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Henry Rust, born January 19, 1826, died July 30, 1838. 2. Otis Norcross, mentioned below. 3. Mary, born March 14, 1830, died young.
(III) Otis Norcross, son of Eliphalet (2), Jones, was born in Boston, March 6, 1828.
died May 20, 1892. He was educated in the public schools and at a boarding school. He became a clerk in his father's firm, Otis Nor- cross & Company, when a young man. Be- sides dealing in glassware, crockery, earthen- ware, etc., this firm established a glass fac- tory at Sandwich, Massachusetts, one of the first in successful operation in this country, though glass had been made on a small scale much earlier. He traveled extensively. When he was twenty-one years old he made a trip around the world. He lived for some time in Hong Kong, China, in Calcutta and Bombay, India, and in Paris, France. He joined the gold-seekers who went to California in 1849 and was in the mining districts about a year. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the Unitarian church. He married, May 27, 1869, Kate H. Frost, born in Nor- way, Maine, May 2, 1844, daughter of William and Lydia E. (Foster) Frost. (See Frost, VII.) Children: I. William Frost, men- tioned below. 2. Otis Norcross Jr., born Feb- ruary 19, 1873, died at Colorado Springs, aged twenty years. 3. Mary Ellen, August 3, 1874, married Professor Henry C. Metcalf, of Tufts College.
(IV) William Frost, son of Otis Norcross Jones, was born in Boston, April 5, 1871. He attended the public schools in Boston, the Bos- ton Latin school and Harvard College where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1892. He accompanied his brother, whose health had failed, to Colorado Springs and remained with him until his death. He returned to his home at Norway, Maine, and read law in the office of Charles E. Holt, was admitted to the bar in 1898 and began to practice his profession in Norway immediately. He has been in active and suc- cessful practice since. At the present time he is judge of the municipal court in Norway. In politics he is a Republican. He has been a member of the school board, trustee of the public library and superintendent of schools. He married, June 22, 1897, Elinor Frances Hunt, born December 21, 1871, daughter of George W. and Ella F. Hunt, of Bath, Maine. Children : I. Katherine H., born July 30, 1898. 2. Otis N., December 26, 1899. 3. Frances, December 7, 1901. 4. Mary E., Jan- uary 17, 1903.
The surname Rust is an ancient RUST one, a Hugh Rust having lived in England as early as 1312. The name is also common in Germany. Henry Rust, immigrant ancestor, came from Hing-
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ham, county, Norfolk, England, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1633 or 1635. He was the first of the name in this country, and was a glover by trade. He had a grant of land at Hingham in 1635 in June, and other grants March 5, March 23 and August 14 of the same year. He was admitted a freeman March, 1637-38. February 16, 1638, he was chosen to "make the rates," and in 1645 was town clerk of Hingham. He was admitted as an inhabitant of Boston, and March 31, 1651, bought property of Audrey Palmer, a house and land. This land he deeded later to his son, Nathaniel Rust, and son-in-law, Robert Earle. The site is now occupied by Trinity church, corner of Summer and Hawley streets, then Bishop's alley. The seven Star Inn, or Pleiades, formerly stood there. The wife of - Henry Rust was admitted to the church with him February 20, 1669. Children: I. Sam- uel, baptized at Hingham, August 5, 1638, married Elizabeth Rogers. 2. Nathaniel, bap- tized February 2, 1639-40, mentioned below. 3. Hannah, baptized at Hingham, November 7, 1641, married Robert Earle. 4. Israel, bap- tized November 12, 1643, married Rebecca Clark. 5. Benjamin, baptized April 5, 1646. 6. Benoni, baptized October 23, 1649.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Henry, was baptized at Hingham, February 2, 1639-40. He fol- lowed his father's trade of glover. He re- moved to Ipswich, was living there in 1661, and resided there until his death. He was often appraiser of estates, and was lot layer in 1692-93. He died in 1713 and his estate was administered December 23, 1713, by Daniel Rindge and Thomas Norton. He mar- ried Mary, born 1642, died July 7, 1720, daughter of William and Alice Wardell. Children : I. Mary, born June, 1664, married Captain Daniel Rindge. 2. Nathaniel, March 16, 1667, married Joanna Kinsman. 3. Mar- garet, February 7, 1669, married Samuel Williams. 4. Elizabeth, March 14, 1672, mar- ried, December 7, 1693, William Fellows. 5. Mercy, married, November 14, 1700, Thomas Norton. 6. Dorothy, born March 10, 1682, died November 10, 1684. 7. John, born July 9, 1684, mentioned below. 8. Sarah, born 1686, died January 26, 1739; married January I, 1706-07, Nathaniel Hart, born April 3, 1677, died September 9, 1746.
(III) John, son of Nathaniel Rust, was born July 9, 1684, and died at Ipswich, Jan- uary, 1713. He married, September 26, 1705, Sarah (Potter) Fellows, born December II, 1685, daughter of John and Sarah Potter, and widow of Jonathan Fellows. She adminis-
tered his estate, being appointed January 22, 1716-17. Children : 1. John, born March 18, 1707, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, October 20, 1708, died August 17, 1724. 3. Sarah, June 28, 1710, married, December 17, 1729, Thomas Hovey. 4. Nathaniel, March 29, 1713 (posthumous ), married Sarah Wallis.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Rust, was born at Ipswich, March 18, 1707, died Novem- ber, 1750. He was a tanner by trade. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and ensign in the eighth company under Captain Thomas Stanford, Colonel Robert Hale's fifth regiment, in the Louisburg expedition in 1745. He married, November 12, 1730, Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Abigail Foster. She was appointed administratrix of his estate; she married (second) October 31, 1752 (intentions published October 28), Jacob Parsons, of Gloucester. Children: 1. John, born May 22, 1732, sea captain, died unmar- ried. 2. Sarah, September 25, 1735, married, in New Gloucester, Maine, January 5, 1755, William Parsons. 3. Henry, August 23, 1737, mentioned below. 4. Mary, July 16, 1737. 3. Abigail, November 6, 1742, married, January 18, 1763, Benjamin Witt. 6. Daniel, June 21, 1747, killed by a horse.
(V) Henry (2), son of John (2) Rust, was born at Ipswich, August 23, 1737, died at Sa- lem, September 28, 1812. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of joiner as apprentice of Jonathan Gavet. During the revolution he made money, taking consider- able risks in shipping. He began in business as a cabinetmaker and merchant and became interested in manufacturing as well as ship- ping. He built a brick store in Salem in 1786 on the site of the old court house and had large holdings in land in the vicinity of Rust street which he opened when developing his property for house lots. In 1787 he bought six thousand acres of land for four hundred and fifty pounds, the site of the township of Rustfield, now Norway, Maine, and his three sons, Henry, John and Joseph, settled in that town and became influential citizens. Captain Rust settled Essex county and often visited it, coming on horseback or in his chaise, which upon the occasion of his first trip in it, in 1804, had the distinction of being the first wheeled carriage seen in the town of Norway. He built a summer home at Pike's Hill, the door- step for which, cut from solid rock, still marks the site of the buildings. He was kind and generous to the settlers, selling land to them without money, taking his pay in labor at the rate of a day's work for an acre of land until
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each had a homestead of his own. He built a saw mill and grist mill in Norway in 1789 and later a tannery and opened a general store. He gave land for the church and cemetery. He brought the first glass windows to the town, small four-square windows with panes six by eight inches and distributed them, two or three to each settler. In 1797 he took his grandson, Henry Rust, then ten years old, to spend the summer with him in Rustfield. His will was dated July 10 and proved October 5, 1812. He married (first) December 25, 1759, Lydia James, born May 12, 1740, died August 24, 1808, daughter of Joseph and Lydia James, of Salem. He married (second) May 28, 1809, Abigail Benson, widow of Captain Thomas Benson. She died at Salem, January, 1823. Children, all by first wife: I. Henry, born September 21, 1760, married Sally Archer. 2. John, April 4, 1762, married Nancy Mansfield. 3. Joseph, January 1, 1767, married Ruth Lash, of Boston. 4. Lydia, Jan- uary 7, 1765, married Joseph Austin. 5. Sally, March 5. 1767, died September 29, 1768. 6. Polly Hooper, August 5, 1768, died August 18, 1770. 7. Daniel, June 23, 1770, died November 8, 1771. 8. Daniel, July 22, 1772, married Elizabeth Leach, of Salem. 9. Jacob Parsons, August 15, 1774, mentioned below. IO. Sally, May 18, 1776, married, December 28, 1801, John Daland, died Feb- ruary 5, 1803. II. Nathan, February 28, 1778, died September 28, 1778. 12. Nathan, June, 1779, died aged three days. 13. Nathan, August, 1780, died aged five days. 14. Nathan, June, 1781, died aged five hours. 15. Israel, July 18, 1782, died August 18, 1795. 16. Polly Jane, November 6, 1783, died December 25, 1843, married, December 2, 1810, Samuel Lee Paige, who died at Salem, December 22, 1824.
(VI) Jacob Parsons, son of Henry (2) Rust, was born at Salem, August 15, 1774, died January 6, 1828. He is buried in the old Granary cemetery at Boston. He was a merchant and owned a house, land and store in Salem, and land and buildings on Prince street, Boston; also a right in the Charles river bridge. His son Jacob was appointed administrator of his estate January 14, 1828, and the division was made April 27, 1829. He married (first) April 23, 1797, Mary Adams, of Boston. He married (second) November 3, 1823, Abigail Reynolds, who died January I, 1837. Children of first wife: I. Thomas Adams, born January 15, 1798, married (first) Abbie Williams; (second) Harriet Freeman ; (third) Phebe Chamberlain. 2. Mary. July
30, 1799, died August, 1799. 3. Jacob, July 19, 1800, died unmarried at Somerville, Au- gust 5, 1847; merchant. 4. Sally Paine Adams, April 18, 1802, mentioned below. 5. Diana Adams, March 28, 1806, married Henry Hooper and resided at Boston. 6. William Paine Adams, January 26, 1808, married, Jan- uary 25, 1832, Caroline J. Chase, died May 29, 1857; carpenter; had Lucy Ann, died October 27, 1843. 7. Joseph Henry, Decem- ber 5, 1809, married Emily White, died Sep- tember 18, 1835, and is buried in the old Granary burying ground; widow married (second) A. A. Dana and had three- sons. 8. John, March 8, 1814, married Susan West. Children of second wife: 9. Mary Adams, March 17, 1825, married, July 8, 1845, Edwin Howland, died May 10, 1851. 10. George Reynolds, August 26, 1827, died November 27, 1828.
(VII) Sally Paine Adams, daughter of Jacob Parsons Rust, was born April 18, 1802, died July 6, 1883. She married, March 28, 1824, Eliphalet Jones. (See Jones, II.)
George Frost lived at Winter FROST Harbor, Saco, Maine, and was appraiser of the estate of Richard Williams in 1635. He served on the grand jury in 1640. Goody Frost was assigned to a pew in the church at Winter Harbor next to the pew of Goody Wakefield, September 22, 1666. He is supposed to be the father of the following children: I. Rebecca, married Simon Booth; removed to Enfield, New Hampshire, and died in 1668. 2. John, mar- ried Rose 3. William, mentioned be- low.
(II) William, son of George Frost, wit- nessed a deed in Winter Harbor in 1667 and bought land in Saco of William Phillips in 1673. It may have been he who had a grant of land on Crooked Lane in Kittery in 1658. The Indian war drove him to Salem, Massa- chusetts, where he was living from 1675 to 1679. William Frost, cordwainer, of Salem, bought land in Wells, Maine, in 1679, and had various grants and mill privileges in Wells until 1690. His estate was adminis- tered in 1690 by Israel Harden, and William Frost Jr. was his bondsman. Roger Hill wrote to his wife May 7, 1690, "The Indians have killed Goodman Frost and James Little- field and carried away Nathaniel Frost and burnt several houses here in Wells." William Frost married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Littlefield) Wakefield, and grand- daughter of Edmund and Annis Littlefield.
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Children : 1. William, married ( first) Rachel ; (second) April 5, 1796, Elizabeth Searle ; died September 23, 1721. 2. Nathaniel, captured by the Indians in 1690. 3. Elizabeth, married, November 8, 1698, Daniel Dill. 4. Mary, born at Salem, July 31, 1677. 5. Abigail, married, January 14, 1702-03, Samuel Upton. 6. James, mentioned below.
(III) James, son or nephew of William Frost (Hist. of Kittery, Maine), married, May 15, 1707-08, Margaret, daughter of William and Deliverance (Taylor) Goodwin. He was a planter and owner of a mill in South Berwick, Maine. He and his wife were mem- bers of the Congregational church. His will was made in 1744, proved July 4, 1748. ; Chil- dren, baptized at South Berwick : I. James born November 5, 1708, married Sarah Nason. 2. William, February 15, 1710, married Love Butler. 3. Nathaniel, August 14, 1713, men- tioned below. 4. John, baptized October 22, 1716, went to Nova Scotia. 5. Stephen, bap- tized April 12, 1719, married Lucy - . 6. Mary, baptized September 29, 1723, married Major Charles Gerrish. 7. Jeremiah, baptized December 24, 1725, married Miriam Harding ; went to Nova Scotia. 8. Jane, baptized May 10, 1728, married, March 10, 1747, Caleb Emery. 9. Margaret, baptized July 13, 1730, married, June 18, 1752, William Haskell.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of James Frost, was born August 14, 1713, and died about 1763. He lived in Falmouth and Gorham, Maine. He married Elizabeth, who died about 1768. Children : 1. Abigail, born about 1741, mar- ried, December, 1758, James Mosher. 2. Ben- jamin, born about 1742, married Susanna Frost, 1765. 3. David, mentioned below. 4. Peter, born about 1746, married Margaret 5. Nathaniel, born about 1748, mar- ried (first) June 3, 1780, Polly Berry ; (sec- ond) June 16, 1787, Sally Brown, of Fal- mouth ; (third) October 3, 1801, Mrs. Rebecca Higgins, of Standish. 6. Enoch, born about 1750, married, April 24, 1780, Alice Davis. 7. Elizabeth, born about 1752, married, Novem- ber 26, 1778, Benjamin Adams; (second) Charles Patrick. 8. Hannah, born about 1754, married, February 3, 1775, Joshua Adams.
(V) David, son of Nathaniel Frost, was born about 1744 in Gorham, Maine, or Fal- mouth. He married (intention dated April 10, 1766) Mary Johnson. Four of his sons settled on Frost Hill, Norway, Maine, and late in life he also settled there. Children, born in Gorham: I. David Jr., removed to East Machias. 2. William, married, July 2, 1815, Polly Stevens. 3. Charles, resided in
Portland. 4. Peter, married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Perkins. 5. Nathaniel settled in Gorham. 6. Eunice, married Samuel An- drews; resided in Norway. 7. Nancy, mar- ried Joseph Hamblen; resided in Norway. 9. Jennie, married Webster. 10. John, resided in Norway; married Jane Richmond. II. Robert, mentioned below.
(VI) Robert, son of David Frost, was born in Gorham, Maine, March 26, 1782. He mar- ried Betsey Jordan, born at Otisfield, Feb- ruary 26, 1789. He settled in Norway in 1803. Children, born in Norway: I. Mercy, November 8, 1807; married (first) Thomas J. Everett ; (second) Jacob Parsons. 2. Charles, December 13, 1809, married Hannah Foster. 3. William, January 9, 1812, mentioned be- low. 4. Robert, June 9, 1814, died March I, 1816. 5. Timothy J., April 17, 1816, married Mary A. Goss. 6. Eliza, July 8, 1818, mar- ried Simon Lewis. 7. Polly, October 22, 1820, married John Davis. 8. Robert J., February 25, 1823, married, April 30, 1856, Alice N. Shedd, born July 27, 1829. 9. David W., July 12, 1825, married Vesta Briggs. 10. Esther, born June 12, 1827, married Joshua Crockett. II. Aaron, September 8, 1829, died April 23, 1832. 12. Catherine, May 26, 1833, died May 1, 1840.
(VII) William, son of Robert Frost, was born in Norway, January 9, 1812. He mar- ried, 1842, Lydia Foster, who died September, 1851. Married (second) 1853, Mrs. Mary A. Whitcomb, nee Harris. Children: I. Kate H., born in Norway, May 2, 1844, married Otis Norcross Jones in 1869 ( see Jones, III). 2. Lydia Ellen, June 17, 1847, died June 30, 1894.
Nathaniel M. Jones emigrated JONES from Wales to Turks Island, West Indies, by the way of Ber- muda, where he made a brief tarry. He was a goldsmith by trade and also engaged in the manufacture of salt at Turks Island. His wife Harriet accompanied him, and their son, Hiram Thomas, was born there in 1837.
(II) Hiram Thomas, son of Nathaniel M. and Harriet Jones, was born in 1837 and re- ceived his school training in Turks Island, West Indies, which was his birthplace. When of age he became a merchant and manufac- turer of salt, which business had been carried on by his father for several years. He re- moved to Bangor, Maine, in 1876 and became head bookkeeper for the Hinckley & Egery Iron Company for a time, and then engaged with G. W. Merrill in the furniture business.
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When he left Turks Island, he arranged to have his business continued, and he attended to it by correspondence. He was married in Turks Island to Helen Ewing, daughter of the Rev. James Morrison, a Presbyterian divine, who were attendants of the Methodist church. They have seven children all born in Turks Island, West Indies, and their names accord- ing to the order of their birth are as follows : I. Nathaniel M. (q. v.). 2. Emily H., married John M. Jones, of New York City. 3. Hiram Thorborn, died 1902. 4. Lilla A. 5. James W., who removed to Oak- land, California. 6. Hilton B., who also re- moved to Oakland, California. 7. Ella Stew- art, born in Bangor, Maine, married George W. Thoms, a lawyer, of Lincoln, Maine.
(III) Nathaniel Morrison, eldest child of Hiram Thomas and Helen Ewing (Morrison) Jones, was born in Turks Island, West Indies, and was educated in the best schools that island afforded. He came to Bangor, Maine, alone, in 1874, and engaged as clerk in the office of T. J. Stewart & Company, where he remained for several months, leaving to take a position with James E. Crosby, a grocer, as clerk and bookkeeper, for whom he worked for about eighteen months. He was next a stevedore on the river docks and next a clerk in a meat market and a helper in the produce commission house of James A. Greenacre. In 1880 he went into the fruit and produce busi- ness on his own account, which business he sold out in 1882 and became express messen- ger for the Bangor and Boston Express Com- pany on the Boston & Bangor Steamship line, and after two seasons of such work went with the Hinckley & Egery Iron Works Company as bookkeeper and secretary where he re- mained seven years. In 1890 he bought an interest in the water power at Howland Falls, Maine, and assisted in organizing the How- land Falls Pulp Company, in which he owned stock. He was made general manager after first year and held this position for three years when the mills were burned. He at once drew plans for new mills, which were accepted by the company, and he directed the building of the mills. At about this time he secured by purchase the property of the Lincoln Pulp & Paper Company at Lincoln, Maine, and re- built both mills. He also furnished detail plans and built a mill at Ausable Forks, New York, for J. J. Rogers & Company, and a mill at Fort Edward, New York for the Glens Falls Paper Company, and one at Lockport, New York, for the Traders' Paper Company. This business as a mill architect came to him
through the success he had made at the How- land Falls Mills. The patents, designs, and methods used by him in the construction of the mills and the handling of the material attracted the attention of the paper and pulp manufacturers over the entire country. In 1895 he resigned his position as general man- ager of the Howland Falls Paper & Pulp Company, and sold out all his interests in the other mills as enumerated, and devoted his time to the oversight of the Katahdin Pulp & Paper Company of Lincoln, Maine, of which he was general manager. He was made a director of the Merchants' National Bank, and a member of the executive board of the East- ern Trust and Banking Company, both of Bangor. He was appointed a state survey commissioner. He was the Republican repre- sentative from the Howland and Lincoln dis- tricts in the Maine state legislature, 1895-98, serving one term from each district, and he was state senator from the Bangor district, 1899-1902, a member of Governor Hills' council, 1903-04, and of Governor Cobb's council, 1905-06, being chairman of the coun- cil during the years of 1905-06 of the last named governor. He was instrumental in 1905 in obtaining an appropriation from the state legislature to build a bridge across the Penobscot river at Howland, Maine, and he was made a member of the commission ap- pointed to plan and superintend its construc- tion. He discharged this duty to the entire satisfaction of the public." He is a thirty-sec- ond degree Mason, belonging to Composite Lodge, F. and A. M., La Grange, Maine; Royal Arch Chapter at Mattawamkeag; St. John's Commandery, K. T .; Eastern Star Lodge of Perfection; Palestine - Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Bangor Chapter Rose Croix (Scottish Rite bodies) ; the Maine Con- sistory at Portland and the Mystic Shrine at Lewiston, Maine. He is also a useful mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias.
He married, December 5, 1880, Hattie T., daughter of Josiah B. Harthorn, of Bangor, Maine, and their children are: Sidney Mor- rison, a graduate of the University of Maine, and Hattie Harthorn, educated in the public. grammar and high schools of Bangor, and Miss Porter's School of Farmington, Con- necticut. James Morrison, father of Helen Ewing ( Morrison) Jones, and maternal grand- father of Nathaniel Morrison Jones, was a Presbyterian divine of Glasgow, Scotland, and in the middle of the nineteenth century went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was
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a professor in the theological school of the Presbyterian church. He was later sent to Bermuda, where he built the first Presbyterian church erected in Bermuda.
TEMPLETON The surname Templeton is of local origin. There is a village of this name in Devonshire, and another in Pembrokeshire, and the family originally took the name of the place, after a common custom, when adopting a surname. The family of Templeton in Scot- land bore these arms as early as the sixteenth century : Gules a temple argent on a chief sable a star or. The English family bears : Azure a fess or in a base a church argent. Crest : A holy lamb regardant argent sus- taining over the shoulder a banner gules. The word originally meant, of course, a town in which a temple or church was located.
(I) Adam Templeton was of the Scotch family, from a branch located in Ulster with the Scotch Presbyterians. The family had not been in Ireland long before he came to America. Even he himself may have been born in Scotland. The family is still some- what numerous in county Antrim. Adam Templeton came from Ireland with his brother-in-law, Alexander Simpson, about 1735 or a little later, and both settled in Wind- ham, a part of the original New Hampshire colony of Scotch-Irish. He bought nine and three-quarters acres of land of James Wilson for one hundred and ten pounds, old tenor, November 24, 1747, and located with Simpson in the meadow southeast of Robert Simpson's house, where each built a log cabin. Temple- ton afterwards built a house in a more health- ful locality near the present Robert Simpson house. He was a wheelwright by trade and made spinning wheels used by all the early settlers. He carried his wheels about on horseback through the section and sold them to the Scotch settlers, at the same time that he was struggling to clear his farm. His name appears on the town records as early as 1753 and as late as 1776. He went to Antrim in his old age and died there at the home of his son Matthew in 1795, aged eighty-four years. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Daniel lived in Hillsborough, but died or removed before 1790 from the state of New Hampshire. 3. James, resided in Peter- borough, New Hampshire; removed to Mont- pelier, Vermont, in 1800, and died there in 1807; married Jennet --- -; children : i. Agnes, born September 24, 1758; ii. Mary, April 10, 1760 ; iii. William, October 24, 1762,
married Mary Moore, of Sharon; iv. John, November 14, 1764; v. Jenny, 1766, married Charles McCoy. 4. Matthew, born in Ireland and came to Windham with his parents, was a soldier in the French and Indian wars in 1758, was constable, removed to Peter- borough as ,carly as 1770 and to Antrim in 1775; married Jennie Harkness, who died 1780, aged forty-three ; he returned to Peters- borough in 1784 and died there May 30, 1809, aged seventy-three; a very rigid and stern Presbyterian ; children : i. Betsey, born 1770, married John Holmes and settled in Mont- pelier ; ii. Samuel, 1772, married Jane Miller and succeeded to the homestead; iii. Jean, 1774, married Hugh Miller, of Peterborough, and died June 9, 1845; v. Jennie, 1778, at Antrim, died unmarried February 19, 1849.
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