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In the maternal line, Eben Hutchinson de- scends from Barnard Hutchinson, through an- cestry elsewhere given in this work, and lead- ing down to
(12) Benjamin, third son and fifth child of Joseph Hutchinson and youngest child of his first wife, was a native of Danvers and died
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intestate in 1733. He was a farmer, and lived in that part of the homestead which he re- ceived by deed of gift from his father, October 2, 1691. This contained thirty acres, and he afterward acquired considerable land by pur- chase, contiguous to this, and he also owned a tract of ten acres on the west side of Ips- wich river, which he bought August 6, 1713, from his brother Robert. Before his death he settled a snug estate upon each of his remain- ing children, and disposed of the remain- der of his property by sale. While an infant, he had been adopted by Deacon Nathanial In- gersoll, who had previously been bereaved of his only child. He married (first) before 1690, Jane, daughter of Walter and Margaret Philips, who died in 1711. He married (sec- ond) January 26, 1715, Abigail Foster. He was received into the church May 7, 1699, and his wife on the 28th of the same month. She was the mother of his eleven children. The first, a son, died in infancy. The others were : Benjamin (died young), Hannah, Benjamin, Bethiah, Nathaniel, Sarah, Bartholomew, Jane, Israel and John.
(13) According to the above, the first son of Benjamin Hutchinson died in infancy. It is believed by the writer that this is an error. A thorough search of the records has failed to discover any account of the birth of Timo- thy Hutchinson. He is the first to be found in the line herein traced, and the first record of him appears in Hampton Falls, New Hamp- shire, where in 1710 he appears on a petition of the inhabitants of that precinct, asking to be set off as a separate town, the petition bear- ing date of May 3 of that year. The earliest date of land purchased by him is November 13, 1718, when he purchased land in that part of Hampton now known as Kensington, which land became his homestead. In the following years his name is frequently on record. The date of his death is unknown, but he was alive as late as 1759, in which year he deeded the homestead to his son Jonathan. His wife Hannah was baptized and admitted to the Hampton Falls Church, July 14, 1717, and her death is recorded as of November 21, 1752, and her age seventy years. A list of his chil- dren has been made up from various sources as follows: Ebenezer, John, Hannah, Jona- than, Mary, Johnston and Phoebe.
(14) Ebenezer, eldest son of Timothy and Hannah Hutchinson, was born August II, 1711, in Hampton Falls, and resided in the portion of that town which is now Kingston. He signed a petition there in 1739. In 1741 he was in Exeter and in 1743 a citizen of
Brentwood. He was a member of the Exeter company on the Crown Point Expedition, 1755 and 1758, and died August 1I, 1788. He was married in Kingston, November 2, 1748, to Elizabeth Marsh, who was born about 1708 and died August 21, 1804, at the age of ninety- six years. Their children were: Henry, Theophilus, John, Joseph and Elizabeth.
(15) Joseph (2), fourth son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Marsh) Hutchinson, was born August 4, 1750, in Brentwood, and settled in Readfield, Maine, where he died August 17, 1828. He married, December 6, 1785, Ann Whittier, born July 2, 1766, died January 3, 1819, and they were the parents of: Benja- min, Elizabeth, Joseph, Ebenezer, Ann, Polly, Hannah, Edmund Bridge, Phebe Bridge, Sarah Hodge, Julia Ann, Henry Augustus and Martha.
(16) Ebenezer (2), third son of Joseph (2) and Ann (Whittier) Hutchinson, was born April 25, 1794, in Readfield; settled in Ath- ens and resided in that town, where he died May 19, 1862. He married (first) August 22, 1813, Martha Maddocks and they were the parents of two sons: Harrison and Charles. He married (second) December 23, 1832, Sabrina Williams, who died January 7, 1840, aged twenty-nine years. She was the mother of Henry Williams, Ellen Frances and George Franklin. He married (third) October 28, 1840, Lois Williams Bishop, who was born June 26, 1805, died September 10, 1878. She bore him a son and daughter: Ebenezer and Emma A.
(17) Ellen Frances, eldest daughter of Ebenezer Hutchinson and second child of his second wife, Sabrina Williams, was born Jan- uary 19, 1839, in Athens, and became the wife of Asa C. Emery (see Emery IX).
(For first generation see preceding sketch.)
(II) John (2), son of John EMERY (I) and Agnes Emery, was born at Romsey, September 29, 1598. In company with his brother Anthony and their wives and children he sailed from Southampton on board the ship "James" of London, William Cooper, master, which ar- rived in Boston, June 3, 1635. Shortly after- ward he proceeded to Newbury, where land was granted him for a house lot. December 27, 1637, he was fined twenty shillings for hav- ing enclosed a piece of ground which had not been previously laid out by the town, but in the following February he was given legal possession of the lot by a town order to that effect. He was admitted a freeman in 1641
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and his name appears in the list of ninety-one freeholders of Newbury compiled in 1642. He received an additional grant of land in 1644 (records say "Twenty-one acres and five rods"); was a selectman in 1661; fence- viewer and grand juryman in 1666; served upon a trial jury in 1672 and was chosen to carry the town's votes to Salem in 1676. Hos- pitality was a crime in those days of religious intolerance as evidenced by the ancient town records of Newbury, which state that on the complaint of the constable "John Emerrie" was prosecuted and fined four pounds in 1663 by the court at Ipswich for entertaining trav- ellers and Quakers. His death occurred in Newbury, November 3, 1683. His first wife, Mary, whom he married in England, died in April, 1649, and he married (second) Mrs. Mary Webster, born Shatswell, and widow of John Webster, of Ipswich; she died April 28, 1694. Mr. Emery was the father of: John and Ann, who were born in England; Eben- ezer, born in Newbury, September 16, 1648 (the records at hand state this child to have been a daughter) ; and Jonathan, born in New- bury, May 13, 1652, who was of the second union.
(III) John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Mary Emery, was born in England about 1628. He was made a freeman in Newbury in 1660 and in addition to possessing forty acres of land, the gift of his father as a token of "love and Affection," he was granted an- other forty acres by the town, this lying over the "Artichoke and Rasberry River." He served at different times as selectman, vote carrier, trial juryman and tything man, and in the records is designated as sergeant. His will was made August 3, 1693. He married, October 2, 1648, Mary Webster, a daughter of his stepmother by her first husband, and she died February 3, 1709. The children of this union were: Mary, Hannah, John, Bethiah, Sarah, Joseph, Stephen, Abigail, Samuel, Ju- dith, Lydia, Elizabeth and Josiah.
(IV) John (4), third child and eldest son of Sergeant John (3) and Mary (Webster) Em- ery, was born in Newbury, September 2, 1656, and died July 14, 1730. He married (first) June 13, 1683, Mary, born July 29, 1660, died No- vember 3, 1699, daughter of William and Ruth Sawyer; (second) Abigail Bartlett; (third) Mary March. His children were: Mary, John, Josiah, Daniel, Lydia, Sarah, Ruth and Hannah.
(V) Lieutenant John (5), second child and eldest son of John (4) and Mary (Sawyer) Emery, born in Newbury, September 29, 1686,
died June 30, 1750. He married, December 30, 1714, Mehitable, who died June II, 1773, daughter of Henry and Ann (Sewall-Long- fellow) Short. Ann Sewall was a daughter of Henry and Jane (Dummer) Sewall, widow of William Longfellow, and the second wife of Henry Short. The children of Lieutenant and Mehitable (Short) Emery were: Moses, Anna, Josiah (died young), Mary, John, Me- hitable, Sarah, Jane, Josiah, Daniel and Sam- uel.
(VI) Moses, eldest child of Lieutenant John (5) and Mehitable (Short) Emery, born in Newbury, October 12, 1715, died April II, 1789. He married, March 24, 1738, Lydia Emery, born in 1718, died July 11, 1800, a daughter of Stephen and Ruth (Jacques) Emery, and a distant relative of her husband. They had children : Lydia, Mary, John, Moses, Josiah, Nathan, Sarah, Ann, Amos and Michael.
(VII) Moses (2), second son and fourth child of Moses (I) and Lydia (Emery) Emery, was born in Newbury, January 31, 1745. Leaving his ancestral home when a young man, he braved the dangers and priva- tions of the wilderness of Maine and became the third white settler at Bakerstown, now Minot; the first saw mill in that locality was built by him. He married Ruth Bodwell, born February 13, 1750, and noted for her piety and courage, amply demonstrating the latter quality by sharing with her husband the lonely life of a pioneer. Of this union there were six children : Olive, Ruth, Moses, Nathan, Mary and Stephen.
(VIII) Moses (3), third child and eldest son of Moses (2) and Ruth (Bodwell) Em- ery, was the first male child born in Minot and at his birth, which took place September 20, 1772, he was granted fifty acres of land commemorative of the occasion. His last days were spent at Livermore, Maine, where he died November 4, 1861. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church and became a lay preacher at about the age of fifty years, and thenceforward devoted much of his time to the propagation of that faith. In 1793 he married Susannah Woodward, born in 1775, died June 8, 1859, who bore him children: Moses, see forward. Susannah, born January 9, 1797. Abigail, October 15, 1799. Eunice, Novem- ber 20, 1802. Irene, August 2, 1805. Eliza Ann, July 23, 1809. Nathan Addison, Octo- ber 25, 1813. Mary Ann, July 23, 1816. Sarah Stowell, September 22, 1819.
(IX) Moses (4), eldest child of Moses (3) and Susannah (Woodward) Emery, born in
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Minot, July 16, 1794, died in Saco, Maine, May 12, 1881. Prompted by an irresistible desire for a liberal education, he made strenu- ous efforts in the face of numerous obstacles to prepare for and enter college. Having mastered the Latin text books by candle light and without the aid of an instructor, he pur- sued a short course at the Bridgton (Maine) Academy and was finally admitted to the sophomore class at Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated in 1818, having de- frayed all his expenses by teaching school. He was accepted by Judge Bailey, of Wiscas- set, as a law student, and was taken into part- nership with his preceptor after his admis- sion to the Lincoln county bar in 1821, and four years later established himself in the gen- eral practice of law at Saco. His long and honorable career at the York county bar was made notable by his connection with many exacting litigations involving lofty principles as well as important financial issues, and in these he had as opponents such famous legal experts as John Holmes, Nathan Clifford, John Fairfield, Daniel Goodenow, N. D. Ap- leton, the Shepleys and others. His methods were based wholly upon the rigid rules of common law and his victories were obtained solely through the application of honest means. He was a firm believer in equity trials, in which he acquired special distinction, and out of nineteen cases tried by him in the equity court he lost but two. For many years he was president of the York County Bar Asso- ciation. In politics he was originally a Whig and later a Republican, served with marked ability in the Maine legislature, and as a can- didate for congress in a strong Democratic district he nearly defeated his opponent, who obtained a majority of only three hundred votes. While a member of the legislature, 1836-37, he secured the act authorizing the in- corporation of the Portland, Saco & Ports- mouth Railroad Company against formidable opposition, and he was equally zealous in ad- vocating the adoption of other improvements. As one of the pioneer supporters of the tem- perance cause he accomplished much toward creating sentiments which finally resulted in the enactment of the prohibitory liquor law, and he displayed a similar enthusiasm relative to the increase of educational facilities, serv- ing for many years as president of the board of trustees of Thornton Academy. In his religious belief he was a Unitarian. He mar- ried, November 27, 1823, Sarah Cutts Thorn- ton, a detailed account of whose family will be found below. She became the mother of :
I. Thornton Cutts, born November 16, 1824, married Abby Little Bailey, who died at Emery's Crossing, Middle Yuba, California, May 10, 1858. 2. Anne Paine, born February 25, 1827, died June 1I, 1842. 3. Charles Car- roll, born May 31, 1830, married Anna Cald- well, who died February 27, 1897. 4. Sidney Hamaden, born September 27, 1832, died Sep- tember 13, 1833. 5. Sarah Gennett, born Sep- tember 6, 1834, died November 8, 1835. 6. Moses Jr., born September 15, 1837, died Sep- tember 4, 1838. 7. George Addison, see be- low.
(X) George Addison, youngest child of Moses (4) and Sarah Cutts (Thornton) Emery, was born in Saco, Maine, November 14, 1839. He was graduated with the class of 1863 from Bowdoin College, taking his bachelor's degree, pursued his legal studies under the direction of his father and was admitted to the York county bar in 1866. Es- tablishing himself as an attorney in Saco, he was shortly afterward appointed judge of the newly organized municipal court, serving in this capacity with a great amount of credit until 1871, and since his retirement has acted as recorder of the court for the greater part of the time. Upon his retirement the mem- bers of the bar presented to the court a set of resolutions expressing their gratitude to Judge Emery for his able and impartial con- duct while in office, and their pleasure in that he would again join their ranks. These reso- lutions were responded to in an appropriate manner by Judge Emery and it was then or- dered that they should be recorded in the books of the court. Now, for about forty years Judge Emery has conducted a profitable gen- eral law business in his native city, being gov- erned in his practice by the same lofty prin- ciples and sound legal ethics which charac- terized the career of his distinguished prede- cessor, and he has attained an honorable record both as a member of the bar and as an upright, public-spirited citizen. He has figured promi- nently in various matters outside of his legiti- mate field of action, and has ably filled many responsible positions of trust of a public and a semi-public nature. He represented his town in the lower branch of the state legis- lature in 1881-83; is a charter member, and at the present time secretary of the York Institute ; director in the York National Bank, having served in that capacity continuously since 1882; trustee of Saco Savings Bank ; trustee of the Dyer Library Association ; trus- tee, secretary and treasurer of the Thornton Academy ; has acted as general agent of the
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Provident Association for nearly thirty-five years; and was secretary of the Saco Board of Trade. He is a member of the Park Com- mission, of the Laurel Hill Cemetery Asso- ciation and the Maine Historical Society, is a Master Mason, and has been secretary of the local Blue Lodge for more than twenty-five years. In politics he is a Republican, and his religious affiliations are with the Second Par- ish (Unitarian) Church, of which he is a lead- ing member and in which he has taken an im- portant part in the administration of affairs.
The ancestral line of Sarah Cutts (Thorn- ton) Emery, mother of George Addison, is Anthony (I), James (2), James (3), which see elsewhere, and :
(4) Rebecca, daughter of James (2) and Margaret (Hitchcock) Emery, married (first) Captain Daniel Smith, of Saco; (second) Cap- tain Nathaniel Ladd, of Falmouth, Maine. Her children were: Theophilus, Daniel, Re- becca, Lydia, Mary, Nathaniel, Alexander and Noah.
(5) Rebecca, daughter of Captain Daniel and Rebecca (Emery) Smith, married Domin- icus Scammon and had Dominicus and Eliza- beth.
(6) Elizabeth, daughter of Dominicus and Rebecca (Smith) Scammon, married Colonel Thomas Cutts, of Indian Island, Saco, who was the son of Hon. Richard and Eunice (Curtis) Cutts. Colonel Cutts acquired pos- session of the larger part of Indian Island by purchase and for many years it was called Cutts Island. Most distinguished among his children was Hon. Richard, at one time United States representative and afterward comp- troller of the treasury, and who married Anna Payne, sister of Dolly, the wife of President Madison.
(7) Sarah, seventh child of Colonel Thomas and Elizabeth (Scammon) Cutts, married, No- vember 26, 1793, Dr. Thomas Gilbert Thorn- ton, born August 31, 1769, died March 4, 1824, son of Timothy and Eunice (Brown) Thornton, and a descendant of Rev. Thomas Thornton, early of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. On the maternal side he was descended from James and Sarah (Cogswell) Brown, of Ips- wich, Massachusetts. Dr. Thornton studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Manning and at Harvard College, and settling in Saco, Maine, became an eminent physician. He was also engaged in commercial pursuits and was one of the most successful merchants in the state. Upon Thomas Jefferson's accession to the presidency Dr. Thornton was appointed United States marshal for the district of Maine, and
held this office under Madison and Monroe. He was also president of the Saco Bank and a leader in the Democratic party. The insti- tution, however, with which his name is most frequently associated is the Thornton Acad- emy, with which he was closely identified. A petition was presented to the Massachusetts legislature in 1811, placing before that body the advisability of establishing an academy in Saco, York county, for the instruction of youth in science, literature and morals, and the name of Dr. Thornton was second in the list of subscribers; Colonel Thomas Cutts was the first. The petition was granted, the institu- tion to be called the Saco Academy, and Dr. Thornton was named as one of the trustees. The trustees organized at Cutts Hall, near the new meeting-house in Saco, and Dr. Thorn- ton was one of a committee of three ap- pointed to draw and submit a suitable plan for the academy. In the Weekly Visitor of September 2, 1820, the following notice ap- peared : "Saco Academy. The Trustees of this institution respectfully inform the public that the term will commence Monday the 11th of September next. Their funds having been lately increased by the liberality of individuals they have engaged as a permanent instructor Rev. Phineas Pratt, a gentleman every way qualified for so important a trust. Students can be accommodated with board in respect- able families at the moderate price of $1.75 per week. T. G. Thornton, R. C. Shannon, Seth Storer, Jun., Com." Three thousand dollars was required by the charter to be raised and secured for the endowment of the acad- emy before land was granted, and almost four thousand dollars was contributed by eighty- three persons, a very large amount in those hard times, and among those who contributed one hundred dollars was the name of Dr. Thornton. November 21, 1821, a committee was appointed to draw up a subscription paper and obtain fifteen hundred dollars to increase the funds of the institution. Dr. Thornton gave ten shares of Saco bank stock, valued at one thousand dollars, and thirty-one others contributed six hundred and forty-three dol- lars. In consequence of this gift the legisla- ture of Maine passed : 'An Act to change the name and style of Saco Academy in the County of York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature as- sembled, that from and after the passing of this act, the name and style of the said Saco Academy shall cease, and the said academy shall henceforth be called and known by the name and style of Thornton Academy, any law
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to the contrary notwithstanding : and nothing in this act contained shall be constituted, to im- pair any of the rights or liabilities of said corporation." This act passed January 25, 1822. Dr. Thornton was a representative in the general court of Massachusetts in 1795- 96-98-1803, and was a candidate for congress at the election on the first Monday in April, 1823, but as neither candidate was elected at that time he withdrew his name from the con- test. He had a large house in Saco, and President Monroe and General Lafayette were entertained there. This mansion wa's con- verted into a hotel known as the "Thornton House," after the death of Dr. Thornton, and was destroyed by fire in January, 1851. It was located at the corner of Maine street and Thornton avenue.
(8) Sarah Cutts, one of the children of Dr. Thomas Gilbert and Sarah (Cutts) Thorn- ton, married Moses Emery, as mentioned above.
(III) Jonathan, third son and fourth child of John (2) and Mary (Shatswell Web- ster) Emery, was born in Newbury, Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony, May 13, 1652. He took the oath as a freeman, April 19, 1691, having already been present at Newbury, De- cember 3, 1675, as a soldier in King Philip's war, and he took part in the great Narragan- sett fight, December 19, 1675, and received a wound from an Indian arrow in the shoulder. He married, November 29, 1676, Mary, daugh- ter of Mr. Edward Woodman, and they had ten children, as follows, all born in Newbury : Mary, September 25, 1677; John, 1678; Jona- than, February 2, 1680; David, September 28, 1682; Anthony, November 13, 1684; Stephen, June 13, 1687, died 1688; Sarah, December 18, 1688, married Ambrose Berry ; Stephen, June 24, 1693 ; Edward, November 10, 1694; James, baptized April 10, 1698. Jonathan Emery made his will February 6, 1722-23, and it was proved October 7, 1723. His estate was valued at two hundred and two pounds, two shillings, ten pence. He died in Newbury, September 29, 1723, his wife having died six- teen days before his demise, the date of her death being September 13, 1723.
(IV) James, youngest child of Jonathan and Mary (Woodman) Emery, was baptized at the first church at Newbury, April 10, 1698. He was a farmer. He married, December IO, 1719, Ruth Watson, of Haverhill, and they lived on a farm in that town up to about 1725, when they removed to Dracut. The first three of their eleven children were born in Haverhill and the remainder in Dracut. On
March 30, 1757, James Emery petitioned the general court of Massachusetts for remunera- tion for expenses incurred as follows: That his son, Ambrose, a minor, "Enlisted himself in the Majestie's Service and the Expedition carrying on against Crown Point, in the year 1756, under the command of Captain Butter- field, and after he was dismissed (discharged) at Lake George, as he was returning home, he was taken sick at Glasgo, and not able to travel; and when tidings thereof was brought to your Petitioner he sent a man and horse to fetch his son home, which occasioned con- siderable charge to your Petitioner, accord- ing to the accounts herewith exhibited." He was successful in his petition and received as recompense for the services named three pounds, nine shillings, six pence. The chil- dren of James and Ruth (Watson) Emery, born in Haverhill, were: David, October I, 1720; Jonathan, November 23, 1722; Eliza- beth, July 6, 1724. Those born in Dracut were: Anthony, 1726; James, died November, 1755; Moses, said to have been master of a ship; Mary, spinster in Dracut, living May 4, 1792; John, 1736, killed at Fort William Henry in a battle with the Indians Septem- ber 18, 1756; Ambrose, February 25, 1738- 39; Edward, July 26, 1741 ; Nathaniel, March 8, 1743-44, a soldier in the American revo- lution with splendid record. He married twice, but there is no record of children by either marriage. James Emery made his will May 3, 1762, at which time he stated in the instrument that he was "now Inlisted a soldier in his Majestie'd Service." He died at Dracut before April 4, 1763, but there is no record of the dates of his birth or death of either him- self or of his wife.
(V) Jonathan, second son of James and Ruth (Watson) Emery, was born in Haver- hill, Massachusetts, November 23, 1722. On December 7, 1753, he entered the intention of his marriage to Jonathan Brown with the town clerk of Dracut, and the date of his marriage is not preserved. His wife was the daughter of John and Hannah Brown, of Dracut, and she was born August 4, 1735. They lived at Dracut, removed to Winthrop, Maine, and finally settled at Fairfield, Maine, in 1771, and was probably the first settler of that town. He located on the west side of the Kennebec river, on a hill, and the place became known as Emery Hill. He was both a carpenter and farmer. His benevolence became proverbial and his home was the stopping place for trav- elers, all being much welcome, and from none would he receive pay. When General Arnold
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