Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 66

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818

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widower when he came over with his brother and son.

(II) John, son of Robert Pease, the immi- grant, and the only child of whom the records give us any account, was born in England, probably about 1630, for he is mentioned as having been four years old when his father came to this country. He was John Pease, of Salem, Massachusetts, and Enfield, Con- necticut, progenitor of most of the New Eng- land families of that name, as well as many of those of New York and New Jersey. He married (first) Mary Goodell, who died in 1669, soon after the birth of her fifth child. Married (second) Ann, daughter of Isaac Cummings, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, and soon afterward removed to Enfield, where he died. He had five children by his first and three by his second wife : John, Robert, Mary, Abraham, Jonathan, James, Isaac and Abi- gail.

(III) Jonathan, son of John and Mary (Goodell) Pease, was born in Salem, Massa- chusetts, January 2, 1669, and died in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1721. Although a minor in 1689, at the time of his father's death, he seems to have presented the inventory of his estate and gave bond in the sum of three hun- dred pounds for the faithful discharge of the duties of administrator. He married, Octo- ber II, 1692, Elizabeth Booth, who is said to have been a daughter of Simeon Booth, who came to America from Wales and settled in Enfield in 1680. The children of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Booth) Pease were Rebecca, Jonathan, David, Samuel, John (a soldier of the French and Indian war and killed at Fort Dummer in 1725), Josiah, Peletiah and Eliza- beth. Of these children Jonathan and David were progenitors of the Pease families of New Jersey, concerning whom one writer of the family history says "there seems to have been two branches of them, but they were related. One branch is traced back to three brothers, Cornelius, Adam and Jonathan." This Jonathan was captain of a company of New Jersey troops during the revolution and took part in the battle of Monmouth. He died without issue. On the same subject another writer says: "We have for some time been inclined to the opinion that the New Jersey Peases came originally from Enfield, Con- necticut. John R. Pease, of Hartford, Con- necticut, has recently informed us that he re- members of hearing Mr. John Pease, the con- fectioner, inform his father, the late Dr. John C. Pease, that his ancestor came from En- field. It seems probable that they belong to

the descendants of Jonathan, the fourth son of John Pease, senior, of Enfield."

(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan ( I) and Elizabeth ( Booth) Pease, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1696, and is believed to have been progenitor of one branch of the Pease family of New Jersey. Concerning him a contemporary writer says "we have no his- tory of him after 1726. His name is men- tioned in the settlement of his father's estate, and on January 7, 1726, he had letters of ad- ministration granted him on the estate of his brother John." As this Jonathan is believed to have founded one branch of the New Jer- sey Pease family this record is made of him, but it is not understood that he was the imme- diate ancestor of the family treated in this narrative.

(IV) David, son of Jonathan ( I) and Eliz- abeth (Booth) Pease, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1698. He "emigrated to the southern states and settled there and had a family," says the history of Enfield. Refer- ring to him another account says "it seems probable that he left Enfield not long after the death of his father," and "if he only re- moved to New Jersey it might have been said in those times that he went to the southern states."

(V) Cornelius, who is believed to have been a son of David Pease, was born April 1, 1735, and with his brothers Adam and Jonathan settled in Freetown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where they were farmers and exten- sive landowners. Jonathan, as has been men- tioned, was the revolutionary officer, and died without issue. Adam married and had sons David and John, and three daughters. Cor- nelius married, July 11, 1758, Elizabeth Clark, and had five sons and three daughters. The sons were David, John C., William, Adam and Josiah.

(VI) Josiah, son of Cornelius and Eliza- beth (Clark). Pease, was born and spent his life in Monmouth county, New Jersey. He is remembered as a man of excellent princi- ples and was highly respected for his charac- ter and worth. He married (first) Elizabeth Anderson, and after her death married Eliza- beth He had six children: John A., Elizabeth, William, Martha Ann, Charlotte and Cornelius.

(VII) William, son of Josiah and Eliza- beth (Anderson) Pease, was born near Free- hold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, No- vember 17, 1806, and died in Verona, New Jersey, February 19, 1895. He was engaged in the shipping business in New York City,

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was a capable and straightforward business man and held the confidence of all with whom he became acquainted. In religious preference he was a Baptist, conscientious and consist- ent in his daily walk, and in politics was a fırın Democrat. Mr. Pease married, in Kings- ton, Ulster county, New York, January 10, 1833, Caroline A. Silkworth, born New York City, October 10, 1815, died Verona, New Jersey, October 26, 1887. Her ancestors were of English stock and on coming to America settled first in Canada, removing thence to Ulster county, New York. Her great-grand- father, William Silkworth, was a soldier in the American army during the revolution. William and Caroline A. (Silkworth) Pease had nine children: I. John A., born New York City, December 23, 1833, married (first) September 6, 1852, Harriet L. DuBois, died Brooklyn, New York, June 2, 1900; married (second) October 16, 1901, Harriet Heyman. 2. Maria Elizabeth, born Brook- lyn, October 31, 1835, died there April 9, 1836. 3. Caroline Augusta, born Brooklyn, March 17, 1837, married, in Verona, New Jersey, January 14, 1863, Sidney S. Arm- strong. 4. Julia Maria, born New York City, February 8, 1839, married, in Verona, May 5, 1864, Alfred D. Willifer, who died in Au- gust, 1907. 5. William H., born New York City, March 29, 1841. 6. Emma Jane, born Brooklyn, June 1, 1844, married, in Verona, June 19, 1873, Albion H. Barter, of St. George, Maine. 7. Cassie Elizabeth, born Verona, August 18, 1846, died there June 27, 1873. 8. Gilbert Browne, born Verona, Feb- ruary 5, 1850, married, in Mont Clair, New Jersey, April 18, 1892, Mary E. Unger, of Mont Clair. 9. Sarah Frances, born Verona, May 1, 1852, married, in Verona, November 23, 1871, Austin G. Jacobs, who died in Jan- uary, 1905.

(VIII) Rev. William Henry, son of Wil- liam and Caroline A. (Silkworth) Pease, was born in New York City, March 29, 1841, died in Portland, Maine, January 23, 1904. He was educated at Colgate University, gradu- ating from there with the class of 1868. He entered the ministry and during the civil war was chaplain of a New York regiment. After leaving the army he devoted himself earnestly to the work of the ministry and filled pas- torates successively about as follows: Jay, Cold Spring, Groton, Jordan and Johnson Creek, New York: Somerset, Massachusetts ; and Block Island, Rhode Island. On August II, 1868, at Hancock, New York, Mr. Pease married Frances Lodema Hyatt, born in Law-

rence, New York, August 15, 1846, daughter of Nelson G. and Mary M. (Wilsey) Hyatt, of Hancock. Her father, Nelson G. Hyatt, was born in Otego, Otsego county, New York, and her mother, Mary ( Wilsey) Hyatt, was a native of Rensselaerville, Rensselaer county, New York. They had only one child, Harry Hyatt Pcase, see forward.

(IX) Harry Hyatt, only son and child of Rev. William Henry and Frances Lodema (Hyatt) Pease, was born in Hancock, Dela- ware county, New York, May 22, 1871, and received his education in public schools, Dean Academy at Franklin, Massachusetts, Peddie Institute at Hightstown, New York, where he was a student one year, and at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where he took a thorough commercial course. His business career was begun as travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Company, of Boston, and in the latter part of May, 1893, he went to Portland, Maine, and established the branch house of the company in that city, of which he has since had the management. Mr. Pease is a Mason, member of Atlantic Lodge, and a Knight of Pythias, member of Columbus Lodge, No. 33, of Block Island, Rhode Island. In politics he is a Republican, but takes little active part in public affairs. He married, at Block Island, October 6, 1891, Charity Littlefield, born April 22, 1871, daugh- ter of Ray S. and Sophronia (Rose) Little- field. For many years Mr. Littlefield was en- gaged in mercantile pursuits, also was post- master, and one time a member of the state senate. He had two children, Harold R., who married Ada Littlefield, and Charity, who be- came Mrs. Pease. Mr. and Mrs. Pease have one child, William Ray Pease, born March 7, 1893.

(By John T. Hyatt.) This name is quite common in HYATT England, both in modern times and on the old records. It oc- curs frequently in the records of wills in Doc- tors Commons, London, as Hyat and Hyett. The earliest representative of the family in America is Thomas Hyatt (the first), called "Brother" in the will of John Russell, of Dor- chester, Massachusetts, who died August 26, 1633. The name of this ancestor, Thomas Hyatt, appears of record at a town meeting of the early settlers held at Stamford, Connecti- cut. A town meeting held at that place, De- cember 7, 1641, granted him and others "be- sides house lotts as other men * * * every one of them twoe acres, and 3 acres

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wood land in the feiled now to be enclosed." He held a Squire's Commission from the Crown.

"Thomas Hiout" was a witness in Stam- ford, February 26, 1647. His name appears on the Stamford records in boundaries of land several times in 1649, and 1650. Sometimes it was spelled "Tjomas Hyout" and "Tjomas Hyat." He bought seven and one-half acres of upland in "Rocky Necke," April 3, 1650. The Stamford records state that "Thos. Hyat died 9 Sept. 1656," and an inventory of his estate amounting to 132 pounds 2 shillings 3 pence was filed in the court at Stamford on June 16, 1662. After deducting the widow's third there remained "in ye hands of Cor- nelius Jones ye sume of 88 pounds, I shilling and 6 pence," as portions to be divided amongst the six children according to law. The published records of New Haven Colony also mention this inventory of the estate of "Thomas Hyatt," late of Stamford. Cor- nelius Jones, administrator of his estate, mar- ried the widow "Elizabeth Hyat," October 6, 1657, and in 1669 and 1674 three of the chil- dren signed receipts to their stepfather Cor- nelius Jones for their respective shares in the estate of their father "Thomas Hyatt." These receipts are copied on the same page with those of the children of Simon Hoyt; but they were evidently written in later with different ink, in the vacant spaces left at the bottom of the pages. The name of Thomas Hyatt is printed Hoyt in the "List of Pioneers," his- tory of Stamford, but it is not so written on

records, and we find no descendants of Thomas who bear any other name than Hyatt, and the various modifications, to wit: Hyat, Hyet, Hiet, Hiout, etc., except in one or two entries where Hoit is plainly an error for Hyatt.

The names of the children of Thomas Hyatt, as given in the history of Stam- ford, are as follows: I. Caleb Hyatt, receipt to his stepfather, dated December 23, 1661. 2. Ruth Hyatt; she married John Wescott be- fore February 9, 1667. 3. Debora Hyatt; she received her portion of her father's estate, November 30, 1669, with the consent of her guardian, Mr. Richard Lays. 4. John Hyatt, of Stamford, sold land in Stamford to John Weed in 1668, recorded in 1669. The name of John Hyatt occurs as a witness to deeds in Stamford in 1678 and 1680. He had re- moved from Stamford, Connecticut, to Yonk- ers, New York, some time before July 6, 1689, at which time he discharged his step-

father, Cornelius Jones, of Stamford, from all claims of inheritance, according to Stamford records. 5. Rebecca Hyatt. She received her share of her father's estate October 13, 1674, as appears on the records at Stamford. 6. Thomas Hyatt (2). He received his share of his father's estate, October 21, 1674, as appears by the Stamford records. He was a witness in Stamford, January, 1681.

(II) Thomas (2) Hyatt moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. He was there as early as Feb- ruary, 1671, when his name appears on the town table of estates. He married Mary Sention, daughter of Mathias Sention, of Norwalk, "about the Ioth of Nov. 1677," and his home lot is mentioned in that year. Seven acres of land were granted to him by a vote of the town in January, 1676, on account of his valiant services as "a souldier in the In- dian Warres," and he was known as Captain Thomas Hyatt. This land was exchanged in 1682. He bought land in 1679; drew lot No. 22 "over Norwalk River," December, 1687, and his name is on the table of the estates dated January, 1687, and on the list of voters at town meetings in Norwalk, December, 1694. Captain Thomas Hyatt died intestate sometime before March 28, 1698, at which time the inventory of his estate was filed at Fairfield. The estate was distributed in 1718. His widow, Mary Hyatt, survived him. Sev- eral tracts of his land were recorded after his death, and following the custom of ancient spelling, his name is variously spelled on the records, Hyatt, Hyat, Hyett, Hyet, Hiett, Hiet, Hiot, Hyot, and in a single instance on the probate records Hoit. Thomas and Mary Hyatt, of Norwalk, had children: Rebecca, Thomas (3), Maria, Ruth, Sarah, John, Eliza- beth, Ebenezer and Millison. The names of all these children appear on the probate rec- ords in 1698.

(III) Thomas (3) Hyatt was born at Nor- walk, Connecticut, about 1680. He received a royal patent for land at Rye in 1710. Af- ter his marriage he moved to Ridgefield as early as 1715, when land was entered on the Norwalk records. A deed from Thomas Hyatt of Ridgefield dated 1718 was recorded at Nor- walk, December, 1721. His will dated June IO, 1759, proved February 5. 1760, is recorded at Danbury. In it he mentions his wife, Ex- perience, and the following children: Han- nah, Mary, Elizabeth, Zibiah, Rebecca and his only son, Thomas Hyatt (4). One of the daughters of Thomas Hyatt (the third) mar- ried a man by the name of St. John, some of

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the descendants of whom are farmers living in Otego, New York, and one of them is a banker and lives in New York City.

(IV) Thomas (4) Hyatt was born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1729. In his will probated at Norwalk in 1800, he mentions his children as follows : Elvin, Samuel, my great-grandfather; Jessie, Stephen, Gilbert, Betty, Susanna and Hannah. Thomas Ilyatt married Elsie Smith, daughter of a prominent family, and we find the names of Smith Hyatt and Hyatt Smith were common in the family during this generation.

(V) Samuel, son of Thomas (4) Hyatt, was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, March 20, 1759, and died at Otego, New York, October 14, 1831. He married Julia Pope in the year 1783, when she was twenty-three years old. Although but a lad when the revolution broke out, he joined the Continental army and was subsequently made chief of an observation corps whose duty it was to keep track of and report the movements of the enemy. He served throughout the war, and his daring and numerous hairbreadth escapes are a family legendary. About the year 1807 Samuel Hyatt, with a portion of the Pope and St. John families, pushed from Connecticut to Otego, Otsego county, New York, which was then a wilderness, he being among the first set- tlers of that region. Some of these travelers located in the East Otsego Valley, on land later owned by John Wilsey.

From the old family Bible in my possession which belonged to my grandfather, and from memoranda among my father's effects, I have gathered much of the following information about Samuel Hyatt and his children. To Samuel Hyatt and Juda, his wife, were born the following children: 1. Samuel (2) was born August 15, 1785; he had a large family, and died in Otego when about sixty-three years of age. 2. Elsy was born December 23, 1767. She married a man by the name of Faucher, and died at Unadilla, Otsego county, New York, leaving to survive her a family of some size. 3. Thomas (5), my grandfather, of whom I will speak later. 4. Amerilius was born August 15, 1792. She married Cephus Hathaway, who lived near Goatsville, in the town of Otego. To them were born two sons and four daughters. 5. Susan was born Octo- ber 16, 1794. 6. Lewis was born September 23, 1796. He was a Universalist minister, and died in Otsego county, New York, leav- ing to survive him two sons: Charles, who lived at Unadilla ; Frank, a dentist, who lives at Cortland, New York. 7. Betsy, born Octo-

ber 21, 1798. 8. Polly, born December 10, 1800. Susan, Polly and Betsy all married men by the name of Bunnell. Susan and Betsy lived for many years in Maine, Broome county, New York, and died there, Betsy leaving three married daughters living there, and one son, Fitch Bunnell, who lived at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, he having mar- ried a Miss Doebler of that place. Polly died at Butternuts, Otsego county, New York, leaving sons: 9. Charles Smith Hyatt, born August 30, 1802. He died in Delaware county, New York, where his wife, Roxanna, was still living in 1887 with her only daugh- ter. 10. Fitch Hyatt was born March 3, 1805. He lived for many years in Chautauqua county, New York, but died in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1880, leaving three sons : Smith, Williard, Willis, and two daughters. Smith settled in Texas, Willis in Colorado, and Williard in Cambridge, Crawford county, Pennsylvania.

(VI) My grandfather, Thomas (5) Hyatt, second son of Samuel Hyatt, was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, February 28, 1790, and when about seventeen years old moved with his parents to Otego, Otsego county, New York. He served his country as a drummer boy in the war of 1812. He married Sabrina Griffith, of Lawrence, Otsego county, Octo- ber 30, 1813. My grandmother was a daugh- ter of Nijah and Hannah Griffith, and was seventeen years old when married to my grandfather. My grandfather settled upon a farm near his father's home. He erected a saw mill thereon and divided his time between lumbering and farming. After making sev- eral payments on his land, and having lum- ber enough cut, which when sold would pay the balance of his indebtedness, a heavy flood swept away his lumber which caused him to lose his farm, and he had to start life anew. He purchased a farm on the East Osdawa creek, where most of his twelve children were born. He donated the ground whereon is now erected the Christian church of that valley. Among the excellent neighbors of my grand- father, my father mentions Freeman W. Edison, William Brown, Thurston Brown, Samuel Emerson, Lovett Jenks, James Brown and Anson Judson. In 1849 my grandfather sold this farm and moved to Troy, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he bought a farm whereon the railroad depot of that place is now erected, the railroad company having purchased the farm from him. My grand- father then bought from a Mr. Hackett an- other farm, located about one mile north of

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Smithfield Centre, in the same county, and moved upon this farm in the year 1852, where he remained until his death, June 4, 1862, aged seventy-two years three months and seven days. "He died as he had lived, an honest, Christian gentleman," and is buried in the cemetery just east of the village of Smithfield Centre, being at the time of his death a mem- ber of the Disciple Church. To my grand- parents were born the following children :

I. Emeline. born August 3, 1814, died Sep- tember 10, 1814.

2. Nelson G. Hyatt, born October 19, 1815. He married Mary M. Wilsey, of Ctego. New York, January 4, 1838. They subsequently moved to Hancock, New York, where my uncle bought a farm upon which he lived until his death in 1896. He took a prominent part in the affairs of that place, was a fine Christian gentleman, and re- spected by all who knew him. Four daugh- ters and one son were born to this marriage : (a) Lemira was drowned when a child. (b) Edgar joined the Northern army during the civil war, and was killed at Chancellorsville by a shot in the forehead. (c) Euphemia married a Mr. Fleming. (d) Frances Lodema, who was always one of my father's favorites and married a Baptist minister, Wil- liam H. Pease, by name, by whom she had one child, Harry H. Pease, a prominent busi- ness man, now connected with the Vacuum Oil Company, a subsidiary corporation of the Standard Oil Company, at present living at Portland, Maine. (e) Emma, married Charles Nichols, of Hancock, New York.

3. Lewis Burdick Hyatt. He was first mar- ried to Maria K. Smith, of Lawrence, Otsego county, New York, in 1840. She died at Troy, Pennsylvania, as a result of being thrown from a carriage in Springfield, Pennsylvania. Their only daughter, Imogene, is married to Dr. Samuel Reynolds, of Reynoldsville, Jef- ferson county, Pennsylvania. This uncle married for his second wife Emma P., daughter of Judge Bullock, of Smithfield, Pennsylvania, by whom he had two sons : Charles Hyatt and Dr. Stanford Hyatt, and two daughters, Ella and Mary, now residing at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. L. B. Hyatt was a minister of the Disciple church, and during his ministry baptized over 2,500 con- verts.

4. Ezra D. Hyatt was born September 8, 1819, and died at Otego, New York, August 16, 1821.

5. Samuel Hyatt (2), born July 25, 1821, and died at Smithfield Centre, April 4, 1878.

He was a stock dealer by occupation, and on September 29, 1850, he married Elizabeth Aus- tin, of Lewisville, Otsego county, New York, by whom he had three boys and four girls. His widow, the last I knew of her, lived near her daughter, Hattie Phelps, of Phelps, Phelps county, Nebraska.

6. Salina Hyatt was born October 16, 1823, and died at Smithfield Centre, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1875. She married Richard Cope, of Butternuts, New York, by whom she had two sons.

7. Delos Hyatt, born March 28, 1826, and died at Otego, November 10, 1829.

8. Ophelia A. Hyatt was born February 16, 1828, and died at Smithfield, Pennsylvania, April, 1874. She. married Adam Schill, of Smithfield, by whom she had three children.

9. Euphemia G. Hyatt, born January 3, 1830, and died at Otego, Otsego county, New York, February 8, 18.42.

IO. Ely E. Hyatt was born at Otego, Otsego county, New York, June 22, 1832. He was married, November II, 1856, to Emma F. Herr, of Salona, Clinton county, Pennsyl- vania, by whom he had six children : (a) Hattie, intermarried with Elmer Jakeway, now deceased. (b) Charlotte (Lottie), in- termarried with John T. Thompson, by whom she has the following children : Clinton, Ran- dolph, Helen and Emma. Mr. Thompson and family are located at Salona, Pennsylvania. He has been very successful as a lumberman, cattle dealer and farmer, and served a term as Treasurer for Clinton county. (c) George, intermarried with Effie Mckibben, operates a flour mill at Salona, and has the following children : Ely McKibben, Sarah J., Char- lotte M., Georgianna and Fernando P. (d) H. Clinton, intermarried with Marion Brown, is a director of the Lewisburg Trust and Safe Deposit Company; resides at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and has the following children : Ernestine, Eleanore and Brown. (e) Annie, intermarried with Thomas Harris, now living at Tremont, Illinois, and has the following children, Marion and Benjamin. (f) Jennie, intermarried with Charles Krape, a merchant, lives at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and has one child, Charles, by name.

I spent a good deal of my boyhood days with my Uncle Ely, at East Smithfield, Penn- sylvania, where he owned a large farm and dairy ; at Lamar, where he was an ax manu- facturer, and at Salona, when he was retired from business. He also spent considerable spare time with my father at our home, and I learned to love him next only to my father.

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As a young man he went into an enterprise, in which he lost all that he had, and $1,500 besides. Although this venture left him penniless, he did not stop until he had earned and paid back to his creditors every cent that he owed them. He was a man whose word could never be questioned, and whose un- selfishness, charity, and broad sympathy en- deared him to all who came in contact with him. He was a philosopher, and a mathemati- cian that probably knew more of astronomy and higher mathematics than most college pro- fessors. He would get up at two or three o'clock in the morning to study certain stars and constellations which did not appear un- til that time. Often as a boy, when driving with him at night, he would map out the heavens, and explain to me the lore of the celestial bodies. He died at Salona, Pennsyl- vania, where he is buried, in 1894. At the time of his death my father was the American consul, and I vice consul, at Santiago, Cuba. I shall never forget the time when the news of his death reached us. My father closed the doors of the consulate, and his grief was un- consolable. My Uncle Ely's death was an irreparable loss to me.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 66

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 818

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818