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(I) The name of John Woodcock Sr. ranks high among the early colonists of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. In Hotten's Emigration Lists is given a John Woodcock, who emigrated March 20, 1635, from Weymouth, England, to New England, described as being a little over twenty years of age, and this is supposed to be the John referred to. He lived in the North Purchase, at which place he was al- lowed one and one-half acres, by Rehoboth, in 1666. His house was at Ten Mile River, now a part of the town of Attleboro. In 1673 he was made freeman. He was a man of true worth, an enterprising and successful citizen, and a brave soldier. His house was a strate- gic point in Indian warfare in 1676, and many important meetings were arranged for at this place. His house was a landmark for many miles around, and was given prominence in directing the route of travellers who started out from Boston. About 1649 he married Sarah, the mother of his children. She died in 1676, at Attleboro, and by 1692 he had married Joanna, his second wife. His children were : John, Israel, Jonathan, Thomas, a daughter who became the wife of Thomas Estabrook, Mary and Deborah.
(II) Jonathan, third son of John and Sarah Woodcock, married Mary, about 1698, and had children as follows: Deborah, Phoebe, Jonathan, Thomas, Benjamin and William.
(III) Benjamin, third son of Jonathan and Mary Woodcock, was born June 12, 1707, at Attleboro, and died in 1759 or later. He mar- ried Margaret White, and their children were : I. Benjamin, born December 31, 1735. 2. Nathan, January 9, 1737-38. 3. Margaret, August 26, 1740. 4. David, June 4, 1742. 5. John, June 15, 1744. 6. Mary, March 13, 1745-46. 7. Ruth. February 27, 1747-48. 8. A child, June 3, 1750. 9. Hannah, April 29, 1752. 10. Jonathan, April 28, 1753. 1I. Hep- zibah, June 4, 1758.
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(IV) David, third son of Benjamin and Margaret (White) Woodcock, was born June 4, 1742. He was a sergeant in Captain Jacob Ide's company, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, who marched on the alarm of the battle of Bunker Hill. He was also in Captain Stephen Richardson's company in the six weeks cam- paign at Roxbury in 1775, and was one of the company of five months men that "went to Yorke" in 1776. He was sergeant in Captain Alexander Foster's company from Attleboro, in Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment in the campaign at Rhode Island, from July 27 to August 12, 1778. With his wife and six children, he removed from Attleboro to Union, Maine, in 1784, and at once became prominent in the affairs of the town. : He set- tled upon what was called the "Mill Farm," where he built a grist-mill. He was active in church matters, and was one of a committee to raise funds for building a church. He was selectman in 1788, and in 1790 is mentioned as a tithingman; the same year he was ap- pointed by the town as one of a committee to look for a plot of ground and secure it for a burying-ground. He died December 7, 1790, and was the first person interred in this "bury- ing-place." September 17, 1765, he married Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Hastings) Holmes; she was born June 10, 1741, and died September 25, 1823. Their children were: Benjamin, David, Hannah, Linda (Belinda), Nancy, Polly and Theodore. All except the last-named were born at Attle- boro, Massachusetts.
(V) David (2), second son of David (I) and Abigail (Holmes) Woodcock, was born October 23, 1771, at Attleboro, Massachu- setts, and married Aphia Peabody. Their son, Dexter Hatch, was born September II, 1795, and John Thompson was born November 25, 1801, both at Union, Maine. (Further men- tion is made in this article of John Thomp- son Woodcock.)
(VI) Dexter Hatch, elder son of David (2) and Aphia (Peabody) Woodcock, was born September II, 1795, at Union, Maine. In 1821 he married Jane Hovey, and their chil- dren were: Nancy Jane, John Calvin, David James, Dorothy Ann, Aaron Hovey, Hannah Smith, Thomas Jefferson and William Dexter.
(VII) Aaron Hovey, third son of Dexter Hatch and Jane (Hovey) Woodcock, was born February 1I, 1832, at Alexander, Maine, and died in 1906 at Calais, Maine. He was town clerk of Princeton, Maine, about 1870, and was elected from Princeton to the Maine legislature. He married (first) Olive Jane
Gould, born at Baring, Maine. Their chil- dren were: I. Fannie Eva, married E. B. Larrabee, of Carroll, Maine, and has four children. Mrs. Larrabee now resides at Tewksbury, Massachusetts. 2. Lindsay Todd. 3. Edna Gertrude, married Edgar H. Polleys, of Baring, Maine, and has four children. 4. Fidelia Gould. Mr. Woodcock married (sec- ond) Addie Robbins, of Baileyville, Maine, and they had children as follows: I. Dexter. 2. Dora, who died in infancy. 3. Belle, now a teacher in the public schools of Calais, Maine. 4. George W., now residing in Bovie, Minnesota.
(VIII) Lindsay Todd, son of Aaron Hovey and Olive Jane (Gould) Woodcock, was born August 23, 1858, at Baring, Maine. He re- ceived his education in Princeton, Maine, and his first business experience was in a country store. He had charge of the store of F. Shaw & Brother, Grand Lake Stream, Maine, for some time, until he removed to Chicago, in 1876. In the following year he entered the service of Field Leiter & Company, in their retail store, and he has continued ever since in the employ of that firm and its successor, Marshall Field & Company." In 1878 he be- came assistant manager of the ribbons, jew- elry, fans and umbrella sections, and three years later became manager of these depart- ments. In 1889 he became superintendent of the retail establishment, and by his enterprise and zeal has contributed largely to the suc- cess of the firm. In January, 1907, he was made general manager of the retail store. He is a member of the New England Society, also of Sons of American Revolution. He is a director of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation of Oak Park, also of the Presbyterian League of Chicago. He is a member of Oak Park Club of Oak Park, the Westward Ho Golf Club of Oak Park, and the Union League Club of Chicago. Mr. Woodcock is also director of the Oak Park Trust & Sav- ings Bank. He married, at Chicago, June 3, 1884, Maude H., daughter of Charles K. and Josephine (Abbott ) Waterhouse. She was born January 2, 1865, at Boston, Massachu- setts. Their children are: I. Robert Lind- say, born September 21, 1886. 2. Marjorie Louise, December 28, 1891. 3. Helen Gladys, April 12, 1894. 4. Lois Todd, October 29, 1899.
(VI) John Thompson, son of David (2) and Aphia (Peabody) Woodcock, was born November 25, 1801, at Union, Maine. He married, November 16, 1826, Harriet Jones, of Robinston, Maine, and their children were :
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I. Alfred Carpenter, born March 16, 1828. 2. Sarah Ann, August 31, 1830. 3. Caroline · Thaxter, October 11, 1832. 4. John Leigh- ton, January 30, 1836. 5 and 6. Elizabeth McAllister and Mary Brook, October 3, 1838. 7. Belinda Thompson, February 14, 1841. 8. Abigail Howe, April 26, 1844.
(VII) John Leighton, second son of John Thompson and Harriet (Jones) Woodcock, was born January 30, 1836. After attending the public schools of Calais, Maine, he went to St. Stephens Academy for a short time, after which he engaged in mercantile busi- ness at Calais. In 1856 he removed to Chi- cago, Illinois, and remained in that city for three years, when he returned to Maine. In 1867 he came to Chicago again, and was for thirty-five years engaged in conducting vari- ous hotels. He was one of the firm of Wood- cock & Loring, who kept the Matteson House, corner Jackson street and Wabash avenue, also the Clifton House, corner of Monroe street and Wabash avenue. Mr. Woodcock was very successful in these enterprises, and in December, 1892, sold his interests and re- tired. He is a Republican in political views, and is a member of the Union Park Congre- gational Church. His residence is No. 1218 Washington Boulevard. He married Elsie Watts, daughter of Samuel W. and Mary B. Haycock, of Calais, Maine, and their children are : I. Charles Price, born October 15, 1860, at Calais, Maine; secretary of firm of E. Schneider & Company, Chicago; married Jeannet Service ; one child, William Price. 2. Samuel Jones, July II, 1862, died August 22, 1863. 3. Elsie Gertrude, June 7, 1864. 4. Har- riet Farrar, September 12, 1866. 5. Alfred Kimball, September 21, 1868, at Chicago; is a resident of Kansas City, Missouri; married Jessie Jackson and they have two children : Willis J. and Charles J. 6. Robert Hill, Au- gust 12, 1870, at Chicago ; he is a resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is employed in the treasurer's office of Allis-Chalmers Company; married Alma Wilson and they have one son, Robert. 7. John Thompson, April 2, 1874, at Chicago, and is now a resi- dent of the state of Idaho; married Grace Gardner and they have one child, Ruth Alden. 8. Ralph Emerson, January 21, 1878, died Jan- uary 14, 1883. 9. Grace Loring, September 16, 1884.
In England the family of Richards were principally RICHARDS yeomen, gentleman farmers and merchants engaged in shipping trade.
On the 3Ist of March, 1632, at Exeter, Eng- land, a license to marry was given to James Richards (I), of Silverton, Devonshire, and Wilmot Digon. Of the eight children born of this marriage, the one in whom this article is interested is the sixth child and fifth son, Henry.
(II) Henry, fifth son of James and Wilmot (Digon) Richards, was born in Silverton and baptized in the church at that place, April 16, 1634. He married Dorothy Pease, and had nine children.
(III) James (2), eldest son of Henry and Dorothy (Pease) Richards, lived and died in Silverton, England. He married and had four children.
(IV) John, eldest son of James (2) and Richards, of London and Edmonton, was a merchant in London, and there carried on an extensive shipping trade with Spain and her colonies. He married Dorothy, daughter of Joshua Galliard. He died in August, 1736.
(V) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Dorothy (Galliard) Richards, was baptized March 4, 1737, in the church at Edmonton, England. He owned the estate of North House, Catherington, in Hambledon, Hamp- shire, England, on which he lived as a gentle- man farmer. He married Maria Downman, who died in Hambledon, November 1I, 1826, having outlived her husband seven years, he having died at that place, July 27, 1819. The children of John and Maria (Downman) Rich- ards were: John, Richard, George, Dorothy, Maria, Anne, Frances.
(VI) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and Maria (Downman) Richards, of North House, Catherington, was born in Hambledon, Hants, May 9, 1768, and died in London, March 26, 1835. In his youth he came to this country in the employ of the Barings, and was afterwards a merchant in Boston, living on Chestnut street, where he was a friend and patron of Gilbert Stuart, the painter, whose portraits of members of the family are con- sidered his greatest works (vid. Century Cy- clopedia of Names). He married Susan Coffin, youngest daughter of Stephen Jones, of Machias, Maine, judge of probate court of Calais, Maine. His children were: John, George, Francis, Henry, Maria Downman, Charles Jones. After the panic of 1817 he re- turned to England, and lived with his sisters on his estate at North House.
(VII) Francis, son of John (3) and Susan (Coffin) Richards, was born in Gouldsboro, Maine, May 13, 1805. He was educated at Hyde Abbey school, near Winchester, Eng-
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land, and returned to New England in or about the year 1827, living in Calais, Maine, where in company with his twin brother Henry, who accompanied him to America, he found employment on the Bingham estate in that place. They subsequently engaged in the lumber trade, manufacturing lumber on a large scale, and continued in this business up to 1832, when Francis removed to Gardiner, Maine, at the solicitation of his wife's uncle, Frederick Tudor, and engaged with him in the ice business. The business was ruined by the experiment of shipping ice to the West Indies and by the loss of the ice plant on the Kennebec river by a freshet. Mr. Richards then returned to England, where he studied the principles of the manufacture of paper, and acquiring the art in a paper mill in Eng- land he returned to Maine and started a paper mill in Gardiner with a partner, the firm be- ing Richards & Hoskins. They continued the business 1853-58, and in the latter year the firm was dissolved by the death of Mr. Rich- ards. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church of Gardiner, was warden of Christ Church, and a prominent church worker in the diocese of Maine. He was married, September 18, 1832, to Anne Hallowell Gardiner, daughter of Robert Hal- lowell and Emma Jane ( Tudor) Gardiner, of Oaklands, Gardiner, Maine. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 5, 1807, died in Paris, France, 1876. The death of Francis Richards occurred in Gardiner, Maine, 1858. He had children: Francis Gardiner, George Henry, Sarah Sullivan, John Tudor, Robert Hallowell, Henry.
(VIII) Henry, youngest son of Francis and Anne Hallowell (Gardiner) Richards, was born in Gardiner, Maine, July 17, 1848. He received his primary and secondary school training in Gardiner ; his intermediate course of instruction at Wellington College, Woking- ham, Berkshire, England, taking a five years course in that institution ; prepared for matric- ulation at Harvard College at Dixwell's school in Boston; was graduated at Harvard Uni- versity, A.B., 1869; took a post-graduate course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He practiced this profession in Boston up to 1876, when he re- turned to Gardiner, where in company with his brothers, Francis G. and John Tudor, he took up the paper manufacturing business founded by his father which had been pur- chased from the estate by Francis G. and was carried on by him under the firm name of Richards & Company until his death in 1884.
It was then formed into a joint stock com- pany known as the Richards Paper Company, and so continued up to 1900, when the busi- ness was consolidated with the International Paper Company, that great corporation pur- chasing the property. Henry Richards then engaged in architectural business during the winter season, and during the summer carries on a summer camp for boys at Great Pond in Belgrade, Maine. He has always been inde- pendent of political parties, voting for men and measures rather than with party organi- zations. He has served as chairman of the Gardiner school board ; trustee of the Gardiner Water District ; director of the Public Library of Gardiner ; member of the city council. He is a communicant of Christ Church, Gardiner, and served as a vestryman for many years. He was married June 17, 1871, to Laura Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, of Boston. Laura E. was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 27, 1850; she was educated in private schools in Boston, and became widely known by her books, written principally for the young. Among the titles with year of first publica- tion are : "Sketches and Scraps," 1881 ; "Five Mice in a Mouse Trap," 1883; "The Joyous Story of Toto," 1885; "Toto's Merry Winter," 1887; "Queen Hildegarde," 1889; "Captain January," 1890; "In My Nursery," 1890; "Hildegarde's Holiday," 1891; "Hildegarde's Home," 1892; "When I Was of Your Age," 1893; "Glimpses of the French Court," 1893; "Melody," 1893; "Marie,"' 1894; "Nautilus," 1895; "Jim of Hellas," 1895; "Five Minute Stories," 1895; "Hildegarde's Neighbors," 1895; "Narcissa," 1896; "Some Day," 1896; "Isla Heron," 1896; "Three Margarets,' 1897; "Hildegarde's Harvest," 1897; "Rosin the Beat," 1898; "Margaret Montfort," 1898; "Love and Rocks," 1898; "Quicksilver Sue," 1899; "Peggy," 1899; "Rita," 1900; "For Tommy," 1900; "Snow White," 1900; "Fernly House," 1901 ; "Geoffry Strong," 1901; "Mrs. Tree," 1902; "The Hurdy-Gurdy," 1902; "Mrs. Tree's Will," 1905; "The Journal and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe," 1906; "The Wooing of Calvin Parks," 1908: "The Golden Windows," 1903; "The Silver Crown," 1906; "The Piccolo," 1906; "Grandmother," 1907.
Samuel Gridley Howe, the father of Laura Elizabeth (Howe) Richards, was born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, November 10, 1801, son of Joseph N. and Patty (Gridley ) Howe. He was graduated at Brown University, A.B., 1821, and at Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1824. He was a member of the Patriot army
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in Greece, fighting for the freedom of that ancient country, 1824-30, and was surgeon of the Greek naval fleet, 1827-30. He visited the United States in 1827 and raised funds for the relief of famine stricken people of the land whose cause he had espoused, and later founded a colony of Greeks on the Isthmus of Corinth. In 1830 he returned to Boston, and, under Dr. Fisher's suggestion, prepared to start a school for the blind. With this end in view he visited Europe in 1831 to study the methods there in use for educating the blind. While in Paris his sympathies were enlisted in behalf of the Polish patriots, and he was made president of a committee organized for their relief by General Lafayette. While carrying the relief thus raised to a detachment of the Polish army he was arrested by the Prussian government, imprisoned for six weeks, and then conveyed to the frontier of France and liberated, after being forbidden to return within the Prussian borders. Having fulfilled his mission for the Polish Relief Committee, he returned to Boston to take up the more peaceful work of educating the blind, and there started in his father's house the school which was the foundation of what is now known as the Perkins Institution and Massa- chusetts Asylum for the Blind, of which he was superintendent for forty-five years, up to the time of his death. His greatest achieve- ment in this undertaking was the education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the blind and deaf mute, and the attention this remarkable ac- complishment called to his success, brought him pupils, endowments and patrons that in- sured his success. He also organized and founded the Massachusetts School for Idiots and Feeble-minded Youth, and he was super- intendent also of that institution 1848-75. (vid. The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe, ed. Laura E. Richards.) He married, in 1843, Julia Ward, the well known author, woman suffragist and reformer, best known popularly as the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," who in 1908, when eighty- nine years of age, was still actively engaged in her philanthropic work and an eloquent speaker before public assemblages. Mrs. Rich- ards is a writer of rare force, and her two score and more books for the young, and her innumerable short articles in prose and verse, which find place in current literary journals all over the English speaking world, are lov- ingly drawn from the beautiful home life en- joyed at Gardiner. Her parents named her Laura as a compliment to Laura Dewey Bridg- man (1829-1889).
The seven children of Henry and Laura E. Richards are: I. Alice Maud, born in Bos- ton, July 24, 1872, now a teacher in the Gardi- ner high school. 2. Rosalind, born June 30, 1874. 3. Henry Howe, born February, 1876, A.B., Harvard, 1898. teacher in Groton school, Groton, Massachusetts. 4. Julia Ward, born in Gardiner, Maine, 1878, married Carleton A. Shaw, teacher, Groton, Massachusetts. 5. Maud, born 1881, died in infancy. 6. John, born February 13, 1884, A.B., Harvard, 1907, student in Harvard Law School. 7. Laura Elizabeth, born February 12, 1886.
SARGENT In the tide of sturdy emi-
grants who left England's shores to settle along the "stern and rockbound coast" of New England in the early part of the seventeeth century was the ancestor of the Sargents, who have thought more about the clearing away of the wilderness, the making of homes and farms, the erection of workshops and factories, the rearing of churches and schoolhouses, and the founding of a great free nation, than of keep- ing a record of their acts. A brief account of some of them is here given. The earliest rec- ord seeming to bear on the origin of the Sar- gent family of this article appears in the Ab- bey church at Bath, England, under date of November 22, 1602, where the record of the marriage of Richard Sargent and Katherine Stevens is set out, and it states further "Ano Dom. 1630, Jenning Walters and Joane Sar- gent were married April 15," and under "Bap- tism," "Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Sargent, 28 day, 1603, October; 1606, June, William the Sonne of Richard Sargent the 28th; March, 1609, Joane the daughter of Richard Sargent was baptised the 26th." No further record of father or son is found there, and it is inferred that they may have gone to London and William shipped from there.
(I) One historian of the Sargent family says: "At first I was not inclined to believe this William was our ancestor, or from this part of England. But since learning that the father of William's first wife, 'Quarter Mas- ter John Perkins,' was at Agawam in August, 1631, a short time after arriving in America, and that he came from near Bath, England, it seems quite probable that if William was from there and with Captain Smith in 1614, when the latter landed at Agawam and wrote up its beauties and advantages, William may have returned and induced John Perkins and others to emigrate." The first record found of Wil- liam is in the general court records of Massa-
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chusetts Colony in April, 1633, where a copy of an act appears to protect him and other grantees of land at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts, in their rights. The next rec- ord is that of his oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1639. It is shown by records and deeds that he was one of the first settlers at Wessa- cucoh, now Newbury, in 1635: at Winnacun- net, now Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1638; at South Merrimac, now Salisbury, Massachu- setts, in 1639, and that "William Sargent, townsman and commissioner of Salisbury," had a tax rate December 25, 1650, of 7s. 4d. He was next located at Salisbury New Town, now Amesbury and Merrimack, in 1655, where he resided until his death in 1675. He is believed to have married Elizabeth Perkins about 1633, as she came with her parents to America in the ship "Lion," in the spring of 1631. She died before September 18, 1670, for William married at that time Joanna Row- ell, who survived him and married Richard Currier, of Amesbury. The children of Wil- liam Sargent seem to have been as follows, but owing to lack and contradiction of records there is uncertainty about them: Mary, Eliza- beth, died young; Thomas, William, Lydia, Elizabeth, died young; Sarah, died young ; Sarah and Elizabeth.
(II) Thomas, third child and eldest son of William and Elizabeth Sargent, was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, June II, 1643, died February 27, 1706; he was a farmer, and re- sided on "Bear Hill." He took the oath of allegiance and fidelity at Amesbury before Major Robert Pike, December 20, 1677 ; held public office, and was quite a prominent man in civil affairs, and a lieutenant in the militia. His will was dated February 8, 1706, and probated at Salem, April 8, 1706. He mar- ried, January 2, 1667, Rachel, born February 3, 1648, daughter of William Barnes, of Amesbury and Salisbury. She died in 1719. Both were buried in the "Ferry Cemetery." Their children were: Thomas, died young ; John, died young; Mary, Hannah, Thomas, Rachel, Jacob, William, Joseph, Judith, died young ; Judith and John.
(III) John, youngest son of Thomas and Rachel ( Barnes) Sargent, was born in Ames- bury, Massachusetts, May 18, 1692. He was a farmer and held the position and rank of captain in the Colonial militia. He married, in Amesbury, January 12, 1713, Hannah Quimby, of Amesbury, born August 23, 1692, and they had eight children. Captain John Sargent died in Amesbury, May 19, 1762, and was buried there. His will was probated in
Salem in 1762. The children of Captain Jolin and Hannah (Quimby ) Sargent were all born in Amesbury, as follows: 1. Mary, Septem- ber 16, 1714, married Stephen Patten. 2. Robert, October 11, 1716, married Anne Cof- fin, of West Newbury, and he died February 20, 1796. 3. Joshua, November 5, 1719, died October 22, 1757. 4 John (q. v.), March 18, 1721. 5. Josiah, March 18, 1724, married Sarah, daughter of Moses and Sarah ( Bag- ley) Sargent, and he died April 17, 1818. 6. Thomas, March 20, 1727, married Sarah Clement, and died March 16, 1794. 7. Han- nah, February 25, 1730, married Mr. Colby. 8. Rachel, February 19, 1732, married Aaron Sawyer, M.D., of Amesbury.
(IV) John (2), third son of Captain John (I) and Hannah (Quimby) Sargent, was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, March 18, 1721. He was a farmer and resided in Methuen after his marriage, February 26, 1746, to Mary Tucker, of Amesbury, and they had ten children, all born in Methuen. Mary (Tucker) Sargent died February 28, 1777, and he married, September 30, 1777, Miriam Swan, of Methuen, by whom he had no chil- dren. The children of John and Mary (Tucker) Sargent were: I. John, born March, 1746, died August 11, 1749. 2. John (q. v.), August 5, 1749. 3. Molly, January 16, 1751. 4. Olive, February 14, 1753, mar- ried John Masten. 5. Ebenezer, October 26, 1755, married Mary March and died Novem- ber 8, 1838. 6. Joshua, November 26, 1757, claimed to have served in the revolutionary war, married Abigail Ladd, and died February 23, 1844. 7. Molly, September 6, 1759. 8. Alice, August 14, 1761, married Jonathan Swan, of Sunberton, New Hampshire. 9. Benjamin, September 2, 1763, married Olive Bodwell, of Methuen. 10. Jacob, August 25, 1765, married Mercy, daughter of James and Meribah (Ordway) Sargent.
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