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Mr. Dennett was much interested in local history, and was an honored leader in the town of Kittery. He was selectman seventeen years ; deputy to the general court of Massa- chusetts from 1814 to 1819 inclusive, and a member of the first legislature of Maine. He was state senator several times, justice of the peace, and captain and major of the militia. He married (first), December 22, 1808, Alice, daughter of Edward Wilson. She was born September 22, 1785, died February 4, 1819. He married (second), May 4, 1820, Miriam Pettigrew, born December 12, 1802, died Au- gust 10, 1881. Children of first wife: I. Au- gustus, born October 17, 1809, died December 30, 1811. 2. Alexander, born November 10, 18II, mentioned below. 3. Betsey, born Sep- tember 19, 1817, died November 18, 1841. 4. Son, born and died February 3, 1819. Chil- dren of second wife: 5. Alice, born May 24, 1821. 6. Sylvester, born November 26, 1822,
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died August 30, 1847. 7. Saralı, born April 29, 1824, died February 21, 1844. 8. Charles W., born February 15, 1826, died April 6, 1847. 9. Julia Ann, born January 21, 1828, died November 29, 1903; married (first) a Mr. Clough ; married (second), November 10, 1858, Joseph Langton. 10. Mary, born Jan- uary 2, 1830, married Burlinton Paul; died March 22, 1863. 11. Mark Jackson, born April 22, 1834, died July 15, 1856. 12. John, born July 31, 1836, died May 12, 1838. 13. Oren, born January 9, 1839, died August 14, 1859. 14. Emily, born June 22, 1841, died February 13, 1857. 15. Louisa, born January 15, 1844, died June 17, 1847.
(VI) Alexander, son of Mark Dennett (5), born in Kittery, November 10, 1811, died May 6, 1889. He was educated in the common schools. He conducted a general store at York, Maine, and owned coasting vessels. He removed to Kittery and lived on the ancestral homestead until his death. During the civil war he was appointed inspector of timber at the navy yard. He was a Whig in politics in early life, a Republican afterward. He was trial justice for many years; represented his district in the legislature in 1849-50-51; was delegate to the convention when the Free Soil- ers and Whigs fused at the time the Republi- can party was organized; was frequently mod- erator of town meetings and selectman of the town. He was active in good works and in- terested in the great questions of the day, sup- porting the anti-slavery and temperance move- ments heartily. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance, and was active in the Methodist Episcopal church, being charter member of the Second Methodist Episcopal church, of Kittery. He married, November 15, 1838, Mary Kingsbury Remick, born in Eliot, Maine, May 10, 1819, died July 18, 1878. Children : 1. Ellen Miriam, born Oc- tober 8, 1839. 2. Elizabeth, born August 13, 1841, died September 5, 1868; married, May 31, 1866, Frank Hill. 3. John, born November 20, 1843, married, July 3, 1866, Annie M. Thompson; they had a son John, born Feb- ruary 13, 1869, married, August 20, 1902, Louie Viola Gage, and they have a son John, born October 17, 1906. 4. Sarah K., born April 28, 1846, died June 6, 1870; married, December 19, 1868, Edward S. Marshall ; they had a son Frank D., born 1870, a lawyer in Portland, Maine; he married and has a son and daughter. 5. Alice, died young. 6. Alex- ander, mentioned below.
(VII) Alexander (2), son of Alexander (1) Dennett, was born in York, Maine, April
13, 1853. He was educated in the public schools, in Eliot Academy and various private schools. In 1878 he entered the United States revenue cutter service as second assistant en- gineer, and continued until 1895, when he re- tired from active labor, making his home in Kittery. He is a Republican in politics, and has been member of the school committee for a number of years and superintendent of schools. He is a prominent member of the Second Christian church. He married (first), October 1, 1883, Saralı Eva, born March 14, 1856, in Kittery, daughter of Warrington and Sarah A. E. Paul. She died June 9, 1899. He married (second), August 28, 1901, Jo- sephine E., born October 7, 1867, daughter of Joseph and Joanna Cox, of Kittery. Chil- dren of first wife: I. William A., born July 2, 1885, graduated from Cornell University in 1907, in the mechanical engineering course. 2. Ralph E., born July 30, 1890, midshipman in the United States Naval Academy at An- napolis. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born November 27, 1894, died July 15, 1895.
Lawrence Copeland, immi- COPELAND grant ancestor, was born in Scotland in 1599. The Scotch family of Copeland has been located in Dumfriesshire since before the year 1400. He came to this country about the time that Cromwell sent over his Scottish prisoners of war, many of whom became prosperous citi- zens in a few years. He settled in Braintree, where he married soon afterward, Lydia Townsend, December 12, 1651. She died Jan- uary 8, 1688. He died December 30, 1699, aged one hundred years, according to other testimony besides Marshall's Diary and the town records. One statement of a contem- porary makes him even older ; but if he were born in 1599 he was over fifty years old when he was married and seventy-five when his youngest child was born; which rather tends to support a family tradition that he brought his first wife with him, in which case she must have died soon afterward. His name seldom appears on the records. He was evi- dently a farmer. Children: 1. Thomas, born December 3, 1652, died young. 2. Thomas, born February 8, 1655, soldier in King Philip's war. 3. William, born November 15, 1656, mentioned below. 4. John, born February 10, 1659. 5. Lydia, born May 31, 1661. 6. Eph- raim, born January 17, 1665, died of small- pox in the Phipps expedition to Canada in 1690, before sailing. 7. Hannalı, born Feb- ruary 25, 1668. 8. Richard, born July II,
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1672. 9. Abigail, born 1674, married, No- vember 23, 1715, -
(II) William, son of Lawrence Copeland (I), born at Braintree, Massachusetts, No- vember 15, 1656, died there in 1716. He mar- ried, April 13, 1694, Mary (Bass) Webb, widow of Christopher Webb Jr. and daughter of John and Ruth ( Alden) Bass. Ruth Al- den was daughter of Hon. John and Priscilla ( Mullins ) Alden, the "Mayflower" immi- grants, made celebrated by Longfellow's poem. All the Copelands named below are, therefore, eligible to the Mayflower Society. Mary Bass was also descended from Samuel Bass, of Bos- ton and Braintree, deacon, freeman May· 10, 1634, and deputy to the general court in 1643; Deacon Bass died December 30, 1694, aged ninety-four years, father, grandfather and great-grandfather of one hundred and sixty- two persons. William Copeland settled in Braintree. He is on record in 1691 as dis- senting with Samuel Thompson Jr. from the vote of the town to pay the minister his full salary of eighty pounds, half in money, half in farm products, at the meeting of March 2, 1690-91. He was elected fence-viewer in 1696. He signed the agreement to pay the expenses of defending the title of the proprietors of Braintree to their land, January 10, 1697-98. Children : 1. William, born March 7, 1695. 2. Ephraim, February 1, 1697. 3. Ebenezer, February 16, 1698. 4. Jonathan, August 31, 1701. 5. David, April 15, 1704. 6. Joseph, May 18, 1706. 7. Benjamin, October 5, 1708, mentioned below. 8. Moses, May 28, 1710. 9. Mary, May 28, 1713.
( III) Deacon Benjamin, son of William Copeland (2), was born October 5, 1708. He married, November 21, 1734, Sarah Allen, who died March 20, 1801, aged ninety, and had one son, born in Braintree. He removed to Norton, where he settled and had four sons and five daughters. Children: 1. Benjamin, born in Braintree, June 7, 1736, died May 13, 1749. 2. Susanna, born April 1, 1740, in Nor- ton, married, October 1. 1761, Elijah Dan- forth. 3. Elizabeth, born April 3. 1742, mar- ried, February 9, 1769, Jonathan Newcomb Jr. 4. Eunice, born November 17, 1743, mar- ried, September 28, 1769, Joseph Hunt. 5. Moses, born November 16, 1745, married, September 25, 1766, Hannah Stone. 6. Will- iam, born March 20, 1747-48, married, Novem- ber 28, 1775, Martha White. 7. Samuel, born May 30, 1750, married, October 6, 1788, Eunice Danforth. 8. Asa, born May 8, 1752, mentioned below. 9. Lydia, born October 16,
1755, married, March 31, 1774, Ebenezer Morey.
(IV) Deacon Asa, son of Deacon Benjamin Copeland (3), born May 8, 1752, died aged eighty-two. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion, a private in Captain Israel Trow's com- pany, Colonel John Daggett's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign in 1776, in the same company in Colonel John Hathaway's regiment and Colonel Josiah Whitney's in 1777, also in Rhode Island. He married Rachel Briggs, who died December 23, 1800, in her forty- sixth year. He lived at Norton, Massachu- setts, where the following children were born : 1. Asa Jr., born September 21, 1782, married, September 3, 1801, Abigail Newcomb. 2. Jo- seph, born July 29, 1784, married, April 16, 1809, Betsey Britton. 3. Lemuel, born Au- gust 14 1786, mentioned below. 4. Captain Thomas, born June 9, 1789, married, June 4, 1821, Eliza Hodges. 5. David, born 1792, bap- tized February 5, 1792. 6. David, born Decem- ber 25, 1792, married Elizabeth Clap. 7. Elizabeth, born February 5, 1794. 8. Rachel, born April 2, 1796. 9. Sarah, born November 14, 1798, married Samuel King Hart, of Brewer, Maine, November 7, 1819.
(V) Lemuel, son of Deacon Asa Copeland (4), born in Norton, August 14, 1786, died in 1867. He resided in Taunton, Massachu- setts, a city adjoining Norton, and later in Holden, Maine. He married Achsah Hart. Children : Achsah, Adeline, Thomas R., George King, born September 4, 1818, men- tioned below; Nancy King, Abigail, Charles, Caroline.
(VI) George King, son of Lemuel Cope- land, born in Holden, Maine, September 4, 1818, died February 5, 1872. He was edu- cated in the common schools of his native town. He went to work early in life in his father's business, ship-building and lumber dealer, and succeeded to the business at his father's death. He also conducted a large farm and continued in active life until his last illness, a vigorous, energetic, successful man. He was a leading citizen of the town and prominent in public affairs. He was a Re- publican after the formation of that party, and was for many years town treasurer; at the time of his death he was also collector of taxes. He was a member of the Odd Fellows of Ban- gor. He was a liberal supporter of the Con- gregational church, which he regularly at- tended. He married, October 24, 1848, Han- nah Marston Fogg, born October 16, 1824, died November 11, 1898. Children: I. Lizzie
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M., born December 7, 1849, educated in the public schools of Holden and in the Farming- ton Normal school; now living in Biddeford with her sister. 2. Marcia F., born December 14, 1851, died February 26, 1901 ; educated in the Holden schools and at Castine Normal school. 3. Alice M., born April 24, 1854, educated in the Holden schools and Bucksport Seminary: came with her mother and elder sister to live in Biddeford, after her father's death. 4. George H., born October 6, 1860, died at Rockland, December 30, 1900; edu- cated in the public schools of Biddeford and Saco, Maine; merchant in Rockland, Maine; married Annie L. Ladd, of North Gorham, Maine ; children : i. Bernice M., born Marchi 23, 1888; ii. Margaret H., born April 5, 1893 ; iii. Eleanor E., born September 5, 1899, now residing in Gorham.
COCHRANE The Cochrane family traces its descent from Ayr, in Ayrshire: Scotland. The name is spelled variously Cofran, Cofren, Cochran and Cochrane. Among the signers of a petition to Governor Shute, of Massachusetts, asking, from the north of Ireland, March 26, 1718, for a grant of land are John, Andrew, Alexander, James, John, William and B. Coch- ran. William was an original proprietor of Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1722 ; grants of land were given in 1720 to Peter and John, also the Widow Cochran.
(I) Deacon John Cochrane, immigrant an- cestor of this branch of the Cochrane family, settled in Londonderry about 1724, and was a prominent man and a deacon of the Presby- terian church. Children: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. John, married (first) Mary Mc- Hard; (second) Margaret Owens. 3. Ninian, settled in Londonderry.
(II) James, son of Deacon John Cochrane, settled in Pembroke, New Hampshire, in 1750. Children : 1. Joseph, born 1740, married Mar- garet Murray. 2. William, born 1740, mar- ried Gile. 3. James, born 1743, men- tioned below. 4. Samuel.
(III) Major James (2), son of James (I) Cochrane, born in 1743, died January 23, 1815. He married Mary McDaniel, born 1744, died June 23, 1822. He was a soldier in the revo- lution ; second lieutenant in Colonel John Wal- dron's regiment, General Sullivan's division, in 1776; in the continental army in 1781 as captain in Colonel Kelley's regiment, later hav- ing the rank of major. Children: I. James, born 1768, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, born 1770, married, June 6, 1790, Samuel Martin.
3. Nehemiah, born March 7, 1772, married Joanna Morris. 4. Mary, born January 2, 1773, married Mark French. 5. Daniel, mar- ried Nancy Moore. 6. Jenny, married, Octo- ber 24, 1797, Moses Cochran, of Londonderry. 7. John, born 1780, married Mary Ann Mc- Daniel. 8. Patty, married, February 24, 1801, Stephen Bartlett. 9. Robert Scott, born 1787, married Polly Moses. 10. Mancy, married, September 28, 1808, John Knox.
(IV) Ensign James, son of Major James (2) Cochrane, born in 1768, died July 31, 1819. He married, July 24, 1788, Lettice Dun- can, born 1764, died August 1, 1838. Chil- dren : 1. Samuel, born December 18, 17-, died unmarried September 28, 1818. 2. Bet- sey, born June 29, 1790, married Jonathan Stanyan, of Pembroke. 3. John, born Au- gust 10, 1792, died unmarried, at Natchez, Mississippi. 4. Mahala, born February I, 1797, married John Wheeler, of Concord ; died October 24, 1832. 5. Chauncey, born January 29, 1799, died 1801. 6. Chauncey, born No- vember 24, 1801, mentioned below. 7. James, born January 17, 1804, married Mary Jane Cofran.
(V) Chauncey, son of Ensign James Coch- rane, born in Pembroke, November 24, 1801, resided in Pembroke until 1834, when he re- moved to East Corinth, Maine. He married (first), November 26, 1828, Sally Cofran, born February 24, 1805, daughter of Moses and Jenny ( Cochran) Cofran. She was killed June 23, 1833, by Abraham Prescott. He
married (second), February, 1838, Maria Gay, of New London, born December 20, 1810, died December, 1903. He was educated in the common schools of Pembroke. His father died when he was sixteen years old, and the care of the farm devolved upon him until he re- moved to East Corinth. Here he opened a general store, and continued this business until 1860. After he retired from active business he invested his savings largely in real estate mortgages, and was occupied in attending to his property, continuing active and capable to the time of his death, in 1883. He was a Republican and represented his district in the state legislature. Children of first wife: I. Sarah, born August 26, 1829, died October II, 1849. 2. G. Newton, born October 23, 1830, died July 7, 1869. Children of second wife : 3. Josephine D., born October 16, 1838. 4. John D., born October 16, 1838 (twin), died October 12, 1839. 5. Maria A., born February 8, 1841. 6. Avilda A., born April 18, 1844. 7. Chauncey A., born August 19, 1846, died August 18, 1855. 8. Jasper D.,
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born December 2, 1851, mentioned below. 9. Justin B., born December 2, 1851 (twin).
(VI) Dr. Jasper Duncan, twin son of Chauncey Cochrane, was born in East Corinth, Maine, December 2, 1851. He attended the public schools of his native town, Central Maine Conference Seminary, at Bucksport, the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at Kent's Hill, Readfield, the Wesleyan University, at Mid- dletown, Connecticut, where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1880, receiving the Master's degree from his alma mater in 1883. He studied his profession in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, graduating an M. D., 1886. He began teaching school when he was seventeen and taught in the public schools in Levant, Charlestown, Dover, Lincoln, Maine, and Stetson, Maine, high school. Upon receiving his medical degree he began to practice in East Corinth, removing to Saco in March, 1888, and continuing in that city to the present time with marked success. Dr. Cochrane has been active in public life. A Republican in politics, he has served several terms on the board of alder- men, and has been a member of the board of health several years. He attends the Metho- dist Episcopal church. He is a member of Corinthian Lodge, No. 59, of Odd Fellows, of East Corinth; Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 7, Knights of Pythias, of Saco; Saco Lodge, No. 9, Free Masons ; York Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch Masons; Main Council, Royal and Se- lect Masters, of Saco; Bradford Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar ; Maine Conclave, No. I, Knights of Red Cross of St. Constantine, and also of Kora Temple. He is a life mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is one of the trustees of the Biddeford and Saco Savings Institution. He has been since 1896 United States pension examiner, is a member and has been president of the York County Medical Society, member of the Maine Medical Association, the American Academy of Medicine, and of the surgical staff of Web- ber Hospital, Biddeford, Maine.
Dr. Cochrane married, 1896, Ida M .. born Fryeburg, Maine, October, 1861, daughter of Seth and Sarah P. Hutchins, of Lovell, Maine. Children, born in Saco: I. Chauncey, Decem- ber 3, 1901. 2. Sarah Abbott, October 9, 1902.
This ranks among the very SHAPLEIGH early families which set- tled in Maine. The name was sometimes spelled "Shapley" and also "Sharpley." The earliest account of the fam- ily in this country was when Alexander Shap-
leigh located at Kittery Point, Maine. He came from Kingsweare, Devonshire, England, in 1635, or possibly a little earlier. He was residing at Kittery Point in 1635 and at Stur- geon Creek in 1639, and probably died in 1650. He was a man of more than ordinary im- portance in his community ; was a ship-builder, owner and merchant. His children were: Alexander, see forward ; Catherine, born 1608; Major Nicholas, born about 1610. Some genealogical items on the family place the date of the American ancestor's birth at 1583.
(II) Alexander (2), son of Alexander (1) Shapleigh, born 1606, died in England about 1655.
(III) Colonel John, only child of Alexander (2) Shapleigh, was born in 1640, and was an important factor in the early settlement of Kit- tery. He was a selectman, representative and an ensign, and was killed by the Indians, April 29, 1706. His wife Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Withers. Their children were: Alexander, Alice, Nicholas, Mary, Sarah and John.
(IV) Captain John (2), youngest child of Colonel John (I) and Sarah ( Withers) Shap- leigh, was born in 1689, in Kittery, Maine, and married, November, 1733, Dorcas Littlefield, of Willis. They lived at what is now known as Eliot, where he died in 1759, having been an active man in all the trying days in which he lived. He was a captain in the militia, and united with the Congregational church in 1734. He resided with his grandson during his last years. The children of Captain John and Dor- cas (Littlefield) Shapleigh were as follows: John, born November, 1733; Nicholas, Sarah, James, Dependence, Dorcas, Mary, Alice, born February 20, 1752.
(V) Dependence, fifth child of Captain John (2) Shapleigh, born in Kittery, Maine, March 5, 1744, died December 16, 1812. He married Catharine Leighton, in 1768, and they were the parents of the following children : John, Mary, Sarah, William, Dorcas (died young), Nicholas, Dorcas, Dependence, Alice, Tobias, James and Catharine.
(VI) Nicholas, son of Dependence and Catharine (Leighton) Shapleigh, was born May 9, 1778, in Kittery, and married Betsey Ferguson, by whom the following children were born: Dennis F., Elizabeth, Sally C. and Catharine.
(VII) Dennis F., son of Nicholas and Bet- sey (Ferguson) Shapleigh, born in Kittery, August 14, 1803, died July, 1882. He mar- ried Ruth Chase, of Kittery, born 1796, died November, 1884. Their children were: Thom-
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as C., Harriet H., Sarah E., Julia A., Charles F. and Dennis M.
(VIII) Dennis M., son of Dennis F. and Ruth (Chase) Shapleigh, was born in Kit- tery, June 1. 1838, and received his education in the town schools of his home neighborhood, and at Eliot Academy. He is a machinist and in that capacity was employed in the navy yard under President Harrison's administra- tion. In politics Mr. Shapleigh is allied with the Republican party. He has served as a member of the board of selectmen for a num- ber of years ; been tax collector, representative in the Maine legislature, 1878-79 and in 1883. His fellow townsmen repeatedly insisted upon his reelection as town clerk until he has served in such capacity for twenty years. His patriot- ism was shown in 1862, when he enlisted in the cause of the Union as second lieutenant of Company G, Twenty-seventh Maine Regi- ment. He was mustered out of service in July, 1863. In his lodge relations he is con- nected with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of St. John's Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire : also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Grand Army of the Re- public, at Kittery. Mr. Shapleigh was united in marriage in 1864 to Annie Elizabeth Peirce, of Kittery, born January 24. 1844, died De- cember 24. 1901. The children by this union were : Annie E., died in infancy ; and Edward Everett.
(IX) Dr. Edward Everett, son of Dennis M. and Annie Elizabeth ( Peirce) Shapleigh, was born in Kittery, Maine, March 3, 1868. His education was obtained in the public schools of his native town, and at Phillips Exeter Academy. After his primary training he entered the medical department of Bowdoin College, from which institution he graduated in 1890. He began the practice of his pro- fession at North Conway, New Hampshire, locating in Kittery, October, 1891, since which time his practice has been confined mostly to that community. He affiliates with the Re- publican party, and is interested in the de- velopment and welfare of his state and home county. He belongs to Riverside Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows; Dirigo En- campment, and is a member of the Aspinquid Tribe of Red Men. As a professional man he is connected with the York County ( Maine) Medical Society. Dr. Shapleigh was married February 18, 1891, to Mabel H., daughter of Charles C. Humphrey and wife, of Brunswick, Maine. Their children are: Edward E., born January 8, 1892, and Lloyd P., May 26, 1895.
The Marshalls of America MARSHALL claim descent from William le Mareschal, who came over at the Norman Conquest. As the name implies, he was a commander in the army of occupation, the name Marshall being a mili- tary term needing no explanation. At the fall of Calais in 1558, in the reign of Mary, Captain John Marshall distinguished himself and was severely wounded. From him de- scended John Marshall, who was a captain at the battle of Edgehill, in the time of Charles I. It was this John Marshall who came to Virginia, and from him sprang Chief-Justice John Marshall, the greatest jurist our country has known. A dozen or more of the name of Marshall landed in the Massachusetts colony between 1634 and 1678. The earliest to come was Francis in 1634, in the ship "Christian," from London to Boston. The same year came John, on the "Hopewell," to Boston. Each of these emigrants was the trunk of a genea- logical tree with numerous branches.
(I) Benjamin Marshall was of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, as early as 1768, coming from Stoughton, Massachusetts, and married Mary D., daughter of Thomas Hayward, and had : Hayward. Calvin, Benjamin, Rowlandson, Gannett and Ambrose.
(III) John Marshall we know was not the son of Hayward, but he was probably a grand- son of Benjamin by one of the other sons, per- haps Calvin. He married Eunice Grant, and removed to York, Maine, and had: Nathaniel Grant and Eunice. His wife was of Scotch descent from James Grant, who was taken prisoner by the forces of Oliver Cromwell, about 1645, and either escaped or was ban- ished, coming to America. He was a black- smith by trade, and disappeared mysteriously in 1817 and was never thereafter heard from. Mrs. Marshall died December 9, 1819.
(IV) Hon. Nathaniel Grant, only son of John and Eunice (Grant) Marshall, was born in old York, Maine, May 2, 1812. He was left an orphan at seven years of age, and was cared for by the aged grandparent. David Grant. At fifteen he had to shift for himself. Under the private tuition of Hon. Alexander McIntire, and Rev. Eber C. Carpenter, pastor of the Congregational church, both of whom took a great interest in the lad, he was quali- fied to teach a country school. He followed the occupation of a district teacher till 1832. That year saw him launched out in a trade for himself, in which he was very successful. In 1836 he was elected constable and tax gatherer of York by the suffrages of his
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