snow was proved in 1677. Besides John and James Snow, sons apparently his, born before he removed to Wo- burn to reside, he had born to him afterwards Daniel (died young), Samuel and Zechariah.
(II) John Snow, referred to above as being probably a son of Richard Snow, born before his father took up his residence in Woburn, died November 25, 1706. He had John, Zerubbabel, Timothy, Hannah, Mary, Eben- ezer and Nathaniel.
(III) Zerubbabel, son of John Snow, was born May 14, 1672, died November 20, 1733. He married, September 22, 1697, Jemima Cut- ler, and they had Zerubbabel, Josiah, Jabez (died young), Jemima, Ebenezer, John, Will- iam, Abigail and Jabez.
(IV) John (2), fifth son of Zerubbabel and Jemima (Cutler) Snow, was born March 30, 1706. The supposition is that he moved from Woburn to the town of Rutland, Massa- chusetts, a small town about half-way between Northampton and Worcester, where he re- sided (probably) from about 1735 to 1766.
Subsequently he settled in Chesterfield, Ches- hire county, New Hampshire, where he and Moses Smith built the first sawmill erected in the town. He was selectman in 1767. The following is taken from the Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, page 91 : "John Snow was living in Rutland, Massachusetts, in 1763, being one of the petitioners to have the town of Paxton set off from Rutland." The fol- lowing is taken from the History of Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts, by Jonas Reid, pages 14-15: "John's oldest son War- ren was evidently born before John moved to Rutland." John Snow died May 12, 1777, in his seventy-second year. His wife, Abigail Snow, died March 6, 1790, in her eighty- fourth year. Their children were Warren, mentioned above; Zerubbabel, mentioned be- low; Phebe, born Rutland, about 1746.
(V) Zerubbabel (2), second son of John (2) and Abigail Snow, was born in Rutland, August 12, 1741. He settled in Chesterfield, April, 1770, where he was selectman, 1773- 74. He died April 12, 1795, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. He married Mary Trow- bridge, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who died June 24, 1818, in her seventy-fourth year. Their children were: Molly, James, Lydia, Abigail, Sally, John, Jerusha and Levi.
(VI) James, eldest son of Zerubbabel (2) and Mary (Trowbridge) Snow, married, 1787, Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Farr, by whom he had Eli A., Kimball, Alpheus, Gard- ner, Elijah J., Polly, Jerusha, Selina, Sally, Mary and Thirza C.
(VII) Alpheus, third son of James and Abigail (Farr) Snow, was born May 10, 1791, died May 28, 1869. In his youth he attended school only three weeks; neverthe- less, by private study he afterward succeeded in acquiring an ordinary education. He had a special aptitude for arithmetic, and it is said that even persons who ought to have been his superiors in this branch of mathe- matics sought his aid in the solution of diffi- cult problems. When a young man he learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed
for many years at the West Village. He was also engaged in farming. He was selectman 1837-39-45-49-53, and represented the town in the general court in 1849. He married, 1815, Salome Harris, born November 5. 1796, daughter of Perley Harris, who married, 1783. Abigail, daughter of Warren Snow, brother of Zerubbabel Snow. Their children were : Minerva, Alpheus Franklin, Jude, Lucien and Bernard.
(VIII) Jude, third son of Alpheus and
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Salome ( Harris) Snow, was born in Chester- field, New Hampshire, September 23, 1820, died in Portland, Maine, January 6, 1867. He was a merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine. He married, October 31, 1849, Lydia Augusta Hall, born January 2, 1828, died December 13, 1885, daughter of David and Nancy M. (Conant) Hall. They had four children: 1. David William, see for- ward. 2. Lucien, see forward. 3. Edward H., born October 28, 1859, is connected with the drygoods firm of Eastman Bros. & Ban- croft, of Portland; resides in Portland; mar- ried, September 10, 1884, Alice G., daugh- ter of William Trott and Henrietta ( Baker) King, for his first wife, and Mary H., daugli- ter of John P. and Abigail (Swan) Hobbs, for his second wife. 4. Ella Conant, born January 8, 1867, married the Rev. William James Denzilow Thomas; children: Denzi- low and Augusta, of Washington, D. C. Da- vid Hall, father of Lydia Augusta (Hall) Snow, was born October 8, 1791, died April 22, 1863. He was a merchant, conducting
business in company with his brother-in-law, - uary 9, 1855, daughter of William H. and
Alvah Conant, at Alfred and Portland. He was a son of Dr. Abiel and Mary (Farnum) Hall, of Alfred. He married, December 10, 1818, in Alfred, Nancy Merrill, born in Al- fred, December 27, 1796, baptized January 24, 1803 and died in Portland, November, 1865, daughter of John and Lydia (Farnum) Con- ant. Children of David and Nancy M. (Con- ant) Hall: Augustus, died young. Lucy Maria, died young. Marianna. Charles Co- nant. Lydia Augusta, aforementioned as the wife of Jude Snow.
(IX) David William, eldest child of Jude and Lydia Augusta (Hall) Snow, was born in Boston, November 10, 1851. He was brought in his childhood to Portland, Maine, on the removal of his parents to that city. He prepared for college in the public schools of Portland, entered Bowdoin College in 1869, graduated in 1873 with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts and later became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Returning to Portland, he engaged in mercantile pursuits for about three years and then entered the law office of Hon. William L. Putnam of that city, where he read law for two years and then entered Harvard Law School for a course in special subjects. He was admitted to the Cumber- land bar at the October term, 1879, and im- mediately began the practice of his profession, at first in a partnership with Franklin C. Pay- son, under the firm name of Snow & Payson, and later returned to Judge Putnam's office,
where, after the dissolution of the firm of Snow & Payson, he continued his practice un- til Mr. Putnam was elevated to the bench of the United States circuit court. The firm of Symonds, Snow, Cook & Hutchinson was then formed, the other members being Hon. Joseph W. Symonds, Charles Sumner Cook and Charles L. Hutchinson. Since its forma- tion, the firm has been engaged in much of the important litigation in the state of Maine. Mr. Snow, naturally adapted to his chosen profession, studious and energetic, has made for himself an enviable reputation as a cor- poration and real estate lawyer. He is a trustee of the Portland Trust Company, a member of the Cumberland County, Maine State, American and International Bar asso- ciations. Mr. Snow is well known and highly respected in his adopted city, and by his sterl- ing integrity has won the confidence and es- teem of his numerous clientage, professional associates and fellow citizens. Mr. Snow married, in Portland, June 18, 1885, Martha V., born in Atkinson, New Hampshire, Jan-
Caroline (Vinton) Hemenway. They have one son, Roger Vinton, born August 11, 1890, a graduate of Portland high school, now a student at Williams College, class of 1912.
(IX) Lucien, second son of Jude and Lydia Augusta (Hall) Snow, was born in Boston. October 21, 1854. He was brought to Port- land, Maine, by his parents when two years old, and was educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the high school in 1873. At the age of nineteen he entered mercantile life, and was with A. Little & Company, drygoods merchants, two years ; Lock, Twitchell & Company, five years; and Storer Brothers, two years. In 1882 he be- came a partner in the firm of H. E. Stevens & Company, iron and steel merchants. Four years later he retired from this firm and be- came president of the American Cotton Com- pany, of Westbrook, where he served a year. In 1887, in company with M. E. Bolster, E. P. Staples, F. W. Roberts and N. D. Smith, the firm of Bolster, Snow & Company was organized, which for twenty years carried on a wholesale trade in drygoods and men's fur- nishings. This business was sold July 1, 1907, to Parker, Thomas & Company, who have since carried it on. Mr. Snow always mani- fested a decided aptitude for financial affairs ; while in the employ of others he had much more to do with the financial than the sales departments, and after becoming a partner in trade the administration of the finances of the
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firm with which he was connected generally fell to him. He was president of the Port- land Street Sprinkling Company, treasurer of the Baker Manifold Company, trustee of the Portland Savings Bank, of which he was also one of the incorporators, and a director in the Casco National Bank. He was a member of the Portland Athletic and Country clubs. In politics he was a Republican, one who could be relied on to vote the ticket. He was a Con- gregationalist in religion. Mr. Snow married, in Portland, February 9, 1882, Nellie Wads- worth, born in Portland, August 29, 1861, daughter of Hon. Samuel E. and Zilpah ( Bar- ker ) Spring. Child, Lucien, born December 4, 1885, graduated from Harvard College in 1907. Mr. Snow, who was one of Portland's most prominent merchants for many years, died very suddenly at his home on Neal street, October 30, 1908, after a brief illness of only three weeks, from heart failure.
CHADWICK Several immigrants of this name arrived very early in Massachusetts. The first seems to have been Charles Chadwick, born 1596, who made application to the general court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay to be admitted a freeman to the town of Water- town, where he had settled, October 19, 1630. He was thirty-four years of age at the time, and at the session of the general court held on May 18, 1631, he was duly admitted to the privileges in the government of the town and of the church of a freeman, on taking the oath prescribed by the law of the colony. He was elected selectman of the town in 1637, and many times thereafter up to 1672. He was a deputy for the town in the general court in 1657-59. He died April 10, 1682, and his will dated June 30, 1681, mentions his wife, Eliza- beth (who died February 22, 1684) and his kinsmen Thomas and John Chadwick and Charles, eldest son of John. When he came from England, his wife Elizabeth, and sons John and Thomas and possibly other children came with him. Evidently his children all died before 1681, as he gave his property to kinsmen.
(I) Sergeant John Chadwick, born about 1650, may have been a son of Charles Chad- wick, of Watertown. He was an active and prominent citizen of Boxford, Massachusetts, where he served as selectman, and died Sep- tember 2, 1707. He was buried in Bradford, where his gravestone is still found. There is no record of his children in Boxford, but some of them are known to have lived in that town
or Bradford, namely: John, Abigail, Eunice, Sarah, Edmund and Jonathan.
(II) Edmund, son of Sergeant John Chad- wick, was born about 1695 and resided in Bradford. He was married there December II, 1718, to Mary Kimball, of that town, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Green) Kim- ball. She was born December 30, 1700, in Bradford, and their children were: Mary, Abigail, James, Samuel, Sarah, William, Ebenezer, Dorothy and Elizabeth.
(III) James, eldest son of Edmund and Mary (Kimball) Chadwick, was born Decem- ber 14, 1724, in Bradford, and died in that town February 2, 1755. He married, March 5, 1752, Mary Thurston, born March 4, 1725, in Bradford, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Gage) Thurston. He left two chil- dren : Hannah, who became the wife of Jona- than Blanchard, of Canterbury, New Hamp- shire, and Edmund.
(IV) Edmund (2), only son of James and Mary (Thurston) Chadwick, was born April I, 1754, in Bradford, and settled in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where he was a deacon and prominent in civil affairs, and died August 20, 1819. He married, June 27, 1778, Susanna Atkinson, born June 15, 1758, in Newbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah (Hale) Atkinson. Their children were: Samuel, James W., Hannah, Joseph, Mary and Cyrus.
(V) James W., second son of Edmund (2) and Susanna ( Atkinson) Chadwick, was born December 1, 1787, in Boscawen, New Hamp- shire, and settled in Hopkinton, same state. The records of the last-named town are very meager and contain little information of him. His wife Mary, surname unknown, was born June 16, 1784. They settled in Friendship, Knox county, Maine, where Mr. Chadwick died February II, 1864, and was survived nearly seven years by his wife, who passed away, December 20, 1870. Children: Isaac, born November 25, 1811; William, October 26, 1813; Oliver P., February 9, 1817; Mary Ann, July 13, 1819; Cyrus Hill, the subject of the next paragraph.
(VI) Cyrus Hill, son of James W. and Mary Chadwick, was born November 28, 1823, in Friendship, Knox county, Maine. He be- came a master mariner and owner of sailing vessels with which he had considerable trade along the Atlantic coast and Gulf coast ports, in lumber. Having retired from the sea, he became the owner of Burnt Island, contain- ing two hundred and ninety-three acres of land, on which he engaged in farming, and
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kept three hundred sheep. Ile died there August 7, 1899. He married Nancy, daugh- ter of Captain James Stone, a shipmaster and subsequently a merchant in Cushing, Maine, and his wife, Elizabeth (Seavey ) Stone. Children : Cyrus Warren, Thomas Hiram, James Oliver and Alton Delano. The second was master of the schooner, "Jessie Starr," and was lost at sea off Cape Henry, March 8, 1907. The mother of these children sur- vived her husband more than six years, and died October 3, 1905.
(VII) Cyrus Warren, eldest son of Cyrus Hill and Nancy (Stone) Chadwick, of Cush- ing, Maine, was born in Friendship, Knox county, Maine, September 30, 1846. He at- tended school at Cushing, Maine, from his sixth to his eleventh year, and then went to sea with his father and became a master mari- ner when he was sixteen years old. He con- tinued in command of a coastwise vessel of which he was part owner, his being the schoon- er "Lizzie Chadwick," named for his only child. His trips were uniformly successful and his record trip from Thomaston, Maine, to New York was made in forty-two hours and fifteen minutes. His cargoes brought into dif- ferent United States ports have been esti- mated to aggregate thirty million feet of yel- low pine and spruce lumber. He retired from the sea, and in April, 1891, established him- self at No. 30 South street in the city of New York as ship broker, in which business he became associated with Charles H. Potter, of Brooklyn, New York, the firm being C. W. Chadwick & Company. Captain Chadwick, during his active life as a master mariner, traded largely with the West Indies and Southern Atlantic and Gulf states, and owned numerous vessels which he continues to con- trol even after retiring from active master- ship. In 1908 he was the owner of twenty or more vessels engaged in the coastwise trade. He affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity from the time he was initiated into the mysteries of the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons through Oriental Lodge, No. 126, of Thomaston, Maine. He is a char- ter member of Elizabeth City Lodge, No. 114, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and a member of Ocean View Commandery, No. 233, United Order of the Golden Cross, South Portland, Maine. He became a member of the Maritime Exchange of New York City in 1894, and became a stockholder of the New York Commercial Underwriters Insurance Company in 1908. He married, July 4, 1870, Helen, daughter of
Captain James and Jane M. (Sterling) Tre- fethen, of Friendship, Maine, and their only living child is Lizzie Florence, born in Cush- ing, Maine, June 8, 1887.
HANSCOM The name first appears in the
"Records of the Governor and Company of the Massa- chusetts Bay in New England," under date of March 12, 1628, when Richard Clayton, aged thirty-four years or thereabouts, car- penter, desirous to transport himself, his wife, one daughter, his sister of fourteen years old, his brother Barnaby Clayton, aged twenty- three years, and his brother-in-law, Thomas Hanscombe, for New England in the com- pany's ships, under the usual proposition, to wit: He being able to furnish forty pounds toward the charge of him and his, what shall be wanting to company will upon this con- dition, that upon their arrival (in New Eng- land) that he shall be indebted to the com- pany shall be (paid) by the labor of him- self and his two servants, or brothers afore- said, allowing them all three shillings the day for so long time (until) they have paid this debt and in that time finding (then) 3 persons" dyet at the company's charge and while earn- ing out this debt to instruct any of the com- pany in the trade of a plow wright and there is land to be (allotted) to him and his, as is usual by the company orders that transport themselves: Written this 12th March, 1628. As Richard Clayton is credited to the parish of Sutton, Bedfordshire, England, it is reason- able to suppose that the entire party were of that parish.
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