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(III) Nathan, son of Daniel Beede, was born as early as 1745, in Poplin or vi- cinity. He married Dolly He was a Quaker, as shown by the marriages of his children according to the custom of the Friends at Dover. He lived at Sandwich, New Hampshire. Children: I. Nathan Jr., born about 1781 ; mentioned below. 2. Dan-
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iel, married at Dover, November 29, 1792, Lydia Hoag, daughter of Enoch. 2. Elijah, married September 2, 1802, Anna, daughter of Parker and Hannah Falch, of Tamworth, New Hampshire. Perhaps others.
(IV) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (I) Beede, was born in Sandwich, in 1781, and died April 11, 1851. He settled in old Ber- lin, now Phillips, Maine, and cleared his farm there. He married Eleanor Bean, born at Sandwich, New Hampshire, 1782, died in Phillips, Maine, February 19, 1870. Chil- dren: Mary, Joseph, Mary Jane, Nathan, Isaac, Josiah, Jeremiah H., Dolly E., Nancy F., Peter, Sarah Allen, Betsey, Samuel H.
(V) Samuel Hutchins Beedy, son of Na- than (2) Beede, was born in old Berlin, now Phillips, Maine, October 18, 1825. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and taught school in the vicinity of his home in various towns for many years, and was always keenly interested in educational affairs. He was in the far west during the Indian troubles, and taught school there for six months. Upon his return he bought a farm at Temple, Maine, where he remained a year, but in 1852 came to Phillips again and has made his home there since. During most of his life he has been actively engaged in farming. He is a member of the Free Bap- tist church. He married, February 25, 1855, Hepsibah Haines, born at Avon, Maine, Feb- ruary 25, 1833. Children: I. Isora, born April 25, 1859; married George A. Trum- bull, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; children : Clifford, Samuel, Harold and Clara. 2.
Selina E., born August 28, 1862 ; married Rev. T. N. Rowley (?), a Methodist Episcopal clergyman. 3. Harry Frederick, born March 28, 1864; mentioned below. 4. Arthur S., born December 2, 1870; married. Cora Pratt, of Phillips.
(VI) Harry Frederick, son of Samuel Hutchins Beedy, was born in Phillips, Maine, March 28, 1864. He attended the public schools of Phillips and of Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, and Wilson Academy. He began to read law in the office of P. A. Sawyer, of Phillips, continuing with Major S. Clifford Bitcher, of Farmington, Maine. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1885, but continued for five years in the office of Major Bitcher. He began the practice of law on his own account in 1890, opening an office in Phillips, where he has since been located, and has been very successful in his profession. He is attorney, director and treasurer of the Phillips Manu- facturing Company ; treasurer of the Phillips
Electric Light Company ; director of the Phil- lips & Rangeley Railroad Company ; attorney for the Eustis and Madrid Railroad Company, having charge of the rights of way and as- sessing of damages at the time of construc- tion; attorney for the Phillips woolen mills. In politics Mr. Beedy is a Republican. He is a member of the Blue Mountain Lodge of Free Masons; Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Farmington; Jephtha Council, Royal and Select Masters; Pilgrim Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Farmington, and Sherburne Chapter, Eastern Star, Phil- lips. He is also a member of Sandy River Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Phillips; the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of Phil- lips; and Phillips Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of its board of trustees. He married, No- vember 4, 1891, Maud E. Bangs, daughter of William T. and Elvira (Philbrick) Bangs, of Phillips. (See Bangs.) Children: I. Mil- dred B., born December 6, 1893; died Feb- ruary 15, 1896. 2. Maud Ethelyn, born April 13, 1897.
BANGS The name Bangs is identical with Banks, and is ancient in England. William de Banc was living in Cambridge, England, in 1130, and from him descended the family of Bankes of Dorset. The name was common in England in 1690, and there were families of his name living in the counties of Derby, Lancaster, Lincoln, York, Northampton, and North and East Riding. The family coat-of-arms is: Sable, a cross engrailed ermine, between four fleur-de-lis or. Crest: A Moor's head full- faced couped at the shoulders proper, on the head a cap of maintenance gules, turned up ermine, adorned with a crescent, issuant there- from a fleur-de-lis or.
(I) Edward Bangs, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1592, and died in 1678. He came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the ship "Anne," arriving in July, 1623. Family tra- dition varies as to the place in England from which he came, one branch of the family say- ing that he was from Chichester, county Sus- sex, and others that he was born on or near the Isle of Man. He had four acres of land on the other side of Eel river in 1623, and received the big line-bank cow brought over in the "Anne" in 1627. He was one of the surveyors appointed to lay out the lots for a division of land in 1627. He was admitted a freeman in 1633; was assessor in 1634-35-36;
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on grand jury 1636-37; on committee to di- vide meadow grounds. He was a shipwright by trade, and was part owner in a barque for the colony, which was built under his super- vision. In 1645 he was a freeman of Nawsett, now Eastham, and in 1643 was on a list of those able to bear arms. In 1650 he was deputy to the general court, and afterwards; was town treasurer for Eastham from 1646 to 1665, and selectman for two years. In 1657 he was licensed as a merchant in East- ham. He agreed to furnish a man and horse at his own expense for the troop of horse from Eastham. His will was dated October 19, 1677, and proved March 5, 1677-78. He married Lydia, daughter of Robert Hicks, who came over in the "Anne" in 1623; (sec- ond) Rebecca Child of first wife: I. John, married January 23, 1660, Hannah Smalley. Children of second wife: 2. Lieu- tenant Joshua, born at Plymouth, 1637; mar- ried December 1, 1669, Hannah Scudder ; died 1709. 3. Rebecca, married October 16, 1654, Captain Jonathan Sparrow. 4. Sarah, married, 1656, Captain Thomas Howes. 5. Captain Jonathan, born 1640; mentioned be- low. 6. Lydia, married (first) December 24, 1661, Benjamin Higgins. 7. Hannah, married April 30, 1662, John Doane. 8. Bethia, born May 28, 1650; married Gershom Hall; died October 15, 1696. 9. Apphia, born October 15, 1651; married December 28, 1670, John Knowles, (second) Stephen Atwood. IO. Mercy, born October 15, 1651 (twin) ; mar- ried December 28, 1670, Stephen Merrick.
(II) Captain Jonathan, son of Edward Bangs, was born at Plymouth in 1640. He was selectman of Eastham three years deputy to the general court several years; also town treasurer and captain of militia. He removed to Brewster about 1694, and settled on the land inherited from his father, lying between Sautucket river and Namskeket. In 1680, on an agreement about land boundaries, he used as a seal the crest of the Bangs family of England, mentioned above. He married (first) July 16, 1664, Mary, daughter of Cap- tain Samuel and Thomasine (Lumpkin) Mayo, and granddaughter of Rev. John Mayo, of Boston, Barnstable and Yarmouth. She was baptized at Barnstable, February 3, 1649- 50, and died January 26, 17II, at Brewster. He married (second) Sarah , who died June, 1719, aged seventy-eight. He married (third) in 1720, Mrs. Ruth (Cole) Young, of Eastham, daughter of Daniel Cole. Children, born at Eastham, all by first wife: I. Captain Edward, born September 30, 1665; mentioned
below. 2. Rebecca, born February 1, 1667. 3. Jonathan, born April 30, 1670; died May II, 1670. 4. Jonathan Jr., born May 4, 1673; married (first) Elizabeth ; (second) Experience Berry ; died February, 1736-7. 6. Hannah, born March 14, 1676. 7. Tamson or Thomasine, born May 5, 1678; married Jo- seph Burges. 8. Captain Samuel, born July 12, 1680; died June II, 1750. 9. Mercie, born January 7, 1682. 10. Elizabeth, born May 16, 1685. II. Sarah, born August, 1687. 12. Lydia, born October 2, 1689; married Shu- bael Hinckley.
(III) Captain Edward, son of Captain Jonathan Bangs, was born at Eastham, Sep- tember 30, 1665, and died May 22, 1746, at Eastham. He inherited a double portion of his father's estate, and lived on the homestead in Brewster. He was an active business man, merchant and innholder, and also carried on the tanning business. He spent most of his life at Brewster, but after his second mar- riage removed to Eastham. He married (first) Ruth Allen, who died June 22, 1738, aged sixty-eight years; (second) January 16, 1739, Mrs. Ruth Mayo, who died August 17, 1747. His will was dated April 14, 1746, and proved June II, 1746. Children, all by first wife: I. Captain Joshua, born 1691 ; married June 18, 1713, Mehitabel Clark; died at Port- land, Maine, May 23, 1762. 2. Mary, born 1692; married Benjamin Hatch, August II, 1715; died at Boston, February 14, 1769. 3. Edward, born August 14, 1694 ; died June 3, 1756; married (first) Sarah Clark. 4. Ruth, born 1699; died 1704. 5. Dr. Jonathan, bap- tized May 23, 1707 ; married January 4, 1732- 33, Phebe Hopkins. 6. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 7. Rebecca, baptized March 9, 1709- IO; married February II, 1730-31, Thomas Young; died at Boston, January 9, 1742.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Captain Edward Bangs, was born at Brewster, and baptized February 8, 1702. He was admitted to the church there with his wife in 1745. He mar- ried, December 18, 1727, Anna Sears, born 1706, daughter of Paul and Marcy (Free- man) Sears, granddaughter of Paul, and great-granddaughter of Richard Sears, the Pilgrim. Chilren, born at Brewster: I. Bar- nabas, March II, 1727-8; mentioned below. 2. Ebenezer Jr., October 28, 1729; married October 31, 1754, Elizabeth Cray. 3. Ruth, September 28, 1731; married Solomon Saw- yer. 4. Sylvanus, February 10, 1735-6. 5. Willard, baptized October 23, 1748. 6. Ed- mund, baptized May 18, 1746. 7. Edward, baptized May 18, 1746; married (first) Han-
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nah Paine, February 9, 1764; (second) Han- nah Baxter, 1766; (third) Huldah Clark, March 19, 1771. 8. Ann, baptized May 18, 1746. 9. Jonathan, baptized June 29, 1746, married April 21, 1766, Deborah Hurd.
(V) Barnabas, son of Ebenezer Bangs, was born at Brewster, March 11, 1727-28, and died January 29, 1808. He went to Gorham, Maine, soon after he became of age, and became a prominent citizen. He was in the revolution, in Captain Williams' company, and answered the Lexington alarm. He enlisted in the army May 15, 1775 ; was clerk on mus- ter and pay roll of Captain Bryant Morton's company in 1776, stationed at Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth; was matross in the ar- tillery company under Abner Lowell, sta- tioned at Falmouth; was of Captain Hart Williams' company, Colonel Edmund Phin- ney's regiment, in 1775, for seventy-five days. He married, in September (intentions pub- lished September 14, 1751), 1751, Loruhama Elwell. Children, born at Gorham, Maine : I. James, September 14, 1752; mentioned be- low. 2. Barnabas, December 1, 1754. 3. Thomas, April 17, 1757. 4. Anne, March 14, 1760; married December 26, 1778, Stephen Irish. 5. Sarah, July 21, 1762 ; married, 1781, Joseph Brackett; resided in Denmark, Maine. 6. Ebenezer, October 22, 1765. 7. Mehitable, October 22, 1768; married, 1790, Jonathan Parsons. 8. Benjamin, August 6, 1771 ; mar- ried, 1793, Elizabeth Rand. 9. Jonathan, sea- man, married (first) Deborah Andrews; (second) Mrs. Babb. 10. Emma, 1776; mar- ried - Holmes; died of consumption, with the Shakers, August 3, 1804.
(VI) James, son of Barnabas Bangs, was born at Gorham, Maine, September 14, 1752. He was a prominent member of the Friends' Society of Gorham. He married (first) in 1774, Deborah Cates, intention published July 23, 1774; (second) November 26, 1789, Eliza- beth Estes, of Kittery and Windham. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Edmund, born October 21, 1775; drowned in 1822. 2. Thomas, born July, 1777; drowned 1822. 3. John, born December II, 1778. 4. James, born Septem- ber 30, 1780; married Mary Lakeman; re- sided on Bangs Island, in Portland harbor, and had been to Portland for groceries, where he met his two brothers; they were drowned among the breakers in returning to the island, 1822. 5. Hannah, born March 26, 1782. 6. Allen, born April 8, 1784; died of consump- tion, February 26, 1858; was a prominent Shaker. 7. Esther, born May 26, 1786; mar- ried Joseph Hamlin. 8. Ephraim. Children
of second wife, born at Gorham: 9. Robert, September 15, 1790; mentioned below. 10. Cyrus, April 26, 1792 ; settled in Dover, New Hampshire. II. Solomon, September 22, 1793. 12. Joshua, January 19, 1795; settled probably at Pownal, Maine. 13. Amos, mar- ried Catherine Sinclair. 14. Mary Ann, mar- ried Torrey, and died at Deering, Maine. 15. Sarah, married - - Knight, and died at Deering.
(VII) Robert, son of James Bangs, was born at Gorham, Maine, September 15, 1790. He married, January 1, 1821, Elizabeth Hus- sey, of Falmouth, Maine (now Portland). He resided in Farmington, Portland, and Phil- lips, Maine, where he died.
(VIII) William T., son of Robert Bangs, was born in Phillips, Maine, September 22, 1835, and died April 28, 1898. He married Elvira Philbrick, born March 31, 1840. They had a daughter, Maud E., who married Harry Frederick Beedy. (See Beede.)
This is a name of Teutonic ACHORN origin, and included among a hardy class of farmers who left Germany at the instance of General Sam- uel Waldo, who had acquired title to a patent of land originally granted by the council of Plymouth to John Beauchamp and Thomas Leverett and which became known as the Waldo Patent. The people selected by General Waldo to make the initial settlement were well adapted by conditions of education, train- ing in rural life, and willingness to endure hardships where labor might be rewarded; in short, to be capable pioneers in his great un- dertaking. The first settlement was made on the seacoast, and the town which grew out of it became the port of entry of Lincoln county, and was named Waldoborough, in honor of the owner of the patent. The name of this family was spelled in the original Ger- man, Eichhorn, but English usage and pro- nunciation soon reduced it to its present form.
(I) Mathias Eichhorn, his wife, three sons -Mathias, Daniel and Jacob, and a daughter Phillipina-came from Germany to Broad Bay, now Waldoboro, Maine, in 1748. A fourth son, John, was born on the passage. Mathias was scalped by the Indians; Daniel settled in Thomaston; Jacob settled in Wis- casset.
(II) John settled on a farm given him by Waldo's contract, where he lived and remained unmarried until forty-two years of age. He was noted for his enterprise, and put up the first mill in the town, for which he obtained
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the machinery from Germany. He was in- dustrious and a shrewd manager, and acquired considerable property. At the time of his marriage he had land holdings and a buckskin leg full of silver dollars. His wife, who came from Roxbury, Massachusetts, was but six- teen years of age at the time of their mar- riage, but no record is given of her name. Their children were: John, George, Polly, Joseph, Mathias, Philena, Charles, Martin and Betsey. The eldest of these died in Mar- tinique, of yellow fever. The last daughter married John Glidden. The third son settled in Washington, Waldo county, Maine. Math- ias married Peggy Orclock, and after two years they separated by mutual consent. He subsequently settled in Prince Edwards Island, and after the death of his first wife married and reared a large family and be- came wealthy. The second daughter, Philena, became the wife of Nicholas Lee, and died in 1849. Charles was never strong, and died at the home of his brother George, at the age of fifty-three years. Martin was lost at sea, and Betsey became the wife of Mitchell Mal- colm.
(III) George, second son of John Eichorn, was born May II, 1781, in Waldoboro, and died in West Roxbury, August 23, 1859, in his seventy-ninth year. He is buried in For- est Hills cemetery. In company with his brother-in-law, he built a sloop at New Castle, and in the autumn of 1805 he moved to Wis- casset and settled on a farm, where he re- mained eight years. Subsequently he moved to the old Jacob Eichhorn place. About 1814 his father and mother, his invalid brother and two sisters, were brought to live with him there. His father lived there twelve years, and died at the age of ninety. His mother lived four years after the removal, and died at the age of sixty. George Achorn married, April 10, 1805, Jerusha, daughter of Captain Joseph and Thankful (Clark) Taylor,- of Provincetown, Massachusetts (see Taylor III). She was born November II, 1779, and died August 21, 1862, in her eighty-third year. She was a guest at the wedding of her husband's sister to John Glidden, and there for the first time met her future hus- band. It may be interesting to note the cus- toms of dress at that time in the fact that she wore at her wedding a white muslin dress, with powdered hair. The groom was dressed in a blue coat with bright buttons, a scarlet broadcloth sash with silver spangles, buff knee breeches, silk stockings and silver knee and shoe buckles. Children : John, mentioned be-
low ; William, born December 23, 1808; Arlita M., October 7, 1811 ; Mary W., September 10, 1814; Elizabeth M., May 12, 1817; Nancy A., December 24, 1821 ; Almira W., February 22, 1824; Susan M. B., March 14, 1826.
(IV) John Taylor, eldest child of George and Jerusha (Taylor) Achorn, was born in Wiscasset, Maine, October 2, 1806. He studied medicine at Bowdoin College, and was graduated M. D. in 1837. He estab- lished himself in practice at New Castle, about eight-miles east of his birthplace, in the same county, and his circuit of patients embraced the entire county, his skill as a physician and surgeon being especially appreciated in New- castle and the immediate vicinity. He took an active interest in town affairs, serving as selectman many years and holding other town offices. He was an original Whig in political faith, went with the Free Soil party on its formation, and at the birth of the Republican party was one of its first adherents in New- castle. He was a member of the Second Con- gregational Church, and an attendant upon its services whenever his professional duties permitted. He was a careful student of bot- any, extending his investigations of flora to all parts of the state, and became an authority upon the subject. He died in Roslindale, Massachusetts, January 8, 1888. He married Clara Clark Rundlett, born in Alna, nine miles from Wiscasset, and who died in 1884; she was a daughter of Oakes Rundlett, a descend- ant of Nathaniel Rundlett, who came in 1732 from Exeter, New Hampshire, to Wiscasset, Maine, where he became a large landowner ; she was also one of the Chase heirs who con- tested the title to the Townley estate in Eng- land. Children of Dr. John Taylor and Clara Clark (Rundlett) Achorn, born in New Castle, Maine: I. George, died in childhood. 2. Claribel, living unmarried. 3. Frederick, died in early childhood. 4. Will Clark, married Lizzie Huston; child Willie, died in infancy. 5. John Warren, born January 30, 1857; grad- uated at Bowdoin College, A. B., 1879; M. D., 1887; is a practicing physician in Boston, Massachusetts, and author of various medical books and essays; married Harriet Priscilla Sawyer, of St. Louis, Missouri. 6. Edgar Oakes, see forward. 7. May Rundlett, un- married.
(IV) Edgar Oakes, fifth son and sixth child of Dr. John Taylor and Clara Clark (Rundlett) Achorn, was born in New Castle, Maine, August 20, 1859. He was brought up in his native town, and was fitted for col- lege at Lincoln Academy, and graduated from
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Bowdoin College with the class of 1881. From 1881 to 1883 he taught in the high school at Whitman, Massachusetts, where he was head master, and he was a member of the school board there in 1884-85. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth on June 16, 1884, and has since practiced his profession in Boston, where he has drawn to himself a large and important clientele. His offices are at No. 18 Tremont street, where is located the firm of which he is a mem- ber. Mr. Achorn was nominated secretary of the American embassy at St. Petersburg, Russia, by President Mckinley. He has trav- eled extensively for observation and pleasure, and has made his experience in travel the sub- ject of various sketches published in news- papers and magazines, and of popular lec- tures. His life at Brunswick, Maine, was productive of a great interest in the prosperity of the Lambda Chapter of the Zeta Psi fra- ternity connected with Bowdoin College. He donated to the fraternity the first land at Brunswick owned by the society, and became one of the largest contributors to its fund. He is president of the New England Asso- ciation of the Zeta Psi fraternity; president of the Association of the Sons and Daugh- ters of Maine in Plymouth county, Massachu- setts; a trustee of the Lincoln Memorial Col- lege at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, and of the Montclair (New Jersey) Military Acad- emy and a member of various societies and clubs. In politics he has always been an active Republican, and has stumped the state in several campaigns; and he has also been prominently identified with the Scandinavian vote of Massachusetts, which he organized upon a compact and influential basis.
Mr. Achorn married, October 8, 1889, Sophie M. Apenes, of Christiania, Norway, an accomplished grand opera singer, and who died in 1897. To them was born a son, Erik, October 19, 1894, in Brookline, Massachu- setts. Mr. Achorn married (second) Alice Gorham Morse, daughter of Robert M. and Anne (Gorham) Morse.
TAYLOR This old English name is un- doubtedly derived from an oc- cupation, and is but little varied in its present spelling from that of many It is now very numerously centuries ago. represented in the United States, but was not often found among the immigrant settlers of New England. In all generations and com- munities it has been represented by people of
excellent character and superior ability.
(I) John Taylor, who was without doubt of English birth, was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1630, when he took the freeman's oath there. In 1635 he went to New Castle, Maine, where he took up lands on the Damariscotta river, extending as far west as Mill Brook. In 1678 he was driven off, in common with other settlers, by the In- dians, who burned his home, and he soon after died in Massachusetts. The baptismal name of his wife was Sarah, and their chil- dren included a son Isaac and four daughters. The names of the latter are not preserved, but this much is known concerning them. One lived, unmarried, to the age of ninety years. A second married a Simmons; the third a Woodbridge; and the other became the wife of Thomas Gent, of Sheepscott, Maine.
(II) Isaac, only son of John and Sarah Taylor, was driven from New Castle by the Indians, and lived for a time in Boston, and subsequently at Pembroke, Massachusetts, where he was a merchant. No record of his wife's family is found, but he had children : Jacob, Joseph (died young), Benjamin, Ali- zeus, Asenath, Joseph and Thankful. One of the daughters, Asenath, became the wife of George Barstow, of Hanover, Massachusetts, and resided at New Castle, Maine, subsequent to 1765.
(III) Joseph, second son of Isaac Taylor, was born November 20, 1737, probably at Pembroke, Massachusetts, and followed the sea from his boyhood. When a young man he was in command of a schooner which coasted between Providence, Rhode Island, and the eastern towns, making frequent trips to New Castle, Maine. He was prosperous, and invested his money in wild land, at the last-named town, where at one time he was the principal owner. The only part now in the possession of one bearing the name is the farm of John, son of Ephraim Taylor. He resided first in Scituate, Rhode Island, and removed to New Castle in 1767. He built a house on Academy Hill, which was burned about 1860, after standing nearly one hun- dred years. After living in this a few years he built another house, and in his old age he and his wife resided with their son John, in Jefferson, Maine. They were buried on Trask's Hill, near the Baptist Church, in Jef- ferson. He married Thankful Clarke, of Providence, Rhode Island, who was an or- phan, and reared in the governor's family, and well educated. She had previously married a man named Wilcox, who died leaving one
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child that was adopted by Captain Taylor. Children : 1. Captain Ephraim, born August 22, 1758. He was the most distinguished member of the Maine Taylors, by reason of his long and conspicuous service in the revo- lutionary war. He entered the army at six- teen, was at Bunker Hill and West Point, and served under Lafayette. He was in France in the public service at the close of the war. His courage and devotion to his country's cause was unsurpassed, and merits a memorial. He married Deborah Otis, of Scituate, Massachusetts, and had three sons and five daughters. 2. Isaac, died in infancy. 3.Ruth, February 3, 1764; became the wife of Thomas Weeks; and had eight sons and two daughters. 4. Asenath, July 12, 1766; mar- ried William Hopkins, and had four sons and four daughters who reached maturity, out of thirteen children. 5. John, February IO, 1769, had four sons and two daughters. 6. Thankful, April 17, 1771; married (first) Amos Otis, of Scituate, brother of the wife of her brother Ephraim, and (second) Cap- tain Samuel Little. 7. Hannah, June 1, 1673, married Deacon John Kennedy, of Jefferson, and had three sons and two daughters. 8. Martha, June 25, 1776, became the wife of Deacon Daniel Weeks, of Jefferson, brother of Thomas, and had six sons and three daugh- ters. 9. Jerusha. 10. George, May 9, 1780.
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