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(IV) Jacob, eldest son of Solomon and Sarah (Lathrop) Packard, was born Septem- ber 2, 1720, died February 2, 1777. He was married, November 24, 1742, to Dorothy, daughter of Mark and Dorothy Perkins. Chil- dren: Jacob, Mark, Oliver, Asa, Hezekiah, Rhoda, Dorothy and Philbert.
(\') Hezekiah, fifth son of Jacob and Doro- thy ( Perkins) Packard, was born December 6, 1761, in West Bridgewater, died April 25, 1849. At an early age he learned to play the fife, and at the age of fourteen he be- came a fifer in the revolutionary war. Upon leaving home, his mother said to him: "Heze- kiah, remember praying will make thee leave sinning, and sinning will make thee leave pray- ing." These words had the right effect on him, and he was never known to use profane language during his absence from his father's house. The regiment to which he belonged was ordered to Cambridge, and he lived in a tent near Cambridgeport. He was in Colo- nel Sargent's regiment, and they occupied several stations. They were ordered to Bos- ton, and from there to Bunker Hill. In the spring of 1776 they were stationed at Castle William, and here they remained until June, when they were ordered to march to New York. They went to New London by land, and thence by water to New York, the regi- ment being stationed near Hurlgate. In the autumn of that year he was sick and sent to a hospital, where he suffered much from home- sickness as well as from disease. At the end of the year his term of service expired, and he returned to his home still feeble. His father died shortly after his return. After his return he followed the vocation of farm- ing, but owing to an injury to his arm, he felt obliged to give up this calling, and having during a revival embraced religion, in 1780, in the spring of 1782 he began to think seriously of acquiring an education, and placed himself under the instruction of Rev. John Read, min- ister of the west parish. In a year he was fitted for college, which he entered at Cam- bridge, July, 1783. It was a hard struggle.
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He spent most of his vacations at college, where he taught a morning school for misses, took care of the college buildings, and taught school nine or ten weeks winters, to defray expenses. The first year after leaving college he kept a grammar school in Cambridge, and the next year he took charge of the library as assistant, and was one of three who prepared the first printed catalogue of the college library. In 1789 he was tutor in the mathematical de- partment, which position he held for four years. In October, 1793, he was ordained over the church in Chelmsford, where he la- bored eight years, when he received an invi- tation to settle at Wiscasset, Maine, where he was installed September 8, 1802, Professor Tappan, of Cambridge College, preaching the sermon. He remained there until the spring of 1830, when he removed to Middlesex Vil- lage, a remote part of his former parish in Chelmsford. He was there six years, when, in the fall of 1836, he dissolved his connection with that church and moved to Saco, Maine. November II of the same year. During the remainder of his life lie resided at Saco, Maine. Salem, Massachusetts, and Brunswick, Maine, making occasional visits to his children. He was the originator of the Bible Society in Lin- coln county, Maine. He died April 25, 1849. and was buried at his request at Wiscasset, where he had labored twenty years before. He was married, in 1794, to Mary, daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring, of Kittery, Maine, who died September 25, 1828 ( see Spring V). Children : Alpheus Spring. Charles. George, Hezekiah. Sarah, Mary, Joseph and William.
(VI) Charles, second son of Hezekiah and Mary (Spring) Packard, was born April 17. 1801, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and went with his parents, while an infant, to Wiscasset, Maine. There he was fitted for college, as were his five brothers, under the tutelage of their father. At the early age of twelve years he entered Bowdoin, and was graduated in 1817, when he was sixteen years of age. After graduation he was for two years a private tutor in the family of Hon. Richard K. Gard- ner, and subsequently took up the study of law in the office of Hon. Benjamin Orr. For eleven years he engaged in the practice of his profession in Brunswick, Maine. Having de- termined to engage in the ministry, he pursued the study of theology at Andover, Massachu- setts, and at Lane Seminary, in Ohio. His first parish was at Hamilton, in the last-named state. and subsequently he was stationed at Lancaster, Massachusetts. Ilis last pastorate was at Biddeford. Maine, where he died Feb-
ruary 17, 1864, much respected and beloved. He was a man of imposing presence, of high ideals, and he led his flock like a shepherd. He married Rebecca Prentiss Kent, daughter of Colonel William Austin Kent, of Concord, New Hampshire, and a sister of Governor Edward Kent, of Maine. She was born Feb- ruary 17, 1808, in Concord, died March 21. 1905, at Brunswick, Maine. Children : Mary Caroline, Charles William, Charlotte Mellen. Edward Newman, George Thomas ..
(VII ) Charles William, second son of Rev. Charles and Rebecca Prentiss (Kent) Pack- ard, was born March 7, 1833, in Brunswick. Maine, and was but a youth when his parents removed to Lancaster, Massachusetts. He pursued his education in the public schools, and in the Academy of Lancaster, and began his medical studies at the age of nineteen years, in 1852, and the next year took a course of medical lectures at Bowdoin College. In the meantime he was a private pupil of the late Professor E. R. Peaslee, M. D., and continued under his instruction until his graduation from the New York Medical College in 1855. Im- mediately after his graduation he became an assistant to Professor Peaslee, and was the latter's demonstrator of anatomy at Dartmouth College in 1855. In 1856 he entered upon his duties as assistant physician of the Blackwell's Island Hospital, of New York, and after serv- ing one year was appointed as assistant phy- sician of the Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asy- lum. This continued one year, after which he resigned and became the deputy resident phy- sician of the Charity Almshouse, Workhouse and Small Pox hospitals of Blackwell's Island, holding this position two years, making in all four years' service on the island, the first year being without salary. At this time the civil war created a great demand for surgeons, and Dr. Packard became a volunteer surgeon, de- tailed to the large army hospital at Bedloe's Island, New York harbor. This service con- tinted something more than a year, after which Dr. Packard accepted an invitation to become resident physician of St. Luke's Hospital. New York. the terms being advantageous. For two years, from October. 1863, to October, 1865, he filled this position, and in the following year was appointed attendant physician at St. Luke's Hospital, continuing in that position for a period of twelve years, at the end of which time he was appointed one of the con- sulting physicians of the institution. His con- nection with St. Luke's Hospital has now con- tinued for a period of forty-five years, and in the meantime he has attended to a large private
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practice. For many years he has been presi- dent of the medical board of St. Luke's Hos- pital, and has continued as consulting phy- sician since 1878. He is also physician of the New England Society of New York, and for two years, from 1856 to 1858, was a medical inspector for the board of health of New York. In 1883 Bowdoin College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts, an 1 in 1887 Dartmouth gave him the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Packard is identified with the leading medical organiza- tions, including the New York Medical and Surgical Society, New York Academy of Med- icine, New York County Medical Society, and the New York Pathological Society. While he has led a very busy life in the pursuit of an extensive practice and in the performance of the various duties devolving upon him in con- nection with hospital work, he has taken an interest in social matters so far as his time would permit. He is identified with the Cen- tury and Church clubs of New York and the Bowdoin Alumni Association. He has also been a member of the great Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Crescent Lodge, No. 402, A. F. and A. M., of New York City, and with Jerusalem Chapter, R. A. M. On account of other matters, he took a demit, though he still cherishes the high principles peculiar to the order. He became a life member of the New England Society of New York in 1866. He is a member of St. Bartholomew's ( Protestant Episcopal) Church, of New York City, with his family. He gives no time to political mat- ters and is independent of any party connec- tion. Dr. Packard was married December II, 1872, to Elizabeth McLanathan, of New York City, a daughter of Samuel McLanathan, of Lowell, Massachusetts.
SPRING We find the emigrant ancestor of all bearing the name in the United States at a very early date in the history of this country. They have been ever found a very industrious, God- fearing race, always ready to assist in every good work.'
(I) John Spring was born in 1588, in Eng- land, and died at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1650. He embarked. April 10, 1634, at Ipswich, England, in the ship "Elizabeth," and was one of the original proprietors of Water- town, Massachusetts, in 1736-37. His wife, Elinor, probably died before March 21, 1657, at which time he deeded land and house in Watertown to his son Henry, reserving the
north end of the house for himself, and an annuity. His children included : Mary, Henry, John and William.
(II) Henry, eldest son of John and Elinor Spring, was born in 1628, in England, and came to this country with his parents at the age of six years. Ife was made a freeman May 30, 1660, and from 1680 to 1695 he was town "prizer"; the duties of this office appear to have consisted in settling the valuation of various commodities used in exchange among the townspeople. He was often employed to take inventories and settle estates, which shows that he was an accepted judge of values. He married, January 7, 1658, Mehitable, born July 15, 1640, a daughter of Thomas and Hannah Bartlett, and died about 1690. He married (second) September 12, 1691, Susan, widow of Gregory Cook, and was her third husband. She was a widow at the time of her marriage to Cook. The children were all born of the first marriage, namely : Elizabeth, Henry. Ann. Mehitable, Thomas and Abialı.
(1II) Henry (2), eldest son of Henry ( I) and Mehitable ( Bartlett ) Spring, was made a freeman April 18, 1690, in Watertown, where his life was evidently passed, probably engaged in agriculture .. He married (first) 1662 --; (second) 1685, Lydia Cutting, born September 1, 1666, and was admitted to full communion in the Watertown church. April 7, 1700. Their children were: Lydia, Anna, Henry, Elizabeth, Mchitable and Susan.
(IV) Henry (3), eldest son of Henry (2) and Lydia (Cutting) Spring, was born July 19, 1692, in Watertown, where he made his home, and was married after July 28, 1717. to Keziah Converse, who is mentioned in her father's will and unmarried at that date. Her parents were Captain Josiah and Ruth Con- verse, of Woburn. Her children were: Jo- siah, Henry, Keziah, Samuel, Jedediah, John, Converse, Sarah, Alpheus and Marshal.
(V) Alpheus, seventh son of Henry (3) and Keziah (Converse) Spring, was born May 10. 1739, in Watertown, and received his college training at the college of New Jersey, which is now Princeton University, graduating in 1766. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1785. In 1768 he was called to the charge of a church in that part of Kittery now Eliot, Maine, which he accepted, and was ordained June 29 of the same year. He died very suddenly, June 14, 1791, in the fifty-third year of his age. He was respected for his ability and zealous activity in the work of the church. He
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married, May 18, 1769, Sarah, eldest daughter of Simon and Mary (Sewell) Frost, of York, Maine. She was born March 21, 1751.
(VI) Mary, second daughter of Rev. Al- pheus and Sarah (Frost) Spring, was born June 20, 1773, in Eliot, and after her father's death lived with her uncle, Dr. Marshal Spring, of Watertown, Massachusetts. She was a woman of high cultivation and superior powers of intellect, her mind a storehouse of facts of English and ecclesiastical history, as well as a thorough understanding of the best poets. It was her custom, while spinning flax, to have a book before her, from which she committed line by line many fine literary se- lections. She was a rare conversationalist, but very retired in manner and much devoted to her children. She was married in 1794 to Rev. Hezekiah Packard, then pastor of the Congregational church, of Chelmsford, Mas- sachusetts. She died September 25, 1828 (see Packard V).
TOBEY The opinion expressed by the Rev. Rufus Babcock Tobey, of Boston, that his surname, which is variously spelled in the early New England records as Tobe, Toby, Tobie and Tobye, was originally a contraction of the Scripture name Tobias, is probably correct. The Tobeys of New England are the posterity of two im- migrants, Thomas, of Sandwich, Massachu- setts, and James, of Kittery, Maine, and the family constituting the special subject of con- sideration in this article is descended from the former. A Francis Tobey figures in the rec- ords of the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634-35, designated a ship- wright of the county of Surrey, England, and a Henry Tobey was residing at Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1639, but, as far as known, neither of them left progeny.
(I) Freeman's "History of Cape Cod" quotes the following entry in the early records of Sandwich: "Thomas Tobey Sr., subscribed 7 shillings for the meeting house the 6 mo. 7, 1644." He probably located there prior to that date, and it has been asserted, but with little or no authority, that upon his arrival from England he went to Long Island before settling in the Plymouth Colony. That he was considered to be a man of energy, ability and good judgment is attested by the fact that he held various public offices, such as con- stable, excise officer, juryman, grand juryman. assessor, highway surveyor and "punder" (pound-keeper ) ; and served upon several com- mittees, notably the one appointed to meet
with a similar commission from Barnstable to establish the boundaries; another to receive, preserve and sell for the benefit of the town treasury all fish caught by the Indians within the limits of the town ; and he served upon a special committee of three whose duty it was to procure recruits, ammunition and other supplies for King Philip's war. One item in the town records states that he was paid four shillings for "having the strangers to Plym- outh," which probably means that as constable he escorted some wayfarers, believed to be Quakers, to the Plymouth jail. He took the oath of fidelity to the colony in 1657, and was one of the leading members of the church, not only contributing to the building-fund, as al- ready stated, but subsequently paying his share toward its repairs and subscribing one pound annually for the support of the pastor. His will, which was made in 1710, was proved in 1714, and his death, probably, occurred in the latter year. For his first wife he married Mar- tha, daughter of George and Martha Knott, of Sandwich, in the wooing of whom he was obliged to contend against a rival, but he suc- ceeded in winning her, and the ceremony was performed November 18, 1650. She died about 1689, and Thomas Tobey married for his sec- ond wife Mrs. Hannah Fish, widow of Am- brose Fish. She survived him, and died in 1720-21. His will mentions seven sons by his first union : Thomas, John, Nathan, Ephraim, Jonathan, Samuel and Gershom, who are not given in the order of their birth. The will also mentions three daughters, but their Chris- tian names are not given, and it is possible that they were the children of his second wife by her first husband.
(II) Jonathan, son of Thomas and Martha (Knott) Tobey, was born in Sandwich, but no record of his birth has been preserved. He was accepted as a townsman in 1694, subse- quently served as a grand juryman and a fence-viewer, and was the owner of a home- stead in Sandwich, where he died in 1741. The Christian name of his wife was Remem- brance, or Remember, and her death occurred November 3, 1732. Their children were: Deb- orah, Elizabeth, Maria. Remember, Samuel, Mercy, Abigail, Mary, Jonathan and Nathan- iel.
(III) Samuel. fifth child and eldest son of Jonathan and Remembrance Tobey, was born in Sandwich, September II, 1707. His long and useful life was spent in his native town, and he died there in 1791, an octogenarian. April 3, 1735, he married Experience Ellis. She bore him twelve children : Remember,
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Matthias (who died young), Ellis, Samuel, William, Nathaniel, Matthias, Stephen, Mary, Cynthia, Celia and "Cochie."
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(IV) Captain Matthias, sixth son and seventh child of Samuel and Experience ( El- lis) Tobey, was born in Sandwich, January 29, 1744-45. He enlisted for service in the revolutionary war, July 1, 1775, as lieutenant in Captain Joshua Tobey's company, and the following record of his subsequent services in the continental army is taken from the Mas- sachusetts revolutionary war rolls: "Appears as lieutenant in an account dated Boston, June 22, 1776, of provisions delivered Micah Ham- blin's co of Colonel Marshall's regt., resi- dence Sandwich ; also, 'Matthew Toby,' first lieutenant on a return of officers of Michael Hamblin's (company) Col. Thomas Marshall's regiment ; dated Council July 5, 1776; also, on a return of Captain Matthias Tobey's co., Col. (late Col.) Hallett's regt., for services at Rhode Island on alarm, July 14, to November 2, 1780." Shortly after the close of the war, Captain Tobey went from Sandwich to Ma- chiasport, Maine, and resided there for the re- mainder of his life, which terminated Novem- ber 7. 1818. He was married in Sandwich about the year 1769, to Hannah, born May 10. 1851, daughter of Stephen and Maria (Bourne) Nye. She died in Machias, Sep- tember 27, 1835. Captain and Hannah (Nye) Tobey were the parents of five children: I. Zenas, born about 1771. 2. Elisha, see suc- ceeding paragraph. 3. Matthias, born in 1775. 4. Rebecca, born in 1777, became the second wife of Jireh Phinney, by whom she had eight children. 5. Temperance, married Alvin Phin- ney and had one son, Alvin Phinney Jr.
(V) Elisha, second child of Captain Mat- thias and Hannah (Nye) Tobey, was born in Sandwich about the year 1773. He accom- panied his parents to Machiasport during his boyhood, and learning the carpenter's trade, the active period of his life was devoted to that calling. His death occurred in Machias- port, December 20, 1855, at the age of eighty- three years. His first wife, who was before marriage Hannah Phinney, died May 17, 1827, aged forty-seven years, and he married for his second wife Sarah Wilson, who died April 6, 1861, aged seventy-six. Elisha Tobey had a family of seven children, all of his first union : 1. Samuel, see next paragraph. 2. Hannah, born November 14, 1801, married William Sanborn and went to California, where she died October 22, 1846, leaving several chil- dren. 3. Elisha. 4. Betsey, hecame the wife of Samuel Small. 5. Jane, born May 6, 1809.
married John F. Sanborn and reared a family. 6. Charles, born September 17, 1812. 7. Mary, became the wife of Charles W. Gates.
(VI) Samuel (2), eldest child of Elislia and Hannah (Phinney) Tobey, was born at Machiasport in October, 1799. He resided in his native town, and died there March 26, 1873. He married Nancy Burton Robinson, born October 4, 1808, died in 1884. They were the parents of five children: 1. Hannah, born September 17, 1825, married Captain William Johnson, a shipmaster, whom she ac- companied on several voyages to the West In- dies and South America. She became the mother of three children : Mrs. Ernest R. Merrill, of Worcester, Massachusetts; Mrs. L. E. Dennis, of South Norwalk, Connecti- cut, and William D. N. Johnson, of Lake View. 2. Horatio Nelson, who will be again mentioned. 3. Benjamin Franklin, born Jan- uary 1, 1830, carpenter and builder in Machias, died there in 1893. He married Amanda C. Campbell, who died in 1901. They had three children: Howard, Alden and Mary. 4. James Prince Fuller, born December 11, 1832, block and spar-maker in Machiasport; served as first lieutenant in the Thirty-first Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry during the civil war, and spent six months in Andersonville prison ; died October 8, 1896. He married Louise Phinney and left one son, Maurice M. 5. George Loring, M. D., born June 17, 1833, graduated from Bowdoin College Medical School in 1879 and is, or was recently, prac- ticing medicine in Clinton, Massachusetts. He married Abbie A., daughter of Captain Aaron W. and Angeline Grant, of Machiasport ; three children: George L. Jr. (M. D., Harvard, 1903), Guy Davis and Harold Grant.
(VII) Horatio Nelson, second child and eld- est son of Samuel and Nancy B. (Robinson) Tobey, was born in Machiasport, February 29, 1828. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, becoming an expert pen- man and accountant. Entering the employ of William Pennell, merchant, lumberman and slip-builder, as clerk and bookkeeper, he was subsequently admitted to partnership, but later withdrew in order to devote his energies ex- clusively to mercantile pursuits. He finally retired from trade, and for a number of years was local agent for the Portland, Bar Harbor & Machias Steamboat line. In politics hie was a Republican, and for many years acted as one of the town trustees. He was frequently intrusted with the settlement of estates, and won the esteem and confidence of his fellow townsmen for his ability, integrity and upright
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character. He affiliated with Howard Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Machias. In his religious faith he was a Congregation- alist. Horatio Nelson Tobey died March, 1906. November 29, 1849, he married Sarah Elizabeth Foster, born November 21, 1831, and she bore him eight children: 1. William Burton, who will be again referred to. 2. Henry Herbert, born July 7, 1853, married Ada Higgins, of Portland, and has two chil- dren, Lester and Florence. 3. Frank Nelson, born in 1854, died in infancy. 4. Lizzie Ella, born September 3, 1856, now the widow of Captain William E. Dennison, late of Port- land, having two children, William and Ade- laide. 5. Samuel Nelson, born December 6, 1858, married Eva Cates and is now a promi- nent resident of Machiasport, having one daughter, Madeline. 6. Eugene Cameron, born August 1, 1870, married Malliville Curtis, of Portland, and is paymaster in United States navy; has one son, Nelson Shaw. 7. Clarence Nelson, born May 22, 1872, died April 12, 1877. S. Nettie Marion, born May 11, 1874, married Samuel Gilbert, of Portland, and has one daughter, Elizabeth Marion.
(VIII) William Burton, eldest child of Horatio N. and Sarah E. (Foster ) Tobey, was born in Machiasport, January II, 1851. His studies in the public schools and at Washing- ton Academy, Machias, were supplemented by a business course at the Bangor Commercial College, and his early business training was acquired as a clerk in the wholesale dry goods establishment of Messrs. Deering, Milliken and Company, Portland, with whom he remained for seven years. Accepting a position with the North Berwick Manufacturing Company as clerk and paymaster in 1877, he established his residence in that town, and in 188I was appointed agent and treasurer of that corpora- tion, in which capacity he has ever since con- tinued to serve. The North Berwick Manu- facturing Company operate extensive woolen mills and their products command a ready sale in the principal centers of trade. In addition to his textile interests, Mr. Tobey was at one
time actively concerned in the management of the Monson Slate Company, being treasurer of that concern, and director of the North Berwick National Bank. In politics he acts with the Republican party, and was many years chairman of the town committee : was formerly tax collector, town treasurer and auditor, and in ISSS attended as a delegate the National Republican convention at Chicago which nom- inated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency.
In October, 1875, Mr. Tobey was united in
marriage with Ariana A., daughter of Captain Frank Small, of Machias. She died in 1887, and on October 23, 1889, he married for his second wife Julia M. H., daughter of Charles Thomas and Fannie Parker ( McQueston ) Whittier, of Bangor ( see Whittier VII). His first wife became the mother of two sons: I. Thaddeus B., born October 10, 1876, married Fannie E. Swett. 2. William Homer, born January 20, 1880. Of his second union there is one daughter, Dorothy Ingersoll, born No- vember 19, 1890.
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