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Mr. Ilsley was by occupation a distiller, which he pursued before and after the revolution. He kept the jail when it stood on the site of the old City Hall. He was a delegate to the convention of Massachusetts which adopted the National con- stitution, one of the selectmen, representative to the General Court in 1793 and 1794, with Daniel Davis, and in 1806 was chosen a representative in Congress from this district as suc- cessor to Gen. Wadsworth. He died in 1813. He lived after the revolution on his father's farm at Back Cove; he afterward moved to town and lived on Court street. His sons, Isaac, Robert, and Henry, were prominent men in the early part of the century. Robert and Isaac were active politicians. Rob- ert was postmaster several years ; he was twice married but left no issue. Isaac succeeded Enoch Freeman as register of deeds in 1790, and held the office fourteen years ; in 1801 he was appointed collector of the port, by Mr. Jefferson, and re- tained the office until 1829. He was a very accurate and faithful public officer. In 1802 he built the brick house on Spring street, now occupied by his only surviving child, Mrs. Nathan Cummings.
Jones, Phineas, was one of the most active and enterprising of our early settlers. He was the eldest son of Nathaniel Jones, who was the grandson of Josiah who came from Eng- land and settled in Weston, Massachusetts, about 1665. He was born in Weston, in 1705, and came to Falmouth about 1730. He lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1726, and soon after moved to North Yarmouth, where he remained two or three years, when he established himself upon the Neck, being but twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His father, Nathan-
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iel Jones, moved here about the same time. They had botlı speculated largely in purchasing the titles of ancient settlers, and were deeply interested in establishing their claims. He sold many of his old titles to Samuel Waldo in 1734. In 1738 he purchased of Benjamin Ingersoll, for four hundred and eighty pounds, a tract containing four acres, bounded east by Exchange street, south by Fore street, north by Middle street, and extending west until the four acres should be completed, with the house and barn which stood about half way down Ex- change street, and the flats in front of the land. Mr. Jones, to improve the value of his purchase, in 1742, opened Plum street through it. His flattering prospects were, however, ter- minated by his untimely death in 1743, in the thirty-eighth year of his age. He had been selectman and representative from the town, and engaged in all the measures of public im- provement during his brief residence here. Stephen and Jabez Jones were his brothers, and the late John Coffin Jones of Boston, and Ephraim Jones of our town were his cousins. He married Ann Hodge of Newbury, by whom he had three daughters, who were all married in 1758, Lucy to Thomas Smith, son of our minister, Hannah to Col. John Waite, and Ann to Richard Codman. The eldest, after the death of her first husband, Mr. Smith, married first, Richard Derby of Sa- lem, in 1758, and afterward Judge Benjamin Greenleaf of Newburyport. His widow married Jabez Fox, and died June 9, 1758: his father died in January, 1746 ; his brother Stephen was killed at Menis, in Nova Scotia, in 1747. His daughter Ann (Codman) died in 1761, leaving two children, Richard and Ann ; the latter married James Fosdick; two of whose daughters and a grandson, Richard C. Fosdick, are living in Portland. The daughter Hannah had a numerous family by Col. Waite, as is elsewhere mentioned in this work. Lucy left no children by either of her husbands.
Jones, Ephraim, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 10, 1712, O. S., a descendant of Josiah Weston, who set-
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tled there about 1665. His wife Mary, eldest daughter of Moses Pearson of Falmouth, to whom he was married in March, 1739, was born in Newbury, December 4, 1720. By her he had three sons and six daughters, all of whom were respectably married, viz., Sarah, born January 7, 1740, married Theophilus Brad. bury, August 26, 1762. He was a member of Congress and judge of the Supreme Court ; he died in 1803 at Newburyport, leaving issue. Mary, born April 5, 1742, married Daniel Ils- ley, 1762; Elizabeth, born February 10, 1744, married Timo- thy Pike, October 18, 1774 ; Pearson, born July 16, 1747, mar- ried Betty Ilsley, November 26, 1771; Ephraim, born May 27, 1749, married Philbrook of Standish ; William, born June 17, 1751, became a farmer in Standish; Abigail, born March 10, 1753, died in 1759; Eunice, born December 25, 1754, married to Joseph Titcomb, 1783; Anne, born June 17, 1757, married to Enoch Titcomb of Newburyport, 1772; Abigail, born June 11, 1759, married Nathaniel F. Fosdick, 1784. Abigail, the last survivor, died in Boston, April 5, 1851, aged ninety-one years and ten months.
He died December 16, 1783, in the seventy-first year of his age, his wife died in 1775. Mr. Jones, in connection with James Milk, purchased two acres of land adjoining on the east side of Exchange street, extending from Middle street to low water mark. Mr. Milk took the western, and Mr. Jones the castern part, and both built houses upon their lots, having large gardens and orchards in the' rear. Their houses stood upon the bank of the river, having an unobstructed view of the harbor. In a memorandum in my possession, he says he bought this land of Lindall and others. And in 1755, he says, "I own fourteen acres on Munjoy's Neck."
Larrabee, Benjamin, one of the earliest settlers in the revi- val of the town, has been noticed in a previous page. He was born in 1666; his father was one of the early settlers of North Yarmouth, and was killed there by the Indians in the war of 1689. He had two brothers who lived in North Yarmouth,
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named Samuel and Thomas, upon whose estates he adminis- tered in 1727. He built his house on the spot which Albert Newhall's house now occupies, corner of Middle and Pearl streets, and which, with the land, he sold to John Oulton, Esq., of Marblehead, in 1729. Oulton died seized of it in 1748, and his heirs sold it in parcels. Larrabee died in 1733, aged sixty- seven. His wife, Deborah Ingersoll, daughter of John Inger- soll, was born in 1668.
His son Benjamin was born in 1700, and about 1730 married Amy Pride of Back Cove, by whom he had Elizabeth, born in 1732, married to John Webb in 1753, and died in 1827, aged ninety-five ; Benjamin born 1735, died in 1809; Mary, 1737, married to Thomas Tuckfield ; John; Abigail, born in 1747, unmarried ; Anna, born 1751, married David Ross; Sarah never married; William, who died young. He was active in the affairs of the town and received several valuable grants upon the Neck. He built a one-story house in the woods, where Federal now joins Middle street, which was considered to be quite out of town ; there were but two houses above it on the Neck, one of which was Knapp's, which stood, where Casco street enters into Congress street, the other was Joshua Brackett's opposite the head of High street. He owned the whole tract on which this house stood, extending to the junc- tion of Congress and Middle streets. He died in 1784. His son, Benjamin, married Sarah, a daughter of Joshua Brackett, and inherited a large property adjoining Green street. The name is still transmitted, and Benjamin Larrabee of this town is the great-great-grandson of the first of the family who settled here.
Lowell. This family came from Amesbury, in Massachu- setts ; they originated in Bristol, England ; Percival, with two sons, John and Richard, emigrated about 1639. In 1728, Gid- eon Lowell purchased Adam Mariner's right in the common lands in this town; and lots were laid out to him in 1729 ; he never moved here himself, but his son, Abner, born in New-
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bury in 1711, established himself upon Clark's Point, on the flat land south of the road, and in 1737 married Lydia Puring- ton ; his son, Abner, was born there in January, 1741. He and a boy were the only persons who escaped in an attack upon Pemaquid Fort in 1747, severely wounded. See ante page 422. His son Abner married Mercy Paine in 1765, daughter of Jonathan Paine, by whom he had eight children ; he died in 1828 at the advanced age of eighty-seven. The children of the second Abner, were Daniel, William, Enoch, John, and four daughters. Daniel and William were shipmasters, and John was a mason, born August 4, 1736, married Sally Adams ; he was killed at Saco in 1825, at the age of forty-four, while employed in erecting a monument. His son Abner, the part- ner of William Senter, well represents his father and the name. Capt. William married Betsey Noyes, a daughter of Joseph Noyes, Nov. 28, 1801, and had several children. Enoch was a joiner, and lived in the house standing on the corner of Federal and Church streets, now occupied by some of his daughters. He died about 1832, leaving several children. One of his daugh- ters married Capt. Alexander Hubbs, another, Simeon Hall, a third, Moses G. Dow, and two remain single. He also had three sons, who followed the sea, and are dead. Daniel, third son of Abner, born February 19, 1775, dicd December 22, 1801, at the age of thirty-one, leaving a widow and three chil- dren, viz., Daniel, Charles, and Jane. His widow married Ste- phen Patten. Jane married George Gardner. Abner's chil- dren were born as follows, viz., Enoch, December 27, 1765; Mary, March 14, 1768 ; William, June 11, 1770; Sally, August 7, 1772; Daniel, February 19, 1775 ; Betsey, May 10, 1777 ; Eunice, October 22, 1779 ; Ann, January 27, 1782; John, August 4, 1786. Eunice died unmarried at the age of seven- teen ; Sarah married Moses Hanson of Windham, and left a family.
Lunt, James, descended from Henry who came from Eng- land to Newbury in 1635. The precise time that James came
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to Falmouth, I do not know. He married Hannah, a daughter of Joseph Noyes in 1743. He lived on India street before the revolution, on the spot now occupied by Gen. Fessenden's house, and sold the property to Dr. Coffin. He had four sons, viz., Amos, who moved to Brunswick and died there, leaving no chil- dren ; Benjamin, who married Mary Brackett, and settled on his father's homestead in Falmouth ; he had fourteen children, nine daughters and five sons, who all lived to be married : Col. James, born in 1750, married Eunice, a daughter of Josiah Noyes, February 14, 1782, and died childless, August 21, 1800. He owned and lived in a house on the corner of Congress and Franklin streets, now occupied by the new brick house of John E. Donnell. Joseph married Jane Noyes, daughter of Peter Noyes, and left one son, Peter.
Mc Lellan, Bryce and Hugh. The ancestors of all of the name in this part of the country, came here from Ireland about 1730. Bryce had a daughter Susannah, born in this town in March, 1731; he married Eliza Miller for a second wife, in 1741, and by both his wives had a numerous family. He was a weaver by trade, but did not follow his trade much in this town; he lived on Fore near the foot of High street in a house which is still standing. He died in 1776. Joseph, William, and Alexander were his sons. William, who died in 1815, aged seventy-nine, was a shipmaster, and grandfather of the present mayor of Portland. He left one son, Capt. Will- iam, and two daughters, Mrs. Wm. Merrill and Mrs. Royal Lincoln. Josepli died about the same time, aged eighty-seven, and Alexander about the close of the revolutionary war ; poster- ity of all of them survive. Alexander was two years old when his father left Ireland; he married Ann Ross in 1743, and lived in Cape Elizabeth ; Capt. Arthur Mclellan was the fourth child of Alexander. Hugh Mclellan came here soon after Bryce, from the county of Antrim, with his wife Elizabeth and infant son, William, who was born in 1733; he came with one horse, upon which he brought his whole estate. He lived a
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short time on Moses Pearson's farm at Back Cove, and then moved to Gorham, where he was among the first settlers and lived for a long time in a log house. By industry and frugal- ity he became independent, and before the revolution built the first brick house that was attempted in this part of the coun- try, which is still standing. He had several children, among whom were William, Cary, Alexander, Thomas, and Mary married to Joseph, a son of Bryce McLellan in 1756. By him she had Joseph, Hugh, Stephen, and Eunice, married to Rev. Elijah Kellogg in 1792. Hugh married Abigail, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Browne of Falmouth, and had a large family ; Stephen married Charlotte and Hannah, two daugh- ters of Enoch Ilsley, and left two daughters. Joseph and his two sons, Hugh and Stephen, were in trade together on Con- gress street, where Blake's bakery is, toward the close of the last century, but Joseph and Hugh transferred their business to Union wharf, where they largely engaged in foreign com- merce. Stephen moved to Exchange street, where with Wm. Browne he did a large importing business. The son, Joseph, lived first in Gray and then in Brunswick, where he died ; he was a trader, and at one time a postmaster. Mary, another daughter of the first Joseph Mclellan, married Deacon James Jewett in 1785, and having had three sons and three daugh- ters, died September 20, 1799, aged thirty-four; a third daughter married Capt. Joshua Stone. Major Hugh Mclellan died in 1822, aged sixty-four, and Stephen in 1823, aged fifty. Hugh's wife died July 9, 1804, aged ninety-eight. The ven- erable pair were much respected by the community in which they lived. Bryce and Hugh are ancestors of all of the name in this part of the country, and were not at all or very remotely connected.
Moody, Enoch, is of a different branch of the family from which Maj. Moody before noticed sprung, but descended from William, the common ancestor ; he came from Newbury where all the name originated in 1738. In 1739 he married Dorcas
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Cox, a daughter of Josiah Cox of this town, who died in 1743, aged twenty-two ; in 1750 he married Ann Weeks, a daughter of William Weeks, by whom he had Enoch, born 1751; Benja- min, born 1753; William, 1756; Nathaniel, 1758; Dorcas, 1764; Lemuel, 1767; Samuel, 1769; Anne, 1773; his wife died in 1795 aged sixty-two. The oldest house now standing in town was built by him in 1740; this is on the corner of Franklin and Congress streets, and was occupied by him until his death, and is now in possession of his heirs. He owned a large tract of land at that place, extending from Congress street to Back Cove. He died in 1777, aged sixty-three. He was selectman of the town three years, and in the early stages of the revolution he was placed on important committees and took an active part in the proceedings of that period. He was the fourth in descent from William Moody, who came to Newbury in 1632, and was his great-grandfather : 1William, 2 Caleb, 3Joshua, 4 Enoch, who was the youngest son of Joshua, born December 23, 1713. Enoch, his eldest son, died unmarried, December 19, 1812; Benjamin, married Sally Richards, 1786, and died May 8, 1816, aged sixty-two, leaving two children, Lemuel and Polly. William married, first, Mary Young, 1783, second, Rachel Riggs, in 1804, he had two sons by his first wife, Enoch and William, and a daughter, Nancy ; by his second wife a son, Edward. Nathaniel married Jane Little, 1793, and died without issue, May 7, 1815. Lemuel married Em- ma, a daughter of Watson Crosby, 1797, and had seven sons and three daughters, viz., George, George, Henry Watson, Henry Watson, John Watson, Enoch, Franklin, Emma, Dor- cas, and Dorcas; of the sons, Enoch and Franklin only survive. Dorcas married Dr. Albus Rea and is living. Sam- uel, the fifth son of Enoch, married Mary Simpson, 1795, and had three sons and two daughters ; Charles who trades in Congress street is his eldest son. Dorcas, Enoch's daughter, died unmarried. Nancy, the eighth child, married William Webb in 1799, and had William, Ann, Mary Elizabeth, and
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Ann Weeks. The name among us, is principally preserved here in the Enoch branch of the family. Capt. Lemuel, born in 1767, was an able shipmaster and a valuable citizen. He felt a deep interest not only in the family circle, but in all that related to the town. He was the prime mover and prin- cipal proprietor in the observatory which was erected in 1807, and of which he had the charge during the remainder of his life ; he kept signals of all vessels arriving, and a daily rec- ord of the weather, to which recourse is often had for compar- ison and information. In 1825 he published a chart of Casco Bay, with the islands and harbors from Saco river to the mouth of the Kennebec, principally from the surveys of Des Barres, with corrections and additions, a most useful publication. He died in August, 1846.
Motley, John, came from Belfast, Ireland, and settled here previous to 1738 ; in that year he married Mary Roberts, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, John, Richard, Ann, and Thomas. By a second wife, Lydia Libby, whom he married in 1754, he had Alexander, Samuel, William, Jacob, John, and Mary. His widow married John Blake in 1786, and died at a very advanced age in this city in 1824. His daughter, Ann, married Daniel Marble in 1772; John and Richard died unmarried ; Thomas married Emma, a daughter of the elder John Waite, and was the father of Robert, Rich- ard, George, Henry, Thomas, Edward, and Charles, all of whom are dead, but Charles. John was a joiner by trade, and worked upon the old meeting-liouse ; he also built a gambrel- roofed house which stood where Casco street enters Congress street, and lived there till his death, which took place in 1764, when he was sixty-four years old. His son Thomas for many years kept the principal tavern in this town in Congress street, just below the new Mechanics Hall which was burnt August 11, 1848. The widow of the second Thomas died in 1830, aged eighty-four; of her children only Robert and Thomas left issue. Richard married Sally, a daughter of Lemuel Weeks, in 1805;
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Thomas was born in September, 1781, and died in Boston, the last survivor but Charles, April 28, 1864. He married a daugh- ter of the Rev. Dr. Lathrop of Boston, by whom he had several sons and daughters ; one of the sons, named from his grand- father, John Lathrop, has illustrated the name and family by his distinguished historical works. Thomas and Edward, who was never married, were for many years partners in a large and profitable commission business in Boston, by which they ac- cumulated a handsome fortune. Thomas was frequently called by the citizens of Boston to offices of honor and trust. Alex- ander Motley, a son of John by his second wife, married Mary Waite in 1786, and died in 1803. Robert, eldest son of Thomas, married two daughters of his uncle Daniel Marble ; he left three children, of whom one son, George, and one daughter married to Rev. Joseph Bartlett of Buxton survive.
Mayo, Ebenezer, came here from Boston, and was a respect- able merchant before the revolution; he lived on the corner of Newbury, now Sumner, and India streets, and was a severe suf- ferer by the destruction of the town. He died of palsy soon after the war. By his wife Apphia, he had three children, Sim- eon, born December 31, 1745 ; Ruth, March 13. 1755, and Eb- enezer, March 29, 1764; Simeon left a number of children, none of whom live among us ; Ruth never was married. Eb- enezer married, first, Polly Foster, a daughter of Dr. Coffin, in 1792, for his second wife, Jane Browne, in 1795, third, Cath- arine, a daughter of Deacon Codman, in 1811. He died in 1840, poor. None of the family remain here.
Mountfort, Edmund, the first of the name who came to Fal- mouth, was a grandson of Edmund, who arrived in Boston from England, in the ship Providence, with his brother Henry, in 1656. They were merchants in independent standing, and derived their origin from a Norman family which accompanied William the Conquerer to England. Their coat of arms cor- responds with that of Hugo de Mountfort who commanded the cavalry of William at the battle of Hastings in 1066. They
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came from Beamhurst in Stafford county, and claim descent from Simon de Mountfort, Earl of Leicester. His grand- father married Elizabeth, a daughter of John Farnham of Bos- ton, in 1663, by whom he had six sons and two daughters. Our Edmund's father was the eldest son, born July 11, 1664, and died about 1700, leaving his wife, Elizabeth, and two chil- dren, Edmund and Elizabeth. His widow married William Shepreeve of Boston in 1703. Edmund, as were his predeces- sors of the same name, was educated a merchant, and in 1718 was an agent of Adam Winthrop, Oliver Noyes, and others, proprietors of the Pejepscot claim, in establishing a settlement at Cape Small Point, near the mouth of Kennebec river, which was named Augusta. This was overthrown in the Indian war of 1722, and Mountfort returned to Boston ; where he was re- siding in 1726, when he purchased a portion of Munjoy's hill in this town, and is styled in the deed, "of Boston, merchant." He established himself here the next year, and had been before, for in April, 1728, the town voted "that Mr. Edmund Mountfort should come into town, on the town's former promise to him." He was here in 1724 as paymaster of the troops. Soon after his settlement in town, he married Mary, the only daughter of Major Samuel Moody, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, viz., Elizabeth, born December 25, 1729, who died unmarried in Westbrook, December 31, 1819, aged ninety years ; Edmund, born February 16, 1732; Esther, who mar- ried Gershom Rogers in 1755, and died at the age of twenty- eiglit, immediately after the birth of her only child, Esther ; and Samuel, born June 19, 1737; he married at the age of sev- enty and died in 1820, without issue. Edmund, the son, had six sons and two daughters, viz., Samuel, Daniel, Edmund and Joshua (twins), John, Richard, Mary, and Esther ; he died in 1806, aged seventy. All of the name in this part of the country descended from him, and they are numerous ; his son Daniel had twelve children, Edmund, seven, Joshua, nine, John, seven,
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Richard, nine. Esther, daughter of the second Edmund, born in February, 1759, married John Proctor, and lived in West- brook, where she died August 26, 1848, aged eighty-nine years and seven months. Esther Rogers, daughter of the first Esther, married Somers Shattuck, and was the mother of eight chil- dren ; two surviving daughters, Ann and Mary, the wife of her cousin James Mountfort, son of Daniel, are now living here.
Edmund, the first comer of the name, was a very active, useful, and intelligent man. He was a good draughtsman, and wrote a very handsome hand, and was much employed in these services during his residence here ; and was especially useful at a period when there were no lawyers or skillful con- veyancers in the county. He was a selectman, deputy sheriff, town agent, etc .; and so mingled was he in all the public affairs of our community that his death was a severe loss to it. He was one of the largest owners of common lands on Munjoy's hill, including the portion inherited by his wife from her father, Major Moody. This was set off to his heirs in the divi- sion of the proprietors in 1793, and embraced the whole north- ern point of the hill, from the bay to the cove, amounting to thirty-seven acres, a part of which still remains in the family. His real estate was appraised in 1755 at four thousand five hundred and seventy pounds. He died November 21, 1737, about forty-three years old, and his widow in 1751.
Noyes, Joseph, came to Falmouth about 1730. He was son of Cutting Noyes and Elizabeth Toppan of Newbury, who were married January 8, 1703. His father was the son of Cutting, who was the son of Nicholas, a younger brother of the Rev. James Noyes, and came over with him in 1634. Nicholas was born in Choulderton in Wiltshire, England, in 1616, married Mary, a daughter of Capt. John Cutting, and died November 9, 1701, leaving a large family. Joseph, the first of the name in Falmouth, was his grandson, and born in Newbury, Janu- ary 11, 1689. He married Jane Dole, August 17, 1711, by whom he had Josiah, born September 8, 1712; Dorothy, April
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9, 1715, married Little ; Hannah, July 6, 1720, married James Lunt, 1743 ; Jane, June 18, 1722, married to Merrill ; Oliver, March 19, 1724; Amos, July 29, 1728 ; and Peter; all but Peter were born in Newbury. Mr. Noyes held several munici- pal offices, as selectman, town treasurer, etc., and was an acting magistrate. He lived at the eastern end of Back Cove, next to the Ilsley farm, a portion of which is now occupied by some of his descendants. He died February 14, 1755; under that date, Rev. Mr. Smith, in his Journal, says, "Justice Noice died this evening." His eldest son, Josiah, married Mary Lunt of Newbury, in 1737, and had several children, of whom were Hannah, born October 27, 1738; Josephi, 1745; Moses ; and Saralı, who married Moses Lunt in 1773. He lived on the Brackett, now Deering farm, at Back Cove, containing three hundred acres, which his father purchased of Zachariah Brack- ett, and devised to him. Moses married Abigail Locke in 1782, and lived on Congress street, where he died in 1832, leaving several children, one of whom was James, the father of one of the publishers of this book. Josiah's son Joseph was a prominent man in the affairs of the town before and during the revolution, he was town treasurer, nine years a selectman, and nine years a member of the Provincial Congress of Massa- chusetts. November 23, 1767, he married Mary, the widow of Jacob Stickney, whose maiden name was Cobham, by whom he had Jacob, 1768 ; Ann, 1771, married in 1797 to David Hale, an officer in the army, afterward the first cashier of the Maine Bank, and died December 31, 1799 ; Betsey, married to Capt. William Lowell, November 28, 1801 ; and Josiah, lost at sea, unmarried. He died October 13, 1795. His eldest son, Jacob, by whom this branch of the family is transmitted in Port- land, married Anne, a daughter of Pearson Jones and Betsey Ilsley, March 20, 1798, by whom he had Joseph Cobham, 1798, William, Edward F., Julia A., Elizabeth Freeman, George Freeman, and Enoch. He was many years a respected mer- chant, and was in the beginning of the century a partner with
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