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I Christiana, b. January 2, 1802, m. Charles B. Brooks.
II Chloe, b. February 23, 1807, m. Rufus Farrar.
III Lucy B., b. January 20, 1813, m. Eli H. Cushman.
IV Consider, Jr., b. January 25, 1815. m. Sally O. Greely.
v Betsey, b. August 19, 1820, m. Jonathan Fickett, Jr.
VI Abigail, m. Stephen Davis.
VII Lovicy, b. - , m. Stephen Davis.
VIII Lydia Jane, m. Joseph H. Briggs, son of Luther.
LEWIS and HARVEY FULLER, sons of Caleb, of Paris, who married Hannah Perkins, sister of Cornelius, came into town and settled in the Perkins neighborhood. Lewis died there.
LEWIS FULLER, married November 25, 1822, Betsey Dunham, daughter of widow Lydia, and his children were: Elizabeth, b. September 21, 1822, m. Oliver L. Pratt, of Paris, son of Calvin ; Lewis, Jr., b. October 22, 1825; George G., b. March 2, 1828, m. Lovina F. Chandler ; Caleb, b. August 16, 1830, m. first, Martha A. Curtis, daughter of Daniel; second, Marietta Curtis, daughter of William, of Paris ; Cornelius P., b. November 24, 1832 ; Angeline R., b. April 1, 1834, m. first, Robert O. Hayes, of Greenwood, second, Jacob Annas, of Bethel, son of Benjamin ; Mary P., b. March 22, 1837, m. James H. Barrows ; Nathaniel, b. July 30, 1838, d. July 30, 1864; Oliver L., b. April 2, 1842, m. Jeannette Foss, of Paris.
HARVEY FULLER lived on the farm now owned by Mrs. Ben- jamin Kimball, and on a farm near Andrews' Mills. His first wife was Temperance, daughter of Azariah Howard, his second, Sally Roberts, of Waterford, and third, Hannah Holmes, of Newry. His children, all by the first wife, were : Tempe, m. John W. Dunham; Charlotte, m. Benj. D. Thurlow ; Pauline, m. Joseph B. Rice, of Waterford ; Lysander, m. Phebe Brooks, of Grafton ; Almira P., m. Henry Whitman, son of Jacob, Jr .; Martha, m. America Andrews, of Paris; Alpheus, b. 1835, went west; and William H., b. 1839, was a soldier in the late war-died at the Relay House in Maryland.
EZRA FULLER, probably of Paris, was here in 1832, and Ezra
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P. in 1839. Levi Fuller was taxed a resident here in 1842, and Ezekiel in 1845.
GALLISON. .
JOHN M. GALLISON came here in 1847, and settled at North Woodstock. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah (Atwood) Gallison, and his father spent his last days here in his family. His father was born in 1777, and came quite early to Norway. He had ten children, namely : Henry, died in childhood ; Han- nah A., married Cyrus Coy; Abby W., married Richard Lom- bard; Sophia, married Jefferson Cushing; William, married Elvira Young; Joseph H., married Lavina Hammond ; Char- lotte L., married Richard Buzzell; John M., married Sarah A. French; Edward A., married Belinda Pierce, and Amanda M., married George R. Tourtillott.
John M. was the only one who ever lived in this town ; his brother William will be remembered by our older citizens as the stage driver between Paris and Rumford. John M. was a blacksmith and carriage maker, and has carried on business in that line much of the time since he came here. He was the first Postmaster, and at one time kept the hotel. His children were :
Fannie L., b. November 12, 1838.
Jefferson C., b. August 8, 1841.
Abbie E., b. February 3, 1847, m. Samuel B. Frost. Joseph H., b. December 1, 1851.
Hannah S., b. February 5, 1853. John A., b. August 9, 1856, m. Mabel M. Eastman.
GIBSON.
SAMUEL GIBSON, formerly Sheriff of Oxford County, came here from Denmark in 1853, and built a house at the Pond, where he lived five or six years, and went to Norway. His wife was a Howard, of Brownfield, sister of the late Judge Joseph Howard, of Portland.
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GEORGE E. GIBSON, son of the preceding, came here with him, and married Mary E. Randall. He was in trade here, but went to Norway with his father.
GRAY.
JOHN GRAY, JR., b. April 10, 1791, wife, Susan, b. August 19, 1793, was here at the time of the incorporation, and lived here until his estate was set off to Paris. The only birth in his family recorded here is that of Austin A., b. August 29, 1815. He married Sarah Dacy, daughter of John, and lived on the farm between Abel Bacon's and Kilbon Perham, since occupied by Henry Whitman. He had Charles W., who married Augusta M. Tribou, of Auburn, and one or two other children. He (Austin A.) was divorced from his first wife, married again, and was again divorced. He died in July, 1882.
GREEN.
RICHARD GREEN, said to be of Plymouth County, Mass., born March 1, 1782, came here in 1812. He lived near the road from Paris to Rumford and near Paris line. His wife, Judith Thurlow, daughter of Asa, was born March 1, 1786. Their children were :
I Richard, Jr., b. December 25, 1804.
II William, b. January 17, 1806.
III Sarah P., b. November 18, 1812, m. Thomas B. Carter.
IV Asa, b. May 1, 1815.
V Amos, b. -- , m. Julia A. Heath.
VI Albert.
VII Eunice, b. , m. Thomas Sampson.
DR. EDWIN GREEN, from Paris, practiced medicine in this town for some years. He married a Kendall, of Milan, N. H. Afterwards he left practice, and went to a farm in the south- east part of the town.
HALEY.
JAMES HALEY was here in 1848; Wm. R. Haley was a voter
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here in 1858. Harriet N. Haley married Albert Perkins; Eunice R. Haley married Hiram Andrews; Tristram Haley, a deaf mute, was killed on the railroad near Paris in 1882. The Haleys lived in the east part of the town.
HAMMOND.
ENOCH HAMMOND, said to have been born in Nova Scotia, October 15, 1777, was a sailor on board a coaster before he came here. In 1807, he bought of John True his right to lot No. 21, in the east part of Woodstock (Dummer Academy Grant), and moved there. His wife, born August 30, 1789, was Polly, the daughter of John Nason, who came here from Paris. The children of Enoch Hammond were : Sena, b. Jan- uary 25, 1803; Jason, b. September 17, 1804, m. Burry Churchill, and always lived in the Dunham neighborhood in this town; Achsa, b. December 5, 1806, m. 1830, Samuel W. Benson; Martha, b. December 19, 1808; Enoch, Jr., b. March 28, 1811, d. young; Mary, b. January 23, 1814, m. James C. Noyes.
HANNAFORD.
DAVID P. HANNAFORD, born in New Gloucester, his wife, a Monk, was here in 1844, and kept the hotel built by John Bick- nell at South Woodstock. He had previously been a clock peddler, and was quite well known through this county. He had two sons and two daughters. He was in Woodstock only a short time.
HEATH.
JOSHUA HEATH lived and died in the east part of the town. He married a Robbins, sister of Oliver, second, and had Julia A., married Amos Green, Thomas J., Columbia and Isaac. Joshua Heath probably came here from Sumner.
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HOBBS.
EDMUND M. HOBBS, son of Eben, of Norway, his mother a March, came here from Norway, and was in the hotel and stage business with Joseph Tuttle. In 1865, he sold out and went to Providence, R. I. He married Abbie Farnum, daughter of James H. of this town; they had no children.
JOSEPH N. HOBBS, brother of the preceding, a jeweler by trade, came here in 1860 and boarded at the hotel. He was unmarried, and died here a year or two after.
HOPKINS.
PETER HOPKINS, a Baptist minister, came into Sigotch about 1865, and lived on a farm. His daughter Sarah was the wife of Delphinus P. Bowker, who traded at the Pond. Albert W. married Emma Aldrich; Horace L. married Mary A. Hemming- way. Mr. Hopkins had other children.
HOUGHTON.
SAMUEL H. HOUGHTON, born July 20, 1809, son of Moses of Harvard, Mass., and Norway, married Betsey G. Tuell, of Paris, born April 28, 1810, daughter of Ebenezer and grand- daughter of John, and came to this town about the year 1840. He lived at the foot of Bryant's Pond, where he built a large establishment intended as a hotel. But the County road was not located so as to favor the enterprise, and he moved back to Paris. He subsequently traded for several years at Locke's Mills, and afterwards moved to Worcester, Mass., and died there. His children, only the two oldest of whom ever lived in Wood- stock, were: Orlando C., b. May 31, 1831, m. Abiah T. Hobbs, daughter of Alvah, of Greenwood; Horatio F., b. April 14,
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1832, m. Mary E. Lampher (widow), daughter of Eli Howe, of Hanover; Rosalia B., b. November 24, 1833, m. Charles H. Dwinell, of Mechanic Falls ; Anstis S., b. Aug. 5, 1845, m. Han- nibal H. Houghton, her cousin, son of Richard; Diana, b. September 6, 1837, m. Osgood Plummer, of Worcester ; Samuel D., b. 1839, d. 1841; Samuel Dana, b. November 26, 1842, m. Emma Kelley, of Worcester ; Ella J., b. August 31, 1846, was accidently shot, and died April 14, 1852 ; Samuel H. Houghton died December 14, 1868, and his wife survives him, residing in Worcester. Orlando C. and Horatio F., were in trade at the Pond several years and the former served in the Legislature.
MOSES HOUGHTON, brother of the preceding, was in Wood- stock in 1840, and was married here, December 16th of that year, to Lucy A. Swift, of Sumner. He was born October 16, 1820, and his wife April 19, 1819. He was a carpenter and a · superior workman. He built the Universalist Church at the Pond. He lived many years at Locke's Mills, and was at one time owner of the mills there. He moved to Norway and died there. His children were: Charles R., b. October 17, 1841, m. Mary Helen Bolster; he is a stove, hardware and tinware dealer at the Pond; Mary E., b. January 23, 1844, m. Geo. W. Bryant; Moses Henry, b. March 17, 1846, m. Aggie Abbott; is a Universalist preacher at New Haven, Conn .; Hannibal H., b. February 16, 1848, m. Laura Willis ; Etta Jane, b. January 17, 1854, m. Geo. Brooks; Fred. M., b. October 20, 1855, graduated at Tufts College and Divinity School, and is a Universalist preacher at Middletown, Conn .; Emma L., b. May 28, 1858; Nina H., b. September 14, 1861.
IRISH.
AARON M. IRISH, son of Joseph and Miriam (Marshall) Irish, born in Hebron, September 29, 1820, was married at Wells, Me., November 8, 1844, to Hannah A. Penney, born in Wells,
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September 17, 1824. He came to Woodstock in 1846 and bought the Churchill farm, where he has since lived. His children were: Joseph, b. in Wells, October 8, 1845, died young ; Juliette, b. in Woodstock, August 22, 1845, m. Joseph H. Davis, November 24, 1864, resides in Woodstock; Georgie A., b. November 2, 1850, m. November 26, 1868, Wm. S. Davis, lives in Woodstock; Hannah A., b. May 12, 1856, m. July, 1876, Edwin R. Perham, son of Kilbon, resides in Somerville, Mass .; Miriam M., b. September 15, 1860 ; Ruth M., b. October 8, 1862 ; Almon M., b. April 2, 1867.
EBENEZER IRISH was a voter here in 1851. If he had a family, it is not recorded here.
MARY IRISH, sister of Aaron M., was married to Nathan L. Marshall, of this town, in March, 1844.
JACKMAN.
ALFRED JACKMAN was here in 1847. He lived on the Harvey Fuller farm, now occupied by Benj. Kimball, and afterwards on the hill east of Joseph Davis. He had a large family, but none of them are recorded here.
JACKSON.
DEA. CALVIN JACKSON, son of Levi and grandson of Lemuel, of Paris, lived some years and died here. His farm was east of the Geo. W. Cushman lot. His first wife was Sally Whitten, and her two children were Emeline, married Seranus Shaw, of Paris, and Calvin A., for many years our well known house carpenter, who married Achsa McKenney. For second wife Dea. Jackson married a Matthews, and had four children; for third, he married Judith, daughter of Thomas Farrar, and had : Deering F., b. December 20, 1826, m. Rebecca Billings and
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went west; Abigail, b. August 2, 1828; Cordelia, b. March 1, 1830; Freeman, b. March 7, 1832; Alonzo, b. January 25, 1834; Lydia, b. July 1, 1836, and Sarah J., b. July 12, 1838.
BENJAMIN JACKSON, son of Lemuel, came here from Paris and lived on the farm east of Elon G. Whitman. He had several sons and daughters. Caroline C., m. John Cummings, Mahala, m. Elijah Day. His son William married Lucinda Coffin, of Greenwood; he also had a son Charles.
GEORGE JACKSON was a voter here in 1822, and Levi in 1840. Ezekiel C. Jackson, afterwards of Norway, was a tax-payer here in 1846. Probably all these Jacksons descended from Lemuel, who came from Middleboro, Mass., to Paris.
JACOBS.
NATHANIEL F. JACOBS, son of James and Annie (Morrill) Jacobs, born in Phillips, Me., January 12, 1838, married at Auburn, November 26, 1850, Eliza A. Bryant. In 1853, he moved to the Pond and built the house above the school house, now owned by Alanson M. Whitman. He was a stone mason and worked many years on the quarry below the village. He was an enterprising and useful citizen, but much out of health in his latter years, and died in middle life. He was postmaster from 1865 to the time of his death, in 1875, and his widow succeeds him. His children were: Areanna S., b. November 26, 1851, married Fred Soule and lives in Freeport ; Charles A., b. January 31, 1855, died young; Della M., b. November 2, 1862, m. Eugene Cole and died soon after ; Lizzie F., b. May 9, + 1864; Robert E., b. September 14, 1869.
CHARLES V. JACOBS, brother of the preceding, was here sev- eral years and worked on the quarry. He married Emeline W. Blake, of Paris, and had several children, but none of them are recorded here, and he left town many years ago.
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DANIEL M. JACOBS, brother of the preceding, was first taxed here in 1858. He kept, for several years, the confectionery store on the corner where Ansel Dudley now trades. His wife was Allura Sanborn, of Etna, Maine, and they have had no children. Mr. Jacobs has for several years kept the leading public house at Damariscotta.
JEWELL.
EZRA JEWELL, a native of Waterford, came here in 1851, and was the first trader at Bryant's Pond. He afterwards was in trade at Pinhook. His first wife was a Sawyer, of Portland, and he had one son, William Frederick, who was here with him and enlisted twice during the war, and after it was over went to Canada. Mr. Jewell married for second wife, the former wife of Henry Kimball, son of Porter, and moved to Andover, where he was accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat.
JONATHAN JEWELL, brother of the preceding, came here from Bangor and traded at the east end of Bryant's Pond Village, dealing largely in flour and corn. He went from here to Gorham, N. H. He had sons, William and Levi, by his first wife, and by the second, Charles, Frances, Fred and Thomas. Levi served through the war.
JORDAN.
HENRY JORDAN, JR., came here from Bethel, 1861. He married Louisa York, daughter of David, of this town. He enlisted in the army and died while in the service, leaving two € daughters. His widow subsequently married J. E. Barrows, of Stowe, Mass., afterwards of Sumner. He was killed by an accident, and she married a Martin, of Rumford.
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KIMBALL.
PORTER and PETER KIMBALL, JR., twins and sons of Peter,* of Bradford Mass., and Bridgton, Me., came into this section quite early. Porter began on a lot in Bethel, which he subsequently sold to Abijah Lapham and moved to Rumford. Peter, born in Bradford, May 19, 1793, began on a lot adjoining his brother's, on the south, which was lot number one of the Gore. It is said that he began on this lot in 1815. He married March 16, 1816, Betsey Emerson, daughter of James ; and Eunice (Berry) Emerson, born April 3, 1796.
PETER KIMBALL was by trade a carpenter, and a very indus- trious and useful man. He was also a wheelwright, at first manufacturing cart wheels, and subsequently building a shop, where he carried on the manufacture of carriages and sleighs for many years. His boys, several of whom became famous carriage manufacturers, got their rudimentary instructions in the art in this little shop, which stood under the west side of the Whale's Back, nearly opposite the Bailey place. Mr. Kimball moved from here to Norway, where he died May 14, 1871. His wife died in Rochester, N. H., June 6, 1879. Their children, all except the third, born on the Gore (she in Bridgton) were as follows :
I James Myrick, b. March 10, 1817, m. August 29, 1839, Arvilla, daughter of Cotton Elliot, of Rumford. He has carried on the carriage business in Bridgton and Portland.
II Eliza Ann, b. December 9, 1818, m. April 5, 1842, Richard Gage, son of Richard and Martha Wheelock. She is the mother of H. W.
* Peter Kimball, son of Francis, of Bradford, Mass., his mother, Mary Head, was born in Bradford, in 1768. He married Lucy Barker, daughter of Asa, of Haverhill, whose wife was Mehitable Porter, and in 1796, moved to Bridgton, Me., where his wife's father had already preceded him. Here he spent the remainder of his days.
t James Emerson was the son of William Emerson, and of his wife Eliza Myrick ; his wife, Eunice Berry, was the daughter of Stephen Berry, whose wife was Ann Bixby.
HON. CHARLES P. KIMBALL.
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Gage, of Strout & Gage, attorneys at law in Portland, and resides with her son.
: III Mary, b. November 20, 1820, m. December 31, 1837, Col. John G. Burns, of Oxford, subsequently of the Gore.
IV Julia Emerson, b. June 6, 1823, m. September, 1844, Martin L. Burr, now of Rochester, N. H.
v Charles Porter, b. August 6, 1825.
VI George Franklin, b. July 25, 1827, m. August 5, 1851, Lucretia J. Morton, of South Paris ; he resides in Boston.
VII John Calvin, b. May 14, 1830, m. April 18, 1854, Ellen T. Cushman, daughter of Joseph, of New Gloucester ; resides in Atlanta, Ga.
VIII Hannibal Ingalls, b. May 16, 1832, m. August 30, 1853, Rosalia D. Brown, daughter of Titus O., of Norway. He carried on an exten- sive carriage business in connection with others of the family, in New Haven, Conn. Since then, he has been largely engaged in business in the South, his residence being Atlanta. He was Di- rector General of the Great International Cotton Exposition, held in that city, in 1881, and it was mainly through his efforts that it was so great a success.
IX Eunice Berry, b. June 9, 1835, m. June 6, 1856, Geo. H. Story, of New Haven, Conn. Resides in New Haven.
x Edwin Nelson, b. February 28, 1840, m. September 25, 1867, Emily Cook, daughter of George, of New Haven. He resides in Boston.
JONATHAN KIMBALL, brother of Peter, came to the Gore and lived and died there. He married Satina Besse, daughter of Caleb, of Bethel. His children were Stephen D., married a Young and lives in Paris, Eben D., and one or more daughters. Eben D. died in the army.
FRANCIS, another brother, came to the Gore and learned the trade of his brother Peter. He returned to Bridgton and sub- sequently committed suicide.
SETH KIMBALL, of another family, came from Milan, N. H., and settled on the Harvey Fuller farm, in the Perkins district. His son Benjamin lived with him, and one of his daughters, Catherine, was the second wife of Columbus Perham. He had other children married and residing in Milan.
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KINSLEY.
WELLCOME KINSLEY married Lucy A. Hathaway, daughter of Lazarus, of Paris, in 1838. He traded at Stephens' Mills, succeeding Eleazer C. Shaw. . He moved a couple of miles to a farm in Greenwood, where his wife died, when he sold out to his son and went to Hebron. His children were: George and Anna, both of whom live on their father's old place in Green- wood and are unmarried.
KNAPP.
ALBION K. KNAPP moved here from Hanover and was in trade with his son in the Jewell store a short time, and then returned to Hanover. His son, Nathan C., married a Hutchins, daughter of Hezekiah, of Rumford, and his only daughter mar- ried Winfield S. Howe and lives in Hanover. Nathan C. Knapp died very suddenly of diphtheria, several years ago.
KNIGHT.
ENOCH KNIGHT was one of the five sons of Daniel Knight, of Falmouth, and an early settler in Norway. Enoch married the widow of Rowse Bisbee in 1853, and lived at Pinhook until the time of his death in 1861. His first wife was Lydia Ripley, of Paris. He had ten children, only one of whom ever lived in this town, namely, Thaddeus R., who was born in Norway, April 8, 1818, and married Hannah French, of Norway, daughter of John S., born June 4, 1820. He came to Woodstock in 1852, and lived in various places, the last of which was the French house at Pinhook. They had three children, all of whom died in February, 1861, of diphtheria. They were Lizzie A., b. March 9, 1853; Nellie J., b. December 10, 1855; Abbie D., b. February 25, 1857.
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ISAAC F. KNIGHT, son of Isaac, of Paris, whose wife was Betsey Twitchell, was here in 1839, and lived at Pinhook. His wife was a daughter of Moses Cummings, and he had the follow- ing children : Daniel, b. January 9, 1836 ; Sarah J., b. Febru- ary 6, 1837 ; Chas. H., b. February 6, 1839 ; Azubah, b. August 23, 1840 ; Ann M., b. April 11, 1842 ; Adelbert, b. September 4, 1843; and Wesley C., b. February 23, 1845. He afterwards lived in Greenwood and Lewiston, and finally went west.
JOSIAH J. KNIGHT, whose wife was Sally Ryerson, daughter of Luke, of Paris, and whose father was Isaac, of Poland, who married a Jordan, daughter of Josiah, came here from Paris about the year 1839, and bought the mill in Sigotch. He was an active man, and carried on this mill, besides doing much farming, for twenty or more years, when he moved to Rumford. He had three sons, Charles P., who traded here several years, married Juliette, daughter of Hon. Jas. H. Farnum, afterwards moved to Bethel; Augustus J., who married Philadelphia Gra- ham and moved to the General Bolster Farm in Rumford; and Marcius, who lived with his father.
EDWIN R. KNIGHT, from Dixfield, was here several years. He was a tin and sheet iron worker, and kept hardware and stoves. He returned to Dixfield and died of consumption.
LANDERS.
SENECA LANDERS, born in Minot, came here in 1818. He lived at first on the old County road, on Gore B, in the Charles Curtis house, and for many years lived on Billings' Hill. His wife was Polly, daughter of Gilbert Shaw, of Paris, and died in 1869. Mr. Landers was for many years Deacon of the Baptist Church here. He had Hannah, Silence, Gilbert S., Edmund E., m. Celia Ann Rowe, daughter of Joseph, Jane C., m. Ephraim H.
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Brown, of Norway, Mary, and another, Cynthia S., m. Oliver F. Berry and moved to New York. When quite old, Mr. Landers moved to Paris and died there.
LAPHAM.
ABIJAH LAPHAM, with his son James, lived on the Gore in 1827. He was born in Scituate, Mass., August 15, 1769, and in 1793, with his family consisting of wife Sarah (Hartwell), his father John, and his mother Bathsheba (Eames), he came to Buckfield. Here he lived till 1823, when he moved to Bethel, thence to the Gore, afterwards to Bethel again, where he died March 1, 1847. He was the fifth in descent from Thomas Lapham, who married Mary, daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, at Scituate, March 13, 1637. Abijah Lapham's first wife died soon after he came to Buckfield, and he married Abigail, daughter of John Buck. For third wife, he married widow Sarah Davy, who was a widow Maxim. His children by first marriage were :
I Betsey, b. July 17, 1792, d. unmarried in Buckfield.
II Sylvia, b. December 8, 1794, m. John Mayhew, of Buckfield.
III John, b. February 28, 1797, d. April 23, 1800.
IV Nathan, b. June 17, 1799, d. September 21, 1801.
V Abijah, b. March 7, 1801, d. an infant.
Children of the second marriage, all born in Buckfield :
VI John, b. May 6, 1803, m. first, Louvisa Berry, December, 1824; sec- ond, Rebecca Phinney, 1872.
VII Thomas, b. May 6, 1803, m. Sophronia Crooker, 1824.
VIII Sally, b. November 13, 1804, m. Charles Crooker, 1825.
IX Cinderella, b. August 8, 1806, m. first, Solomon Cummings ; second, Joseph Cummings. 1
x Phebe, b. March 31, 1809, never married.
XI James, b. February 8, 1811, m. Sally Moody.
Children of the third marriage :
XII Abijah, b. September 9, 1826, d. October 25, 1830.
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JOHN LAPHAM moved into Woodstock, to the Briggs place, near Greenwood line, about the year 1851, and lived there and at the place east of it some twenty years. He then moved to Weld, his first wife having died. Children:
I Lusanna A., b. February 4, 1826, m. Jonas W. Bartlett, of Bethel, and had Louvisa E., b. July 18, 1851; William B., b. June 11, 1853; Lucetta A., b. October 18, 1855; Gardiner W., b. April 17, 1857; Elias R., b. February 15, 1860; Aurelia Abbie, b. December 18, 1864. She d. February 2, 1869.
II James M., b. May 19, 1827 ; unmarried.
III William B., b. August 21, 1828, m. November 27, 1866, Cynthia A., daughter of Joel Perham, of Woodstock, and has Mary Cynthia, b. March 7, 1868; Ben William, b. December 10, 1869, and Fanny Beulah, b. in Augusta November 25, 1875.
IV Betsey J., b. September 12, 1830, m. Alonzo B. Swan, of Woodstock, and has Rhoda J., Edith V., Lillian A., Alonzo F., Frank, Florence and James M., and others who died young.
v Isaac F., b. March 31, 1832, m. August 13, 1854, Eliza R., daughter of Rev. David Ricker, of Woodstock, and has Ida, b. April 10, 1855, d. December 24, 1855; Louis Adelaide, b. October 30, 1856 ; Ernest M., b. September 4, 1867.
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