Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 107

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: 896

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is a progressive business man, and in company with Mr. Gay established the plant of Gay & Foss, shoe manufacturers, now known as Foss, Packard & Company. He was a direc- tor in the First National Bank of Auburn, and a member of the city government. He mar- ried (first) Annie Maria Randall, of Lewis- ton, born December 25, 1824, died January 10, 1879. Their children were: I. Wallace H., born July 25, 1854, married Isabel K. Gould, of Augusta; three children. 2, Wil- lard. 3. Willis Owen. Mr. Foss married (second) Emma Frances King, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(V) Willis Owen, third child of James Owen and Annie M. (Randall) Foss, was born in Auburn, October 16, 1863, and was educated in the public schools and Kent's Hill Seminary, followed by a course in the Boston Business College. He then entered the office of Gay & Foss as bookkeeper and had entire charge of the office until the firm dis- solved. A copartnership was formed between Messrs. James Owen Foss, H. M. Packard, Wallace H. Foss and R. M. Mason. After three years James Owen Foss sold his entire interest to Willis Owen Foss. R. M. Mason remained in the firm a few years and then sold out to the remaining partners. Willis Owen Foss on his long trip south twice a year has built up a large trade with the jobbing houses of the southern states; he also has charge of the buying of the leather for this firm. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Repub- lican. He married, June 3, 1885, Virginia Oakman, daughter of Dr. Andrew M. and Elizabeth (Haskell) Peables. Children : I. Emma King, married Arthur E. Kusterer, and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2. An- drew Peables, at present (1909) learning the business in the factory of his father.

MARSH The family of this name came from England twelve years sub- sequent to the first settlement of Massachusetts. The record of the American ancestor and that of the family into which he married shows plainly that they sought a home in the wilderness of America to escape religious persecution in their native land, and were prepared to endure all the hardships and privations their removal necessitated, provided they could enjoy the freedom they sought. The sterling traits of the ancestors are still visible in the descendants, not a few having made records which entitle them to great credit, notable among these being Professor

Othniel C. Marsh, the celebrated naturalist of Yale College.

(I) John Marsh was born in England, probably in 1618, and resided in Essex county, and is believed to have come to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when seventeen years old. Ac- cording to Barber he was one of the one hun- dred men, women and children led by Rev. Mr. Hooker, in 1636, from Massachusetts Bay, through the woods to Hartford, Connec- ticut. The record states: "Lands were re- corded to John Marsh February, 1639-40, part whereof did belong to John Stone, and were by him given to Samuel Stone, and by said Stone to John Marsh of Hartford, and now belongeth to him and his heirs." Other lands were also given him about the same time. He soon had four allotments in all, amounting to one hundred seventy-two acres. He lived at Hartford from 1636 to 1660. In 1660 he was one of the company which left Hartford and moved up the Connecticut river some forty miles and founded Hadley, Massa- chusetts. There he lived twenty-eight years. He was one of the original members of the church at Northampton, organized June 18, 1661. The first notice of John Marsh in the Hadley records is at the first town meeting held October 8, 1660, when he had land al- lotted to him. In 1675 he was one of the selectmen. He married (first) in Hartford, 1640, Anne, daughter of John Webster, a leading citizen of Hartford, who was deputy governor in 1655 and served as governor in 1656. He led the great removal to Hadley, Massachusetts. Anne (Webster) Marsh died June 9, 1662. He married (second) October 7, 1664, Hepzibah, widow of Richard Lyman, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Hartford. She died April 11, 1683, and John Marsh died September 28, 1688, aged seventy, at Wind- sor, Connecticut, probably while on a visit to his daughter, Hannah Loomis, living there. Children by first wife: John, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, Jonathan, Daniel, Hannah and Grace; by second wife: Lydia. John Marsh also had an adopted daughter, Grace (Martin) Marsh.

(II) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Anne (Webster) Marsh, was born about 1643, in Hartford, Connecticut, and died in 1727, probably in Hartford. He resided on the old Marsh homestead in Hartford, where he was selectman/ 1677-81, and in 1687, in the time of the Charter Oak trouble in 1688-94-1701. In 170I he was one of a committee to build a bridge over the Holhanon river in East Hart- ford. He married (first) November 28, 1666,

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Sarah, daughter of Richard and Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman, of Northampton (Mrs. Ly- man had become his father's second wife), who was born in Hartford, and it was after his marriage that he returned to Hartford. His wife received ten pounds by her mother's will. She died between 1688 and 1707, and he married (second) Susannah, daughter of William Butler, and she died in 1727. Chil- dren by first wife: John, Nathaniel and Jo- seph (twins), Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah (died young), Ebenezer, Hannah, Lydia, Hepzibah and Jonathan. By his second wife: Susan- nah.

(III) Captain Joseph, son of John (2) and Sarah (Lyman) Marsh, was baptized March 5, 1671, in Hartford, Connecticut. He became head of the Lebanon line of the name, and its branches in Vermont and New York states. In 1699 he became a proprietor at Lebanon, Connecticut, and it was like going into a new world. He helped to build the town of Leb- anon, and in doing so his own character was also developed, and the town has been one of note. He became a selectman, and filled that office several successive years. He was known as Mr. Joseph Marsh in 1701, as sergeant in 1710, as lieutenant in 1718, and as captain in 1730. He represented the town in the general court of Connecticut in 1712-16-23-27 and 1731. He and his wife Hannah were admitted to full communion in the Second Church 1725, and his wife and two first children were bap- tized in 1702. He married (first) about 1696, Hannah -, at Hartford; (second) De- cember 14, 1725, Sarah, widow of George Webster. Her will was dated 1759. His children were: Elizabeth, Joseph, Hannah, Pelatiah and Jonathan.

(IV) Jonathan, youngest son of Joseph and Hannah Marsh, was born September 23, 1713, in Lebanon, Connecticut. He married (first) Alice Newcomb, died June 17, 1752; (second) December 4, 1752, Widow Keziah Phelps. Children: Elizabeth, Hannah, John, Abra- ham, Joel, Zebulon, Sarah, Chloe, Alice and Submit.

(V) Colonel Joel, third son of Jonathan and Alice (Newcomb) Marsh, was born June II, 1745, at Lebanon, and died March II, 1807, probably at Bethel, Vermont. He fig- ured largely in the early history of New Con- necticut, not yet Vermont. With his cousin he was an early proprietor of Randolph and Bethel, Vermont. He was captain, major and also colonel early in the revolution. He was a member of the convention to adopt the con- stitution of Vermont. The proprietors of

Bethel voted December 13, 1779, "that Colonel Joel Marsh be an additional proprietor," "and the said Marsh do accept of the Mill Lot which contains 450 acres," also that he "do build a good saw mill by the first day of Sep- tember next and a good grist mill by the first day of November following, upon the for- feiture of five thousand pounds, extraordi- nary Providence excepted." He drove an ox team up the bed of the White river, built a log house, and commenced the mill as sup- posed, in 1780, but the Indians burned Roy- alton in October, and settlers hurried away. He finished the mill in 1781, which was for several years the only one in that region, and Colonel Joel Marsh was known as the miller. Soon after he built the first frame house, which one hundred years after was in a good state of preservation. He married January 25, 1770, Ann - -, born November 18, 1743, died May 6, 1813. Children: Jonathan, Pe- leg Sanford, Mary, John, Ann, Joel and Ma- son.

(VI) Joel (2), fourth son of Joel (I) and Ann Marsh, was born October 28, 1783, at Bethel, Vermont. He married, and had one son and two daughters.

(VI) Joel (2), second son of Joel (I) and Ann Marsh, was born October 28, 1783, at Bethel, Vermont. He spent some years near the home of his ancestors in Leicester, Massa- chusetts, and passed the last years of his life in Maryland. He married, December 25, 1806, Elizabeth Stetson; children: Leban Stetson, Rachel, Welcome, Douglas and Avis.

(VII) Welcome, second son of Joel and Elizabeth (Stetson) Marsh, was born May 27, 18II, in Leicester, and married (inten- tions published May 14, 1837) Harriet W. Jenneson, of Paxton, Massachusetts ; children : George E. and Albert Stetson.

(VIII) George Edgar, elder son of Wel- come and Harriet N. (Jenneson) Marsh, was born February 8, 1840, in Leicester and passed his life there. He became manager of a card clothing business. He was a Congre- gationalist, and an earnest supporter of the Republican party. He married Mandana Eliz- abeth White, born February 12, 1844, in Leicester, daughter of Alonzo and Elizabeth Davis White, the former a native of Almon. New York, and the latter of Oakham, Massa- chusetts; children: Edward Leicester, Har- riett, Arthur White, Ruth Louise and George Albert.

(IX) George Albert, youngest child of George Edgar and Mandana (White) Marsh, was born July 15, 1875, in Leicester, Massa-

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chusetts, where his early years were spent and his education began in the public schools. He was subsequently a student at Worcester Academy and Colburn Classical Institute, and graduated from Colby College with the de- gree of Master of Arts in 1901. He began business life as a salesman of gas and elec- trical fixtures, and is now engaged in their manufacture, and makes a specialty of bronze and wrought iron work. He is a member of Delta Kappa Upsilon fraternity, but is not associated with other societies of any kind. His family attends the Congregational church. He is an earnest Republican, but gives little time to political matters. He married, Sep- tember 12, 1904, at Portland, Maine, Rhena Louise Clark, daughter of Isaac Francis and Julia Winslow Clark, of Portland, former manager of the Portland Poultry Company. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have a daughter, Louise Clark, born July 20, 1907, in Weehawken, New Jersey.

WHITE The great number of persons in the New England and western states whose surname is White are descended in most instances from John White, of Salem, Massachusetts, 1638, or from William White, of Ipswich, Massachu- setts, 1635. Both were progenitors of a mul- titude of descendants, and number among them many of the most active and prominent participants in the social, religious and civil affairs of the communities and common- wealths in which they lived. An earlier line of this name which is not so numerously rep- resented, but has furnished numerous citizens of the highest character follows.

(I) William White, son of Bishop John White, was among that little flock of non- conformists who, under the pastoral care of Rev. John Robinson, went from England to Holland in order that they might worship God unmolested according to the dictates of their conscience, and he subsequently accom- panied them on their pilgrimage to the New World in the "Mayflower." At Leyden, July I, 1612, he was married, by Pastor Robinson, to Susannah, sister of Samuel Fuller, also a "Mayflower" Pilgrim. Susanna became the mother of two children: Resolved and Pere- grine. Resolved was born in Holland, about the time when the decision was reached to seek a permanent resting place on the other side of the Atlantic, and he was no doubt named in commemoration of that event. The name of Peregrine signifies a pilgrim or stranger. The birth of Peregrine took place

in the cabin of the "Mayflower," in Novem- ber, 1620, after the ship had anchored tem- porarily in the harbor of what is now Prov- incetown. William White died in Plymouth, March 14, 1621, and May 12 following his widow Susanna married Edward Winslow, afterward governor of Plymouth Colony. She died in October, 1682.

(II) Peregrine White went with the fam- ily of Governor Winslow to Green Harbor (Marshfield), about 1632. In 1647 he mar- ried Sarah, daughter of William and Eliza- beth Bassett, who arrived at Plymouth in the "Fortune" in 1621. His children were: Dan- iel, Sarah, Mercy, Jonathan, Peregrine, and Silvanus.

(III) Daniel, eldest child of Peregrine and Sarah (Bassett) White, was born in 1649, in Marshfield, where he made his home through life. He married, 1674, Hannah Hunt, of Duxbury, a descendant of William Hunt, who came from England in 1635, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where he first lived in a wigwam. He died in Marshfield, May 6, 1724, aged seventy-five years. Their children were: John, Joseph, Thomas, Cornelius, Ben- jamin, Eleazer and Ebenezer.

(IV) Cornelius, fourth son of Daniel and Hannah (Hunt) White, was born March 28, 1682, in Marshfield. He was a ship builder, and a man of means. He lived at Marshfield and Whites Ferry until 1743, when he re- moved to Hanover, Massachusetts, where he died. He married, May 22, 1706, Hannah Randall; children: Lemuel, Cornelius, Paul, Joanna, Daniel, Gideon and Benjamin.

(V) Paul, third son of Cornelius and Han- nah (Randall) White, was born in 1711, in Hanover. He removed to Connecticut. He married, February 24, 1737, Elizabeth Cur- tis; children: John, Nathaniel, Christopher, Joanna, Hannah, Patience, Peregrine and Daniel.

(VI) John, eldest son of Paul and Eliza- beth (Curtis) White, was born May 16, 1739. He lived in Framingham, Massachusetts, and later removed to Spencer, Massachusetts ; he married Sybil Buckminster, born July 27, 1731; children: Thomas, Thadeus, Abigail, Mary, Benjamin, Joel, Sybil, Nancy, Jona- than, Betsey, Amos and John Bradshaw.

(VII) Joel, fourth son of John and Sybil (Buckminster) White, was born May 3, 1766, in Spencer, Massachusetts. While his chil- dren were yet young he removed his family to Allegheny county, New York, and took up a farm in Alfred, then a part of Almond. He . also made brick. He married Abigail Outing,

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born October 27, 1774, at Royalston, Massa- chusetts. Children : Sally, Serena, Silas, Louisa, Benjamin Franklin, Rhoda, Joel, Alonzo, Elizabeth and Abigail Alvira.

(VIII) Alonzo, fourth son of Joel and Abi- gail (Outing) White, was born May 6, 1808. He lived in Leicester, Massachusetts, where he died January 16, 1893. He married Eliza- beth Lincoln Davis, born May 25, 1812. Chil- dren: Joseph Mason (died young), Eleanor Cutting, Henry Arthur, Mandana Elizabeth, Catherine Emily, and Clarence Alonzo.

(IX) Mandana Elizabeth, fourth child of Alonzo and Elizabeth Lincoln (Davis) White, was born 1844. She married George E. Marsh, at Leicester, Massachusetts, by Rev. John Nelson, D. D., and lived in the same place (see Marsh).

(For first generation see Stephen Larrabee I.)

(II) Stephen (2), probably LARRABEE the eldest of the children of Stephen (I) Larrabee, was born about 1652; after removing to Malden, Massachusetts, from North Yarmouth, there is record of his wife Isabel, by whom he had one or more children, and he had one or more sons born twelve years previously. His chil- dren were, so far as can be ascertained : Stephen, Deacon William, born 1684; Cap- tain John, 1686; Samuel, 1690; Abigail, 1694; Captain Benjamin, 1696; Ephraim, about 1698; Margaret.

(III) Stephen (3), eldest son of Stephen (2) Larrabee, was born in 1682. January 10, 1704, he married Margaret Pain, and about 1706 he was living in Medford, Massachu- setts ; he removed to North Yarmouth, Maine, after 1722, where some of his children were born. He died October 20, 1737, and his widow married Samuel Seabury. His children were: Hannah, born May 4, 1707; Margaret, February 22, 1709; John and Stephen.

(IV) John, son of Stephen (3) and Mar- garet (Pain) Larrabee, was born May 14, 1715; he married Mary Pomery, and settled in North Yarmouth. Children: I. Mary, born November 25, 1744, married Benjamin Rockley. 2. Stephen, born September 23, 1747, married Molly Merrill. 3. Deacon John, born November 16, 1749, married Jane Brown ; settled first at Freeport, afterwards at Greene, Maine; he was a carpenter, and a deacon in the Baptist church. 4. Mehitable, born October 10, 1751, died February 20, 1826. 5. Captain Samuel, married Mary Brown, of North Yarmouth; served in the revolutionary war, and after his return built

a tavern stand where the old-time stage coach stopped and changed horses.

(VI) Robert, whose mother's name was Mehitable, daughter of John Larrabee, was born June 3, 1785, in North Yarmouth, and his father's name is unknown. He was reared by his Uncle Samuel, the tavern keeper, and learned the carpenter's trade of his Uncle John, before mentioned. He settled in Phipps- burg, Maine, and married Hannah Beath, of Boothbay, Maine, January 6, 1807; she was born in Boothbay, June 19, 1786, and died at Bath, Maine, June 1, 1873. Mr. Larrabee died at Phippsburg, Maine, May 1, 1863. His children were: I. William P., born August I, 1807, at Georgetown, married Ann Smith. 2. John B., born March 5, 1809, married Eliza Hibbard. 3. Hannah A., born October 15, 1810, married Joseph Bowker. 4. Deacon Samuel W. 5. Cordelia E., born September 14, 1813, at North Yarmouth, married Will- iam Swan. 6. Joseph P., born September 12, 1816, married Lydia Morrison. 7. Jotham, born December 7, 1818, married Esther Knight. 8. Mary M., born August 18, 1822, married William Anderson. 9. James R., born September 18, 1820, married Lucretia Elliott. 10. Caroline, born January 26, 1824, married Captain Charles Delano, and died November 4, 1864. II. Beatrice, born January 26, 1824, married Captain Charles Delano; she was a twin with Caroline, and both married the same man. 12. Ann C., born March 28, 1826, married George L. Hill. 13. Robert I. D., born November 26, 1828, married Lydia Smith.

(VII) Deacon Samuel W., third son of Robert and Hannah (Beath) Larrabee, was born November 13, 1812; he was a carpenter, and settled in Portland, Maine, where he worked for some time at his trade, and then was employed by a lumber firm as a surveyor. He was afterwards admitted a member of the firm, Knight & Pool, and succeeded to the business after the death of the original mem- bers, carrying it on until the end of his life; his son was connected with him in business for several years, under the firm name of S. W. Larrabee & Company. He joined the Sec- ond Parish Church soon after settling in Portland, and was a deacon for more than forty years; he served in the common council, and as alderman, often acted as mayor, and several times declined the nomination for that office; he served one term in the legislature. He was a man of good character, public spirit, and well known for his benevolence; he died quite suddenly at his home in Portland, May

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22, 1893, deeply mourned by his fellow- townsmen. He married Rachel Knight, born November 30, 1811, at Boothbay, Maine, died in February, 1900; children: I. Hannah Al- mer, born October, 1839, died unmarried, May 5, 1862. 2. Frances L., born May 9, 1841, married William F. Moses, of Bath, Maine. 3. Charles Frederick. 4. Henry Pel- ham, born December 2, 1846, married Kate Fuller, in October, 1874, and has one child, Katherine Pelham. 5. Philip Henry, born in Portland, was in the lumber business and died July 4, 1907. Two children died in infancy.

(VIII) Charles Frederick, eldest son of Samuel Wiley and Rachel (Knight) Larra- bee, was born December 10, 1842, at Phipps- burg, Maine, and received his education in the public schools of Portland. He went to sea for two years, and was subsequently em- ployed by the Grand Trunk Railway of Can- ada as shipping clerk in Portland. In 1863 he joined the Union army and served two years, first as private, then as sergeant-major, then as first lieutenant and adjutant, in the regiment of which General Francis Fessen- den, U. S. A., and Thomas H. Hubbard, of New York, were colonels; he was brevetted captain and major for "gallant and distin- guished services in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill and Monett Bluffs, Louisiana, April 8, 9 and 23, 1864," in the famous Red River campaign under General Banks. In 1866 he was appointed second lieu- tenant in the Seventh U. S. Infantry, later promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and served until 1871. During the reconstruc- tion period of Florida, Major Larrabee acted as assistant adjutant general, and on retiring from that position was complimented in gen- eral orders for his service. In 1869 he com- manded a military post, and was in charge of the Shoshone and Bannock Indians. He re- moved the hostile Apaches and established the San Carlos Agency in Arizona, and was civil- ian agent in 1873. In the same year he rep- resented the United States in negotiating with certain tribes in the Indian Territory, and in 1875-76 was special agent to remove three thousand captive Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas and Comanches from Fort Sill to the Quapaw Agency, with the expectation of ex- perimenting with civilizing them, though the government later made plans for disposing otherwise of these captives and they were never removed from their old homes.

Major Larrabee began his service in the In- dian Office in Washington in 1880, and in 1885 was commissioned to investigate claims

of licensed traders growing out of the Sioux massacre in' 1862, in Minnesota; he was also appointed to negotiate with several tribes of Indians in Minnesota, northern Montana and Dakota, being associated with Bishop H. B. Whipple and Judge John V. Wright, of Ten- nessee, as a result of which negotiations about seventeen million acres of land were opened to white settlers. January 1, 1905, Major Larrabee was appointed Assistant Commis- sioner of Indian Affairs, at Washington, which position he held until 1908, when he resigned. Upon his resignation he had good reason to be proud of the manner in which it was received by the President, and he has in his possession a letter signed Theodore Roose- velt, which is in text as follows: "My dear Major: I have just received your letter of resignation, which came as a surprise to me ; in accepting it I wish to express in the high- est terms my appreciation of your long ser- vice and of the unfailing loyalty and high in- tegrity with which you have thruout that period served the Government. With all good wishes for your future, believe me, etc." This is a fitting tribute to the efficient manner in which he has filled the positions entrusted to him.

He married Ruth Estelle, daughter of Ed- ward Loop, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and they have one son, Sterling Loop, born September 24, 1889, a student at West Point Military Academy, which he entered March I, 1908.

This is among the pioneer POTTER names of East Concord, and is traced to the early settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts. It has been chiefly identified in Concord with agriculture, but the family has included many noted ecclesiastics and professional men of all classes. The rec- ords of Yale, Harvard and other New Eng- land colleges show many of the name among graduates. Concord has sent out some of the name who have done honor to it, among whom may be mentioned: Judge Alva Kimball Pot- ter, of Niagara county, New York; General Joseph Hayden Potter, U. S. A .; Hon. Chand- ler Eastman Potter, author of "History of Manchester," and widely known as editor, scholar and historian; and Jacob Averill Pot- ter, judge of the court of common pleas of Merrimack county.

(I) The first to whom the New Hampshire family is definitely traced was Anthony Potter, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he is found of record in 1648. He was born 1628, in

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England. It is claimed by some authorities that he was a son of Robert Potter, of Lynn, but no records are found to bear this out. His first home was on the north side of the river, near the stone mill, in a house built and oc- cupied at first by Major General Daniel Den- nison. In 1664 he was owner of a share and a half in Plum, and other property, and the records show sales of lands by him in 1660- 61. In July, 1653, he was "presented," be- cause his wife wore silk, but was able to prove himself worth two hundred pounds and discharged. This and his various purchases and sales of land show him to have been a man of means. He had a farm on the Salem road, about one mile southwest of the village of Ipswich, one of the best in town, extend- ing north to the river, and was successful in the cultivation of fruit. He died early in 1690, his will being dated December 28, 1689, and proved March 26, following. His wife, Elizabeth Whipple, was born 1629, daughter of Deacon John and Sarah Whipple. She survived her husband until March 10, 1712. In 1699 she presented to the First Church of Ipswich a silver cup which is still among its possessions. The inscription on her tomb- stone includes this brief verse :

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 107

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: 896

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: 896