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figure was a familiar sight in the streets of the village which owes so much to his enter- prise and generosity. Death came to him at last swiftly and painlessly, and closed his tired eyes with the gentle and loving hand of a friend. He married, November 18, 1838, Mary A. Colburn, of Sumner, (See Colburn VII), who was born in Paris, April 3, 1818, and died in Patten, February 12, 1894, after having spent fifty-six years of her life with her hus- band, between whom and herself there existed the strongest and most tender affection. Out- side of the immediate relatives, Mrs. Gardner is mourned by many friends, whose love and esteem were won by numberless deeds of help- ful and neighborly kindness and by a long and beautiful life of quiet and unostentatious well- doing. Mrs. Gardner was a believer in the religion of good works, and passed calmly and confidently into the silent land with an un- shaken faith in the love of the universal Father. She was a woman of much force of character and of many virtues, an affectionate and faithful wife, and a fond mother. John and Mary A. (Colburn) Gardner had four children : 1. Ira B. 2. Ida Rosalie, born Sep- tember 23, 1848, married Arthur Robinson, of Patten. 3. Eva Elberta, January 13, 1851, married Charles Lurvey, of Portland. 4. Almy Evelyn, October 14, 1852, married (first ) Alphonso Webster, and (second) Winfield Scott Kellogg, of Patten.
(VII) Colonel Ira Bernard, only son of John (5) and Mary A. (Colburn) Gardner, was born in Patten, January 10, 1843. He at- tended the district schools and Patten Acad- emy, and in 1861, when eighteen years old, enlisted as a soldier in Company I, Fourteenth Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry, where by promotion for meritorious services he filled successively the offices of second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant- colonel. The first baptism of fire in battle was at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 5, 1862, in which he commanded the company, losing about one-third of the company, and was com- plimented on the field by his commander for distinguished gallantry, and later at brigade re- view by General Butler, commander of the department, and he was publicly complimented and offered promotion as major of another Maine regiment, which was declined, since he was at that time on the staff of General Hal- bert E. Paine, where he remained until lie was promoted to be captain before he was twenty years of age and ordered to rejoin his regi- ment. He was under fire forty-six days dur- ing the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, be-
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ing two weeks of that time in command of the regiment as the senior officer present. He lost his right arm at Winchester, Virginia, Sep- tember 19, 1864, and, returning to Maine, was mustered out of service with the regiment January 13, 1865. He is a member of the Loyal Legion Commandery of Maine. After leaving the army he engaged in the business of general merchandise, manufacturing potato- starch, cutting and manufacturing lumber, farming, etc. He is the author of "Personal Recollections of a Boy Volunteer." He mar- ried, March 4, 1864, in Patten, Helen M., born in Patten, December 4, 1842, daughter of Horatio N. and Harriet D. (Palmer) Darling. Mr. Darling was born in Enfield, was a farmer, and has been a member of the Maine legislature. Mrs. Darling was born in Wake- field, New Hampshire, and lived in Patten from the time she was thirteen years of age until her death. Ira B. and Helen M. (Dar- ling) Gardner have four children: [. Halbert Paine, born February 15, 1867, married Addie Darling, and has two children, Helen P. and Dorothy ; he is in business with his father and his brother, Raymond; he has served in four legislatures, two terms in the house of repre- sentatives and two terms in the senate; he was also one of the committee to audit the state treasurer's accounts in 1907; he served in the legislature on the committee on educa- tion and the committee on taxation, and as chairman of the latter committee; he intro- duced a two-cent mileage bill during his first term in legislature which brought on a sharp fight with all Maine railroads, and ended in a compromise and a little later gave a transfer- able two-cent mileage on the Maine Central Railroad ; he was prominent and especially in- terested in tax reform in Maine, having intro- duced and succeeding in passing the first re- cent tax bill increasing state revenue from rail- roads. The bill was known as the "Gardner Bill"; he is a member of Katahdin Lodge, No. 98, F. and A. M .; Knights of Pythias ; Maine Commandery of the Loyal Legion, Millinocket Chapter, R. A. M., and the Elks Lodge, of Houlton, Maine. 2. Raymond Darling, Sep- tember 1. 1868, married Gorgia Kelsey, and has four children : Everett K., John R., Ira B. and Halbert P. 3. Mary Ida, February 22, 1871, married Sylvester L. Huston. 4. Her- bert N.
(VIII) Herbert Nelson, youngest child of Colonel Ira B. and Helen M. (Darling) Gard- ner, was born in Patten, December 17, 1877. He attended the public schools, from which he went to Patten Academy. He graduated from
that institution in 1894, from Phillip's Exeter, 1895, and from Bowdoin in 1898. In the fall after graduation from Bowdoin he became principal of Patten Academy, where he taught four years, and during the scholastic year 1902-3 he was principal of Dexter high school. He was graduated from University of Maine Law School in 1905, and in the same year went to Portland and entered upon the study of law in the office of Hon. C. F. Libby. In August, 1906, he was admitted to the Penob- scot bar, and at once engaged in the practice of law in Portland as a member of the firm of Clarke & Gardner, with which he is now con- nected. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Katahdin Lodge, No. 98, Free and Accepted Masons, of Patten, and of Aroostook Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20, of Houlton, the Maine Commandery of the Loyal Legion, the Portland Club and the College So- ciety, Delta Kappa Epsilon. He married, June II, 1906, Winifred Elizabeth, born in Patten, August 24, 1880, daughter of Charles W. and Cora (Leslie) Westcott, of Patten.
(II) Stephen, fifth son of John (I) and Mary Gardner, was born in Hingham, August 14, 1662, died November 2, 1715. He married, December 22, 1687, Sarah, daughter of John and Deborah (Wilson) Warren, of Boston. She survived him and married (second) No- vember 15. 1737. John Pratt, of Weymouth. Upon a gravestone erected to her memory in the cemetery at "Liberty Plain," South Hing- ham, is the following inscription : "Here lies buried ye body of Sarah Pratt who died Oct. 22nd 1761 in ye 101st year of her age lately ye Wife of Lieut. John Pratt but formerly ye wife of Mr. Stephen Garnet. By him she had a numerous posterity running to ye 5th gen- eration in numbers 187." The children of Stephen and Sarah, all born in Hingham, were: Deborah, Sarah, Stephen ( died young), Lydia, David, Abigail, Stephen, Patience and Joshua.
(III) Stephen (2), third son of Stephen (I) and Sarah (Warren) Gardner, was born in Hingham, December 29, 1700. He married, December 22, 1726, Hannah, daughter of Ben- jamin and Sarah (Dunbar) Garnet. She was born November 20, 1703. Their children, born in Hingham, were: Stephen, Sarah, Hannah, Joshua, Abi, Moses (died young) and Moses. (IV) Stephen (3), eldest son of Stephen (2) and Hannah (Garnet) Gardner, was born October 23, 1727, in Hingham, resided on Gardner street, and was a "cooper." He mar- ried, January I, 1753, Huldah, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Goddard) Chubbuck.
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She was born in Hingham, February 27, 1731. Their children, all born in Hingham, were : Stephen, Jeremiah, Isaac, Huldah, Silence, Moses, Warren, Sarah, Aaron and Winifred.
(V) Sarah, third daughter of Stephen (3) and Huldah (Chubbuck) Gardner, was born August 26, 1767, and married, November 26, 1789, Jonathan Gardner. (See Gardner V.) She died February 29, 1847, aged eighty years.
COLBURN Among the pioneer immi- grants of Massachusetts were five or more named Colborn, Colborne or Colburn, as the name was vari- ously spelled. They were: Edward, of Chelmsford; Richard, of Dorchester ; Robert, of Ipswich; Samuel, of Salem, and William, of Boston. Some of these were prominent in local affairs, and many of their descendants have been leading citizens in the year follow- ing their father's times.
( I) Edward Colborne, aged seventeen, came as a passenger on the "Defence," Captain Bar- stock, October 3, 1635, to Boston, after a passage of fifty-four days from England. In August, 1664, Sir Richard Saltonstall bought of Edward Colborne eight hundred acres of land as appears by the deed record. In 1668 Edward Colborne sold his marsh lot at Plum Island to Rev. William Hubbard, of Ipswich, and in 1671 he sold certain lands to Thomas Hinchman in Ipswich, near Wesbarn ( Wen- ham) line. In 1664 he had a share in Hog Island, off Ipswich shore. In 1668 Edward Colborne, of the town of Ipswich. purchased 1,600 acres of land for 1,300 pounds, to be paid two-thirds in wheat, malt and peas ; one- third in beef, pork and Indian corn. This farm was a grant from the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony to Captain John Everard, who was a deputy from Chelmsford for many years, and laid out the wilderness along the Merrimack river. Five hundred acres of this land were on the castern side of Beaver brook, adjoining Edward Tyng. In 1670 Edward Colborne added to his estate the Sachette lands lying between Colborne and Varnum, taking the land on both sides of Beaver brook from the Merrimack river to Long pond, and extending into the present limits of Pelham, New Hampshire. Edward Colborne, being the earliest settler of Dracut on the Merrimack, occupied an outpost on what was then the frontier. At that early date Massachusetts Bay Colony claimed juris- diction over all the territory contiguous to the Merrimack river from its mouth to its source. Nr. Colborne and his sons continued to be
the sole inhabitants of a large area of territory west of Haverhill till Samuel Varnum settled upon his improvement with his sons; and there has not been a time since when representatives of these two families have not occupied lands transmitted from father to son from that re- mote date. Edward Colborne dwelt in a gar- rison house built for the common defence against the savages. The sons resided on por- tions of the estate which he allotted to them. Edward Colborne died in 1711. His wife's baptismal name was Hannah; the record does not diselose what her surname was.
(H) Thomas, probably son of Edward and Hannah Colborne, has left but little reeord to trace.
(III) Zachariah, son of Thomas Colborne, was born April 26, 1697, and resided in Dracut and Pelham. He married Joanna Their children were: Hannah, Edward, Ruth, Zachariah, Silas, Jonas and Nathan.
(IV) Jonas, fourth son of Zachariah and Joanna Colborne, was born in Pelham, March 28, 1749, and removed to the then provinee of Maine, and resided in Lewiston and Buck- field. He married, December 6, 1770, Lucy Varnum, born July 31, 1751. Their children were: Sarah, Jonas, Asa, Lucy, Elizabeth, Silas, Hannah, Mercy and Peter.
(V) Jonas (2), eldest child of Jonas (1) and Lucy (Varnum) Colborne, was born in Lewiston, Maine, January 11, 1774, the first white child born in that plantation. Hle mar- ried Hannah Knight, born March 9, 1774; they resided in Sumner and Livermore. Their children were: Samuel, Jonas, John, Rebecca, Greenfield, Hiram and Lavinia.
(VI) Colonel Samuel, eldest child of Jonas (2) and Hannah ( Knight) Colburn, was born September 26. 1792; the place of his birth is Buckfield, or Sumner. He died July 26, 1849. He married, April 10, 1817, Harriet Warren, of Paris, born October 15, 1796, died January 17, 1876. Their children were: Mary Ann, Emeline Orange, Greenfield Durwin, America Thayer, Ira Warren, Hiram Sidney, Elvira Jane, Roscoe Green, Adeline Ardelia and George Bates.
(VII) Mary Ann, eldest child of Colonel Samuel and Harriet (Warren) Colburn, was born April 3, 1818, died February 12, 1894. She married, November 18, 1838, John Gard- ner. of Patten. ( See Gardner VI.)
In the time of the colony the PACKARD family name now generally known as Packard is found variously written in the public records as
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Packard, Packer, Pecker, Peckard and Peck- erd, but however written it has reference to the surname Packard, whose earliest known repre- sentative in this country was Samuel Packard.
(I) Samuel Packard, with his wife and child, came to New England from Windham, near Hingham, England, in the ship "Dili- gence," Jolin Martin, master, one hundred thirty-three passengers in all, in the year 1638, and settled first in Hingham, Massachusetts. He removed from that place to West Bridge- water, and there was granted license to keep an ordinary, or house of public entertainment for travelers. He also served as constable of the town, hence must have been a man of consequence in the community, for that office in the time of the colony was one of dignity and importance. The name of his wife does not appear in the published records, nor the date of death of either Samuel or his wife. They had twelve children: I. Elizabeth, mar- ried, in 1665, Thomas Alger, of Easton, Mas- sachusetts. 2. Samuel, married Elizabeth Lathrop. 3. Zaccheus (see post ). 4. Thomas, no record of his marriage ; had a son Joseph. 5. John, no record other than the mention of his birth. 6. Nathaniel, married a daughter of John Kingman. 7. Mary, married Richard Phillips, of Weymouth. 8. Hannalı, married Thomas Randall. 9. Israel, was a trooper in IO71 ; no other record. 10. Jael, married John Smith. II. Deborah, married Samuel Wash- burn: 12. Deliverance, married Thomas Wash- burn.
( II) Zaccheus, second son and third child of Samuel Packard, immigrant, was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and died there August 3, 1723. He married Sarah, sec- ond daughter and fifth child of John Howard, who came to this country from England and settled first in Duxbury, Massachusetts, from whence John removed to the west parish in Bridgewater. James Howard went to Ber- muda. It is said that when John Howard was a boy he lived in the family of Miles Standish. He was a man of great influence in the new plantation and one of the first military officers in Bridgewater. Previous to 1700 the nanie was generally written Haward, and John al- ways so wrote it. He kept an ordinary as early as 1670, and died in 1700. Zaccheus Packard and Sarah Howard had nine children, five of whom settled in the north parish of Bridgewater. Children: 1. Israel, born April 27. 1680, married, in 1703, Hannah
2. Sarah, August 19, 1682, married, July 27, 1704, Captain Josiah Edson. 3. Jonathan, De- cember 7, 1684, married, December 24, 1719,
Susanna Hayward. 4. David (see post). 5. Solomon, March 20, 1689, see sketcli. 6. James, June 2, 1691, died November 24, 1765 ; married, June 7, 1722, Jemima Keith, died May 1, 1782, daughter of Joseph Keith. 7. Zaccheus, September 4. 1693, died in 1775; married. 1725, Mercy Alden. 8. John, Octo- ber 8, 1695. died June 3. 1738; had the first gristmill in the north parish; married Lydia Thompson. 9. Captain Abiel, April 29, 1699, died in 1766 ; was captain of militia, the largest land owner in the north parish, having at one time a thousand acres of land in one body, on which he settled seven of his sons; married, January II, 1723, Saralı Ames.
(III) David, third son and fourth child of ' Zaccheus and Sarah ( Howard) Packard, was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, February 11, 1687, died in the north parish November 3, 1755. He married, December 17, 1712, Hannah, youngest daughter and fifth child of John and Sarah ( Willis ) Ames. Her father, John Ames, was born in West Bridge- water, March 24, 1647, and married, in 1672, Sarah Willis. His father, William Ames, of Braintree, Massachusetts, came to America with his brother John from Bruton, Somerset- shire, England, and settled, John in Bridge- water and William in Braintree, in 1640. They were sons of Richard Ames, of Bruton, Eng- land. William Ames married Hannah
and had six children. He died January II, 1654. David and Hannah ( Ames) Packard had nine children: 1. David, born September 25. 1713, died October 28, 1805 ; married, June 30. 1736, Mehitable Richards, who died No- vember 22, 1767. 2. Willianı, November 14, 1715, died October 28, 1805 : married, Septem- ber 16, 1740, Sarah Richards, who died Jan- uary 4, 1806. 3. Hannah, March 18, 1718, married, December 21, 1737, Samuel Brett. 4. Isaac, June 2, 1720, died 1792; married, March 28, 1745, Abigail Porter. 5. Mary, June 8, 1722, married, September 16, 1740, Daniel Richards. 6. Ebenezer ( see post). 7. Abiah, May 2, 1727, died 1809: married, De- cember 30, 1758, Phebe Paine. 8. Mehitable, 1730, married, January 31, 1748, Simeon Brett. 9. Jane, 1734, married, November 6, 1755, Matthew Kingman.
(IV) Ebenezer, fourth son and sixth child of David and Hannah ( Ames) Packard, was born in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, February 23, 1724, died June 20, 1803. On February 25. 1746, he married Sarah Perkins, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 27, 1725, died in North Bridgewater, March 12, 1810. Her father, Mark Perkins, went from
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Ipswich to North Bridgewater in 1741, and died there December 20, 1756. He married Dorothy Whipple, who survived him and after- ward married, May 1, 1782, Solomon Packard. Mark Perkins had eleven children, and five of them intermarried with the Packards. Ebe- nezer and Sarah ( Perkins) Packard had chil- dren : I. Alice, born April 13, 1747, married, Nay 14, 1769, Eliab Packard. 2. Ebenezer, March 4, 1749, married, March 31, 1774, Mary Reynolds. 3. Eunice, December 13, 1750, married, September 11, 1780, William Jame- son. 4. Jonas, June 4, 1752, died January 22, 1835 ; married, September 11, 1777, Mchitable Brett. 5. Adin, February 18, 1754, died Sep- tember 10, 1837 ; married, November 16, 1780, Keziah Phinney. 6. Matthew (see post). 7. Deacon Eliphalet, February 27, 1758, died Jan- uary 16, 1819; married, January 24, 1782, Ly- dia Barrell. 8. Captain Robert, January 29, 1760, died February 10, 1844; married (first), January 28, 1782, Ruth Barrell; married (second), November II, 1788, Sally Perkins, who died January 17, 1856. 9. Joel, February 20, 1762, married, November 1, 1785, Har- mony Kingman ; settled in Dartmouth, Massa- chusetts. 10. Lot, March 20, 1763, removed to Maine ; married, in 1791, Mary Nelson. II. Joseph, died 1840; married, August 31, 1794, Susanna Bates.
(V) Matthew, third son and sixth child of Ebenezer and Sarah (Perkins) Packard, was born in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, April 10, 1756, died May 12, 1795. On April 17, 1781, he married Keziah, daughter of Luke and Rebecca (Packard) Perkins. Luke Per- kins was a nephew of Mark Perkins, with whom he went from Ipswich to North Bridge- water in 1741. After .the death of Matthew Packard, his widow came from North Bridge- water and settled in the town of Minot, Maine, in the locality known as Perkin's ridge. Their children : I. Nehemiah (see post). 2. Elipha- let (see post). 3. Matthew. 4. Abraham, born February 21, 1788. 5. Keziah, January I, 1791.
(VI) Nehemiah, son of Matthew and Kez- iah (Perkins) Packard, was born May I, 1786, died April 3, 1853, closing a life of use- fulness and honest effort. His business occu- pation was that of farmer and lumberman. He was an earnest member of the Congrega- tional church. He married (first), April 2, 1807, Chloe Snell, born May 26, 1781. After her death he married Mrs. Anna Farrar. Ne- hemiah and Chloe (Snell) Packard had chil- dren : 1. Cyrus, born January 31, 1809, died in infancy. 2. Cyrus Snell (see post). 3.
Julia Ann, July 13, 1812, married William Munroe, of Minot. 4. Mary, January 29, 1814, married Jacob H. Roak, of Minot. 5. Chloe, July 11, 1816, married (first) Nathan A. Einery; (second) Levi Lyford. 6. Cather- ine, July 30, 1818.
(VI) Eliphalet, son of Matthew and Keziah ( Perkins) Packard, was born January 1, 1791, died October 18, 1875. He learned the trade of hat-making, and lived and worked first in Buckfield, Maine, then in Auburn, Maine, and later removed to Bedford, Massachusetts, and died there at the age of eighty years. He married, in 1814, Abigail Snell, and by her had children: 1. Betsey H., born April 4, 1815, married a Washburn. 2. Charles, Octo- ber 14, 1818. 3. Laura A., April 7, 1822. 4. Eliphalet Franklin, January 5, 1824.
(VII) Cyrus Snell, second son and child of Nehemiah and Chloe (Snell) Packard, was born January 30, 1810, died November 22, 1891. For many years he engaged in shoe- manufacturing at West Auburn, Maine, in partnership with Mr. Munroe and under the firm name of Packard & Munroe, a name well known in all trade circles in this state. Mr. Packard married Jane Munroe, of Minot, and had a son, Henry M. Packard, born March 24, 1840 ( see post).
(VII) Eliphalet Franklin, son and youngest child of Eliphalet and Abigail (Snell) Pack- ard, was born January 5, 1824, and was edu- cated in the public schools of Auburn, Lewis- ton Falls Academy and' Bowdoin College. Later on he became extensively engaged in the manufacture of shoes, and carried on a successful business for about thirty-five years. Mr. Packard married Anna M., daughter of Jacob Herrick, and by her had five children: I. Frank Herrick. 2. John Howard. 3. Ed- ward Albert, now a practicing physician in Boston, Massachusetts. 4. Annie Elizabeth, living now in Boston. 5. George Harris, de- ceased.
(VIII) Henry M., son of Cyrus Snell and Jane (Munroe) Packard, was born March 24, 1840, and received his education in the public schools of Lewiston and the academy at Lew- iston Falls. After leaving school he worked five years for the firm of James Munroe & Company, then engaged in a grocery business on his own account until 1865, when he be- came partner with James Munroe in shoe- manufacturing. In 1882 the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Packard removed to Au- burn and acquired an interest in the business formerly conducted by the firm of J. O. Foss & Company, which firm soon afterward incor-
Henry In Pactland
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porated under the name of Foss-Packard Com- pany. For nearly half a century Mr. Packard has been an active factor in the business life of the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, but his best success is that achieved during the more than twenty-five years of residence in Auburn, where he has been identified with the institu- tions of that city in many ways, and has fur- nished employment to hundreds of workmen annually. Besides his connection with the Foss- Packard Company, he also is president of the First National Bank of Auburn. On June 21, 1869, Mr. Packard married Augusta A., born February 22, 1842, daughter of Loring and Mary ( Littlefield) Gould, of Lisbon Falls. One child, Gertrude E. Packard, was born July 29, 1872.
(VIII) Frank Herrick, eldest son and child of Eliphalet Franklin and Anna M. ( Herrick) Packard, was born in Danville, Maine, now Anburn, December 2, 1852, and was educated in Lewiston Falls Academy and Edward Little Institute. At the age of sixteen he began working in the shoe-factory of which his father was proprietor, later acquired an in- terest in the business and continued his con- nection with the establishment until about 1880. Soon afterward Cyrus 1. Barker, his son, Alvarado D. Barker, and Mr. Packard erected the Avon mill, in Lewiston, for the manufacture of cotton quilts, and thus became identified with an industry which ranked third in size in its special line of manufacture in this country. His connection with this com- pany still continues, and in 1907, by the erec- tion of Avon mill No. 2, the plant took rank as second in size in America. Mr. Packard has been instrumental in promoting the indus- trial interests of the city of Lewiston and its vicinity. For many years he has been presi- dent of the First National Bank of Lewiston, the strongest financial institution in the region. Mr. Packard is a member of Lewiston Lodge, B. P. O. E. On May 5, 1875, Mr. Packard married Sarah Ida, daughter of Cyrus I. and Almira B. ( Jewett) Barker, the latter a daugh- ter of Daniel Jewett, of Denmark. One child, Cyrus Franklin Packard, born April 15, 1881; Bowdoin, '04. Married Winifred L. Holt, of Lewiston, Maine, a daughter of C. O. Holt, and they have two children, Cyrus Franklin Jr. and George Victor.
(For early generations see Samuel Packard I.)
(III) Solomon, fifth son of PACKARD Zaccheus and Sarah (How- ard) Packard, was born March 20, 1689. He lived on the place after-
ward owned by the late Waldo Howard, and afterward occupied by Zina Howard. He was married (first ) November 16, 1715, to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Lathrop. She died, and he was married ( second) to Susannah, daugh- ter of Samuel Kingman. She died, and he was married ( third), October 5, 1760, to Dor- othy, widow of Mark Perkins, who died May 1, 1782. Children: Sarah, Jacob, Nathan ( died young), Susanna, Nathan, Benjamin, Zebulon and Micah.
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