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(Wentworth) Lord. Her father was born June 14, 1689, son of Nathan Lord, who mar- ried, November 22. 1678, Martha, daughter of Richard Sr. and Judith (Smith) Tozer. Captain Samuel was admitted to the Berwick. Church, May 14, 1721, and his wife February 2, 1734-35 ; his will was made February 23, 1761, bequeathing to wife Martha his house at Quamphegan; to sons John, Nathaniel, Abraham, Samuel and Ebenezer, and Mary Grant, his daughter ; to Abraham the farm for- mierly his Uncle Tozer's at Salmon Falls, the site of the garrison house built by Richard Tozer Jr. and standing until October, 1855, at South Berwick. Martha (Wentworth) Lord was a daughter of Elder William Went- worth. The widow of Joseph Stewart mar- ried ( second ) Grant, and she, then of Berwick, December 18, 1766, deeded to her son, Wentworth Stewart, all her interest in the estate of her father, Samuel Lord. She was appointed guardian of her children April 25, 1735. Children: I. Wentworth, men- tioned below. 2. Dorcas, born 1733-34.
(IV) Wentworth, son of Joseph Stewart, was born October 20, 1731, at Berwick, Maine. He bought land in Gorham, Maine, January 23, 1753, of James Gilkey. He was a promi- nent citizen of that town, town clerk, repre- sentative to the general court in 1773-74, lieu- tenant in the French and Indian war in 1757 in Captain Joseph Woodman's company for six months, and was captain in the revolution. He died at Sewall's Point, Massachusetts. He married, February 4, 1753. Susanna, daughter of Rev. Solomon Lombard, the first minister of Gorham, Maine, of an old Cape Cod family. She was born August 14, 1734. His widow married (second). March 4, 1779, William Wood, of Gorham. Children of Wentworth Stewart: 1. Mary, born January 20, 1754, married, July 3, 1770, John Green. 2. Susan- na, May 2. 1757, died January 4, 1759. 3. Jo- seph, April 3, 1759, mentioned below. 4. Sol- omon Lombard, February 13, 1762, died De- cember 29, 1763. 5. Sarah Purinton, February 25, 1764, married, May 20, 1781, Eben Phin- ney. 6. Dorcas S., June 8, 1766, married, Au- gust 7, 1787, Peletiah McDonald. 7. Susanna, April 1, 1768, married, January 4, 1786, Fran- cis Brooks, of North Yarmouth. 8. Went- worth Jr., August 17, 1770, married, Novem- ber 4, 1790. Hannah Straw. 9. Solomon, Feb- ruary 24, 1773. 10. Anna, October 31, 1775, married, November 7, 1791, Nathaniel Stevens Jr.
(V) Joseph (2), son of Wentworth Stewart,
was born in Gorham, April 3, 1759. He mar- ried Hannah Smally.
(VI) Joseph (3), son or nephew of Joseph (2) Stewart, was born in Bloomfield, now a part of Skowhegan, Somerset county, Maine, February 25, 1793, died in Bangor, Maine, January 26, 1860. He had a common school education. He owned and carried on a general store at Hartland until 1818 when he came to Bangor. He dealt in real estate there exten- sively, building many houses and selling them. He built the foundation of the Bangor House and of the Unitarian church in Bangor about 1820, also the original part of the brick house on City Farm. He was active in the militia and rose to the command of his regiment. He married, February 24, 1813, Rachel Lander, born in Fairfield, Maine, March 15, 1792, died in Bangor, April 23, 1868. Children: 1. Mary Ann, born August 11, 1814, died February 3, 1900. 2. James H., born March 1, 1816, died September 10, 1881. 3. Fidelia, born July 19, 1818, died March 31, 1889. 4. William L., born October 1, 1820. 5. Thomas Jefferson, born January 5, 1823, mentioned below. 6. Olive Lander, born October 23, 1824. 7. Jo- seph Orrison, born March 20, 1827, died October 10. 1828. 8. Joseph Orrison, born February 11, 1829, died April 20, 1837. 9. George Washington, born November 20, 1831, died August 20, 1834.
(VII) Captain Thomas Jefferson, son of Colonel Joseph. Stewart, was born in Hart- land, Maine, January 5, 1823, died in Bangor, Maine, March 6, 1890. The family moved to Bangor a very few years later, and he lived in the same ward (2) during his entire resi- dence in the city, and represented it in the city government several years. He was edu- cated in Bangor's common schools. He began in early life as clerk in a grocery and provision store, but on account of poor health his physi- cian advised a sea voyage, and he decided to follow the sea and rose to the position of master mariner. After he married, he retired from sea life and engaged in business, whole- sale and retail grocery and provision, later adding ship brokerage and general commission in Bangor ; the latter grew to such proportions that lie disposed of the grocery business to his clerks and gave his entire attention to the ship brokerage and commission business. He held many positions of trust; was a director of the Kenduskeag Bank, afterward the Ken- duskeag National Bank, was one of the found- ers and till his death one of the trustees of the Eastern Trust and Banking Company, director
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of the several marine insurance companies that were organized and still exist in Bangor, presi- dent of the Eastern (Fire) Insurance Com- pany, of Bangor, for many years consul for Portugal in Maine, one of the board of port wardens and member of the board of trade. The idea of manufacturing and exporting shooks for orange and lemon boxes to the Mediterranean fruit ports of Italy and Spain was conceived by him, when all the fruit of that kind consumed in this country came from that source. He carried his first sample under his arm in 1858 during the slow stage journey to New York. While he never owned any of the mills engaged in their manufacture, he financed the proprietors and sold their product on commission; there have been upward of four million box shooks sent from Bangor in a single year, representing a value of more than two hundred thousand dollars. He built up a large trade in spool-bars which were shipped to Scotland and England to the large thread works of the Coats, Clarks, Kerrs and others. In his younger days he was the prin- cipal importer of salt from Turks Island, Cur- acao, West Indies, and from Mediterranean ports. He exported pine lumber from Bangor to the West Indies. In his later years he was prominent in political matters, was Democratic candidate for congress in the fourth district of Maine in 1886. In religion he was of the Unitarian belief, attending that church in Ban- gor.
He married, June 8, 1851, in Bangor, Maine, Mary Manton Dennison, born in Kinderhook, New York, April 17, 1827, daughter of Cap- tain Seril and Sarah Morse ( Porter) Manton ; she was adopted by her uncle by marriage, Colonel Isaac Dennison, who then resided at Gloucester, Massachusetts ; his wife was Mary C. (Porter) Dennison, sister of Sarah Morse Porter, the mother of Mrs. Stewart, and for whom Mrs. Stewart was named by her mother ; the Dennisons after the adoption had her name changed legally in Massachusetts from Mary Dennison Manton to Mary Manton Dennison, and while she was a young girl the family moved to Bangor, Maine. Children of Thomas J. and Mary M. Stewart : I. Rosaline Porter, born August 20, 1852. 2. Charles Manton, September 12, 1854. 3. Edward Lander, Feb- ruary 5, 1858. 4. Harry Dennison, March 25, 1864. 5. Rowland Wardwell, December 29, 1867.
(VIII) Rosaline Porter, daughter of Thom- as Jefferson Stewart, was born in Bangor, Au- gust 20, 1852, and was educated in the public schools of that city and in Germany. She mar-
ried, in 1875, Lawrence M. Vance, of In- dianapolis, Indiana, died in Boston, Massachu- setts, January 29, 1886. Their only child, Marie Stewart Vance, born at Indianapolis, January 17, 1876, died at the hotel on top of Green Mountain at Bar Harbor, Maine, Sep- tember 15, 1887. Mother and daughter are buried in Mt. Hope cemetery, in Bangor, Maine.
(VIII) Charles Manton, son of Thomas Jefferson Stewart, was born in Bangor, Maine, September 12, 1854. He was educated in the public schools of that city and at the "Little Blue" or Abbott Family school at Farmington, Maine, which he attended from 1869 to 1872. He then went abroad, crossing the Atlantic on one of his father's vessels from New York to Marseilles, France. He traveled through Europe and Great Britain. Upon his return, which was also on one of his father's vessels, he worked until 1875 in his father's office. He then went to New York City to engage in the produce commission business with his uncle, Daniel Eddy Manton, under the firm name of D. E. Manton & Company. He con- tinued until 1880, when the firm was dis- solved and he returned to Bangor to become partner in his father's business of ship broker- age and general commission merchants, the firm being composed of Thomas J. and his two sons, Charles M. and Edward L., under the name of T. J. Stewart & Co., and a few years later the youngest brother, Rowland W., was admitted to the firm. After the father's death, the three sons continued the business under the same name till 1898, when Rowland W. withdrew and started in same line on his own account ; Charles M. and Edward L. continued the partnership under the old style till 1900, when the business was incorporated under the name of T. J. Stewart Company, which still continues, Charles M. being the treasurer and general manager of the corporation. In poli- tics he is a Democrat. He represented ward seven in the common council of Bangor in 1887 and again in 1907, and in 1908 he was a member of the board of aldermen from the same ward. He is a thirty-second degree Ma- son, being a member of Saint Andrews Lodge, No. 83; Mount Moriah Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 6; Bangor Council, and the vari- ous bodies at Bangor, and of the Maine Con- sistory, Portland. He is also a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 60, of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand ; Katahdin Encamp- ment, No. 4, and past captain of Canton Ban- gor, No. 14; he is chief of staff of General Levi M. Poor, commander of the Department
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of Maine, of Patriarchs Militant. He is a member of Anchor Lodge, No. 4, Ancient Or- der of United Workmen, Bangor, Workmen's Benefit Association, and a past regent of Ban- gor Council, No. 123, Royal Arcanum. His family are members of the Central Church of Bangor (Congregational). He married, May 19, 1880, Gertrude Conkling, born in Brooklyn, New York, November 18, 1858, daughter of Alexander Horsner and Abigail Cary (Sea- man) Howe, of Brooklyn, New York, both of whom moved to Brooklyn from Pleasant Val- ley, Dutchess county, New York. Children of Charles M. and Gertrude Howe Stewart, all born at Bangor, Maine: 1. Hazel Howe, Au- gust 24, 1881. 2. Edith Robinson, July 24, 1884. 3. Marguerite Manton, September 7, 1888. Edith R. married Anton Louis Rein- hardt, of Washington, D. C., at Bangor, Jan- uary 3, 1906; one child, Gretchen, born Oc- tober 8, 1906, at Portland, Maine.
(VIII) Edward Lander, son of Thomas Jefferson Stewart, was born at Bangor, Maine, February 5, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of Bangor and at the Allen Family school at Newton, Massachusetts. After he left school he entered his father's office, where, with the exception of two years that he was with D. E. Manton & Co. in New York City, he was connected with the ship broker- age and commission business instituted by his father, first as clerk for his father, then as partner in the firm of T. J. Stewart & Com- pany, and when the business was incorporated in 1900 he was chosen treasurer. In 1902 he went to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, where he was associated in business with Fran- cis H. Clergue, formerly of Bangor. In 1908 he was residing with his family at Phoenix, Arizona. He married, April 21, 1880, Martha Jane, daughter of Captain Nelson and Maria (Woods) Edwards, of Jersey City, New Jer- sey. One child, Marion Edwards, born July 23, 1883, married, March 19, 1908, at Phoenix, Arizona, Fay Wilmot Libby, formerly of Ban- gor, Maine.
(VIII) Harry Dennison, son of Thomas Jefferson Stewart, was born at Bangor, Maine, March 25, 1864. He was educated there in the public schools and at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont. After graduating from college he engaged in the wholesale ice busi- ness in Bangor, and later in the manufacture of lumber and box shooks with M. L. Jordan under the firm name of Jordan & Stewart; their mills were located at Old Town and Milford, Maine. In 1902 he became president, treasurer and manager of the Bangor Biscuit
Company, and he has continued at the head of this company to the present time. This concern does a thriving business. Mr. Stewart is a charter member of Bangor Lodge, Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 244 ; is past exalted ruler, was for six years dis- triet deputy grand exalted ruler. In politics he is a Democrat and has represented the sev- enth ward in the common council of Bangor and also in the board of aldermen, and was a member of board of park commissioners of Bangor for several years. He married, at Clinton, Maine, March 31, 1886, Georgia B. Brown, born in Clinton, August 24, 1863. Their only child: Chester Porter, born May 3, 1888.
(VIII) Rowland Wardwell, son of Thomas Jefferson Stewart, was born at Bangor, Maine, December 29, 1867. He was educated in the public schools of Bangor, at Norwich Uni- versity, Northfield, Vermont, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. After finish- ing his education he entered his father's office as clerk, and when the Eastern Trust and Banking Company of Bangor was organized he was elected its first secretary, which posi- tion he held until he resigned to become a member of the firm of T. J. Stewart & Com- pany, then composed of his father, brothers Charles M., Edward L. and himself. In the spring of 1899 he withdrew from the firm and started in the same line of business in his own name, continuing until his death. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Rising Virtue Lodge, No. 10, of Bangor ; Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 6; Bangor Coun- cil, R. S. M .; St. John Commandery, No. 3. also all the other Masonic bodies at Bangor, and of the Maine Consistory at Portland, Maine. He married, at Franklin, Pennsyl- vania. November 20, 1899, Cara Arvilla Ma- loney. He died at Bangor, Maine, September 29, 1904. No children.
The founder of the branch of the DREW Drew family from which is de- scended Morrill N. Drew, lawyer, was John Drew (I), who appeared in Plym- outh, Massachusetts, about 1660, and is sup- posed to have been a son of William, and grandson of Sir Edward Drew, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1589.
(I) John Drew, named above, was born in England in 1642. He married in Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 1673, Hannah, daughter of John Churchill. ("Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth.") Children: I. Elizabeth, born 1673. 2. John, 1676. 3. Samuel, 1678. 4
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Thomas, 1681. 5. Nicholas, 1684, see for- ward. 6. Lemuel, 1687.
(II) Nicholas, fifth child and fourth son of John and Hannah (Churchill) Drew, was born 1684. He married Abigail -; children : I. Joshua, born 1709. 2. Josiah, 1711. 3. Nicholas, 1713, see forward. 4. Lemuel, 1715. He married (second) Rebecca Morton; chil- dren : 5. Joanna, born 1717. 6. Lucy, 1719. 7. James, 1721. 8. Abigail, 1723. He married (third) Lydia Doggett; child: 9. Rebecca, 1731.
(III) Nicholas (2), third son and child of Nicholas (I) and Abigail Drew, was born 1713. He married, 1730, Bathsheba Kempton ; children : 1. Abigail, born 1737. 2. Abigail, 1739. 3. Lois, 1741. 4. Nicholas, 1743. 5 Josiah, 1745. 6. Abbet (?), 1747. 7. Sam- uel, 1749. 8. David, 1752. 9. Stephen, 1754.
(IV) Stephen, youngest child of Nicholas and Bathsheba (Kempton) Drew, was born 1754, died 1825. About 1800 he removed from Middleboro, Massachusetts, to Bucks- field, Oxford county, Maine, being one of the early settlers there. He married Jerusha Bryant; children: Stephen, Josiah, Lewis, Bathsheba, and two others.
(V) Stephen (2), eldest child of Stephen (I) and Jerusha (Bryant) Drew, married, March, 1805, Anna Bisbee. They resided in Turner, Maine. Children : 1. & 2. Anrilla and Phidella, twins, born June 7, 1806. 3. Jesse, September 21, 1808. 4. Louisa, November 23, 1810. 5. Molly, April 13, 1813.
(VI) Jesse, only son of Stephen (2) and Anna (Bisbee) Drew, was born September 21. 1808. He removed in 1858 from Turner to Aroostook county, settling at Fort Fairfield, where he was residing at the time of his death, in 1892. A steadfast Republican, he took an active part in politics, was influential in the counsels of his party, and held various offices of honor and trust. He married, in May, 1834, Hannah T. Phillips ; children : 1. Han- nah Gorham, born July 27, 1835. 2. Franklin Mellen, July 19, 1837. 3. Delphina M., No- vember 24. 1839. 4. Anna P., January 8, 1842. 5. George E., March 3, 1845. He married (second) December 21, 1857, Clarissa Wel- lington ; see forward. Children: I. Gertrude H., born July 21, 1859. 2. Morrill N., May 17, 1862.
(VII) Morrill N., only son and youngest child of Jesse and Clarissa ( Wellington) Drew, was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, May 17, 1862. He attended the public schools of Fort Fairfield, Maine, leaving the high school to enter the Little Blue School in Farmington,
later attending the Nichols Latin School at Lewiston, graduating in class of 1881, and completing his literary studies at Bates Col- lege, from which he graduated. He prepared for his profession at the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1885. He was admitted to the Androscoggin county bar, and at once entered upon practice in his native town, Fort Fairfield. His professional abilities soon found recognition, and in 1886 he was elected state's attorney for a term of two years, and was reelected 1888. A zealous Republican, he was active in political affairs, and in 1890 he was elected to the legislature, and reelected in 1892. In 1891 he became financially interested in the organization of the Fort Fairfield National Bank, and served as its president until his removal to Portland in 1893, and was also a member of the direc- torate of the Presque Isle National Bank.
Mr. Drew's removal to Portland brought him into a broader field, not only in his pro- fession, but in public affairs. In 1902 he was again elected to the legislature, was reelected in 1904, and made a brilliant record as a legis- lator and presiding officer. In the organization of the house at the beginning of his second term lie was chosen speaker, and in that im- portant office distinguished himself as a fair and impartial ruler, and an able parliamenta- rian, by his skilful management contributing largely to the proper formulation and expe- diting of business. He has given intelligent at- tention to financal concerns, and in 1905 pro- moted and organized the United States Trust Company of Portland, and has since been vice- president and treasurer of that great corpora- tion. For some time past he has been chair- man of the tax commission, a body charged with duties of great moment. His interest in educational and benevolent objects is attested by the zeal and ability with which he has con- ducted himself as president of the Maine In- stitution for the Blind, and as a trustee of Westbrook Seminary. In religious faith he is a Universalist, and he presided at two an- nual convocations of the Maine Universalist Association. He is affiliated with numerous Masonic bodies-Eastern Frontier Lodge, Garfield Royal Arch Chapter, Portland Com- mandery, Knights Templar, and Kora Temple, order of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Portland Lodge, No. 188, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an active member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the American Revolu- tion ; and of the Portland Athletic and Coun- try clubs.
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Mr. Drew married, December 20, 1892, Louise S., daughter of Hon. Jesse and Mary A. (Woodberry) Davis, of Lisbon, Maine. They have one child, Jesse Albert, born in Portland, Maine, August 6, 1896.
Mrs. Clarissa ( Wellington) Drew, mother of Morrill N. Drew, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Roger Wellington.
(I) Roger Wellington, born about 1609 or 1610, died March II, 1697-98, was a planter of Watertown, Massachusetts. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Dr. Richard Pal- grave, of Charlestown. Children: I. John, born July 25, 1638. 2. Mary, February 10, 1640-41. 3. Joseph, October 9, 1643, see for- ward. 4. Benjamin, about 1646. 5. Oliver, November, 1648. 6. Palgrave, born about 1653, died October 23, 1715; was a physician in Watertown.
(II) Joseph, third child and second son of Roger and Mary (Palgrave) Wellington, born October 9, 1643, married, June 6, 1684, Eliza- beth Straight. Children: I. Elizabeth, born April, 1685. 2. Thomas, November 10, 1686. 3. Mary, October 7, 1689. 4. Susannah, Feb- ruary 5, 1691-92.
(III) Thomas, second child and only son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Straight) Welling- ton, was born November 10, 1686; his will was proved December 24, 1759. He married Rebecca Whittemore, who died 1734. Chil- dren : 1. Rebecca, born 1709. 2. Joseph, 171I. 3. Thomas, 1714, see forward. 4. Susannah. 5. Elizabeth.
(IV) Thomas (2), third child and second son of Thomas (1) and Rebecca ( Whitte- more) Wellington, born 1714, died November 4, 1783. He married, March 13, 1734, Mar- garet Stone. Children: 1. Thomas, born De- cember 12, 1735. 2. Elizabeth, March 14, 1736. 3. John, October 25, 1737. 4. Su- sanna, September, 1738. 5. Jonathan, July 27, 1740. 6. Samuel, November 6, 1742. 7. Josiah, April 4, 1745. 8. William, July, 1746. 9. George, October 21, 1749. 10. Rebecca, November 6, 1752. 11. Susanna, May 29, 1755. 12. Thaddeus, April 5, 1758. 13. Sarah, April 10, 1760. 14. Joel, April 21, 1763.
(V) George, ninth child and seventh son of Thomas and Margaret ( Stone) Wellington, was born October 21, 1749. He was a revo- lutionary soldier. He married, December 24, 1772, Lucy Pierce. He removed to Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and afterward to Cavendish, Vermont. His wife died April 29, 1793. Chil- dren : 1. Ephraim, born September 29, 1773. 2. Lydia, November 28, 1775. 3. Lucy, Sep- tember 18, 1777. 4. Leonard, born March 5,
1780, died in Rindge, New Hampshire. 5. John, settled in Albion, Maine. 6. Joel, see forward.
(VI) Joel, youngest child of George and Lucy (Pierce) Wellington, married Clarissa Blake. Child: Clarissa, born July 14, 1824, who became the wife of Jesse Drew, and died October 27, 1867.
The great part of the RICHARDSON members of this family in New England are de- scended from three brothers who were among the original settlers of Woburn, Massachu- setts. They were men of substance and in- fluence, and their descendants are very numer- ous, many of whom have taken leading places in the direction of business and public events in their different days and generations.
(I) Samuel Richardson, the second of the three brothers of that name who united in the settlement of Woburn, was born in England, not far from the year 1610. We do not know in what year he came to this country, possi- bly with his brother Ezekiel, in 1630, though this is not at all probable. The first notice we find of Samuel is dated July 1, 1636, when he and his brother Thomas, with others, were on a committee to lay out lots of land for hay. In 1637 the names of Samuel and Thomas Richardson first appear in a list of the in- habitants of Charlestown. The same year the town of Charlestown granted to each of them a house-lot, clearly understanding that they had recently become residents of the place. These two brothers were admitted members of the church there February 18, 1638, in consequence of which they were made freemen of the colony May 2, 1638. Samuel was chosen surveyor of the highways March 17, 1637. The three brothers had lots as- signed them April 20, 1638, on "Misticke side and above the Ponds," that is, in Malden. When the church was constituted in Woburn, August 14, 1642, old style, Samuel Richard- son and his two brothers, with four others, solemnly stood forth as the nucleus around which the church was to be gathered. The three brothers lived near each other, on the same street, which has ever since been known as "Richardson's Row," in what is now Win- chester, near the present line of Woburn. Samuel Richardson was selectman of Woburn in 1644-45-46-49-50-51. In 1645 he paid the highest tax of any man in Woburn. He died March 23, 1658. He married Joanna ", who probably died soon after her husband. Children : Mary and John, born in Charles-
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town. Hannah, Joseph, Samuel, Stephen, Thomas and Elizabeth, born in Woburn.
(II) Samuel (2), third son of Samuel (I) and Joanna Richardson, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, May 22, 1646, died April 29, 1712. He lived less than a mile north of the present village of Winchester, and suffered great hardships at the hands of the Indians. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1675, and the next year lost his wife and two chil- dren when the savages fell upon Woburn. On the afternoon of April 10, 1676, Samuel Rich- ardson, accompanied by his little son Samuel, was employed in carting manure into his field. Hearing the screams of his wife, and seeing ' feathers flying about the house, he hurried home with his gun, and there found that an awful massacre had taken place. His wife, who was in bed with a week-old infant, had been slain, and also his son Thomas, twin brother to Samuel, who was with the father in the field. The body of the baby was not with the mother, but it was afterwards found where the nurse had dropped it when she fled for safety to the garrison house. So closely was she pursued by the Indians that it was impossible to save the child, and the savages dashed out its brains. Mr. Richardson rallied his neighbors, and after a long pursuit they came up with three Indians sitting upon a rock. One of these was killed, but the rest escaped. During King Philip's war, which lasted from June, 1675, to August, 1676, the whole country was in a state of fear and alarm. No man was safe in his own dwell- ing. The Indians lurked about in small par- ties, often in bands of only two or three, and crept upon people unawares. Twelve or thir- teen towns in Massachusetts, Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island were utterly destroyed, and the inhabitants slaughtered or driven away.
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